Hi Akshay -- You are a Hindu who has "rebelled". I've been reading Hirsi Ali's "Infidel" which is about a Muslim who has renounced Islam. She now considers herself an atheist. As a Hindu, do you consider yourself an atheist?
I raise this question because a person's philosophy is often influenced by his religion, and since most of the people here have rejected religion, they are atheists. I grew up in a Protestant household but was never religious in the biblical sense, although I believe man's nature is innately spiritual in that it seeks the supernatural source of its existence. You seem to imply that this supernatural source is DQ (Prakrti?), and that we can be aware of it by becoming one with DQ. > Then there is no individuality, and you realize that you are DQ, > not in the sense of you vs the others but in the sense that you > are the all-pervading seer. This is what I can't fathom. Such realization cannot be experience (because everything experienced is differentiated and relative).. So I assume that one can only be aware of it conceptually--as an idea or theory. For me, this sort of conceptual worldview is a philosophy. In my philosophy (Essentialism) the primary source is Essence, and plurality is the appearance of the source to a sensible subject which has been separated from it. (Of course, this is not acknowledged by the MoQ whose followers consider it a "theistic" concept.) As a "reconfirmed" Hindu, Akshay, to what extent can (do) you incorporate the MoQ ideology into your philosophy? In other words, how has Pirsig's theory influenced your worldview? Since we all experience the universe in the same way, I find it strange that we all seem determined to explain it differently. I've read a lot about this mystery from a Western viewpoint. As a Hindu, perhaps you can enlighten me on it from the Eastern perspective. Thanks for your interest, Akshay. Regards, Ham Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
