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Can pujas and karma yoga coexist?

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

I subscribe to the ideal in karma yoga of being detached from the fruits of one’s actions. This is wonderful, as it lets us live a scientific life — after all, the principle of detachment in karma yoga is precisely the method that any good scientist follows. Scientists paralyzed by a fear of having their [...]

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Why I find polytheism more reassuring

Friday, July 10, 2009

Most of my relatives are devout Catholics, so when I was growing up, the only version of God I was exposed to was that of strict monotheism.  Even though I was taught that God was always correct, I was never entirely comfortable with this monotheistic perspective. 
The polytheistic aspect of Hinduism was one of the [...]

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