(philosophy: similarities between kabbalistic judaism and...

(Philosophy: Similarities between Kabbalistic Judaism and Shaivism, Kabbalah and Kundalini Yoga, Mysticism in Veda & Torah)

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1. Dynamism and Evolution 2. Comparison 3. Spiritual Gurus 4. Three form of supreme 5. Five levels of existence

Both allows scope for interpretation, research, dynamics, mysticism and open mind to develop. example of this is kabbalisstic interpretation of various aspects of God which can be applied in day life and attributing features to God.

You can be a Zoorastrian, Sikh, Buddhist and you will be under the umbrella of Hinduism... Also Jewish and Christian mysticism resembles aspects of Hinduism which talks about feminine aspect of God, meditation, merging with god and other concepts which very few know.

Jews have never proselytize Hindus rather Jewish kaabbalah shows respect to eastern philosophy which is evolving form modern spirituality

Jews have never derided or encouraged derision of any Hindu philosophy or idea

Infact Jewish kabbalah refers to meditation and mantra as Hinduism with great respect

Hasidic Judaism is an evolving ideology like Yoga/Meditation Shaivism hindusim

Hinduism Non Proselytizing Dynamic & Evolving Various paths Recent

Gurus(Mysticism): Vivekananda

Allows inter-faith dialog Feminine, all dwelling

and reincarnation

Non Proselytizing Dynamic & Evolving V-paths: Kabalistic,

Hassidic Recent Gurus(Mysticism):

Book of Zohar Invited Ravishankar Kabalistic Judaism have

some flavours

Kabalistic / Modern Judaism

God is equally feminine? (Shiv-Shakti) God is all pervading? God is union of male and female Meditating on God’s mantra Planes of Existence

I am learning about Mysticism and Dynamics of both religion and how they are similarly and searching synergies.

Do people take the comparative religion like linking Kundalini Yoga and Kabbalah positively?

Religion is something person which should not be touched in terms of developing and searching for common grounds?

I see many yoga and spiritual gurus moving to Israel to have sessions with IDF often.

Yoga meditation can help soldiers remove depression and focus on their duties

Baba Ramdev Shri Shri Ravishankars

[1]http://organiser.org/archives/historic/dynamic/modules5876.html?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=250&page=10 [2] http://srisriravishankar.org/content/sri-sri-ravi-shankar-israel

Sephirot meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which Ein Sof (The Infinite) reveals himself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the chain of higher metaphysical realms.

Last extension of god in his divine form is the "feminine & dwelling" power of God... It is the divine presence of God that inhibits everything... God is an immense form something like infinite pillar of light perceived as a unity of masculine & feminine part equally embedded in him....He is everywhere in everything...

How everything gets crated from God

It is recognized that the One Supreme Being, both in its formless and manifest aspects, has been worshipped by Hindus over the illennia.

This does not mean that Hindus worship ‘gods’ and idols’. The Hindu relates to only the One Supreme Being when he/she prays to a particular manifestation.

Hindu Jewish Meet 2007

The forms Hindu workship are ‘mere symbols’, and that Hindu worship of forms is equivalent to the practice of some Jewish people of praying to Angels, who are intermediaries to the ‘One Supreme Being’.

Hindu Jewish Meet 2007

The god which is infinite and can be perceived as infinite pillar of light then transforms into two aspects: male and female.

The female part is associated with the energy of the god, and the male part is the reception of that energy..something like fuel and engine...

Hymn: I dedicate everything to the divine Godess...

Bless me and come to me the Goddess of power, wealth and knowledge... The Goddess of beauty, severity and creation...

Once God transform from infinite light into Male and Female, further to aid creation he first take on 3 forms based on properties: Kindness, beauty and Severity

Although these properties are both male and female part, but they are also in the infinite light form of God but since the infinite form of God is made of pure infinite light / energy these 3 properties and male/female part cannot be attributed to the infinite form of God.

Infinite light transforms into male female (power and holder of power) aspect further into 3 aspects: Kindness beauty and severity.

Moving further ahead god part of each of the 3 has four aspects: eternity (ever lasting till the world exist), glory (worth of worship), "Foundation" for further action (expansion of world, giving birth to demi Gods) and the last is "kingship" or power to effect the material plane in which we exist...

Source Wikipedia

God primary use 3 emotions in his 3 forms, but there are 4 powers which he further transform to aid the creation which are like addon to the three main emotions of creation maintenance, destruction which is done by God in the balanced way.

