--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> > > wrote: > > > > > > And they all lived happily ever after. > > > > yeah-- very difficult to promote ideals during kali yuga > > because it is so hard to sustain them. we keep trying though. > > Just as a question, how many people believe that Sat > Yuga ever existed? > > As far as I can tell, Sat Yuga is a myth/fairytale > told to children, who theoretically are the only > ones who should believe in it. I've never seen any > historical or anthropological evidence that such a > time ever existed, or that life in India has *ever* > been that much different than the way it is now. > > So those of you who *do* believe in the Hindu idea > about this previous (and hopefully future) "golden > age," could you explain to me *why* you believe this > is true? Is it purely because it's mentioned in Hindu > scriptures, and that you take these scriptures literally? > > This is not just Hindu-bashing, BTW. I feel the same > way about people who go on and on about Atlantis and Mu > without a shred of proof that either civilization ever > existed. There are some smart people here, and some > of them obviously believe strongly in this model of > different Yugas, and that there *was* such a golden > age in the past, even if there is no record of such > an age scientifically. I'm curious as to the reasons > *why* they believe this. Thanks in advance... >
**************** Assigning credibility to the Vedic texts is easy for people who have experienced the expansion of awareness through the centerpiece of those texts, TM -- if the Vedic tradition can deliver on infinity, then stories of epochs in which the people live at high levels of consciousness are not a big reach. Really, the stories of the Puranas and other Vedic literature about life in differnet epochs are not so important compared to the possibility of practicing TM and living unlimited awareness, but it's easy to extrapolate confidence in all the stories of the Vedic literature when the big story, gaining infinite awareness, can be verified by anybody through TM. For those who do not understand that one can restore full awareness to their experience of life, then it's obvious that those people can assign no such credibility to the Vedic literature. There would likely be no anthropological or historical (other than the extensive Vedic literature, Puranas especially) record of the Sat Yuga, since it was more than two million years ago that it ended. The only record that there is of the Sat Yuga is the Vedic literature, so if you don't buy that, you're S.O.L. Anthropologists keep pushing back the timeline for modern humans: http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2005/02/17/58303.html Only about one out of a billion human or animal remains survives as a fossil for more than a million years, so it's difficult to prove when modern humans actually began. I'll take the word of the Vedic texts on the age of humans, for the reason stated above. Just a few years ago, the age of the universe was low-balled, only two billions year old as late as 1947: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/cutting/ageuniv.htm I expect that some day scientists will be giving statements about human history that are consonant with what is said in the Vedic lit. 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/
