HINDUISM-3. Further continuation.
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First let me clarify why I told Hinduism is not a religion. Hindus are having several sacred books like Vedas. Ramayana, Mahabharatha Bhagavata etc. epics dealing with the life of God and His deeds in different incarnations. Foreigners asked Hindus which is your religious book as it is Bible for Christians and Koran for Muslims and Grantha Saheba for Sikhs so and so on for every religion. What Hindu can say? About which book he can say? All books are pious for him irrespective of the great sages and saints who preached them. How can he give gradation to those books? what is the parameter for such gradation to such religious books dealing with God and life style of God .Further, God to whom they worship is having several relatives (sons-wives,daughters,friends,and devotees and their disciples too. Even though Hindu worships any, one present in that lengthy chain they think that they will attain eternal bliss and enter heaven or Moksha by merging in God. In different forms, they worship God. They give preference to all gods feeling as ONE -GOD! As they know that God is only ONE-Omnipotent!
For their convenience, they have divided their ONE God in to several (G) gods! Any how immediately they could reply by telling not any of those Vedas -Myths, epics; but have told that- Bhagavad-Gita is our Hindu Pious Book as it has been told (preached ) byword Krishna Himself to whom Hindus accepted as God .Lord Krishna Himself revealed all that -" I am God. I took birth on earth to help and support good and destroy evil. I will reduce the population whenever increases. As a Rite (duty), I take birth and leave the earth, which I do every time when I am needed to save my devotees. I took several births from fish to this incarnation-SriKrishna. Whenever you worship any body think that " He is I”, Nobody else! (Lord Krishna)! However, you must worship with immense love and affection towards me with full of belief and faith on me. From the beginning of this Universe I am doing these duties."
By telling these words He expanded His body to such an extent in which infinite number of faces and other body Organs and further more galaxies and Universe beyond this Universe could be seen by which the persons who see Him becomes wonder struck and fear struck.
Thus Arjuna felt. Hindus think Arjuna as man and Krishna as God.
It is just like the telling of Jesus Christ! 'Christ told himself as the son of God; who came to wipe off the sins of those people who believe Him. He himself told that there is a day of final judgment on which day, His believers will be saved.'
Muslim Prophet Mohammad told that to none else except Allah (Almighty) one has to worship daily by means of Namaj five times a day in a right method. Those people who fallow the methods told by Mohammad methodically will be rescued and saved by Allah.
Christianity-Muslims are very tight and rigid Rules and Regulations having no
Flexibility to their Rules and regulations. They ever say that their religion is the true one and were actually told by God. They never accept the beliefs of other religions, but say that the other religions are paths to hell. They hurt the hearts and beliefs of other persons, who are trying to attain eternal bliss. (Read the story (novel) "Pilgrims' Progress.” They say that theirs is a progressive religion where as other religions are regressive, and ever ask others to follow their religion by adopting aggressive methods. They never try to understand the feelings of other religions. They say that their religion is the gateway of heaven and invite other religious people to follow them and their religion. They welcome all the other religious fellows into their religion as well.
Hindus never told that their worship of God is the only way to enter the eternal bliss. They accept the feelings and faiths of all the other religions. Neither they ask others to convert as Hindus, nor invite others to follow them. (Which now is being said to be the religion, a misconception ion term used?) Really speaking them never accepted other religious people to enter their holy temples where the idols of GOD (gods are) are present by knowing the fact that God is everywhere! Further, there is a lot of flexibility among Hindus and their ways of worships. Every body is having his own way of worshiping as per the individual brain’s capacity. Every body is having a choice, of their own preacher. No rigid Rules and Regulations to every body; except in the auspicious occasions of getting into a temple on some holy days. In these occasions, all must obey the Standard Rules and Regulations abided by their holy texts and observe by means of Rites as framed in. As such, how can be Hinduism called a religion? Hinduism is the way of life advised to adopt for scientific reasons to keep good health and peace of mind throughout the life. Since birth till death the performances of Rites have been mentioned in their script which is to be performed through a known preacher (a Brahmin) who will tell the procedure of doing. And the practical Hindu has to do it for heaven's sake or God's sake, which will be good and gives pleasure for the person performing his Riotous deeds, in future leading to heaven or eternal bliss or may lead to rebirth as per the wish of God.
As the psalms in bible, slokas (psalms) in praise of God in Vedas and all other scriptures related to God are present. As Bhagavad-Gita is told by God Krishna to Arjuna in the war field Kuru kshetra ;Bhagavadgitha stood first as religious Book even though that book will not be read daily in the routine life by every Hindu . Some pray some form of God concentrating the image of their own God to whom they like. Some will read some well known poems,slokas ,some verses some sentences of heir own choice.By this also one can understand that Hinduism is not a religion. Further, the marriage customs and other customs at different places of different languages and cults differ from one to the other though their God or gods are same. At times the procedure of worship also differs. But, Even then all are called to be Hindus as the name of their God is one and the same.
It's sure that all religions emerged from Zero. That's why Christianity and Muslimism say God is having neither the image nor smell-taste etch. So Zero?!
For Hindus 'Air' is one of the god to whom no body can see except feel by touch and
Inhalation. Sound is also god which is coming from Sky which is also god. Fire is also god coming out from Sun who is also God to whom we can see. He is a witness God for all our deeds whether good or bad. Water is another god as no body can live without drinking water.
As such Hindus worship nature. They love nature. They get pleasure by feeling smelling and visualizing the nature with all their sensory organs. They will be having more affection
Towards the nature and they neither try to spoil the nature nor the life present around in the nature. Theirs is not a parasitic life. Theirs is a symbiotic life. Live and let others live are their principle.
Due to the westernization and western culture, now there came a new trend in Hinduism- "A Christianity look in Hinduism".
What is this? - This is a new culture of organizations started since last eight decades. Out of them 1.Hare Krishna of chaitanya.2.SatyaSai, 3.Amma Bahaman, 4. Arya samaj, etc. several organizations were started for telling the greatness of Hinduism to the foreigners. Some of the foreigners are running behind these organizations with a quest in search of God.
When Vivekananda asked his Guru Ramakrishna Paramahamsa-" show me God”; what was the answer do you know? I searched God and I could see. You too search and find out God. Every body must try on their own ways and methods and find out Him! Only I tell you how I started searching God. You should have your own experience which will be the correct method of knowing HIM! This simple answer is informative that different individual’s experiences are different. Something Super natural celestial sensations being experienced by the followers of different Gurus. The present Organizations have opened the gates for entry of other religious people to take “Hinduism"? And worship Hindu gods (God), which was not present in the good olden days. This trend entered Hinduism to get upper hand over all the other religions. As such some became the disciples of Hindu Monks - Gurus and thought to be the incarnations of God. These preachers are also treated to equal to God. They can also give peace of mind and all materialistic worldly things to their followers, and in future after death the heaven where the eternal bliss lies.
In western isms there are bishops-nuns etc. as an Organization funded by charitable
Personalities. Now, Hinduism and their Organizations are having several branches all over the world, in the place of nuns in Amman Bhagavan Organization -there are dasajis and female bachelor members and have started the healing prayers and processes as it is
being followed in Christianity and other religious Organizations .This process is already present in Hinduism .But, very few used to get benefit by this to whom the Gurus like. Rajneesh is one who is famous for his divine powers and got several disciples all over the world. Like wise there are now several Hindu Gurus in India who got prominence because of the number of disciples present all over the world to them. To the best of my knowledge this is nothing but westernization of Hinduism.
to be continued.