Sephiroth

I thought India's citizens already have ID cards. Don't tell me they have not, even so India have been independant since 1957.

 

There have been so many movies on naag and naagins.Our scriptures talk about naag lok but are there women and men who turn into snakes anywhere mentioned.The concept of icchadari naag or naagin, is this mentioned?Ive heard many stories also about the snake woman taking revenge.IS there any basis from where the stories come from.

 

Well, Snakes and Nagas are common story which seems to accompany Mankind throughtout creation.

Maha Vishnu sleeps on the Many-headed Athi-Sekshan, Maha Eshwara have a snake running on his body, Man and Woman said to get kicked out due to a Snake in the Bible (Genesis), humans have known to sacrifice humans to Snake Gods in Mayan and Inca beliefs and many more.

Maybe it is true that there are Nagas and Naagins out there.

My question is, what is the difference between bakthi and blind faith? Secondly, how to make bhakti pure without shadows of blind faith in it? Namaste.

Ask a person why he is following a certain (religious) ritual.

IF he says that someone have taught him to do such ritual (as means of Spiritualism), then he has blind faith. IF he says it makes him happy, then he has Bhakti in his heart.

The difference between Bhakti and Blind Faith is in each person's heart. IF a person is happy with how he performs his Spiritual practise, he is Faithful. IF he cannot find happiness and merely following the masses, he is blind.

As a physician. If ever I`ll do abortions on indicated ones, the recipient I hope goes HOME BACK TO PARABRAHMAN in his/her next life.

Hmph ... that is like a Murderer wishing his victim well.

Doctors who kills unborn children for sake of money are INSULT to Medical Profession and Cold-Blooded Murderers.

I do believe we do not have the rights to take other people's lives. But if the mother's pregnancy will endanger herself or the baby is deformed or will likely have diseases that beforehand known by mother and father through scans and tests etc....what do fellow members think about the scenario?

 

For me if such the case, the mother should abort. Though I do not know the consequence of the actions, I mean, does it accumulate bad karma too?

Question here is - HOW SURE are you that keeping the pregnancy could endanger the mother's and the child's life? Doctors are human beings, NOT GODS.

Furthermore, I do not accept that, that in today's technology and breakthrough, the ONLY way to safe a life (mother's) is by sacrificing another life (the child's) in return. I'm sorry, but I don't believe that abortion is the only way.

Come to think of it, I could think of two ways to safe both child and mother :

1. C-Section. Many children are born at early age of 7 months. Performing C-section at this time and place the child in an incubation machine for the rest of it's time (in the womb) could likely be way to safe both mother and child.

2. Incubators - developing feotus can be removed and placed in artificial wombs and allow it to develop. While this technology is yet to be implemented, I believe it is logical and possible to safe the child and the mother without resorting to destroying life.

Yes, some real confusion there.

My take on this

 

Krishna is a manifestation as told by him in GITA.

BG 7.24: Unintelligent men, who do not know Me perfectly, think that I, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, was impersonal before and have now assumed this personality. Due to their small knowledge, they do not know My higher nature, which is imperishable and supreme.

 

So krishna is the Manifestation of god on earth..Krishna is not the source.

Nope, Sri Krishna is not the Source. He is merely an extension of the Source - a Personal Brahman which Humans can relate to.

Remember when Sri Krishna revealed His Vishnuroopa, everyone bowed down and pray for Him to STOP because of the incredible form which He have shown. Which means that God cannot reveal Himself to Man in His true form or we all have heart attacks instead of pray.

That is not correct. The Mahabharata does mention Rama and Hanuman.

 

Madhvacharya rejected the present version of Ramayana as not authentic.

 

Actually, you're wrong. Mahabratha have mentioned Hanuman TWICE.

First meeting of Bhisma and Hanuman was during the 14 years exile. The brothers and Draupadi was walking through a forest when they came across what appears to be a large tail across the path. The source for this tail was an elderly looking monkey which sat down and meditate. Everyone thought it was a rakshaha so they dispatched Bhisma to handle it (since he was the strongest one).

Bhisma, sensing that the Old Monkey had a sense of divinity to it request it to remove the tail. The Monkey stated back that it was in meditation and Bhisma can remove the tail on his own (without dishonoring the Monkey). Bhisma tried to remove it by pushing it with his feet but he failed. He tried to lift it up and also failed. He tried with everything and failed as well. So, knowing that it is impossible for any normal Monkey to be so powerful, he humbled himself and asked who the Monkey was and the Monkey revealed himself to be Hanuman, sitting there chanting and meditating upon Sri Rama (His Lord).

The second mentioning of Hanuman was in the Kurushektra war itself. When the war started, Hanuman came down to the battlefield, and sat in the flag of the chariot driven by Sri Krishna, giving roar now and then which weakens the enemies' spirit.

Who is Madhvacharya?

respected Sephiroth you are right I agree with you.

I merely stating what many have stated before.

