Whenever I go to a temple, I’m lost the whole time on who the gods are and what and how I’m supposed to pray to them because my parents never really taught me how. Moreover I don’t know any god stories or anything much about its history. Can someone help?
So everyone knows about the existence of higher dimensions. As we’ve seen in interstellar, we can understand that the fourth dimension allows beings of that dimension to manipulate and interact with any instant in time because it’s tangible to them. My theory is, when the soul dies and becomes a ghost, it becomes a thing of the past. And how it interacts with our 3 dimensional world is through the fourth dimension. So let’s say a ghost dies in 1969, it can travel to an instant in time be it in the past or future through the fourth dimension which could explain why we experience the paranormal events but never see them there.
When my sister was a child, my grandmother would tell bedtime stories about the gods every night to put her to sleep like every Indian Hindu ever to live. But when I was younger, nobody told me any stories now I barely know my religion and I feel like I missed out on such an integral part of growth as a Hindu. I want someone to be my grandma, in the sense that I wanna know all the stories about Hinduism and who each of the gods are. I feel so fake not knowing any of this information and I’m clueless every time I go to the temple. I don’t know how to pray, I don’t even know who the god is most of the time, all I know is that I believe in my religion and I want to become more educated in it.
My experience with god as a child has been less than positive. The first time my mother introduced me to god and told me they will grant any wish I make, I wished for a popsicle, being the 4 year old I was. And when it didn’t magically appear, I immediately questioned their existence. But that was when I couldn’t comprehend much. A lot of bad things happened to me growing up. I had a really abusive sister, and a horrible relationship with friends. I remember when I was 8 I used to pray for my sister to like me every time I went to the temple. The more I prayed and the less anything changed, I started to hate god along the way. I took out all my negative feelings on them. Moreover, I am a nice and empathetic person, but recently I’ve noticed that I judge everyone around me and say horrible things about them in my head for just because I’m slightly pissed. I feel like a horrible person every time, but I can’t control it. Sometimes I think god is against me because every time I think about something positively, like “wow it’s been so long since blah blah, I’m finally happy now” and guess what happens two days later. I also had an atheist phase growing up because I decided that was better than hating god. I also believed in the “if god exists, ghosts exist” thing and since I was young and was scared shitless of ghosts, I just believed in neither because it was convenient. Now I have renewed my faith, I feel like I don’t deserve the love of god and accept everything bad that happens to me because I feel like that is what I deserve.
When my sister was a child, my grandmother would tell bedtime stories about the gods every night to put her to sleep like every Indian Hindu ever to live. But when I was younger, nobody told me any stories now I barely know my religion and I feel like I missed out on such an integral part of growth as a Hindu. I want someone to be my grandma, in the sense that I wanna know all the stories about Hinduism and who each of the gods are. I feel so fake not knowing any of this information and I’m clueless every time I go to the temple. I don’t know how to pray, I don’t even know who the god is most of the time, all I know is that I believe in my religion and I want to become more educated in it.
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been curious. I always wanted to know the why for everything. As I grew older, I started developing an interest in space, as many people do. Eventually I found myself asking, where is space? If everything in the universe has a location, where is the universe located? What is the space that holds space and where is it? I know some people will claim that there may not be anything larger than space itself as it is said to be infinite, but when space is said to be expanding, what is it expanding into. The space itself expanding into must exist before space expands into it. What and where is it?