Posted in A, tagged abuse, adi da, avatar, brainwashing, california, church, Clairvoyance, cults, da free john, disciples, dysfunctional, enlightenment, ESP, freedom, guide, guides, guru, heartmaster da, hindu, hinduism, institute, Jesus, jesus christ, leader, liberation, manipulation, mind control, new age, organizations, psi, psychic, reincarnation, religion, sects, seekers, siddhis, soul, spirit, spirituality, teacher on May 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Adi Da (aka Free-John, Da 1939- ) Originally Franklin Jones, Adi Da is an American guru born in Jamaica, New York. He has also gone under the names of Da Free-John, Bubba Free-John and Heartmaster Da.
Adi Da claims to have reached enlightenment at age three years. In their Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions and the [...]
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Posted in A, tagged aggression, ahimsa, augustine, battle, buddhism, catholic, catholicism, christianity, conflict, confrontation, dharma, Gandhi, ghandi, harmony, hinduism, jainism, just war, non-violence, non-violent, peace, religion, violence, war on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Mahatma Ghandi
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Ahimsa Mohandas Gandhi’s life exemplified this Jain ideal of non-violence.
Himsa means “harming.” The prefix a implies the opposite, “not-harming.”
Ahimsa is based on respect for all life. It’s believed that violence to the living merely harms self and others, binding the doer to undesirable future incarnations on Earth.
The ideal is central to [...]
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Posted in A, tagged arjuna, death, gita, hindu, hinduism, just war, killing, krishna, krisna, religion, spirit, violence, war on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Arjuna Renowned hero in Indian culture and Krishna’s charioteer in the Bhagavad Gita.
Arjuna arguably has the status of a demigod among of much the Hindu-Indian populace.
In the Gita he is prodded by Krishna to fight kith and kin.
Despite his initial reluctance, he overcomes the chronic procrastination which Shakespeare’s Hamlet cannot–that is, a crippling fear, self-doubt [...]
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Posted in A, tagged artha, hinduism, money, riches, wealth on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Artha Artha is the pursuit of wealth and the least noble of the four Hindu objectives or “worthwhile aspirations.”
If pursued in accord with one’s dharma, then the role is honorable.
In this case the seeker seeks wealth for God’s purpose, not out of greed, snobbishness, fear or self-aggrandizement. » Kama, Moksha
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Posted in A, tagged Asrama, hinduism, life, soul, spirit on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Asrama In Hinduism this is the traditional belief, stemming from the Veda, that spiritual aspirants belonging to the “twice born” castes should proceed through four asrama, or stages of life.
These stages are: brahmacharya, garhashtya, vanaprashta and sannyasa.
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Posted in A, tagged atman, Brahman, christianity, hindu, hinduism, mysticism, new age, ramanuja, religion, sankara, soul, updanisads on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Atman (probably from Skt. an “to breathe” 
in Hinduism, particularly in the school of Advaita Vedanta, this may be roughly understood as the “soul.”
In the Upanisads, the Atman is eternal, all-knowing and cannot be killed. The lower-case atman, translated from the Sankrit, usually refers to the personal soul. The upper-case Atman is the universal soul, [...]
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Posted in A, tagged avatar, buddha, buddhism, computers, cyberslang, dharma, evil, graphics, hinduism, reincarnation, religion, web on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Avatar (Skt.=”descent” In Hinduism the avatar is an incarnation of God who takes birth on earth to restore dharma.
In Hindu thought, God comes to earth to restore order whenever morality becomes too imbalanced.
Jesus Christ is sometimes seen as one of a series of avatars.
In orthodox Hinduism, there are generally ten avatars of Vishnu.
The first is [...]
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Posted in B, tagged gita, hinduism, holy war, just war, killing, Mahabharata, religion, violence, war, warfare on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bhagavad-Gita [Sanskrit: The song of the Lord] A central scripture holy to Hindus which belongs to book VI of the epic Mahabharata.
Believed by most scholars to be a more recent insert within the Mahabharata, the Gita synthesizes different, previously existing forms of yoga.
The main plot line revolves around Krishna urging Arjuna to fulfil the dharma [...]
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Posted in B, tagged devotion, God, hinduism, religion, soul, spirit, yoga on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Bhakti-yoga The dharma of pure devotion and surrender to God in Hinduism.
It may involve the use of images depicting a favored deity, believed to be a manifestation of a unified Godhead.
Some Hindus say this is the highest path in yoga, while others maintain that jnana-yoga is supreme.
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Posted in B, tagged Brahma, hindu, hinduism, myth, religion on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Brahma The first and creative aspect of God in the Hindu triad (trimurti) of Brahma (creation), Vishnu (preservation) and Shiva (destruction).
Although Brahma as creator is on a par with Vishnu and Shiva in terms of status, he has no special bhakti cult, making him less well-known than the two other aspects of the trimurti.
Some writers [...]
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