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<blockquote data-quote="aristotle" data-source="post: 158941" data-attributes="member: 11816"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Hinduism is not Monotheistic</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong></strong></span></span><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">(The article may seem vulgar to many, but it is only for the sake of illustration that I have included this article from a third party Hindu website)</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">In one important aspect of Hinduism, there is the Trinity of Brahma (Creator), Vishnu (Preserver) and Shiva (Destroyer). In this regard, no one of these Deities is Supreme over the other. The three is a recognition of the positive duality ("triality") of life. Basically, Spirituality-Reality/Life is simultaneously creating, preserving and destroying. In the major sects of Hinduism, the Deity assumes all three aspects. To the Saivite, Siva is all three; to the Vaishnava, Vishnu is all three; to the Saktite, the Divine Mother is all three and in Liberal Hinduism (Smarta Sampradaya) the Trimurti is accented.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The importance of understanding the natural and inevitable positive and negative life, or creative and destructive aspects of life cannot be overstated. Destruction is the natural and beneficial "other half" of creation. New life depends on the shedding of the old. A healthy forest must occasionally experience the fires of destruction. A healthy organism sheds old cells and bacterial and creates new cells in a perpetual life dance of creation/preservation/destruction. Sure we all like the creative aspects of life and often try (to no avail) to avoid the destructive. In the natural and inevitable "down-times" of life, we may say "It sucks!" True, but every inhale is followed by an exhale and life goes on. Sadly, monotheistic religions only want to see "God" as the creative and positive aspect of life and must then create an equally illusionary "Devil" to play the role of the destruction and negativity. In reality, they are one/many.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">To emphasize the fact that <strong>Hinduism is not a monotheistic religion</strong>, it is not a coincidence that "The Creator" Brahma was basically <em>kicked out</em> (but still retained) of the Hindu pantheon of Spiritual Beings. In a tale celebrated during the yearly festival of Sivalaya Deepam, Siva (playing the part of the Divine Father) manifests to Brahma and Vishnu as a boundless pillar of Light (<em>deep</em>). Thinking He is The Creator, Brahma fly's off in search of the top. Vishnu assumes the form of a boar and seeks the bottom. Both are unsuccessful and return to the center. Vishnu admits to finding no bottom. Brahma, however, lies (and enlists the aid of an innocent flower to corroborate his fabrication) and says he found the top. At this moment, Siva appears from the middle of the pillar of light stating the pillar has no beginning or end. To this day, there are basically no Hindu temples to Brahma.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>Source</strong>: <a href="http://www.classicalyoga.org/Hinduism-is-not-Monotheistic.php" target="_blank">http://www.classicalyoga.org/Hinduism-is-not-Monotheistic.php</a></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">“…<strong>for a Hindu it is extremely difficult to realize the possibility of existence of the only God</strong> whom he/she could worship or prayed to. It is beyond his/her understanding because <strong>the Hindu perceives other gods, which are not ‘his’/‘her’</strong>, as various aspects of the god he/she worships. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"> As a result, and it is necessary to underline this fact, <strong>polytheists, such as adepts of Hinduism</strong>, are more tolerant in relation to other religions or gods and they won’t proclaim Jihad (a sacred war) as Muslims sometimes do. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"> Consequently, prosecution or proselytization of adepts of other religions can never exist in such a polytheistic environment as Hindu.”</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>Source</strong>: <a href="http://www.ivarta.com/columns/OL_070313.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ivarta.com/columns/OL_070313.htm</a></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">...</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Simply because the Hindu society permits the worship of many 'Gods' under a single umbrella body of 'Hinduism' does not mean that Hindu philosophy is 'Monotheistic'.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px">In reality, it is a porridge of numerous philosophies squeezed into one. How would you, for example, defend Hindu monotheism when the <em>Yogi sect</em> and <em>Sage Patanjali</em> out-rightly reject the very existence of a supreme being, retaining only the concept of a personal <em>'Atman'</em>. In actual practice, there are different Hindu Gods, every God is called a self-sufficient Supreme being just fr the sake of religious glorification, and this amounts to a certainly 'Polytheistic' philosophy.