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Re: What is religion?
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: What is religion?
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From: Bon Giovanni <bongiovanni@delphi.com>
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 95 18:59:09 -0500
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From news@news1.delphi.com Sun Mar 12 19: 14:36 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
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References: <3jr1ki$3lu@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
Thanks to Parker et cie for posting these series of discourses. He posts
them in various fora, and I hope those seeds sprout. I had asked him
if he were sure the sage said JANMA rather than JNANA, and Parker assured
me it was JNANA. He also offered a verse detailing why.
I appreciate that. I also appreciate this:
Bharatiyas have been celebrating the Navarathi festival
from ancient times as a mode of worship of Devi, the Divine as Mother.
They worship Durga, Laxmi, and Saraswati during those nine days. Who
are these three? They are the three forms which have fascinated man.
Their esoteric significance is represented by three potencies or
shakthis. They are: Karma, Upaasana, and Jnana.
The concept of total surrender, Prapathi is related to
Self-Realization, Oneness with the Divine. God,in fact, dwells in
every human being as the Atma.The body is the sacred abode of the
Atma.Hence the scriptures declare: The body is the temple of God in
which the individual Spirit dwells as the Ancient One. Just as the
diamond is found in clay and not in rock, the Spirit, as
consciousness, resides in the earthly body.The body is of the
earth,earthy. The Atman is consciousness. Humanness is the coming
together of the mundane and the spiritual consciousness.It is a
combination of good and evil. It is a mixture of the transient and
the eternal. Hence, for what is auspicious,subha,or inauspicious,
asubha, for Truth, Sathya, or falsehood, Asahtya, for the perishable,
Kshyaya and the imperishable, Askhsaya, the prefix `a'' accounts for
the difference.
[continued at soc.culture.indian in the thread marked
SANDEHA NIVARINI SATHYA SAI BABA DISSOLVING DOUBTS
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