The Atheist's misreading

The thing is, every sage will tell you that the Purana stories are not literal, but simplified tales to help you understand reality. And the atheists immediately equate them to the Panchatantra Tales or Aesop's Fables, because they think to say otherwise would simply be saying that they're literal, and therefore they are lies.

But the thing is, the first principle of all the traditions is that the basis of all reality is a consciousness, or Brahman, and not material. In short, if one doesn't believe in an imperishable self or Atma in all beings, then they are not speaking in the same terms.

The reason is that if you get everything on top, but miss the foundation, you'll be making a big mistake. For example, I found a 16 year old coder in Twitter in 2022 saying that he knows React.js, but did not know about deeper concepts like HTML. If you don't know what HTML is, you'll think that all websites are made of JS and CSS, and miss that it's HTML with styling and animations.

For another example, you could understand that all digits are just arbitrary digits, and they have meanings and that they can interact with specific syntax and semantics. But if you do not understand that numbers are different from alphabets / alphasyllabries, you miss the whole point!

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