#bhakti movement

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Desi LGBT Fest 2023 (hosted by @desi-lgbt-fest)

Day 7 : Faith/Rituals of Love

Definitely geared heavily towards the 'Faith' part of this prompt as soon as I read it!

If being Queer is defying conventions and if being a part of the Queer community means going against heteronormativity and gender conformity, is it not Queer to forego materialistic ties and the love of a human partner and embrace the love of a greater being you have only heard about in stories?

All four individuals featured here were integral part of the Bhakti Movement and/or Sufism in South Asia. None were married other than Meerabai.

(Panel order from top to bottom)

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1534) : A key name of the Bhakti Movement and the Gauriya Vaishnav tradition in 15th Century Bengal, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was believed to have been a vessel for both Radha and Krishna. Bengali doesn't use pronouns or gendered language and we may never know what they would have preferred to be identified as in a language they didn't know (English), I will simply resort to using They/Them for them. Their written teachings are few and far between but the verse mentioned here is the seventh verse of the only written record of their teachings, the Shikshastakam - a collection of 8 total verses. The translation here is my own and quite literal so that the interpretation is left to the reader.

Meerabai (1498-1597) : [CW : IMPLIED QUEERPHOBIA/APHOBIA] Meerabai was born into Rajput royalty and was married off, also to Rajput royalty, in likely an arranged marriage. While most of the stories surrounding her are folklore whose historicity is yet to be confirmed, her marital status can be confirmed, and so can her devotion and affection for Krishna and the divine, which she has herself penned in numerous poems and songs. Folklore does strongly imply that she was non-committal to her marriage and that her in-laws tried to poison her to death multiple times for it.

Kabir (1398–1448 or 1440–1518) : Found as an orphan by a Muslim weaver couple, Kabir's religion grew to become somewhat of an enigma for future generations. His stance, however, on the topic romance and marital relationships is quite clear - he looked down upon them and a huge chunk of his couplets strongly imply that romantic and sexual relations simply obstruct spiritual enlightenment.

Bulleh Shah (1680-1757) : Bulleh Shah, though an ardent proponent of loving the divine, was declared a Kafir, a non-believer/non-Muslim by a quite a few Muslim clerics of the time. He was known for speaking up against existing power hierarchies of the time and used vernacular speech for his writings (Punjabi, Sindhi) which not only served to popularize his works, but also let people connect to his words.

A personal note on my motivations under the cut.

A while back when I was actively going through the anxiety of finding out that I am ace and that I will never fit into the current South Asian society that the wedding industry has a chokehold on, I desperately wanted to see people from my own culture living happily without a partner. During one of my history rabbit hole escapedes, I restumbled upon the story of Meerabai, how she always insisted on loving and devoting herself towards Krishna, despite being married into a normative and wealthy household and despite her in-laws repeatedly attempting to poison her for not committing to her husband. Most of us from India grow up hearing about Meerabai, her spiritual connections to Krishna, and her struggles. The moral of those stories is always framed as 'believe in god, he will help you through tough times'. But this was the first time I was making a different connection, I was drawing different morals. And when I took Meerabai's non-conformity to her married life and started looking for more examples like hers, I was overwhelmed by how many more individuals existed without a partner, condemned being in a normative, married relationship, admitted to having lost human connections and faced resistance even, and yet stayed true to their orientation and sounded HAPPY! It was extremely hard to narrow it down to these four, but these do make my point! Labels are hard to transpose across cultures and history. But if being queer means being nonconforming of marital structures and being aspec/arospec implies neutrality, indifference, or aversion to romance and intercourse, then no one fits the label if they don't.

#desilgbtfest23 #desi lgbt #desi lgbtq fest #long post #pride 2023 #pride #original art #my art #meerabai #meera bai #sant kabir #kabir #kabirdas #bullehshah #bulleh shah #chaitanya mahaprabhu #bhakti movement #sufism #sufi #tw implied aphobia #tw mild aphobia #tw implied homophobia #btw if someone notices errors in my Shahmukhi or Gurumukhi on the Bulleh Shah illustration pls let me know #I do not speark or read or write Punjabi and I copied

[jaideepkhanduja]

Venerating Jayadeva's Gita Govinda: Its Enduring Impact on Odia Culture and Arts #BlogchatterA2Z

