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Time isnt real its just maya

I honestly think Hindus and Muslims have a lot in common than different. Sure, we may have idol-worship, but it's not exactly idol-worship. We don't "worship" the idol itself. The idol is a representation of the God. And Hinduism is monotheistic as well, the Gita at it's final verses calls to surrender to one Lord.
Casting all philosophical considerations aside, there is a lot of cultural similarity as well. Both Hindus and Muslims have tight-knit families with massive repercussions for out-marriage. Adding to this, traditional Hindu women are still expected to cover up, although not to the same extent as Muslims.
Hindus also know a lot about Islam through cultural exchange that took place for a millennia. We are perhaps the most culturally aware non-Muslims towards Muslims. Our language is filled with Islamic references and words. When I was in UK, many Arab acquaintances were surprised how accurately I was able to pronounce Arabic phrases and words.
Most of us grew up around Muslims, mosques, and friends. Every morning I wake up to the daily morning azaan from the mosque, followed by Sanskrit chanting at the nearby temple dedicated to Goddess Durga. I still wish "Eid Mubarak" to all my friends, regardless of their religion, and Muslims in my locality still burst firecrackers and light up their homes during Diwali.

Hindu Nationalists and Islamists, along with the press media of India and Pakistan, make it seem like the two groups are eternally at war, this is not so. When Hindus were being slaughtered in Kashmir, many Muslim families volunteered to shelter them. When Muslims were being slaughtered in Gujarat, there were many Hindu families offering shelter to escaping Muslims. These stories are unheard because they are not as dramatic as the story of a Hindu priest being lynched by a Muslim mob or the story of a pregnant Muslim woman being slaughtered by a Hindu Nationalist Death Squad.

"Hindi hai hum, vatan hai Hindustan hamara."

yeah. Davitri Sevi.

>Casting all philosophical considerations aside, there is a lot of cultural similarity as well
Not with mine. Barely been any Islamic influence.
>Our language is filled with Islamic references and words
Only yours
>Most of us grew up around Muslims, mosques, and friends
Ok
>around Muslims, mosques, and friends. Every morning I wake up to the daily morning azaan from the mosque, followed by Sanskrit chanting at the nearby temple dedicated to Goddess Durga.
Ew, no. I woke up to neither because there’s a court order on early morning din.
>”Hindi hai hum, vatan hai Hindustan hamara."
unironically neck yourself.

Keep your MENA cuckoldry bullshit to yourself. Or on MENA general itself. And take your Hindi along with you. Hindi tumhara, mera nahin.

Kept saying it everytime, this Bengali MENA autist embarrasses is at every instant. Fucking northie dimwits, imagine the audacity to think everyone is part of “Islamic” culture or wakes up to “Azans” or whatever the fuck that is. Does that mean reading the namaaz? On top of that, Hindi my ass, this is why I loathe North Indians especially the liberal type autists like this retarded MENA cuck

There are 3 indian religious philosophies

where self and god mean inherently existent entities:
1. There is god (with or without self)
2. There is a self but no god.
3. There is no self nor god.

Note: The proponents of no self do not deny that there is a sense of self in perception and language. They just dont say its actually refering to a real thing.

Note: god means not a big man in the sky but a substantial ultimate reality which underpins all phenomena - whether it is formless or with form is a different debate.

The first splits into 4.
1a. There is self and god - they are separate
1b. There is self and god - they are identical ergo there is only really god
1c. There is self and god - they are the same but in a qualified sense (ie only god really exist but god is actually characterised by multiplicity of entities and phenomena)
1d. There is self and god - they are both different and the same - self is something separate from god but that could not exist without it.

3. Also splits into two.
3a. There is no god or self in absolute terms but conventionally a self exists and be used as a conventional substrate to pin prescriptive morality onto
3b.There is no god or self in absolute terms. There is a conventional self which is arbitrary and because all things are sort of arbitrary you can't really know so just do whatever you want and enjoy life

note that these divisions are very fuzzy around the edges. particularly the 1a-d which have various iterations that basically assent and then disagree with each other almost spontaneously. 1b is sometimes accused of being 3 and 3 and 2 often slip into 1 territory.

