so another flavor to hinduism. comments you might have, in general, on the hare krishna? janet, i wanted to ask you if what he's saying about the chanting corresponds to some of your experience, along these lines? i mean, does that what the - when you were chanting, to start it out, is it calling forth the name of god in a kind of a, how would you say, asking god to come down, that sort of thing? >> actually, i was taught it's a prayer of thankfulness, it's a prayer of gratitude to recognize that patanjali has given so many great gifts to humans. and so it's a recognition of the gifts that he's given - and the gratitude. so it's said more with a tone of gratitude. >> and that's what we heard when we spoke in class with the hare krishnas and they were opened up to that. god to them is very much a personal deity. you see, we're getting a little bit of variation there. they're not going to go with that monist idea, the "not two" idea, the dante idea - they want krishna there; they want rama. and if you've had a chance to look at their literature or go into one of their templ

so in the next class, hinduism.

here we're looking at buddhism and hinduism.here, you're one with the mind of the universe, through meditation - very common in buddhism and hinduism. and we'll talk to a hindu swami, who will speak very articulately about how his meditation brings him to a oneness with the consciousness that is the mind of brahman, or god, in the hindu pontience [sp], so we'll look at that. and it doesn't mean that christianity or judaism or islam is left out of the mystical picture because we have the theist tradition - popular in eastern orthodox christianity, and we'll talk to folks in that area, but one - well, here's an icon. if you can see this icon here from the eastern orthodox church in caana, where jesus turned water into wine. a deeply devout eastern orthodox person would not just see a picture of one of the ancient saints or martyrs - that's a window into heaven; that's a window up through theosis that draws the believer into an identity and relationship where that line between identity and relationship is erased and they are one in

so we see a hinduism develop in india. we see buddhism develop at a little bit later time. and if you do world religions, you realize how interesting that most of the great traditions, given all of human history - our egyptian folks predate the great world traditions, their religious systems, those archaic systems - but how interesting, in roughly, what, about 1,000, 2,000 years, give or take - who's counting - you see the great world religious traditions develop. and if you look at it from an evolutionary perspective, you might say that human beings reached a point of more complexity in terms of boundary questions, more complexity in terms of the difficulty of identity and relationship, more complexity about meeting those psychological, emotional, and physical needs that they had. and so we begin to see, in different cultures, hinduism develop, judaism, buddhism, christianity, daoism, alternative religions - in other words, when we take our textbook that we're using in here, if you pick up any textbook on world religions, in one sense, we're being purposely simple; in one

and out of that we get a whole new religious movement developing - the same story that we get with hinduism and buddhism; the buddha was a good hindu, but began to have different interpretations, and thus we see a whole new religious movement development. see, we're getting a nice setup here for our six dimensions, because you can see, as they move, as they structure, as they come together, that's the potential for new religions to development. yeah, larry? >> yeah, especially jesus on the like relational level was suggesting a whole new way of relating to women and the children. it used to be that you could just cast your wife out, it's not big deal, or if she has adultery, just stone her, it's like, so what. but jesus saying, to the traditional jews, there's better ways to have a society. and he even was, i think, one of the first religious teachers to say, "you know, these children have some value too." >> very inclusive, and you get that... >> but i'm going to your six dimensions that this is a very important thing about relationships that is even more important, i think, than the doctr

>> yes, i mean, it comes from most power lineally from hinduism but it also comes from the greeks. there actually was a discussion early on in christianity about whether there was a way to coordinate reincarnation beliefs with the greeks for christianity and the folks who wanted to lost. >> is there a religionian christians are practicing other beliefs and definitions of other religions? >> definitely. >> true of christians, one out of four believe in reincarnations, does it work the other way, does a buddhist in any way seek out and adopt the beliefs of christians? >> yes, they do and that's one of the themes of my book that the drama has said jesus is a boddi saki a great spiritual giant. jews have said similar thing, a hindu divinity and incorrespond natured in earth. you can find hindu temples that will have christmas eve devoted to jesus. >> you know about the doctrine of the virgin birth. >> yes, i do. >> that means that mary conceived independently of any male traditionally instrumentality. how many non-christians believe in the virgin birth? >> you're really quizzing me tod

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