Posted by: vishontar December 4, 2004
Fake Hinduism
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I sometime think my decision to post on this subject was wrong. Subject is quite vast; needs clarification on every single statement, my busy life doesn't allow me to write long explanations, which is generating a lot of confusion on readers. Even if I could manage to write long explanation; readers will be bored and won?' be able to grasp the gist, that won't serve my purpose. There is a saying in the west - "knowledge without application is dead". If I write something and that yields no result, why am I wasting my time? That won't satisfy me. Posting on Sajha is my social life; I want some elements of the society be benefited from me. So, I thought it is better to clarify what I have already posted instead of continuing posting, hope that will clear your confusion. VL Ji and Soleli Ji, thank you very much for your correction. Thanks for the links too. I checked them but couldn't complete due to time constrain. In fact I was aware of the theory. Anyway I want to say something on this matter.First I want to make clear why I am writing. We grow up in such an imaginary society where there is no room for the investigation interrogation, and scientific analysis. We just believe what we have heard we never try to explore the truth. A blind faith is prevailing all around. Through my study, understanding, and experience I am trying to make people to think about their belief, think about themselves. There are three types of truths. One Sabda Satya = truth of words = you read books or hear from someone and accept it. Two, Chintan Sattya = truth that comes form logical thinking or intellectual understanding. Three, Anubhava Sattya = the truth that comes form self experience. Things starts from Sabda Sattya, then move to Chintan Sattya to Anubhava Sattya. Sabbda Sattya is inferior to Chintan Sattya and Anubhav Sattya is most superior and powerful. We believe that we are spiritual, and talk about Param Sattya, the ultimate truth. But the problem is we don't even know Sabbda Sattya, which is basic. We don't read Veda; we don?' know what Vedas contain. We just believe that they contain everything. Does that make any sense? I don't appreciate that. We live in real world, tangible world, we have to be realistic. We have to read them and judge them; we don't have to accept them blindly. This is my point. There is nothing metaphoric, Vedas are straight forward. They contain good as well as bad stuffs. Let me shed some light on this part. People believe that Vedas are eternal, they were written in Sati Yug, a hypothetical era, which is considered to exist billions of years ago. If you read Vedas and analyze scientifically the way of Vedic life and geography, they can't be older than 10,000 years, the worst case. Isn't that contradicting our belief? We believe that the Vedic people were idle people with live perfect, stainless, moral life. But Vedas reveal that they were violence promoting people. Isn?' that against our general belief? Most of the people believe that Vedas were words from the god the almighty, but Vedas say nothing about that explicitly. Vedas doesn?' accept the supremacy of some invisible super natural powers unlike Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Isn't this against of what we belief? Don't we believe that Vedas were written by one of the mythological figure Ganesh and they were uttered by an immortal sage Vyansa? Did Vedas say something about it? Are we children to believe on immortality? We believe that Veda is the source of Yoga, and we utter from our most revered scripture Geeta ? "Samatwang Yoga Uchhete = equality, equanimity is yoga", but Vedas are full of impatience and discrimination. We believe that Vedic life is perfect life but believe me if you read Veda you will agree with me it was not an advance society. People think that they are spiritual because they believe on Vedas. Spirituality is the search of Paramartha Sattya, the ultimate truth. Can such blind belief lead you to Paramartha Sattya? Truth can not be found through imagination and gullibility. Truth can only be found through reality. Not only believers, non believers are also in the same boat. Without study, without experience they just reject everything. I don't think that is logical too. I want to encourage people to come to reality. I want them to start from Sabda Sattya, the truth of words. They have to read Vedas and check whether their belief is correct or not. Then they have to move to Manan Sattya, the truth that comes from logical reasoning or intellectual analysis. We are Manu Puttras = Son of the mind, we can judge the words of Vedas. We will accept rational useful words only. Then we will go to Bhawana Sattya, the experiential truth. We will test the validity of the words that we have heard, and validity of thoughts that sounded rational. This experiential truth will lead to the ultimate truth. The whole path should be the path of the truth, the path of reality, the path of actuality. This is real spirituality. This is what I want to say.
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