Re: bad poetry?

You're speaking of enlightenment too generally -- it's defined so
completely differently in each religious tradition that calling it a
"general truth" or "general principle of happiness" is meaningless.
This is a very Enlightenment (in the sense, now, of a specific
philosophical movement/period arising from rationalism) concept and
completely nonsense, once you get close enough to actual religious texts
to see what they really say. This supports Blake's dictum, by the way.
It's one thing to speak of enlightenment (in the sense of illumination)
generally, and another to represent it accurately as it is held in each
individual religious tradition. The latter requires some study, the
former doesn't require much at all, really.

I don't see enlightenment in the Vedic sense as being a "generalization"
at all -- it follows from a very specific belief about the world and
things in it. It doesn't guarantee "happiness" in any real sense, and
actually moves the individual beyond happiness or sorrow.

Jim

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