Religion & Spirituality - 22 October 2006

1. a morality based on empathy, sympathy, education, experience and common sense.

2. a morality based on fear of punishment and hope of reward

2006-10-22 02:16:22 · 7 answers · asked by Cindy 2

2006-10-22 02:12:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-22 02:11:33 · 28 answers · asked by Cindy 2

The total inert and conscious world (the universe) and the knowledge of its beginning to end is theme of spirituality. The improvement of the consciousness in the human being is possible through the spiritual knowledge only. The process of gaining spiritual knowledge is religion. Religion helps in the upliftment of human being from a mere living being to the divine stage. Knowing the truth and realizing it, is Wisdom.
BISMILLAHIRRAHMANIRRAHIMI. Let’s start with the name of the great Almighty of the universe and the non-material personality who is the creator of the universe. Almighty is one. This eternal existence which is one, is God. In different scriptures the right way to attain God has been described. The improvement out of them are (Gyan) wisdom yoga. Bhakti (loyal) yoga, karma (duty) yoga, and sahaj (simple) yoga, and raj yoga. The process of achieving the final destination of religion is called “yoga”. According to which a person can experience the divine form of himself. The scriptures have divided into Hinduism, Sikhism, Christianity, Islamic etc. All these are principles which are associated with our mature conscience, and these are produces of it. Those who believe in Geeta,, Veda and mythology are called Hindus. Adapters of Guru granthsahib are the Sikhs. Believers of “Koran” are called Muslims. Believers of “Torah” are called Jews. And the believers of ‘angels’ are called Christians. Sabai are those people who used to believe in the angles and used to respect “hajarat ibrahim” also.
Vedas, Vedvyas, Balmiki, Buddha, Mahavir, Mohammed, Jesus, Kabir, Nanak are the original path shower to us. Later on their followers and the saints like Sankaracharya, Tussidas, Guru Govind Singh, Guru Ghasidas, Satyasai Baba, Lord Chaitanya, Dada Lekhraj, Anibesant, Dayanand Saraswati, S. Ramdas, Shriramkrishna Paramhansa, Shri Ramsharma “Acharya”. Rajnish (OSHO) etc. became teacher, path shower and the messenger of peace to us. They are the persons who taught us the reality of life. They taught us to overcome the hurdles in life. They also tried to open the facts of life, death, and the entanglements faced after death. Every one of us know and respect above those, but why don’t we abide by the path shown by them, why ? If you are being questioned which religion you believe in, then you name a religion too quickly. But do you really believe in that religion ? if you understand it well, then have you ever tried to go with it? If you have tried so, then why are not you successful ? why this discontentment ? Why this fear and misery ?
The answer is-you have faith neither in yourself nor in your religion. If you had faith in it, you would not have overlooked it. The reason behind it is that, your conscience does not allow you to believe in a matter imposed on you. Wise people with imposed knowledge have described distorted meaning of all realities. Here, not the religion but the ignorance of the persons explaining is should be blamed. Your religion is true, but you neither obey to it nor you try to know about it, because the satan inside you (selfishness) dominating your humanity. And it is more powerful then the later. These are those “Yahoba” and the black cobra of lord Krishna, who have gripped us from the roots. This is the origin of our mirage, fear, sorrows, wickedness, laziness, jealousy, arrogance, anger, and violence are the father of all flaws.
You take away the happiness of others for your own happiness. You blame the almighty when you get tortured by others. What have you done in you life ? you lived for yourself, you snatched away the happiness of others for your own happiness. Today you are troubled and disturbed. Now you posses nothing even after having every thing. You cannot eat or sleep properly. How many people are happy with you ? Love you ? Respect you ? you are defeated in every aspect of life. You will be in a misery all your life, and after death – what you do not want______________? What did you get from the people who you thought to be you own, for whom you sacrificed whole of you life, whole of your happiness, whole of your desire and every thing ? You can never get anything, Because in an intention to satisfy one, haven’t you possibly put some other in a grief ? Ask the Satan inside you. You are building temples, mosque, churches and gurudwara snatching others bread away, and thinking you got atonement for all sins committed by you. No, till your good deeds do not dominate the bad deeds, the discontent ness will never spare you.

2006-10-22 02:03:47 · 15 answers · asked by ibkhandel 2

Can we expect that God will get as ****ed off as he was just before the flood, and go back to the drawing board again?
Who would be on the "Ark"?

