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A little philosophical question for you guys!

I personaly believe that morality is an subjective matter.

Firstly, as the friend of the person mentioned, it is highly influenced by society and generaly the environment we suround ourselfs in. Not only that, there are situations where people connect morality with feelings, which we all know is highly subjective topic.

Like for example, when they consider whether causing harm to someone from our family is right or not. Usualy we would say, it's obviously wrong, because of our love towards our close ones. But there are situations when in order to protect yourelf from patological situations, you need to attack them, and someone might say it is totaly alright.

The fact that we can't all agree about what is good and bad, is enough of a prove that morality is not an objective matter. That is because, for me to find it objective, we would all need to treat it like a fact that, the sky is blue for exmaple. It would need to be something that we can't question.

But I do wonder what do you guys think ? How would you aproach this topic from a hindu perspective? I can't wait to read your opinions on that!

⁂ The sources I’m going to use this year, that I also reccomend to others ⁂

So I decided to give some structure to the way I'm going to study hinduism, I think for at least the end of this year if not even longer. If you are feeling lost with the amount of sources there are out there, you can use what I share here as a possible strategy to know where to start out your journey.

Firstly, I want to highly reccomend a certain account on youtube called "By Janani". She is, obviously, a hindu girl who shares SO much knowladge about Sanatana Dharma, and spirituality in general, that it would be a shame to not tell you about her work. I specificly recomend the videos listed down below, because firstly, I really do believe the scriptures are the first place where one should begin their reaserch! We will never find a better source about our faith, let's not kid ourselfs.

Secondly, as someone who doesn't know even the slightest bit of Hindi, especialy Sanscrit, dictonaries like that are a life saver ! How can we understand Sanatana Dharma, if we don't know at least the basic words that are being used among scriptures, mantras and prayers ? The language is a pillar of culture and faith, and so we need to start incorporating it into our life <3.

A quick note to remember about her order of books though, she doesn't mention Vedas at all. Apparently, she is from South India, and they have a custom where women are not educated about that. Basicly, they go straight to Puranas. It personaly doesn't bother me, I think I'll go along her order, and leave Vedas at the end of the list. If it's a problem for you though, then obviously folloe your heart and read what is right for you <3. If you want to better understand the tradition about Vedas, then watch her dictionary video, she explains it at the begining ;)

If you want to read something more compact in it's form, I'm currently reading "Introducing Hinduism - A graphic guide" by Borin Van Loon and Vinay Lal. It's a really good position when you don't have the energy for intense thinking, or if simply some concept in Sanatana Dharma seems really complicated. In my opinion, the way the author is explaining things is amazing, it helped me a lot in understanding the concept of Omnipresence for example, which I found quite confusing at first after years of living in a christian worldview.

Lastly, if you are interested in Yoga, and want to practice it at home, then you need to check an account on youtube called "Sanskirt Yoga". It's an amazingly cute and wholesome project, of a daughter and mother, who's mission is to decolonise Yoga! It's an authentic, begginer friendly experiance, in which I'm sure you fall in love just as much as I did !

That's all for today! I hope I helped some of you, and that soon enough I'll be able to share even more sources then that! As always, I'm more then eager to engage with you in the comments, so I hope to hear from you soon!

Sending love and blessings <3

For who this is an account for?

As someone who doesn't come from a hindu family, or country, I understand there is a lot of reaserch that I have to go through.

So I basicly treat this blog as my journal, where I can write down and share my knowladge with other people who are starting their journey with Sanatana Dharma like me. Obviously, the best case scenario for being introduced to hinduism, would be attending regulary to the temple, where I could find a guru who would be the most reliable source.

Unfortunatly though, I'm unable to have such an uportunity, since I live in a city where the closest thing to a temple is a buddhist meditation center. That's why I also hope, that if any of my knowladge I gain about hinduism would need correction, that people will come in comments to help me out here.

I hope we'll about to have an amazing journey together

See you in the future posts <3