Hinduism

Q: If Brahma granted Vibhishana immortality then why did no Rakshasas consider him the king and leader?

6:06 AM

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Here is the proof for Vibhishan being given a boon of immortality Saying, 'It shall be so' 'Brahma then addressed Vibhishana, 'O my son, I am much pleased with thee! Ask any boon thou pleasest!' Thereupon, Vibhishana replied, 'Even in great danger, may I never swerve from the path of righteou...

ramayana ravana vibhishana

6:20 AM

@BhargavRao haha usually it's the mistake part from we learn a lot. But nice to know that u performed well , 🙂💐🍫

Yup, mistakes are the stepping stone to success! :)

@BhargavRao I read it as failures ;)

That's a different quote, this one is mine. :p

@NogShine You got a nice editing Campanian along side with u as @BhargavRao , he will ease some of your workload. 😀👍👍 it's really nice that u both are helping to maintain posts clean as well as accurate.🍫🍿🍬🍭

@SwiftPushkar @BhargavRao What do you think of my answer to navagraha question? Does it need any more detail?

@SwiftPushkar Thank you. Yes, it is always good to have a partner or a companion.

6:25 AM

@NogShine Wait will read ..🖐

@NogShine I read it today morning, but haven't yet seen the padma purana part, so I'll tell ya later.

The question only asked about flowers and fragrances. I only gave them. 😀 The exact verses had some more like the shlokas, danam, colour, yantras for them

@SwiftPushkar Thanks. I'll soon learn more from Nog. :)

@BhargavRao I gave a summary and gave a simple answer.

@NogShine Yup good post , will update the answer with direct quotes from PP ,with link. U have to be patient during that 😀

6:28 AM

@BhargavRao Ahem

Just one more exam next week, and I'll have the next exam after two weeks. \o/

@NogShine yep, I understood. I just want to read more about it, first. :)

I don't know if someone is directing to the Antim sanskar question. It is continously downvoted. I don't know that there are many Telugus or south INdians to judge my post.

@BhargavRao oh actually what type of exams r they ,I mean written or u have to submit your research etc. ,oral etc.?

@SwiftPushkar Well, the flowers part is a very small one in a word. The other had some more part which is irrelevant to the question.

@SwiftPushkar Written exams. Like in India itself, but it's more time intensive.

Less to remember, more practical based.

6:33 AM

@NogShine why dv? at least i approved that answer , because of RV reference. But honestly u will need to somehow restructure the conclusion part , because may.be users are finding that offensive because no scripture is in fav. of this ( excluding special cases).This is just my guess though.

@SwiftPushkar Dunno. It got 4 downvotes on it. What is offensive in the conclusion?

@NogShine wait again have to read

> Conclusion: It is a common practice in South India to bury the dead. Not all the people follow cremation.

@NogShine - "Conclusion: It is a common practice in South India to bury the dead. Not all the people follow cremation" Yup that part is i think much bold & yes 4Dv.

@SwiftPushkar When I said Shudras follow it, Destroyer and two others misunderstood that only they follow and he posted a comment and my answer gives citation which says it was a common practice in the past and not confined to a region.

@SwiftPushkar What do you mean by bold?

Also there is an opinion on this site that burial is anti vedic or not sanctioned by the vedas. Now, there is a citation against that belief. So, I think this is not common. @SwiftPushkar

@TheLittleNaruto even saint body better to burn, I dont think vedic life recommends preseving dead body . — Rakesh Joshi Feb 3 at 20:58

@SwiftPushkar Do you mean it seems to be in high tone?

6:54 AM

@NogShine Yes , i mean it's quite bold Statement.

Wait will be back , in sometime and will update your answer aft. that.We will discuss later on.🙂

A: Who was the Guru of lord Krishna?

@SwiftPushkar Okay. I don't add please, request etc., in the comments, answers much. It is my nature. But I don' t mean any offense to anybody. :D

@SwiftPushkar Sure. Bye.

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Krishan ji is considered avatar of Vishnu ji, then why would he have the need to be guru ? Maybe parbrahm itself was his guru. Even in Mahabharat Krishan ji said he's recited Bhagavad gita because of being in union with Brahman (parbrahm)

what to do with this answer? @Pandya @BhargavRao @TheDestroyer @SwiftPushkar @KeshavSrinivasan It seems to be a comment like and it is not improved after the comment from Fierce Lord.

