SarahK

I see so many greetings, words I do not understand the meaning to, Namaste and so on and so forth. Could someone tell me the usual every day greetings you all use and what they mean and what is appropriate?

Hey, close minded is everywhere, hehehehehe

I appreciate your attempt to 'correct' in your opinion the direction the others are leading me. However, your anger, your hatred, your upstaging attitude of knowing better than anyone does about, from what I am coming to understand, is a very personal path religion and culture shocks me and makes me feel very uncomfortable. I see the belief in karma as fundamental to the ideals of the hindu relgion, reguardless of what sect name you with to give it. These folks are attempting to help someone start from square one, all they can do is offer me tastes of ALL ideals of hinduism and let me choose my own path, please, please, if you will continue to be so very angry at them because perhaps thier paths are not yours, don't stay with this thread.

I'm welcoming you first because of the friendly welcome I recieved here on my first post. I too am hoping to learn and understand more from these wonderful and helpful people.

My name is Sarah, and I've done some reading on one of the sites about the various legends and stories in the hindu religion, including Brahma and Swarsiti ( excuse the misspelling I'm at work and can't look it up) and then Vishnu and Ganesha, as well as shiva, and the story of Rama. Is it correct that all these are hindu related, or am I finding bad information? I've studied the 'pagan' religions some, such as druidism and see many similaritiees in the facets of supreme beings, which makes the noble thoughts sentiment all that much more powerful in my opinion

Truy I'm unsure where to begin, is there an online uncorrupted site of the gita, I think it may be very hard to find in bookstores out here. And is there truly a difference between the culture and the religion? I know it is in several ways, culturally different then moslem, but again I just don't know much. some of my questions are being answered by my searching back through other posts and reading the information there, but it does take a lot of searching /images/graemlins/smile.gif