Response below. --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just want to make one point regarding the the discussion on > interpreting Guru Dev. Why interpret at all? It is like interpreting > the sun. I think sometimes we can get so intellectually caught up in > experiences that we become nearly blind to the experience itself. Live > it for what it is. If there is a need to interpret it, that already > removes us from the experience. Just live it, like the pervasive > warmth of the sun.
******** Hi Jim, I like the general sense of what you have said here. In responding, I will try to launch from as close to this perspective as I can, and work backward to what I had in mind with my original post. Every life is a commentary on the absolute, an individual interpretation of the universal. In that sense, it is impossible to avoid interpretation. The motivator behind my original post was the observation that Guru Dev's words were being used to "settle" arguments, or to buttress one individual's interpretation against another's. I believe that most kinds of texts can benefit from analysis. I do not believe that all opinions will found to be equally valid under proper analysis, but when inquiry is conducted in the right spirit, knowledge awakens. Some of the conclusions being drawn in this forum seemed a bit shallow to me. However, I am not interested in rebutting them individually. I just wanted to point out pragmatic reasons why these quotes should be approached with an open mind. Ciao, L B S 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/
