In Vedic Hinduism vegetarianism was advocated shortly after the Laws of Manu were completed. In accordance with the advocacy of vegetarianism, I...
Should be illuminatus. *
<Ahem.> And regarding the nature of the Self?
Is his denigration of the self, Brahman, in line with Buddhism's rejection of the self? I have always favored Shaktiism with Vedanta overtones,...
Pak Hindu girls forced to convert to Islam By: Hasan Mansoor November 13, 2005...
Precisely. Scholarship is the way to go. Read the Iliad, Oddissey, Upanishads, Bhagavad Geeta, Classical Mythology, Egyptian book of the dead,...
In the Oxford translation by Patrick Olivelle, it is translated as 'secret teachings' whenever the word comes up, he interprets it in context.. So...
I find the best way to "become pagan" or learn what paganism is, is to study the source... the pagans themselves.. I.e. the Greeks, Romans,...
Kali, like many other deities can be identified with the Absolute by their devotees.. eg. Krishna is identified with the Brahman in the Gita. My...
Dreading is common among Saivite Hindu sadhus who grow dreads to symbolize that they are not concerned with the things of this world but are...
Xianity and Islam overrunning the world through violence was not needed. I certainly don't think 'God' was behind the murder of the pagan Saxons...
:thumbsdown. This is an UNCENSORED forum. "If we don't believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, then we don't believe in it at all."...
It is precisely because Hindus knew how to fight that they were able to keep the Muslims from completely converting them. You must understand if...
Yes, but the Mughals invaded from Mongolia, they converted to Islam from settling in Muslim dominated areas of the greater Mongol empire....
Take him into your arms and coo to him.. :thumbup. Seriously.
Cross dressing is not only practiced by gay men, I once saw my former roommate cross-dressed in public with his girlfriend.
But the Muslims are militant and took over Pakistan and Afghanistan through violence. Hindus must preserve their history and culture before...
Too bad the Indian students here at Wheaton don't take initiative and create a Hindu Students Council. All the desis, and guys seem to be too...
To hell with Pakistan. The Moghuls need to go back to Mongolia and Turkey, there should be a Hindu rasthra established to reclaim Porkistan and...
I am majoring in Asian History (because Indian History was deemed too narrow.) and I am going out to Jaipur for study abroad next spring, I'm very...
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