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Re: *SIVA*
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Subject: Re: *SIVA*
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From: swett@interramp.com (Charles Swett)
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Date: 2 Nov 1995 02:22:46 GMT
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Approved: srh <srh@rbhatnagar>
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Article: 494 of soc.religion.hindu
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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Mukti Parupudi <pp002963@interramp.com> wrote:
>My two cents:
>How can such practice which has existed for such long time be
>called a "cult"? What is your definition of a cult?
It wasn't my word. It was used by a scholar named Alain Danielou.
>One of the most brilliant Indian intellectuals was AbhinavaGupta
>who wrote extensively on philosophical underpinnings of Kashmir
>Shaivism in addition to other subjects such as the Bhagavad Gita.
>There are hundreds of Shiva Tantras whose age nobody can exactly
>identify. Shavaites beleive that Shiva is timeless (beyond time)
>and hence has always existed. His worshippers probably always
>existed.
>Cheers
>Mukti
Yes, and many of them have never been translated into English.
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