Lies being Taught;
Hindu refers to followers of Sanatan Dharm or Ram/Krishan Bhakts only.
Now the truth;
The word Hindu refers to the original
inhabitants of ancient (H)Indus valley Civilization. ‘Hinduš’ was Old Persian
name of the’ Indus River’, cognate with Sanskrit word ‘Sindhu’. By about 2nd -
1st century BCE, the term "Hein-tu" was used by Chinese, for
referring to Indian people. The Persian term was loaned into Arabic as ‘al-Hind’
referring to the land of the people who live across river ‘Indus’, and into
Greek as ‘Indos’, whence ultimately English word ‘India’. Thus the word ‘India’
itself is cognate with the word ‘Hindu’.
The word "Hindu" denote to persons
professing any of the religions which originated in ancient India known as
‘Indies’. The ancient India or indies consists of present day Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, the
Maldives and some parts of Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam,
Brunei, Singapore, the Philippines, East Timor, and Malaysia.
Source; Indies
Hindu refers to an identity associated with
the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the
Indian subcontinent. India has multitude of
religions and religious ceremonies. India is a country where every 100 Miles language and religious ceremony
changes. At every few miles there is a Mahatama, A Sant, A Baba, A Swami, A Muni, A Guru, An Ashram, A Dera, A Satsang givinh his own beliefs, practices, traditions and religious definitions. Even within same caste or sub castes for example Baniyas
or Vaishyas known as “Aggarwals” the religious ceremony changes with place it
is different in Bengal where Vaishyas worship ‘Durga’ in West they worship
‘Ganesha’ in central India they worship ‘Sun’ (chhath Puja). Hindu Dharma refers
to moral obligations or duties to be observed in Society e.g. 'Pitr'/'matr' Dharma; father/mother duty towards children, 'Suntaan' dharam duty
of sons or children’s towards tjeir parents or 'Shishya' and 'Shikshak' students and teachers duty towards
each other. In other words;-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC5B3dHSydI
"Obedience must be
rendered to mother and father, likewise to elders; kindness must be shown
towards animals, truth must be spoken, pupil must show reverence to the master,
and master be benevolent towards student. Likewise one must behave in a respectfully
towards relatives and take care of their guests”.Happiness in this world and in
the other world is difficult to secure without great love of morality, careful
examination, great obedience, and great fear of sin.”
After
Ashoka
the great laid down arms for good (for war was considered as greatest
destruction a man could cause) See; Ashoka the great, India ceased to be a military power. It
became easy prey for invasions. Muslim invaders, such as Nader Shah, Mahmud of Ghazni, Ahmad Shāh
Abdālī, Muhammad Ghori, Babur etc forced or lured, many inhabitants to convert
to Islam. However cultures of converts remained as Hindus. They are called Hindu-Muslims since
Islam is not indigenous to India. Similarly English and Portuguese invasion led
to many to convert to Christianity. However they are also culturally Hindus.
Hence converts to Christianity are called Hindu-Christians since Christianity
is not indigenous to India. Hindus who converted to Islam whether living in Pakistan or
Bangladesh or truncated India are not called Muslims for two reasons;
1. They speak Urdu. Urdu is derived from Hindi
and is spoken only by Hindus or in Indian territories of Pakistan or
Bangladesh. Source; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu
One can easily follow Pakistan news channels since they use mostly Hindi with little smattering of Persian. We cannot understand Muslim TV Channels of Saudi Arabia, Iran or Iraq.
One can easily follow Pakistan news channels since they use mostly Hindi with little smattering of Persian. We cannot understand Muslim TV Channels of Saudi Arabia, Iran or Iraq.
2. Muslims consider Indian converts as their
Dogs not Muslims;-
Indian
Muslims can be referred to either as converts or Hindu-Muslims. They are not
Muslims and will never be accepted as Muslims.
The notion of grouping hundreds of the
indigenous religions of India under a single umbrella term 'Hindu' emerges as a
result of various invasions in India bringing forth non-indigenous religions
such as Islam to the Indian Subcontinent.
