Dear Navnith
It is very unfortunate that whenever inclusive efforts are made to
make this group as "INDIA" against corruption, all sorts of spurious
divisive bogeys from BHARAT are raised. If this carries on we
shall seriously have to evaluate our rules.
Before we point fingers at sacred books of another religion, we
(ie. you and I) as Hindus should seriously examine our own scriptures.
I'm sure you will acknowledge that till the 19th century there were
no authentic Hindu texts available in physical form. In 1780's we
were faced with the onslaught of Christian missionaries from USA's
great theological schools - Harvard and Princeton and Yale, the
Serampore printing presses of missionaries like Marshmann and
Carey, systematically demolishing Hinduism and depicting Hinduism
as a vile pagan religion, and converting - first the lower castes
and then even dissolute beef eating Brahman boys high on
liquor, sex with cheap white prostitutes etc.
In 1792 they published "An Enquiry into the Obligations of
Christians to use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens."
At this time the elders of my religion had to step in to stop this
Christian nonsense. firstly we took them on publicly. Then
when the sources of Hinduism were questioned, we
arranged for the first authentic (to the extent possible) recordings
of the 4 Vedas to be set down in writing in ca. 1846. We
embarked on a massive search for authentic versions of
the Vedas. The Bhandarkar Institute Pune where the earliest
versions are available is a component of this constant quest.
What foreigners like Max Muller have mistranslated is based on the
very early versions we arranged and downright forgeries which they
concocted in Germany and Oxford.
So before poking fingers, we should examine ourselves, and this
myth of what passes for Hinduism today. We should also carefully
examine if Hinduism's main rival is Islam or Christianity or both.
Sarbajit
On 10/24/14, Navnith Krishnan <navkris@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Mr.Sarbajit/Usman
>
> May Mr.Usman clarify what sort of salvation Islam offers.Is it a heaven
> wuith Hurries around you. More over Islamic
> scriptures are the most easily misinterprettable religeous scriptures.There
> are
> more trhan 50 wars going on around the world today all based on the
> interpretation of these scriptures.The beheadings by ISIS are based on
> them,so
> also are the Sunni-Shia wars happening all around,the massacres of Kurds
> and
> Christians,Hafiz Ziad's tirade against India,the terrorist activities in
> our
> own country,driving out Pandits from Kashmir and even the partition of our
> great country.For this one
> has to only read Quranic verses 5:33,8:12,47:4.9:123 etc.all can be and
> also
> being interpreted to justify such activities and killings.The sensible
> Muslim
> intellectuals(if they are allowed to live) and leaders should come out
> giving interpretations that bring
> peace among people. Government in turn should with the help of such
> intellectuals bring in laws to control violent interpretations by
> semi-literate
> Mullahs and Moulvis.Most Muslims want a
> peaceful life.Unfortunately the fanatic Islamists are running the religeon
> now.We know the catastrophe that happened when Nazis took over Germany
> where
> the majority of Germans were not Nazis.Unfortubately in our country the
> vote
> bank secularists and the chattering channels unknowingly are digging the
> foundations of our
> Nation by crying wolf over control on Madrassas which is the need of the day
> if
> this nation has to survive..
>
> navnith
>
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