Got it yet? It’s not great at all; it’s just STUPID. REALLY FUCKING STUPID.

And it’s “it’s” little Jamesie, not “its” in this case. Maybe you’ll learn that in the next grade.

Have a nice fscking day.
Gud

m-st be divine interventi-n. Nah, that w–ld be me.

f-cking PC.

“nor is any food offered to a god going to do a f-ing thing for you”…How do you know that if you haven’t genuinely experience it? For those who are consciously aware they feel it and they know that they are in communion with the divine when they make offerings in conscience of G-d.If you are not consciously aware yet you shouldn’t worry, it’s not your time yet…all in good time… But If you are consciously able to link the most mundane things in life to G-dliness then it’s the beginning of your enlightenment. You would most likely be more aware of your senses and action that you do. But it’s not for everybody. If you regard this as worthless then it is best not to worry or care about it at all. You have the choice.You are not being forced to do anything you are not ready to experience yet. It’s ok.

G-d is not anybody’s property. The reference to “your” “G-d” is irrational to say the least.

If You want to eat just because your stomach aches then go ahead be carefree, G-d allows you to be free but you have no right to come telling me that your lack of understanding is the truth and that I should become like you. It is mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita and Vedas that G-d provides for all beings. It doesn’t matter if you are aware of G-d or not( I won’t use the term believer or non-believer/ atheist as know-it-all from abrahamic faiths like to vociferate). G-d simply provides. The act of offering is deeply symbolic and has meaning for some who are consciously aware.If you can’t just don’t do it and try to find meaning with “Cheetos” or “soda” instead..and yes remember to thank your “stinking” boss for employing you to buy the stuff you eat if you feel G-d is fairy tale.

And yes what I said had nothing to do with the capillary effect that scientist described.I leave that to them and each is free to judge the justness or not of the explanations. I was just trying to explain to someone the CULTURAL context and TRADITION of hinduism and the reasons we do things we do. It’s not like i’m asking you to believe in the splitting of the sea or the sea turning into blood or walking on water or dead man coming back to life as his previous personality or flying on a donkey to the moon or copulating with virgins in heaven.

It is customary among ‘Hindus” to offer prasad(meaning : offering or mercy or acceptable clean food, drink etc)to G-d before consumption. The idea is to remind oneself that G-d is the provider of everything. Usually Food is placed on an altar of a revealed form of G-d (avatar)and prayers and meditation are made. Incense and lamps are lighted to uplift the atmosphere in temples or Homes during the offering session so as to foster concentration on a revealed form of G-d so as to avoid being lost in thoughts on the unfathomable, unknown, formless knowledge of G-d.

People of abrahamic faith sometimes misinterprete or are even ignorant of Dharmic faiths and practices and come to the wrong conclusion that “milk is being poured or being given to statues”. But Hindus know that G-d is one, formless, infinite,manifest and unmanifest, revealed through Avatars yet unaffected by action, within and above everything etc.The Vedas tell us this about God - “OM Poornamadah Poornamidam Poornaad Poornamudachyate; Poornasya Poornamaadaaya Poornamevaavashisyate”. Translated in English, this verse means “What is Whole - This is Whole - What has come out of the Whole is also Whole; When the Whole is taken out of the Whole, the Whole still remains Whole”.Which means G-d being infinite manifest itself in infinite ways or through avatars. Statues are revealed symbols of G-d’s Avatars whereby offering is made which enables the mind to consciously focus on a revealed aspect of G-d.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna teaches us that G-d accepts any clean offerings (Prasad) or offering made consciously to G-d i.e Whosoever offers to Me with love a leaf, a flower, a fruit or even water, I appear in person before that devotee of sinless mind and delightfully partake of that article offered by him with love. Arjuna, whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer as oblation to the sacred fire, whatever you bestow as a gift, whatever you do by way of penance, offer it all to Me.” Again, “To those devotees who worship Me, thinking of none else, who devote their mind to Me and are ever perseverent in My service and in My contemplation, I confer that permanent heavenly abode from which there is no return to life.”Any clean food offered to G-d is not affected by Karma and helps us to progress spiritually.

