RamaRaksha
Active Member
Does ur religion reflect your principles & values? In Hinduism EVERYTHING is EARNED! Moksha - Enlightenment or Knowledge is EARNED, Repentance is EARNED! First the diff between Heaven & Moksha:
Heaven: Like going to a Retirement Home. Most religions view it as a happy place - a place of bodily pleasure, sex, food & wine aplenty. Win the lottery here on earth & u can have heaven right here. As u can see, no qualifications needed to attain heaven.
Moksha: A blossoming of the MIND. To be able to think like Gandhiji or Einstein, to compose music like Mozart, to sing like MS, to paint like Van Gogh. It is ALWAYS EARNED.
This is why it is important that when Hindus go to the Temple they must refrain from going down on their knees - because when they do so, they are no begging & all u are asking for is heaven, not the higher goal - Moksha.
REPENTANCE: Apologizing is the START of Repentance, not the beginning. Break something? Apologize, then go out & replace it, even if it costs you an arm & leg.
Remember, Hinduism is a Teacher faith - you get an F, it is wrong of the Student to beg for a higher grade & equally wrong if the Teacher gives him a higher grade. That higher grade MUST be EARNED! Earn Repentance, Hindus. Earn God's grace.
Heaven: Like going to a Retirement Home. Most religions view it as a happy place - a place of bodily pleasure, sex, food & wine aplenty. Win the lottery here on earth & u can have heaven right here. As u can see, no qualifications needed to attain heaven.
Moksha: A blossoming of the MIND. To be able to think like Gandhiji or Einstein, to compose music like Mozart, to sing like MS, to paint like Van Gogh. It is ALWAYS EARNED.
This is why it is important that when Hindus go to the Temple they must refrain from going down on their knees - because when they do so, they are no begging & all u are asking for is heaven, not the higher goal - Moksha.
REPENTANCE: Apologizing is the START of Repentance, not the beginning. Break something? Apologize, then go out & replace it, even if it costs you an arm & leg.
Remember, Hinduism is a Teacher faith - you get an F, it is wrong of the Student to beg for a higher grade & equally wrong if the Teacher gives him a higher grade. That higher grade MUST be EARNED! Earn Repentance, Hindus. Earn God's grace.