HOW DANGEROUS IS THE LITERARY EXPLANATIONS OF SPIRITUALITY ?

I don't see the danger in literal explanations of spirituality.


The danger seems to be in believing someone else's explanations without discernment...


With Love
Eelco

[davidsun]

Originally Posted by OPVerma

SO THE THEME IS -LITERARY INTERPRETATIONS ARE VERY DANGEROUS .

I would suggest, so is yours. IOW, what anyone thinks of as being 'scientific' totally correct understanding of the Universe, i.e. how Life works, i.e. what YOU word-describe (label?) as 'scientific' spirituality. may have serious omissions in terms of awareness of vital truth.

What you have said in your OP may just be a (i.e. another) case of a 'pot' calling a 'kettle' black, IOW.

A relevant parable (related in my 'scientific' spiritual philosophy book):

There is an excellent Hindu parable about a great seer who, out of the goodness of his heart, informed birds of all species about a terrible bird-catcher and warned them to beware because, sooner or later, the bird-catcher was bound to try and catch them. Not really up to the task of keeping close track of and publicly declaring the many clever ways in which the bird-catcher disguised himself, fooling themselves and others that they were adequately doing their duty, the parrots in the group diligently ‘served’ to pass on the warning, “Watch out for the bird-catcher,” from generation to generation. The wily bird-catcher found this quite to his liking since all he had to do was set up his nets and yell “I see the bird-catcher coming!” while pointing away from them. Birds galore would then fly right into his trap. Needless to say, instead of preying upon the parrots themselves, the bird-catcher would place those he caught in prominence positions to make sure that other birds would hear their ‘message’. (Note: even this parable, but of course minus the gist of the last sentence, has been used to ‘catch’ flocks gullible enough to think that a person telling such a wise story must necessarily be doing so to ‘save’ them.)

[linen53]

I don't mish-mash my spirituality with words. I just live with love in my heart and my eye on the pie in the sky. No saviors no gurus. Just me and the Divine (whatever you want to call what created and runs all of This).