Religion this week: Q & A about Hinduism

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Re: Religion this week: Q & A about Hinduism

@Samir_Mirchandani

no - try this.

1. every soul has to go through Samsara (progression of life through the karmic cycle)
2. at different stages in this journey your desires will be different, therefore your actions to attain such differing outcomes; these are of material nature
3. the various demigods will help you with the various actions to attain such varying outcomes
4. each such action has outcome

• when you desires are appropriate and the actions you undertake to satiate them are appropriate, then you will be performing your duty and that will progress your soul
• when your desire inappropriate for your current state you will be failing your duty and there will be no progression; and there could actually be regression if such inappropriate desire or action led to harm
• when your desire is inappropriate but your action leads to good outcome, there is conditional (mutated?) progress

4. The demigods provide the methods for such actions - IOW they deal with the material desires and associated actions
5. When your desire is for the Ultimate Truth, that is when you have transcended material desire, then it becomes possible to address God

The demigods, as described in 7.22 above are empowered Solely by God’s sanction

Thanks for the explanation. I understand better about what the scripture interpretation suggests. But, as a pure monotheist and a student of philosophy, I can see how to just drink this explanation like a potion or a medicine or question and ponder its legitimacy before i am satisfied. So I shall beg you to clarify:

1. The idea of a demigod - a half god, half man. Now by the definition of both “man” and “God” there cannot be any such thing as half and still be referred to as “man” or “God”.

2. I will go back to my question about God saying He is One, there is darkness in worship other than Him (“Andhatma pravishanti ye assambhuti mupaste”), then turn around a says but I have commissioned other than me to seek divine guidance from. They are not me but “something like me” (demigods). Then turns around and also says: “*Ma Chidanyadvi Shansata” , “Natasya Pratima Asti"All praise belongs to him alone”, “and none can be in the image of God”. *The two contradictions a glaring apparent and cannot be from the same source. It must take an convoluted effort to stich things up just to bridge the gap in two ideologies.

sorry, I mean no offense. just trying to learn