Posted by: IDK2013 October 2, 2013
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@ujl, your proposition of us not understanding the Vedas reminds me of this:
"If you cannot explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein.
"If you cannot explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein.
But in the Vedas case, we don’t have to. Here is why:
{Your words, “The Rishis, Yogis who discovered Vedas were not ordinary human beings who seek sensual pleasures. These Rishis actually mastered their own mind and came to a state of mind where mind was absolutely silent and this silent state of mind reveals higher reality.”
We do have senses and our physical body, and this is our reality. But to demonize the senses and glorify only the abstract ideas limits the Vedas as one partial of life, very important one though, but not the holistic package of living one’s life. We cannot completely deny desires, forgo ego, abandon dreams, and only sit and think blue aspect of ‘nothingness of life’. There is a reason why the Hinduism itself would come up with Kamasutra.
Brother, that’s a wrong way to live a life, at least for me. Had people not had those, we wouldn’t be sitting in the computer and typing these high stuffs. We would be living in caves, eat some hunts and think blue and die miserably (even though you make think it is still ‘liberating’).
“अति सर्वत्र वर्जयेत्”}
So Vedas has its own place, just one. To me, living beings are scattered in a triangle shape and the occupants are: philosopher in one vertex, lunatic in the second, and animals in the third. I think a lot of people prefer to be somewhere in the middle doing everything.
Going back to the Khasi, you touched upon non-injury (non-violence your word). I invite you to clarify if you believe in following absolute non-injury. No harming of other lives.