Message from @Richard Rock

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2018-09-13 23:04:00 UTC  

What is your holy scripture?

2018-09-13 23:04:27 UTC  

There's many. It would take your entire life to read it all. Mostly though Rig Veda, Bhavishya Purana, Bhagavad Gita etc.

2018-09-13 23:04:34 UTC  

Bhagavad Gita is prob the most relevant to this age

2018-09-13 23:04:55 UTC  

Who wrote them?

2018-09-13 23:05:34 UTC  

various masters and Brahmin caste priests who have passed down these teachings in much the same way that semitic scripture was, initially through memory and verbal repeating, then was written down

2018-09-13 23:06:04 UTC  

Were they all knowledgeable?

2018-09-13 23:06:50 UTC  

Yes, the texts are very rigorous too. Often introducing topics which you might learn in a graduate philosophy course in university now.

2018-09-13 23:06:59 UTC  

We however don't seek to convert people

2018-09-13 23:07:11 UTC  

because we don't believe in a linear conception of life, we believe in reincarnation

2018-09-13 23:07:18 UTC  

Was the yes to that the Brahmins were all knowledgeable?

2018-09-13 23:07:36 UTC  

certainly some could make mistakes, but the scriptures are passed down from divinity

2018-09-13 23:07:59 UTC  

Surya a deva (something like the western angel) passed this down to the first man (literally called Manush).

2018-09-13 23:07:59 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/486385308951379968/489935307459002370/1482504929130.jpg

2018-09-13 23:08:09 UTC  

The etymology of the word man basically comes from the sanskrit Manush.

2018-09-13 23:08:22 UTC  

And all European language stems from ancient Vedic sanskrit.

2018-09-13 23:08:40 UTC  

I have heard that myth.

2018-09-13 23:08:45 UTC  

Before.

2018-09-13 23:08:45 UTC  

it's not a myth

2018-09-13 23:08:50 UTC  

But that is a tanget.

2018-09-13 23:09:06 UTC  

When were these books written?

2018-09-13 23:09:23 UTC  

Exactly.

2018-09-13 23:09:39 UTC  

the estimates vary from 1500-6000 years ago, depending on whether you take sculptures in temples as writings as well

2018-09-13 23:09:42 UTC  

bc

2018-09-13 23:10:00 UTC  

the earliest I think was written right around when Christ was around

2018-09-13 23:10:12 UTC  

there are actually Dharmic writings being written today too, but it's mostly commentary

2018-09-13 23:10:14 UTC  

Give me the date of the holy scriptures from which you extrapolate your morals for example. When were they written?

2018-09-13 23:10:15 UTC  

on the old scripture

2018-09-13 23:10:54 UTC  

@Richard Rock Rig Veda has a lot of duties. Basically monogamy, anti homosexuality, anti adultery, anti pederasty, pro large family building, anti mixing races and blood etc.

2018-09-13 23:11:13 UTC  

Okay, who exactly wrote it, when and where?

2018-09-13 23:11:36 UTC  

many many people, you can google the succession of Brahmin masters and gurus

2018-09-13 23:12:04 UTC  

Were they all deemed to be all-knowledgeable?

2018-09-13 23:12:09 UTC  

the most recent translation of the Bhagavad Gita in its authentic form was done by the last traditional Guru I know of Prabhupada

2018-09-13 23:12:28 UTC  

not all knowledgeable, but the scriptures had passed down from Surya, and other devas

2018-09-13 23:12:34 UTC  

a deva is basically an angel of God

2018-09-13 23:12:35 UTC  

a servant

2018-09-13 23:13:09 UTC  

Sir, are you tellling me that you are getting your morals from non-all knowledgeable fallable men?

2018-09-13 23:13:10 UTC  

Also the rules and duties depend on the age you live in

2018-09-13 23:13:29 UTC  

in our age, the Kali Yuga, most duties which were given to past age peoples could not even be followed because of our low lifespans

2018-09-13 23:14:01 UTC  

No, ultimately this knowledge all comes from God. The Bhagavad Gita contains within it a physical manifestation of God, who lectures the great warrior Arjuna on piety and morals.

2018-09-13 23:14:34 UTC  

The Gita is the most relevant because it is a way for us to liberate ourselves from the material illusory world in this age, the Kali Yuga or the age of wickedness and sin.

2018-09-13 23:16:49 UTC  

Did Arjuna write the Bhagavad Gita down?