Numerous Muslim invaders, such as Nader Shah, Mahmud of Ghazni, Ahmad
Shāh Abdālī, Muhammad Ghori, Babur and Aurangzeb, destroyed Hindu temples and
persecuted local inhabitants who were uniformly called ‘Hindus’. These invaders forced or lured, many inhabitants to convert to Islam. They have same culture as Hindus, but called Hindu-Muslims since Islam is not indigenous to India. Similarly English and Portuguese invasion led to many to convert to Christianity. However they are also culturally same as Hindus. Hence converts to Christianity are called Hindu-Christians since Christianity is not indigenous to India.
The
development of Hindu religion and philosophy shows that from time to time
saints and religious reformers attempted to remove from the Hindu thought and
practices elements of corruption and superstition and that sometimes also led
to the formation of different sects. Buddha started Buddhism; Mahavir founded
Jainism; Basava became the founder of Lingayat religion, Dnyaneshwar and
Tukaram initiated the Varakari Cult; Guru nanak inspired Sikhism; Dayananda
founded Arya Samaj, and Chaitanya began Bhakti cult; and as a result of the
teachings of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, Hindu religion flowered into its most
attractive, progressive and dynamic form. If we study the teachings of these
saints and religious reformers, we would notice an amount of divergence in
their respective views; but underneath that divergence, there is a kind of
subtle indescribable unity which keeps them within the sweep of the broad and
progressive Hindu religion. Religious Thought & Life in India" by
Monier Williams.
In
Encyclopaedia Britannica (15th Edition), the term `Hinduism' has been defined
as meaning "the civilization of Hindus (originally, the inhabitants of the
land of the Indus River). It properly denotes the Indian civilization of
approximately the last 2,000 years, which gradually evolved from Vedism, the
religion of the ancient Indo-European who settled in India in the last
centuries of the 2nd millennium BC. Because it integrates a large variety of
heterogeneous elements, Hinduism constitutes a very complex but largely
continuous whole, and since it covers the whole of life, it has religious,
social, economic, literary, and artistic aspects. As a religion, Hinduism is an
utterly diverse conglomerate of doctrines, cults, and way of life.... In
principle, Hinduism incorporates all forms of belief and worship without
necessitating the selection or elimination of any. The Hindu is inclined to
revere the divine in every manifestation, whatever it may be, and is
doctrinally tolerant, leaving others - including both Hindus and non-Hindus -
whatever creed and worship practices suit them best. A Hindu may embrace a
non-Hindu religion without ceasing to be a Hindu, and since the Hindu is
disposed to think synthetically and to regard other forms of worship, strange
gods, and divergent doctrines as adequate rather than wrong or objectionable,
he tends to believe that the highest divine powers complement each other for
the well-being of the world and mankind. Few religious ideas are considered to
be finally irreconcilable. The core of religion does not even depend on the
existence or non-existence of God or on whether there is one god or many. Since
religious truth is said to transcend all verbal definition, it is not conceived
in dogmatic terms. Hinduism is. then both a civilization and a conglomerate of
religions, with neither a beginning, a founder, nor a central authority,
hierarchy, or organization. Every attempt at a specific definition of Hinduism
has proved unsatisfactory in one way or another, the more so because the finest
Indian scholars of Hinduism, including Hindus themselves, have emphasized
different aspects of the whole".
In
Bhagwan Koer v. J.C. Bose & Ors., (1904 ILR 31 Cal. 11), it was held that
Hindu religion is marvelously catholic and elastic. Its theology is marked by
eclecticism and tolerance and almost unlimited freedom of private worship.
.....
This being the scope and nature of the
religion, it is not strange that it holds within its fold men of divergent
views and traditions which have very little in common except a vague faith in
what may be called the fundamentals of the Hindu religion."
This being the scope and nature of the
religion, it is not strange that it holds within its fold men of divergent
views and traditions which have very little in common except a vague faith in
what may be called the fundamentals of the Hindu religion."
“When we think of the Hindu religion, unlike
other religions in the world, the Hindu religion does not claim any one
prophet; it does not worship any one god; it does not subscribe to any one
dogma; it does not believe in any one philosophic concept; it does not follow
any one set of religious rites or performances; in fact, it does not appear to
satisfy the narrow traditional features of any religion or creed. It may
broadly be described as a way of life and nothing more.”
In Hindu nationalism, the term "Hindu"
combines notions of geographical unity, common culture and common race. Thus,
Veer Savarkar in his influential pamphlet "Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?"
defined a Hindu as a person who sees India "as his Fatherland as well as his
Holy land, that is, the cradle land of his religion". Link
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