Monthly Archives: February 2009

The Symbolism of Shiva

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Today is Shivaratri, and as such, I thought it’d be fitting to dedicate this post to the Hindu God Shiva.
Symbolism plays a huge role in Hinduism; but until recently, I never even thought to consider that perhaps all of the mythological stories I grew up hearing have deeper purposes that simply to entertain and teach [...]

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Why spirituality?

Friday, February 20, 2009

What do we want to get from spirituality? (Wikipedia’s article weighs nicely the various definitions of the term.)
Possible benefits are of two kinds: internal and external. Of internal benefits, we hear much from sources like Vivekananda and the Bhagavad-Gita — texts such as these come across as considering internal benefits as the highest type. Of [...]

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Explanations

Friday, February 20, 2009

As Saketh mentioned yesterday, there seems to be an almost universal experience that Hindus in America go through — we have probably all, at some point, had to defend or explain our beliefs to others. Especially after coming to college, I have begun to realize how inadequate some of my explanations are; for example, I [...]

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