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| Nov 04, 2006 12:28 pm |
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re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: : re: re: re: re: Sanathana Dharma - Part II |
Ganesh Ram
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Gyro, the claim that SD is not only faith based but practical is not argued upon at all. In fact, if you have seen some of my previous post, I have claimed that it is the practical nature of SD that is explained by Faith in all occassion(did I spell that right?).
Why do we need Faith? IMO, it is one of the least common multiple that can be put into masses to support a theory about Nature.
Science as I have said earlier is a form of explanation of what that part of Nature is about and how a person perceives it. Nowhere in the SD thread there has been a denial of the fact that we had a lot of info about Nature written by early"Indians" in sanskrit.
This is how I see it. As we started settling from our early nomadic life we had lot of free time and questions about the Nature arose.There were some that could be answered and there were some that could not be at that time and were attributed to be done by a superior entity. This superior entity if it has a human attribute will be understood by many. Thereby havAing a cohesive society.
I have always wondered, we say "venkateshwara suprabatham" but the first two stanza are about Rama waking up. And also, one seldom hears this recited in a Rama temple. The point I am making is, we put up with things inculcated into us when we are young. We are taught not to question certain things and as a human we do not question things that do not bother us much and go with the society.
There were/are those who questioned certain aspects and were able to explain their stance in a way that was acceptible to a group of people. They became the leaders of that mass. Some of them are the great thinkers like Sankara, Ramanuja in the earlier days and Guru Nanak,Sai Baba,prabupAdha of the not so past and the present.
And again, Modern science is one way of explaining the Nature as our epics and mantras and slokams do/did. Private Reply to Ganesh Ram (new win) |
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