The interesting thing is that we are struggling over the same issues that the Christians are in Western society. That suggests there is a single, secular Western influence that is driving the challenge to traditional morality in both the Christian and Vedic traditions.Continue Reading
Their form of worship was ‘to a very large extent disgusting and even immoral’, and the Hindu himself suffered from ‘unparalleled sexual degradation’. In the eyes of the Christian Literary Society of Madras, Krishna, quite simply, was an adulterer and fornicator. In fact, in 1862, Sir Mathew Sausse, a BritishContinue Reading
“Some philosophers say that because of the first living entity’s sin, all the other living entities are imprisoned in the material world. Later, punishing Himself for their sins, God delivers the living entities.” “Deliberating on the virtues and faults of this world, some moralistic monotheists concluded that the material worldContinue Reading
“Regarding your question about Lord Jesus Christ, we accept him as saktyavesa avatara. Lord Buddha is in the same category also. Lord Buddha is mentioned specifically in Srimad-Bhagavatam as an incarnation of Godhead, and yet Vaisnavas do not accept his philosophy, which is classified as atheism. Similarly, even if weContinue Reading