Thursday, December 27, 2012

Christmas Cheer in 2012

The recent Christmas celebration gave the family an opportunity to get together and relax the whole day without anyone having to rush over anywhere apart from the compulsory visits to Michelle's brother's house for the annual Christmas get together lunch.

Utheya was there also to join in the fun and we spent a good portion of the afternoon discussing his new venture into the Car wash business.
Later in that evening, sandra invited all of us to get together in her place in Trenquerah for some Yule festive celebration.
 It was a quiet, niece evening of camarederie and good fun as Clarice brought along her boyfriend from Sarawak ( with strict instruction to everyone not to speak about David !) to join in with us for the evening dinner and drinks.
 The Kids brought their own fire crackers to light up and mess about with  in the house 's vast compound; whereas Pyrelal and his wife brought some home made pie and Beers for me and Michelle to share.
Seelan dropped in on us around 10 pm    and he was promptly followed by Kayode and his girlfriend.


Everyone exchanged gifts and we were ushered home around 12.30 am as another batch of people coming in to celebrate and cheer the festive spirit meant the place was starting to get a little cramped !

The pleasant evening meant a lot to Michelle as she misses this type of get togethers and christian good cheer in recent  years as I was quiet happy to just hole up in our room and watch the TV while the world went about it's jolly ways.


















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What is a 'HINDU' ?

In 1995, Chief Justice P. B. Gajendragadkarwas quoted in anIndian Supreme Court ruling:

When we think of the Hindu religion, unlike other religions in the world, the Hindu religion does not claim any one prophet; it does not worship any one god; it does not subscribe to any one dogma; it does not believe in any one philosophic concept; it does not follow any one set of religious rites or performances; in fact, it does not appear to satisfy the narrow traditional features of any religion orcreed. It may broadly be described as away of life and nothing more.

Common Misunderstandings on Hinduism

Vedanta (and all Hinduism) is entirely monistic, believing only in the all-pervading world-soul, Brahman, rather than a personal God

This advaita philosophy is certainly popular, and offers a simple explanation of the many deities. Nonetheless, many theologians have considered God to be a person. He is not merely an anthropomorphic representation, nor are the various deities and murtis simply incarnations or representations of an impersonal Supreme.

Thus Hinduism includes both monism and monotheism. It is misleading to call the Abrahamic religions,"the monotheistic traditions," implying that monotheism is absent from the Eastern traditions. Vedanta includes many monotheistic schools. They may accept the existence of many gods and goddesses, but strongly emphasizes the pre-eminence of the Supreme Deity.



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