Venerating Jayadeva's Gita Govinda: Its Enduring Impact on Odia Culture and Arts #BlogchatterA2Z #GitaGovinda #Jayadeva #OdiaCulture #OdissiDance #BhaktiMovement #SanskritLiterature #OdishaFestivals #JagannathTemple #IndianClassicalArts #SpiritualOdisha

Illuminating the Divine: The Profound Impact of Jayadeva’s ‘Gita Govinda’ on Odia Culture Introduction:Jayadeva’s ‘Gita Govinda’ is not just a literary masterpiece but a cornerstone of Odia culture and spirituality. Composed in the 12th century by the saint-poet Jayadeva, this Sanskrit text is a lyrical fusion of profound spirituality and sublime poetry. It celebrates the divine love of Krishna…

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#Bhakti movement #Gita Govinda #Indian classical arts #Jagannath Temple #Jayadeva #Odia Culture #Odia music #Odissi dance #Religious practices in Odisha #Sanskrit literature

[iasguidance]

Guru Ravidas

Context: Magh Purnima marks the observance of Sant Guru Ravidas Jayanti (February 24). To commemorate the 647th birth anniversary of Sant Guru Ravidas, the Prime Minister unveiled a statue in Varanasi.  About Guru Ravidas:  (Ravidas’s statue in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)  Born: 1377 CE in Govardhanpur near (Varanasi) Uttar Pradesh. His place of birth is now known as Shri Guru Ravidas Janam…

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[indizombie]

Beginning with the much celebrated Vachana movement in the 12th century, the Sufi-Bhakti challenge to Vedic spiritual regime, the brief structural changes brought in by Tipu Sultan, to the modern day vibrant peoples’ movement that set the egalitarian agenda in the public discourse during the 70s and 80s, Karnataka has had several progressive moments. But as Ambedkar puts it succinctly, even though there were many revolutionary upsurges  in  history,  ruling regimes were successful in hatching a counter revolution. In Karnataka, the ruling feudal order and its Brahmanical ideology have been successful in co-opting and taming counter currents, making egalitarian ideals mere show pieces. Hindutva forces have adopted different strategies for different societies to cultivate their ideal Hindu Brahmanical samaj.

Shivasundar, ‘The Long March of Hindutva in Karnataka’, India Forum

#India Forum #Shivasundar #Karnataka #India #Vachana Movement #Sufi movement #Bhakti movement #Tipu Sultan #BR Ambedkar #Brahmanical ideology #Hindutva #Hindu Brahmanical samaj

[mysticalblizzardcolor]

Amrita left sunny Florida for her winter break to serve NYC Harinam by distributing books and chanting and to do reception for Radha Govinda. — at Sri Sri Radha Govinda.

I'm so happy to see the new generation of ISKCON Devotees at the SriSri Radha Govinda Mandir stepping up and continuing The Hare Krishna Movement here in NYC. They are standing on the shoulders of giants.

#iskcon #hare krishna #krishna #bhakti #srila prabhupada #vedic #bhagavad gita #Darshan #Hare Krishna Movement

[santmat]

Odes of Solomon, Lost Psalms of Early Christianity Discovered

“I extended my hands and hallowed my Lord,

For the expansion of my hands is His sign.

And my extension is the upright cross.

Hallelujah.” (Ode 27)

Out of all the apocryphal writings I've collected, I think the Odes of Solomon is the most beautiful, inspiring and inspired, the greatest scripture of the Jesus movement. It is the would-be book of New Testament psalms! The Book of the Odes has been described as the first known hymn-book of early Christianity. They have nothing to do with "Solomon" but somewhere-along-the-way got mislabeled and assigned to the genre of Old Testament Apocrypha as the Odes represent one of the earliest of Christian documents near the beginning of the Jesus movement within Judaism and so composed before a time when there were many Jewish or Christian writings associated with a "new" covenant, and long before the concept of a New Testament canon or collection of scriptures was conceived of. Thus, this collection of psalms was named in a way that's reminiscent of how some scriptures were assigned names during the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the pseudepigraphical literature. This indicates a very early date of composition.