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*lights sandalwood agarbati*
I wake up before sunrise and immediately offer prayers to Krishna, then I do pranam to the deity of the sun, Surya, as the sun slowly rises from the horizon with the drone of the tanpura, next proceed to a shower, clean my teeth using a Neem twig.

I sit in padmasana facing either north or east on a pure sheet positioned on pure grounds, that remains undisturbed by any other object or article. I take 3 sippings of holy water and proceed to put on my forehead, bosom and tow arms a round mark of red powder (tilak). I then meditate on brahman itself for several minutes, before bowing and chanting mantras to the murtis of 5 deities (namely Vishnu, Shiva, Ganesh, Devi and Surya, also known as Panchayatana puja) as a means to raise to higher planes of the swinging pendulum of birth to death to rebirth (in order to the avoid duldrums of lower planes of existence which ulitmately distract the finite brain from contemplation of atman and brahman).

I've read the Puranas 108 times already and can recite Vedas and Upanishads off by heart, all in their original sanskrit. I've also studied the systems of logic from Nyaya, wrote commentaries on Nastika metaphysics of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika, Advaita and Dvaita shashtras on ontology, the mathematics of Aryabhatta and countless Sutras on all topics and fields.

I avoid all tamasic foods and activities and try to avoid maya (worldly pleasures and attachments) as much as possible, as such all I own is an saffron shawl and i spoil all morsels of food with drops of water, to dull the taste (attachment to sensory pleasures only leads to misery and suffering). I do this because the entire material universe is a merely a distraction from reuniting the soul with the unknowable, infinite and immutable mind that underlies everything one materially senses. I haven't deliberately looked at a woman in 3 years (let alone touched or spoken to one) and I subsist solely off of begging for alms.

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This thread is a mess like avengers movies

Thanks lad. Needed to calm down after the MENA autist made me seethe

>was living in Bhutan for a while
>applied for job right before I had to return home
>they were supposed to interview all the candidates and make a decision by Wednesday last week
>only received an email that they haven't finished the interviews yet and it will take a while longer
reeeeee
I just wanna go back, the uncertainty is killing me
also all my summer plans are up in the air, I want to be able to commit to something

>cringe

youtu.be/ROTqkXshBPk good wholesome content
Also changing the r to d because d is used more than r when saying Pahari/Pahadi
Azaan is when the mullahs shout allahu akbar from their towers

Im looking for a job in the hills as well. Don't white guys have to be 250 dollars per day or something to be in Bhutan?

As a tourist, yeah.
I was there on a student visa before (although in reality did more like an internship) and if I'd go back it would be on a work permit.

Kickass. Bhutan is amazing. Parts of it looked like what I'd imagine rural Japan to look like. Though the place is flooded with cringy bengali tourists and honeymoon couples.

Was at thimpu and paro and phobjika. Where did you travel to?

There’s literally a court order in Tamil Nadu to not play any religious music be it Hindu or Muslim or Christian from 5-7 am in the mornings. I’ve genuinely never heard of morning namaaz reading or Hindu devotional songs in the past ten or eleven years and I’ve lived in both Chennai city and the suburbs.

By Hindi he meant Indian citizen, not Hindi language. Anyway, Hindi language should be imposed everywhere too. I don't agree with the rest of his cucked bullshit. Fuck islam

Based user. Glad to meet a logical user here

I met some bhutani guys during an ISO training session. They worked for metrology department of Bhutan government

I lived in Thimphu and didn't get much time off from work unfortunately. I visited Paro a bunch of times, went to Phobjikha (fucking amazing place) for a few days, took a day trip to Lobesa to visit a friend, and then I also went East to Kanglung in Trashigang twice to teach some guest lectures at the college there. Once I went back and forth by bus (two days in a cramped vehicle just for one way), the second time I took a plane.

