--- In [email protected], "John Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi OffWorld, > > >> Moreover, when meditating I am in effect praying to a god not of > >>my culture, > >> and of whom I have no knowledge, which leaves me deeply > >>uncomfortable.>> > > >Why are you afraid of Gods? You are human for chrise sakes ! > >Grow-up man. > > Afraid? No, that was not my meaning at all. But rather, seeing no reason to > believe in the existence of an anthropomorphic interventionalist god or > gods, the act of praying to one natrually leaves me feeling uncomfortable, > both as sitting uneasily with my own beliefs, and as being potentially > insulting to one who does believe. > > John
You cannot pray to what does not exist. They are just sounds, and cannot be anythign else, and this is the true Vedic tradition, because in the original Vedas, it is considered that in Sat Yug there are no Gods. OffWorld
