There's almost a tradition that in times of upheaval, people revert to the fundamental issues of life. Hence no surprise that the stories of both the Bhagavad-Gita and the Bible (NT) are in an ambiance of war. The present era differs in the sense that dumbing down and perverting has been too successful to remember essential questions lik…
There's almost a tradition that in times of upheaval, people revert to the fundamental issues of life. Hence no surprise that the stories of both the Bhagavad-Gita and the Bible (NT) are in an ambiance of war. The present era differs in the sense that dumbing down and perverting has been too successful to remember essential questions like "who were you before birth?" IMO and experience, mainstream religion in the West has been way too corrupted (alienated from verifiable results of practice) to be a useful subject of discussion. When unfamiliar with that, this might be a good read (OCR but with errors):
There's almost a tradition that in times of upheaval, people revert to the fundamental issues of life. Hence no surprise that the stories of both the Bhagavad-Gita and the Bible (NT) are in an ambiance of war. The present era differs in the sense that dumbing down and perverting has been too successful to remember essential questions like "who were you before birth?" IMO and experience, mainstream religion in the West has been way too corrupted (alienated from verifiable results of practice) to be a useful subject of discussion. When unfamiliar with that, this might be a good read (OCR but with errors):
https://archive.org/stream/AphorismsOfYoga/Aphorisms%20of%20Yoga_djvu.txt