On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I also attended some lectures by Paramarthananda,in Chennai, where he > talked about Nirvishishta Advaitha....this philosophy says much the same > thing, that the Universe has no reality. I've always held that the Universe appears to be chaos with no deeper meaning or grand plan. This was the conclusion I came to in my early twenties when I was much troubled by the realities of human history. I've later read other philosophers at various times comment along the same lines. It's quite satisfying but at the same time I can't shake off the sense that it is grossly inefficient to reinvent the wheel. Especially when I recall the many times I've contemplated on a philosophical conundrum for days, even weeks or months on end before answering the question to my satisfaction, only to discover soon enough that there's been generations of philosophers who've covered the same ground and come to broadly the same conclusions as me. No doubt these armies of philosophers before me have covered all sorts of edge cases and explanations but the broad essentials of the philosophy match. Considering the inefficiency, I've tried not to repeat this, but the act of thinking is quite unconscious and exciting at the same time that it's often too late in the process that it occurs to me to look at what others have found out. Even then I don't think I would understand the concepts without the help of my own discoveries tilling the field before it. Some day when I can afford to not hold down a full time job I'd like to get some formal training in Philosophy even though my current instinct is to hate it for its eminent unsuitability to tackling the subject. Cheeni
