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Do all followers of Ramakrishna Order take Puranic stories allegorically?
It is hard to definitively answer this question without a survey. Swami Vivekananda himself considered the question of historicity of the Puranas to be an unimportant issue. I think he preferred to ...
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What's the relationship between the importance of understanding Vedas properly and Vritrasura incident?
Why were these scriptures not
permitted to be written down? Because the sound of the Vedas cannot
be properly transcribed. There are sounds or phonemes that cannot be
accurately represented in any ...
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What's the relationship between the importance of understanding Vedas properly and Vritrasura incident?
Vedas are governed by six angas if one had dechiper true meaning of vedas they should have thorough knowledge on six angas
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Shiksha(phonetics) vyakharana(grammar) niruktha(eytomolgy),joytisha(...
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Do all followers of Ramakrishna Order take Puranic stories allegorically?
You have said that Swami Harshananda does not take puranic stories seriously. This is your opinion, he doesn't say that. You are projecting your own opinion. There is no 'dogma' as to whether any ...
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What is scope of arthavada in Hindu scriptures?
If one says everything is arthavada, scriptural study is simply a waste of time and better to leave it altogether. Where do we draw the line between arthavada and actual truth?
The belief that ...
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