05-07-2020, 02:23 PM
(05-07-2020, 01:41 AM)peregrine Wrote:(05-07-2020, 12:49 AM)Navaratna Wrote: There's other deities that have important roles but that imagery sounds identical to me.
This is just a thought in passing, but for many years I had read a variety of spiritual teachers say that all religious paths are equally valid. Of course, this was often said as a peacemaking gesture in a climate of religious contention, but it always bothered me because I observed that some religious paths are far more flexible or efficient or sensible than others. It bothered me until I read a quote from Anandamayi Ma to the effect that, all religious paths are equally valid because each one leads you to the same place: your inner self. I thought that was a cool way of looking at it.
Sahaja Yoga recognizes 10 Primordial masters. There are a lot of significant people but I think it's along the idea that they were the same entity that reincarnated.
Abraham, Moses, Muhammad, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Socrates, Zoroaster and a few more are all tremendously important.
I think it's an incredibly interwoven and beautiful idea. It's a compass to understand which religions are worth studying more closely instead of searching through tens of thousands or even more that must have had sizable followings.
Zoroastrianism has shown me so much secret history of East Asia. Nargol is a holy city of theirs. They are originally from the region that cannabis originated from central Asia. They are the Magi in the Bible. I probably wouldn't have ever known or cared about their ideas if it wasn't for this 10 master chart. Who even knows the name Zoroaster? Maybe some people...most don't,
Abraham, and his tomb in Israel are tremendously historic he is the human godfather of all the Mideast religions, except for Zoroastrianism which is older. It's funny trying to explain this to Christians considering Zoroastrians are the older known monotheistic followers of a religion and that's a source of a lot of Christian pride. They can say they're older than Islam. Christian stories may have simply been borrowed from Zoroastrian tales.