Hinduism

Veda Vani

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Can any gods among 330 million of Hindu gods can save a sinner and makes him/her holy? Please give references from your Hindu Scriptures. Not your own Hinduism (your mind as a Hindu), but quotation from your religion's book.

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08:00

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Q: Is this type of closing a question valid?

The question Can the Guna-Karma classification of the Varna system be translated into profession? is closed as a duplicate of the question titled K.S. Bhagavan's critique of Adi Shankara. These are totally different questions. A part of one answer of the second question touches what is asked in ...

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Veda Vani

08:41

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Q: What is the origin of Kula Devata or Family Deity?

In India, every house has something called Kula Devata or Family Deity. What is the historical reason for having such Family deity, and on what basis are family deities assigned to families? Is there any historical, ancestral or political connection between the Deity and the family that worships ...

gods tradition

Veda Vani

09:18

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Q: What happens if Janev is left or stolen somewhere?

I once visited Goa there we were enjoying on beach and all of sudden rain started. So we all ran away from there. I found that my Janeva was left or stolen I do not know what happened. After coming to home I had another and I wore it. But what happens if Janev is left or stolen.

gayatri janev

Veda Vani

09:35

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Q: Does Hinduism culture allow to eat Hotel food?

Does Hinduism culture allow to eat Hotel food? I have heard that swaminarayana and brahmakumaris say not to eat onions and garlics and hotel food. Why?

belief

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Q: What is Brahm? Sagun or Nirgun?

What is Brahm ? Sagun or Nirgun ? Can we avoid it after seeing him ? It is amorphous in nature but can we avoid it?

brahman

Veda Vani

10:04

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Q: Was there any civilisation in the world which evolved without the concept of god?

Was there any civilisation in the world which evolved without the concept of god? Apparently the Piraha people have no concept of numbers, time, or a supreme being.

mythology

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Q: As per shiva purana there is mension of all the world's all rivers , mountains and cultures. Which are they?

As per shiva purana there is mension of all the world's all rivers , mountains and cultures. Which are the cultures at those time? of all world?

shiva shiva-purana

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Q: As per Shiva Purana which avatars Shiva told to Brahma of 27 kalpa?

As per Shiva Purana which avatars Shiva told to Brahma of 27 kalpa? Also Shiva told the names of Sage Vyasa of each kalpa. What are they?

shiva shiva-purana

Pandya

11:38

> The metaphor of the pomegranate fruit is chosen to illustrate the philosophy of this school. The seeds are the living souls and the rind is the universe and one cannot think of the fruit without the seeds and the rind.

I found in @AmitSaxena 's answer.

Living souls - seeds

Universe - rid

Brahman - ?

@AmitSaxena ^^^

@KeshavSrinivasan Can you tell me How Brahman/Vishnu is explained by above metaphor of the pomegranate?

Amit Saxena

11:59

@Pandya He continues... "A Visishtadvaitin wants to become like Lord Narayana and enjoy the divine bliss. He does not wish to merge himself or become identical with the Lord"
I think when he says universe he is talking about the Brahman

Pandya

rid : Brahman + universe ?

Amit Saxena

@Pandya I dont know. Thats why I said I believe in a mix of both philosophies.

Pandya

@AmitSaxena ok. No problem; btw, I've also asked to @KeshavSrinivasan ; He may know ....

Amit Saxena

@Pandya Yup! :)

Pandya

12:30

@ChinmaySarupria Discussion on hinduism.stackexchange.com/users/3872/chinmay-sarupria

> Yeah but Jivan mukti is not completely Moksha, you still retain your individuality.

From Vivekachudamani:

> 431. The absence of the ideas of "I" and "mine" even in this existing body which follows as a shadow, is a characteristic of one liberated-in-life.

> 453. Prarabdha work is certainly very strong for the man of realisation, and is spent only by the actual experience of its fruit; while the actions previously accumulated and those yet to come are destroyed by the fire of perfect knowledge. But none of the three at all affects those who, realising their identity with Brahman, are always living absorbed in that idea. They are verily the transcendent Brahman.

> 454. For the sage who lives in his own Self as Brahman, the One without a second, devoid of identification with the limiting adjuncts, the question of the existence of Prarabdha work is meaningless, like the question of a man who has awakened from sleep having any connection with the objects seen in the dream-state.

> 461. The attributing of Prarabdha work to the body even is certainly an error. How can something that is superimposed (on another) have any existence, and how can that which is unreal have a birth ? And how can that which has not been born at all, die ? So how can Prarabdha work exist for something that is unreal ?

