It probably goes without saying that you know more about the universe and how it works than the ancient Hindus, being a college graduate and all. ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
Oh well, obviously a few old religious poems was all we needed to understand how the universe works. Science historians have long agreed that the international numeral system (1, 2, 3,), based on the concepts of decimal placement and the zero were invented by the ancient Indians. Go figure. Never mind that all you're doing is finding a weak parallel to an unproven theory that has taken many years of searching refining and hard won understanding to formulate, and using it to justify our own belief in the idea of spiritual people to divine how things work by some sort of unexplained mental process. Non sequitur. You'll be telling us that consciousness is the unified field next! After all, if you can say that Indians instinctively know how the subatomic world works with enough confidence to post a link to a thin gruel of supposition on wiki then you must be having confidence in everything else they say. It's a dangerous game, sooner or later you'll be rejecting things simply because some yogi didn't say it. Madness lies that way. Non sequitur. No useful or practical knowledge has come out of meditation, no deeper understanding about physics especially. Just a lot of confusion. So how do people get away with trying to flog the veda's as some sort of repository of all wisdom? Beats me, I think they are just unable to appreciate the way reality works - or don't understand it - and have to invent woo-woo to make it all seem more exciting. Non sequitur. Or they've got some "technique" to sell you that seems more profound if it's couched in terms you might be vaguely aware of when you glossed over some article by a proper scientist... Who sells more books, Deepak Chopra or Victor Stenger? The one with the biggest promise of course. Non sequitur. ---In [email protected], <LEnglish5@...> wrote : Well, the Puranas explicitly talk about all the Brahmas, Shivas, etc, each lording over a different universe. That's from about 1000 AD, I believe. Wikipedia mentions it in their discussion of multiverse: The concept of parallel universes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse appears in the Brahma Vaivarta Purana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma_Vaivarta_Purana: And who will search through the wide infinities of space to count the universes side by side, each containing its Brahma, its Vishnu, its Shiva? Who can count the Indras in them all--those Indras side by side, who reign at once in all the innumerable worlds; those others who passed away before them; or even the Indras who succeed each other in any given line, ascending to godly kingship, one by one, and, one by one, passing away? (Brahma Vaivarta Purana) Multiverse (religion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_%28religion%29#Hinduism Multiverse (religion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_%28religion%29#Hinduism In religion a multiverse is the concept of a plurality of universes. Some religious cosmologies propose that our universe is not the only one that exists. View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_%28religion%29#Hinduism Preview by Yahoo ---In [email protected], <jr_esq@...> wrote : Reason would say that, if you take the high road, you'll find the true meaning. ---In [email protected], <mjackson74@...> wrote : So in other words, one can interpret ANYTHING one reads according to what one wants it to say. From: "jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 1, 2015 1:27 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Multiverse Revealed in Bhagavad Gita 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. ---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.″
