Re: The Royal Path


Subject: Re: The Royal Path
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Tue Feb 01 2000 - 19:01:03 EST


In a message dated 2/1/00 4:04:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
holden@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in writes:

<< From the days of the Rig Veda, there is an earnest enquiry
 and questioning, of seeking to understand things instead of
 accepting facts as they are given. Even the Nasadiya hymn,
 the "hymn of creation", while pondering over the origins
 of creation, of being and nothingness, leaves it at "ko veda"
 - who knows?, and it is this mystery which has led the later
 thinkers to call it Maya, loosely translated as Illusion. >>

That was a good post, Sonny. My only disagreement is with any definiton of
religious faith that means "accepting things as given." I used that
definition of faith against the scientific materialist view espoused earlier
because it is the definition they were using. And of course that is what
faith will be to the thoughtless adherents of any religion or philosophy.
But faith in Christianity has long been seen as an organ of knowledge -- kind
of like our eyes are organs of sight.

I think theology is an accurate word for the content of at least some of the
Vedas, esp. much of the Upanishads, but it carries many unfortunate
connotations (a systematic body of beliefs such as the Catholic Catechism)
that just don't apply to them.

Jim
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