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- From: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
- Subject: Re: Pagan Belief revisited
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 06:09:39 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.174704.1488@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov19.022222.8276@trl.oz.au>
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- In article <1992Nov19.022222.8276@trl.oz.au> banerjee@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Arindam Banerjee) writes:
- >
- >It may interest you that in Hinduism we have the concept of
- >ArdhaNarEshwara, which means that the Supreme is represented by half-man
- >and half-woman. Theer are ancient sculptures showing this divine figure
- >- in those sculptures the partitioning is done along the vertical axis,
- >as i dimly recollect the left side is female and the right is male.
- >Hermaphrodites obtain a special relationship in certain parts of India
- >as a consequence.
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- As I understand, this is where the old myths about the Amazons cutting
- off their right breasts came from. Western men saw these statues and
- automatically assumed . . .
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- Arindam, I have to ask you something about Indian religious views,
- specifically Hindu ones. What is the opinion of Hinduism on the
- mind/body duality? Are the considered separate, and is the feeding and
- care of one preferred over the other? I ask because I know a woman who
- works at Unex here at UCI who is a Hare Krishna (I may be using this
- term incorrectly strictly speaking, and if so I apologize; this is the
- general way the term is used in the US. If there is a more proper way,
- feel free to tell me). Her opinion is that the mind must be fed and
- that feeding of sensation is not a good thing -- again, a mind/body
- split with which I disagree. I was wondering what general Hinduism says
- about this.
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- Blessings and thanks,
- Janis
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