Religious Hindu or Simply Humans

INTRODUCTION

When life science is discussed, it cannot go away from the physical body that holds life and thus the concept of life in Hindu philosophy starts with acknowledgement of two entities – the knowledge of body and its knower. The properties of this body, its modifications, the effect and the causes, its powers and all, which appears now in some scientific and philosophical books, are already unfolded in Hindu books. Despite of the maturity of Hindus, many actions of a Hindu are reasoned as ignorant behavior, without entering any argument with any Hindu scholar.As said, life in Hindu philosophy starts from knowledge of body and its knower – the two being separate and yet in union to establish a consciousness of life. Life is an eternal entity, and has capability to outreach the eternal God. A Hindu strongly believes that unless there is eternity with us, we cannot understand or achieve the eternal God. A Hindu believes that a Man is capable of doing everything which includes even achieving God. No religion on this globe says that God can be achieved, none describes God as a part of our own entity and we being a part of that eternal entity. While some religions stresses that God and Creation are separate entities and God is one, Hindu asks ‘Where is that one?’ While the same religion, fails to answer the question (sometimes pointing to the sky ‘there’), Hindus starts answering ‘Here is God’ (in the Self). There is a huge distance between the concept of ‘there’ and ‘here’, but they may or may not be necessarily different. Only, point is that the ‘there’ clearly specifies unreachable and ‘here’ specifies reachable. Though ‘here’ is equally tough to be reached as the God or Goal is same as in ‘there’, but ‘here’ sets up a perception of God in vicinity and reachable thus allowing one to attempt and reach God, while ‘there’ segregates God and creation completely. And truly how can one reach ‘there’ if he has not known ‘here’ first. Thus, an attempt to reach God, which no other religion does, makes Hinduism sit over them in all aspects. For sure, Hindu philosophy needs to be understood by other believers also, and cannot be overlooked as it is the path ahead from where they are.

Hinduism is often claimed to be a ‘way of life’ more than religion, following this the religious extremists are seen to quote the same saying for their religion as well. I believe, all religions are ‘way of life’ as long as the boundary of region is considered (people living in a particular nation or a group of nation tend to behave similarly). But, I also believe, that if ‘way of life’ has to be a very generic term relating purely to not only human beings but to all creatures and creations, it is only ‘Hinduism’ that passes the test.

As said in earlier chapters, about Hinduism as a way of life, it is well established by the fact that while all other religion talks about God and religion together, a Hindu talks only about God (and no religion at all). No Hindu text contains the word ‘Hindu’ and no other religion is devoid of mentioning the name of their religion. Thus, presence of word like ‘Islam and Musalman’ in Quran, ‘Christianity and Christian’ in Bible purely reflects the limited vision, and boundary based existence of regional beliefs. For them, it seems that humanity means Islam or Christianity, unlike a Hindu belief which talks about God and life in pure terms of philosophy and reality, irrespective of place or people, irrespective of color or creed, irrespective of caste or religion; a Hindu belief is uniform for all.

To understand this great philosophy better, we need to fathom what Hindus understand by God and how they relate life to him. We have to make sure that Hindu’s belief are not based on any blank unreasoned theory, it is empirically proven and logically concluded.

Hindu philosophy often seems to confuse the readers outside its belief; it happens because the reader not having the patience to go through the detailed scriptures, simply visit randomly few pages across and try to conclude from sample based study. They then fail to recognize the context of the say, and what remains are the interpretations biased as per their own belief and perceptions. All books of Hindu philosophy has nearly the same thing to say, and the basis of all is considered to be the Vedas (and there is a Hindu practice of learning Vedas – Vedas are not delivered simply by scriptures, they are nearly always delivered through a Guru, the true knower of Vedas). Upanishads contains the same things and Bhagwad Geeta is a classical concise form of the same. Purana is the same Veda said in terms of metaphors and happenings. Thus, if Vedas are not easy to understand and go through, due to its vastness, it is always advisable to go through Bhagwad Geeta, which being a concise readable version (within time boundaries) is enough to give anyone a true picture of Hindus. Whoever have read that book, has failed to question its greatness. There is no onslaught possible then on Hindu beliefs, and segregation between politicized and forced sarcastic drawbacks and actuality of the religion starts getting visible.

Most of my writings are motivated from the same book – the Bhagwad Geeta. In this chapter, I have tried to traverse through Bhagwad Geeta, presented in my own way. Bhagwad Geeta has total of 18 chapters, first six talks about work and life, the next six talks of faith and God, and the last six chapters talk about knowledge, life and God together. The concept is that based on standard knowledge of truth, one has to configure his actions first to control and understand his own life. Once he realizes the self, he would surely develop faith towards God and Ultimate Truth (Truth that has capacity to see fallacies also as temporary truths, truth that has no error at all, truth that is ever lasting, truth that is a part of eternal knowledge). And the faith on God would expose him to the eternal truth and eternal knowledge and help him eventually to reach God.