--- In [email protected], "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gentlemen: > > Aside from his personal views, if they are historically accurate, HG > Wells apparently struck a note of wisdom in his writing of the Time > Machine. He may have gotten lucky. But the message still rings > true. Perhaps, the message is political and economic-- that is, the > battle between socialism and capitalism. > > From the vedic point of view, however, we can see the interplay of > the gunas and how they manifested among the Eloi and the Murlocks. > We see the struggle between good and evil, which is very similar to > the struggle between the demigods and the demons in the vedic > literature. The story even today has an inherent appeal.
Just as a point, John, some of us here don't see the world in terms of the TM buzzword "vedic." As I think I said in my initial reply, anyone can project onto a well-told story anything they want to see in it. The fact that they see it there does not, however, mean that the author intended it to be there. It is certainly possible to see The Time Machine as a metaphor for the struggle between demigods and demons, a la the Vedas. It would be equally possible for a strong Christian to see the same story as a struggle between the forces of God and those of Satan. Or, one could view the same story in a less dualistic manner, as just the interplay of energies, without casting those energies as "good" or "bad," "angelic" or "demonic." IMO it's all a matter of how one chooses to see such things, and the world in general. Me, I'd be happiest with seeing this story, and the world in general, in terms of a non-dualistic, eternal interplay of energies that are neither good nor bad...they just are. You, of course, can choose to see it, and the world in general, in a more dualistic fashion. The neat part of being human is that we get to choose how we view the world. The troublesome part of being human is that we get to live with the repercussions of how we choose to view the world. As many spiritual teachers, including Maharishi, have said, "That which you focus on grows stronger in your life." I would take that to mean that if one chooses to see the world as a battleground between good and evil, then a battleground is what life becomes -- for that person. I prefer the vision of life as a graceful dance of energies, none of them inherently good or evil, just energy dancing.
