[Reader-list] Muslims in Ramadhan & 51 Shakti Peeths

[Rahul Asthana]

Dear Kshamendra, 

That's a very thought provoking post.
As we can expect,there are no simplistic conclusions to be drawn from this.This does not put forward any doctrinal argument in favor of, or against, Hinduism being a geographically underpinned system.Then again,since there is noting definitively doctrinal in Hinduism so that's neither here nor there.The case can probably be made that there is a significant momentum in space-time and in the "collective unconscious" to pin it with the Indian sub-continent.

Thanks
Rahul

--- On Thu, 4/16/09, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Muslims in Ramadhan & 51 Shakti Peeths
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 7:57 PM
> When the question was put as to how Muslims were supposed
> to start and break their fast in Ramadhan in places like the
> Land(s) of the Midnight Sun, the tongue in cheek answer was
> that Muslims were not meant to live there. 
>  
> Similarly, the parts of Sati's body that were cut up by
> Vishnu are reported as having been scattered over what is
> predominantly the Indian sub-continent, landing at what are
> recognised as 51 or 64 Shakti Peeths.
>  
> Is that all the strength Vishnu had in his arms that
> the slingshots of the cut up body pieces landed in such a
> small area (compared to the total size of the Earth)? Maybe
> Hindus (or at least devotees of Shakti or at the very very
> least the devotees of Sati) were not meant to live all over
> the world.
>  
> Just thinking aloud
>  
> Kshmendra  
> 
> 
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