The Life of Hinduism

the deity. 45 The Hebraic resistance to imaging the divine has combined with a certain distrust of the senses in the Greek tradi ...

46. worship difficulty with such a view of idolatry, however, is that anyone who bows down to such things clearly does not under ...

the deity. 47 Westerners who consider themselves to be secular participate in the myth of monotheism: that in matters of ultimat ...

48. worship In part, the unity of India, which Strachey and many others like him could not see, is in its cultural genius for em ...

the deity. 49 ever, even the sum of them all does not exhaust all hidden possibilities of ap- proach.^14 The diversity of deitie ...

50. worship “Three thousand three hundred and six,” he replied. “Yes,” said he, “but just how many gods are there, Yajñavalkya?” ...

the deity. 51 The very images of the gods portray in visual form the multiplicity and the one- ness of the divine, and they disp ...

52. worship Brahman; the ‘not this, not that,’ which denies itself to all representations, higher or lower.”^17 NOTES William F ...

3. The Miraculous The Birth of a Shrine shrivatsa goswami andmargaret h. case 53 This essay was previously published as “The Bir ...

54. worship This god, with skin the color of blue-gray storm clouds, had spent his childhood and adolescence in Vrindaban, on th ...

the miraculous. 55 Caitanya came here to identify the sites. He used to sit in meditation near the same long-lived kadamba tree ...

56. worship was once again nearly complete, lacking only the temple in the center of the com- pound. This remained in the hands ...

the miraculous. 57 ous groups of the brahmins of Vrindaban. During the morning and afternoon, five groups of thirty-one brahmins ...

58. worship figure 5 Radha looking at the bhramara bee, with other cowherd women in attendance. Painting on cloth by Bihari Lal ...

the miraculous. 59 Pandemonium broke out. This time everyone saw the bhramara and began shouting and pushing to come closer. Tra ...

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4. Marriage Women in India doranne jacobson 63 This essay was previously published as “Marriage,” in Women in India: Two Perspec ...

64. the life cycle Munni never discussed menstruation with her mother, and no men of the family learned of the event. But Munni’ ...