Theos-Talk Archives (November 2008 Message tt00348)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "danielhcaldwell"
<danielhcaldwell@...> wrote:
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> Anand,
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> You write:
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> "If people are willing to accept and to regard as God our ONE LIFE
> immutable and unconscious in its eternity they may do so and thus keep
> to one more gigantic misnomer. "
> Let us see meaning of this statement in PL 10 (Pseudo-Letter 10)
> Dictionary meaning of 'keep to" is "to adhere without deviation'
> and meaning of misnomer is 'calling something by wrong name'.
> If we paraphrase above statement, it becomes
> "If people are willing to accept and to regard as God our ONE LIFE
> immutable and unconscious in its eternity they may do so and thus
> adhere to one more wrong name. "
> It means according to PL 10 "accepting idea of One Life as God" is
> wrong. Therefore, according to this PL 10, one should not call God as
> One Life.
> This contradicts with many spiritual classics which tell God as Life
> or source of Life.
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> But Anand look at your KH quote. There is a significant sentence JUST
> BEFORE the sentence you quote and IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING your quoted
> sentence there is another significant statement.
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That means one statement in Pseudo-letter 10 contradicts with another
statement just before it in the same letter !
Daniel, you might try to justify Pseudo-letters by bringing some
sentences which suit your explanation. But I have seen many people who
studied Pseudo-letters for years and interpret them differently. 
Above given is not just one incidence. There are many other misleading
statements in Pseudo-letters. 


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> . . . We are not Adwaitees, but our teaching respecting the ONE LIFE
> is identical with that of the Adwaitee with regard to Parabrahm. And
> no true philosophically trained Adwaitee will ever call himself an
> agnostic, for he knows that he is Parabrahm and identical in every
> respect with THE UNIVERSAL LIFE AND SOUL -- the macrocosm is the
> microcosm and he knows that there is no God APART FROM himself, no
> creator as no being. 
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Notice the words 'there is no God APART FROM himself'. This statements
accepts existence of God. And yet other statement in Pseudo-letter
says 'There is no God, either personal or impersonal'