Guest guest Report post Posted December 27, 1999 > > > Yes, you can go and listen "guru-sadhu-shastra" from any nonsense in > > this world. > > No you cannot listen to "guru-sadhu-shastra" from any nonsense. "Any > nonsense" cannot be guru, cannot be sadhu, and cannot deliver the import > of sastra. But any nonsense can *quote, misinterpret and misuse* "guru-sadhu- shastra", right? Somehow or other, Ameyatma prabhu seems to having the problem with understanding how people are not interested to be hearing shastra from unqualified interpreters who got their own agenda to bash out. His argument is "Shastra is shastra, it is the authority", and here he doesn't give any attention of *how* this same shastra is being applied and/or interpreted. For him, if one is not willing to listen shastra from unqualified persons, that means he is rejecting the authority of shastra. But it is guru-sadhu-shastra indeed that tell us NOT to listen the interpretation/application of shastra from just anybody who happens to come across. One got to be careful in discriminating. Ameyatma got some another ideas, apparently. Actually, one even doesn't have to be a nonsense in order to disinterest (or even turn away) the audience from listening his "shastric evidence". If that happens, let's do not immediately start accusing others for their asuric crime of "rejecting the authority of shastra". You need the concrete examples of someone indeed rejecting shastra, and then come up with it. Not just because someone is not interested to go along your particular application of shastra, so he is an asura, the "one who rejects the authority of shastra", as per deffinition. This could be an another example of 'hurling' of shastra, indeed. - Mahanidhi das Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
