I vote for #3

Submitted by Jeff (United States), Apr 10, 2021 at 14:06

Hi Prashant,

Thank you for your post.

I vote for #3.

The Bible has been translated into how many languages? Christians seem OK with that. (In fact, they did the translations.)

The Bhagavad Gita? English doesn't cut it? Sanskrit or nothing?

And the sutras? Do I have read them in Pali? The English translation comes up short somehow?

I can read any religious text from anywhere in English, it's OK, it's fine. That is, all except one: the Koran. I don't speak Arabic, so I'll never understand. Really?

Well it appears that, once again, Islam is unique. Any religion's scripture can be understood in any language, except one. Coincidentally the same one that claims, unlike any other religion, to face an ongoing war against it in a world full of enemies. The same one that, unlike any other religion, is apparently also a race, and any critic is racist.

"Anything that cannot be understood by normal people cannot be used as a manual or guiding force." You are right, 100%.

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