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Rubaiyat Commentary |
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"Founded, habitual, and unfounded"I find it very useful to discern between founded, habitual, and unfounded.
Sound "objectivity" or neutrality involves clear-headed investigations, all of which may aid us on and up instead of being taken in. Remaining very polite, we may be admitted to investigate much with reserve or suspicion. Victims of hearsay often fail to accommodate fairly and well enough and for that reason may discard really helpful words. Some could be partly enmeshed in a bog of soap opera tenetss. Yogananda's Rubaiyat commentary may be seen to fit into some area where things "habitual and unfounded" mingle. Yet, among the dross parts there may be good and delicate parts too. There are many truths and many angles to a phenomenon. Find some that suit you. Hinduism Today is PuzzledIn Hinduism Today (1994, No. 10: "Wine of the Mystic") it is observed that both the guru's fellowship and the other publisher, Crystal Clarity, plainly edited many guru statements and differed in many places. Quote:It's a bit difficult to grasp just how extensively both Walters (Kriyananda) and Self-Realization Fellowship have edited Paramahansa Yogananda's words.A minor sample from stanza one:
"Startling"It was startling to this reader to learn that in neither edition is one even offered the original writing of Paramahansa Yogananda. Self-Realization Fellowship explained that all of Paramahansa Yogananda's writings had been so edited". - From Himalayan Academy. Is Drinking Wine a Main Concern of Omar?"What is the central concern of Omar?"It could be a call "To Wine!" "And what wine?" One possible but not wholly accepted answer given by knowers of Sufism is that the wine is not wine here - but a word used figuratively, as a metaphor. Quote: "The idea that the intoxication he writes of in his poetry is a Sufi metaphor for the Divine Beloved, is reportedly a minority opinion dismissed as wishful pious thinking by most Iranians" [cf. previous page]. Anyway, as with other poetic words that are meant as symbols or not, different readers have the freedom to interpret them as they themselves wish. Guru interpretations of the farfetched, little-supported sort are thus allowed in this world, but what good do they do? That is a question. No Great WorkGuru followers and admirers hail Yogananda's commentary and do not question it as they should for the sake of their own sanity and development.A source: [Link] Existence Is AllIn the SRF text Yogananda (aided by his editor, Mrinalini Mata,) interprets the morning as a dawn of awakening away from "delusive earthly existence". Yet, where would Yogananda and his many words have been without earthly existence? Nowhere. What a flop . . .Interestingly, in highest Mahayana Buddhism there is no difference between the highest state and seeing into everyday existence. The later Mahayana view is that Consciousness is Wisdom and sangsara is nirvana. Consciousness is expanded [into] Enlightenment. In this later Mahayana view, Buddhahood is not had through destroying the mind's accumulated knowledge, but through direct identification of the limited human consciousness with the infinite Buddha-mind [cf. Tiy xxxvii]. Final Words"He's a good fellow who knows more or better than just stanzas."Outraged often spells outsmarted. We may get soundly mainstream accomplished to represent ourselves, mainly. Literature Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2008 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2008. Wim: Yogananda, Paramahansa. The Wine of the Mystic. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1994. USER'S GUIDE to abbreviations, the site's bibliography, letter codes, dictionaries, site design and navigation, tips for searching the site and page referrals. [LINK] DISCLAIMER: [LINK] © 19972008, Tormod Kinnes. All rights reserved. [E-MAIL] | |||||||||||||||||||||||