Namaste Everyone,
According to me the young generation both in India and US do not know what they mean when they say they are "free thinkers", this means that religious people are not free thinkers. Since Hinduism is counted as a religion the adherents of this religions are not "free thinkers".
This is an absolutely stupid argument, 1stly Hinduism is not a religion it is a Dharma, Dharma is a non translatable and I believe there is no English equivalent to this word.
Have any of you asked your kids "Could you please define Hinduism for me ?". You will see how many mistakes these people will start making. You could expose their ignorance.
I realise that the academics treat Hinduism as merely a belief but not as an alternative way to explore reality.
Even the Bhakti within Hinduism cannot be compared to the devotion of God in the Abrahamic faiths, since these faiths are mostly interested in escaping hell and going to heaven.
But within the Hindu tradition the Bhakta has ahetuka Bhakti, which means the love for the Lord or Ishwara has no reason, the Bhakta does not even mind going through all sorts of hell, but would just like to think of his beloved Ishwara. The Bhakta does not ask questions but simply loves Ishwara and see everything as his play.
This is Bhakti, Bhakti knows no fear. Similarly even the agnostic scientist Carl Segan is simply impressed by the Nasadiya Suktam of the Vedas.
So what is Hinduism? this question should be asked to the young generation.
Infact these Atheist type scientists are so idiotic that Sam Harris made a statement that the belief in reincarnation encouraged the suicide bombers of LTTE to go ahead.
Hence the young generation is mostly people who give the impression of being quite intelligent but in reality are not so smart.
Lets face it we as Hindus have not tried to build any institutions or seminaries which encourages the study of our own Dharma, we are too cowardly to look at other faiths from the critical perspective. We have forgotten to do Purvapaksha on other philosophies (non Dharmic) . Now we are sitting here and having this discussion.
We as hindus are more interested in going into the temples and doing Puja but we are not interested in building Yoga Centres which are completely based on he Hindu philosophy and then showing Yoga to be a brand of Hinduism.
Infact the West and other religions are digesting our philosophy and Yoga, into Christian Yoga, neuroscience as well as transcendentalism. Sam Harris is also doing the same.
We like it if a Westerner praises our Dharma, infact many of our organisations are merely stuck in personality worship. We as Hindus are not interested in the principles of our own Dharma but are more interested in what our Gurus say. ofcourse nothing wrong, but my point is that we must stick to principles rather than personalities.
Hence let us not blame the media or the idiotic secularists, we as Hindus have been sleeping and do not know how to market our own Dharma. Infact Buddhism knows how to market itself and people are showing interest to it. But Hinduism as a whole has not tried to market itself, or brand itself. This our fault.
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