02-11-2009, 11:41 PM
Ramana,
Vedas, Shruti, Smriti and so on are not a code to be deciphered, unlike the Good News Gospels. Therein lies the danger of (Indian) historical inquiry into our "experiential texts". It is possible that nationalistic monotheistic judaism arose in response to such historical meddling by the normatizing and sterilizing colonizer. Balagangadhara is warning of the same in our "historical" researches into our "texts". The second part will hopefully offer the way out.
Isn't it surprising that all our colonial travails can be described by the truism that the colonizers were only projecting their own neuroses onto their "subjects". This is Psychology 101 !!!!
Vedas, Shruti, Smriti and so on are not a code to be deciphered, unlike the Good News Gospels. Therein lies the danger of (Indian) historical inquiry into our "experiential texts". It is possible that nationalistic monotheistic judaism arose in response to such historical meddling by the normatizing and sterilizing colonizer. Balagangadhara is warning of the same in our "historical" researches into our "texts". The second part will hopefully offer the way out.
Isn't it surprising that all our colonial travails can be described by the truism that the colonizers were only projecting their own neuroses onto their "subjects". This is Psychology 101 !!!!