Śrīmad Devī Bhāgavatam 1.2 Commentary 2: the Manblunder

SDB 1.2 Comments: the Manblunder * Manblunder: the incorrect, ignorant cultural assumption and religious bias that the Creator or ultimate support of the universe must be male in gender. * Especially prominent in the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. * But also seen in Hinduism, especially the Vaiṣṇava cult. * Māyā is constructed in layers like an onion. * Each layer seems self-consistent, but only because it is based on a false assumption. * Confirmation bias makes each layer of māyā seem logical. * “Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that affirms one's prior beliefs or hypotheses. It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for desired outcomes, for emotionally charged issues, and for deeply-entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position.” — Wikipedia * Spiritual truth cannot be known by inductive reasoning (aroha-vāda) only by deductive reasoning (avaroha-vāda) from scriptural revelation recorded by the Self-realized Sages. * oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
”I was born in the darkness of ignorance, and my enlightened spiritual master opened my eyes with the torchlight of his realization. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto him." Video & blog post: https://srimaddevibhagavatam.wordpress.com/2019/10/19/devi-bhagavatam-1-2-commentary-2-the-manblunder/(opens in a new tab)