The four aspects are:

1) Victory/eternity/indestructible 2) Foundation / power to create or grow in any way 3) Worth of worship/equivalence to ultimate- God/prayers

reaching God 4) Kingship / personal power to achieve anything

The worlds/level that we know are can be viewed as 5: 1. Kingship/ Physical / Material world (Time and place into play)

- We live here 2. General Existence (play of 4 emotions) Equally good and bad /

one level up from where we are/ we go here and come down again

3. Understanding (place where full aspect of male female god is realized and experienced, very little potential of bad, less chances moving down from here)

4. Wisdom (God beyond male and female but less than the Infinite light, total spiritual awareness)

5. Crown (merging and living with infinite light / infinite energy/ infinite God without any attribution)

5 World in as told by scholars seen in a simpler way:

1. Kingship: Our world / lowest 2. General existence: where all 4 emo of God exist, we go

down again from here to our level 3. Understanding: Dual aspect of God realized, knowledge

of power of God, feminine aspect of god realized, very less chances of going down from here

4. Wisdom: All aspects of God realized, one level before the form of God without attributes.. beyond 4 emo, beyond the male female aspect, where God hold his feminine power..

5. Ultimate Light: Ultimate form of God without attribute ..beyond male female....you are beyond space time here...

1. Mrutyulok patalok 2. Swarga lok (you go here depending on what you have done,

you are guaranteed to move down from here, it has things that are great, but this is a temp place)

3. Devtaoo / isht devta ka look / Tri devo ke look (you can be here for very very long time, very less chances to move down from here, highest lok here is Goo-lok)

4. Sadashiv/Mahadev/Maheswar ka lok (last level of existence where you are independent and a separate entity, once you here you dont move down)

5. Moksha (your identity ends here as you merge with Jyoti of god)

There is plane of “3rd level of plane” where once you go you can still interact with levels below that, that is level of power, level of feminine power, level where you still feel the power and creation aspect of God...

Once you move to level 4 you down intent to move down...

Reincarnation is another chapter in the making that is evolving in both.

9 Point declarations and its meaning One Supreme being prayed in his manifestation Both agree that it is not right to denigrate paths to

Gods followed globally

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Shivbhakta Joshi

Introduction True Religions Merkabah mysticism Hasidic Judaism Three aspects of Meditation Mantras Zohar & Bahir Structured Meditation Evolution (developments in the last 1000 yrs) Mystical Festivals Mystical Seclusion Techniques (Application)

Interesting to see that Judaism and Hinduism both focus extensively on Meditation and Mysticism

90% focus of religion is to focus on God, meditation, yoga, salvation and not on conversion, derision or other political issues

Meditation is the most important ascept of liberation for both faiths

Although you cannot mix Zionism here as many Hindus are also Zionist who will stand for Israel still have their religious faith is Hinduism

Merkabah mysticism is a school of Jewish mysticism centered on visions such as found in Ezekiel chapter 1, or in the Hekhalot literature

Relating to visions of ascents into heavenly palaces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekhalot_literature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkabah_mysticism

Founded in 18th-century Eastern Europe by Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov as a reaction against overly legalistic Judaism

Dayanand Saraswati (1824) was a Hindu Guru against idol worship

Both faiths evolve and have Gurus to commend and contribute in the evolving relegions

The Zohar is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah

It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah (the five books of Moses)

Bahir (Book of the Brightness) is an anonymous mystical

work, attributed to a 1st century rabbinic sage Nehunya ben HaKanah (a contemporary of Yochanan ben Zakai)

It is an early work of esoteric Jewish mysticism which eventually became known as Kabbalah

The Bahir and Sefer Yetzirah are two of the other principle Kabbalistic texts

1. Theoretical 2. Meditative 3. Practical

Like mantras in Hinduism Hekhalot focuses on

chanting mantra Three steps of meditation: reading sculptures,

meditation & application Mystical powers invoked by pronouncing or reciting

mantra several time under defined methodology

List of Kabbalah Hebrew Mantra: YHWH, Shema, etc

Mystic mantra of Hinduism … Gayatri…. MMJ… Ganesh…. OM..ONS…HKHR etc

Focusing on breath using OM, nothingness, Deity, Pillar of light, etc

First sound of creation Yogi’s focus on OM 3 aspect of God

Very less technical details and vocabulary in Western thoughts on advanced meditation

Meditation on Tetragrammaton (Latin letters YHWH)

Meditation on Om (other mantra) Mudras or combination of hands Awakening of Kundalini chakras by meditation

