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Hindu scriptures are very miserly about words. A whole upanishad may contain just 18 verses. As you know, Brahma Sutras can carry meaning which can fill up 100 pages in a book in just one small aphoristic sentence. We keep the kernel and discard the shell. :D

:D Why would I go by Eckhart's perspective when I have my Hindu and Buddhist traditions? Buddha, for us, is the latest avatara of Lord Vishnu. "nindasi yajna-vidher ahaha sruti-jatam sadaya-hridaya darsita-pasu-ghatam kesava dhrita-buddha-sarira jaya jagadisa hare" Jayadeva, Gita Govinda You...

Every morning around 11 am, Buddha and his disciples went to village once in a day to beg for their food, whatever was given or how much ever it was given from whatever remained in the house after lunch of the family, no more than what their two palms could hold, that was the tradition of...

It does not happen that way. the world cannot be renounced. Can one live without air, water or food? Till the time you use them, you are in the world. So what is 'enlightenment'? Understanding the way of the world. Buddha was enlightened, but he still fetched water and swept the floors, so to...

We make our own purpose. The assignment is from the society or the government.

Not correct for any Indian religion (Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism). If we go by belief, getting a human form is extremely difficult and one can be reborn in any of the 8,400,000 species. It comes with good karmas. That is why our karmas should be good and not evil. And only in the...

Nothing particularly western here. Very few Advsitists would be as stunch as myself on non-duality, most accept individual soul. The 'in-between' mentioned above accepted Bheda-Abheda (Difference and non-difference). Chaitanya said 'Why worry about it, just worship your principal deity (Ishta)'...

Worship is for Vishnu, Shiva, Rama, Krishna, Durga, Lakshmi, Parvati, Sarasvati, Ganesha, Kartikeya/Murugan and Hanuman - the indigenous deities. But the Aryan deities must be invoked at the beginning of rituals - Dyava, Prithvi, Varuna, Indra, etc...

Does not load with Firefox even after clearing all cookies. Have to use Falcon for it. Make the forum page into the Home page. That will solve many problems.

You must have read it somewhere. :D I am not one from the 'Om', 'Aum' crowd. Actually I do not use 'Om' as I do not find it in RigVeda. I mention the Gayatri Mantra too without 'Om, Bhuh, Bhuvah, Swaha'. But yes, perhaps by 600 BCE, Om was important. That is the subject of Chandogya Upanishad -...

I think it is because Sanskrit developed as a spoken language and not as a written language.

Aum dyauḥ śāntirantarikṣaṁ śāntiḥ; pṛthivī śāntirāpaḥ śāntiroṣadhayaḥ śāntiḥ. (Yajurveda 36:17) May peace radiate there in the whole sky as well as in the space. May peace reign all over this earth, in water and in all herbs, .. This is a peace mantra. You would have difficulty in reading the...

We worship what is known as Zeus in Europe, but have another IE name for it - Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́, same as Zeus Patēr of the Greeks. RigVeda mentions it in six hymns along with Prithvi, that is Mother Earth. Dyaus - Wikipedia Hinduism is the only tradition where the worship of Indo-European Zues...

"Do we have a spitit, and if so, what rule does it play in our relationship with God?" Two suppositions here" Spirit (soul) and God. I just wake up from sleep, nothing enters me. :D "The believer is alive in both worlds." Welcome back, Tony. One can believe to be alive in a thousand worlds...

But kindly remember, 'Advaita' (non-dual) Hinduism is not the whole of Hinduism. :D We have a Hindu tradition with strong duality in 'Dvaita' Hinduism belief with Madhva. There are others in between. Ramanuja with his 'Visishta Advaita', Bhedabheda (Difference and non-difference) philosophies of...