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Day Brown <daybrown@cei.net> skrev i en
nyhedsmeddelelse:3C67899C.A0221ABD@cei.net...
> Tanneken van der Hof wrote:
> >
> > Day Brown <daybrown@cei.net> skrev i en
> > nyhedsmeddelelse:3C65E38D.8BC797B2@cei.net...
> > > Well, you know, in the Bagavad Gita Arjuna is told that the Divine
> > > created and animated forms simply as a challenge. The Avatar is like
> > > a cosmic robot; whether it appears to be a fool or a sage, you
> > > cannot teach it anything. It is programmed to do as it does, just
> > > like the monsters in a video game. and like them, are all so easy
> > > to demolish. It hardly seems worth the effort.
> >
> > Nevertheless Arjuna *is* told to act. Interesting observation, though!

> I dont read Sanskrit, and even if I did, I dont know enough
> yet to understand all the cultural nuances, the meaning seen
> between the lines. I see that Arjuna does act, but it looks
> more to me like he does so out of his own innate priorities.
>
> I see a kind of Stoicism in that he acts dispassionately;
> to get out of the way of an Avatar if need be, or strike
> one down if that is appropriate. Unlike the Levantines, he
> does not act out of self righteous anger.

Arjuna is told to act in accordance with his karma, but at the same time to
be 'without the 3 guna's', e.g. forces of nature.

Thus he is in a way told to act like a robot -- but as a robot with an inner
free and unbounded consciousness. He should not ignore the evils of this
world, but act upon them dispassionately, as you say, preferable on a basis
of bliss developed through meditation, or other means.

And so should we: We should not ignore the crimes of Christianity,
but we shouldn't act out of anger, either.

Sincerely
Tanne
editor
ed@horrorcomix.com
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