Is it wrong to love myself as like Shiva love his Shakti? What is it mean when Krishna said "We should activate Krishna within ourselves?" Do we live as part of Krishna? or We all have Krishna within ourselves?
PS: I'm new with Hindu, still learning about this Dharma.
Posted Apr 1, 2021, 2:39 PM UTC
Treat everyone as you would yourself and treat yourself well. You deserve the best! 💙
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Actually during my NDE, I found nothingness. You’re just another version of me, but there’s no me nor you in those void. Just like my guru is just another me teaching myself, but there’s no guru other than me.
Me and you just a concept made by our ‘ego’, we are one but we are many and we are nothing too. Goodbye.
It is best you follow your old religion, not everyone is cut out to follow a life which leads towards moksha
And you’re the one who can choose those path for me?
Yes, I have seen lots like you. They seem to accept the eastern faiths but during a near death experience always revert to their abrahamic conditioning. As I said, best for you to follow your old religion.
Actual sanatana dharma is a long and arduous journey across countless lifetimes. In this life, your birth in an abrahamic religion just shows that you are not yet ready to walk the walk
Actual sanatana dharma is a long and arduous journey across countless lifetimes.
There’s no long journey it’s already here, you find it as long journey because you don’t see it.
In this life, your birth in an abrahamic religion just shows that you are not yet ready to walk the walk
There’s no religion, sanata dharma is not a religion either. It’s a universal way, to find the true path. You can find sanata dharma within another religion too if you can look but not with your eyes.
Face it, you are born in kali yuga, you are not established in brahmacharya, you have no dhyana attainments and you are or most probably will be married and will never have the conviction towards gyan yoga.
I never said that the journey isn't long, we have experienced countless births and have come close to enlightenment in a few as well.
If you really have the conviction then all power to you, but I doubt it. All foreigners and most Indians and Chinese have lost the ability to make any meaningful spiritual progress in this day and age
Yes. Krishna is from Brahman just like other devas, humans, animals, plants, rocks etc. when thinking from the Advaita Vedanta perspective. From a Dvaita perspective, activating Krishna within yourself could mean practicing the same compassion and upholding of Dharma like he does in the shastra.
You will need to further clarify your question about loving yourself like Shiva loves Shakti. I'm not quite sure what you're getting at there.
I can’t explain it verbally, I’m sorry.
Well, if by loving your SELF you mean wanting to know the true nature as the atman, then it's understandable. But loving your SELF as the body instead of the soul doesn't accomplish anything, in fact, it's detrimental to spiritual progress. Attachment to the body gives more power to ego and causes fear of death.
More like loving myself as a soul, sometimes feels like there’s another “soul” within me that I love. I think “self” is not the right word to define it.
How do we maintain attachment without losing our passion or ambition?
In every darshan which deals with the atman (essence of the self, which is what I meant by 'self' in my previous reply), there is only one atman in any given being. Without knowing what this "second soul" is, I have to instinctually answer that this is an issue related to your ego.
And again you'll need to clarify what you mean by attachment?