Do Indians also need route permits to visit districts other than Thimphu and Paro, or are you exempt from that as well?

I think we are exempt from road passes but I'm not sure about other districts.

Man, I miss that place and I probably won't get to go ther again. Stayed at this place called Naxel in paro. A bit outside of the main tourist drag but was probably the best place I've lived in. And such nice people.

Most awkward thing that happened was that me and my brother got invited to a ''""party """" we reached the place and realized it was a hooker bar. Noped the fuck out of that place.

Strangely enough, the only place where I've ever actually heard an azaan in India was Goa of all places. Even at my relatives house in Agra, I never heard one. Either because they live far from any mosque, or I just managed to sleep through it. My relatives in Goa live near a mosque it seems, so when I heard it for the first time I was very confused. My uncle would always make remarks like "come on, time to go offer your prayers to Allah for the 3rd time" whenever we heard it. I remember one time I was playing carrom with my cousin and it started playing and I got distracted and flicked the striker into my cousin's face.

What part of India would /sag/ posters want to visit the most ? No meme answers

Para mi, es el Puri Shri Jagannath temple

>American-Iran war on the horizon
>I'm a Shia with family in Pakistan
>If the war starts Shia everywhere will be attacked
and it all comes tumbling down

Nagaland and Sikkim, I met some people from there and they showed me pretty pictures. I like mountains obviously.

The far northwest of India looks beautiful but is obviously not such a good idea to visit. Besides that I unironically want to visit Bodh Gaya

Are you a Buddhist? Bodh gaya is in one of the worst province of India.

>American-Iran war on the horizon
Not happening
>I'm a Shia with family in Pakistan
There’s Shias in India too
>If the war starts Shia everywhere will be attacked
By Sunni Muslims too? Won’t they stand by their Shia brothers?

>Shia brothers
Nice joke

Anyone else staple their finger by accident?
In my college we have this huge stapler which can staple thick sheets of paper. I tried to put more staples in but accidentally stapled my arm.

Hurt like a bitch and there was blood everywhere.

>>If the war starts Shia everywhere will be attacked
Why would people attack Shias if Amerimutts invade them? It's not like Sunni vs Shia or anything.

You might be retarded bro

How are things going with Imran?

Fun fact: all of the Panch Kedar temples bar one are led by priests originating from South India. Kedarnath is led by Veershaiva Lingayat priests from the area around Mysore, same with Madhyamaheshwar. At Kalpeshwar and Rudranath, I'm not sure where in South India they come from, but I think they are supposed to be descended from Adi Shankaracharya's disciples from what I can find. The only one of these Panch Kedar temples run by native Khas priests is the highest in elevation, Tungnath.

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The existence of Iran stops quite a few attacks. There are still attacks but the presence of a powerful Shiite nation is good for us.

Explain the friction if you can

> but I think they are supposed to be descended from Adi Shankaracharya's
Based Tamil Brahmin but not so based for the Jains and Buddhists that we’re living here...since they got murdered or converted in the end.
6th-8th century Tamil Nadu was run by Jains and Buddhists. The Thirukkural was written by a Jain merchant.

most major medieval indian philosophers are southies. adi shankaracharya, ramanujanacharya, madhvacharya, chandrakirti, dharmakirti, dignaga

>bengal is a great place, kolkata is a nice city.

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New Delhi

Nice guy but he's not bringing in the bucks yet.

I’m visiting Kharagpur in July. My cousin is joining IIT for his MBA. What local delicacy should I try apart from fish pooosy ;) (; ?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian_violence_in_Pakistan

Do you have family here ?

misti doi, rabri, radha bhog.polau, pithe etc.

What about non vegetarian foods? Don’t even Bengali Brahmins eat fish?

OC

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Hello hw r u

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Bump

Anoda bump

Mooch

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Who /Hindustan Muttification Project/ here

Oh you know it bro, I personally plan on having children with a Chenchu tribal woman so our progeny can be true Aryo-Dravid Mutt masterrace

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