We Are All Hindus Now Options

[Tenjikuronin]

Interesting article....title is a bit misleading though....


http://www.newsweek.com/id/212155

[Evertonite]

I think Hindu thoughts are slowly breaking through the anti-Hindu biased perspective usually provided by Christian fundamentalists. After all, as noted German Scholar Max Mueller said, If you can't find the answers in Ramayana, you will find them in the Bhagavad Gita. And if you can't find them in the Bhagavad Gita, you can't find them anywhere in the world.

[samraj19]

I think Hindu thoughts are slowly breaking through the anti-Hindu biased perspective usually provided by Christian fundamentalists. After all, as noted German Scholar Max Mueller said, If you can't find the answers in Ramayana, you will find them in the Bhagavad Gita. And if you can't find them in the Bhagavad Gita, you can't find them anywhere in the world.

Dalai Lama Says like this.......

The best Religion is the one that gets you closest to God. It is the one that makes you a better person.

Whatever makes you more compassionate, more sensible, more detached, more loving, more humanitarian, more responsible, more ethical. The religion that will do that for you is the best Religion

I am not interested, my friend, about religion or if you are religious or not. What really important to me is your behavior in front of your peers, family, work community, and in front of the world. Remember, the universe is the echo of our actions and our thoughts

The law of actions and reactions are not exclusively for physics. It is also of human relations. If I act with Goodness, I will receive Goodness. If I act with evil, I will get evil. Whatever our grandparents told us is the pure truth. You always have what you desire for others. Being happy is not a matter of destiny, it is a matter of options.

Take care of your Thoughts because they become Words
Take care of your Words because they will become Actions
Take care of your Actions because they will become Habits
Take care of your Habits because they form your Character
Take care of your Character because it form your Destiny
and your Destiny will be your life and ...

There is No Religion higher than the Truth...Change your thoughts that will change your destiny

[North]

I still think like a Conservative-Christian, lol. (Roman Catholic)

Besides, most Hindus aren't as open minded as the article believes. But then again, neither is any religious group in India.

[samraj19]

I still think like a Conservative-Christian, lol. (Roman Catholic)

Besides, most Hindus aren't as open minded as the article believes. But then again, neither is any religious group in India.

You missed Ashoka Chakra in your signature which denotes Buddhism

I use to think that how an idiotic social discrimination in the name of a Religion is being followed in India hundreds / thousands of year without a remedy...Is that only Ambedkar or Periyar came in the 19th century are the first one who raised voices against this in the history of India starting from the ancient period?

But the answer is a big 'NO'...I take the Buddha and Jesus who lived more than 2000 years back and we can find one common think in their life, both of them were fighting against the elites for the common/ordinary man due to which the elites were acting against them.

Jesus was speaking against the elite priest communities due to which he was crucified by them. Interestingly, Buddha was using the common/ordinary man language (Pali/Prakrit) preaching the people hence those language becomes part of Buddhism. Now, there is a question aroused naturally, Why Buddha did not use the elites language so called 'Sanskrit'?.
1. Is this indicates Buddha was acting against the elites and spoke for the common/ordinary people?
2. Did Buddha was acting against the social divide created by the Vedic Hinduism?
3. Did Buddha came as a Savior of Indians from the slavishness created by the Vedic Hinduism by its social discrimination?

According to the History, the answer should be 'Yes'

Judaism got translated into Christianity after Jesus
Hinduism got translated into Buddhism after Buddha but unfortunately Buddhism got destroyed between 3rd~12th century period in India and common/ordinary people becomes slaves again until 19th century when Ambedkar and Periyar started their fight against such social evil/slave imposed by the elites to the common/ordinary people.

According to ancient History of India, the following are the facts,
1. Ashoka was the only king who ruled the entire Greater India (Including modern days Afghan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Srilanka) but excluding Tamil kingdoms (Don't know why?)
2. Pali/Prakrit has been spoken across Greater India as a National language of India
3. Buddhism was followed across the Greater India region including Tamil kingdoms (According to some of the findings from Madurai hills) as a National Religion of India

Now, the obvious question is why Buddhism failed or eliminated from India? I think it is wrong to say it is failed since it was flourished across all Asian Pacific regions, so it is eliminated from India by the elites, Is that right?
How the national language Pali/Prakrit is wiped out of India? Who did that? Why are we not studying much about this in our History text books? Again, the answer could be same as the elites, Is that right?

The countries outside India doesn't like the social discrimination / slave culture proposed by the Vedic Hinduism and hence those Indianized kingdoms in Indonesia, Java, Sumatra, Pali, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma etc adopted the Buddhism and not the Vedic Hinduism, hence we can say that Vedic Hinduism is a failure modal

But then, why we Indians adopted this slave social system in the name of a Religion created by the elites for thousands of years?

Dr Ambedhkar realized this and proposed for a mass conversion to Buddhism but it was failed since Buddhism can never be a majority religion in India, we lost that opportunity starting from 3rd century.

Periyar has adopted 'No God' or Atheisms concept which was successful for a short period till the elimination of the slavishness from people mind. There is no guarantee that people won't go back to the slave system (Hinduism) again since all of them are called as Hindus, so over a period of time they may adopt the old slave principles.

The only way to eliminate the slavery and social discrimination from India is elimination of Hinduism. As long as people are called as Hindus, it is translating to 'Slaves' minded social discrimination.

Most of the time, we make hue and cry about the effect and not the cause. There were only 2 leaders in India who were fighting against the cause and not the effect 1. Dr Ambedkar 2. EVR Periyar. Including Ghandhi, many of other Leaders have voiced against only the effects. Hence, I would consider Dr Ambedkar & EVR Periyar above all other Leaders of India in 19th Century.

Brahmanism corrupted Indian social behavior and divided the society with hierarchy and discrimination. This is the root cause for most of the social and political issues which India is facing now. People have started using the social discrimination / divides into Indian Politics to gain Political power. Religion and social discrimination plays significant role in the Indian Politics now than communism/capitalism related economic policies...