[grey_whiskers]

Point out the mention of Thuggies, in the Gita.

I'm asking *you*. I'm not a Hindu, and won't defile myself reading pagan texts.

The Thuggees themselves said they were worshipping Kali; so I'd like to find out on what grounds they believed it, and the "orthodox" Hindu refutation of that claim.

For the nonce, what person or group decides which Hindu doctrines, or up-and-coming-soon-to-be-doctrines, are "heretical" or not? Does the word heretical even have an analog within Hindu thought?

Cheers!

[James C. Bennett]

 

LOL, and I'm telling you: There's none of it, in it.

A simple Gita verse clears the matter:

 

 

Yet not by Vedas, nor from sacrifice,

Nor penance, nor gift-giving, nor with prayer

Shall any so behold, as thou hast seen!

Only by fullest service, perfect faith,

And uttermost surrender am I known

And seen, and entered into, Indian Prince!

Who doeth all for Me; who findeth Me

In all; adoreth always; loveth all

Which I have made, and Me, for Love’s sole end,

That man, Arjuna! unto Me doth wend.

- Bhagavad Gita, Ch: XI, Lines 335 - 344.

[metmom]

For the nonce, what person or group decides which Hindu doctrines, or up-and-coming-soon-to-be-doctrines, are "heretical" or not? Does the word heretical even have an analog within Hindu thought?

Considering the number of gods that exist in Hinduism, I can't imagine that there's any constancy or doctrine to appeal to at all.

The google searches I did generally tended to state that Hindu is a potpourri of anything goes beliefs.