roadrunner:kindly differentiate vedism and hinduism

[roadrunner]

Re: roadrunner:kindly differentiate vedism and hinduism

@Victory

I am not sure of Veda Vyasa's address, however I believe that indicate that atleast the three rishis I mentioned are from a place near Kishkindha. (Approx 300 kms north of Bangalore). I never said Tamil's wrote Rig Veda. If the vedas mention a particular river, it does not turn out that people on the banks of that river are the originators.

You can call the religion of the vedas as Vedic religion, the religion is also known as Sanatana Dharma, for the modern age it is the Hinduism.

No, it is not. I'll try and explain, probably with little success. The religion of VEDISM is completely different to Hinduism or Sanatana Dharma as you call it. The equivalent would be saying Judaism and Islam are the same religion. That is the ludicrousy of what your saying. There are overlaps between the two religions but they are NOT THE SAME religions. Here is a quote from a Hindu website that even acknowledges this

"While the Upanisads show more information on the Vedas, **they also show a breaking away from traditional Vedic thought into the basic tenets of what would grow to become Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism).* " *

What WOULD become, the break AWAY from Vedic thought etc.

Now your other suggestion, that because the Rig Veda "mentions a particular river it doesnt mean it was wrote there" is just silly. The Veda mentions ALL the rivers of Pakistan and those that overlap slightly into Afghanistan and also India. This makes it highly likely to any reasonably neutral judge that the book was written somewhere where they had good access to the geography of the surrounding areas. i.e. in Pakistan. Else why make the Indus the mightiest instead of the Ganges or some South Indian River?