Looking at today's political situations, one could easily remember the scenes of Sri Krishna playing the Peace Messanger in behalf of Pandavas to their cousins. Those who are in side of good, are few in numbers if compared to those who are in side of Evil. Even the great ones like Guru Drona are on the side of evil.

Hindus today have to remember this scene well, because they are in the same position as the Pandavas were in Mahabratha Epic. In a way, I could say it is almost like the Mahabratha Epic is being played again for the "amusement" of God once again, after 5,000 years.

Who knows, maybe what Sage Vyasa wrote was not only something which happened 5,000 years ago, but also a reminder to the future generations on what going to happen in the future.

definitely great point by Sephiroth ji. you seem to have deep knowledge and very clear thoughts also your way of posting replies is very impressive, contents of the post are also very relevant and easy to understand. the forum needs more people like you.

Thank you.

Amnesia ........

 

There was once a Prince who developed amnesia.

He wandered about not knowing who he was. Eventually he sat in the gutter in tears.

A kind lady came by and gave him some food. Then a man came by and gave him some wine.

But later a priest came by and recognizing the boy, said "My dear son, I know your father. He has a great Kingdom, which is yours. Let me take you there".

 

We can see who best took care of the lost boy's welfare.

Yet you do not see what actually saved the boy.

What truly saved that boy could be his father's merits (punya) and his own. Not the kingdom or the Priest.

If that prince was an evil man, or his father was a cruel king, do you believe that anyone could be bothered about the boy who was crying in the gutter? N0 ... because they will remember his and his father's cruelty and shy away from him.

And like most people who does not remember who they are, the prince will sit in the gutter and wonder why no one is helping him. Because of his amnesia he will not remember the evil things he did (in another lifetime) which have shone away his could-be-rescuers.

Merits and Sins determines what sort of World you are living in. Sometimes, your merits will save you when you are least expected.

That story supposed to be a warning to the doctors who perform abortions about the sin they are commiting. Instead, many of Indians today have been fooled into thinking that Hindusm is nothing more than stories which was told by their forefathers. They do not take such lessons seriously.

Furthermore, if one was to ask any doctor what is his responsibility, he could likely to say that his primary responsibility (as a doctor) is to safe life. So how is it that for sake of money, he could perform such actions as killing unborn children?

There are cases where the mother's life could be in danger if the pregnancy continued. But in cases like this, there's always options of C-section available, where the child is safely removed as early as the 7th month and this could safe both child and the mother.

Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information. Please do remember that when reading anything related to Hindusm.

Thank you.

We often think that we don't know the (true nature of the Universe and God) and attend to follow Holy figures in figuring this out.

What if we DO KNOW everything? What if we have merely forgotten who we are?

Like an Armesia (wrong spelling here) victim. Someone who have lost his memory and trying to figure out who we are in relationship to the World around us?

I got this idea from watching X-Men Origin, by the way.

respected all this explanation is made by a muslim. as we all know that they are expert in wrong explanation of the things for their own benefit. for example they are spreading terrorism in the name of 'Jihad'. so why to pay attention on such explanations.

Sometimes, in order to fight Evil, we must face Evil and fight them head-on.

Thing with Muslims is, if we turn our faces away and don't bother them, they will become bolder and push us for confrontation. They are like bullies, who kept pushing those who are weaker to show off their own strength. Submitting to them could be a mistake.

And besides, don't you think that Non-Muslims have been submitting to them for too long already?

I don't know much about the Laws in Hindusm regarding Abortion and such. But I do remember what happened to Ashwatham when he tried to kill Abhimanyu's child.

Sri Krishna stopped that attempted and punished Ashwatham with the most severe punishment I have ever seen Him give to another person. This should show how severe is the sin of killing an unborn child.

And yet, sadly ... hundreds of thousands of cases of abortions occurs every years around the world, and in the West, it is considered a "human right" to allow a woman to choose whether or not she wants to keep that child.

If you ask me, I think we should just be happy on knowing how the Universe works (with Zero point (or Maya) energy). Indulging deeper into the realm of God in (foolishly) attempt to understand God is not required.

When Theory of Relativity came out back in 1915, Albert Einstein theorized that in order for his Theory to work, an underlining "force" beneath the fabric of the Universe must exist for it to hold everything together. That "force" was Zero Point Energy (which was accepted only recently).

Yet, in the West, this energy have already been spoke of as "Ether" - but of course, like all theories, it was laughed at too.

Only religion truly believed that there was a force which hold everything together as (Maya) Energy was Hinduism which was laughed at too, till recently.

by santdasji

When you look at the comparison between herbivores and humans, we compare much more closely to herbivores than meat eating animals. Humans are clearly not designed to digest and ingest meat.

