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Lent

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Since last Wednesday, many people around the world, both Christians as well as some non-Christians, decided to give up a bad habit for the period of forty days and forty nights known as Lent. The symbolism behind Lent is that Jesus traveled the desert for forty days and forty nights and did not succumb to [...]

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What are we waiting for?

Thursday, December 31, 2009

We Hindus are not waiting for anything. Abrahamic traditions have their Messiahs, their Judgment Days, their Mahdis. Zoroastrianism has its final savior, the Saoshyant of the Frashokereti. But in Hinduism, there is no sense of finality — only the continuous cycle of birth, rebirth, and liberation.
That said, Hinduism is not devoid of saviors. The ten [...]

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Not believing in God

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

I was in New Jersey at home for the past week, getting rather bored out of my mind with nothing to do.  In the midst of cleaning my closet of clothes that hadn’t been looked at for years, I came across a box of my workbooks, including some stuff from Chinmaya Mission, of which I [...]

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