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I just received my regular 'Hinduism Today' journal in the mail today and it has a lengthy article on this, including Walt Whitman, and others. Once they put it free on-line, I can link it. What varies, by the sounds of things is just the external naming of things.

Personally I think it's quite the myth. The debunker's versions make more sense. But anything's possible, and it wouldn't affect me (or anyone really) one way or another.

What do you mean by 'the public space'? I'm totally unfamiliar with Christian thinking, or some ways interfaith is described. Please excuse my ignorance. I'm new at this.

There are many faiths, and temples that don't allow non-members in. They aren't tourist sites. The whole thing varies widely, I presume, and everybody is operating on a small sampling, even Indian themselves. With an estimated 5 million Hindu temples, even 100 would be a small sampling. I've...

Yes I do. Not that I get around much. In some ways, Canada is closer to Europe. We have more nones than America, and a much lower percentage of right-wing evangelicals. Not sure what you mean by the second question, it isn't worded very clearly to me.

Everything ... all thoughts, things, ... God permeates ALL of it. Called Brahman in Sanskrit, it is so essentially different from some other concepts of God that there are some who claim they are atheist, yet believe in Brahman. "I don't believe in THAT God."they'll say. But to me that's just...

And yet I have never seen one, and I've been to some 50 Hindu temples in North America, and a few more in India and Mauritius. Goes to show how experiences vary, but more importantly, affect our conclusions. I have seen it in universalist buildings, sometimes called temples, but not called...

It was an example of the stark difference in paradigm, nothing more nothing less. In Hinduism God is both immanent and transcendent, inside and outside. The universe is an extension of Himself, (Herself) not separate. But it does vary too, depending on sect. We have dual monotheists, monistic...

I like nones, although that's a generalisation. My Dad was one, I was one, those guys are all over. For the most part, great people, completely capable of thinking for themselves.

That reminds me of a teenage experience. I was hitchhiking, and was picked up by a Jehovah Witness man. We got to discussing religion, (naturally) and that question came up. I said, "God is this road." implying God is everything. (This was well before I knew about Hinduism.) He got quite upset...

Very true, Arthra. I had forgotten. As well, there were others who were influenced besides Emerson, like theosophy. The reason that Vivekenanda gets special attention is simply a matter of degree of impact, I think. And of course this thread was about Parliament of Religions, which was a...

There is less dogma in Hinduism. What are called rules in the west are called guidelines in the east. What is called sin in the west is called stupidity or immaturity in the east. (anava, in Sanskrit). What is considered evil in the west is considered as 'what leads you away from God' in the...

I think the minority within any culture just naturally notices it more. There is more to look dumbfounded about. But many, if they haven't traveled, or don't live in a larger multicultural city aren't really aware there are different paradigms. It reminds me of the comment I read on an India...

That's true, but it's also a massive generalization. I think to be fair we have to look at what degree, what type, or how much cultural baggage happens in specific cultures. There are often no hard facts on it like the tables for incarceration or capital punishment that the UN puts out. FGM...

Hinduism's famous groundbreaking swami, Vivekenanda, delivered his historic speech there, in 1893. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda_at_the_Parliament_of_the_World%27s_Religions_%281893%29 That was the beginning of eastern thought coming to America.

I agree, and indeed it has been corrupted. At the very heart of things (the Self, in Hinduism) it's not corruptible, but anything on the path before that final goal, or in external realms, would be.