All other religions of the world are based on a personality-Islam on mohammed , christianity on christ, buddhism on buddha, zoroastrianism zarushtra.Remove the personality, or have some doubts on It, and the faith is shaken.Hinduism is the only religion that is not based on a personality, but a principle. Doubts have been raised on Srirama and Srikrishna , but the strong edifice of Dharma has not been shaken;it remains crack-proof.
No disbileiver in Islam or the prophet can be called a Muslim;he is a 'kaffir'.No ridicular of christianity or christ can be considered a christian;he is a heathen.
Ashoka made buddhism the state Religion of his realm, but did not exterminate Hinduism ,Hindu women were not kidnapped and converted,Hindu men were not killed in any orgy of seneless and brutal conversion-spree.Ashoka,who was a Hindu-turned-Buddhist, was the child of hinduism.Hinduism,the mother Faith,was tolerant of Buddhism-the rebel child of Hinduism-and the Mother refused to abandon her son,and the son refused to indulge in matricide.
No disbileiver in Islam or the prophet can be called a Muslim;he is a 'kaffir'.No ridicular of christianity or christ can be considered a christian;he is a heathen.
Ashoka made buddhism the state Religion of his realm, but did not exterminate Hinduism ,Hindu women were not kidnapped and converted,Hindu men were not killed in any orgy of seneless and brutal conversion-spree.Ashoka,who was a Hindu-turned-Buddhist, was the child of hinduism.Hinduism,the mother Faith,was tolerant of Buddhism-the rebel child of Hinduism-and the Mother refused to abandon her son,and the son refused to indulge in matricide.
Hinduism has never said,'Believe or Perish'.It always said,'Live and Let Live'.Hence votaries of Hinduism did not take the gita in one hand and the sword in the other hand,to enslave and capture the world,converting all the non-hindus to Hinduism.
No catholic can critisize the pope,but a hindu can critisize a shankaracharya.No christian can disbelieve in the bible or christ, but a hindu can refuse to accept gita or Srirama and Srikrishna. Can a Muslim dare say that he doesnot believe in the koran or the prophet?
When the jewish prophet Moses was giving the ten commandments in the name of the jehovah to the nomadic tribes of Israel,our Rishis evolved a code of conduct, a sheild of dharma for the right approach to life. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad(1:3:28) says,"Om asato maa sad gamaya-tamasa maaa jyotir gamaya-mrityor maa amritam gamaya(" O lord , from untruth lead me to truth;fromthe darkness of ignorance,lead me to the light or knowledge;from death,lead me to Immortality").
Hinduism can be never crusified its prophets.If jesus christ had been born in India,he would not have been crusified.If socrates was born in this country ,we would not have given him the cup of Hemlock.Gautama Buddha died of ripe old age in this country among the hindus,and he was not hunted down like a rabbit by the 'shikari kutas'(hunting dogs).
S.Radhakrishnan,(The Hindu Wayof Life,p,28).And he elaborates on page 40:"Wars of religion,which are the outcome of fanaticism,that prompts and justifies the extermination of aliens of different creeds, were practically unknown in Hindu India".
Incessant wars between the catholics and the protestants had ravaged the map of Europe and Ireland since centuries.Extermination of the Ahmediyya Muslims in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan by Muslim fanatics and fundamentals is widely known.The chronic fights between sunni and shiasects in Islam are known to one and all.
Do the arya samajis and the sanatanis kill each other? Do the Buddhists and the Hindus ravage each other's homes? Do the kabir-panthis and Dadoo-panthis raze each other's temples to the ground?
Semitic religions do not allow this type of intelectual and spiritual freedom.They destroy the temples,they smash the idols,they kidnap the women,they convert the children,they kill the men,they drag unwilling women in their concubinage.We,on the other hand, have never pulled down the spires of their shrines in the name of our god or creed or religion.We never erected mounds of human skulls
after butchering them indiscriminately.We never converted them at the point of the sword.
Our priests don't lay down norms for political pundits from pulpits in the shrines.Our priests do not issue 'hukumnamas' to the politicians to sign on the dotted line .Our prists do not issue murderous terrorists.Our priests mind their own businss in the temples,for in hinduism religion and politics are two seperate compartments.The stateshould not dicate terms to the rulers.
Why did the Dalai lama come to India with thousands of his Buddhists fromTibet?Why did the chakma buddhists from Bangladesh come to India?Why did the zoroastrains come to India? If the zoroastrains from Iran had gone to any Muslim country , they would have been forcibly converted ,if not massacred outright .But we gave them shelter , succour and support ,and they continue to be zoroastrians in India,like salt in 'chapati'.
No catholic can critisize the pope,but a hindu can critisize a shankaracharya.No christian can disbelieve in the bible or christ, but a hindu can refuse to accept gita or Srirama and Srikrishna. Can a Muslim dare say that he doesnot believe in the koran or the prophet?
When the jewish prophet Moses was giving the ten commandments in the name of the jehovah to the nomadic tribes of Israel,our Rishis evolved a code of conduct, a sheild of dharma for the right approach to life. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad(1:3:28) says,"Om asato maa sad gamaya-tamasa maaa jyotir gamaya-mrityor maa amritam gamaya(" O lord , from untruth lead me to truth;fromthe darkness of ignorance,lead me to the light or knowledge;from death,lead me to Immortality").
Hinduism can be never crusified its prophets.If jesus christ had been born in India,he would not have been crusified.If socrates was born in this country ,we would not have given him the cup of Hemlock.Gautama Buddha died of ripe old age in this country among the hindus,and he was not hunted down like a rabbit by the 'shikari kutas'(hunting dogs).
S.Radhakrishnan,(The Hindu Wayof Life,p,28).And he elaborates on page 40:"Wars of religion,which are the outcome of fanaticism,that prompts and justifies the extermination of aliens of different creeds, were practically unknown in Hindu India".
Incessant wars between the catholics and the protestants had ravaged the map of Europe and Ireland since centuries.Extermination of the Ahmediyya Muslims in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan by Muslim fanatics and fundamentals is widely known.The chronic fights between sunni and shiasects in Islam are known to one and all.
Do the arya samajis and the sanatanis kill each other? Do the Buddhists and the Hindus ravage each other's homes? Do the kabir-panthis and Dadoo-panthis raze each other's temples to the ground?
Semitic religions do not allow this type of intelectual and spiritual freedom.They destroy the temples,they smash the idols,they kidnap the women,they convert the children,they kill the men,they drag unwilling women in their concubinage.We,on the other hand, have never pulled down the spires of their shrines in the name of our god or creed or religion.We never erected mounds of human skulls
after butchering them indiscriminately.We never converted them at the point of the sword.
Our priests don't lay down norms for political pundits from pulpits in the shrines.Our priests do not issue 'hukumnamas' to the politicians to sign on the dotted line .Our prists do not issue murderous terrorists.Our priests mind their own businss in the temples,for in hinduism religion and politics are two seperate compartments.The stateshould not dicate terms to the rulers.
Why did the Dalai lama come to India with thousands of his Buddhists fromTibet?Why did the chakma buddhists from Bangladesh come to India?Why did the zoroastrains come to India? If the zoroastrains from Iran had gone to any Muslim country , they would have been forcibly converted ,if not massacred outright .But we gave them shelter , succour and support ,and they continue to be zoroastrians in India,like salt in 'chapati'.
