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“Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3 , King James Version).
Genesis 2:20-24, Living Bible
20 So the Lord God formed from the soil every kind of animal and bird, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever he called them, that was their name. But still there was no proper helper for the man.
21 Then the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and took one of his ribs and closed up the place from which he had removed it, 22 and made the rib into a woman, and brought her to the man.
23 “This is it!” Adam exclaimed. “She is part of my own bone and flesh! Her name is ‘woman’ because she was taken out of a man.”
24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife in such a way that the two become one person.[a]
“ …a man is to leave his father and mother, 8 and he and his wife are united so that they are no longer two, but one. 9 “ — Mark 10: 8 — Living Bible
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other” (Matthew 6: 24, New International Version — all Scripture cited here, courtesy of biblegateway.com).
Therefore, aiming to understand Hinduism:
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In clip Three, the swami teaches the Hindu principle of never eating until first you have offered that food up to your idol or idols. Breaking that rule, one lowers him or herself, thus when he or she returns in their next life they will come back in a lower species, as in a hog or a dog.
He speaks to that and more.
Fathom, being a kid and being raised on this knowledge, seems one would be very inclined to make sure all one consumed was that only that had been first offered to your idols. Obviously, this underscores the need for each Hindu home having in it its own shrine.
“Not all Hindus have images in their home shrines and temples, but the majority do,” writes Rahil Patel, Former Hindu Priest, in his book, “Found by Love.”1
He tells of how, according to Hindu temple faith, it is “very important to God that he has a space and place in your home, and not just a dinky little spot under the stairs like Harry Potter.”2
Obviously, it is very important in Hinduism that the children of Hindu parents raise their children in the Hindu faith traditions. Thus, having the standard home shrine is almost as common in Hindu homes as is a bathroom in the common 20the century home.
“House shrines,” writes Patel, “keep the family aware that every aspect of life revolves around God, who is present in the images within the shrine.” Until the family has the ceremony in which, via “rituals and chants,”3 the spirits of each god or goddess are infused into the idols, they are only statues, be they of marble or otherwise.
But once that special ceremony is performed, then the “images were now alive and needed the attention, love and care that one places on one’s own body.”4 Patels tells of how he and his brother learned, as children of a “Mum,” who “was a very religious lady who was devoted to the Hindu temple faith,”5 through her example and instructions, they learned how to take gentle care of their in home “deities.”
He tells of how, in taking careful care of these gods, that “level of devotion,” which of course is recommended to be the standard, such “allows the spirit within the image to enter one’s own self,”6 and in having those spirits enter one’s being, it is believed, thereby one is purified.
Hear then one more clip from this series:
Works Cited:
1. Patel, Rahil, Found By Love, A Hindu priest encounters Jesus Christ, Instant Apostle Publishing, Great Britain, 2016, P. 25.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid,26
4. Ibid
5. Ibid, 25.
6. Ibid, 26.