--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > For the record, I have no problem with this whatsoever. > You're being honest about the yagyas being *worship* > of *deities*. What I think is a little hilarious are > the people who pay money to have yagyas performed for > them and then pretend they're doing so for "scientific" > or rational reasons. It's *OK* to be superstitious; > they don't have to hide it.
Or perhaps such people realize there's more than one way to understand yagyas. <snip> > The "cleanest" religions and spiritual > traditions I've found in history are those who didn't > allow this, and expected their teachers -- *including* > the primary teacher or guru -- to work for a living just > like everybody else, and do their teaching for free. Just out of curiosity, why should spiritual teaching be the only kind of teaching that is not considered to be a job deserving of compensation?
