mahikari story and what base in their belief about mahikari?
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information site\n\nhttp://home.earthlink.net/~delogan/
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One I enjoyed reading was "Foxes Book of Martyrs." It's a history of people who were martyred for the faith.  It provides some historical context, but most of all it tells personal stories of people who had deep convictions about what it means to be a Christian.
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I have a say that this a very broad question. India is home to many different cultures and they vary in beliefs within themselves. So there is no black and white answer to this. Anyway, being born in Indian and having lived in Australia for 8 years I will try to answer from personal experience.\nMy first impressions were very positive. I appreciated the organised way of life, openess to new ideas, good governance etc. What always disturbed me was the lack of stability in the familiy aspects, lack of respect for elderly people etc. Again this is not a blanket statement but to someone new to the west it might easily seem so. Another thing which strikes is the 'me' approach of the west as opposed to the 'us' approach still prevalent in India. Anyway, after a few more years and interactions I realised that familiy/social life is lot more stable than what it seems on the surface/propagated by media and I met an overwhelming number of dedicated parents. \nWe could continue this discussion on various aspects and its too  hard to type that much ! Feel free to contact me on yahoo msg> kingbaljeet.
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Funny dear.. you would say that.\n\nPrabhakaran the LITTE cheif Is a Christian who plans attacks.  Prabhakaran's son is Charles Anthony !!\n\nAnton Balasingham, theoretician and main spokesman of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is a christian, married to a western woman.\n\nLITTE is Tamil but not run by Hindus. not all Tamils are Hindus.\n\n"....More than anything else they fear to live under LTTE which is authoritarian, undemocratic, brutal, unpredictable and intolerant of traditions of Hindu culture and society."\n\nIf LITTE is Hindu , why it is against Hindu culture or society?\nWhy do you think it has contacts with other Christian Terrorist organisations of North east India.\n\n Killers of of Rajiv Gandhi were christian .\n\nGet more acurate details. The Christian Tamils in India support it too. Christians evangelicals have a tenedency to make terrorists organisation using ethenic names.\n\nThis way no one notices that organisation is Christian if juist look at it superficially.\n\nHere read this Sri Lankan article written by a Buddhist.:\n\n".............While the Christian Administration and the world press are quick to pounce on the Buddhists for all the wrong reasons the same is not true for all the crimes committed by the CHRISTIAN  LTTE in Sri Lanka.\n\nAll press reports on the atrocities committed by the Tamil insurgency led by the Christian LTTE are justified and legitimized in two simple sentences which always read as follows:\n\n“The Tiger insurgency was launched in 1983 on behalf of minority Hindu Tamils, who allege discrimination at the hands of the mostly Buddhist Sinhalese majority. The war has left 65,000 people dead.”\n\nThe Hindus and Buddhists are now slowly coming to the inevitable conclusion that they are staring at each other for all the wrong reasons in the world. Buddhists and Hindus lived side by side for hundreds of years visiting each others temples and kovils till the Christian powers and the Christian Church came to Sri Lanka!..........."\n\nIn north east they are doing the same in the name of NAGA ethenic tribal.\n\n".........Kunduthasan (Fat-thasan) was we found the same Jesuthasan Croos arrested in the Mannar bazaar referred to above. Jesuthasan was a brother of Hakkim, who died a member of the LTTE, making his family a hero’s family." \n\n"..... Human Rights would seem an abstraction where life is ceasing to be human. One sees the same indifference on the part of the LTTE to families, wives and children, no concern about how they live or die. Many young couples with young families suddenly find themselves devoid of the breadwinner. These young men who had started families and had young mouths to feed had been forcibly taken away by the LTTE for 1 to 3 years of military service, promising a monthly allowance for the upkeep of the families. The money comes for about 3 months and ceases. A number of these young men were LTTE cadres who left during the ceasefire and got married. \n\nAn official connected with a church establishment expressed alarm that several of these abandoned families ".\n\n"........They discovered that the LTTE had forcibly taken them into the interior jungle for military training, saying it was for ten days. But the men had not returned for more than two weeks. One of those who escaped was forcibly taken back by the LTTE."\n"...If a person left Mutur, the LTTE would abduct other members of the family, hold them hostage and send messages for the person to come back. Once a young person was on their list, the LTTE would go on making inquiries tracing the person. .........".\n\n\nHindu or christian LITTE does not have mass support and forces innocents to join its ranks.\n\nIt did killed even Christians who refused to join.\n\n"....Staying and killed with their sons upstairs was a business partner Navaratnam Ganesh whose daughter was married to a LTTE man in the Vanni. The Sellathurai family were P
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Mount Makiling, also rarely Mount Maquiling, is located in the province of Laguna on the island of Luzon, Philippines. It is an inactive volcano, which rises to 1,090 m above sea level. Legend surrounds the mountain the folkloric stories of Maria Makiling.\n\nMaria Makiling, in Philippine mythology, is said to be a diwata, which roughly translated means fairy or goddess. She is said to inhabit Mount Makiling in Laguna province and protects the mountain from those who would harm or defile it. She allows people to come and go as long as they don't harm the plants or animals and she forbids them to take anything from the mountain. Any who do are sure to invoke her wrath.\n\nThere are legends that surround Mount Makiling, one of which is about a group of hikers who left their camp dirty with human waste and empty cans and bottles. Searching for water, the hikers found themselves back in the same place over and over again. Only after they cleaned their camp did they find water soon after.
