Similarities and Differences Between Symbolisms of Eastern Deities Assocation by East and West Traditions.

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Namaste,

 

After some thought on this subject, I felt that I possibly almost made the topic

thread on Eastern beliefs being exploited steer into a direction that was based

almost solely on criticizing how Western traditions and authors portrayed

Eastern Deities. Part of it was likely a bias on my part of what I know and

understand of Kali (and being my ishta devata, it was probably very personal for

me and might have added bias to my posts), and another part of it was likely my

concerns about it being a form of exploitation. Regardless of this, while there

were some things learned from evaluating these criticisms (whether by me or

other people who commented), it had a lot of potential of hurt feelings and more

aggressive argumentation if I kept feeding this aspect of the topic. Also in

the end, it would have been counter-productive to learning and understanding -

not to mention possible harmony - if there were only criticisms (especially

mine) and lack of suggestions and discussion. Since I really loathe the

concept of making firm an " us vs. them " concept and hate feeling like I am only

encouraging prejudice and lack of unity, [....]

 

 

Jai Ma!

 

 

Sincerely,

Christina