2006-10-22 02:03:41 · 11 answers · asked by hog b 6

I mean when Jesus was crucufied (christians believe) how does that exactly mean he forgave people's sins, i mean the people who who crucufied him, romans, jews,and others did not belive in him thats why he was crucufied, so i dont seem to understand that bit, please explain

2006-10-22 02:03:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

yet they represent up to 10-16 percent of the general population.

sample : "of those executed for murder 65% were
Catholics, 26% Protestants, 6% Hebrew, 2% Pagan, and less than 1/3 of 1%
non-religious."

Now I thought that it was us non religious folk who were the ones with no sense of morality yet we make up a tiny proportion of the prison population compared to our general numbers.

To put it simply

78 % of the US population is christian and 84 % of the prison population is christian yet 10-16 % of the US population is non religious yet they ony represent 0.3 % of the prison population.

Why do you think this is so ?

Surely all the "nasty" secular people should have a disproportionate amount in prisons.

Sources

The Federal Bureau of Prisons

"The New Criminology," Max D. Schlapp and Edward E. Smith

2006-10-22 02:02:36 · 7 answers · asked by Cindy 2

2006-10-22 02:02:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

but Israel wants to live in pease with it's neighbouring countries.

2006-10-22 01:58:35 · 13 answers · asked by Better life @ Better world.com 1

2006-10-22 01:56:34 · 17 answers · asked by owner4nothing 3

I am a full time student but i have a part tiem job and money saved up. Do i have the obligation of zakah?

2006-10-22 01:55:30 · 9 answers · asked by cool_boarder_uk 1

2006-10-22 01:55:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does God love me if I love Him and I love people, or Does He love me unconditionally just because I Believe that Jesus died for my sins ?

2006-10-22 01:52:48 · 9 answers · asked by TALITA KUMI 2

How does one get their name written in the Book of Life, and when? The Bible says if your name isn't in it, then you will be thrown into the Lake of Fire.

2006-10-22 01:50:22 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I would be grateful for information that can't be found in tourist books, or just something you yourself consider to be special. Thank you!

2006-10-22 01:49:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-22 01:47:18 · 7 answers · asked by yeh mate 1

God blessed my life so much in the last year and I wish people could feel what I feel. God speaks to me daily and I just wondered if anyone else has this perfect relationship with him as I do? (When I say God I mean the trinity God,Holy Spirit, and Jesus.)
***a must read!!! John Bevere, A heart ablaze, Igniting a passion for God***

2006-10-22 01:47:11 · 7 answers · asked by rebecca 1

Dr Abdulhaqim Quick,Jamal Zarabozo,Abu Amina Bilal Philips,Yusuf Islam,Yusuf Estes,AbdulRahman Green and there are many more from different part of the world.... is there anything missing from Modern Christianity that can only be found in Islam - or something valueable hidden in Islam that can only be found by convertee.
I can even trace back from the beautiful stories of Salman Farsi (Mercy of God be upon him) who was then a Christian and then converted to Islam by the time of Prophet Muhammad SAW.

2006-10-22 01:46:10 · 10 answers · asked by justiceonthemove 3

the devil or god? or something else???

2006-10-22 01:46:05 · 8 answers · asked by Julz H 2

Just don't tell me that because God can do anything, so He can have a son without a wife.

Behold! the angels said: "O Mary! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, held in honour in this world and the Hereafter and of (the company of) those nearest to Allah; "He shall speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. And he shall be (of the company) of the righteous." She said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man hath touched me?" He said: "Even so: Allah createth what He willeth: When He hath decreed a plan, He but saith to it, 'Be,' and it is! "And Allah will teach him the Book and Wisdom, the Law and the Gospel (Qur'an, 3:45-48)

2006-10-22 01:44:55 · 12 answers · asked by mutmainnah 3

2006-10-22 01:42:39 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

In 1600 Father giordano Bruno was executed by the Catholic Church as a Heretic.
Among his various heresies was support of the Copernican model which said that the Earth was not the center of the Universe and that the Earth revolved around the Sun,rather than the other way around as the Church taught.

