Tag Archives: maya

Misinterpreting Freedom

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Recently, I was discussing Hinduism and the ideas of freedom and maya with one of my close friends. When I explained to her that for me, the goal of Hinduism — and of my life — is to become free and to understand that there is more to reality than just this physical world, she [...]

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Worshiping God as Mother

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Since we recently celebrated Navratri, the idea of worshiping God in the form of Mother has increasingly been on my mind. A close family friend recently sent me an email about a service she had attended in the New York Ramakrishna Vedanta Center, where the topic of the lecture was “Worship of God as Mother.” [...]

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Faith, truth, and reality

Monday, April 26, 2010

On Friday we discussed the convergence of, and tension between, reason and faith.  Harvard in particular is an interesting environment — as a leading educational institution in the world, its values are well-grounded in ideals of reason and truth.  Faith — widely known to be that which we believe in, but which doesn’t often manifest [...]

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