Monthly Archives: April 2009

Strength, self-abnegation, and self-esteem

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

As I was reading my psychology textbook, I came across the formal, official explanation of self-esteem, which I found very interesting:
Self-esteem is the extent to which an individual likes, values, and accepts the self.”
From the Vedantic perspective, this is a really intriguing idea to examine — I will assume that for many of us, [...]

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Question of the Week: Miracles and Religion

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Until recently, I thought of Hinduism as a religion centered mainly on rational thought; I thought of it primarily as a religion based on reason, focused on understanding the world around us through the four yogas — service, devotion, knowledge, and discipline. For the longest time, I wondered at the emphasis on miracles in other [...]

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Question of the Week: Why tolerate intolerance?

Thursday, April 16, 2009

As Saketh discussed in a previous post, religious intolerance is common, and certainly not unique to Hinduism. Some criticisms of Hinduism include: more than one god is false; worship of idols is false; people with these false beliefs should be converted to the true religion — the list goes on and on. For example, I [...]

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