---In [email protected], <jr_esq@...> wrote :
One has to read the Gita and other wisdom books in various levels of understanding. From a literal sense, the translation of this verse appears mythical and impractical. But in a figurative sense, the translation reveals the infinite properties of the multiverse which are represented by the infinite faces of the Supreme Deity or the laws of nature present in these worlds. From this point of view, one can see the deep wisdom that is being conveyed in this chapter of the Gita. Or maybe you can take a radical theory derived from the results of certain experiments that are impossible to know without sophisticated measuring equipment and then look back at religious texts and think you see a similarity? If ever there was an idea that has to explained with exactness it's quantum theory and the multiverse and I don't think the multi-headed God thing is representing the same vision. It's too vague. Unless our enlightened ancestors didn't care about peer review and simply called things as they saw them.... ---In [email protected], <emptybill@...> wrote : Don't you have any better translations of the Bhagavatam to work with than Bhaktivedanta? You will never view unbiased translations from his works ... or from any Gaudiya Vaishnava-s for that matter. There are much more accurate translations available. Why quote contaminated scriptures full of ideologically corrupted interpretations? ″sarvavedanta saram yadbramhatmaikatva lakshanam vastwadwitiyam tannishtham kaivalaikaprayojanam″( BP 12.13.12) ″You already know that the essence of all vedanta is the non-duality of atman and brahman. Only this is the given subject of Bhagavata Purana. The aim of this (Bhagavata Purana) is kaivalya moksha only.″
