I can see how they're similar: Knowledge cuts through ignorance.
________________________________ From: cardemaister <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:02 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Wisdom of Chopra... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" <babajii_99@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" <babajii_99@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > One of the 'Downfalls' of the path to Enlightenment... > > > Is that the ego, in it's last desperate attempt to remain control, gets > > > completely out of hand, and the individual can fall to the 'Dark Side' > > > attacking others, and bringing a lot of negagive attention to oneself...I > > > assume this is what happened to Carlson... > > > > > > > There's nothing rotten in that, but he's Carlsen, with an 'e', > > and thus *perhaps* Danish or Norwegian ancestry, not Swedish... :D > > > Yeah, so who cares? > At least all of us correct spelling freaks... ;D As an example from Sanskrit: shastra 2 n. knife, dagger, sword, weapon i.g. shAstra n. instruction, precept, rule, theory, a scientific or canonical work.