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 Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:32 am
i am very interested in mythology, and nothing beats the hindus for myths, but i would love to learn about the moral aspect and the religous aspect of it, can anyone be of help in this matter?
(sorry if my english is bad, i am French)
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:17 pm
what i admire most about hinduism, other than the moral greatness of Gandhi, is the ideal of atman and brahman.
for years i have had a mental picture of every human sould being like the spoke of a wheel, individual connected to the world at the rim of the wheel, but sharing a deep connection at the center. the spoke could be atman, individual and yet alike, shared, and the hub could be brahman, the center of my soul, and yours too. individual to me, yet also to you. where the particular and the universal meet.
that image very much appeals to me.
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:18 pm
I actually have a book on that...but I lent it to a friend because I lost interest and didn't have time to read it. I do want to learn about it someday though. 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:32 pm
thats very interesting about the wheel, it is a very nice thing to think about, that everyone is joined, hindism is about reincarnation is it not? i have always belived in that, i belive there is a cylce, that people are born in a poor country like africa into death and povety and thus become humble and pure, and then for there efforts they then come back as rich people but then their souls get tainted by the evils of the modern world and then they become a poor person again.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:25 pm
Tamaras Craft thats very interesting about the wheel, it is a very nice thing to think about, that everyone is joined, hindism is about reincarnation is it not? i have always belived in that, i belive there is a cylce, that people are born in a poor country like africa into death and povety and thus become humble and pure, and then for there efforts they then come back as rich people but then their souls get tainted by the evils of the modern world and then they become a poor person again. In Hinduism, the reincarnation cycle goes thus- You are born into a caste,(social ranking.) which your parents were part of. If your father was an artisan, so are you. If your father was a peasant, so are you. Each caste has a different ranking, from Untouchables (the lowest) to priests. If you are good and kind in this life, and furfill your caste's duty (or dharma) then your actions will be carried onto into the next (kharma-or what you do comes back to you). Once you have achieved the highest caste, and furfilled your dharma, you will not be reborn again, but will join Brahman, as part of the force that joins the universe. On Hindu gods- Brahman, the united force, can be argued comprises all the gods, and they are mere aspects of it. But here are the main gods- Brahman, the creator, Vishnu, the perserver, and Shiva (pronounced siva) the destroyer. There are also many other gods, some only worshipped by a small group of people.
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:08 pm
I thought the caste system was just the recently-rejected social classment in India? I didn't think it was part of teh religion. And Gandhi broke away from the caste system. Does that mean he was not a real Hindu?
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:40 pm
Wow very insitefull thankyou very much, i do know some myths about shiva and Kali as they were closely linked, Kali was his wife. if i'm not mistaken Kali was a form of anouther goddes, like she was someone lese before she was kali
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:14 am
i dont know too much, but i recall hearing that several of their gods and goddesses are aspects of the same deity.
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:18 pm
Son of Axeman I thought the caste system was just the recently-rejected social classment in India? I didn't think it was part of teh religion. And Gandhi broke away from the caste system. Does that mean he was not a real Hindu? Well, it's confusing. Some say that the caste is a nessasary part of Hinduism, but some say it is outdated and unnessasary. It has been under debate for many years-while not enforced by law, the caste is still used in some parts.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:26 pm
the castle does sound controverial, and Nelson Mandela was a great man who seemed to know what he was talking about.
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:12 am
I'm Hindu, a Yogi, actually, and I would definitely agree with you that Hinduism has some pretty amasing mythology connected to it, but its also so much more than that. I'd like to recommend you read a book called "Autobiography of a Yogi", its the autobiography of one of the masters of my lineage, Paramhansa Yogananda, who was the first Yogi from India to spend the majority of his life in America. Its quite an interesting read.
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:02 pm
thats book sounds judt what i'm looking for because i know that there is a wonderfull moral aspect of hinduism, i'd love to learn about it
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