To me the Gita worked best as a metaphor for the human mind. If I have a mental image before me of a battlefield arrayed, can't I easily wipe out the whole realm by stopping my thinking about it? Of course, I can, and in this way, we can understand the power of the mind to seemingly do vast actions -- including killing tens of thousands of persons per day without incurring any sin since all those killed are know to be ephemeralities. In the dreamstate, Arjuna CAN knock down, mid-air, the arrows shot at him by 10,000 archers. The mind can easily imagine the whole scenario -- our nightly dreams are filled with fantastic and miraculous events.
The two sides of the brain are the two sides of the mind -- intellect and heart -- seemingly opposed by nature. Two sides of the physical brain are also as if opposed, but the Krishna-factor, the corpus callosum, acts as the mediator of the two sides without favoring either side. And on and on the Ved of Physiology goes. My jury's still out, but one of the most promising things to me was the possibility of the Ved of Physiology's concepts being scientifically measurable in that the functions of the parts would be poetically described by scriptures AND the scientists would agree that the words are in harmony with the measurements. But Girish doesn't care about that now does he? Where's King Tony on a soapbox proclaiming this body of knowledge with his and Heg's credentialed coattails to ride into various venues where their educations might sway a few scientists to at least take a looksee at the scriptures? Been tried and abandoned -- seems to be the answer. Edg --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > > On Apr 7, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Duveyoung wrote: > > > bob_brigante wrote: > >> MMY was certainly aware that Arjuna hunted deer: > > > > > > Fuck -- ahhh, not to mention that he and Krishna were totally > > espousing genocide. On the battlefield, they slaughtered elephants > > and horses too. > > > > Then there's Rama sending his perfect wife to the netherworld.... > > > > The intellect can justify anything -- it's a whore for the least > > emotion. > > > > And here's yet another thread that should be simply about recipes, > > and it rapidly changed. > > > > Threads here have about a four-post lifetime before they're titles > > are useless. > > > Many people think the battlefield analogy is just that: pure analogy > with some iota of historicity. But battle rituals have taken place > since time memorial in India, even up to the present era. These > ritualized battles often end up with bloodshed of some kind and in > fact could be quite bloody. >
