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Post by dattaswami on Nov 20, 2007 18:36:05 GMT -8
Why I become angry in propagation of knowledge when some one opposes it?
Ans) You need not become angry with the opponents who argue with you because the opponent approaches you by the will of God to open a new dimension through arguments. You must always thank the opponent in the name of God. Even if a person refused your knowledge and goes away due to injected rigid conservative tradition of blind elders, you should pity him since he is abandoned as a condemned soul forever. The doctor should pity on the patient whose disease could not be cured by his long intensive treatment.
But, remember one point, if your knowledge contains absolute truth, it has entered his soul and will grind the ignorance of the soul like a rat drilling even a mountain. The drilling may be slow but the mountain is going to be powdered one day or other. That is the power of the truth. When all the ignorance of the soul is powdered, he cannot bare the rat anymore and will transfer the rat in to other souls. Hence, the truth has the tremendous power of propagation by virtue of itself. You are only taking the opportunity to serve the mission of God and get His grace on you by doing the propagation of this divine knowledge. Even without all of you, this divine knowledge of God will spread by itself.
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Post by Josh on Nov 26, 2007 16:41:00 GMT -8
So, I would agree with the general thrust of your point here-- that we should look for new opportunities for further reflection in dialogue with anybody, whether they agree with us or disagree. In fact, those we disagree with might actually offer us the best chances at clear thinking.
However, I am a bit leary of your phrase "injected rigid conservative tradition of blind elders" (not to mention the ominous "condemned soul forever"). How can you automatically assume that tradition is blind and a conservative stance is rigid? Couldn't someone who holds your views (universal spirituality) be just as ignorantly rigid? And isn't the truth what really matters anyway, not whether one is rigid with it or not?
I like your analogy of the rat drilling the mountain. Truth does have a tendency to work that way. Not so sure what you mean by "transferring the rat into other souls" though, but I think I'd probably take some issues with that statement.
I also think that although God and truth itself can act on their own to spread knowledge, God does prefer to do that work through people.
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