--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 2/4/06 6:05 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "Premanand Paul Mason" > > <premanandpaul@> wrote: > >> > >> 'Vedic literature' is full of ghastly wars, vile punishments for > >> minor crimes, talking animals and wizardry too. > >> > > > > ************** > > > > You wrote a book about a great saint, so you think you have standing > > to evaluate spiritual topics, but you write from a level of > > intelligence that does not qualify you to be more than a gossip > > columnist at a tabloid. > > > > The centerpiece of Vedic culture is total awareness -- if you seek > > that, the ugliness you refer to goes away: i.e., stay tuned for the > > Sat Yuga. >
> I think he was referring to things like the Manu Smriti, which is full of > brutal punishments for minor crimes. > ********** My point is that expansion of awareness to infinite values through TM is the centerpiece of Vedic knowledge, and if you don't get that, you're missing the whole point. The worst thing that can happen to a person is to not live that infinite bliss, so Nature out of kindness slaps people around with disease, and with other brutal punishments for behavior which keeps people living miserable lives of low awareness. ------------------------ 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/