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They worship one God who has many manifestations.  Used to have a friend who was hindi.
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I'm an old timer who got interested in Sri Lank forty years ago. I was fascinated by the Kandy Empire, the legend of Adam's peak, the singing shellfish at Lake Batticaloa, the construction of the ancient tanks among many other things. I read a book that I still find interesting called "Jungle Tide". I forget the author's name but he must have written it during the British occupation as he was English. I am sure there are many other fascinating archaeological and educational opportunities in your country, which, I regret, I never did visit. Still, after 40 years, my interest has been retained by what I read. My very best wishes with your project.
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yes i would care to know the deeper meaning to the story! it would interest me! good luck w/ ur research!
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I have read that in the beginnings there were people believing in things around them in nature as having a shine as a higher being type worship like worshiping fire and trees.  if you check out this site it describes it as being caveman h ad spiritual belief in surroundings of nature but not an ongoing organized religion like that of the first 7,000 years ago in egyptian prime. http://www.matrixbookstore.biz/cavemen.htm
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i just looooove the women!! im not a lesbian though...i just think that their skin is beautiful; it look so smooth, and they have beautiful dark hair...as for their beliefs, i dont know much sbout it, but i know most are hindu....their culure is amazing though, so are their attire...well, as for the guys, um...well, on messenger, they seem kinda weird; perverted....i guess their just curious(not ALL of them are like that though)
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What i think is funny is that a large portion of the people who claim Cherokee, claim that their great grandmother was a Cherokee princess. Okay, if your Cherokee and telling the truth, FINE, BUT there was no such thing as royalty in the indigenous nations back in the day...yes there were chiefs...but the false label of "_____ Princess" actually came from when the beautiful young indigenous females that were shipped to "the old world" and forced to slavery within royal family homes...BUT...anybody who did not hold a royal title was not allowed into these homes, so these poor frightened girls were given the titles of "princess" so they could legally enter these estates to slave away;they were usually discarded after age overcame their ability to slave...so only the stories were returned, never the "princesses"...little off the subject, but i wanted to share that fun fact ;)
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A person with strong faith does their sadhana (spiritual practices), keeps their dharma (does their duty...to their family, job, society, etc), and they seek to learn from spiritual teachers and to find a their guru. It is normal and acceptable to have doubt, to even go and look into other paths to see if perhaps these are better for you. It is common to return to the faith and again be at the same level of belief. It is said that some of us who have entered Hinduism now in this lifetime were at one time Hindus in past lifetimes...we have just come home now. So "longer absences", yes there can be very long absences. :)
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"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.\n\nDo not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations.\n\nDo not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.\n\nDo not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures.\n\nDo not believe in anything merely on the authority of Teachers, elders or wise men.\n\nBelieve only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all.\n\nThen accept it and live up to it." \n\nThe Buddha on Belief - from the Kalama Sutta
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If you would truly like to read some about this, there are many books available from the internet and Ebay.  I have read several about the life of Edgar Cayce.  I don't intend to indoctrinate anyone.  You would have to decide for yourself, and have the right to reject it.  In India, this subject is not even discussed.  It is like knowing that babies are born, and that everybody will die at sometime.  Those two facts cannot be disputed, and there are no arguments about whether birth and death is true or not.  Reincarnation falls into that category.  They don't argue about it or discuss it.\n\nRecently a couple from Louisana with a 5 years old boy revealed their true experience.  When their son was approximatel 1 year, he began to have frequent nightmares,  Parents did the natural thing.  This went on until he was approximately 2-3.  The boy loved airplanes and had every sort and description.  One day, his mother bought him a model of a WWII aircraft.  She began to explain the parts and under each wing there was a cylinder.  She explained to her son that these were missles.  The boy replied, those aren't missiles, they're extra fuel tanks.  She passed it off, but felt a curosity about his knowledge of WWII aircraft.  Finally one day, his father decided to ask his son questions about his dreams.  The boy began to explain that the plane was on fire and going down.  This was the basis of the nightmares which were ignored in the past.  His father asked what happened.  The boy said it had been shot down.   Father asked, who shot it down?  The boy, with astonishment said, "Well, the Japanese, of course."  Father asked where tihs happened.  In the Pacific, he answered.  On further questioning, the boy, mind you, 2-3, told him that he was stationed on a carrier and gave his father the name of the carrier.  He also gave his father the name of a friend on the ship.  With much difficulty. his father learned that the carrier was a small one and had indeed served in the S. Pacific.  The father then tried to find the pilot by the name his son had given to him.  The pilot is alive, or was recently, and was found in Arkansas.  He verified all that the boy had spoken of.  The plane in the dreams crashed in flames and the pilot never found.\n\nThis has been documented by other sources, not me.
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I'm just going on memory here, but I think the whole "India as the origin of martial arts" argument is based on the fact that Bhodi-Dharma (sp?) was a monk from India who visited the Shaolin temple and introduced certain movements to the monks he found there.  I could be wrong, but that's what I recall.
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I think it is religious in nature.  Not being preduice at all.  i think that the muslin religion is to conquer the "non belivers" and they are following their religion.  Not saying it is right but that is the cause.
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Hi, are you from Singapore? Coz you said Kwee Kia, that's in Hokkien! Anyway, I believe in all these things! Have you seen or get posessed by it? Go to the temple and look for the high priests or monks to help you!