Brahmin

 Today I was looking to see if there is a hell in Hindu teaching. There are 28 of them, according to Wikipedia. 

As I scoped out all the cool words there, I saw a guy. He was "Tall and well built". His name was Madhvacharya. He believed in hell in a different way. Now I will have to buy his book.

It has been written in an article about the school which his philosophy taught that there are all these different realities based on the common terms we Westerners have been acquainted with, some, only in very remote terms. What is Brahmin? What do Hindus believe? 

I saw that Madhva was very well acclaimed, created his own temple of renown,  and that he joined an ascetic group, usually for older retired people, at a young age, which has you "put down" all things to serve soul and peace.

His philosophy is supposed to be "clever". Now I have a book I want to buy!

I thought of him in terms of Buddha and this too gave me a bit of interest. It is as though each were called and each had been given a scroll, perhaps better seen elsewhere out of respect, but seen easily, as in the Wizard of Oz, the Wizard giving a brain, a heart etc. 

I am still interested in that 6th century bc burst of special men, forseen in dreams! Almost all of them. 

Amazing but not quite what I see in Jesus. That is why Madhva interests me. He explains what he saw studying the ancient texts of Hindu!

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