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

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Rahul
 
As one fascinated by the Shakta precepts, any geographical limiting  of Shakti does not appeal to me. Hence the questioning. I find it easier to dismiss any such treatise (only 51 Shakti Peeths) as the limitation of professor who claims to know.
 
But, who knows. I do not.
 
Since, simultaneously the non-duality of the Divine appeals to me, it has to be for me a Universal domain (both the known to us and the unknown universes). The non-duality for me is not gender-defined but range of potentialities where 'female' and the 'male', the (+) and the (-), the "positive" and the "negative" are not moral values but one incomplete without the other. 
 
Frankly, I have absolutely no idea what I am trying to say.
 
Kshmendra
 
  


--- On Fri, 4/17/09, Rahul Asthana <rahul_capri at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Rahul Asthana <rahul_capri at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Muslims in Ramadhan & 51 Shakti Peeths
To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>, kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com
Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 7:40 PM

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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