Sanathana Dharma - will this continue its record of longivity?

[lethal_kamikaze]

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

Peace All,

@Southie

Sanatana Dharma preceded the Vedas and the Upanishads. If you arr looking for books, the Vedas and the Upanishads are available in Sanskrit. The Gita and its translation are also available. One can learn lessons from Mahabharata and Ramayana also. So I am not sure one book represents Sanstana Dharma. For me, that is its beauty.

I had referenced the English translation of the Upanishads earlier.

I personally don’t take the interpretation literally that one has to be born a million times to reach the state where we can realize the Self. I would rather interpret that as being the person one can be.

Sometimes being too much of a scholar in one religion closed the door on what else may make sense. So I am a bit wary of religious scholars.

Pardon me but I disagree with you that being a scholar in one religion its closed the doors of others. Well, if one pick authentic source (scripture/books) of any religion and try to understand it then I guess all books leads towards one deity who is worth for worship and that is what Islam teach us that worship only one and non others.

@mdroshan

I am not saying Hinduism has the correct answer to everything (or even most things). What I am saying is that if the Imam Mahdi (pbuh) were to appear and Hindus begin to follow him, they will accept whatever he preaches no matter if he contradicts some Hindu text - meaning Hindus are flexible enough to adjust to new teachings from new Spiritual Teachers.

However, if the Imam contradicts something in the Bible, many Christians will refuse to follow him. If he contradicts something in the Koran - many Muslims (most Muslims?) will not believe in him anymore.

As for whether he will teach anything new, I think we should leave it up to him. He is not bound by any book as to what he should do. I am sure he will do whatever is best for humanity.

However, it is my personal belief that he will come as a teacher with new teachings. Hindus believe (or at least I do) that Avatars such as him come periodically to the world with new teachings to expand upon existing one. It is like Quantum mechanics expanding upon Newtonian mechanics - it does not contradict old religion doctrines, just gives more detailed information.

For example, if the Imam Mahdi says reincarnation is a fact, how many Muslims or Christians will follow him? (I am not saying he will, maybe he will say reincarnation is totally false, who knows?).

Peace mdroshan,

Imam Mehdi a.s., will restore the very same religion known as ‘Islam’, and NOT establish anything new. It will happen when ‘Ad Dajjal’ arrives. As per context of a hadith that Ad Dajjal will kill a man, then bring him back to life. Peoples will believe him and consider him the true Imam. He will be followed by many, along with some insincere or hypocrites muslims or who are weaker in their beliefs. He will leads them in sense that after him, there will come an Avatar, and that world (in present of that time) will be the last world and the day of judgement will occurs after it, which in fact is a delusion. Whereas the Last Prophet Muhammad PBUH already arrived and this world is the last world and after there will be only judgement day occur. But many of us living in this delusion of world, that another avatar will arrive, which was already arrived and there will be no more avatar. Alas, these things are not just simple ans straight forward to understand but made very very complicated.

@mdroshan

Hello Kamikaze, thank you for pointing out this book to me. I found it available on the web. It is very interesting. I had vaguely heard about claims that Muhammad(pbuh) was mentioned in the Vedas but had ignored them till now.

I went through parts of the book, but still need to read it properly.

But while going through it briefly and thinking, I suddenly realized the Dr Upaddhaya is quite correct in his research , but he has made a big mistake in recognizing the correct Muhammad. Perhaps he does not know that the Imam Mahdi, the one we are expecting is also predicted to be named Muhammad. I think in his entire research we just need to substitute Imam Mahdi for Muhammad the Prophet.

What the Vedas and Puranas are predicting is the coming of the next Avatar - the Imam Mahdi whose name will also be Muhammad.

But this is only my opinion.

Peace mdroshan,

May God be pleased with you. here you are missing one that His (Prophet Muhammad ) parents names and if i’m not wrong then birth place is also predicted. Plz don’t observe the followers of a religion but refer to the authentic source of any religion.

There is no way or by coincident that the Imam Mahdi is the next Avatar as predicted in Vedas and Puranas.

For us (Muslims) this world is delusion and the next world is ‘real’ but for some others the next world is ‘delusion’.