WHY I AM A HINDU There are three main religions in the World. There have been three widely acclaimedworks criticizing all three RELIGIONS with identical titles. The title of each work has been “Why I Am Not A Christian or Muslim or Hindu”Each of the authors Namely Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell, Ibn Al Rawandi andIlliah Kancha have looked up the discrepancies , blemishes in their respectivereligions and have espoused on them. It is healthy to criticize and introspect one’sbelief. It is a prerequisite for evolution. Accordingly I would welcome all such works. Yet one must tread with caution with all such works. At least the one by IlliahKancha is anextremely superficial work and filled with Hatred. When one has been at the”receiving end “ ofa social system, Loss Of Objectivity is an obvious fall out.I am euphemisticallya “Born Hindu”. Yet the phrase of being born Hindu or Muslimbeats me. One is born a Human being. One is born of Hindu or Muslim parents. Butno one is born with a religion. Why can’t it be like our professional careers, matter of simple choice, without any baggage to be discarded or vented against?Coming to the Subject of the blog,
Why I am a Hindu
. Primarily one must definethe premise first and then extrapolate from there. Hence the premise WHAT ISHINDUISM. I have read several articles expounding on the origin of the word Hinduand its Arabic origin. This intellectual exercise itself in Un Hindu. The word Hinduand its Arabic origin are absolutely irrelevant and all such deliberation is a mereintellectual diarrhea. Let us discuss its contents.There are several texts which haveexplained the Concept of Hinduism without using the word. Swami Vivekanandrejected the word outright and substituted it with Vedantik. Supreme Court of Indiatoo opined that one who believes and abides by Vedas and Upanishads is a Hindu.Hindu is a DHARM disparate from Religion. Hinduism is a DHARM and not a religion. This is the first important input required to get even a faint understanding of Hinduism. All other systems of belief commonly known as RELIGION begin with aFounder and culminate in a BOOK. Once you have dead institution prevailing overintellect the “Man” becomes a “Great Beast” as described by Alexander Hamilton.In Hinduism one of the important works is “Brahma Bhasya” by Adi Shankaracharyathe 8
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Century philosopher. The opening lines are “Atho Jigyasa Bhav”, “Let usquestion (Brahma the Creator)”. Signifying that everything all concepts aresubservient to man’s intellect and subject to examination.I would like to simplify the perception of Hinduism. An anecdote of an encounter of aRabi and Goering illustrates percepts of Hinduism.A Rabi was brought in the presence of Goering. Rabi maliciously told him that Talmud was a very ordinary book. There was nothing great about it. He did not
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