Been curious about Oblates

[Ouroborosnek]

Not sure what brought it up last night, but was looking around and started reading about Benedict and the Order of Saint Benedict Oblates http://archive.osb.org/obl/index.html

Anyone with insights or experience with them (or Oblate orders in general)?

[sanatanadharma]

1. I have never been curious about that of which I never knew

You did raise my curiosity and since no information was offered, I clicked the link and read some and thus now have dropped some 'avidya' (not-knowing, ignorance (of)).

I get the sense of Vedic traditions of ancient India and the teachers (gurus), personal paths* and intentions of seekers from then to now.

Lives of keeping the ultimate in mind, enduring the temporal, feeling equal in all, offering life's doings as service, eschewing personal rewards, focus on Dharma (ethics-morality-rightousness-truth).

* Vedic: "Istadevata" different personally chosen God-heros (So many Goddesses, Ganesh, Krishna, Vishnu, Shiva, Hanuman, Dakshinamurti, etc), different Gurus, different stages and roles in life- not all can nor need be monks.

[Karadeniz]

2. Para. 3 above is what Christianity should be about.