01-11-2005, 01:18 AM
A tamasic/rajsic/sattwic person sees the world from his/her standards.
Has it occurred to you that if Shankaracharya shows anger or seeks revenge, then it will be a bigger loss. There are demands of ascetic life that can't be put in a simplistic 'rajasic' view of revenge, retribution, etc.
The theory of karma implies that the 'retribution' usually doesn't come from the aggrieved party. But it does come. World at any time is filled with egotistical, cruel and even normal but temporarily deluded people who would become agents of 'karma' to wreak cruel retribution. In part becoming agents of 'karma' according to their 'sanskaras' or tendencies, and in part also building up their good or bad 'karma'. People of sattvic sanskaras can also become agents of Karma's retribution, but in a different way.
If Shankaracharya doesn't lash out in anger then he so much greater for what is expected of him as an ascetic. Any jailed politician or crook would have been shifted to a hospital on some complaint of feigned 'sickness'. Acharya never demanded such treatments based on lies.
But it is our nation, state of Tamilnadu, chief minister Jayalalitha and supporters of his arrest, that have the sin of the arrest of an ascetic on trumped up charges on their hands. Let them act out their part on the side of justice or against it, and build up their own karma.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Now to BIMARU, the truth is out there. May be I am ignorant, or prejudiced.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Evidently you are both.
Has it occurred to you that if Shankaracharya shows anger or seeks revenge, then it will be a bigger loss. There are demands of ascetic life that can't be put in a simplistic 'rajasic' view of revenge, retribution, etc.
The theory of karma implies that the 'retribution' usually doesn't come from the aggrieved party. But it does come. World at any time is filled with egotistical, cruel and even normal but temporarily deluded people who would become agents of 'karma' to wreak cruel retribution. In part becoming agents of 'karma' according to their 'sanskaras' or tendencies, and in part also building up their good or bad 'karma'. People of sattvic sanskaras can also become agents of Karma's retribution, but in a different way.
If Shankaracharya doesn't lash out in anger then he so much greater for what is expected of him as an ascetic. Any jailed politician or crook would have been shifted to a hospital on some complaint of feigned 'sickness'. Acharya never demanded such treatments based on lies.
But it is our nation, state of Tamilnadu, chief minister Jayalalitha and supporters of his arrest, that have the sin of the arrest of an ascetic on trumped up charges on their hands. Let them act out their part on the side of justice or against it, and build up their own karma.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Now to BIMARU, the truth is out there. May be I am ignorant, or prejudiced.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Evidently you are both.