To temba about Age of hinduism (and origins and differences)

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temba wrote:

 

>> AMMAs son believes that ALL religions have their origin in ETERNITY.its

just

>> like the the OM chant...

>> the OM as well as the ETERNAL RELIGION WAS ALREADY THERE. HINDUISM MAY >>

HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE TERMS STAMPED ON IT, HOWEVER THE ETERNAL

>> RELIGION OF LOVES origin is IN your HEART.

 

>> ...ALL RELIGONS CAME OUT OF ETERNITY.EVERYONE MAKES THE CLAIM THAT >>

THEIR RELIGON WAS FIRST, OR IS THE BEST, OR THE GREATEST TRUTH ETC.

 

>> THE GOAL IS TO GO BEYOND THAT AND TAP INTO THE ESSENCE THAT IS

>> UNDERNEATH ALL OF IT.

 

>> WHEN THIS HAPPENS THE ARGUEMENT OF WHOSE IS BEST, OR FIRST, OR

>> WHATEVER

>> CEASES.IN THE ESSENCE IS WHERE THE INQUIRY STOPS...

 

 

 

 

Dear temba ~ what you say here is very important. All spirituality belief

systems have their origins in eternity, and as far back as archeologists have

been able to trace humankind they have found evidence of spirituality ... in

drawings on cave walls, in rock "art," in small sculpted statues, in the burial

practices a particular group of people practiced, etc. I have read that

shamanism is the earliest spirituality belief system, and everywhere I have

looked, I have seen evidence of this. Recently I saw some wonderful pictures of

Shiva that were on a website. Some were very ancient, rock wall drawings or

sculptures, and very definitely many of these bore the indistinguishable stamp

of shamanism.

 

Then as the life styles of people change and evolve, their spirituality

belief systems evolve, whether it is the ancient rishis going into caves and

bestowing the Vedas and Sanatan dharma as a gift to humanity, or Jesus realizing

that his religion had become bogged down in formulaic rituals and the need for

money to change hand, and he took it back to its simplest essense, "Love one

another as I have loved you." Similarly Buddha, who was originally a Hindu,

after his awakening to the realities of life he had been protected from, went

to sit under the banyan tree until he achieved his awakening and simplified

the beliefs he had grown up with into a new system.

 

Then people and cultures begin to bump up against one another, and this also

creates change (and sometimes, unfortunately religious wars). If all could

understand, as you have stated, temba, that all of these spirituality belief

systems have come from Eternity to speak to the children of Earth, and there

are different paths for different people, according to temperament and other

factors. If we could just get the "my way is the only way" out of it, we'd all

be a lot better off.

 

I remember once, when living with my parents, I went to their born again

Christian church.

I was enjoying the service and relating to its message in my own way, and

then the sermon began ... and I heard the words, "and we are going to convert

the whole Treasure Valley." (this is a somewhat widespread area that includes

Ontario, OR; Payette and Fruitland, ID, and some other contiguous areas that

are high desert but surrounded on all sides by distant mountains. And that was

when he lost me. I never went back.

 

I liked what you said about "In the essence is where the inquiry stops," and

in the tradition of Sanatan Dharma, this is where the process of what is

called "self-inquiry begins.

Jai Ma ~ Linda