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The real meaning behind the 'Deities' in Indian spiritual culture

8/29/2016

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Many Hindus worship a single aspect of the Divine - their chosen form - referred to as their Ishtadevata.
For them this aspect of the Divine - this 'god' - serves as a representation of the All - the Absolute.




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According to many Indian teachers, the deities of Indian culture have several functions and, depending on the context, often have a totally different status and purpose to the concept of 'God' in the monotheistic religions.

Anthropologists of the 19th Century, influenced by Christian theology and a lack of understanding of Hindu spiritual culture, have given a false picture of the 'polytheistic' culture of the Hindus which still influences the modern understanding of Indian spirituality..

The intentional cultivation of a relationship to a 'deity' is not just a matter of faith, but actually a kind of 'spiritual technology',

In the context of such a 'technology' any of the deities' can be understood as being a representation of the Absolute Source.
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The word that has been translated from the Sanskrit language as 'god' and which actually is the source of our word 'divine' in the modern Indo-european languages is 'deva', meaning one who is resplendent, magnificent, literally a 
"shining one".
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