In my opinion, If one follows Vedanta as way of life is a Hindu. Also if this is heavy to understand then this is more simpler: If you are not a Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Jew, Buddhist and any other specific religion not mentioned, then you are you are a Hindu. Hinduism is a way and not a specific religion. In olden days people in India who did not follow a certain religion due to preachings or enforcement remained to be called as Hindus.
RE:Avinash
by stanny jd on Apr 24, 2008 11:46 AM Permalink
Avinash.U r absolutely right my friend. Hinduism is actually a way of life, like Bhuddism and Humanism.....But today's illiterate blind believers in some GOONDA's parading as Hindu saviours have created narrow minded defination of Hindu religion based on a Folklore !!!!
RE:Avinash
by Nanchil on Apr 24, 2008 11:15 AM Permalink
Every religion is a way of life. Do not try to have false pride. The name 'hindu' was given by arabs.
RE:Avinash
by galilio on Apr 24, 2008 12:58 PM Permalink
christianity is from desert middle east started from the root of abraham and hence judism,islam christianity are called as ''abrahamic religion' hinduism is derived from the name of people living in sindu river side and when alexender greek army came to bharath,they called people living in sindu river vally people as ''hindus' word twisted out of sindu. this is similar to tamil /english words which got derived out of sanskrit. example 'mother'in english came from ''matha',brother in english came from'bratha' in sanskrit,father in english came from''pitha 'culture' in english came from 'kalacharam'in sanskrit. similarly many words in tamils came from sanskrit.' vanam' (forest)in sanskrit is still used in govt department in tamilnadu. there are 240 words of sanskrit which are used in tamil.sanskrit is mother and tamil is son relationship.
RE:Avinash
by nithya krishnamoorthy on Apr 24, 2008 11:40 AM Permalink
WEll there is only one difference between the thre major religions followed... For christians and muslims everything was given by God.. For Hindus or Sanadhans every little thing is God... that is why the so called hindus or the sanadhans worship sun to cow....
all those who speak against any religion first learn your scriptures and understand the meaning.. also learn other scriptures before criticising... be it deepak or salman rushdie or tasleema nasrin or m.f. hussain.. all these people are crazy... for them what they do is right and they have the money to make a group of people speak about them...
Dont you all see deepak is gaining unrequired Word of Mouth about his book and about him? If we all start to ignore these people our lives would be much more happy and good....
