Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Devas and the Gods

[Vaj]

On Nov 5, 2006, at 3:06 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Turq: "Me, I'm more comfortable with that approach, and that level of honesty. But others really prefer to believe that they are pursuing a spiritual path that is based on some kind of science, and not gods and goddesses and attracting their benevolent attention. Can't fault them for that, and for preferring to believe that. But to think that *Maharishi* believes it is IMO silly." Me: I agree that TMO would be coming from a more honest place if they would just let their inner Hindu hang out and stop trying to claim that it is through the window of science... That way they could just let people know all the beliefs upfront and people could make a more informed choice about it all. But I guess that is a pretty moot point with Google and all. Interesting stuff about how the Buddhists deal with Westerners.  Ethnocentrism is found in every culture more or less. Remember the Japanese with their "we come from Gods, everyone else came from monkeys" line!  Nice one. The devas-as-laws-of-nature is standard Hindu. MMY and company take it a little further  than most, but its standard with new age, theosophy, etc., as well as hindu. The devas-as-laws-of-nature is pure Hindutva politics and just their version of Creation Science and the Hindu version of "intelligent design". You say IHVH, they say AGNI. __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___