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span><table class="rvFrame" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="780"><tbody> <tr> <td class="tdSolid" width="100%"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></td></tr> </tbody></table></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aristotle, post: 158941, member: 11816"] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3][B]Hinduism is not Monotheistic [/B][/SIZE][/FONT][LEFT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2](The article may seem vulgar to many, but it is only for the sake of illustration that I have included this article from a third party Hindu website) In one important aspect of Hinduism, there is the Trinity of Brahma (Creator), Vishnu (Preserver) and Shiva (Destroyer). In this regard, no one of these Deities is Supreme over the other. The three is a recognition of the positive duality ("triality") of life. Basically, Spirituality-Reality/Life is simultaneously creating, preserving and destroying. In the major sects of Hinduism, the Deity assumes all three aspects. To the Saivite, Siva is all three; to the Vaishnava, Vishnu is all three; to the Saktite, the Divine Mother is all three and in Liberal Hinduism (Smarta Sampradaya) the Trimurti is accented.[/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]The importance of understanding the natural and inevitable positive and negative life, or creative and destructive aspects of life cannot be overstated. Destruction is the natural and beneficial "other half" of creation. New life depends on the shedding of the old. A healthy forest must occasionally experience the fires of destruction. A healthy organism sheds old cells and bacterial and creates new cells in a perpetual life dance of creation/preservation/destruction. Sure we all like the creative aspects of life and often try (to no avail) to avoid the destructive. In the natural and inevitable "down-times" of life, we may say "It sucks!" True, but every inhale is followed by an exhale and life goes on. Sadly, monotheistic religions only want to see "God" as the creative and positive aspect of life and must then create an equally illusionary "Devil" to play the role of the destruction and negativity. In reality, they are one/many.[/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2]To emphasize the fact that [B]Hinduism is not a monotheistic religion[/B], it is not a coincidence that "The Creator" Brahma was basically [I]kicked out[/I] (but still retained) of the Hindu pantheon of Spiritual Beings. In a tale celebrated during the yearly festival of Sivalaya Deepam, Siva (playing the part of the Divine Father) manifests to Brahma and Vishnu as a boundless pillar of Light ([I]deep[/I]). Thinking He is The Creator, Brahma fly's off in search of the top. Vishnu assumes the form of a boar and seeks the bottom. Both are unsuccessful and return to the center. Vishnu admits to finding no bottom. Brahma, however, lies (and enlists the aid of an innocent flower to corroborate his fabrication) and says he found the top. At this moment, Siva appears from the middle of the pillar of light stating the pillar has no beginning or end. To this day, there are basically no Hindu temples to Brahma.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][B]Source[/B]: [URL]http://www.classicalyoga.org/Hinduism-is-not-Monotheistic.php[/URL][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/LEFT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][SIZE=2]“…[B]for a Hindu it is extremely difficult to realize the possibility of existence of the only God[/B] whom he/she could worship or prayed to. It is beyond his/her understanding because [B]the Hindu perceives other gods, which are not ‘his’/‘her’[/B], as various aspects of the god he/she worships. As a result, and it is necessary to underline this fact, [B]polytheists, such as adepts of Hinduism[/B], are more tolerant in relation to other religions or gods and they won’t proclaim Jihad (a sacred war) as Muslims sometimes do. Consequently, prosecution or proselytization of adepts of other religions can never exist in such a polytheistic environment as Hindu.” [B]Source[/B]: [URL]http://www.ivarta.com/columns/OL_070313.htm[/URL] ... Simply because the Hindu society permits the worship of many 'Gods' under a single umbrella body of 'Hinduism' does not mean that Hindu philosophy is 'Monotheistic'. In reality, it is a porridge of numerous philosophies squeezed into one. How would you, for example, defend Hindu monotheism when the [I]Yogi sect[/I] and [I]Sage Patanjali[/I] out-rightly reject the very existence of a supreme being, retaining only the concept of a personal [I]'Atman'[/I]. In actual practice, there are different Hindu Gods, every God is called a self-sufficient Supreme being just fr the sake of religious glorification, and this amounts to a certainly 'Polytheistic' philosophy. [/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT]<table class="rvFrame" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="780"><tbody> <tr> <td class="tdSolid" width="100%"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr></tr></tbody></table> [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT]</td></tr> </tbody></table> [/QUOTE]
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