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“This is a short book, and Diana Eck does a beautiful job. She talks about sighting the deity. This is not about just going to the temple; this is about the deity visiting with you. And how do I explain the concept of divine visitation, if you’re not in the space where visitation is sought by the devotee in an active sense of the way? I just cannot explain the importance, the essence, the depth of Hindu devotion, or a Hindu’s relationship to the divine, unless we have visited and collectively been in a ritual space.” Read more...
Sravana Borkataky-Varma, Anthropologist
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Summa Theologiae, Questions on God
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri
