Many Hindus have asked you many questions, and you haven't answered them. Why do you feel other people should have to answer your questions, while you don't have to answer theirs. Do you know what a double standard is?
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Don't the Hinduism (Dharmic) people need a concise Scripture?
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Many Hindus have asked you many questions, and you haven't answered them. Why do you feel other people should have to answer your questions, while you don't have to answer theirs. Do you know what a double standard is?
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
Give an example now that you have read YajurVeda from beginning till end.
Already did. You don't understand the paradigm. The gods all have strong personalities, they will fight. That's just how it is.
Buddhism is not Hinduism. They are siblings.
paarsurrey
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Strong personalities are to do positive things like to create something. If they teach to humans to not harm others, then it is not befitting for them to harm others. Please
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Unification
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A being is equipped with everything that they need within them. There it is once written. There it once re-written with garbage. Who can get back to its original writing?
Strong personalities also clash. All the time. Fact of life mate.
I strongly agree. I am thinking of in the Iliad where we see the gods take different sides in the conflict. For example, Apollo defended Troy while Athena championed the Achaeans. Both Apollo and Athena are divinities of the highest order; they are refined, intelligent, powerful, and mighty benefactors of humanity. On the matter of Troy they are in disagreement. And that is one of the amazing things about the Trojan War as told by Homer, he tells a story of a massive war without depicting either side of the conflict as "good" or "bad". On the Trojan side, Paris was in the wrong for taking Helen; but, Hector is in the right for defending his family and city from the attacking Greeks. War is messy and morally complex.
Satyamavejayanti
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Namaste,
As i have asked previously, where is the mantra that shows Devas fighting Devas?
The role of the gods is not to teach us things. They simply help maintain the universe. They are souls just like us and they are not perfect.
paarsurrey
Veteran Member
The Creator-One-God created the other Gods mentioned in Veda and assigned them the role to maintain the universe. Does one agree to it? Please
Regards
Some people will agree, others will not.
Ultimately, that is an ambitious answer, but not an actually important one. Quite on the contrary, it has little if any practical significance.
No, one doesn't agree. The three top deities, Shiva, Vishnu and Devi/Shakti (Universal/Divine Mother) are uncreated. They are Brahman, in whom everything that exists, exists in (whoa! that was trippy!
). In their various aspects they maintain the universe.
I may easily be misunderstanding things, but my current understanding is that this is one valid view among various others - for instance, a Shakta might see Shiva and Vishnu and perhaps also Brahman as created by Shakti.No, one doesn't agree. The three top deities, Shiva, Vishnu and Devi/Shakti (Universal/Divine Mother) are uncreated. They are Brahman, in whom everything that exists, exists in (whoa! that was trippy!
Those views are of course divergent. But is such divergence important?
Or perhaps I should rather ask whether there is a problem that needs solution in those divergences? I think not.
Those stances are meaningful and significant for the religious people who hold them, of course. But that in no way implies that they have any particular need to convince each other and reach some sort of consensus.
It may easily be that the existence of those contrasting views is in fact a good, even necessary thing. I suspect that it is indeed the case.
I agree. Different strokes for different folks.
Yep.
Nope. Everyone sees God/dess in their own way.
Agreed. Imo it's a "who cares?" I mean, "can't we all just get along?"
Tru dat. I hate the sectarian-type "my god can beat up your god". What are we, 5th graders?
That's true too... as long as knives aren't drawn.
That's true too... as long as knives aren't drawn.
Well, that is the thing, isn't it?
Shakti, Vishnu, Shiva, Brahman... none of those need human soldiers far as I can tell. Not in the military sense, I would think.
As you can see, different Hindus have different beliefs. I personally do believe in a single God, from which the other gods are manifested (and yes, that include Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva).
No, one doesn't agree. The three top deities, Shiva, Vishnu and Devi/Shakti (Universal/Divine Mother) are uncreated. They are Brahman, in whom everything that exists, exists in (whoa! that was trippy!
Depends on which scripture you get your info from. Unless what you mean is that they are manifested rather than created. In the Bhagavat Purana, there is a detailed description of how Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are manifested in the material universes from Maha Vishnu.
Don't forget about us Shaktis! The supreme is the female aspect with the masculine aspect complimenting and completing the divine (or universe or what have you.)
From the Hindu perspective I think it probably is important. Worshiping the gods for material benedictions vs meditation and worship of God for Realisation/Enlightenment are very different goals.