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Question of the Week: Hinduism and Relationships

Thursday, September 10, 2009

We may all need food, water, and shelter to survive, but these would be worthless if we didn’t have relationships — familial, friendly, and romantic — with other people.
Hinduism has many proscriptions for familial relations — the rakhi festival is one example, and filial piety in general is another. It is said in Hindu mythology [...]

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Govinda

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Since yesterday was Janmashtami, I wanted to write a post on Krishna, one of the incarnations of Vishnu.
During the festival of Janmashtami, families often have traditions of making butter for Krishna or singing bhajans and praying to Him. As a common tradition in the southern region of India, on the eve of Janmashtami, little footsteps [...]

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Faith in ourselves

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

I was looking through some past journals and blogs that my friends and I had and I read this on my best friend’s blog one day.
Two men went fishing. One was an experienced fisherman, the other wasn’t. Every time the experienced fisherman caught a big fish, he put it in his ice chest to keep [...]

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