Ishwa helper Reged: 03/03/02 Posts: 553

Re: Meaning and significance of Siva [Re: willie] #16709 - 05/26/02 01:25 PM Edit Reply Quote

I had some mailcontact with Frawley. It was more on non-philosophical issues. I do share some of his ideas about historical developments, but certainly not everything. But that's okay, he did a good job to put the attention of many Hindus to their cultural heritage and actuality. People in the past had many discussions or brahmodyas on almost every topic. There were contests between members of different schools of thoughts. Most of the time kings were the judges. Actually the older texts aren't lingually obscure at all, except for some passages in the RigSamhit� and some of the other Samhit�s. The only problem is that one has to learn Vedic Sanskrit or P�niniiya Sanskrit for the later texts, or Pr�krit for still later texts. Some translations in modern langages are a fairly good tool in understanding the thoughts of the older texts. The texts are old, but not their subject matter. But texts are texts. They are means to reflect what you want to consult or to be reflected. The best teachers however are reality, common sense and selfreflection. The texts are secondary teachers.