He also taught the theory that stars were simply other Suns which could also have planets around them,and those planets could have life,in other words he was one of the earliest proponents of extraterrestrial life. He was not necessarily the first to propose these ideas but he helped advance the ideas better than most, and he was one of the first to stand up for his ideas upto death. At his trial he said "Perhaps you,my Judges,pronounce this sentence with greater fear than I receive it" when sentenced to death. Obviously much of what he's taught has already been proven,so if a UFO landed today confirming the rest,would the chuch apologize to him and others like him they killed??

2006-10-22 01:36:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mav wonder - what is Kwanzaa? Mav know it's an African American celebration, but that's about it.
Mav have funny story about Kwanzaa. Mavs girl offspring born Dec 26. They tell her in school that Kwanzaa start Dec 26. Mav girl offspring was only 7. She thought it would be a grand was ot celebrate her birthdeay!!
Mav not African American.

2006-10-22 01:36:04 · 6 answers · asked by Mav here! 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal

2006-10-22 01:35:39 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Questions are simply that. Why take offence to what is supposed to be helping you? Didn't Jesus himself say "Keep testing to see whether you are still in the faith?" - 2 Coninthians 13:5 and to 'search the scriptures daily' - Acts 17:11?

2006-10-22 01:33:02 · 15 answers · asked by brmwk 3

2006-10-22 01:30:13 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a learning disability in the area and nice to see so many share it with me.

2006-10-22 01:29:52 · 6 answers · asked by icheeknows 5

Here who thinks the parents today are the ones damaging the morals of their children by not being the parents they should be? I have heard many people here say that Bush has flushed our children down the toilet basically and totally demolished their morals. Is it just me who thinks you have to be the one to instill morals in your children and make sure you denounce those things around you that do not agree with the standards you have set for them? And why do we keep holding up the fact that Bush claims to be a god fearing man? If you do not believe he is then isn't it up to you to teach your children what a God Fearing person should do and say? Shouldn't we be leading by example instead of laying blame at someone elses doorstep?

2006-10-22 01:23:57 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mavs new name is Jamillah Angela Mav. Mavs's name is spiritual. Her name means Beautiful Messanger of God Mav.
Mavs initials are JAM!
So Jamillah A Mav give you message from God.
Are you ready
Give everyone a chance,
Show love to those you despise.
Show God's love with a smile to someone who needs it.

What change you willing to make?

2006-10-22 01:21:52 · 7 answers · asked by Mav here! 4

In the beginning, at the time of creation of nature only one element was present in the vast universe of infinity, which is called the prime element or the God. In course of time it condensed into an energy element and then from energy it transformed into a solid element, which again got divided into seven re-transformed parts in course of time. These divided parts are earth (surface), water, air, fire (energy) consciousness, sky, and arrogance. In the seven elements were carried the truth (Positive), essence (Neutral) and sin (Negative) is equal proportion like wise in the whole universe there is a creation on 21 type of matters. These 21 maters constitute the whole universe. And divide themselves in to count less numbers of atoms. During the developing period of universe, in a desire to develop themselves the atoms carried on improving themselves spontaneously and gradually up to conscious soul, generally. Some highly developed carried high consciousness and divine power in them. The atoms of the universe are trying to go further ahead in the way of superiority.
If we take the milk as prime element, then curd, cheese, butter, buttermilk, butter oil, and creams etc. are the byproducts of it. Bacteria is cultured in the curd. Cheese is not active but the bacteria’s are active like wise, the matter, the living being and the ‘spheres’ are developed from the prime elements. The cause of the matter is energy and the energy is the condensed form of prime element (the essential elements of the universe).
The soul enters into the man though breathing to become the part of his cell, again to form into the sperm, and after that it take the form of a foetus in mother’s womb. Every atoms are well equipped to form alive. Wherever co-incidence occurs they become activated. And congruous to the developed state of own, with the help of other germs and atoms they take the form of a full bodied species.
Every atom has a free existence which is made of a part from the supreme element. Whatever is there in this universe, is existing from the beginning, will remain there. Only the shape and the size of it changes. Nothing reduces or increases.
The day atoms go back to there original position they will achieve salvation. Conversion of soul into super element is salvation.
This undivided infinite existing one is God. The soul, germs and the atoms are tiny parts of it. Like a stone and the molecules in it. Countless numbers of molecule combine together to form a stone. Likewise the tenure and the dominance of God are spread in molecules to molecules. This is a fact. An eternal truth.

2006-10-22 01:19:06 · 7 answers · asked by ibkhandel 2