As a fellow skeptical person, I appreciate your concerns here. I do not know much about the Isha foundation, I would like to read Sadhguru's book Mystical Musing's someday. However, what I can say is I have watched many of his youtube videos over the years and I find so much great practical...
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Sorry I have been away from RF for a while now, hope everyone here is doing well!! I've just been busy with school and my spiritual search (as usual ha). Anyhow, I was reading some articles and watching some videos from the Isha Foundation this morning, and found an inspiring quote...
I'm specifically curious to hear what the Bhaja Govindam means to the practicing Advaitans here, but anyone is welcome to reply. In case you are unfamiliar with the poem, you can check out a wiki article here, as well as a pdf with English translation here.
The Wiki article says the following...
I think it was Paul Tillich who said the following:
"God isn't a Person; but He isn't less than a Person either."
I guess the point is that God is bigger than the labels "personal" or "impersonal" try to make him out to be, as frustrating as that might be to accept lol. Parts of existence...
I think equanimity is very important within both Buddhism and Hinduism. I have only recently begun "trying out" more practical elements of Hinduism.
I find meditation, silent japa, and reading Bhagavad Gita or stories about Krishna helps give me perspective and balance. I plan on visiting...
Swami Sivananda's All About Hinduism is a great book for learning more about Hinduism, although it is a pretty "dry" read, for it's very academic in it's style. It helped me a lot though. As for sacred texts, the Bhagavad Gita is said by many to contain the "essence" of most of the other...
I don't think so. I looked at the bibliography of his wiki page and it seems like most of his works revolve around the Bhagavad Gita and the Bhāgavata Purāṇa.
I've been reading it for a few hours today and I highly recommend it. If however you are less interested in worshipping a personal God, then I'd check out Easwarans translation. I still really like his translation, it's extremely readable and poetic, it just doesn't emphasize the personal aspect...
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So I was looking through my dad's bookshelf and found a Bhagavad Gita translation by Graham Schweig (see his wiki page here). Although I have barely read any of it, my initial impressions are very good. I already own 3 Gita translations by Paramahansa Yogananda, Eknath Easwaran, and...
Wow I did not know RamaKrishna's Mission was that old! I have a book by one of his disciples, Swami Bhashyananda, called From the Unreal to the Real that I need to read someday.
Interesting to see their magazine has survived a 100 years in the US, might have to check that out.
I noticed your religion says "Jesus," yet you say Truth is impersonal? I thought Christians generally believed Truth is not something abstract/impersonal, but is fully revealed in the person of Jesus? Recall in the Bible where Pontius Pilate asks Jesus, face to face, "What is Truth"? The...
What is an individual being or personality? I think there is tons of support within Hinduism for the idea that each deity is a real being with a unique individual personality.
I see the problem that is motivating you asking this question. Essentially your question revolves around the age old...
So I just realized today that many Vaishnavites believe Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who was born in 1486, is an incarnation of Krishna. I found this out through reading an ISKCON book.
Do many Hindus believe Chaitanya is an incarnation of Krishna? Or is it mainly just followers of ISKCON who...
Sorry for not posting sooner... Congratulations! This is awesome news. I hope the path of Vaishnavism will bring you many great blessings in this new year, and for many years to come. I look forward to hearing your thoughts here in the Hindu DIR as you progress, for I too am very interested in...
Very interesting. I'm curious, what type of "tradition" or "sect" of Hinduism do you follow? I've never asked you before.. are there any particular deities you worship?
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This is actually one of the major life lessons I'm learning right now.
The way I see it, bhakti yoga (devotional service) and karma yoga (selfless action) help purify ones mind and cultivate knowledge in the process. Where as pure mental specialization/intellectualization just leads one in...
The idea that the Universal is literally the exact same as the Particular has never sat well with me. Surely there must be at least some difference? I think the Universal and the Particular are qualitatively made of the same stuff but quantitatively different. The following quote from Eknath...