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  1. DeviChaaya

    Facilitators of Insight

    Trust me, Aup, if I could think less I would. But I have autism and the way my brain works it won't shut up without a little help.
  2. DeviChaaya

    Facilitators of Insight

    @Vinayaka You won't approve of this but I tend to have my moments when I'm... removed from myself through the use of certain substances. My mind works obsessively in circles and around and around. So anything that helps lessen the obsessive patterns frees up my inner ear.
  3. DeviChaaya

    Sivaratri approaching

    So the question I want to ask everyone is this; how different is a southern Shivaratri to a Northern style? I have decided to go out to our biggest temple here, the Shri Shiva Vishnu temple which is over an hour from where I live. It's schedule is much like Jai's temple's schedule. I typically...
  4. DeviChaaya

    Sivaratri approaching

    Oddballs? How oddball-y?
  5. DeviChaaya

    Sivaratri approaching

    As I'll be out on the eastern fringes this year I'm going to celebrate at the massive big temple out there. Maybe. I really want to go but I've been sick for the past fortnight and I am worried I will still be sick then. If not I will stay the whole night. If I am, I will go after the first puja.
  6. DeviChaaya

    Would you go to a church where the preacher has been accused of sexual misconduct?

    Nope. Women very rarely make frivolous claims about sexual abuse. It's more likely to be true than not.
  7. DeviChaaya

    How to worship Hindu Deities amd other Rituals: A sourcebook

    @sayak83 ji! THANK YOU.
  8. DeviChaaya

    What if the End Times are not Averted?

    I see the problem here. It's no use arguing with you. As someone who is not a Vaishnava and has never been the idea of dasavataras is just not something I'm concerned with, or believe in. I'm out.
  9. DeviChaaya

    What if the End Times are not Averted?

    News to this practising Hindu. Nothing in the school I belong to says there is a fire coming. If anything my school is very positive. Ah. I see where you are coming from. Sorry, while Vaishnavism is incredibly popular it is not the only philosophy within the umbrella of Dharma. Not even all...
  10. DeviChaaya

    What if the End Times are not Averted?

    Every generation since the inception of the Bible and the Koran has believed they were in the end times. It's been over 2000 years and the end times still haven't happened because none of it is literal and if it were meant to be literal than it's sadly incorrect.
  11. DeviChaaya

    What kind of images can be worshipped?

    That's why we love you, Aup.
  12. DeviChaaya

    Lord Brahma

    *Whispering quietly* Ma is best. All hail Ma.
  13. DeviChaaya

    Suicide, cowardly?

    What of emotional pain? There are many people in the world without access to medication, therapy or a way to escape the circumstances which are causing their depression? In some people there is no circumstance that cause their depression, it is an illness that strikes unexpectedly. But these...
  14. DeviChaaya

    Ten days of Thai Pusam

    So that's why the nearby Murugan temple had so many (relatively) folks there! I'm there asking for blessings and success in a job interview (please Ma, help me interview well for this) and they're there getting ready to Thai Pusam!
  15. DeviChaaya

    Hinduism according to Advaita

    I think the whole Ramakrishna had visions of Allah/Jesus thing is overstressed. The Math likes to emphasise that he took up these religions and practice sincerely and had these visions but in order to adopt these religions it requires more than one day of each. I do not think he really had a...
  16. DeviChaaya

    Goloka/Vrindavan

    I suppose I will not ask any Vaishnavas my question. I am far too intimidated.
  17. DeviChaaya

    Goloka/Vrindavan

    @Terese ji I am sure you could try but my doubts are large and they make me forlorn. What need does Narayana have to surround Itself with souls, even if they are liberated? Why even create them in the first place? What seperates them from Ishwara? Why are they seperate? If Ishwara is gold and...
  18. DeviChaaya

    Goloka/Vrindavan

    If He has Lakshmi and Ananda Shesha with Him that means He expanded into them. Therefore He has given himself company. It is very perplexing for me. My mind runs around in circles. Is there a deity Ishwara worships above Himself? If so how can we say Ishwara is supreme? And who the hell do I...
  19. DeviChaaya

    Goloka/Vrindavan

    Who knows? It refuses to vacate my mind no matter how hard I try to convince it. Bugger off, you stupid doubts, I tell it and they just laughed at me instead. What does Brahman focus on? If Ishwara is all there is isn't that lonely? Perhaps that is why Ishwara is eternally divided into two...
  20. DeviChaaya

    Goloka/Vrindavan

    Yes, but it will go over in mine again and again. It worries me. I am heading to the Iskcon mandir now to see what they say!
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