Comments on: How I became a Hindu http://mariawirth.com/how-i-became-a-hindu/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-i-became-a-hindu Sun, 18 Feb 2024 15:04:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Arun http://mariawirth.com/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-16329 Sun, 18 Feb 2024 15:04:59 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-16329 In reply to madhug.

Sir you will not celebrate Diwali to protest? You must be a fake Hindu.

As a proud Hindu, we do not celebrate our festivals to for anyone else. Plus you say you will change your religion from Hinduism. Everyone born is a Hindu. It is not a something you can change. You can just change your faith.

I am a proud Hindu and promote and celebrate it. And I am so honored that people from the world have started finding out the significance of Hinduism.

]]> By: Vijaya Rao http://mariawirth.com/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-15180 Sat, 27 May 2023 13:27:03 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-15180 In reply to NK Balakrishnan.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Being a hindu by birth I learnt many rituals and their significance from my grandmother, relatives and gurus and can’t understand why we are so misunderstood. Glad you have found it endearing and uplifting and wish you all the best.

]]> By: MW http://mariawirth.com/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-15093 Sat, 23 Jul 2022 15:06:33 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-15093 In reply to vimalwakhlu123.

Thank you

]]> By: vimalwakhlu123 http://mariawirth.com/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-15092 Sat, 23 Jul 2022 03:20:01 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-15092 Very inspiring!Thank you for sharing this writeup. It is good Karmas from your past births which put you on this track! All the best to you!

]]> By: NK Balakrishnan http://mariawirth.com/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-15064 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 03:01:47 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-15064 The views of the auther reflects her understanding of the Advita philosophy to a greater extent. However I would like to add a few lines here. The whole philosophy is based on Sanatana Dharma which is the bundle of knowledge existed from time immemorial. It’s evolution is much older than all the religions. Since it originated in this part of the world and since the people here followed it, in due course it became an identity of people lived here. It was a time when on earth there was no religion at all.
In the flow of time, in order to discipline the way of life of human beings various thoughts developed across the globe which gave birth to other semantic religions.
When those who followed such other religions came to India, the already existing people on this geographies started knowing as Hindus and others according to their beliefs like Christians Muslims etc.
But actually the thoughts of Sanatana Dharma is all inclusive, which advocates the whole stuff in the universe as part of the Super Power or Parabrahman and naturally all individual lives and millions of independent intelligent cells in each object living or non living.
The first line of Easavasyopanishad is sufficient enough to explain it “easavasyamidam sarvam” meaning the whole matter (perceivable or non perceivable including space) has the presence of the one and only,The Supreme That is, the whole unity is God. It includes everything in it and not restricting it’s believers or the humans or the flora and fauna,but the whole matter and space (quantum physics says all matters are compressed form of space) See how noble a thought! It is impossible to have a better thought or concience for the humanity for ever!
And it is not a simple belief, but a scientific fact. Even if you think in a pure materialistic perspective, if we look back to our origine even beyond the sperm and egg of our parents, we understand that it is generated in their body from the food, water and air they consumed from the Nature. In due course the embryo grows from the food ,water, air and the emotions and thoughts of the mother, takes birth and thereafter fed by the mother with her breast milk generated from the food,water, air and emotions. As the child grows further, it starts to draw food etc independently from the Nature. In due course he recreates,extending his body and life to new offsprings and at last merges the left over portion of the body into the same Nature where from he evolved. This means we are all evolved from the Nature and finally merges back into it. Now if you forget this life span which is negligible in the infinite stretch of time, nothing is created or distroyed in the Nature except continuous change of forms. Just like a bubble formed and remerged with the vast ocean! A truth scientifically proved by Einstein in his theory of relativity. “Energy can neither be created nor be distroyed. ”
Every single (apparent) object is a form of kinetic or potential energy and what we see in birth, death and other events are all only a change of form or metamorphosis. This is what is meant by “Aham Brahmasmi” (it is me which is present in everything, I am the Brahman, there is nothing other than Brahman)and it believes in “Loka sanastha Sukhino Bhavanthu”

]]> By: 'Idol worship', beef, mutual respect and conversion: Answers to some routine questions asked about Hindu Dharma http://mariawirth.com/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-14872 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:45:16 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-14872 […] I described my experience. “essentially” means, i didn’t take any official step to “become” a Hindu, […]

]]> By: SHRIKANT MAHAJAN http://mariawirth.com/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-14741 Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:57:20 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-14741 In reply to Rajendra Salokhe.

There is no difference in God & you. Infact He resides in every one of us Realization is when we realize that He & I & all other creations are one & the same. To start with, God could be concept of being Almighty, samdrushti/samnyayi. When we dissolve in infinite from our current finite entity with feeling of seperateness from all others,we get liberated from every bond.

]]> By: SHRIKANT MAHAJAN http://mariawirth.com/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-14740 Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:46:15 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-14740 In reply to Sarala Jagannathan.

Upon death we loose identity with present world,incl religion what one carries forward is essence in the form of impression (created on our mind the actions & thoughts on various happenings/unfulfilled wishes from his past life/lives, & based on that we take our next birth in such family. Liberation we should strive for to rid off birth death cycle.

]]> By: drraj http://mariawirth.com/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-14739 Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:50:53 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-14739 Very nice write up; gives one a warm feeling. Thanks for the encouragement for Hindus. I live in the Middle East, and meet a lot of patients every day. One behavior trait of Hindus strikes me: most of the time, they’re meek, often unnecessarily so. Those who are not, appear as aggressive as Arabs or Peacefuls from other regions. Westerners most of the time appear confident, respectfully, smart – but never meek. I feel this meekness of Hindus is because of the prolonged persecution they have been going through; they feel disenfranchised everywhere. I wish we could change that: one only needs to be meek before the Creator; with other human beings, one should be confident.

]]> By: Sarala Jagannathan http://mariawirth.com/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-14738 Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:23:03 +0000 http://162.214.154.32/~realhindu/how-i-became-a-hindu/#comment-14738 It’s always a pleasure reading your posts. You must have been Indian, and most probably a Hindu, in your past birth. Those samskaras brought you back here. The soul matters and not the place where one is born or the religion one follows. If we are aware that we are Divine, that’s enough. As a follower of Advaita and Sri Ramana Maharishi I believe that there is only One Reality that manifests as many due to Maya. Ekam Sath. Once we realize that there would be no difference and dispute. Thanks again Ms. Wirth for a wonderful post.

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