Gnostic Bishop wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 4:57 am
iskander wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:35 am
Gnostic Bishop wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:17 am
iskander wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 2:34 pm
It is the thinking man religion.
The Upanishads seem to be full of contradictions at first. They do not contain consistent system of thought. Sri Vyasa systematised the thoughts or philosophy of the Upanishads in his Brahma Sutras. The Sutras reconcile the conflicting
statements of the Upanishads. In reality there are no conflicts for the thinker.
Your knowledge of those books exceed mine by miles.
Regards
DL
Your knowledge of those books exceed mine by miles.
I don't think so.
It is the thinking man religion.
Does thinking about sacred scriptures merits this praise?
PS. I count myself amongst the charvakas.
The definition to the word charvakas sounds a lot like Gnostic or Gnosis.
Regards
DL
The "thinking man" cannot always get it right, religion is like any other human enterprise. God, sages and popes make little difference : erroneous doctrines will sprout like weeds.
Heretic Buddha.
Chapter II THE CRITIQUE OF ERRONEOUS DOCTRINES
There are other schools which deny the existence of the Atman itself, like nihilism or Sunyavada, a trend in Buddhistic philosophy. ‘Nothing is’. This idea that nothing is arose from another series of discourses given by Buddha himself. Buddha did not say that nothing exists, but something followed from his standpoint. He said that everything is moving and nothing is existing at any particular point, even for a moment, like the flow of the waters of a river. Not for a single moment does the water stand at one place. The river is not a stable object; it is movement. That we are unable to perceive the continuous movement of the waters in a river is the reason why we mistake that the river is a solid water reservoir.
An Analysis of the Brahma Sutra by Swami Krishnananda
The moving water of a river is well known in Greek philosophy , but I don't remember who said it .