 

Meat-eaters: have claws

Herbivores: no claws

Humans: no claws

 

Meat-eaters: have no skin pores and perspire through the tongue

Herbivores: perspire through skin pores

Humans: perspire through skin pores

 

Meat-eaters: have sharp front teeth for tearing, with no flat molar teeth for grinding

Herbivores: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding

Humans: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding

 

Meat-eaters: have intestinal tract that is only 3 times their body length so that rapidly decaying meat can pass through quickly

Herbivores: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.

Humans: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.

 

Meat-eaters: have strong hydrochloric acid in stomach to digest meat

Herbivores: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater

Humans: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater

 

Meat-eaters: salivary glands in mouth not needed to pre-digest grains and fruits.

Herbivores: well-developed salivary glands which are necessary to pre-digest grains and fruits

Humans: well-developed salivary glands, which are necessary to pre-digest, grains and fruits

 

Meat-eaters: have acid saliva with no enzyme ptyalin to pre-digest grains

Herbivores: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains

Humans: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains

 

 

Based on a chart by A.D. Andrews, Fit Food for Men, (Chicago: American Hygiene Society, 1970)

Superb explainations and quotations.

I will put this in another site where I'm active in.

When you take the fish out of the sea, the weapon used is your very hands and the fishing equipment. Sea life suffocate on land, does that not sound like a terrible death to experience?

Dying itself IS a terrible experience to have.

Even so we do use our hands and fishing equipments to take the fish out of the water, we do not kill it directly. It dies of suffocation. This contrast with when a person takes a knife and use it on a living, breathing creature.

Yes, I know - KILLING IS KILLING. No excuses there. Both are Evil acts. But what I'm saying here is Lesser of Two Evils. It is less Evil action to take a fish out of water and let it suffocate then it is to put an animal to the knife and watch it bleed to death.

And hopefully, in time, we can repeat this argument to those who consume seafood and a World where vegetarian dietary is the ONLY dietary available could come to be.

Would we then consider that eating fish, crabs, shrimps, clams etc. a lesser evil than eating animal meat and vegetables?

The difference between seafood (fish, crabs etc) and animals such as cows and goat is, when you take seafood out of water, they DIE. Even so the action of taking them out of water does kills them, you do not use "weapons" to inflict pain and suffering onto them.

But when comes to cows, goat and chicken, they are very much alive and you must kill them with weapons such as a knife in order to end their existence and allow you to take their flesh.

In that context, which do you think is more evil?

In most civilizations since Ancient times, we could see that relying on . . . but, did you all know that Roman & Greek Armys were maintained routinely on beans & lentles, and not flesh food, espcially when traveling on expeditions & War campaigns?

Roms drink intoxicating Wine (which influence the Wine drinking tradition in churches) and consume bread (made of flours). This is hardly "vegetarian" dietary if that is what you are trying to imply.

Plus meat get rotten easily, so it is not suitable for travel, expeditions and war campaigns.

Rom at that time was one of the few places on the Planet where the land is worked to produce commercial products (like grapes to make wine) at that time. In most CIVILIZED societies, the land is worked to produce food which sustained the communities individually without the need to export or import anything.

In most civilizations since Ancient times, we could see that relying on Meat dietary have caused extinctions to that civilizations.

Animal herding takes too much space and a lot of grass to keep and care for. Goat and cows induce in increasing deserts by destroying the top soil grass in African Continents.

In Brazil, Paraquay and Venzuela, miles and miles of forests are being cleared for beef industry, which contributes to Global warming. The fishing industry is slowly killing off the oceans as well.

All this and many more such examples are reasons why Humanity should let go of the meat dietary and choose Vegetarian Dietary.

By looking at the Title.. I see another Hypothesis cropping in the mind of another friend:

 

Human body is built to eat Human also - explained by a CANNIBAL

You could be surprised to learn that in some earlier civilizations, there are traces of humans eating human remains to survive during harsh times. Most of this civilizations which allowed cannibalism have perished by 1900s.

No .... simply:

 

I AM.

You are what? Who are you referring to?

Foolish men speak of foolish things.

Why are this people from NASA and University of Berkeley speak of "Aryas" when there is no such concept in Hindusm?

They could believe that people from the Future could have went 6,000 yrs in the past and told Sages there about these knowledge BUT do not believe that Gods and Goddesses of Hindusm exist and they have shared knowledge and Wisdom with Men for Ages (right up to Kali yuga).

The proof is right in front of their eyes. They know that, no matter how smart a person is, they could only do so much without modern scientific instructments. Yet, the proof which speaks of itself in Hindusm - such as in the Vedas, Gita and Puranas present knowledge which one can ONLY find using the advance technology.

So, it seems you forgot to mention Maya (the supernatural delusory cosmic energy of God, or the creative Art of God), which is the basis of all gross material creation and all perceived duality and all perceived change..

Actually, there is nothing "supernatural" in Creation.

Read about Zero Point Energy - and you will find the Cosmic Energy which makes up everything in the Universe. From the massive stars to the thinnest grains of sand.