by cutsinger | Jan 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
Warmest wishes for the New Year to you as well. Yes, I’m finally back, and grateful for your patience. December was a whirlwind of activity, and I’m afraid I ended up unconscionably behind on my email correspondence, and hence with nothing new to post here...
by cutsinger | Dec 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
A traditional school, or darshana, cannot be “intrinsically heterodox”, though Vedantin that you are I can see what leads you to this question in regard to Mīmāṃsā. The denial of a deity—or rather the suspension of judgment as to whether there is a God or...
by cutsinger | Dec 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
You pose a number of questions concerning the Orthodox form. First, how does a catechumen discern his patron saint? As far as I know there is no single, formulaic answer to this question. Patrons are normally chosen (or are given the opportunity, if you prefer, to...
by cutsinger | Dec 2, 2007 | Uncategorized
I was most intrigued by your fascinating account of the special exhibition of Moghul miniatures at the Metropolitan Museum, particularly the “exquisitely rendered” portrait of the divine Plato—one of four illustrations, you say, for a poetic...
by cutsinger | Nov 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
On the subject of salvation and the posthumous states, a distinction is sometimes made among traditionalist authorities between (1) salvation as such and (2) deification, the second being equivalent to the Hindu moksha, that is, to the realization of our...
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