> 462-463. "If the effects of ignorance are destroyed with their root by knowledge, then how does the body live?" – it is to convince those fools who entertain a doubt like this, that the Shrutis, from a relative standpoint, hypothesise Prarabdha work, but not for proving the reality of the body etc., of the man of realisation.

Chinmay Sarupria

12:47

@Pandya From Advaita perspective, our true nature is Nirguna, i.e, formless, nameless, attributeless. Forms and names can only exist in relative plane and not in absolute state. The moment you take form, you come down to relative plane.

Pandya

@ChinmaySarupria Yah! actually Jivanmukti = Videhmukti for who knows it. The difference is only for who doesn't know

> 546. The sun which appears to be, but is not actually, swallowed by Rahu, is said to be swallowed, on account of delusion, by people, not knowing the real nature of the sun.

> 547. Similarly, ignorant people look upon the perfect knower of Brahman, who is wholly rid of bondages of the body etc., as possessed of the body, seeing but an appearance of it.

> 554. As an actor, when he puts on the dress of his role, or when he does not, is always a man, so the perfect knower of Brahman is always Brahman and nothing else.

> 558. For the giving up of the body is not Liberation, nor that of the staff and the water-bowl; but Liberation consists in the destruction of the heart’s knot which is Nescience.

@ChinmaySarupria ^^^

------------That's All---------------

good-bye!

Chinmay Sarupria

13:18

@KeshavSrinivasan @TheDestroyer @Pandya @Tezz For those who believe in traditional yuga theory, Vedas say - शतायुर्वै पुरुषः — "Man lives a hundred years."

Chinmay Sarupria

13:28

@KeshavSrinivasan @TheDestroyer @Pandya @Tezz The above verse of the Vedas fit perfectly in Sri Yukteswar theory.

Veda Vani

14:10

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Q: What is the difference of "Sri", "Shri", “Shree”, “Sree”

We’ve named our son as Sri Atharvan; can someone advise which term of Sri can be used in human names.

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Keshav Srinivasan

14:30

@Pandya In that metaphor Brahman is the entire pomegranate fruit. Just as the seeds and the rind are essential attributes of the pomegranate fruit, so too are chit and achit (souls and matter) essential attributes of Brahman.

Keshav Srinivasan

14:44

@Pandya In Visistadvaita, Jivatmas and matter are parts of a larger whole which is called Brahman, and also Brahman is the Antaryami or inner self of the Jivatma.

Pandya

@KeshavSrinivasan ok. I was also thinking that it should be (whole) fruit. Thanks for reply

If my interpretation is right, you mean Atma and Anatma by Chit and Achit. Right? @KeshavSrinivasan

Keshav Srinivasan

@Pandya Yeah, Chit refers to Jivatmas, and Achit refers to unconscious matter.

@Pandya In Samkhya terminology, Chit and Achit correspond to Purushas and Prakriti.

Pandya

Oh! I recognize the difference:

From Vivekachudamani:

> 122. The body, organs, Pranas, Manas, egoism, etc., all modifications, the sense-objects, pleasure and the rest, the gross elements such as the ether, in fact, the whole universe, up to the Undifferentiated – all this is the non-Self.

> 123. From Mahat down to the gross body everything is the effect of Maya: These and Maya itself know thou to be the non-Self, and therefore unreal like the mirage in a desert.

So, Anatma are considered unreal in Advaita whereas not in Vishishtadvaita. Right? @KeshavSrinivasan

Keshav Srinivasan

@Pandya Yeah, in Visistadvaita all those things that Adi Shankaracharya mentions are real.

Pandya

And Atma is described in verses 124 onwards (you can read from here)

Keshav Srinivasan

14:53

@Pandya Thanks

@Pandya By the way, have you read any more Upanishads?

Pandya

@KeshavSrinivasan I've completed Shvetashvatar.

Haven't started Chhandogya yet

College examination is over today so I am planning to start Chhandogy along with Brahma Sutras in next days.

@KeshavSrinivasan What is your suggestion? Should I start them together or first complete Chhandogya?

And How about Brihadaranyak?

Keshav Srinivasan

@Pandya Well, the Brahma Sutras is basically an attempt to reconcile the teachings of the Taittiriya, Brihadaranyaka, and Chandogya Upanishads. But what you can do is, when a particular Sutra of the Brahma Sutra discusses a verse from the Chandogya or Brihadaranyaka Upanishads, you can just go and read that part of those Upanishads.

@Pandya That's what I did.

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