Conversations about Transcendence
Language is deficient when you want to communicate faith in words.
Who can understand the heart? And we all have strong faith in our hearts, whether we're convinced there is no higher reality than the one we perceive, or whether we're confident that the path we subscribe to has scriptural injunctions that are reasonable and perfectly logical, without having read the scriptures completely. Even those that doubt, are strongly convinced that a skeptics way is the right way.
What is faith? Where does it come from? Is it even a personal choice? We seem to be like receptacles for suggestions from our heart. And we believe the words of our heart, always.
The mind and the heart are both called "mana" in Sanskrit.
And our most relied on faculty is something we are most ignorant about. The nature of the mind or heart is not easy to comprehend. It cannot be mathematically defined.
And life goes on, while we remain ignorant about the real nature of our valued advisers. What then can be expected other than complete chaos? All around us is a whirlpool of madness. And we soon realize that if the person who wrote the scriptures we have so much faith in, saw us, he/she would just look at us and, really concerned, say something like "What are you doing sweetheart?"
The truth is bitter when you just want to be "normal" and survive.
It only becomes nectarean when you are willing to risk everything to get to the truth.
Who can understand the heart? And we all have strong faith in our hearts, whether we're convinced there is no higher reality than the one we perceive, or whether we're confident that the path we subscribe to has scriptural injunctions that are reasonable and perfectly logical, without having read the scriptures completely. Even those that doubt, are strongly convinced that a skeptics way is the right way.
What is faith? Where does it come from? Is it even a personal choice? We seem to be like receptacles for suggestions from our heart. And we believe the words of our heart, always.
The mind and the heart are both called "mana" in Sanskrit.
And our most relied on faculty is something we are most ignorant about. The nature of the mind or heart is not easy to comprehend. It cannot be mathematically defined.
And life goes on, while we remain ignorant about the real nature of our valued advisers. What then can be expected other than complete chaos? All around us is a whirlpool of madness. And we soon realize that if the person who wrote the scriptures we have so much faith in, saw us, he/she would just look at us and, really concerned, say something like "What are you doing sweetheart?"
The truth is bitter when you just want to be "normal" and survive.
It only becomes nectarean when you are willing to risk everything to get to the truth.
posted by Lotus at 12/31/2014 10:29:00 AM
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