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December 2014

December 10, 2014

Torture is tamasic

Using techniques that don't work on people who aren't guilty is incomprehensible.

November 2014

November 18, 2014

Does Wealth Prove God’s Favor?

Are the rich our betters? Do we have no right to criticize those with more...

November 11, 2014

Who is the Self?

What are we defining ourselves as? Is it our true identity?

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Maya is not Satan

On the occasions you get completely swept away by a film and magically transported to...

October 14, 2014

The wise grieve not

God doesn't lose people. When someone dies, we say we've lost them, but God doesn't...

October 07, 2014

How many water are there?

When people get frustrated trying to pinpoint whether Hindus are monotheistic, polytheistic, pantheistic or panentheistic,...

October 04, 2014

When they call your God a demon

Interfaith work is difficult when people of other faiths characterize your Gods as demons and...

October 03, 2014

Skyping God

When Hindus use images (murti) in worship, we talk to the transcendent God through the...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

The Goddess Resides in All Beings

Threatened by the asuras (demons) Shumbha and Nishumbha, the gods compose the Devi Stuti hymn...

September 22, 2014

Dog Cat Monkey Theology

A Hindu cat/monkey metaphor and a Christian cat/dog metaphor gave me a deeper understanding of...

September 16, 2014

A Hindu in an Alpha Course

Billed as a hard-hitting course for Seekers, in which you can ask any question and...

September 12, 2014

Hindus believe in eternal souls — but Christians don’t!

In Christian pop theology, Grandma's "in heaven with Jesus," but correct Christian theology is that...