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To: Raj13008
I dont know what our 'hindu gods' as you so condescendingly put them tell us

The question was not posed in a condescending manner. It's really quite simple. Christianity preaches love for God first, followed by love for neighbor. Do the Hindu gods teach something similar and if so, what?

83 posted on 04/12/2006 8:13:55 AM PDT by NYer (Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
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To: NYer
Do the Hindu gods teach something similar and if so, what?


Whatever takes form is false.
Only the formless endures.


When you understand
The truth of this teaching,
You will not be born again.


For God is infinite,
Within the body and without,
Like a mirror,
And the image in a mirror.

As the air is everywhere,
Flowing around a pot
And filling it,
So God is everywhere,
Filling all things
And flowing through them forever.


- Ashtavakra Gita 1: 18-20


Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth,

For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men.

Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion.

For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.



- Tirukkural 25: 241-242






I am not detachment nor salvation,

Nor anything reached by the senses;

I am behold all thought and form.

I am everywhere, and nowhere at all-

I am Consciousness and Bliss.

I am Shiva! I am Shiva!

- Shankaracharya

He who hates no single being, is friendly and compassionate, free from self-regard and vanity, the same in good and evil, patient; Contented, ever devout, subdued in soul, firm in purpose, fixed on Me in heart and mind, and who worships Me, is dear to Me.
Bhagavad Gita 12:13-14


He that does everything for Me, whose supreme object I am, who worships Me, being free from attachment and without hatred to any being, this man, Arjuna!, comes to Me.
Bhagavad Gita 11:55

89 posted on 04/12/2006 8:27:06 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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