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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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Must Hindus believe in God?

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Yesterday, Saketh’s post (this week’s Question of the Week) asked us to consider what motivates us — what our “object of devotion” is. After thinking about this, I came up with another question: if we consider our “object of devotion” to be a person (assumed to be a non-saint) or an ideal, does this make [...]

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Parallels in Hinduism and Islam

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

For my freshman seminar, I recently read through Muhammad Iqbal’s poem, “Complaint and Answer,” as one of the assignments. As I read through Iqbal’s poem, I could not help but stop several times to note down the enormous parallels between what God seemed to consider the ideal Muslim, and what Lord Krishna (a Hindu deity) [...]

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