Some Vedic sacrifices of this century

[Jagannathan Mahadevan]

Keith was right, advaita is not food for the intellect, again as we give
validity to the intellect by chewing on it, we destroy the whole
foundation of advaita..
Jagan

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Keith Aitken wrote:

> Nataraj BV wrote:
>
> > You seem to pay no attention to the pain and suffering that the animals go through.
> > How does advaita treat physical pain? Is the pain and suffering that the animals go
> > through also considered mithya? Does "experience" have any place at all in advaita? Or is
> > it rejected completely?
> >
> > Regards
> > -Nataraj
> >
>
> Well I am a very new member here and my knowledge of the Sanskrit terms
> being used is minimal, however I will throw in my voice to this.
> For us humans, pain is felt by the body (as is pleasure) we are not the
> body, we are the Self.
> I think Christ said, it is not what you eat with your body, but what you
> eat with your mind. Obviously eating meat is not necessary, however if
> it is offered by another, it seems to me that more damage is done, by
> taking a intellectual approach and holding a strong idea of what we
> should or should not do. It seems to me that the decision to eat meat
> should be taken in the moment rather than adopting an idea about it.
> I am very grateful to the learned members of this list, however it seems
> to me, that we are have lengthy debates about principal and rules.
>
> It seems that "experience" is transitory so can not bring one back to
> the Self.
> Again, I am a new member and not quite sure if lengthy debate is the
> standard practice on the list?
> It seems that we run the danger of intellectualizing Advaita.
>
> Keith Aitken
>
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