[world-vedic] Hindus And Neo-Paganism

[Guest guest]

Ronald,

 

Your comments below are so appropriate. I hate to see pro-Vedic and

pro-Hindu stances get characterised as fanaticism. The truth is that newer

Westen and Middle Eastern religions/cultures wiped out previous cultures

around the world.

 

The Vedic religious and behavioral practices, as well as value schemes, are

worth rallying around!

 

What's our next step?

 

# ; ^ )

 

Dharmapada

 

 

> 'There was a time when the old Pagan Gods were pretty fulfilling and

> they inspired the best of men and women to acts of greatness, love,

> nobility, sacrifice and heroism. It is, therefore, a good thing to turn

> to them in thought and pay them our homage.

 

The peoples

> of Egypt, Persia, Greece, Germany and the Scandinavian countries are no

> less ancient than the peoples of India; but they lost their Gods, and

> therefore they lost their sense of historical continuity and identity.

> (...) What is true of Europe is also true of Africa and South America.

> The countries of these continents have recently gained political freedom

> of a sort, but (...)

[Guest guest]

Hi Dean and everybody,

 

I believe that the 'next step' takes us through C. Jung's portal of holistic

conceptualization/synthesis-gestalt where we find ourselves lost in a wonderland

of Unus Mundus.

 

My focus upon the anthropomorphic god-figure known as Skanda/Murugan serves to

broaden my meditative scope and to inform my 'reality paradigm.'

 

In a word, Skanda/Murugan represents to me the ideal embodiment of cosmic

totality - He is my Unus Mundus.

 

Skanda/Karttikeya/Murugan articles:

 

http://www.himalayanacademy.com/books/dws/M05.html

What Is the Nature of Lord Karttikeya?

excerpt: SHLOKA 24

Lord Karttikeya, Murugan, first guru and Pleiadean master of kundalini yoga, was

born of God Siva's mind. His dynamic power awakens spiritual cognition to propel

souls onward in their evolution to Siva's feet. Aum.

 

BHASHYA

Lord Karttikeya flies through the mind's vast substance from planet to planet.

He could well be called the Emancipator, ever available to the call of those in

distress. Lord Karttikeya, God of will, direct cognition and the purest,

child-like divine love, propels us onward

on the righteous way through religion, His Father's law. Majestically seated on

the manipura chakra, this scarlet-hued God blesses mankind and strengthens our

will when we lift to the inner sky through sadhana and yoga. The yoga pada

begins with the worship of Him. The

yogi, locked in meditation, venerates Karttikeya, Skanda, as his mind becomes as

calm as Sharavana, the lake of Divine Essence. The kundalini force within

everyone is held and controlled by this powerful God, first among renunciates,

dear to all sannyasins. Revered as

Murugan in the South, He is commander in chief of the great devonic army, a

fine, dynamic soldier of the within, a fearless defender of righteousness. He is

Divinity emulated in form. The Vedas say, "To such a one who has his stains

wiped away, the venerable Sanatkumara

shows the further shore of darkness. Him they call Skanda."

-- Aum Namah Sivaya.

 

http://www.SivanandaDlshq.org/religions/skanda_krishna.htm Lord Skanda--the

Concentrated Divine Energy

By Sri Swami Krishnananda

excerpt: We have in India two great Epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, and

also eighteen Puranas, each one touching upon one aspect of this universal

activity going on in the form of evolution and involution, the warfare between

the divine and the undivine forces.

 

The great hero of this cosmic drama which is described in the Skanda Purana, and

in certain other scriptures like the Mahabharata, is Skanda, the great War-God

of India. Oftentimes, westerners compare Him with Mars, the Generalissimo of the

celestials, the angels in

heaven. In the Bhagavadgita, Lord Krishna, the spokesman of the great poem,

identifies Himself with Skanda among the generals.

-- Senaninam-aham Skandah.

 

http://xlweb.com/heritage/skanda/bhakti.htm

Introducing Murugan Bhakti

excerpt: Murugan, the ever-youthful champion-deity of South Asian song, legend

and literature, has long been far more than His diminutive appearance suggests.

Presenting the outward resemblance of a boy or a youth (or any other form that

pleases Him!), Guha 'the

Mysterious' repeatedly surfaces in myth, lore and legend from remote prehistory

down to the present, for He always is in the 'here and now' (Tamil: ippo-inge),

within and yet beyond time and space.

 

http://www.hinduism-today.com/1993/12/#gen248

Book Review, "Golden Quest."

excerpt: "I [skanda] stand here today to dispel your fears and awaken in you the

courage of Soldiers of Light. When you cry out to Me for help, there am I,

instantly! I give you the gift today of courage, a courage of the God within."

 

http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/articles/k/karttikeya.html

Karttikeya

by Stephen T. Naylor

 

 

 

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Skanda/Murugan=Unus Mundus

 

Division/addition, object/subject, matter/spirit, contraction/dilation,

systolic/diastolic, evil/good...."beyond these divisions which are necessary

tools of conscious discrimination, there is a Second Step, the union of

opposites, the conjunctio oppositorum with UNUS

MUNDUS the goal."

 

The first step in the cognitive process is to discriminate and to divide, at

the Second Step it will unite what has been divided

-- C. Jung

 

Knowledge of unity and the experience of it are the prized Second Step of

synthesis and individuation, resulting in a unitive, "new consciousness.î New

consciousness doesn't turn its back upon old things but brings them along into

Jung's synthesis, the point beyond the

struggle for differentiation

-- Eugene Monick

 

The human capacity to move imaginally from one level of reality to another could

be called the transcendent function.

-- C. Jung

 

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.

-- George Eliot

 

suffering -- redemption -- transfiguration

analysis -- synthesis -- unification

 

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Dean wrote:

 

Ronald,

 

Your comments below are so appropriate. I hate to see

pro-Vedic and pro-Hindu stances get characterised as

fanaticism. The truth is that newer Western and Middle

Eastern religions/cultures wiped out previous cultures

around the world.

 

The Vedic religious and behavioral practices, as well as value schemes, are

worth rallying around!

 

What's our next step?

 

# ; ^ )

 

Dharmapada

 

'There was a time when the old Pagan Gods were

pretty fulfilling and they inspired the best of men and

women to acts of greatness, love, nobility, sacrifice and heroism. It is,

therefore, a good thing to turn to them in thought and pay them our homage.

 

The peoples of Egypt, Persia, Greece, Germany and

the Scandinavian countries are no less ancient than

the peoples of India; but they lost their Gods, and

therefore they lost their sense of historical continuity and identity. (...)

What is true of Europe is also true of

Africa and South America. The countries of these

continents have recently gained political freedom of a

sort, but (...)