Love part1
Fri, 01/25/2008 - 18:17 — admin
TEACHER: Yes, to embark on that sort of inquiry now is to do so on a solid footing, for in the process you will be able to confirm or deny your lingering doubts.
What is first required, however, is a critical examination of other methods of inquiring about the Absolute Truth. Obviously, the empirical process alone cannot take us where we want to go. At least it has failed to do so thus far, not only for ourselves, but for many previous generations of philosophers. Men like Hume and other skeptics were loathe to accept any alternative process of receiving information, but their process could not bring them close to the Absolute Truth. Skepticism, in a way, can be seen as the last desperate effort of human reason to break, by its own strength, the chains of ignorance. Whereas it can help to overthrow materialism, it certainly has been unable to establish the existence of a personal Deity.
The question we must face, then, is whether or not Hume and others were right in depending solely on their individual judgments to try to ascertain the Absolute Truth.
We can consider this question tomorrow, however, if it's all right with you, Michael, and also try to see if we can find some other process-with a firm foundation-by which we can continue our philosophical journey. Now the sun is about to set, and by habit my students and I are accustomed to bathe and take our evening meal and then join together for kirtan, i.e., congregational chanting. You may join us if you wish.
MICHAEL: Thank you very much for your invitation, but I have already made other commitments or I would certainly stay. Also, I will not be able to come here tomorrow until after noon as I have some classes at the university in the morning.
TEACHER: In that case, I'll look forward to seeing you in the early afternoon.
(On the other hand,) for a person who cultivates wisdom or true knowledge, the results are inner peace, satisfaction, patience, respect for others, freedom from duplicity, compassion, joyfulness, remembrance of his spiritual identity, freedom from the fear of death, freedom from anxiety and depression, and so on.MICHAEL: The evidence makes me feel that the probability in favor of God's existence is exceedingly high. I'd like to begin inquiring about His nature, because that, too, is a process of confirming my knowledge about His existence.
Science of Identity Foundation – Siddhaswarupananda
TEACHER: Yes, to embark on that sort of inquiry now is to do so on a solid footing, for in the process you will be able to confirm or deny your lingering doubts.
What is first required, however, is a critical examination of other methods of inquiring about the Absolute Truth. Obviously, the empirical process alone cannot take us where we want to go. At least it has failed to do so thus far, not only for ourselves, but for many previous generations of philosophers. Men like Hume and other skeptics were loathe to accept any alternative process of receiving information, but their process could not bring them close to the Absolute Truth. Skepticism, in a way, can be seen as the last desperate effort of human reason to break, by its own strength, the chains of ignorance. Whereas it can help to overthrow materialism, it certainly has been unable to establish the existence of a personal Deity.
The question we must face, then, is whether or not Hume and others were right in depending solely on their individual judgments to try to ascertain the Absolute Truth.
We can consider this question tomorrow, however, if it's all right with you, Michael, and also try to see if we can find some other process-with a firm foundation-by which we can continue our philosophical journey. Now the sun is about to set, and by habit my students and I are accustomed to bathe and take our evening meal and then join together for kirtan, i.e., congregational chanting. You may join us if you wish.
MICHAEL: Thank you very much for your invitation, but I have already made other commitments or I would certainly stay. Also, I will not be able to come here tomorrow until after noon as I have some classes at the university in the morning.
TEACHER: In that case, I'll look forward to seeing you in the early afternoon.