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My views on the Abrahamic religions are best expressed by this famous quote from WhatarethedifferencesbetweentheAbrahamic
religions:Judaism,ChristianityandIslam?
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"The religion and philosophy of the Hebrews are those of a wilder and ruder tribe, paganreligionsdifferentfromthatonChristianityor
wanting the civility and intellectual renements and subtlety of Vedic culture." Islam?

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- Henry David Thoreau
Abrahamicreligions(Judaism,Christianityand
Islam)?
All the worlds religions speak of the same God, that is quite obvious, but the
Vaishnava religion is the most original and complete religion that oers the most WhyaretheAbrahamicreligionsofJudaism,
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information on God.
monotheism?

Srila Prabhupada used the analogy of a dictionary - there is the complete and WhatisthedifferencebetweenHinduismand
unabridged edition of a dictionary and there are the abridged, lesser versions. Where AbrahamicreligionslikeIslamandChristianity?
other religions oer an abridged version of God the Vaishnava religion oers the full,
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unabridged version. Abrahamicreligions(Judaism,Christianityand
Islam)?
When you speak to people in general about God and religion, one question that keeps
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coming up is - all religions are the same nonsense, how do you know the God of your
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But it's a simple question to answer. First you read the Bible. Then you read the
Koran, and then you read Bhagavad Gita. These 3 books are like the revealed 1PublicFollower
scriptures of the world-religions, so they should give you a pretty good answer. 905Views
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When you have nished reading, you ponder the situation and ask yourself - which of
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expect to hear from a God?

Can there be any doubt as to the answer?

"I owed a magnicent day to the Bhagavad Geeta. It was the rst of books; it was as
if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent,
the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and
thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bhagavad Gita is the only book on the planet in which someone claiming to be God,
describes in detail about Himself, the soul and the world and how they inter-relate.
The philosophy and religion of Krishnas teachings is the pinnacle of philosophy and
religion. The philosophy delivered by Krishna in Bhagavad Gita is without a doubt the
most complete, consistent, sophisticated and well thought out explanation of reality
available anywhere in the world at all time.

"The reader is nowhere raised into and sustained in a bigger, purer or rarer region
of thought than in the Bhagavad Gita" - Henry David Thoreau

Krishna says:
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most condential knowledge and realization, knowing which you shall be relieved
of the miseries of material existence. (Bg. 9.1)

This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the
purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization,
it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed. (Bg. 9.2)

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