Dear Sir...Thank you for your thorough presentation on Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism. I look forward to listen to Taoism, Islam and Christianity. I have learned so much about Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism A thorough, well researched and award winning presentation. Your presentation has been holistic, worldly, GODLY and earthly. In the Judaism presentation in 52 minutes, a female participant had suggested something, which I could nor grasp clearly. But the way you responded to her by saying "you leading the way......." in such a humble and emphatic voice that encourages the student or participant to get involve with the discussion. A learning curve for me in presentation. Thank you Sir Jawal Taito Mangal Suva, Fiji Islands

Love listening to this guy. You obviously need the prior knowledge to be able to fully appreciate his lectures. I love it how he expands on standard thinking in digs deeper.

The way of teaching is very interesting and informative. Respect to Sir.

someone email him and tell him to make a youtube channel

@sparshnaik4551

3 жыл бұрын

I have him in linkedin contact, he is very knowledgeable

@jidrit999

Жыл бұрын

@@skyrider4492 what ????? seriously ?

I am a Hindu, and I love Isreal. Long live Indo-Isreal friendship. Bane Isreal were the only Isrealites who weren't exploited, they lived in India. 2. I am also by each passing lecture somewhere from deep of my heart have growing respect for Professor LD Russell. Although, he is a recovering Baptist 😂 but Still I wanna more from him in his Hinduism lecture where he failed to link Moksh as a journey of Atman to ultimately submerge into Brahman. I like his way of teaching....Gandalf.

@Sauravkumar-bv1ur

5 жыл бұрын

He thinks Hinduism is only about gods and goddesses and that too 33 millions

@vijayavani8003

3 жыл бұрын

Even I was wondering as to why he did not emphasize on the concepts of Moksha and Spirit (also called as Atma and Universal Consciousness )which are the most important aspects of Hinduism. When we observe impartially, we find that the purpose of human soul ,in most of the religions stopped with attaining place in heaven and only in Hindu school of thought , liberation of soul (Moksha) and dissolving of soul into Universal Consciousness(Parama Atma,the God )has been considered as main goal.

@fgtrhwu2

3 жыл бұрын

@@vijayavani8003 He only had an hour, his goal was to cover as many parts as possible instead of delving deeply into a topic. He didn't even have enough time to cover the Trimurti

@saketsingh5423

2 жыл бұрын

Start with any ram charit manas, gita, adi shankaracharya, vivekanand and i can too..but to correct first know this there is no hindu it's the identity given by foreigners who invaded, you couldn't find any ancient, religious text or scriptures where the word hindu ever used, it's sanatan or eternal, and our dharma is not religion like christian or Judaism or islam or Zoroastrian or any foreign faith but duty or karma or morality or loosely way of life..also there is not 33 Cr god & goddess..This is the version who is not familiar with sanskrit or devnagari so when translate in million everyone just took it but the truth is this is 33 "कोटि" although koti also means crore but here the actual meaning of koti here is distinction or types if you call it so..33 distinct or types not 33 crore.

One serious thing in need of correction(26:55): the famous q & A regarding God's name doesn't take place on Mt. Sinai while receiving the Torah (after leaving Egypt) but way before, when Moses *first* talked to God, through the burning bush and attempted to negotiate, reluctantly, the issue of his vocation - to return to Egypt and address both the Israelites and the Pharaoh. Moses asks for some credentials that would prove the authenticity of his massage as coming from that specific divinity. The knowledge of God's esoteric as well as folk name would prove the authority of this stranger in the eyes of the people, at the time when the earliest Wikipedia was restricted to the inner walls of Kings tombs. All that happens in Exodus 3:11-16 The other great private session with God, on Mt. Sinai, takes place later, in Exodus 33-34

No mention of Zoroastrianism when discussing monotheism???

Great class! Just an observation: it is important to say that Akhenaten'reform in ancient Egypt was not a monotheistic one, it was more a reform toward monolatry.

Brilliant lecture as usual. The Egyptian king Dr Russel is referring to who believed in the existence of one God and insisted on the worship of him alone among the pantheon of Gods in Egypt was Sun as a disk or Aten. The name of the King was Akhenaten not Imhotep.

I have to make an amendment to my previous response two days ago that Mr. Russell starts off this video truly explaining the Jewish view of the Jewish religion (consistent with his other videos), but gradually begins to give his own understanding, or a scholarly historical view, of it. I'm only saying this because many people watching this might think that the entirety of his presentation is the Jewish view. For example, what he says at 26:22 is only partially correct from a textual perspective because Moses does not ask God who to tell the Jews sent him as he descends Mount Sinai, but rather after his first meeting with God at the burning bush. The episode at Mount Sinai occurs once the Jews have already left Egypt after all of the plagues and crossing the Sea of Reeds (Red Sea) probably about a year later. 29:50 - There's some of that Christianity slipping into this presentation. God's awesome righteousness in Judaism does not invoke a sense of guilt among the believers, but rather a sense of great awe and inspiration. Guilt is born (and is expected to be) of sin, not of contemplating God's Greatness. This is an important difference between Judaism and Christianity. 30:30 - Judaism believes in reincarnation as well, known as *gilgul,* which is translated from Hebrew as something like *cycle* or *repetition.* However, we don't typically see it as an opportunity to rectify the mistakes of our previous life, but rather as an indication that we have failed in rectifying ourselves during our previous life on earth. In that sense it may be seen as an opportunity, but it is less than ideal. 30:59 - The Decalogue, or the Ten Commandments, are only the first ten in a set of 613 commandments. In some capacity it may be said that the first ten also represent *categories* of the remaining 603, but the Covenant between God and the Jews is not represented by only these first ten. 32:00 - That is true regarding the Messiah and before that by making this world a fitting place for "God's Presence," but Judaism certainly posits the existence of an Afterlife and discusses elements of it in many sources. An example is Chapter 4:16 of Pirkei Avot (in the Talmud) which says, "Rabbi Yaakov says: 'This world is like a hallway before the world to come. Fix yourself in the hallway so you may enter the drawing room.'" 32:36 - When the Messiah comes Jews believe that the entire world will recognize and declare His greatness, i.e., that it in this sense "the Kingdom of God" won't be just in Israel. "And the Lord shall become King over all the earth; on that day shall the Lord be one, and His name one (Zechariah 14:9)." 34:27 - Imhotep's understanding of monotheism was the process of selecting one god (Aten) from the existing Egyptian pantheon. The Jewish understanding of the existence of the One True God is *very* different than simply the selection of one god from a pantheon, but may be beyond the scope of this forum. It was the declaration that God was one in quantity *and* quality and no others in fact exist. What theological explanation did Imhotep give his people for his reform, and why did the Jews succeed while Imhotep failed? 36:06 - It is a statement of monotheism because the Torah understands that the nations of the world *believed* in the existence of other gods, but perceives them as the product of human error. 36:29 - He almost said "Jesus" instead of "Yahweh." Freudian slip... 42:06 - To say that they felt that their God had been defeated doesn't seem to be accurate. The ones who were faithful already remained steadfast and resistant in exile, and let's not forget the prophets who tried to assuage the exiled communities, such as Jeremiah. Very good video!

@artesiningart4961

3 жыл бұрын

As far as what I understand, these series of classes are more like Religious Studies (based on various perspectives of and in history, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and the like) than really on Theology ones (about specific and particular God/Sacred/Divine/Deity/Deities/Divinity/Being/Reality/etc. of a particular and specific religion/religious tradition/ religious worldview/ religious belief system/ church/ denomination/ sect/ cult, and about the sacred texts/ scriptures, or other writings, doctrines, dogmas, creeds, among others). ✌😊

@sonofblessed

3 жыл бұрын

@@artesiningart4961 That may be so, but even in the context of religious studies it would be important to try to avoid the inaccuracies of the types that I pointed out.

This is very interesting, but as an Orthodox Jew it seems to me that despite his effort that he's presenting Judaism from an outsider's perspective/from a standpoint of theory and conjecture, such as his explanation of the Golden Calf. Occasionally he dips into "Jewish mode" and presents some information from the Jewish perspective, but only here and there.

