05-19-2007, 11:01 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+May 19 2007, 10:22 PM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ May 19 2007, 10:22 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->SwamyG: regarding questions. Probably you should also read the discourses of Bhagwan Buddha on what are the questions and what are non-questions. Quests of Nachiketa, Arjun, Maitreyi, Janak, Anand, and Sariputra are born out of their deeply thirsty hearts, after exhausting all other channels of fulfilment, coming defeated to the feet of their respective Gurus as the last resort of the quest.
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I will be glad to read the discourses and learn. Now only I, and only I know the true nature of my questions. I have no qualms in admitting some of them are in the nature of raising disagreements, but many of them are out of the genuine interest to know.
It so appears, that when I raise non-controversial, secular questions in nature, then people are ready to answer them patiently. For example about the etymology and language related questions I have asked. But when it comes to something connected with Hinduism, then people seem to look down. It can mean, people have no patience or do not know the answers themselves.
So here, I have you gurus right in front of me, and there is a possibility of an exchange; and you (in plural) want me to go elsewhere. But it also might be that this is one of the avenues that I am trying, and exhausting, and that my I am yet to meet my guru who will teach me.
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I will be glad to read the discourses and learn. Now only I, and only I know the true nature of my questions. I have no qualms in admitting some of them are in the nature of raising disagreements, but many of them are out of the genuine interest to know.
It so appears, that when I raise non-controversial, secular questions in nature, then people are ready to answer them patiently. For example about the etymology and language related questions I have asked. But when it comes to something connected with Hinduism, then people seem to look down. It can mean, people have no patience or do not know the answers themselves.
So here, I have you gurus right in front of me, and there is a possibility of an exchange; and you (in plural) want me to go elsewhere. But it also might be that this is one of the avenues that I am trying, and exhausting, and that my I am yet to meet my guru who will teach me.