Veracity wrote:
"Regarding Tulsi, the question is if she can serve two masters? Or is she surreptitiously serving only one master?"
Here is where I see an important difference between Western culture and Hinduistic
belief systems.
This is much, much more than doctrine.
Your entire mindset, what I am calling "operating system" will, when it comes to
moral assumptions, be quite different depending on whether your OS is western cultural or Hinduistic.
In Western culture the assumption is there is one truth, all the time, all situations, all persons.
Recall the statement from the New Testament: "Let your yes be yes, let your no be no. Anything else is from the Evil One.
Oh yes, nearly forgot. There is a distinction between good and evil.
Batman vs The Joker. Black hats, white hats.
By contrast, in the Hinduistic belief system there there's the two truth doctrine.
There's relative truth, as perceived by our deluded senses, and there is absolute truth, as perceived by those who are Enlightened.
What those mired in relative truth (including the God of the Old Testament, the prophets and Jesus) would name as murder, deceit, bearing false witness, defrauding widows and orphans -- this may actually be holy behavior from the standpoint of one who is Enlightened.
Take a look at the the core document used by Tulsi's guru, Chris Butler -
the Bhagavad Gita.
In the BG, the warrior Arjuna does not want to kill his relatives. The god Krishna, in the BG teaches that only someone unenlightened only someone ignorant
of the true Reality sees this as death. We are not our bodies, says Krishna.
Is Tulsi operating from the normative Western one truth stance? Did Tulsi swear to uphold the laws and constitution of the United States of America with no
mental reservation?
Or does she live and think and swear oaths of office from the Hinduistic Butlerian two truths stance?
That it is OK to say one thing to deluded karmi constituents in the 2d District who voted for her, while
making long range plans as a Krishna devotee and hiding this from her
consitutuents because they are deluded and would not approve but, many rebirths later, when no longer deluded, these people will be enlightened and thank Tulsi
for having lied to them for their own good when campaigning for office.
All this is clumsy speculation on Corboy's part.
But this question has to be asked - and pondered.
Tulsi is not a private person.
She's an elected official, and most of the people who elected her operate
on the relative truth model --- the same level the Founders worked from
when creating the laws and Constitution of the United States of America.
"Regarding Tulsi, the question is if she can serve two masters? Or is she surreptitiously serving only one master?"
Here is where I see an important difference between Western culture and Hinduistic
belief systems.
This is much, much more than doctrine.
Your entire mindset, what I am calling "operating system" will, when it comes to
moral assumptions, be quite different depending on whether your OS is western cultural or Hinduistic.
In Western culture the assumption is there is one truth, all the time, all situations, all persons.
Recall the statement from the New Testament: "Let your yes be yes, let your no be no. Anything else is from the Evil One.
Oh yes, nearly forgot. There is a distinction between good and evil.
Batman vs The Joker. Black hats, white hats.
By contrast, in the Hinduistic belief system there there's the two truth doctrine.
There's relative truth, as perceived by our deluded senses, and there is absolute truth, as perceived by those who are Enlightened.
What those mired in relative truth (including the God of the Old Testament, the prophets and Jesus) would name as murder, deceit, bearing false witness, defrauding widows and orphans -- this may actually be holy behavior from the standpoint of one who is Enlightened.
Take a look at the the core document used by Tulsi's guru, Chris Butler -
the Bhagavad Gita.
In the BG, the warrior Arjuna does not want to kill his relatives. The god Krishna, in the BG teaches that only someone unenlightened only someone ignorant
of the true Reality sees this as death. We are not our bodies, says Krishna.
Is Tulsi operating from the normative Western one truth stance? Did Tulsi swear to uphold the laws and constitution of the United States of America with no
mental reservation?
Or does she live and think and swear oaths of office from the Hinduistic Butlerian two truths stance?
That it is OK to say one thing to deluded karmi constituents in the 2d District who voted for her, while
making long range plans as a Krishna devotee and hiding this from her
consitutuents because they are deluded and would not approve but, many rebirths later, when no longer deluded, these people will be enlightened and thank Tulsi
for having lied to them for their own good when campaigning for office.
All this is clumsy speculation on Corboy's part.
But this question has to be asked - and pondered.
Tulsi is not a private person.
She's an elected official, and most of the people who elected her operate
on the relative truth model --- the same level the Founders worked from
when creating the laws and Constitution of the United States of America.