For me the Odes, as well as another collection of mystic poems called, Metaphysical Meditations, by Paramahansa Yogananda, during my formative years as a spiritual seeker proved to be quite influential. They also gave me a preview of the type of literature I would eventually be introduced to: the Adi Granth (Sikh Scriptures) and various collections of bhakti mystic poetry of the Sants of India: Kabir, Dadu, Namdev, Paltu, Tulsi Sahib, Soamiji Maharaj, and many others.

I know a thousand Rumis the world needs to hear,

to be soothed by the Voice of the Soul

that speaks through them all.

Hafiz, Shams, Sarmad, Kabir, Mira Bai, Sahajo Bai,

Rabia, Tukaram, Hazrat Sultan Bahu, Baba Farid,

Nanak, Tulsi Sahib, Surdas, Dariya Sahib,

Dharam Das, Namdev, Ravidas, Paltu —

countless are the lovers of the Beloved.

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The Odes of Solomon consist of 41 psalms. The Odes are believed to have originated in either Antioch or Edessa in Syriac-Aramaic most likely during the First Century AD.

One scholar (James Charlesworth) said of the Odes, "Here are some of the most beautiful songs of peace and joy that the world possesses."

The New Testament scholar Bentley Layton says that the Odes were considered to be inspired scripture and were chanted by Christians who lived in Syria and all around Mesopotamia about 2,000 years ago.

J. Rendel Harris, the discoverer of one Syriac-Aramaic manuscript of the Odes, said the Odes were eventually included in the Sahidic Bible of Egypt.

These ecstatic hymns remind me of Rumi or Sufi love poetry in the tradition of "the lover and the Beloved." They also remind me of the Sikh scriptures (Adi Granth) and mystic poetry of the Sants. Many have adopted the practice of contemplating verses of the Odes and report being brought to a deeper level of devotion (bhakti); being caught up in a love-affair with God, the Ocean of Love. That's also been my experience.

ODE 12: Through the Word (Logos)... Worlds Converse!

"He filled me with words of truth

that I may speak the same.

Like the flow of waters truth flows from my mouth,

and my lips reveal its harvest,

and it gives me the gold of knowledge

for the mouth of the Lord is the true Word

and the Door of His Light.

And the Highest One gave the Word to His worlds,

which interpret His own beauty,

recite His praise,

confess His thought,

are heralds of His mind,

are instructors of His works.

For the swiftness of the Word is ineffable

and like His statement are Its swiftness and sharpness.

Its course knows no end,

It never fails, it stands.

Its descent and Its way are incomprehensible.

Like His work is Its end

for It is the Light and the dawn of thought,

and through It worlds converse...

The mouth of the Highest One spoke to them

and he was made clear by His Word.

The dwelling place of the Word is man

and Its truth is love."

In Divine Love, Light and Sound, Peace Be To You,

James Bean

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[paneerlajwanti]

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#reading about the bhakti movement with even more social context just makes me so emotional #i will go and cry. like ok

[incorrectmahabharatquotes]

I want everyone to watch this as homework and think about the Bhakti movement as the revolution it was: a social revolution that humanised the gods out of their enclosures of caste and space.

It doesn't have subtitles, but the narrator translates into English, so you will have enough context.

-Mod G

#not an incorrect quote #documentary reccomendations #this was made by Girish Karnad #Youtube #hindu mythology #krishna

[srbachchan]

DAY 5680

Jalsa, Mumbai Sept 5, 2023 Tue 12 :10 PM

Birthday - EF Renate Deuring .. EF Santosini Tripathy Wednesday, 6 September .. and all the good wishes for the day for them that have been with the family for years .. ❤️🌹

I felt this morning .. or as I lay desperately trying to get the eyes to shut for the dreams of dreams .. that .. what I had put up on various media platforms was perhaps not quite understood .. or where it came from ..

the words were composed by me , inspired by the famous Kabir doha

“गुरू गो��िन्द दोऊ खड़े काके लागूं पांय, बलिहारी गुरू आपने गोविन्द दियो बताय "

guru govind dou khade kaáke lagün paáya, balihaari guru aapne govind diyo bataáy ...

Kabir Das ..

Kabir (1398–1518)  was a well-known Indian mystic poet and saint. His writings influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement, and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture Guru Granth Sahib, the Satguru Granth Sahib of Saint Garib Das, and Kabir Sagar of Dharamdas.