Both have an evolving dynamic spiritual ideology with great latitude to innovate

Rabbi and Gurus are key pillars to teaching who constantly update and enhance learning methodology in meditation

Rabbis: Abraham Abulafia, Baal Shem Tov, Simeon bar Yochai, Dov Baer, Levi Titzchak, etc

Gurus: Tulsidas, Vivekanand, Ramkrishna paramhans, Ravi Shankar, Ramdev, etc

All preached dynamic aspects of looking into religion and innovation

Festival of Succot (tabernacles) where sages will meet and sing praise of God (also dance is considered mystics)

Festival of Kumbh (sages meet and give deeksha and praise God of dance Natraj lord Shiv)

Dance includes and is same with God’s idea of creation, substance and destruction

Deeksha and giving knowledge and powers to others is a part of Kumbha

Hitboded “to be secluded” Self isolation Soul separated from Body Internal isolation and focus on God…

Important of Varigya and great illusion (maya) are concepts in

Hinduism Kudadalini yoga tries to make soul move up toward God Both focuses on state of seclusion. Varigya means leaving materialistic life from inside

Search for God in all positive negative aspects of World In seclusion and detaching from common life Some consider that one reason to remain indulged in

partial unconsciousness is to aid in meditation

Gate of Kavvanah speaks on meditation on light (light called Bahir or Zohar)

Divine light and merging yourself in the infnite light

Om is the word which Hindus focus on during every outgoing breath

Also focus on Kundalni awakening in oneself from down to up Jyortirlinga or Pillars of light are the main spiritually active

places to meditate representing equality of male and female aspects of God

Meditation and Kabbalah Yoga and Judaism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefer_Yetzirah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_Shem_Tov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasidic_Judaism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkabah_mysticism

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Introduction God heads Banaras and Jerusalem Theodicy Angels References

God is non-physical, non-corporeal, and eternal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godhead_%28Judaism%

God is an absolute one indivisible incomparable being who is the ultimate cause of all existence.

Jewish tradition teaches that the true aspect of God is incomprehensible and unknowable, and that it is only God's revealed aspect that brought the universe into existence, and interacts with mankind and the world.

Feminine aspect of the God’s power

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekhinah

Brahm-Jyoti (Infinite light) Pillar of Light Pillar of Fire

Kundalini: The pillar of light is the ultimate

connection from muladhara to sahasrara and shekinah to einsof

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_Sof

5 Head of God represents 5 functions of him emancipation from pillar of light into a human like body

Source: www.himalayanacademy.com

Jerusalem & Banaras, two most holiest places God resides in the place in Linga which can be seen as

Pillar of light and union of male and feminine aspects of God

Both were under attack from the barbaric invaders Moksha (merging with God) vs. Closeness with God Place equally holy and respected for various faiths

within Hinduism May help to realize the self by meditation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monistic

Mystical Mantra for Meditation

Namah Shivay Meditation on Infinite Pillar of light

Rabbinical tradition etymologizes the name YHWH as "the self-existent One" based on Exodus 3:14-15

Explanation of the reasons of the pain, which cannot be only understood as a test but a manifestation of our old karmas

Cycle form of human soul and Rebirth as per karma theory

Rebirth and its mechanism using astrology (which hints us on how our old karmas are going to effect us in the future)

Kundalini to understand the God’s divine energy within us, which can also be called as consciousness

Divine supervision of the individual Cause and Effect In the absence of providential interference, cause and

effect governs the affairs of the universe God interventions in human affairs or world in auto

pilot mode given to maya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_providence_%28J

udaism%29

A theodicy seeks to show that it is reasonable to believe in God despite evidence of evil in the world and offers a framework which can account for why evil exists

God, Maya and human. Maya keeps world in auto pilot mode for people in their incarnations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodicy

God’s Angels assists him during (Metatron) A Prince of Divine Presence Jophiel is said in Jewish lore to be a companion to the

Angel Metatron If he is a Cherub or a Throne then he is also a "prince of

heaven" found in Jewish law and is a caretaker of the seven heavens and the angelic choirs.

Hashmallim (Pavan Dev) Rudra / Sheesh nag

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphim Narad muney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malakh) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_angelic_hierarchy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalistic_angelic_hierarch

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Demi Gods for temporary desires Moksha Heaven One kalp (which is a very long time of the cycle of

world creation and destruction)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_views_on_astrology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefer_Yetzirah

Explored into areas of similarities between the two faiths

Intended to bring people of two faiths closer Attempt to revive the dormant comparative religion

studies in the area Important for people of both religion to understand

one other as to get closer

Varanasi