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@ chandrauday proves one thing ...you write any scrap shaming Hindu ...and you will get space at @AlJazeera_World ... Such is the bigotry ... best way to get published on Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/making-hindu-india-200820104806024.html?s=08
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/making-hindu-india-200820104806024.html?s=08
I will take up the opportunity to dismantle the lies about Hinduism brick by brick ... A small thread ...
1 Quite a few scholars consider Hinduism as a jumble of creeds and rituals, an ocean of ideas and beliefs in which numerous streams, rivers, and rivulets....
2 Deva Raja, observes: “Compared to neatly formulated religious creeds as Christianity and Islam Hinduism appears to be a welter of beliefs, doctrines and practices that defy the understanding and interpretative ingenuity of even sympathetic students and scholars”...
3 According to Srinivasan, “Hinduism is a mosaic of contrary beliefs, and inconsistent ideologies of dead ritualism, of a dilapidated social structure and lackadaisical behaviour-code parading as tolerance, defying all definitions.”
4 So I don’t blame @ChandraUday for shaming Hinduism on @AlJazeera_World ... you expel what you eat ... if you are fed poison ... who will expect nectar from your pen...
5 Such a perception, which gives a superficial picture of Hinduism, arises primarily from the failure to perceive the phenomenon in its historical perspective, and in the inability to separate the pure from the fake, the profound from the profane, and the lofty from the low...
6 Any old religion, during the course of its long march, gathers a lot of dust. Unfortunate mishaps occur. Limbs get broken. False surgeons and quacks appear. Fractures are not set right. And deformities creep in. Hinduism is no exception...
7 The vicissitudes of history created waste lands and ravaged gardens. The fragrance of great and sublime thoughts was lost in the stench of decaying matters....
8 A dreary and depressing autumn set in. It is because of this long autumn that Hinduism is in a sorry state, its essence subverted and its core hidden by dry and thorny bushes. A Hindu spring has long been awaited and it is time now that it comes...
9 The dynamics of the reality are recognised by the fundamentals of Hindu thought. The Universe is continuously changing. It has its own creative process, its own self-generating flux. Not only the thing perceived, but also the perceiver is changing...
10 The interaction between the perceived and the perceiver is in dynamic flux. One dynamic equilibrium is continuously giving way to another dynamic equilibrium. Regeneration is inbuilt in the Hindu system...
11 Hindu thought suggests that “our life is an apprenticeship to the truth, that around every circle another circle can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, and every end has a beginning.”....
12 One of the strongest thrusts of the reformed Hinduism would be to arouse consciousness about the need for acquiring reasoned faith...
13 A newly born child develops faith in the mother's milk. For him, that is the reality, just as an ordered universe is the reality that the grown-up individual perceives. ...
14 how do I manifest this reasoned faith... enter a temple and say these words ..
“O Lord, forgive thy sins that are due to my human limitations; Thou are everywhere, but I worship you here; Thou are without form, but I worhship you in these forms;
“O Lord, forgive thy sins that are due to my human limitations; Thou are everywhere, but I worship you here; Thou are without form, but I worhship you in these forms;
15 Thou needest no praise, yet I offer you these prayers and salutations.
He is conscious of the distractions to which human mind is subjected. He knows that God is omnipresent, that He is formless, and that He does not require praises...
He is conscious of the distractions to which human mind is subjected. He knows that God is omnipresent, that He is formless, and that He does not require praises...
16 But to realise Him, to be near Him, and to concentrate on Him, the man must give Him a shape, a habitation, and also speak to Him in prayers. It is merely an attempt to find focus by adjusting the scattered beams of mind. It is not idolatory...
17 It does not amount to worshipping inanimate objects or speaking to them. It is something like approaching a match-maker to secure contact with the ultimate reality...
18 Irrational faith cannot bring about spiritual emancipation or orderliness in society. Reasoned faith, on the other hand, takes man to higher and higher stages of spirituality. Reason sharpens the emotional experience and gives meaning, content and depth to it...
19 The ‘inner' eye becomes more active and complements the rational phenomenon. The perceptive faculties of man get synthesised; higher rationality is attained; greater range is acquired by emotional experience; and spiritual emancipation becomes feasible...
20 The Upanishads say: “Human beings of great intellectual powers have doubts, divisions and discords. The rational man has to grow into spiritual man. That is the task set to each individual if he has to fulfil his destiny as a human being.”...
21 In fact, rationality is a prerequisite of spirituality...a stage in development which is prior to the stage of spirituality. One cannot be spiritual without being rational first....
22 The Gita, too, essentially envisages a society which is motivated by justice and not private gain. Those who corner resources of the earth are called robbers and sinners, and those who accumulate wealth by unfair means are spoken of as devils....
23 No single factor can arouse as much public awareness as Hindu value of living in harmony with nature. The Mahabharata, the Ramayana, Vedas, Upanishadas, Gita, the Purānas and the Smrti contain the earliest messages for preservation of environment and maintenance of ecology..
24 For centuries, while praying to Goddess Durga, the Hindus have been saying: “So long as the Earth has mountains, forests, trees, etc., human race will survive.” Nature or Earth has never been considered a hostile element to be conquered or dominated...
25 Mahabharata hints that the basic elements of Nature constitute the Cosmic Being—the mountains His bones, the earth His flesh, the sea His blood, the sky His abdomen, the air His breath and agni His energy...
26 Varah Purana says: “One who plants one peepal, one neem, one bar, ten flowering plants or creepers, two pomegranates, two oranges and five mangoes, does not go to hell.” In Charak Sanghita, destruction of forests is taken as destruction of the state...
27 protection of animals is considered a sacred duty. One of our scriptures makes it absolutely clear as to how sinful it is to kill an animal. It says: “Oh wicked persons! if you roast a bird, then your bathing in sacred rivers, pilgrimages, worships and yagnas are useless.”..
28 Artha Shastra stipulates punishment who kill birds, foul the air, pollute water or otherwise damage environment. In our ancient mythology, birds and animals have always been identified with gods and goddesses..elephant with God Indra, rat with God Ganesh, and lion with Durga
29 If the sacred values of treating Earth as Mother, of preserving trees and plants, and of protecting animals are prescribed ba @AlJazeera_World through the reformative impulse of Hinduism, a strong global commitment would emerge, which would be the best guarantee for success..
30 if we want a peaceful existence @AlJazeera_World @ChandraUday Harmonising great truths of the Hindu thought with the new insights of modern man; recognition of the changing and dynamic equilibrium of life; inculcation of ‘reasoned faith’...
31 rejuvenation of underlying urges of Hinduism for justice, compassion and oneness; and spiritual underpinning of global objectives could be some of fundamental contributions for ushering in the much needed era of renaissance and give positive direction to this wayward world..
