Hindu Mythology

“What interested me in Kierkegaard," said Rosh, "was the realization that here was a man 200 years before me, thinking about how belief inherited through custom, tradition or lineage reduced the wonder of faith to a civil duty.”

“Like in post-Upanishadic India, up until recent times, religion here was being practiced by the population out of habit and fear, rather than due to any individual choices made by people about their own lives and destiny.”

"Pregnant?" Mrs. Maid was incredulous, "She can't be! She has never ever been left alone with a man! Have you Missie?"

"No mother!" the daughter had turned white, "I've never even kissed a man!"

'What do I care about most?' he thought.

And it came to him suddenly, 'I don't want to lose my father.'

"Who's he?" asked Rosh.

"Amish is a young author that Forbes India has ranked among the Top 100 celebrities in India two years in a row," Isha replied, "in 2012 and 2013, and he is younger than you." 

"Music was traditionally taught and practiced orally. Sounds transmitted the vibrations of existence long before language developed and became capable of conveying conceptions."

"Language ensured broader and consistent comprehensibility of ideas through a linguistic code, but words, the code, the language - itself became the bottleneck in communication."

"Subroto asks that if a physical entity like phosphorous can glow on its own, why cannot another physical entity like sound do the same?"

"Is it because our paradigm of properties of sound with respect to our sound apparatus doesn't allow us to experience this?"

Interesting Story: The Two Non-Dualisms

Shankaracharya’s Unqualified Non-Dualism Nirvisheshadvait compared with Vishisht Advait, Ramanuj’s Qualified Non-Dualism

"What we do in life, what choices we make in life comes from our perception of who we are."

"But that still doesn't make it clearer for me how I am that?" asked Josh. "How can I be the same as you, or one with Nature or God?"

Spiritual Story: Why Do We Seek?

Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?

Why are these questions important? Why do they compel our hearts?

On seeing Nakagawa bow before the human image, Phillips couldn't contain himself.

"The old Chinese masters spit on Buddha statues or burnt them down!" he said.

"Why do you bow down before them?"