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billcu
17 November 2012, 02:14 PM
Just about all I know about Hinduism comes from the Gita. I don't have an enlightened guru and really don't know where to start except following the gita. I thought Mahabarata was a veda but I guess it isn't. How do we progress upon the path?
Bill
orlando
06 December 2012, 02:48 PM
Namaste billcu.
Mahabharata(that includes Bhagavad-Gita),Ramayana and Puranas are the fifth Veda.
This is a very important thing to know for a hindu:)
Regards,
Orlando.
Sanja
06 December 2012, 03:19 PM
Namasté Bill,
I can only speak for myself, everyone has his own way to God and to enlightenment.
It is important to study the Bhagavad Gita, but it's also important to build a deep devotional relationship with your God.
To understand on an intellectual level and increasing the trust in God within yourself as a form of emotional understanding are two different things, that will eventually merge into one.
There are a lot of things you could do. Practise yoga, sing mantras or find a temple nearby if you want. There are a few online courses as well that could help. Everything you do on that path is a step forward even if it is a little one.
Sometimes i find it's all more like a remembering rather than learning, but however we have to reach deep inside of us to reach God.
So meditate, sing, love and trust. :-)
Well, that's my path, maybe it can give you a few suggestions.
Love and bliss,
Praṇām
yajvan
06 December 2012, 07:05 PM
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
I thought Mahabarata was a veda but I guess it isn't.
Bill
It ( the mahābhārata) is reverred as the 5th ved. And who says this ? itihāsapurāṇaṃ pañcamaṃ vedānāṃ is called out in the chāndogya upaniṣad (7.1.2); It reads like this (nārada-ji is speaking to sanatkumāra-ji); Revered sir I have learned the ṛgveda, yajurveda, samāveda, the atharvaveda the 4th, the itihāsa-s and purāṇa-s as the 5th veda, etc. etc.
The mahābhārata is classified as itihāsa¹ (history) , and hence Nārada's reference to it as the 5th.
Another reference is in the mahābhārata itself. Ādi (first) Parva (division or section) , says the following: The learned man who recites to others this veda of vyāsa (kṛṣṇa dvaipāyana) reaps advantage.
Hence the epithet of it considered a 5th veda.
"Whatever is here ( in the mahābhārata) is found elsewhere. But whatever is not here (in the mahābhārata) is nowhere else."
If there is interest, more can be read here on this HDF post:
http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1882 (http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1882)
iti śivaṁ
1. itihāsa इतिहास 'so it was' ; talk , legend , tradition , history , traditional accounts of former events , heroic history
Nirguna
07 December 2012, 08:01 AM
Namaste billcu,
Just about all I know about Hinduism comes from the Gita. I don't have an enlightened guru and really don't know where to start except following the gita. I thought Mahabarata was a veda but I guess it isn't. How do we progress upon the path?
Bill
I would highly recommend reading the commentaries of Srila Prabhupada on Bhagavad Gita "Bhagavad Gita As It Is", and on Srimad Bhagavatam.
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