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Music from the second Baha'i World Congress

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[BookOfFlaws]

Don't try to get in too deep, kid. (It would take an average Baha'i 10-20 years to begin to understand the content of the Upanishads.)

[BookOfFlaws]

That's good stuff indeed. The Upanishads are rich. (I'm well aware that you have no clue what any of that means.)

If you don't have any information in the Baha'i Faith about the nature of reincarnation and how various births are attained at the transition, that's fine. You at least have your rule about what sort of ring you have to wear when your you're planted in the cemetary plus a chant for your women to do during their periods. There's a religion for all types.

[waiotahi52]

@BookOfFlaws Do you mean stuff like this?

And Kitra said: All who depart from this world (or this body) go to the moon. In the former, (the bright) half, the moon delights in their spirits; in the other, (the dark) half, the moon sends them on to be born again. Verily, the moon is the door of the Svarga world (the heavenly world)

Upanishads

You believe the Upanishads to be correct don't you? You refer to them

[waiotahi52]

@BookOfFlaws 3. O SON OF BEING!

If poverty overtake thee, be not sad; for in time the Lord of wealth shall visit thee. Fear not abasement, for glory shall one day rest on thee.

Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words

[waiotahi52]

@BookOfFlaws How do the other religions know?

[waiotahi52]

@BookOfFlaws 52. O SON OF MAN!

Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more. (Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words)

[BookOfFlaws]

"We may weep for ourselves, but should be glad for those who've passed on."

This is heartless. Let the grieving weep. Don't tell them to be glad about anything. They don't know the state or condition of that person. I despise what you just said.

"yes expression is good"

But your "Most Holy Book" admonishes you Baha'is to "not weep in calamities." It also says in your "Hidden Words" "Fear not abasement, neither sigh nor weep." You have quite a few statements like this in your "scriptures."

[BookOfFlaws]

Baha'is, by contrast, will ocassionally jabber, with some slight self-consciousness, about a nebulous "abha kingdom." But don't ask a Baha'i for any details about it. In fact, I think that the most details ever provided, by Baha'is, about the "Abha Kingdom" (heaven) were provided by some Los Angeles singer who wrote a song where she came up with ideas about it straight out of her head. (A Baha'i children's album w/Bill Sears.) That's probably the most elaborate Baha'i teaching on heaven! Funny.

[BookOfFlaws]

"The view on death is like a person being born into heaven. "

Baha'is have basically zero information about heaven, or the various heavens, or how to think of the heavens. Baha'is basically avoid this topic because their religion offers so little here. The other religions are far more sophisticated. They list grades and states of heaven, and finally consider them to be all lacking; mere transient states. Vedanta says anything involving "perceivables" and experiences is not the final goal.

[BookOfFlaws]

"All things change...wealth is followed by poverty, and poverty followed by wealth for example."

It's a basic teaching of Yoga, Hinduism, and Buddhism but noticeably missing from the Baha'i Faith. The better religions have a direct approach to killing out the sorrow and pain associated with transience, but Baha'is don't even address this fundamental metaphysical problem. The other religions advise detachment from phenomena. But Baha'si are obsessed by their buildings.