Born in the city of Varanasi in what is now Uttar Pradesh ..

the Doha, or a poetic style of writing, means, and what Kabir expresses is :

that Guru and the Almighty both stand before me ; who's feet should I touch for blessings ?

and the Doha says :

bow down your head at the feet of the Guru, for he was the one that introduced you to the Almighty - told you about the Almighty

SO .. when I saw the picture of Abhishek and myself at the GOJ , I remembered the Doha of Kabir and designed one, inspired by the Kabir Doha , and wrote -

' पिता पुत्र दोनों खड़े, काके करूँ प्रणाम , जीव दीन बाबूजी इनको, करें उन्हें साष्टांग ' ~ ab

pita putr dono khade, kaáke karü pranaam ,

jeev deen babuji inko, karén unhën sashtaang ..

meaning ..

(this as though someone from the crowd asks this question to the two Father and Son .. that the Father and Son both before me , who do I greet first with pranaam , namaste, namaskaar 🙏)

and the line next says in meaning :

life was given to them, Father and the Son, by Babuji, ( as I address my Father publicly ), do sashtaáng pranaam to him - to Babuji ..

saáshtaáng is the deepest gesture or posture of placing yourself in obeisance before the feet of any :

the deeper meaning then be that .. do not give your respectful namaste to us Father and Son .. do a sashtang to my Father, Babuji , for he created the two of us ..

and the reference goes back to the original Kabir Doha of Guru and the Almighty .. pay the respect first to the Guru, for he was the one that introduced you to the Almighty ..

Babuji in his autobiography may have said that Amitabh is my best poetry ..

BUT ..

He, Babuji was the poet !!

Love and respect and 🙏

Amitabh Bachchan

[know-the-self]

Bhakti Yoga - Yoga of Devotion

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Consciousness in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Intelligence in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Sleep in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Hunger - Desire in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Shadow - Individual Self in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Shakti - Creative Energy in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Thirst - Desire in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Patience in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Original Cause in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Humility in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Stillness in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Devotion in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as splendor in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Lakshmi in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Mind in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Memory in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Compassion in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Contentment in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Mother in all beings everywhere.

Salute to the Divine Goddess, who manifests herself as Delusion in all beings everywhere.

O Mother!

Let all my speech be your prayer; let all my crafts and technology be your worship and be the mystic gestures of my hand, adorning you.

May all my movements become your devotional circumambulations.

May everything I eat or drink be oblations to you. Let my lying down in rest and sleep be prostrations to you.

Mother! Whatever I do, may all that become a sacramental service and worship for you.

Om Peace Peace Peace

- Devi Stuti

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[phenakistoskope]

The first step towards the crystallisation of what we today call Hinduism was born in the consciousness of being the amorphous, subordinate, other. In a sense this was a reversal of roles. Earlier the term mleccha had been used by the upper caste Hindus to refer to the impure, amorphous rest. For the upper castes, Muslims and especially those not indigenous to India, were treated as mleccha since they did not observe the dharma and were debarred from entering the sanctum of the temple and the home. Indigenous converts to Islam also came under this category but their caste origins would have set them apart initially from the amorphous Muslim. Now the upper and lower castes were clubbed together under the label of ‘Hindu’, a new experience for the upper castes.

