Indra and Vrtra

[Ramkumar SM Nereniki]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar at BRAINCELLS.COM>
To: <ADVAITA-L at LISTS.ADVAITA-VEDANTA.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: Indra and Vrtra


> just a quick reply to some points raised in the thread.
>
>
> Shrinivasa Gadkari wrote:
>
> > Secondly, I would like to mention a peculiar characteristic of this
Self,
> > i.e. consciousness: anything that It focus its attention on gets infused
> > with "life". Just the fact that we all use the C. E. makes it very full
of
> > life. It is not at all important that 0 C. E. is related to no
historical
> > event at all.
>
> I think this is a very important point.  And precisely why it doesn't
> matter whether any event in the shastras corresponds to the Ice Age or
not.
>
> Ravi Chandrasekhara wrote:
>
> > Our shastras tend to give more weight to divine events and moral lessons
> > behind events than exact dates but that doesnt mean the events are false
> > or did not happen millions of years ago.
> >
>
> No I'm not saying that.  But as you point out the purpose of the shastras
> is different to just saying what happened when.  We misuse the shastras if
> we just use them as a history book.
>
>
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