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Thank you. :namasteI'll look into it.
Thanks, but I'm rather interested to find out the spritual meaning behind her myth.Dakshayani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dākshāyani is also known as Satī, Gaurī, Umā, Aparnā, Sivakāmini and by over a thousand other names; a listing is to be found in the Lalithā Sahasranāmam
There is also a goddess with that name.Sati? I always thought that was the custom of rajput women to set themselves on fire along with their dead husband's corpse.
I thought that Sanatana Dharma was monotheistic.
'gods' and 'goddesses' are not the one God.
What makes this different from a polytheistic religion is that the polytheistic religion does not include that One Original Supreme Being from which all the 'god and goddesses' are manifest. But in Hinduism, there is one Supreme Creator like in the Abrahamic religions.
Why call them gods and goddesses if there is only one god? I thought that they were called devas.
It what English-speaking people decided to term them. They also use the term 'demi-god' for some denizens of the heavenly planets, even though demi-god means 'half-god' and is not an accurate description at all.
So what we have in terminology is a distinction between the one God (with a capital G) and the expansions or manifestations of aspects of that one God termed as 'gods' with a lower case g. Does that make sense?
Then the 'demi-gods' are just souls like you and me who live in 'higher' (heavenly) realms.
Why call them gods and goddesses if there is only one god? I thought that they were called devas.
Oh, okay. Thank you for telling me.The idea is different from what commonly will occur to your mind when you consider God as a localised person. Brahman is not a localised person. Thus for a second, or for lesser or bigger time duration, it may so happen, that you may completely merge with that fullness -- and come out again as an individual.
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sati is a composite word of sa and ti, the former being the Truth and the latter being the Untruth. The life is Truth (soul) and untruth (perishable body).
It is also called satya, which means Truth (Life force-existence) but contains sa (truth) and ti (untruth) and ya (truth). Spiritual existence before bodily existence, followed by bodily exisdence, again followed by unembodied spiritual existence. Thus satya is the whole existence.
In Vedanta, satya is the name of 'Life Force'. And satasya satyam (truth of the truth) is the Atman (the mind that abides within the life force). Atman is also called Purusha -- the Person. It is said that Life Force is one only. But Purusha created many souls -- giving rise to the appearance that the Life Force is in many pieces within many souls.
Has the story of goddess Sati any spiritual meaning?