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22-10-2014, 02:15 AM
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Ancient Persian knowledge about God?
There's one interesting thing that struck me (a native Farsi speaker). In Farsi (spoken in Iran, parts of Afghanistan and Tajikistan), the words for 'self' and 'God' are virtually the same.
Self: Khod
God: KhodA
Ancient knowledge or just coincidence? What do you think?
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22-10-2014, 02:22 AM
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Coincidence.
Kidding!!!
Impressive, you speak Farsi...since I read and love so many
12th,13th, 14th, 15th c poets translated from Farsi.
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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22-10-2014, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by saturn guy
There's one interesting thing that struck me (a native Farsi speaker). In Farsi (spoken in Iran, parts of Afghanistan and Tajikistan), the words for 'self' and 'God' are virtually the same.
Self: Khod
God: KhodA
Ancient knowledge or just coincidence? What do you think?
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Created in the image of...... this may be the same thought. |
22-10-2014, 03:14 PM
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I dunno, I'm still working on 'good and God".
Coincidence?
I think not.
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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22-10-2014, 04:27 PM
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God realization and self discovery mean the same thing so I am not surprised by the meaning of the words. But still:
Am I God? No.
Am I not God? No
Don't ask me to explain that because I can't lol.
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22-10-2014, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
Coincidence.
Kidding!!!
Impressive, you speak Farsi...since I read and love so many
12th,13th, 14th, 15th c poets translated from Farsi. |
Well Miss Hepburn, lovely to hear about your fondness of these old poets. My dad is crazy about them. He keeps citing them to me.....to the point that I go completely nuts sometimes. Unfortunately, while I am a native speaker, I also am an average native speaker which entails that I lack the literary skills to truly analyze their sentences and appreciate their beauthy. |
22-10-2014, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by lemex
Created in the image of...... this may be the same thought.
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Or not created by, but being the creator..........which basically hints towards this notion of auto-deity.....for lack of a better word... |
22-10-2014, 08:22 PM
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I was also first confronted with this idea that God is everything which was created (rather than being the creator, he was the creation) in Iran. I think it was based on Darwish teachings....some kind of Suffi branch.
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