On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:34:42 -0500, raven1
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quotht...@nevermore.com> wrote:
>*Yawn*. Threats are the inevitable refuge of the theist who knows he's
>beaten, Jesper.
Whatever it is, it's a matter of authority - what you choose to
believe in. The mind basicaly thinks and acts like it has been trained
to do during its formative years. If you don't suffer much, you must
be more more influence by the mode of passion than of ignorance/
Passion means constant changing between happiness and distress. The
mode of ignorance conditions you to a lot of suffering and misfortune.
And in the mode of goodness it is mostly happiness. There is no
goodness in modern society. It is a complete speculation. It's values
and goals are completely without any authority but the mind.
I am not trying to force my opinion on anyone. The only reason you
think so, is because you are too much under the influence of passion
and ignorance. The mode of passion dictates you to be in doubt about
right and wrong. The mode of ignorance dictates you to be convinced of
the wrong thing. I am just out to make the real world accessible to
any sincere seeker.
It is entirely a matter of authority.
You have two possibilities - you can either accept you own mind as
authority, or you can accept somebody else's mind as authority. You
haven chosen the Coca-cola culture and what your own mind tells you,
as autority, I have chosen the Vedic sages. That's all. It's simply a
question of whom you choose to get your knowlege from - is your own
mind the authority or is it someone else?
In modern society, we have been trained to think that one's own minds
is the greatest authority. That, together with what we are told by TV
and Hollywood, determines our view of the world.
I accept the Vedic sages as my authority I accept Srimad Bhagavatam as
authority. You accept what you you're conditioned to think by your
culture, you accept what the mind tells you. It is as simple as that.
The reason you don't understand that the knowledge of the eternal
disciplic succession, is superior to the speculations of modern
society - the Coca-cola society, as I like to call it - is because you
are too much governed by the mode of ignorance, in which you become
convinced of the wrong thing. At least the mode of passion would doubt
whether it's right or wrong - doubts are the function of the
intelligence. And in the mode of goodness you would understand things
as they are, because in the mode of goodness there is enlightenment.
Real knowledge can only be gotten from those who possess it. That is
what you don't understand. In the mode of goodness you understand
that. In the mode of passion you would at least be doubtful of what
the mind or, I tell, you, but in the mode of ignorance, you are
convinced of the wrong thing, and that makes you commit mistakes.
The first mistake is to accept knowledge from the wrong sources. Real
knowledge can only come from the Vedas. It can be tried and testet by
anyone. The science of nature working according to the three modes of
material nature - goodness, passion, and ignorance. It's like a map
that will teach one to read what is really going on in nature and the
mind. It can be tested and confirmed scientifically. But if you are in
the mode of ignorance, you won't listen to it or try it out. You will
be completely convinced by your own mind. Conditions of ignorance
always leads to suffering, without exception. The mode of passion
causes you to experience a mixture of happiness and distress - up and
down constantly - and in the mode of goodness you will be generally
satisfied and content and you will know what is what.
These things, I say, are obviously not for you. Feel free to ignore
it. This message is entirely directed at any sincere seeker, that
might happen to be here. It is only meant for those who have a desire
to learn the truth.
Krishna says:
Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire
from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized
souls can impart knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth.
(Bg. 4.34)
Having obtained real knowledge from a self-realized soul, you will
never fall again into such illusion, for by this knowledge you will
see that all living beings are but part of the Supreme, or, in other
words, that they are Mine. (Bg. 4.35)