[SPAM]RE: Idol worshipping!

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Very well said, Selvaratnam!

 

In this physical form we often need something to focus our

worship upon and even those sects of belief that are very much against

idolatry still use idols. Fundamental Christians like the Jehovah's

Witnesses can be said to worship the bible - all their study of it

eventually culiminates in it, the word of God, also becoming the form

of God.

 

Sincerely

Casey

 

 

 

 

 

OM Namah Sivaya

 

Everyone An Idol-Worshipper

 

 

There is no

reference to worship of idols in the Vedas. The Puranas

and the Agamas give descriptions of idol-worship both in the houses and

in the temples. Idol-worship is not peculiar to Hinduism. Christians

worship the Cross. They have the image of the Cross in their mind. The

Mohammedans keep the image of the Kaba stone when they kneel and do

prayers. The people of the whole world, save a few Yogis and Vedantins,

are all worshippers of idols. They keep some image or the other in the

mind.

 

The mental image also is a form of idol.

The difference is not one of kind, but only one of degree. All

worshippers, however intellectual they may be, generate a form in the

mind and make the mind dwell on that image.

 

Everyone is an idol-worshipper. Pictures,

drawings, etc., are only forms of Pratima or the idol. A gross mind

needs a concrete symbol as a prop or Alambana and a subtle mind

requires an abstract symbol. Even a Vedantin has the symbol OM for

fixing the wandering mind. It is not only the pictures or images in

stone and in wood, that are idols but dialectics and leaders also

become idols. So, why condemn idolatry?

 

                                   

           -----Sri Swami Sivananda

 

Source : http://www.dlshq.org/download/hinduismbk.htm#_VPID_60

 

Sri Swami Vivekananda stated that since

worshipping of the Divine in the form of a stone (i.e Mother Kali)  can

create a mighty being like Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, we should build

as many temples as possible so that the world will be blessed with more

spiritual giants.

 

 

 

 

Sivaya Namah

 

--- On Sat, 20/9/08, P. Subramani <subramani6912

wrote:

 

 

P. Subramani <subramani6912

Idol worshipping!

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Saturday, 20 September, 2008, 7:15 AM

 

 

 

 

I just wanted to know one

thing that does VEDAs say no to idol worshiping?