Re: Hinduism ?
Dear queer, I explained islam from my point of view as I understand the scripture of islam so that you become aware of where I am coming from. It will be nice of you if you too explained your stand point in some important detail so that we could see whether we are on the same path where we should be or are we on a collision course and if so why?
Yes I read rig veda some puraanas, some upnishads, ramayna, mahabharat including its gita part etc 40+ years ago so I do not remember much now but as I said I did not read them in their original langauges and as you should know translators can turn black in to white depending upon what they want to achieve from their translations.
I remeber about 24 avetars of vishnu or was it shiva and the final one kaali I think it was. I remember reading about four yugas and millions of years between return of the yugas etc. God incarnations and reincarnations of people till they attain freedom from earthly life and how different castes were created from different parts of body of God etc etc.
Not only I read hindu scriptures but also I read english translation of avesta, old testament and new testament, talmud, guru granth sahib, dasam granth etc. I read these just to see what was difference between different scriptures. At the time I went to various mandirs, temples, gurdawaaras, churches and synagogues etc as well to see what priests made of their scriptures.
I found people very confused about all the religious scriptures. All religious people were running after God as it were and forgetting humanity. It is then I became more interested in finding out about things that matter for humanity rather than God.
For a human God cannot matter if a person has no clean air to breath, no fresh water to drink and no good food to eat and no good shelter for safety or security of life. This is how I came to realise that all claims of spirituality by religious leaders were empty and a way to con the people and basically all these people who gave no importance to worldly life had nothing to do with humanity were actually ignorant people. To me religion meant something good for mankind in the name of God.
I therefore realised that these people misinterpreted their scriptures and misrepresented them in order to get what they wanted rather than guide mankind to a better life that the scriptures promised.
Instead people put the responsibility of better life for mankind on God and robbed and even killed each other for it. Some people took others for their slaves and used and abused them as their God given right.
Anyway it will be better to have your side of the story regarding hinduism and whether you studied hindu scriptures in their original languages or not.
It is because hindu scriptures contain predictions therefore it is unlikely that such information could come from ordinary human beings. I am aware of people who explain them away by telling us these were added in to scriptures later on etc etc.
The quran does not mention whether personalities of hinduism are prophets or not but it does tell us that all nations were sent prophets, so it is unlikely that chinese and indians did not have any prophets from God. Moreover God incarnation concepts would raise thoughts that some how God did communicate to people of india at some point in time. The so claimed God incarnates may well have been divine messengers or so called sages may well have been divine messengers. My major question is, why do people need God if not for living in this world? It is precisely that we do not know how to live properly in this world that we need guidance from on high. The world remains a bad place even after divine advice because humans have ignored the advice. I mean look at amount of knowledge that is available in the world today yet most people still live like animals because they lack interest in learning what they really need to learn and the other due to ignorance and arrogance are busy trying to stop people from gaining access to knowledge. All this is deliberately done by people to each other.
So even though God is playing his part we people are not playing our part. The result is the world that we have as we can see it. According to quran Allah provided people all they will ever need but it is left up to people to learn things and do them to make the ends meet.
There is a concept of divine kingdom in all religions but people are waiting for someone else to come and make the world a better place for them instead of people getting up and doing things in such away that they end up making their world a better world.
Unless we stop our isolation from each other and get involved with each other constructively our world will remain the hell hole of hate and destruction we have turned it in to. Therefore we must come together if we want to remove ills from our human society. However whenever we come together the main question will always be for what purpose and under what terns and conditions. This is the question whose answer we find in the quran.
It is therefore not a question of whether one is hindu or muslim or whatever but whether one has the goal, the plan for course of actions or road map to achieve the needed goal. So it a matter of having or not having the program for a successful life of human community as a whole. The quran is full of information about rise and fall of nations. This is the main reason it brings to our attention ancient stories so that we could learn from those lessons and benefit accordingly.
So it is all a question of whether we are one or not because united we stand and divided we fall. Finally a religion has to be for the benefit of mankind therefore has to be a very useful thing for its betterment, if not then people are better without it. The same is true about fight between secularism and religion ie either both have to be beneficial or that which is harmful and destructive for mankind has to go. If both are found equally evil then both should go and some new way of life must be brought in that leads humanity in the proper direction. This is why wrong interpretations of any religion must be looked at before we throw away the baby with the bath tub.
regards and all the best.
