Logic / Nyaya Sastra, the Science of the regulative principles of thought was defined by Bhagavan Gautama, as that which illumines all Learning, Pradeepa Sarva Vidyanam, and is the instrument of all actions, Upadhi sarva karmanam, and is the refuge of all Moral Ethics, Ashraya Sarva Dharmanam, analysed compleley for the purpose of Knowledge, Vidyodeshe Pareekshitah !
Sweets are the uses of Adversity ( Shakespeare ). Adversity has her blessings unknown to Prosperity ( Bacon ) The virtues which accrue from Adversity are to be admired ( Seneca ). Adversity’s sweet milk, Philosophy Yudhishtira welcomed Adversity saying it is a blessing in disguise !
Turbulent seas alone can make a talented sailor
“I love Christianity, but hate Churchianity” said Vivekananda. Gnostic Christianity is the true Christianity. The Official Christianity is Churchianity. Dante, Bacon et al were Gnostics. Says Gen Pyke ” The Gnostics derived their ideas from Plato and Philo, from the Zend Avesta, the Kabalah and the Sacred Books of India and Egypt and thus introduced to the bosom of Christianity all sorts of cosmological and philosophic speculations, derived as they were from the Orient and which the Neo-Platonists adopted in the Occident ” !
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