This is a pretty good taster, and more - real news and some good stuff - on Hinduism. The online quarterly edition runs one edition behind the printed one.
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Thank you so much for this link, Venetian. Have you looked at their collection of Oms? I could spend all day with them. I have also copied the article about gurus and may well repost some of it on the Sai Baba thread if appropriate. How do you find all these wonderful things?
Love
Sunanda x
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Hi Sunanda,
I'm doing a short course, reasonably basic for a couple of months, on Hinduism and also on teaching Hinduism, and two online journals were mentioned in the course. This is one, the other has garish pages and pop ups, don't like it.
I almost did mention that article down the right side of the homepage on Gurus. In the light of the thread, I could see where it might lead.... All the same, up to you. This is after all the Hinduism 'place' and Gurus are certainly a part of Hinduism. I hadn't expected the thread you mention to run so long - it is as though ALL of Hinduism and misconceptions of Hinduism came flooding into it. One little insight is that it began as a criticism of a poor example (IMO): maybe that set the tone. But the article you mention is a good thorough but brief summary of the Guru-disciple tradition in Hinduism, yes.
I was interested in the article underneath it on the homepage: "Hindu Groups Protest Restrictions On Amarnath Yatra". Books I've read on this pilgrimage to Amarnath and people I know who did it, are from experiences of the 1920s-40s. So I still had the impression that just a few score went to Amarnath and that it was exceedingly difficult. Times have changed and roads and rail links built: now I find that on the one hand, I think it says 15,000 (or 150,000?) a year do it, and Amarnath is only some tens of miles of trek from a tourist center! But on the other hand that they tend to get attacked by Moslem extremists now, 35 killed last year.
Decades ago this was a rare and sublime pilgrimage: if you went there at some times of the year, you might have the cave to yourself. Swami Rama talks of meeting Babaji there, and just the two of them were there for days. A late female friend of a friend went in the 1930s, a white woman trekking alone in the mountains in those days [&o], and the great sign (at least then) was that upon a certain day two white doves fly through the cave and cross over one particular person to illustrate something notable about them. Among all the scores of Indian yogis, on that occasion they crossed over the English lady from London. 😉
Venetian xxx
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Dear Venetian
I didn't realise you were actually studying Hinduism: no wonder you're so well informed.
Now, I have been back to Hinduism Today and simply cannot find the article on the Amarnath Yatra. How stupid is that?
Talking of yatras, I would love to make the pilgrimmage to Gangotri and the other centres on the way to the source of the Ganga, but I have a strong feeling this won't happen in this lifetime.
I loved the story of the Western woman who was singled out by the doves. The name of Alexandre David Neel (was that it, it doesn't sound right) came to mind? She had some amazing experiences in Tibet. (I've just realised that I'm off again - longing for 'experiences' LOL Ah ego ego!)
Love
Sunanda xxx
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Dear Sunanda,
ORIGINAL: sunanda
Now, I have been back to Hinduism Today and simply cannot find the article on the Amarnath Yatra. How stupid is that?
Pretty stupid.... of me! I didn't know that panel on the right-hand side of the homepage is the daily news, updated most weekdays. I found the article in the archives: it's item 2 at
Talking of yatras, I would love to make the pilgrimmage to Gangotri and the other centres on the way to the source of the Ganga, but I have a strong feeling this won't happen in this lifetime.
Why not? 😉 Go for it! 😀
I loved the story of the Western woman who was singled out by the doves. The name of Alexandre David Neel (was that it, it doesn't sound right) came to mind?
Yes, it reminded me of the same - of Alexandre David Neel - come to think of it.
She had some amazing experiences in Tibet.
Hmm. Haven't been there, as it was closed during my main travelling days. A friend of mine may have entered Tibet during its closed years, since he and a companion went deep into the Himalayas - in winter I believe! - without a map. Came extremely close to death - youthful exhuberance after his getting out of 'Nam. And had a first-hand encounter with the yeti. It really gives you the shivers to hear him tell that tale!
Love, Light, and Life,
Venetian
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Thanks Venetian - will go and look at the Amarnath article. As for Gangotri, if it happens, it happens. Usually the time is wrong, as I return from India just as that pilgrimage route is opening up. Also I don't fare well in the cold - I have Raynaud's disease - so I know it would be physically uncomfortable for me. I know, I know, excuses, excuses[sm=nuts.gif] but che sera sera!
Love etc
Sunanda xx