Guest guest Report post Posted January 25, 2006 OK, let's just forget it all - guru, saadhu, shaastra - everything. Nevermind what they say. I'm not even sure in retrospect why I thought those things were relevant here. Quoting them to establish anything is fundamentalist anyway. No matter what they seem to say, there is always another meaning, and we should accept that other meanings are valid, even if no one can present those alternatives and the rationale behind them. Overzealous concern and practice of bhakti, by disregarding the prescriptions and injunctions of the sruti, smriti, puranas, pancharatra, and so on, simply become a disturbance to society. For lack of proper judgment, such bhakti only appears to be overzealous, but actually there is no bhakti at all and consequently no overzealousness in it, because it is found to be antagonistic to all the shastras. (Bhakti rasamrita sindhu 1.2.101-2) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