If you're here for the FMCC Comparative Religions class, do yourself a favor and watch this video on 1.25x speed.

what is the profs name? did he write any books?

@arvindgopalakrishna4607

3 жыл бұрын

His name is LD Russel, you can google him.

Sir, Hinduism (snatan) is not a religion like Cristinity, Islam.. It is a way of life and is called snatan dharma. It is a large ocean of scientific culture. No can understand it without following it. It belongs to Nature totally.

@polemeros

Жыл бұрын

LOL. How SPECIAL you are.

@OlgasBritishFells

8 ай бұрын

He also mentioned that

believe = truth, How?

correction ~ you have 1 minute to cover every 50 years...otherwise great stuff

I learnt a lot from this series. But unfortunately the philosophy of Hinduism you taught is not complete. I mean not a glimpse. May be you should have covered in 2-3 classes. However, you describing the universe is just *hologram* in Shiva meditation is fascinating. It never comes in mind in that way.

@user-vb1gr6ci4d

2 жыл бұрын

> May be you should have covered in 2-3 classes. As far as I understand these are just introductory lectures of the entire course. He says he'll have a week or two to cover judaism in this one, and it seems we only get to see the intro. But I agree the hinduism one was off topic for the most part.

Where is Newest One The Sikhism ?

He just give touch of religions not but clear concepts.also when the romans left after 66 cc why the Jews not created there own State?

Jew can not let go their god even after badly defeated unlike Egypt, Roman, Persian etc

@ 28:13 "I AM" >> 'god is a verb' ...and both the Qabalah and the Egyptians would built the Temple of Luxor would agree. ...Rene Schwaller de Lubicz is also in agreement ...and the most essential verb ever, the verb 'to be' ...and that is very profound and unifying and where science is today! God with poetic flair is revealed as the verb 'to be' Andrei Linde and the BICEP2 Team recently announced confirmation of the b-mode gravitation waves. And what has been revealed by 'empirical science' doing its best is 'poetic' to say the least. There are two b-mode gravitation waves ~ one red, one blue which have been imprinted upon all life, apparently. Thus this famous line spoken by a despondent or feigning Prince Hamlet who contemplates death and suicide. "To be, or not to be, that is the question-" ...must be updated due to what 'science' is offering in the 21st century. To be, or not to be, which b-mode gravitation wave shall I be, red or blue? What the hell AM I talking about? B-mode SwaStikaS ~ the “Smoking Gun” ~ an Intelligent Design ~ ID ~ windmills of the mInD ~ ThE NET - the SEEd pattern >> at37.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/windmills-swastikas-seeds/

@imakevideos5377

4 жыл бұрын

yea no, you are a fucking idiot

Thank you 🙏 God Long from is G = generator O= operator D= destroy. Generator is a Brahma. operator is a Vishnu. destroy is a Shiva. Electrons, protons, Neutrons this also three gods. Electron is a Brahma. Proton is a Vishnu. and neutrons is a Shiva.

You definitely had some propoganda when you turned off comments for your video on your hinduism. Also you miss quoted some verses, seems you did that intentionally

"Tat tvam asi", meaning "Thou art that". Vedic texts will reveal to you the meaning of "I am that, I am". It simply means that you and the universe you inhabit are one and the same. We are one with this cosmos and everything in it. There is no such thing as you and the universe...there is only the universe made up of a creative force, a maintaining force a destructive force in which we are an activity and expression of. I am not Dharmendra experiencing the universe. I am the universe experiencing Dharmendra. You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in the drop. Dive a little deeper and you learn that the true you is only the awareness/ observer of it all. Chidananda rupah, Shivo'ham Shivo'ham.

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I learnt a lot from this series. But unfortunately the philosophy of Hinduism you taught is not complete. I mean not a glimpse. May be you should have covered in 2-3 classes. However, you describing the universe is just *hologram* in Shiva meditation is fascinating. It never comes in mind in that way.