Category Archives: Religion
Science of the Eternals
A Point of View: Can religion tell us more than science? BBC News – JOHN GRAY – Sep 16, 2011 Science hasn’t enabled us to dispense with myths. Instead it has become a vehicle for myths – chief among them, … more
Orders from Higher Authorities: Call for Civil Disobedience
Praying in Paris streets outlawed Telegraph – HENRY SAMUEL – Sep 15, 2011 Praying in the streets of Paris is against the law starting Friday, after the interior minister warned that police will use force if Muslims, and those of … more
Dharma will never disappear, does not change with the times
Christians in China: Is the country in spiritual crisis? BBC News – TIM GARDAM – Sep 11, 2011 Throughout the 20th Century, Christianity was associated with Western imperialism. After the Communist victory in 1948, the missionaries were expelled, but Christianity … more
What is the standard of morality?
If we stick to the particular type of ritualism—because I confess a particular type of faith, and my faith describes this sort of ritualism, I must follow—then you stick to that, you cannot make any progress. And if you go … more
Christian Idolatry
Will the fair-skinned, blue-eyed, gentle Jesus surrounded by children, flowers and butterflies please move over and make way for Macho Kick-ass Jesus. A very muscular brand of Christianity Guardian – TANITH CAREY – Aug 28, 2011 When you hear the … more
Ignorance is not bliss
Is That All There Is? The New Yorker – JAMES WOOD – Aug 15, 2011 I have a friend, an analytic philosopher and convinced atheist, who told me that she sometimes wakes in the middle of the night, anxiously turning … more
Who Follows the Principles of Religion?
Sometimes people ask us, “Why are there so many religions? Hindu religion, Christian religion, Buddhist religion, Mohammedan religion.” And we have to reply that, in fact, there is only one religion. There cannot be many religions because God is one, therefore His orders are one. Therefore religion is one. What is that religion? It is one principle—just as mathematics, either in Colombo, in Delhi, in London, in New York, or in San Francisco, two plus two is equal to four. The principle is one and the same. Similarly, either one follows the teachings of Christ, or one follows the teachings of Krishna, or Mohammed. The principles of religion are the same.more
Krishna transcends sectarian religion
excerpt from conversation with American contemporary poet Allen Ginsberg, 12 May 1969, Columbus, Ohio ALLEN GINSBERG: …It becomes more and more widespread and is more and more acceptable to people… I don’t know how… It’s difficult for me to conceive … more
One Religion, Like One Sun
What we see in the world as different religions may be seen as higher or lower levels of spiritual evolution or spiritual realization, but that is not different religions; that is one religion being practiced on higher or lower levels, just as education has higher and lower levels.more
The historical perspective
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