paul108

I've never identified as Hindu. I don't think of the Vedas as Hindu. It's as though looking at the moon in between the branches of a tree. The tree appears situated between some branches only because of

A spiritual master is someone in the line of disciples from God, and who has absorbed the knowledge that has been passed down. The Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition I try to follow is invigorated by the appearance

The Vedas describe ultimate reality as having an impersonal omnipresent aspect (Brahman) and an personal omnipresent aspect (Paramātmā), but ultimately is a person who is the origin of reality (Bhagavān).

God doesn't lose independence by manifesting everything. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, said in Bhagavad-gītā, BG 7.12: Know that all states of being — be they of goodness, passion or ignorance

There certainly are hidden meanings, but the method of succession from spiritual master to disciple is prescribed in the Vedas so everything is revealed. Kṛṣṇa guarantees in Bhagavad-gītā that He will

Sanskrit verses are easy to memorize (especially for someone who knows the language), and their memorization is a crucial part of the tradition. They are in specific meters that help prevent miscommunication,

There is not much mentioned in the Vedas about Christianity or Islam. The Bhaviṣya Purāṇa is a book of predictions, but there are several versions, and I don't know which might be authentic, so I haven't

Veda means knowledge, and one of the categories of knowledge in the Vedas is Vedānta, which means the conclusion of knowledge. Such a conclusion must be complete and consistent. The thousands of books

The Vedas are not speculative, and Sanskrit grammar is arguably superior to mathematics. The Vedas are pure ecstatic knowledge as Kṛṣṇa said in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: SB 11.21.38-40: Just as a spider brings

Communicating with eloquence often helps get the point across.

But money is not the root of evil. Money is neutral. Envy is the root of all evil.

In Bhagavad-gītā, God says we have the right to perform our prescribed duties, and that's all. Whatever else we deserve will come on its own accord.

Isn't it true that Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems prove any theories that use mathematics cannot be made complete and consistent? There is an alternative in the Vedas, which use ternary logic and an inverted

What does the Bible say Jesus was doing in his teens and twenties?

The Vedas say neither observers nor matter moves. Here is an explanation that also draws on Zeno's views: Here's a sample: "Prāna focuses the soul’s consciousness onto a particular state of unmanifest

The Republican leadership is literally treasonous right now, the exact opposite of loyal to the United States. Do you think there are no homosexual Republicans or Republicans who get or pay for abortions?

The Republican leadership is literally treasonous right now, the exact opposite of loyal to the United States. Do you think there are no homosexual Republicans or Republicans who get or pay for abortions?

Have you read about the Semantic Interpretation of quantum theory, which is based on the Vedas? It essentially describes objects as symbols of meanings. SB 4.29.2b: Everything happening within time, which