08-12-2009, 04:34 AM
Right on. The Christo Westy's have everything based on belief rather than practice and experience.
<!--QuoteBegin-dhu+Jul 31 2009, 11:35 PM-->QUOTE(dhu @ Jul 31 2009, 11:35 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tomorrow they will say they understand "Brahman" because the root Brah comes from x and it is cognate to x in Swahili. Or that they "know" tapas, because tapas is heat and everyone knows heat "corresponds with" a churning in the mind. and so on. But experience of Brahman is so powerful that even in the theological language of English, it does not make sense to say that "I believe in Brahman"!!! Anyone so declaring will be immediately declared as a joker among the Dharmics. For the Dharmik, to "believe" is just making a pompous statement and it does not correspond with experience.
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