Krishna’s conversation with Arjuna enshrined in The Bhagavad Gita, contains perhaps the most important teaching from ancient India: ‘The immortal soul is more important than the passing world’.
Hi Peter, good to hear from you, and appreciate your comments. Yes, theres a lot to unpack here. Many juxtaposing concepts and not an easy one to write or to read. It's been a process of dharma and labour of love for me personally. I am going to take your advice and split this into three parts. I've already done this on my blog - https://www.thecogent.org/post/escape-from-samsara - theres definitely three distinct narratives unfolding... Appreciate your wisdom. All the best, Dustin
I'm reading this subsequent to the slicing of the text into three, and certainly see the wisdom of this. As a tiresome old curmudgeon I would kind of like to have the whole thing in PDF (or ePUB) format to read in one go and make comments on as I go along - you know like a dead tree book with scribbles in ;-)
But anyhow, based on part 1, I echo Peter's feedback. (I am a Buddhist by the way so find the Atman concept 'tricky'). The image that accompanies the '...all the devils are here...' section is chilling but mesmerising.
Hi Karen, If you give me your email address I can send you a word version of the article in one document. I could send it as PDF but the embedded links won't be available
I have a feeling you kindly did this for me with one of your articles last year. Gratefully accepted, Word is abs. fine, and addy is [redacted@madeup.net]. Thank you Dustin.
(I'll pop back and edit this comment when received. [DONE] Tks again)
Thanks, Dustin - excellent, superb writing and analysis.
I share most if not all of your views and will share with others.
My only comment - its perhaps a bit long.
Not all have the attention span to read it all.
And the message is too important not to be read.
Ideas: Maybe you could divide it up into more than one article?
Or, summarize certain sections.
But, again, congratulations.
We survivors of the current life and preparing for the next - must be aware: The immortal soul is more important than the passing world’.
Best
peter
Hi Peter, good to hear from you, and appreciate your comments. Yes, theres a lot to unpack here. Many juxtaposing concepts and not an easy one to write or to read. It's been a process of dharma and labour of love for me personally. I am going to take your advice and split this into three parts. I've already done this on my blog - https://www.thecogent.org/post/escape-from-samsara - theres definitely three distinct narratives unfolding... Appreciate your wisdom. All the best, Dustin
I'm reading this subsequent to the slicing of the text into three, and certainly see the wisdom of this. As a tiresome old curmudgeon I would kind of like to have the whole thing in PDF (or ePUB) format to read in one go and make comments on as I go along - you know like a dead tree book with scribbles in ;-)
But anyhow, based on part 1, I echo Peter's feedback. (I am a Buddhist by the way so find the Atman concept 'tricky'). The image that accompanies the '...all the devils are here...' section is chilling but mesmerising.
Hi Karen, If you give me your email address I can send you a word version of the article in one document. I could send it as PDF but the embedded links won't be available
I have a feeling you kindly did this for me with one of your articles last year. Gratefully accepted, Word is abs. fine, and addy is [redacted@madeup.net]. Thank you Dustin.
(I'll pop back and edit this comment when received. [DONE] Tks again)