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Mark Neyer's avatar

Wow, this is awesome.

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Rao's avatar

Congrats on the relaunch - liking the new style. It seems to me that although Krishnamurti claimed to be speaking from a universalist position, that the idea of "Truth being a pathless land" seems fundamentally dharmic. Abrahamic and Western thought (with post-modernism being a possible exception) often pushes the idea of a singular salvation, whether religiously or politically.

For example, very famously Gandhi said "I am a Christian, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Christian, a Jew, and so are all of you", to which Jinnah replied "Only a Hindu could say that". Do you think that's true or do other spiritual traditions also have this thread of thought?

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Sandeep Kumar Sood's avatar

Thanks! And I couldn't agree more. The Gandhi quote you mention reminds me of another one, from Vivekenanda:

“May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you...the Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor is a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the spirit of the others and yet preserve his individuality and grow according to his own law of growth."

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