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Category: Spirituality
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Entities: Bakti yogaBhagavad GitaHinduismKarma yogaNew Testament
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of your Hindu faith and seeing the Bhagavad Gira as a spiritual guide. So what role does faith in God play in your life?
It's everything. It is central to who I am.
Um what inspires me, what
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motivates me, where I find strength, where I find peace, where I find shelter, and where I find happiness. And this has been a constant um throughout
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you know times of challenge, times of darkness, times of heartbreak, times of happiness in in um always feeling very secure in knowing that God's unconditional love
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is ever present and no matter what else is happening in my life. um that God is my best friend and remaining centered and grounded um in always remembering that and
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meditating upon that truth is um it's everything to me. >> The interesting thing about the Hindu god is how welcoming the religion is of other religions.
Just
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it's true how accepting it is. It's so in that way in many ways it's one of the most beautiful religions on earth.
So like who who do you think God is to you like
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in in in the specifically the texts but also you personally what does he represent? Uh so for for Hinduism it's also like God can be many like there's also like a aspect where there's a it's it's like a
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part of all of us. There's like a uniting thing not a singular figure outside of us.
I think one of the things that's most commonly misunderstood about Hinduism uh that people don't know is that that Hinduism is truly a monotheistic religion. that there is one
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God and he goes by many names that describe his different qualities and characteristics and and as you pointed out Hinduism is um uniquely a a non sectarian spiritual
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practice essentially um it's it's not a quote unquote religion that you convert into or you leave behind or or whatever the case may be uh Bavad Gita a central scripture and text um that comes from
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India literally means song of God and the principles that that um are conveyed throughout the Bhagavad Gita are applicable to all of us. uh they are timeless truths that whether you
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consider yourself Christian or Catholic or uh you know Muslim or Jewish or Hindu um these these truths uh are are eternal and and relevant through all time. Uh so for us
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as as kids growing up um we we learned from and had bedtime stories that came from both the Bavad Gita and the New Testament. Uh my dad was raised Catholic, my mom was raised Episcopalian
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and both of them were attracted to the Bavagita as they were in their own lives searching for a more personal relationship with God than they had been able to find elsewhere in their own spiritual journeys.
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And that's where the application of of you know there there are teachings in the Bhagavad Gita for example that talk about Bakti yoga. Bakti yoga essentially translates into
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uh dedicating your life um striving to develop a loving relationship with God. Uh karma yoga there's a chapter in the Bhagavad Gita that speaks about karma yoga.
Karma is a word that has become a part of the you know both karma and yoga
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have become very common terms. Uh but what it really means is um trying to dedicate your actions in life that have in a way that have a positive impact on others being of service to others.
And so for me growing up uh I
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never really understood as a kid the idea of sectarianism of one religion battling against another because I knew and understood and experienced um that uh the the real meaning of religion was love for God. No matter
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what name you worship him by or or how you worship, uh that that is the real meaning of religion and the application of that in in your life is is um you know you ask how do I see God in a
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personal way? I see I I know that God is my best friend.
God is my confidant when I am struggling with with a problem in my life or you know during those quiet moments by myself
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um where I am anxious or I'm sad I turn to God for uh that solace uh for that clarity for that strength to both know what the right thing to do is and
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the strength to act accordingly uh and and to constantly strive um to further develop that very personal loving relationship with God.