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Saturday, September 22, 2007

Hinduism as Way ot Life

Recently there was some issues raised by people on teaching yoga, calling it Anti-Christian, some issue raised with chanting Gayatri Matra in the US assembly. No questions raised, ever thought why. Kanwadias on the street, full page articles in the National Dailies (of course, written by Hindu writers), no questions. Why the same author has no courage to write on the public discomfort during Tazia processions? No discomfort there, such processions in later case is an example of secular India, a symbol of Ganga Jamuna culture. Secularism is treating all religions but for Majority religion as equal. Why nobody raises an issue, because Hinduism is not a political religion. It was not meant to bind people together, so that they can stay disciplined and united as a army, extending beyond geographical boundaries like Christian West or Islamic Middle East. Hinduism was not driven by an urge to expand and convert. It is fairly simple, someone steps in your garden, you tell him to enjoy the beauty, someone put one step in restricted army camp, or in the border protected by Army, you are bound to invite violence. Same is the reason, justifying why there is violence in heart of Delhi amidst all bandobast, when Police are trying to follow the law, remove encroachment and by mistake drops one holy book from a bookshop in process, at the same time, someone spending overtime life, calls Ram names and only protest seen is in some far off Ayodhya.

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