Rishi_L

(What happens when all individual souls come home?)

That will never happen. Since there is an infinite number of souls, there are nitya-samsarins as well. These are individual souls who will always be bound by samsara.

The above post was mine and I'd just like to add that Krsna Himself states in the Bhagavad Gita that although bodies are always changing, the soul remains eternally the same.

If I had an open jar with a lid next to it and then placed this lid on top of the open jar to close it, would the space inside the jar be just as much as the space outside the jar?

Hang on, I think I've confused the danavas with the daityas. My bad.

No, prabhu, I am not an expert in this area, but all the information I have on Pisacas from the Vedic literature portrays them as a rather sinister Danava species.

Are the Danavas the same as the 'giants' mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible? Apparently, the Danavas are also described as having a gigantic stature.

yesssssss, my precioussss

 

Nagas can hear and see the vibrations in the ether, thus they can even understand our thoughts and intentions - another similarity with the "alien" reports.

Maybe nagas and naginis are, in some cases (if not most), the beings that are described in alleged abduction accounts carried out by 'reptilian' beings?

Is Sraddhadeva Manu another name for Vaivasvata Manu?

I've heard some information about bahir-mukha brahmas before and I found myself absolutely intrigued by that concept. For those who might not know what a bahir-mukha brahma is, it is a brahma who is unfavourable in regards to bhakti towards the Supreme Lord. Unfortunately, I've never been able to find much information about 'bahir-mukha brahmas' so I was wondering if some of the people here could provide me with more information about them. Do they have excessively rajasic or tamasic personalities? Do the universes they create somehow reflect their materialistic nature? Are they chastised by the Supreme Lord for their lack of bhakti? So many questions! I look forward to seeing the answers I'll get.

The general rule is: "What happens in the leela, stays in the leela" - or in other words: do not try to apply reason and logic to the leela, or use your ordinary concepts to understand it. The leela is not meant to be taken in that way. The leela is for us devotees to relish. Materialists will never relish Krsna leela because their mind will never allow them to do so..

Yes, I am well-aware that Krsna leela transcends both space and time. That may be the case with Ugrasena's bodyguards.

Dude! Bhagavatam is pure poetry! It perfectly expresses the devotional mood of the speaker, and is not at all concerned with counting soldiers.

So it is mere poetic embellishment?

'Avyakta' means 'unmanifest' in Sanskrit.

In the book titled 'Krsna: The Supreme Personality Of Godhead', it is mentioned that Ugrasena had approximately 10 quadrillion bodyguards. I definitely believe that anything is possible, but does anyone know how Ugrasena could have had such a vast amount of bodyguards?

Perhaps it has to do with the Vedic concept of space, which is multi-dimensional and non linear. You can enter other worlds even through the smallest of the small - the atom

I think you are absolutely right.

Maybe it means universes are like seeds, like a tree is grown from a seed. ?

This universe could be akin to a 'bubble', as Karanarnavasayi Vishnu is said to rest in the causal ocean whilst innumerable universes proceed forth from the pores of his skin whenever he exhales.

In the scripture known as 'Yoga Vasishtha', there is a verse which states: "Vast worlds lie within the hollows of each atom, multifarious as the motes in a sunbeam."

Does anyone know what the meaning of this particular verse is?

The moral of the story is the same in all the versions, victory of good over evil regardless of what the deviations are.

In the book titled 'Krsna: The Supreme Personality Of Godhead', it is mentioned that Ugrasena had approximately 10 quadrillion bodyguards. I definitely believe that anything is possible, but does anyone know how Ugrasena could have had such a vast amount of bodyguards?

I have always been under the impression that there are 4 states of consciousness, which are jagrat (the waking state), svapna (the dreaming state) and sushupti (the deep-sleep state) as well as one that transcends each of the three previous states of consciousness, turiya (the super-conscious state).

Yes, I have heard about the idea that there is a correlation between the dasavatars of Vishnu and Darwin's theory of evolution. You seem to have forgotten to mention Gautama Buddha and Sri Kalki.

From my understanding and as I have read carefully,this thread is about people sharing the different versions and stories of the Ramayana thoughout South EAST Asia where these different versions mainly exist.

 

This thread is about the sharing of different versions of the Ramayana that exist around the world. Then I only mentioned South-East Asia afterwards because from my limited knowledge, most of the variations of the Ramayana come from places in South-East Asia like Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia. Sorry if I caused any misunderstanding. Anyway, I have even heard that there is a version of the Ramayana in which Ram crowns Hanuman as a king.

Yo fellow Hindus, this thread is for posting any variations that exist around the world (particularly in southeast Asia) in regards to certain elements and plots found in the Hindu epic poem Ramayan. Here are my contributions:

The Tibetan version of Ramayan says that Sita is Dasagriva's (ie. Ravana's) daughter and was abandoned based on the advice of astrologers. One of the astrologers was Vibhishana, I think (I'm not sure though). She was then raised by the cultivators. Vishnu incarnated as Rama to kill Ravana. And as planned, Rama abdicated his throne and went to the forest to allow Lakshman to assume kingship. In Burma, the legend of Rama goes back to the 10th century. Here, Rama has been described as a pious Buddhist king. Another Buddhist addition is that Rama and Sugriva met under the shade of a Bodhi tree.

King Dasaratha was a great grandson of Adam. He had two wives, Mandudari and Baliadari. Ravana asked Dasaratha to hand over Mandudari, who in turn assumed an illusory form named Mandudasi to become Ravana's wife.

According to the Malaya Rama stories, all chief characters such as Rama, Sita, Ravana, Vali and Hanuman are related to each other. Sita is Ravana's daughter. Lakshman and Hanuman have been illustrated as great characters.

According to the Thai version, Hanuman was not a brahmachari (celibate) and in fact when crossing the bridge to Lanka, he made contact and fell in love with a mermaid and had children together with her and even with other celestial women as well.

Does anyone have any more variations of the Ramayan epic they would like to contribute?

Someone please answer my question.

I was just wondering... it is well-known that Lord Brahma is responsible for creating the physical universe, but is he also responsible for creating the astral and causal universes?

Well, I am a hanuman bhakt, but I somehow don'g believe that this can be true.

 

If I critically examine this photo, I see few discrepancies...

 

Any comments?

Explain to me what you think these discrepancies are, please.