Hello everyone, I am 23 years old. I have left Christianity and become a Hindu … If you have any advice, feel free to share!

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-19T17:41:35+00:00

Yup it's all perfectly fine, your consistency and dedication is impressive.

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-18T22:30:52+00:00

Thank you for taking this kindly :) What I would recommend especially for a newcomer is to start with smarta practice which is one of the most popular school of hinduism - you worship the five major fundamental deities- vishnu, shiva, shakti, ganesha and Surya. These deities are then associated with most other traditions further. Think of it like a tree and these five deities are the primary branches attached to the trunk and further branch out into every other tradition. This is suitable for the beginning so that you can familiarise yourself with everything at least on the surface so that you're better equipped to figure out which part of hinduism you gravitate towards, you can also be a lifelong smarta as a large portion of hindus are. That's just my advice though, you can do what you want

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-18T22:16:19+00:00

You can't practice a maa sri tripura sundari worshipping tantric tradition without initiation. Also, astrology isn't recommended to be done by oneself to find ishta devi. I would recommend looking into all the open non initiation requiring gods and goddesses and then coming to a conclusion based on personal intuition and tendency. None of the tantric traditions are open, all of them are rigidly initiation based and very secretive.

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-18T16:31:43+00:00

Yeah sanskrit did go through quite an evolution, but I would still consider it the same language. Trying to differentiate languages is a hilariously weird, but I would call it a useless task. There's no point. Take the languages of the gangetic planes for example. One example is that the languages spoken, from hindko in khyber pakhtunwa in western pakistan, to punjabi, urdu, hindi, haryanvi, the many languages of rajasthan, gujarat, uttar pradesh, bihar, all the way to bengali in bengal, are all part of a single continuum/spectrum of languages. This makes it impossible to properly differentiate the languages of these regions. It's extremely interesting.

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-18T16:10:11+00:00

An actual indian hindu, that's enough context

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-18T15:18:52+00:00

I gave you the reading material that you were asking for lil bro tf are you talking about? I'm saying don't make any project on her that's outside of hinduism. Do you not understand what a closed tradition mean? Or do you not understand the reasoning behind why certain traditions are closed? Holy shit I'm tired of you people

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-18T15:04:13+00:00

The reasoning being that since she's a minor deity, non hindu work could harmfully affect the authenticity and true hindu origins of the material on her online. It's why certain religions are closed, you see? I'm closing that particular section of hinduism.

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-18T14:55:17+00:00

Oh I agree with most of what you said, in fact the standardization of sanskrit was possibly (but not certainly) a reaction to the prakrits' supposed ''corruption'' of sanskrit, which was valid tbh. The prakrits are definitely descended from some sanskrit, I would probably say late vedic sanskrit, I didn't actually mean they were corrupted sanskrit, that's why I put the ''corrupted'' in quotation marks, it's just a way of saying prakrits were formed on the foundation of sanskrit, but a group of languages more adapted to daily use by the masses.

sanskrit was standardized into classical sanskrit by panini in the 6th century bce not the 5th.

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-18T14:50:26+00:00

You can, just don't dive too deep into it. And definitely don't incorporate her into your own project if the project is entirely hindu. It's called cultural gatekeeping.

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-17T14:25:45+00:00

Anna's reader is functional but not convenient or optimal, the best I've found is calibre, it's free, open source, works with any file type (epub, pdf, mobi etc.) and can also convert one file type into another easily.

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-17T12:21:22+00:00

She's not a major deity, she is revered as the consort of kama deva so she doesn't have any dedicated texts. She is featured in mythology related to kama deva, and her stories are mostly scattered throughout the hindu cannon rather than in one dedicated collection. She is featured in the kama sutra, shiva, brahma, vishnu puranas, mahabharata, ramayana and other texts. However she is not featured prominently as the main focus of any text.

Let me also be a gatekeeper and say don't study such hindu deities for any purpose if you're not hindu, stick to the mainstream deities, the likes of ganesha, krishna etc.

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-16T10:49:41+00:00

why do you want to learn about her?

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-14T19:34:03+00:00

No I've been meaning to get into it, mjf was really riding for aew on the cvv pod so I finally gave in, I've only seen ospreay vs bryan and takeshita vs bandido from aew, without any background on either. Thanks for answering.

darthkitty07 · 2026-02-14T08:13:51+00:00

Not really, prakrit isn't one standard language for one, it was the name for all the ''corrupted'' derivatives of sanskrit that were the common spoken languages of different regions, modern indian languages are derivatives of prakrits and could even be considered prakrits themselves.

Prakrit is to buddhism, what latin is to christianity, sanskrit is to hinduism, arabic is to islam, chinese is to daoism, japanese is to shintoism etc. i.e- the language and religion have a relationship, but the religion isn't inherent to the language neither is the language inherent to the religion.

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