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Alcohol in Hinduism

Thursday, April 1, 2010

It can be noted that almost all of the religions of the world have declared alcohol as something that one must abstain from consuming. The ‘Abrahamic religions’, such as Islam, Christianity and possibly even Judaism, forbid the use of alcohol in varying degrees. I always wondered what the Hindu stance was on the consumption of [...]

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The many paths to felicity

Monday, March 1, 2010

I’m currently taking a class on the 13th century Andalusian Islamic poet-mystic-philosopher-theologian Ibn `Arabī, whose worldview is tremendously fascinating and worth studying in depth (if only we had lifetimes enough!). One of the assigned books for the class, William Chittick’s Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-`Arabī and the Problem of Religious Diversity, closes with two passages from [...]

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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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