Re: Does smRiti texts teach "some nonsense."
Pranam
Now that's what you call a smart tactic, adopt a high moral ground make a vail attack on your perceived adversaries, avoid giving answers, instead heap insults back on to those whom you think you have been hard done by.
I have been accused of double standard that is putting it mildly,
tolerance" are not uncommonly the ones who have the greatest objections to those opinions which fail to match their own. Case in point: the original poster argues against the idea that any passages in the smRiti are incorrect, and then goes on to ridicule those passages from the smRiti which he has a personal problem with:
Let me reiterate my position on Puranas, I accept everyone of them that is authentic, unadulterated and not tempered with by vested interest.That means all the central theme of the the said Purana can not be questioned. I will not fall back on sruti to question the central theme, simply because for me to do so would only "insult"a great rishi who compiled them.
Sometimes this point is missed on people, that all forms belong to Brahman not just the names.
As soon as we think of a name the form is invoked, as soon as we think of Agni fire will manifest as would Vayu, the wind.
Now we may make accusation that this all Devas are one in nature is a recent phenomena though i can also accuse that only in the medieval times this supremacy or hierarchy problem have arisen, then again this is not the purpose of this thread.
Jai Shree Krishna
Rig Veda list only 33 devas, they are all propitiated, worthy off our worship, all other names of gods are derivative from this 33 originals,
Bhagvat Gita; Shree Krishna says Chapter 3.11 devan bhavayatanena te deva bhavayantu vah parasparam bhavayantah sreyah param avapsyatha Chapter 17.4 yajante sattvika devan yaksa-raksamsi rajasah pretan bhuta-ganams canye yajante tamasa janah
The world disappears in him. He is the peaceful, the good, the one without a second.
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