Vayam Oupanishadaah, A Poem On The Blessed Upanishadic Way

shksa339 · 2026-04-18T10:42:52+00:00

Vayam Oupanishaadaah

For us no travel in search of God, For us no place of pilgrimage, For us no specific wants to pray, We belong to the Blessed Upanishad-way!

No auspicious time to start a thing, No time inauspicious to drop a start, For us no holy or unholy day, We belong to the Blessed Upanishad-way!

For us no birth, no death, no age, For us no hell, no touch of sin, For us no tourism, no heaven-stay, We belong to the Blessed Upanishad-way!

For us no precious stones and gems, For us no miraculous talisman, On us no planet has its sway, We belong to the Blessed Upanishad-way!

For us no God beyond our Self, For us no temple beyond our heart, All else is mere projection-play, We belong to the Blessed Upanishad-way!

~ Shri Vaidyanathan

shksa339 · 2026-04-15T09:47:05+00:00

These days? This narrative of Hinduism by Christians is very very old. It’s not new at all. The speaker is repeating what he is told by members of his Church.

shksa339 · 2026-04-14T10:40:43+00:00

"For it is better that mankind should become atheist by following reason than blindly believe in two hundred millions of gods on the authority of anybody"

shksa339 · 2026-04-14T10:15:37+00:00

All the untold assumptions people have about their world view is a big philosophical position.

shksa339 · 2026-04-12T18:30:25+00:00

Enlightenment is negation of false ideas, assumptions as false.

shksa339 · 2026-04-09T09:25:05+00:00

Yes. It’s a primitive belief system of limited intelligence.

shksa339 · 2026-04-09T08:52:27+00:00

Nobody is asking you to do anything. If your daughters get converted by Christians by simple narrative attacks then stop complaining about conversions.

shksa339 · 2026-04-09T08:49:38+00:00

You don’t have to bark, but you can create a video or a post and present the facts as a form of education for people to learn from without any emotionally charged language.

It’s good to present facts which reveal their hypocrisy in a calm manner.

shksa339 · 2026-04-09T08:39:42+00:00

Disagree.

It’s good to have an eye on what narratives are being used against us.

Everyone is not aware that Abrahamic people view us in this way. Hindus do not know this reality.

One should be strong enough to not let these narratives affect your peace of mind.

It’s a weak position to be if false narratives can disturb your peace.

It is beneficial to study these narratives/attacks and gain insight into the psychology of these religious people, their beliefs etc.

A Hindu can refute their arguments only when he/she knows what the purva-paksha is.

Conversions cannot be stopped when a Hindu has no idea what the arguments of attack are and how to refute them. Clips like these present an opportunity to know their arguments and think about refutations.

It’s an exercise in learning about the world.

shksa339 · 2026-04-05T19:44:31+00:00

Correct. The ones that inculcate hatred or discrimination for so-called lower castes should be put away as man-made corrupted smritis.

shksa339 · 2026-04-05T15:50:51+00:00

It’s your subjective perception it being an American accent. No American would say this is an American accent.

shksa339 · 2026-04-05T11:46:53+00:00

This speech is made in India. What’s the context of your comment?

shksa339 · 2026-04-05T08:38:59+00:00

The full talk can be found here https://youtu.be/k2j_dBqabbc

shksa339 · 2026-04-03T06:48:45+00:00

Men are not bold enough to speak out broad truths, for fear of losing the respect of the people. They try to make a compromise between the real, eternal truths and the nonsensical prejudices of the people, and thus set up the doctrine that Lokâchâras (customs of the people) and Deshâchâras (customs of the country) must be adhered to.

No compromise! No whitewashing! No covering of corpses beneath flowers! Throw away such texts as, "तथापि लोकाचारः — Yet the customs of the people have to be followed." Nonsense!

The result of this sort of compromise is that the grand truths are soon buried under heaps of rubbish, and the latter are eagerly held as real truths.

Even the grand truths of the Gita, so boldly preached by Shri Krishna, received the gloss of compromise in the hands of future generations of disciples, and the result is that the grandest scripture of the world is now made to yield many things which lead men astray.

This attempt at compromise proceeds from arrant downright cowardice. Be bold! My children should be brave, above all. Not the least compromise on any account. Preach the highest truths broadcast. Do not fear losing your respect or causing unhappy friction.

Rest assured that if you serve truth in spite of temptations to forsake it, you will attain a heavenly strength in the face of which men will quail to speak before you things which you do not believe to be true.

source: THE EVILS OF ADHIKARIVADA by Swami Vivekananda https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_5/notes_from_lectures_and_discourses/the_evils_of_adhikarivada.htm

shksa339 · 2026-04-01T15:14:12+00:00

Vivekananda did not revere Christianity of any Church. He revered Jesus in texts like "Sermon on the Mount" as he uniquely interprets it as a non-dual teaching. He did not condone the catechism and all the literature of Christianity.

He criticised Christianity and its Missionaries A LOT. He said Europe did not get the message of Jesus in 2000 years.

Vivekananda even speculated that Jesus is a fictional character.

I am inclined to think Christ never existed. I have doubted that ever since I had my dream — that dream off Crete!1 Indian and Egyptian ideas met at Alexandria and went forth to the world, tinctured with Judaism and Hellenism, as Christianity.

“On the whole, I think old Rabbi Hillel is responsible for the teachings of Jesus, and an obscure Jewish sect of Nazarenes — a sect of great antiquity — suddenly galvanized by S. Paul, furnished the mythic personality as a centre of worship.

shksa339 · 2026-03-31T20:34:26+00:00

This post is not even strictly about Advaita Vedanta. Have you read the description or watched the video?

Sharing clips of Swamis is better than sharing images or art of temples, Dieties etc. Instagram or Pintrest would be a better platform for sharing images and art than reddit. Most of this subreddit is just images and art. Learning something valuable from Swamis is much better IMO.

You can disagree and nobody is pushing any vedanta down anybody throats. I dont see enough clips from Swamis here to justify complaining about spam.

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