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by Anand Iyer on Jun 06, 2007 04:22 PM   Permalink | Hide replies

Thanx for your whole-hearted compliment of hinduism."Your hindu brother have the option and freedom to break the tradition or criticise anything illogical in hinduism in public.".

That freedom comes from verse no.63 of Chapter No.18 of Bhagvad Gita in which Lord Krishna says:"Reflect fully on my revealtions and then act as u please". He forbids humanityblindly believe even divine revealations. May be u might want to display this on your site.


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by Dheeraj Akula on Jun 06, 2007 04:25 PM   Permalink

This is a really good point. "Act as you please" - I have no words to praise this attitude.

This is the difference between Hinduism and other religions.


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by Anand Iyer on Jun 06, 2007 04:34 PM   Permalink
Dheeraj, I much appreciate your enthusiasm and I also agree with much of what u say. Only my approach is more nuanced. Only the I passed on amtter from Chapter 16 of Gita titled "Personality development" to a Mmuslim friend of mine. He much appreciated and borrowedmy pocket copy of Gita for reading.

One may criticise the negative points of others'faiths. But more productive is propogating positive things.

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by vidya r on Jun 06, 2007 07:08 PM   Permalink
dont do this,
if mullas come to know this they issue fatwa against ur friend

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by Anand Iyer on Jun 06, 2007 04:27 PM   Permalink
Yeah! Not "Act as u please" but "Act as you please after due reflection".

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'Don't make rules at Guruvayur'