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________________ 15. GITA The Vedic teaching, like that of other religious traditions, is that God determines what's right or wrong. His absolute word sets the standards for morality. Without God in the picture, invented morality has no ultimate value. http://www.krishna.com/node/498 Rajaneesh - Osho Rajaneesh - There is no absolute good or evil http://www.ankerberg.com/Articles/new-age/NA0805W2.htm Rajneesh teaches that "to emphasize morality is mean, degrading; it is inhuman" and that literally "everything is holy; nothing is unholy." Here we see that one of the purposes of the Eastern monistic path is to get the disciple to understand that, after "enlightenment" everything he does is "holy," whether good or evil. Because nothing is truly evil, Rajneesh even acknowledges murder as a potentially meditative act (i.e., something "good" or "holy")-assuming, of course, it is done in "higher" consciousness. In commenting upon the lesson of the Bhagavad Gita (a Hindu scripture) he says: "Even if you kill someone consciously, while fully conscious [i.e., "enlightened"], it is meditative.... Kill, murder, fully conscious, knowing fully that no one is murdered and no one killed.... Just become the instrument of Divine hands and know well that no one is killed, no one can be killed." 416
SR No.007303
Book TitleDevelopment of Hinduism
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorM M Ninan
PublisherM M Ninan
Publication Year
Total Pages582
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size45 MB
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