How to become a Hindu

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Автор:Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami / Сатгуру Шивайя Субрамуниясвами

Название: How to become a Hindu / Как стать индусом

Издательство: Himalayan Academy Pubns

Год: 2000

Формат: PDF

Размер: 22.37 MB

Язык: английский

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Говорят, что индуистом стать нельзя, им можно только родиться. Но, может быть, все таки можно? И как это можно сделать, ответит книга "Как стать индусом". Книгу написал Сатгуру Шивайя Субрамуниясвами, автор известной трилогии "Катехизис индуизма", "Жизнь с Шивой" и "Слияние с Шивой".

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What is it like to enter an Asian religion fully? And how does a Hindu recharge his faith with deeper meaning and life-guidance? "How to Become a Hindu" opens with stories from Americans, Canadians and Europeans recounting their dramatic, sometimes intense, passage from Western faiths to Hinduism. The tales of these pioneers will fascinate metaphysical and religion readers. Marriage between couples of differing faiths is more and more commonplace. Indo-Americans who are Hindu are often marrying outside their religion, and eventually face upsetting challenges in their married life. How to Become a Hindu offers honest reflection and recommendations for these couples. For Hindu/yoga leaders—ordained and lay—the book is the first-ever how-to guide, an immensely useful tool explaining each step of the way into Hinduism. The core meaning of Hindu identity and Hindu openness to newcomers is explored with stimulating insight. A lengthy introduction includes the author's own fascinating Hindu-adoption story. Another unique facet of the book is the use of its true stories to illumine real, sometimes intense, subconscious conditions underpinning religious conversion—both by the converter and the minister involved. The description of this process—drawn from Sivaya Subramuniyaswami's legendary psychic perceptions—makes the book a fire starter of new metaphysical understanding that all spiritual thinkers will appreciate.

The idea of conversion to Hinduism is much debated in Hindu halls. As this book gently chronicles, conversion or adoption is often balked at by overly-westernized Hindus to the degree that misinformation and disinformation litter the debating field. How to Become a Hindu brings together for the first time the historic and contemporary views from scripture and powerful Hindu thinkers that clearly uphold and celebrate an easy, natural passage to Hinduism. Non-Hindus and Hindus alike will find insights and knowledge not normally found in conventional philosophic or theological books. Christians will benefit from the book's placing of ethical conversion on the interfaith discussion table, and gain perspective on the swelling migration to Asian religions. A finely-delineated comparison of the world faiths is included--probably the best available today--and a discussion on the four living sects of Hinduism. Also includes an extensive Hindu names list.

"How to Become a Hindu," like all of the Himalayan Academy Publication books, is distilled out of many years of insight and experience, as the author became the guide and minder of north Americans and Europeans of western faiths formally entering Hinduism. The book quilts together the stories of people migrating from a Western faith to Hinduism; provides a fascinating mirror on the subconscious processes of conversion, and offers an important little-heard debate on conversions that are ethical and fair; and those that are not.