You guyz sound like you are too much into some religious clan. I dont know if you will read this or not, but I just want to say this. The philosophy of of dharma is indeed very intriguing. It all seems so logical and so correct. When we read it, we realize how well it describes the human character, our weaknesses and ways of overcoming them. But all it says is that if one has the appropriate attitude towards different aspects of life, life becomes very simple. All that dharma tries to teach you is to see things in right perspective, so that one doesnt get attached to mundane aspects of life, or one doesnt feel hurt when one has to face the inevitable laws of nature. The concepts of truth, Ahimsa and god are just the means the guyz who proposed these philosophies used to convey their ideas to people. If one gets too much attached to these concepts, one basically loses the gist of the messages, even though one may become a great scholar. Losing that gist, of cultivating the right kind of attitude (which can be done by feeding the mind with right kind of thoughts), just makes one a dogmatic ideology follower. That creates terrorists and other kind of irritating people who think they know whats best for the world (and they do whats the best for the world). But they do not really do that. They just confuse and pollute young minds, make them dogmatic followers like themselves. By the way, a lot of stuff in the scriptures is total crap - a lot of it is just total imagination of some crazy mind (I am talking of the scriptures which claim to be the records of hostory of mankind, history of sat, treta and dwapar yug). Some guyz say that those stories are just symbolic, meant to teach you lessons. But many seriously believe that crap. Now, many people would say - before airplanes were invented, people mocked the idea of human beings flying. But know everybody knows that it works. similarly, since we do not see things like those described in those puranas happening around us, we may think of them as craps. This seems to be a very good logic, but actually it is not. Those who say so, deep down their hearts, know that they are cheating themselves and the other. And one more thing - I did a philosophy course in my undergrad, and the prof told the class - the only religion which is considered to be based on pure logic is buddha dharma - all others are based on some faith or dogma.
