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This is pretty exhaustive, but I am not sure if it has any puranas(like Vishnu Purana etc.). But most the important scriptures of Hinduism can be found here. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/

Happy April dude.

Of course. It can be done by bhakti yoga, karma yoga and jnana yoga. Here yoga does not mean just physical exercises.

Thanks for your replies Vajradhara and Hyozan. It seems like Buddha peeled off all the outer layers of Hinduism and propagated its essential truth. My post would seem like trying to say "Afterall, Buddhism derives from Hinduism", but it is my intention that "Nrvanic" thoughts were not...

This particular Indian person she spoke with should certainly have been a Pentecostal or a Baptist. I can bet my house on that. It is very sad that some Indians stoop to any level simply to besmirch their ancestral faith.

Hope this would help http://www.hinduwebsite.com

No one can say what his/her previous birth was because memory is also destroyed along with the body and mind at death. No matter whether you are born a monkey or a dog, "you" are always the same.

Very interesting post. Thankyou Enkidu. Personally I don't even think that a group of languages got a upper hand over other group of languages. Why can't Sanskrit be compared to, say, Java? Maybe Sanskrit had spread to each and every corner of India without having to supplant the regional...

In Sanatana Dharma, Ishvara is considered to be the Creator God, or more specifically Brahman with attributes. Brahman is held to be beyond human conception. But when man tries to conceive of Brahman, he comes up with the Almighty Ishvara. Brahman is Nirguna(without attributes) while Ishvara...

That was a very clear explanation. Thanks Indogenes.

Why apologize? I am an advaitin indeed, maybe not a practicing one but atleast a sympathizer.

Couldn't have said it better. But there are schools of thought in Hinduism which have interpreted the scriptures in a monotheistic way. These schools of thought are monotheistic and dualistic(or qualified dualistic). Dualism, qualified non-dualism and non-dualism have been explained by...

Re: some thoughts You're welcome Brian.

Namaste Vajradhara, You never miscommunicated anything about Sanatana Dharma. My frustration is that posters always assume that intelligent and logical questions should be directed towards Buddhists, Taoists or Confucianists, while questions on mythology and meat eating are better suited...

Does he say "It is undescribable" or does he categorically say "it is 'Emptiness' or 'Sunyata' " ?

This question can be answered by answering another question: "Do Americans believe in Christ?" My intention is not to try to act too smart. IMHO, the answer to both the questions would be "Not all".

Re: some thoughts There is more logic in believing that Jesus came to Kashmir during his 'missing years' and learned under the Upanishadic and Buddhist sages. That is why he says Upanishadic words: 1.My Father is greater than I 2.I am in the Father and the Father is in me. 3.I and...

First of all, the Aryan(Causcasian) Invasion(Migration) theory was formulated by Max Mueller who had a tough time accepting the fact that the world was indeed not created in 4004 B.C. This selfsame theory is starting to shake at its foundations. And the Indus Valley Civilization is being...

Re: Idol worship and Monotheism I am sorry but Shri Shri Anandamurti is off the mark by many a mile. If idol worship was started by the lowest of the lowest form of Tantra, then God worship should have started by a much lower form of Tantra. When I am worshipping the idol, I am not...

This is what the Rig Veda(the oldest of the four Vedas) has to say: Book 10, Hymn 129: 1. THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water? 2 Death was not...