Some thoughts, mainly random rantings. I was 23 when I started this blog, and as time goes on some thoughts will remain the same, some views may change when I am no longer the observer but actually the performer, in this play that is life. These thoughts simply reflect a bit of the chaos that plays through my mind every day as I take a moment to observe the little details that I encounter along my path.

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Tolerance

I just saw this in my 'daily jewish wisdom' quote of the day, 'Getting angry is like worshipping idols.'- Midrash LeOlam

See I got this quote from that because I suscribed to 'daily jewish wisdom', I am Hindu and I suscribe to this, at least I have the tolerance in learning about others faiths and not bashing them. I wonder if the author of this quote realises that intolerance just may be a greater sin than idol worship.
when did Hindus prosecute the Jews? I think that was ridiculous, it happened because there was a complete intolerant moron in power, so why should they bash my faith?

here is a quote that one of my friends sent me:

Masjid dha de, mandir dha de, dha de jo kucch dainda Par kisi da dil na dhain, Rab dilan vich rehnda..

Tear down the mosque and the temple; break everything in sight But do not break a person’s heart, it is there that God resides -Bulleh Shah

breaking religious barrier with friendship, myself and a group of arabic friends are discussing God, two of them insist that infidels will have to suffer the wrath of hell, the third my very close fried (muslim) disagrees. She comments that she has seen me praying and will tell anyone that we pray to the same God, also that in knowing me she cannot understand why anyone would ever believe that I would go to hell. We have had ups and downs this friend and I but no matter what I see her as my sister, destroying all barriers of religion, race and culture!


Might surprise all of you who think that Hindus are pagans but this is where we actually do believe that God resides, even if you are Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christain, Atheist, Black, White Blue, Yellow, etc...

Wouldn't it be great if we can accept each other for the person they are instead of forcing our veiws and beliefs of what is right and what is wrong on them. Bash idol worship sure, did they even take the time to learn a little bit of Hinduism and to even know why do we keep idols? Isn't worshipping the Torah, Bible or Quran a form of worship or can I just burn one without any arguments ?
Look at oneself first before making judgements.
If they are the chosen disciples of God then how come I still exist and we are still made up of the same basic 4 base pairs in our DNA, or do they have an extra base I don't know of ? How come neither of us can fly?
Fire wouldn't discrimiate between an idol worshipper or a non idol worshipper, ever thought about that? Nor does the sun.
many often say that Hindus worship many Gods...please read the following verses carefully!

Though I am eternal, imperishable and the Lord of all beings; yet I (voluntarily) manifest by controlling my own material nature using my Yoga Maya.
Whenever there is a decline of dharma and the rise of adharma, o Arjuna, then I manifest (or incarnate ) myself. I incarnate from time to time for protecting the good, for transforming the wicked and for establishing Dharma, the world order.
Bhagavad Gita (4.06-08)

4 comments:

morpheus said...

Religion is like root beer. In small doses, it does wonders. It makes you feel good.

In larger ones....

:D

Nandi23 said...

oui!!!

Nós said...

A lot of time, tearing down the mosque and the temple is exactly what breaks the persons' heart, because it's signifies what they have dearer in their life. So,your friend's quote isn't so different from the jew's one.

Nandi23 said...

I am not exactly sure that the definition of truth is ahimsa, ahmisa means non violence but we also define truth as Satya, so you could say that you would be true by of course maintaining non violence.
Yes tearing down a mosque or temple would break the heart but that is also destroying an idol right? To have your heart broken by the destruction of an idol means subscribing to idol worship in a sense also which means being false if truth means non idol worship.