--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing t3rinity (if that is her real name)
You can look up my profile. My name is written there. > doesn't seem to get is > that a Nath is all these things. Well, for one thing, Nathists are not Advaitins. They maybe similar, but they are not the same. The despise of the strict logic of a Shankara. Apart from that the Nath sampradaya is a separate Sampradaya from Shankara. You either belong to that one or to Shankara. It's like you can't be a Catholic and a Lutherian at the same time. That's actually the attitude of many Westerners: To get into all these different Indian groups,get initiated everywhere, just because they are Indian and 'all is one'. But the Indians find it funny. >I always liked the traditional > statement that the Naths 'practiced Hinduism by day and Buddhism by > night'. Love it. You go to the Kumbha Mela, you ask a Sadhu to which sampradaya he belongs to, and he will tell you it's Nath, its Shankara, its Vaishnava, but not all at the same time. In fact Shankara swamis are very much into traditional rituals, while Naths abhorr rituals and temple worship. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
