Raj Balkaran
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322 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2020
last heard Apr 2020
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of divinity, of piety, of praxis, of uh we seem to have this idea, you know, that we can
That we want to find a sort of
that's divorced from
from from from from from being and the ways in which people uh theologize and mythologize being and existing in the world.
And
It seems to me you might as well uh
You might as well try to look for mangoes without looking for mango trees.
Personally.
So um what you said to be true of Shankara, um
I I find it so fascinating.
Is that not
Is that not what we strive after in our own scholarship or or expect to s to some extent from undergrads and training, i.e., uh being conscious of one's bias, uh setting out one's pre-conceived
uh ideas, notions, bents.
Because it's not that it's not such that an individual can be bereft of such bias.
So those who do not bring into the conscious fold the the ideas that they're prejudiced towards or against.
They are the uh
They really their work falls prey to those ideas unconsciously influencing it.
And they're just open to all kinds of critique versus saying, these are my presuppositions, this is where I'm coming from, these are my biases.
No let's rock.
Right.
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