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it's very kind of you that you answered some of my questions,
thanks a lot. But I still have some - maybe answers are obvious
for you, but not for me - we belong to different culteres, we
speak in different languages, and some words may have different
meanings for us. This causes risk of misinterpretation. Can you
please explain as precisely as possible what these words mean
for you in the context you were using them?
>>>>> Ram V Chandran <chandran.burke@juno.com> writes:
> believe that the image is the very manifestation of Deity. A significant
> number of Hindus believe that the image is a symbolic representation of
What mean "very manifestation" and "symbolic representation"
here? The possible range of meaning is (surely I call too wide
but it is better than too narrow) from <<something that is to
mean "God" just like a word "cat" means some animal>> to
<<something being God in His essence>>. I understand the "very
manifestation" is much nearer the second and further from the
first than the "symbolic representation" but I don't know how
near and how far it is, what _properties_ are the same as the
first or the second, what are different from both.
> Religious beliefs in general are based on personal experiences, guidance
> from religious gurus and family traditions and customs. Hindu scriptures
Add national and regional traditions here, too. I met a claim
that there are places where religions changed many times - from
ancient pagan religions, through Jude religion, then Islam, and
many religions assumed some place to be sanctity.
> There are three major philosophies on the concept of God and the method of
> attaining liberation. Though they all agree that total liberation is the
I would like to know what these philosophies are. The thing
I am usually most interested in what is - in depth - reason
for which their followers choose just this, not some other,
what they find good in this one, not in others.
> References:
While the list may be valuable to me in a case I met some of
these books, it is highly unlike it to happen (anyway, I will
check in best bookstore around). I suppose they are available
in India, but I live thousands miles away and most likely no
one library here will have them. Can you please rather specify
WWW pages where such an info is published, if there are any?
Jerzy
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