This in part accounts for the belief among many upper caste Hindus today that Hinduism in the last one thousand years has been through the most severe persecution that any religion in the world has ever undergone. The need to exaggerate the persecution at the hands of the Muslim is required to justify the inculcation of anti-Muslim sentiments among the Hindus of today. Such statements brush aside the fact that there were various expressions of religious persecution in India prior to the coming of the Muslims and particularly between the Śaiva and the Buddhist and Jaina sects and that at one level, the persistence of untouchability was also a form of religious intolerance. The authors of such statements conveniently forget that the last thousand years in the history of Hinduism have witnessed the establishment of the powerful Śankarācārya maṭhas, āśramas, and similar institutions attempting to provide an ecclesiastical structure to strengthen Brahmanism and conservatism; the powerful Daśanāmi and Bairāgi religious orders of Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava origin, vying for patronage and frequently in confrontation; the popular cults of the Nāthapanthis; the significant sects of the Bhakti traditions which are to be found in every corner of the subcontinent; and more recently a number of socio-religious reform movements which have been aimed at reforming and strengthening Hinduism. It was also the period which saw the expansion of the cults of Kṛṣṇa and Rāma with their own mythologies, literatures, rituals and circuits of pilgrimage. What defines many Hindus today has roots in the period of Muslim rule. Facets of belief and ritual regarded as essential to Hinduism belong to more recent times. The establishment of the sects which accompanied these developments often derived from wealthy patronage including that of both Hindu and Muslim rulers, which accounted for the prosperity of temples and institutions associated with these sects. The more innovative sects were in part the result of extensive dialogues between gurus, sādhus, pīrs and Sufis, a dialogue which was sometimes confrontational and sometimes conciliatory.  The last thousand years have seen the most assertive thrust of many Hindu sects. If by persecution is meant the conversion of Hindus to Islam and Christianity, then it should be kept in mind that the majority of conversions were from the lower castes and this is more a reflection on Hindu society than on persecution. Upper caste conversions were more frequently activated by factors such as political alliances and marriage circuits and here the conversion was hardly due to persecution. Tragically for those that converted on the assumption that there would be social equality in the new religion, this was never the case and the lower castes remained low in social ranking and carried their caste identities into the new religions.

When the destroying of temples and the breaking of images by Muslim iconoclasts is mentioned—and quite correctly so—it should however at the same time be stated that there were also many Muslim rulers, not excluding Aurangzeb, who gave substantial donations to Hindu sects and to individual brāhmaṇas. There was obviously more than just religious bigotry or religious tolerance involved in these actions. The relationship for example between the Mughal rulers and the Bundela rājās, which involved temple destruction among other things, and veered from close alliances to fierce hostility, was the product not merely of religious loyalties or differences, but the play of power and political negotiation. Nor should it be forgotten that the temple as a source of wealth was exploited even by Hindu rulers such as Harṣadeva of Kashmir who looted temples when he faced a fiscal crisis, or the Paramāra ruler who destroyed temples in the Caulukya kingdom, or the Rāṣṭrakūṭa king who tore up the temple courtyard of the Pratihāra ruler after a victorious campaign. Given the opulence of large temples, the wealth stored in them required protection, but the temple was also a statement of political authority when built by a ruler.

The European adoption of the term ‘Hindu’ gave it further currency as also the attempts of Catholic and Protestant Christian missionaries to convert the Gentoo/Hindu to Christianity. The pressure to convert, initially disassociated with European commercial activity, changed with the coming of British colonial power when, by the early nineteenth century, missionary activities were either surreptitiously or overtly, according to context, encouraged by the colonial authority. The impact both of missionary activity and Christian colonial power resulted in considerable soul searching on the part of those Indians who were close to this new historical experience. One result was the emergence of a number of groups such as the Brahmo Samaj, the Prathana Samaj, the Arya Samaj, the Ramakrishna Mission, the Theosophical Society, the Divine Life Society, the Swaminarayan movement, et al., which gave greater currency to the term Hinduism. There was much more dialogue of upper caste Hindus with Christians than there had been with Muslims, partly because for the coloniser power also lay in controlling knowledge about the colonised and partly because there were far fewer Hindus converting to Christianity than had converted to Islam. Some of the neo-Hindu sects as they have come to be called, were influenced by Christianity and some reacted against it; but even the latter were not immune from its imprint. This was inevitable given that it was the religion of the coloniser.

The challenge from Christian missionaries was not merely at the level of conversions and religious debates. The more subtle form was through educational institutions necessary to the emerging Indian middle class. Many who were attracted to these neo-Hindu groups had at some point of their lives experienced Christian education and were thereafter familiar with Christian ideas. The Christian missionary model played an important part, as for example in the institutions of the Arya Samaj. The Shaiva Siddhanta Samaj was inspired by Arumuga Navalar, who was roused to reinterpret Śaivism after translating the Bible into Tamil. The movement attracted middle-class Tamils seeking a cultural self-assertion. Added to this was the contribution of some Orientalist scholars who interpreted the religious texts to further their notions of how Hinduism should be constructed. The impact of Orientalism in creating the image of Indian, and particularly Hindu culture, as projected in the nineteenth century, was considerable.

