Re: Greetings from America
Originally Posted by
devotee
Welcome Prbeck ! We shall be happy to see you posting here.
Hindu Dharma is a lot different from other religions, especially the Abrahimic religions.
The highest philosophy in Hindu Dharma comes from VedAnta (Upanishads). It declares something very unique as some listed here :
a) The Creation and Creator are not different from each other. God is not some entity out of the creation. God pervades the entire universe and even beyond through and through like water pervades ice-block.
b) The God is in the heart of all beings and therefore, see all beings as the temples of God.
c) The Creator and Creation dissolve into One sole reality which cannot be described and cannot be given any name and that is called "Turiya" meaning "The fourth". This is the highest state of Brahman and that is AtmAn/ the Self.
d) Consciousness is Brahman. God is undifferentiated Mass of Consciousness.
e) All the above stated truths can be verified by direct experience by anyone which is known by name Self-Realisation or Enlightenment.
OM
However, just to remind that this is one POV - of one sect - among almost innumerable sampradaya-s of Hinduism.
Hindu sects, in general, never "claim" anything - they don't practice exclusivism (means, all Hindus are always welcome to all Hindus) - nor any elitism - they are humble and they don't tout. They believe in Spiritual democracy. Plus, all traditions within Hinduism are each eminently capable of achieving the "highest goal(s)".
Things to remember:
1. Life = yajña
2. Depth of Āstika knowledge is directly proportional
to the richness of Sanskrit it is written in
3. Āstika = Bhārata ("east") / Ārya ("west")
4. Varṇa = tripartite division of Vedic polity
5. r = c. x²
where,
r = realisation
constant c = intelligence
variable x = bhakti
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