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    Krishna

    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

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    Re: Krishna

    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

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    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
    **Jai Shree Krishna** जय श्री कृष्ण[

    They live in wisdom who see themselves in all, and all in them.

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    hari o
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    namasté

    Quote Originally Posted by billcu View Post
    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

    iti śiva

    1. itihāsa इतिहास 'so it was' ; talk , legend , tradition , history , traditional accounts of former events , heroic history
    यतसà¥à¤¤à¥à¤µà¤‚ शिवसमोऽसि
    yatastvaṠśivasamo'si
    because you are identical with śiva

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    Re: Krishna

    Namaste billcu,

    Quote Originally Posted by billcu View Post
    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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