When going to temples it is customary to offer milk or water to G-d before sharing it with families and friends and devotees at the temples for such offerings have been made in conscience of G-d.So any food offered to G-d (in this case milk) is likely not going to give you bad Karma for yourself and for others.

First and foremost, Brahman is G-d in Hinduism not Allah.
Your ancestors were once pure Hindu or follower of Sanatana Dharma but were persecuted by war-mongering fanatic infidels from present day Iran, Persia and Iraq who invaded this pure land and killed millions in the name of your allah for more than 700 years. So your allah is a demon to me.

Regarding statues drinking milk, It can be interpreted in many ways and people are FREE in their mind and conscience.

Regarding the vulnerability of statues, I’d like to apprise you that I’d like to see one day the Kabba been put down once and for all for it is a statue isn’t it?

Regarding The mythological, Ganesha or Hanuman…your ancestors were fond of such moral stories in the past. During these times…there were no paper. no schools, and the notion of the divine was perpetuated through plays and teaching of moral stories all throughout the land of the Bharata as such. These characters became immortal in human psyche uptill now but there is more to sanatana dharma. If you want to know I invite you to reconnect with the knowledge of your Hindu ancestry for they are part of your history. It would do you a lot of good to renew and be at peace with your heritage.

You should know also that there are many avatars that G-d sent on this earth. G-d sent Rama, Krishna to remove evil from earth or a particular context. You should read the Bhagavad Gita and have an introduction of the greatness of G-d. You should know that you follow only a single path to G-d in Islam with is Bakti yoga in a dogmatic manner, but G-d prescribed the path of Self-realization to be higher. Go find out what your ancestors knew about the way to become as near to G-d as possible while being alive. You would be amazed and reconsider the only path you were made to be contented with right now that is the path of devotion which at times become inhumanely violent owing to its dogmatism and impossibility to go into self-realization path. Go learn about the nature of passion which the path of devotion through senses only allow you to fathom. Even five prayers a day would lead to same status quo for it is incomplete and has no other way to go than to turn to violence when it is challenged. Islam is incomplete because it cannot offer self-realization. No wonder Muhammad was such a brute and a barbarian for his understanding of G-d was partially complete.

Regarding your ancestors, they knew that G-d does not speak through one prophet only and one way only. They knew that G-d is Brahman (One) and path leading to G-d many. Your allah is but an imperialistic idea of an arabic conquering nation of the notion of G-d. Just like Rome was made capital of the world by Julius caesar the barbarian, Muhammad establishes Mecca as the center of the world for his new religion but G-d does not belong to Mecca, G-d does not reside in the Kabaa, G-d is not the propriety of the new sect of Muhammad. G-d is everywhere. G-d is within everything as well as above everything.

In the veda and Bhagavad Gita, G-d is depicted as formless,genderless and without name as well as the manifest and unmanifest one, which means that G-d though one manifest itself into different forms and is also unaffected by it. So concentrating on allah is partially right, for G-d is not only one as a person or some old man in the sky. God is one and many altogether and is the manifest and unmanifest one and yet is also above everything.

So you see your concept on G-d is only partial and this is why the man made religion your have adopted by conversion, by birth, by coercion in history is so defective in many ways.

So remember that statues although not a must is a tradition that helps many people to approach the concept of G-d as one and at the same time many, the manifest and unmanifest as stated above. Statues were used also to depict different aspects of G-d for G-d has unlimited aspect and is yet one.

So all this to tell you that the foundation of islam is partial to one aspect of G-d only whereas G-d is limitless and is not a resident of Mecca, a prophet’s hostage, an arabic name, an arabic cultural way of life etc. So you see how your anscestors though uneducated were wise and knew the grandeur of G-d. Unfortunately for you you fell prey to a predatory religion which limits G-d to itself. Otherwise somewhere we share something in common down the ages…our common ancestry and heritage.