With reference to Hindu philosophy as it is expressed in the Rig Veda, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita try to answer the following question: Is the path to ultimate truth rational or spiritual?
2007-10-25 14:00:02 · 11 answers · asked by Moo 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is an ultimate reality that is spiritual and there is a rationality in the context of spirituality that unfolds spiritual truth. Spirituality and rationality are antithetical when rationality is contemplated only within the parameters of the material and the underlying realities of the spiritual, which support the material are disregarded.
Any mathematical equation which fails to integrate all the factors will inevitably produce a wrong conclusion.
2007-10-25 14:10:33 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I understand the Bhagavad Gita as indicating that the ultimate transcends such categories. ( A difficulty: I understand what rationality is, but there are so many any such varied concepts of what constitutes the "spiritual" that without some definition, and further discussion is almost pointless anyway.) The whole thrust of the Bhagavad Gita is to outline the many different paths to the realization of the ultimate.
(Not Hindu, but the author of the Gospel According to John declares that ration, i.e., LOGOS, is the ultimate. )
Namaste!
2007-10-25 21:17:43 · answer #2 · answered by wordweevil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spiritual IS Rational
2007-10-25 21:11:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truth can only be in the one that believes it's true be it spiritual or rational, but this dose not make it true, because truth has always been a moving shadow among men and his created laws, it's simply here say by he said she said, so in all reality there can be no ultimate truth, it's simply you believe or you don't.
2007-10-25 21:22:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the ultimate truth is physical... spiritual is just a small part of it.. but humans have blowned it out of proportion making it seem more important than the physical... you can not have truth unless the physical world is the standard for rational understanding..
2007-10-25 21:05:55 · answer #5 · answered by NO Labels 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither.
Truth is simply truth.
The best route to truth about the world around us is rational-empiricism. Reason itself does tell us about the world. Spirituality of course doesn't either.
2007-10-25 21:05:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth is truth, you just can't identify it by spiritual or rational, rational is natural way of thinking, spiritual is chosen way of thinking. its both a person's view. Truth is beyond any way. It just it.
2007-10-25 21:25:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is love spiritual or rational?
2007-10-25 21:03:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All truth is based on reason, so I would have to say 'rational'.
2007-10-25 21:07:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not sure what you mean by ultimate truth but
truth "is" could be good or evil
enlightenment is good so therefor spiritual
2007-10-25 21:04:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