Re: The problems of being a Hindu ''convert''
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
Please consider this... for some it will make sense for others they will scratch their heads.
A covering (ācchādaka¹) is no less a covering no matter what you choose, if it over-shadows one's real nature.
Doesn't matter if one is a redneck or even the vaiṣṇava¹. For the redneck the thickness of ignorance may be more then the vaiṣṇava - doesn't matter. If one's true original core being (ātmamukhaṃ¹) is not known , does it matter what you wear ? Wear you go, what you do ? having a tattoo ? If one living in ignorance thinks that changing how they look will make a difference - it is just folly. It may make you ~feel~ more spiritual , so be it. Yet if one lives in ignorance ( up to one's finger nails) does it matter what garb one wears, what one wears on the forehead ? These things are all well and good , but we cannot confuse the ride for the destination
With all these these things we wear ( sajja¹) we still are ~wearing~ or being owned by the body (śarīra¹). This is what the wise have been telling us for eons - you are not this transitory body that comes-and-goes. You are stainless, infinite and whole.
iti śivaṁ
words
- ācchādaka - concealing , hiding
vaiṣṇava - a worshipper of viṣṇu
ātmamukhaṃ - turned towards one own Self
sajja - dress; decoration
śarīra - that which easily perishes; one's body i.e. one's own person
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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