--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > >> > > Barry, > > You fail to get the messages behind the stories of the vedic > literature. The messages are encoded in terms of symbolisms and > sounds. One needs to be open to these messages in order to > understand the core of the entire literature. > > Even today, philosophers have difficulty in conveying the language of > consciousness or being since it is intellectual and spiritual by > nature. As such, one has to accept certain terms or concrete words > to describe a specific meaning in the nature of consciousness. > > For the ancient writers, they used specific terms that are readily > understood by the people of yesterday and today. These are words > like amrita, which on the surface means a divine elixir, which was > produced by the demigods and asuras by churning the sea of milk. In > MMY's tradition, amrita is defined as the bliss that is created while > reaching the fourth state of consciousness, or samadhi. > > As the Rig Veda sings, if one is not open to the sounds of the > absolute what good can the book do for you?
The "buddhists" on this list do not want to hear that the Vedas are the eternal song of nature. They want books to cling on to, keeping them occupied with hairsplitting analysis.
