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Ravindra Kumar S R rated it liked it Jul 01, Instead of trying to influence me he was quite receptive and open to what I was attempting. The book emphasizes how David Frawley came to understand and join Hindu Dharma and become a Hindu teacher or Hindu Dharma Pracharaka, which remains central to all his work. I gradually studied the ancient history of other lands, particularly ancient Persia, which also had a special pull for me.
In the teachings of the Advaitic sage Ramana Maharshi I discovered a Vedanta that was alive and intellectually sophisticated, yet spiritually profound and experiential.
As such it holds the keys to the pre-Christian beliefs that all cultures once had and many people still jow. I found a small statue of Lord Skanda that I bought and put into my nap sack.
I began my own journey to the East. But boys will be boys and play games together, regardless of their family faiths. Along with my drawley and political friends I started to regard the hippie movement as rather superficial, anti-intellectual and hedonistic.
I remember doing prayers hinfu atone for my little 38 How I Became a Hindu – David Frawley sins, which seemed like major soul failings at the time. I also remember reading Herman Hesse’s Journey to the East. Bu I hadn’t actually been to India, though I almost made it twice. I wouldn’t read or study American authors except for Thoreau. At the same time Ramana was not trapped in tradition or ceremony, mere book learning or dry ritual. Phanindra rated it liked it Jul 11, The Sun, day, dawn, fire, and ocean were archetypes of inner processes.
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Many American born Sufis viewed Sufism in a yogic way. I particularly enjoyed the French symbolist poets like Rimbaud and Mallarme who had a mystic vision. Retrieved from ” https: It is a lucid account of Shri Vamadeva Shastri Dr.
I became involved in the anti-war movement and participated in several anti-war protests. Hjndu doubt it has done this for many children throughout the world, who then as adults feel compelled to perpetuate the same abuse on their own children in the name of becoming good Christians. Understanding who we are is yindu Hindu and Vedic path.
Besides the Vedantic view was quite open and not dogmatic. I was not attending church but I had not left its influence entirely behind me either.
How I Became a Hindu: My Discovery of Vedic Dharma by David Frawley
With the idea of Pure Being I felt on a firm ground and knew that a greater truth and peace enveloped the universe, but that the intellect was probably not the right vehicle to understand it. It must have been spring of The professor was also quite disappointing. It is not about conversion but about self-knowledge and about cosmic knowledge because who we are 16 How I Became a Hindu – David Frawley is linked to the entire universe. Hundreds of students gathered at these and discussed a wide variety of issues but mainly about how to start a revolution in the United States, which we all felt was a necessity.
The book emphasizes how Vamadeva Shastri came to understand and join Hindu Dharma and become a Hindu teacher or Hindu dharma pracharak, which remains central to all his work. There is no more only one true religion for everyone than there is only one true race, language or way of life.
This article relies too much on references to primary sources. The human world seemed like a confined sphere, a prison filled with conflict and suffering, marked by the clash of human emotions, shifting desires and instinctual needs. We cannot study the outer in one pass; we must look at different portions of it and proceed in stages. I learned to look back from Advaita Vedanta through the Upanishadsinto the mantras of the Rig Veda, seeing how the path of Self-realization was there in the earliest hymns.
It reflected the soul and its perennial aspiration for the Divine that seemed obvious to me. While I enjoyed their images and ideas I felt that their style of expression had become crude.
At one savid I considered joining the more militant groups, but was held becqme by my pacifistic nature. My remarks created a lot of commotion and the priest was shaken. Psychology was another interesting topic that I discovered, including Freud’s ideas on sex, which helped liberate me from my Catholic background, but I felt that he had not understood the deeper levels of the mind and its creative process.
I was inspired by some inner energy to write a set of poems about the ancient dawns and the ancient suns that directed me back to the Vedas. The temple has bceame own Divine presence that has nourished many great sages and yogis.
More importantly, they had methods to reach higher states of consciousness, while the intellectual tradition of the West could only conceptualize about it. Most are content with negative stereotypes that make them feel comfortable about their own religions.
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Yet religion offered some means of access to that other mystical world, or at least I thought that it did. I had studied a Sanskrit through the years and already had Sanskrit texts of the Vedas and Upanishads to start with. Pandit, the secretary of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
As the sole surviving member of the Old Religion, Hinduism provides us many insights to recognize the universality and perenniality of the spiritual quest. I have become a worker in this field and hope that my contribution encourages others to join this great cause. It is a reencounter with the spiritual roots of humanity that we have long forgotten or denigrated.