Comment below: --- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
**SNIP** > I believe by advocating and living by the Shastras that Guru Dev > believed he was serving the best good to those he taught. I believe > too that MMY believed he served the best interest of westerners when > he de-Hinduised the teaching of meditation. But I don't believe > either of them were above believing as fact what many would consider > fiction. And this I find particularly curious, that enlightenment can > apparently occur without necessarilly disabusing an indivual of the > sometimes fictional content of inherited wisdom. **SNIP TO END** Perhaps all "inherited wisdom" has some degree of fictional content but that doesn't mean that the "explanation" that it provides doesn't make rational sense to those to whom it is inherited. Scientific theories, which for the time and place that they are accepted explain reality (or the reality being explained) to an acceptable level until such time as a better or more comprehensive explanation supersedes. Newtonian physics still explains gravity on the local level that it is experienced everyday but it is inapplicable on the quantum level, even fictional. On some level of the 19th-early 20th century mind of an Indian monk the above information re cows not only made sense but explained something about life as he lived it; maybe explained it in a very profound fashion. Perhaps metaphor and analogy are more closely related to reality than we imagine, inasmuch as reality is only found in the mind to begin with. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
