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    Re: Hello from Saudi Arabia

    Namaste,

    Welcome.

    Are you able access HDF from Saudi Arabia? If I am not wrong, apostasy or even practice/exhibition of non Islamic activity in the public can lead up to decapitation in Saudi Arabia.
    Anirudh...

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    Re: Hello from Saudi Arabia

    Namaste and Welcome,

    To understand Hinduism is not easy, as Devotee Ji has laid out its not something that is just one thing, as there are many aspects and practices but somehow there is some great underlying unity, and this is what is the most important to understand and realize, once that is understood then things start to fit into place.

    To understand everything is impossible, if we go by different variations of practices and cultures within Hinduism it will cover so many different times spans and eras with all the subtle and not so subtle changes within the country's history, which then reflects in the spiritual expression. If one goes into studying this culturally, historically or any type of academic process it will just heap on more and more information and will take more than one life to get to grasp with it.

    There are strong phases within the traditions of Indian, which are still alive today in some shape or form but may have been concentrated at different periods in time such as Vedic practices~ Brahmanism, Buddhism had a very long influence in India, one could say their is a Upanishadic culture too, Jainism, Sikhism which to some degree all have their own identity, so how can we see Hinduism as one thing that at least is an all encompassing and integrated system of belief and culture, even if there seems to be so many contradictions. Devotee Ji has highlighted the complexities and diversity of what would be consider as Hindu thought, religion and practice, but if we understand the essence the ism drops out of the study, and the unity within all diversity becomes more apparent.

    So far you say that you study and practice Vipassana, I would say this is a very good start, mostly because your inquriing about the broader subject from the point of practicing one of the techniques, Vipassana was not invented by the Buddha, and from my studies He was Brahmavada, I would go so far to say that all the Rishi's and great thinkers main unity is that they are all in one way or another Brahmavada or they accepted that Brahma is the totality of reality and its undivided and is everything, but its not so simple to say its just one thing. The other common factor is that all accept Dharma, again Dharma cannot be translated as its of the same nature of Brahman meaning this time the intrinsic nature of reality, and again this is not just one thing in particular. How to understand this more clear is by doing exactly what your doing now, practice and inquiry, this should in time mature, so give things time, keep up with the inquiry and practice and the growth that comes from that will fill in all the so called gaps and confusions that arise from so called contradictions and aspects of the One reality.

    You asked what book to study on Hinduism, for me and anyone interested in learning about Sanatana Dharma Bhagavada Gita is a good start, it includes all the yoga system and Hindu thought in one way or another, if you practice Vippassana and read Bhagavad Gita in time you will see the unity and the growth that will naturally arise and all the Dharma traditions become synthesized in one way or another.

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