Doesn't warrant a mod deletion IMO, 3 - 4k votes must be fine there, but we can leave it downvoted as well.

Yeah. That's why didn't flag or VTD.

Q: What is the reason of reverberations in the mind?

7:15 AM

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One usually finds it sometimes some song is constantly being played in the mind even against one's wish. My question set is as follows - Without the engagements of ears, how can one listen/hear those sounds? It is similar to asking how without eyes one can see the dreams? How one can stop the ...

meditation

Q: Which rig Vedic verses are repeated in atharva Veda?

7:32 AM

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Atharva Veda has 6th of its verses borowed from rigveda, are there books which deal was to which verses are repeated in atharva Veda?

vedas rig-veda atharva-veda

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Q: How many people have written commentary of bhagvad geeta?

Can anyone provide the list of commentaries on bhagvad geeta by different acharyas, how many of the ancient commentaries are surviving?

bhagavad-gita vedanta

7:48 AM

@NogShine There is not much to quote from padma purana but the answer is somwht right . And there is no chapter 83 in shristikanda .. so edit the answer. here is the screenshot .. i have given one detail answer based on the same chapter , but i am not finding it right now ..

Q: What are the major differences in different recessions of srimad bhagvatam?

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Wikipedia states that there are different recensions of bhagvatam, what are the differences among them?

puranas bhagavata-purana

@NogShine ⬆️

8:06 AM

I did not downvote (but I voted to close). Perhaps the downvote is because, Stack Exchange is not a place where you ask for a list of items. It is considered as too broad here. You will need to restrict your question to a smaller subset of what it currently is. — Bhargav Rao 13 secs ago

scripture vishnu worship vishnu-purana varaha

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Q: Truth of Varaha avatar

After reading about Varaha Avatar story versions, I have a question here. we all know Varaha, (Sanskrit: “Boar”) third of the 10 incarnations (avatars) of the Hindu god Vishnu. Do Hindus worship Varaha? If yes, why there are no restrictions on consumption of pork (Pig) like Cow? Pig is not sa...

@BhargavRao haha somebody also downvoted his question after my comment , and surprisingly this happens frequently with me 😀

BTW I am not the DV of your posts. — SwiftPushkar 5 mins ago

I sometimes downvote, when I see someone asking about downvotes. (But I did not do it here, though I really wanted to) :p

@SwiftPushkar voted that as too broad as well.

The questions these days are just very poor. There's not much effort shown. (I'm fine with resource requests, as you can't specify what you've searched), but these are just too bad. :(

Shows that we're ready for graduation.

@BhargavRao OK , i didn't still , but lets wait , I usually only comment and do not vote or Dv except extremely required .

I do downvote when it's required.

Q: What is the story of son of Indra in the form of a crow was punished by lord Rama?

8:12 AM

@BhargavRao Yes , for eg.

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Is there any story that a son of Indra in the form of a crow was punished by lord Rama with his Brahmastra? I always listen to it.

mythology ramayana

Very less research effort .

Oops.

We need a strong meta team, which is seriously lacking.

@BhargavRao Yes even the users first need to doubly check whether the Q or answer is already present , most users skip that part .

Yep. That's what is wrong with the site's users.

(added an upvote on a different post, even though I shouldn't have. Just incase the user becomes violent and chases me IRL)

@BhargavRao Yup me done the same on his atharvaveda post , its bad to treat someone like in this way , i mean lets just humbly point out to hhim first , instead of DV ,

Nah, I'm actually fine with the downvote, I mean, it's valid. But they probably should've added a comment. (They're not obliged to do so, either).

I did not upvote those two posts, because they're not worthy of an upvote. :/

I did not find any good post, which I can immediately upvote, I had to search through and find one good one.

8:27 AM

@BhargavRao haha i am quite emotional / sentimental person 😁

:D

If you become a moderator on Stack Overflow, you'll automatically lose all your emotions.

Heh @Swift hinduism.stackexchange.com/posts/24190/revisions, that's the edit after your comment.

