Mf'ers,
Although i am not able to complete the series on reason as it
seems to go off topic , but i wanted to conclude,( as a result of
my own experience with ZAMM , Lila and this forum ) that a
pragmatic element can only be brought into the MOQ by appropriate
application of reason for the purpose of RIGOROUS and RUTHLESS
self-analysis. At least my own experience validates this.
The only prerequisite is one's desire to do so.
Without knowing the core of one's own values, and their relation
to one's purpose, i cannot see how an inquiry into morals can make
sense. Anything anyone will say or do will be of little or no avail.
There is a saying " you can only wake up someone who is sleeping but
you cannot wake up someone who is pretending to be sleeping "
In MOQ this should translate as " a sense of morals can only awaken
in someone who feels that something is wrong, but cannot in someone
who insists that nothing is wrong "
I doubt if anyone has pointed out in this forum that one focal point
of ZAMM and Lila is that the Good has by and large been ABANDONED by
almost all cultures except one, thousands of years back. And that very
culture is RIDICULED, for NOT abandoning it, by none other than those
who call themselves the champions of Truth. Can there be a greater
irony than this ?
I know my words do sound bitter and harsh to most and they may
even feel hurt, but somehow i dont believe in beating about the
bush.( I can only apologise for hurting their sensitive feelings)
I think most people have missed another fundamental point about
these books :
That which is Good (DQ) cannot be established or proven by the dialectic.
The dialectic can at best only establish the True at a particular time,
and at worst can even obscure the True.
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