Regarding the Upanishads.

Vidyasankar Sundaresan vsundaresan at HOTMAIL.COM
Fri Feb 11 20:53:22 UTC 2000


>any hope that some claimant to spirituality knows the true meaning of
>these texts is utterly in vain.  A more realistic approach to the
>tradition would be to look at the interpreters as each one trying his best
>at a justifiable interpretation, and there is no reason to eliminate the
>modern interpreters from that class.

Hear, hear! The only problem with the modern "anything goes" school is that
most of its proponents forget

yuktiyuktam vacah graahyam baalaadapi ;sukaadapi |
yuktihiinam vacas tyaajyam v.rddhaadapi ;sukaadapi ||

Vidyasankar
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