@BhargavRao Yeah , So is different thing , there is very narrow scope to errors there , butt here we cant expect every users to be perfect , so there is some scope for errors here .

@BhargavRao Yes saw that 😀

@SwiftPushkar Yup, true. It is still a growing site.

Anyway, I need to study, bye \o

@BhargavRao Yes .. Bye ..

Q: Why is the language of avesta and Vedas similar?

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Doesn't the language similarity between avesta and Vedas put "apaurausheyata" of Vedas to question? Many verses of vedas are repeated in avesta.

vedas rig-veda yajur-veda sama-veda atharva-veda

8:52 AM

@BhargavRao Yes. I agree with it. The first gen users were very active on meta.

@SwiftPushkar The one I have the same numbers 82, 83.

@SwiftPushkar Yes, there is not much to quote. Flowers and fragrances are said in one line or so.

@NogShine line .. yes ..

Thanks for correcting.

@SwiftPushkar See, there is a chapter 82 ^

@NogShine Yes , but i only said there is no chapter no 83 .

1 hour ago, by SwiftPushkar

@NogShine There is not much to quote from padma purana but the answer is somwht right . And there is no chapter 83 in shristikanda .. so edit the answer. here is the screenshot .. i have given one detail answer based on the same chapter , but i am not finding it right now ..

@SwiftPushkar Done thanks. 👍

@BhargavRao Why is that edit still there? Who are the site managers lol?

Q: Can someone list major differences in different recessions of srimad bhagvatam briefly?

9:15 AM

Ok did some research and we can close this question as too broad @NogShine @BhargavRao

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Wikipedia states that there are different recensions of bhagvatam, is there some differences among them? Please answer the major differences in brief points.

puranas bhagavata-purana

Dear close voters, the linked question is not a duplicate of the other question. See this, this comments. This is a mythological answer. The other question wants a historical answer. Moreover, this question is asked prior to that question and also the answers to this one are from scriptures rather than wiki. Hence, this is not a dupe. Only related question. — Sarvabhouma 5 hours ago

@BhargavRao Haven't you seen this? ^^

and comments from Senshin?

Still too Broad as many regional recensions are there , so it's not possible to answer this question .Voting to close. — SwiftPushkar 36 secs ago

Well @SwiftPushkar we need not to declare we voted on the question.

Mods should not reveal who are the close voters, I think it applies to us too.

@NogShine No I declared it because someone D voted after my comment and there were 2 separate downvotes to 2 of his questions.

@SwiftPushkar it happens to me all the time. A dv appears just immediately I edited. Some think I downvoted. But they don't think that similarly when there is an upvote after I edited.

First I vote and then edit and then answer or answer, vote and edit. This is the pattern for me for questions.

9:48 AM

Like we have Vaishnava and Shiva Followers, Are there set of people who are followers of Lord Brahma ?

@TheLittleNaruto We don't have them.

but there was worship of Brahma.

The only reason now Brahma is not worshipped is the story of Shiva and Bhrigu cursing not to be worshipped.

@NogShine Yeah that I know

But I thought There should be a set of Bramha Followers like Lord Shiva or Vashnava's

Have you visited Pushkar ?

The only temple where Lord Bramha is worshiped

@TheLittleNaruto no

but there are temples of Brahma

I had visited once.

During my Uni

10:04 AM

@NogShine didn't want to cross paths with them again.

@NogShine Nopes, retracted. Sorry!

Q: Why is Brahma depicted as old in pictures?

@TheLittleNaruto I heard a story there that Saraswati cursed Brahma because he married Gayatri because it was late for Yajna. She cursed that he would look old.

That created a doubt in me.

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I have seen many pictures and photos (such as above) of Chaturmukha Brahma with white hair and white beard. Why is Brahma shown as an old person? All the devatas are known to be drinking elixir (amruth). It is said that those who drink it do not feel hunger, thirst and do not age, so, look al...

mythology gods brahma

and a question about it. ^

@NogShine Good question. But so obvious answers

Q: ancient time how the person overcome solve the curse done by Guru?

