[Reader-list] Hindus, Muslims celebrate Lucknow's 'Holi Baraat'

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Taha
 
I had written 'that IS a different world' and not WAS. I believe that it is not something you subscribe to but evolve into.
 
Religious faith systems dictate dos and donts or monopolise oneway named or the otherway named and defined "god". They segregate groups of people as being the favoured ones of this or that "god". Faith systems require subscription.
 
The spiritual quest of the UNKNOWN is identical for everyone, whether a theist or agnostic or rationalist (the scientist). Seeking to understand, to know. That is the trigger for the faith systems. The evolving is in transcending the confines of faith system requirements.   
 
It is that UNKNOWN which is common to everyone of which everyone and everything is a part. Through that UNKNOWN we all are linked and everything (material) is linked.
 
To rid the individual from the restriction in evolving put in by the Religious Faith Systems we have to banish Religious Faith Systems into the private lives of the individual. We have to refuse any public recognition of Religious Faith Systems and disallow their playing any role or being acknowledged in governance.
 
Kshmendra
 

--- On Fri, 3/13/09, Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com> wrote:

From: Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Hindus, Muslims celebrate Lucknow's 'Holi Baraat'
To: kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com
Cc: "taraprakash" <taraprakash at gmail.com>, ysaeed7 at yahoo.com, "reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 6:30 AM


Dear Kshmendra

I do not know whether that world was different from ours as I do think that our world could be not so dissimilar from that and it is not merely a matter of interpretation alone but rather a matter of belief. And maybe it is just up to people like you and me to strive towards that or maybe in times of fleeting belief not only in ourselves but also in the world around as we seem to miss the woods for the trees.

so...

Regards 

Taha 



On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:






Dear Taha
 
Some uneducated thoughts:
 
That is a different world altogether where "Ann al Haq" (I am the Truth) resonates with "Aham Bramhasmi, Aham Vishnur, Aham Mahesha" (I am Bramha, Vishnu, Mahesha). A world where Krishna's Raas Leela with the Gopis (Krishna's dance with and teasing of the cowgirls) finds echoes in Amir Khusrau's "Mohay suhaagan keeni re, mohsay nainaa milaike" (You have locked your eyes with mine, Now I am wedded to you)
 
Kshmendra