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There you go, pushing your atheist views on every thread.
Because they are valid as regards any religious belief. If they want to preach without being called on it there are Forums for the various religions, plus a dedicated thread for Hinduism.
Because they are valid as regards any religious belief. If they want to preach without being called on it there are Forums for the various religions, plus a dedicated thread for Hinduism.
Why is pushing YOUR pet atheist views not hijacking every thread?
In fact thats all mystic does too. He answers their post with what he thinks. I personally don't see it highjacked as much we say theist are wrong about a deity and mystic says they are wrong in the type of deity.
he defends his position as much as any of us defend ours. I just don't see the hijack.
The law of cause and effect is inexorable and unrelenting. You reap a harvest of suffering, poverty, pain and sorrow, because you have sown the seed of evil in the past. You reap a harvest of plenty and bliss owing to your sowing of seeds of good.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face.
Don't trust that idea.
Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
The law of cause and effect is inexorable and unrelenting. You reap a harvest of suffering, poverty, pain and sorrow, because you have sown the seed of evil in the past. You reap a harvest of plenty and bliss owing to your sowing of seeds of good.
This relates to karma. The goal of human life is to attain moksha, the cessation of birth and death. Karma attaches to any deed, good and bad, that arises out of desire. Even wishing for moksha reaps karma!
Karma is often misunderstood as punishment for the wicked. That is a punishment that the ignorant want to see happen to other people who they judge as wicked. That is not how karma works. It’s purpose is not to justify our distorted moral codes.
It waits. It can wait with patience for several births even for the jiva to realize his karma. Karma is an individual, personal, journey. The truly realized jiva also earn karma. But that kind of karma exhausts itself.
One who sees only the good qualities of others is a man of great merit. As a bee collects nectar from flowers, so does a man who has an eye for others’ merits gather virtues, and in this way he becomes a store of sweetness, like a honeycomb.
231. Let a man guard himself against irritability
in bodily action; let him be controlled in deed.
Abandoning bodily misconduct, let him practice
good conduct in deed.
232. Let a man guard himself against irritability
in speech; let him be controlled in speech.
Abandoning verbal misconduct, let him practice
good conduct in speech.
233. Let a man guard himself against irritability
in thought; let him be controlled in mind.
Abandoning mental misconduct, let him practice
good conduct in thought.
234. The wise are controlled in bodily action,
controlled in speech and controlled in thought.
They are truly well-controlled.
For to say “Look to God” is not helpful without some instruction as to what this looking imports: it might very well be said that one can “look” and still sacrifice no pleasure, still be the slave of impulse, repeating the word God but held in the grip of every passion and making no effort to master any. Virtue, advancing towards the Term and, linked with thought, occupying a Soul makes God manifest: God on the lips, without a good conduct of life, is a word.
I would advise all in general that they would take into serious
consideration the true and genuine ends of knowledge; that they seek it not
either for pleasure or contention, or contempt of others, or for prolit, or for
fame, or for honour and promotion, or suchlike adulterate, or inferior ends;
but for merit and emolument of life, that they may regulate and perfect the
same in charity.
Francis Bacon
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