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My Jewish Encounter With Hinduism
How I came to an intellectual and spiritual connection with Swami Chidananda Saraswati
Religions are complex realities.
- Alon Goshen-Gottstein
- Tablet
They are constituted by systems of beliefs and rituals.
They are embedded in particular cultures.
They involve communities and they are mediated to a large extent through teachers and living spiritual exemplars.
In what follows I describe a process of encountering Hinduism that has been in the making for nearly forty years.
It has gone…