I am simply asking, why should this be the case? Is the subtle, or gut
level, acceptance of "Ved" as more fundamental than other knoweldge
traditions simply another unsupported bias in our thinking that should
be weeded out so that we can thus "see" and interpret the world and
our experiences more clearly?
 
 
----Beautiful writing. It's nice to hear your voice again Akasha.  Any relation to Vampire Lestat? Actually I think you said it, all knowledge is actually not experience but merely some changing whim of the mind.  There either is a more salient reality or we as humans are just a collection of fragmented mental states and a jumble of brainwaves patched together with some genetic material. If as Sting says, there's a deeper rhythm, then it prolly adheres within the brain as well such that greater enlightenment brings greater synchronicity, for instance Sting might be on the radio just now. But that's too pat. The support for a valid branch of religious knowing should again be what effect it has on the ethics of its participants and what ambivalence within it seems to give rise to such vague interpretations that they can be used to justify anything. Such knowledge isn't wisdom.  And knowledge/Ved/Dao and so on, aren't necessarily wisdom. Vedanta means the end of Veda. This is why I said, is that vedic too?  No, it's the end of the veda where the veda stops and sits on it's hind legs for a treat. Ever seen pics of Dattatreya?
 
The structure of the dharshanas makes it seem like a ladder each step preceeding the next, but such isn't the case, as if these are testaments of reality as the term dharshana suggests, because it's what you seen, so also they occur simultaneously and in tandem and not in isolation. Therefore Samkya is as valid as Uttaramimansa.  But more importantly one is not separate from these experiencial cognizances.
 
At any rate, since everything exists in the world there are no contradictions between things, and even enemies are more similar than they would care to admit.  In fact the only reason two can fight is because they coexist. That is a tremendous karmic coincidence itself, and shows that the causal connection is the major factor whereas the fight is just  window dressing. In fact, I bet you that when two fight, the two are really fighting themselves,  as the other, in their own mind, the veracity of knowing itself should be subject to question due to the fact that even during fucking two people have a hard time communicating. Communication is difficult, knowledge is ephemeral, wisdom is hard to come by but like winning a Grammy.  It just feels good. Knowledge is cold, old, and oversold.
 
Besides again, even though Maharishi says he's a proponent of the vedas, and claims "The Holy Tradition" (hereafter refererred to as THT), it doesn't claim him, and his techniques being of the agamas and nigamas of tantra called Sri, are actually not of the Vedic tradition but of the experiencial and dharshanic tradition of meditation and mind protection. More on the other side of vedanta than ice cream. And if Ved doesn't teach how to make Ice Cream then what sort of sorry Ved is that? Furthermore, I require someone to show me meditation techniques that work anywhere in the 4 apurushaya Ved, or even in the subsidiary and close vedangas, Or even in the upangas. Now I do have theories about the Itihasa, but....
 
Oh Fuck, what am I talking about I forgot the whole of Vedic literature was in the body.  If the body is the temple then lets get it on and get veda veda naked.


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