Re: questioning christians
Namaste Friends,
As usual I side with EM, however, rejecting his views on Advaita.
How will a non-indian react to Markandeya Purana, wherein Shiva, Vishnu and all divinities equip Durga, so that she may slaughter all asuras? She slaughters them for 9 or 10 days. During the process she also turns into a monstrous figure with a red protruded tongue and laps up asuras as soon as they are born and before they could fall to the ground and grow.
Was Durga lapping up the unwholesome thoughts before they could take root or was Durga killing people in flesh? I do not know but I am inclined to believe that She is the pure consciousness of the Self, which on growth (as agni) purifies our minds. There are supporting shruti, which says that 'this agni when lit lights up the full heaven'. There are shruti that indicate the protruding tougue to be a flame. The protruding tongue is Jihva-Jiva.
Jiva has to kill the unwholesome worries and tendencies.
Similarly, before a physical Jerusalem city was created, the 'Jerusalem' or 'Zion' meant "City of Joy", similar as our body-self is called a city of nine gates. It is surely the function of terrible Rudra to keep this city joyful.
The worries and doubts dwelling and growing in the City of Joy must be ruthlessly annhilated.
I see the whole thing this way. I may be grossly wrong but who stops me from seeing the good picture?
Om Namah Shivaya
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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