11:37 AM

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is God able to cure the problem occurs by curse done by Guru? example Lord Parasuram place curse on Karna but Karna unable solve the problem. Is there are other situations God cure the problem occurs by the Guru curse in ancient time. does the cursed lock (when it is pointless) by God and the cur...

curse

12:02 PM

> does the cursed lock (when it is pointless) by God and the curse become inactive?

da heck is that, I don't even?!?

Q: apart from normal pregnancy through normal means how many other ways are children born in hindu scripture?

1:01 PM

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we have the famous children of kunti that were born to kunti and gods. in fact it is hard to think of famous hindu religious figures in ancient times that were born through normal means.

childbirth abnormal

Q: is Varaha worshiped mostly in the South?

1:22 PM

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There is a famous Varaha temple at Srimushnam right next to a highway in Tamil Nadu. I don't recall any temples to Varaha in North India.

temple varaha

Q: Is there a scriptural statement anywhere elevating Rig Veda Samhita over the rest of Shruti?

2:32 PM

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From what I understand there is a lot of overlap between Rig Veda Samhita and the other Vedas. Atharva Veda is considered a late addition to the Vedic corpus. At least linguistically, Rig Veda Samhita is the oldest Hindu scripture (although other works occasionally have older material).

rig-veda

Q: Do 'stray thoughts' incur karma?

2:51 PM

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Are there any authentic sources from Vedas and Puranas which shines light on karma incured due to stray thoughts. Let me give an example. Let us say a person X has offended another person Y in some way. Now, the person Y seeks in his mind to take revenge on person X. Just as that thought comes, t...

vedas puranas karma

3:54 PM

Why this site is still in Beta ?

4:51 PM

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Hinduism – hinduism.stackexchange.com

Beta Q&A site for followers of the Hindu religion and those interested in learning more about Hinduism.

Currently in public beta.

@TheLittleNaruto ⬆️

@SwiftPushkar I see.

@TheLittleNaruto so we need LITTLE encouragement 😀

@SwiftPushkar Yes we CAN do it!

@TheLittleNaruto Yes , u can contribute also , I am still writing my 3 rd answer here ....

These days I need to focus on studies

That's why can't contribute

5:15 PM

@TheLittleNaruto oh ok ,

Q: Hindu Shraddha Ritual - On Pindadaan and its offering locations

5:33 PM

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I have heard that Pindadaan is given in Gaya. Why can't "any place" be suitable for Pindadaan? Does Gaya (or Pinda-eligible places) contain any sort of spiritual momentum or subtle spiritual forces, which transmit the offering to the departed soul? Like for example Kumbha Mela is only held in t...

shraddha pindadaan gaya

Q: How can Lord rama consume meat without sacrificing it to the dieties first?

6:06 PM

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All scriptures unanimously agree that eating meat without sacrifice is a sin, then why is there no mention of Lord rama sacrificing animals, there are no verses which directly state that he ate meat but are all indirect speculation, how can one be sure that he really did eat meat?

ramayana rama food

Q: Did Lord rama consumed alcohol?

6:22 PM

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This is from sundara kanda- सीतामादाय बाहुभ्यां मधुमैरेयकं शुचि । पाययामास काकुत्स्थः शचीमिन्द्रो यथामृतम् ॥ मांसानि च सुमृष्टानि विविधानि फलानि च । रामस्याभ्यवहारार्थं किंकरास्तूर्णमाहरन् ॥ — “Embracing Sitâ with both his arms, Kâkutstha (Râma) made her drink pure Maireya wine, even as...

ramayana rama

yoga agamas tantra shad-darshana

6:41 PM

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Q: Yoga as Astika vs Nastika

There are 6 orthodox (astikas) darshanas, very good explained in Keshav question here. At same time, yoga is based mostly on agamas or tantras, and other kind of writtings: Trika philosophy have texts as Shiva Sutras, Pratyabhijña, Tantraloka, etc Saiva Siddhanta follow Tirumantiram, Tiruvaca...

karma brahman caste-system

7:32 PM

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Q: Who becomes a Brahman?

I just want to know what makes one a Brahman. Is that depends on the karma? Is that depends on the fate? Is that depends on learning Vedas? Some say that next birth of Brahman is a cow. Is that true?