Dharmabheeru
I wanted to call this post 'fear'. Then something told me I might have at least one more post with that title. And of course there it was. So the title had to be changed to Dharmabheeru (dharma - religion, bheeru - fearful, timid) - god fearing - pious. You are afraid. But that is not a bad thing because you are afraid of God - that he may punish you if you commit a sin. But I have a feeling that fear makes us religious, makes us believe in God, because we want to be protected by someone - and mom can't protect the adult us. Drowning myself in Sanskrit works - particularly Ashtavakragita , I had to find some meaning of these words like atma, mukti, jnana. And I asked AI to find me some texts to understand history of religions. It gave me many options - most of which are not available. But the one I stuck to was "The natural history of religions". Reading that text was not very easy - but 3 part series of podcasts by 'Philosophize this' ab...
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