That attitude has a certain merit for such people: it makes their view the correct one, a priori, thus saving them the toil and bother of any further investigation. Nevertheless, experience tells me that persons with a sectarian religious outlook will write off my statements as sectarian. After all, light from any source is still light. The idea is not one-upmanship the idea is to destroy ignorance with the torch of knowledge. If, therefore, an objective analysis reveals one scriptural tradition to be more thorough and convincing than the others, then we should accept it, without being swayed by sectarian leanings. Without such a system, it is virtually impossible to combat the obstacles to faith in God and His holy name imposed by atheistic science and various speculative philosophies.Ĭlearly, a scriptural tradition that can stand the tests of philosophic scrutiny and scientific investigation would be superior to one that can’t. We need a religious system that is both philosophically sound and scientifically verifiable. Consequently, the task of convincing people in general about the efficacy of the holy name is more difficult than ever. This situation has come about primarily because religious folk, especially in the Western world, are unable to put forward well-reasoned philosophical and scientific arguments to support their conclusions. Moreover, with the prevailing popularity of atheistic science, God and religion have become almost synonymous with superstition and tomfoolery. Rarely indeed do we come across a person who accepts the scriptural injunctions with unshakable faith and yet doesn’t come off as an unreasonable, frothy-mouthed dogmatist or a syrupy sentimentalist. Most people do require some philosophical groundwork to support their religious convictions. Nevertheless, it is a fact of our times that very few such persons exist. One may argue that for the person who faithfully accepts the authority of scripture, no rigorous theological explanation of the Lord’s holy name is required. The Vedic scriptures, on the other hand, not only glorify the holy name but also offer a systematic philosophical explanation of it and instruct us in its practical realization as well.
If we ask, however, why the name of the Lord is so glorious and praiseworthy, the Bible offers no explanation. The Bible’s authors obviously considered the holy name of the Lord very important. The Bible has nearly a hundred verses that praise the power, glory, and excellence of God’s hallowed name. Sentiment to a profound transcendental realization. Vedic knowledge can elevate a simple religious
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