Those among these groups influenced by Christianity, attempted to defend, redefine and create Hinduism on the model of Christianity. They sought for the equivalent of a monotheistic God, a Book, a Prophet or a Founder and congregational worship with an institutional organization supporting it. The implicit intention was again of defining ‘the Hindu’ as a reaction to being ‘the other’; the subconscious model was the Semitic religion. The monotheistic God was sought in the abstract notion of Brahman, the Absolute of the Upaniṣads with which the individual Ātman seeks unity in the process of mokṣa; or else with the interpretation of the term deva which was translated as God, suggesting a monotheistic God. The worship of a single deity among many others is not strictly speaking monotheism, although attempts have been made by modern commentators to argue this. Unlike many of the earlier sects which were associated with a particular deity, some of these groups claimed to transcend deity and reach out to the Absolute, Infinite, the Brahman. This was an attempt to transcend segmentary interests in an effort to attain a universalistic identity, but in social customs and ritual, caste identities and distinctions between high and low continued to be maintained.

— Romila Thapar, Syndicated Hinduism.

#reference #reading list #romila thapar #history #aijaz ahmad keeps using the phrase “syndicated hinduism” #and i needed an etymology

[metamatar]

I don't know the word vomit I did in your inbox earlier is savarna guilt. Holy shit that would be pathetic, wouldn't it? Fuck.

hey anon, i feel like you wouldn't want me to publish your previous ask. sorry i took a while to get to this! what i'd say about your sense of what replaces what religion did for you viz community is this –

not all ritual has to be rooted in caste and a commitment to destroying hinduism is not one to never celebrate a fall harvest festival, which most of the religious holidays this month are. many of these festivals are synthesizing and appropriating preexisting community traditions and the hindutva project is trying to standardise them into an upper caste form – local dalit communities will have different and meaningful practices and traditions. i recommend studying nastika, shaivite, bhakti, buddhist, sikh and all sorts of anti caste traditions from the subcontinent – resisting caste is hundreds of years old and you will find something worthwhile and joyful. you will find rituals to revive and reinvent and remix. this does not have to be a lonely path! guilt does not seem productive, your emotions do not your contribution to a movement make. read and watch movies w your friends and join up with your local amdekarites!

all that said. maybe im the wrong person to answer these questions. im godless and faithless. the clean honesty of it appeals to me. many many people lose their faith across the world, everyday. they thrive. when the old world dies and the new one is born, there is always hurt and longing and pain. it is a worthwhile struggle and you will wonder after how you lived any other way tbh.

#anti caste #asks #anon #religion

[srkgirlblogger]

Guys im trying to find the quote about how religions like Islam and Christianity are older in India than things like the Bhakti movement but I can't find it. I've been searching for almost an hour lol

#.txt

[mysticalblizzardcolor]

Resident of Krishna Loka …Unless one is a resident of Krishna Loka, one cannot be a Spiritual 

Master.https://theharekrishnamovement.org/2014/08/07/resident-of-krishna-loka/

#ISKCON #Srila Prabhupada #The Hare Krishna Movement #Hare Krishna #Krishna #Bhakti

[santmat]

Gnostic Christian Psalms Discovered! The Book of the Odes + How the Odes Became a Lost Book of the Bible - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast

It's as-if those who composed the Gospel of John decided to create a hymnbook. This is about the little-known discovery of a collection of early Christian psalms called, The Book of the Odes, written in Syriac-Aramaic, described by scholars as "some of the most beautiful songs of peace and joy that the world possesses." The Odes got mislabeled, misfiled, misunderstood, misplaced somewhere along the way becoming one of those Lost Books of the Bible. Time to explore this would-be book of New Testament psalms and that is finally gaining long overdue recognition and popularity in the 21st Century. This is one of two podcasts I've devoted to this inspiring collection of mystic-poems and music -- The Odes of Solomon -- once viewed as a sacred text by Jewish Christians, Syriac Eastern Christianity, various Gnostic movements -- it's quoted in Pistis Sophia -- and other early Christian writings.

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Aim of Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj Ji is to

ELIMINATE SOCIAL EVILS

Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj has initiated and led a strong movement against all sorts of social evils

(like meat consumption, intoxication, female foeticide & infanticide, adultery, dowry system etc) that are barriers in the path of Bhakti.