HIndus familiar with Bible, please. Re: the concept of non-attachment.?

Question

Would you think it possible that the hidden message in the sin of Adam and Eve was something like "eating" (attachment to desire) the "fruit" (result or outcome) of "knowledge" (action or inaction)? Would you agree that it is indeed the mother of all sins, something that is still happening to Mankind even now?

han_ko_b has a good point. Maybe we should apply The Four Noble Truths to Sunday school,ha?

Answer 1

Read this book ....
The Yogi
By Parama Hamsa Yogananda

has some great descriptions
about chritianity

from spiritual observations

which very few christians may be knowing of -to my knowledge

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But from my ...
view point ....

What U all call a SIN .........
As per Hindu Scriptures ....in some places...

Sex is Divinity
Man + woman = Divinity
Shiv + Parvathi = Divinity

As per Islam
Marriage is 50% of Spiritual Realisation of Religion

SEX .........LUST
......are two entirely different concepts


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life is enternal search for truth
Truth is eternal Mirage
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More than Knowing Truth
Being with actual
real Spiritual / religious practices ...
Like ..........NAMAZ

IS THE MORE IMPORTANT THING

We can not reach God by
Theory ...
we can reach only by our soul and heart

with clean and neat ....lifestyles

We can NOT be with God
while we
Drink
SMOKE
Flirt
be careless
Cheat
ROB
Harm others

Confuse others with false....
RELIGIOUS TEXTS....

Answer 2

Well, I would say that they questioned and found truth but were punished for finding it. God would want you to know truth and would want you to eat from the tree of knowledge. That is an honorable goal. The real sin would be living life without knowing yourself. As far as attachment goes, you might be able to apply it mechanically to the Adam and Eve story but the spiritual outcome would be incorrect. Attachment in today's world does indeed cause a great deal of suffering but I'm still working on it. That's all I can do. The first step toward freedom is acknowledging recognizing that that is what we are doing. Me: Buddhist/Hindu/Spiritualist

Answer 3

Non attachment is doing an action as a matter of duty and without thinking about its result. Doing action in a detached manner is a very very difficult task and is a difficult concept to understand ! If you do , you will have attained the spiritual heights !Read Bhagwat Geeta ! Read it many a times and discuss with scholars ( not ones who are attached with any cult ) . That will help you understand lot of things. Get yourself familiar with the concept of Vedanta which is a critic of Vedas and propounds the theory about who I am and has a different take on concept of God and salvation.

Answer 4

The myth is a variation of a Babylonian myth and other ancient myths in which a serpent or sea monster is considered to be the primal matter or chaotic amorphous but essential stuff of existence (like Prakriti). It has latent power that can be transformed into wisdom (Kundalini Shakti). This motif is repeated in other myths about dragon-slaying heros etc in the western tradition and also in myths about heros saving damsels from dragons or imprisonment in towers).
In the earlier myths, a celestial deity or hero intervenes such that the serpentine deity is conquered and transformed --and thus the world of humans is created.

The Hebrew creation myth of Adam and Eve reinterprets this as a story about loss of innocence that perhaps comes through the realization of individuality and dualism. After Adam eats the apple, he realizes that he is "naked." He and Eve run off in shame to clothe themselves. This behavior "pisses off" God and the couple are expelled from Paradise, which itself perhaps symbolizes unitary bliss. Having become self-conscious, Adam and Eve and their descendants now have to struggle with being confounded by duality and ego-consciousness.

Some persons interpret the sin (eating the apple and the serpent motif) as loss of innocence through sexual intercourse (pleasure that is "sweet to the taste but burning in the stomach" as some celibate Hindu holy men have said), leading to childbirth and the vicissitudes and banallity of ordinary life.

Answer 5

I am not a hindu, but I do beleive there is a vitaly different concept of wrong in both religions.
The crucial sin in christianity is disobedience.
The crucial sin in hinduism is attachment.

From a spiritual personal perspective I think both hold true in different stages of development. I believe it is much easier to become obedient when we have conquered our attachment. To try it the other way around is sheer folly.

So perhaps to become a good christian we have to become a good hindu/buddhist first? lol

Answer 6

I'm a Christian familiar with Hinduism, but I hope I can respond. The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and Good and Evil, to me is allegorical in this sense and represents the "fall" of humanity into a state of consciousness, of naming and separating and judging and of losing touch with that sense of unknowing. As Jack Haas has said, that limited universe is one in which mystery and love fight for air and can only thrive when we allow ourselves to accept the wondering and the mystery that will always be the case.