Sanathana Dharma - will this continue its record of longivity?

[lethal_kamikaze]

Re: Sanathana Dharma - will this continue its record of longivity?

Peace all,

@Southie

Good question, kamikaze-san

I recall reading that these principles are inherent to the cosmos. Not sure any one person contributed. Something like open source code such as Linux. A community of developers. Some or all of these principles captured in The Upanishads. Which don’t talk about the various gods. Just about getting in tune wuth and realizing our inner divinity. Our Self.

If the principles are inherent to the cosmos, than these cosmos, I guess have ability or power to teach the same principles to other then Hindus too. I wonder why these cosmos just sticked to the ‘hindus’?

@mdroshan

I personally believe that Hinduism is about 8000 years old if you include the Vedic period (so it is a bit older than Judaism). But it has not remained static, many of the Vedic Gods are no longer worshiped. Since the time of Adi Shankaracharya, the number of main Gods to be worshiped (he defined five main Gods) has remained the same. The reason it has lasted so long is that it assimilated new teachings from new teachers/prophets/avatars into older traditions without destroying the older ones. The coming of Krishna did not mean Rama had to destroyed or his worship eliminated.

The future of Hinduism as well as of other religions like Islam and Christianity will be very interesting to witness for all of us in the next decade.

I expect the Imam Mahdi (pbuh) to emerge soon (possibly in the next couple of years). If he starts to teach something new to humanity, Hinduism will accept the new teachings and go on as before. Will Islam or Christianity be able to withstand the effect of new teachings different from those that are already in the holy Koran or the Bible? That is the big question that will be answered in the next few years.

mdroshan, I believe being an oldest book/scripture doesn’t means it is the correct book which should be followed. However, to gain better knowledge of right and wrong, one must fully read and understand his/her (oldest) book/scripture that what it is actually talking about, what that book/scripture tells us. Nevertheless similarities between different books/scriptures must be highlighted rather then differences, but unfortunately, we prefer to discuss differences rather then similarities and I guess this is the reason we are far far behind from being called/seen as humanity.

Please note that Imam Mahdi is not a Prophet but he is an Imam. There is a huge difference between a Prophet & Imam. Furthermore, He will not going to teach something new but will re-teach the same ‘Islam’, which will completely forgotten by the Muslim Ummah.

I recommend you to read a book ‘Muhammad in the VEDAS and the PURANAS’, written by Dr. Ved Prakash Upaddhayaya who is a Research scholar in Sanskrit at Prayag University. If you need a soft copy then feel free to pm me your email, will send it to you definitely