ananda@coastnet.com (Ananda das) wrote:
>Perhaps there is some misunderstanding of each other's position, but
>I see much in common between the writers. Jahnu states, citing Srila
>Prabhupada, that the material world is temporary. Danijel agrees,
>accepting this as axiomatic: "The material world ... is of course
>temporary...." Danijel is also right on three of his subsequent points,
>that the transcendentalist does not need to despise the world, but
>merely to understand that it is not illusory, merely temporary.
>A knowledge of the world's temporary nature naturally leads a person
>to seek out the permanent substratum, namely the Supreme Person Sri
>Krsna, who is the author (the cause of all causes) and the merciful
>destination as well. On the other hand, an excess of antipathy to the
>world is merely the obverse of an excess of attraction towards it; 
>in either case one's mind is dwelling overmuch on the transient
>and flickering mundane creation.
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I just hope that the amount of this kind of on-topic writing will
increase at the expense of petty bickering.

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