--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > <snip> Sacrifice gains spiritual favor and ascendancy in divinity. > > > The Ribhus gained immortality through their zealous > > > sacrificing (Rig 1.110.4). Sacrifice was to enbue the > > > sacrificer with power and wealth from the gods (Rig 1.111.2). > > > > When reading the [translated] Veda, it is like the Bible, not > > to be read literally, but rather as descriptions of inner states. > > Just as Christian fundamentalists misinterpret the knowledge of > > the Bible when reading it literally, so do Vedic fundamentalists > > misintepret the Veda, as you have done, when reading it literally. > > Yeah, that's pretty much what all True > Believers say when their scriptures are > challenged. "The scriptures don't really > say what they say.
You mean, "The scriptures don't really mean what they say *literally*." That is a perfectly reasonable assertion, one that is, in fact, more likely to be made by nonbelieving scholars than by "True Believers."
