Bridging Beliefs
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Delve into Bahá'í and philosophical subjects, principles, and objections. This individual initiative is not authoritative, but merely represents my understanding of the Bahá'í Faith. I encourage you to read the Baha'i Writings independently and visit www.bahai.org. My intention is to dispel misunderstandings, explore deeper truths, and bridge the seeming divides among the world's great Holy Texts.
"The objection most commonly raised... is the assertion that the differences among the revealed faiths are so fundamental that to present them as stages or aspects of one unified system of truth does violence to the facts. Given the confusion surrounding the nature of religion, the reaction is understandable. Chiefly, however, such an objection offers Bahá'ís an invitation to set the principles reviewed here more explicitly in the evolutionary context provided in Bahá'u'lláh's writings." --One Common Faith, p 24
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Bridging Beliefs
Jews, Christ, and Hindu Theism - Anatman - Katha Upanishad
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In the Katha Upanishad, young Nachiketas is sacrificed by his father Vajasravasa to Yama, Lord of Death, and earns three boons after waiting three nights without hospitality; he uses the first two for his father's peace and a heavenly fire ritual, then insists on the third—knowledge of what happens after death—rejecting Yama’s temptations of wealth, long life, and pleasures. Yama then teaches him the eternal nature of the Self (Atman), its unity with Brahman, the cosmological ladder rising from senses through mind, intellect, and the Great to the ineffable Quiet Person, and the path of meditation, yoga, and inner realization that liberates one from death and leads to immortality. Here we explore how these concepts tie in with various religious theological themes.
Sections:
0:57 Intro
1:41 Nachiketas and His Father
29:24 The Cosmological Ladder – Into the Quiet Anatman
41:13 One Deity – Who arises with the Cosmic Seed
42:59 Brahman – Devas Worship – Manifold Forms – The One Person
49:29 The Cosmic Tree is Also Brahman, the Bright
53:24 Cosmological Ladder – Ineffable
58:41 Conclusion
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