ATTN: MODERATOR (PVR) Sanjay ji's open-mindedness (More on Scorpio ...Smt Kanupriya

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Dear Shri Narasimha-ji,

 

Its really time you revise some of the entry criteria for this 's

membership and enforce some rules for clarity's sake. This list owes its very

existence to your hardwork and you are within your right to enforce some rules

to make it worthwhile for serious students even if liberals scream about

intolerance. Otherwise its difficult to keep focus without discipline. Time and

again we are witnessing how this list starts on good topics and often tends to

degenerate into personal contest or mud-slinging match about whose guru is

great or right. Some even go to the extent of saying Parashara's time is gone

and we should rewrite their teachings altogether !

 

Its my opinion that often it seems, its the non-believer type of members who

start the war and often they are just here to challenge Vedic Astrology for

challenge's sake and not for any serious application in their own life. What

everyone needs to remember is that this list is only helping people gain

knowledge for application in their own domain, by their own will and voluntary

effort. Members need to experiment and learn on their own. This is not about

challenging others gods, beliefs, gurus. If someone thinks teachings of sages

like Parashara are out of sync with modern realities, they are absolutely free

to believe so and practise so - but only within their own domain and life.

There is no need for members to go about announcing to the whole world -

without any serious attempt to provide supporting facts or examples - that what

we are trying to understand here is crap by their standards. Provide and share

info about other systems, but its none of our job to go about declaring what is

absolutely right and what is absolutely wrong. Its better to keep that debate in

your living rooms and not in this mailing list.

 

For new people who are joining this group on a regular basis, especially those

who have no other avenue to learn such a great science, must be finding it very

disheartening to know that the knowledge they seek is sometimes debated by

material world standards in this list. It could be very discouraging for them

to participate more, lead others to even use such distractions as an evidence

that Vedic Astrology is not an organized or disciplined science. This is

precisely the kind of argument forwarded by proponents of Systems Approach.

 

To begin with you can ban anonymous posts as you do not want people to feel that

others are taking advantage of what essentially is a free & interesting debate.

Let members identify completely especially their names and place they reside

before they want to participate in regular discussions here.

 

You can also place restrictions on personal attacks or references to what others

preferences are. If a learner wants to believe in something, he/she may do so

freely with experimentation. There is no need to drag other's beliefs into a

mud-slinging debate and force others to go about defending guru's

open-mindedness and greatness. Needless reference to gurus, authors of great

books and literary analysis is uncalled for. If one does not believe in it, let

them leave it as it is. Why drag the entire list into personal living room style

debates. We are not discussing stock markets or who is going to be next

president type of topics. We are here to discover a lost art - preserved by few

well versed souls - and rest of the suffering mortals trying to catch up...

 

Regards,

Raju

 

San Jose, California

Sep 22, 1974 6:10:30 AM Chennai India