Views and Reviews: Insights that Illumine the Light Within

Teachings to treasure, teachings that transform.  Thirumoolar Thavamozhi Motivation Introduction   Our ancient texts say that man is described by three noble qualities, namely, not doing sin, living with good character, and devotion to God. In order to cultivate these three qualities in man, the moral books and scriptures were written. It is not sufficient to keep away from bad actions that societal norms condemn. Man needs to have good qualities such as sweet words, compassion, charity, helping others. Our spiritual texts all aim at cultivating good habits, and giving up bad qualities in mankind. However, just by reading moral books or listening to discourse it is doubtful that one may cultivate the good qualities mentioned earlier.  Our forefathers realized that the full growth of good qualities can be only achieved by the knowledge of the divine. Our spiritual texts emerged from this thinking. In Tamil Nadu, Saivaism (devotion to lord shiva) and Vaishnavism (devotion to lord Vishnu

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Often, we search and download information from the internet when we have questions. It is indeed commendable that  some of us take trouble to answer questions. Often, many of us do not realize that we also have a responsibility to share and upload oiriginal content. Delighted to share these succinct responses by respected brother Shankar Planjery. Why Hindus worship many gods, while other religions have one God? Hindus follow Sanatana Dharma (Ancient Wisdom) prescribed in Vedas. Vedas are not written by Humans, Like other religious text. Vedic Energy exists in the Universe, Like Air, Electricity, Virus like Corona etc... not visible to our eye. But sage Ved Vyasa, through his Yogic Meditation, received this energy and put in writing in Sanskrit script. These are grouped by him in 4 parts, called Vedas. Hence, Vedas are considered Divine Instructions and not a human creation. Vedas reiterate that every aspect of creation is Divine and sho