This lecture was given in Athens at a program during Acaryadeva's Writing Retreat.
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The main points are:
- overview of the history of Hinduism
- how pagan Europe was blessed and poisened by the introduction of Christianity (the difference between the Roman religious tolerance with diverse religious landscape and the notion that there is only one real religion prevalent in the Middle East
- basic teachings of Bhagavad-gita: meaning of reincarnation (even within one lifetime) and why we are not our bodies
- objective reality vs. psychological belief (whatever someone believes in true for him)
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