Re: Sikhism- a seperate religion?
I think the periodic reference to Hindus worshipping 'stone gods' is made deliberately by those preaching against it.
Most religions lack the subtle symbolism that vedic seers have used throughout their revelations. People denigrate the vedic religion inspite of our rich sublime philosophy in the upanishads and the Gita. Some people think samhita and brAhmaNas are promarily ritualistic, but they are also high philosophical ideas expressed in a symbolic notation. purANAs and itihAsas often appear to contain numerous fancy tales but even these are quite mystical in content. We have perhaps the most sublime of all the philsophy in the world..and whatever else in any other religion is contained within the broad scope of sanAtana dharma.
The vedic religion is not a one shoe fits all religion. It is meant for many different people of different levels and temperaments. There are outward rituals that are meant for external purification and inward comtemplation for inner purification. Most religions have a bunch of cock and bull stories yet they spare no thought when associating us with idolatory.
Even the village peasant untrained in Hindu religion who cleans the cowdung everyday knows much more philosophy than the so called scholars of some of these aristocratic religions. No wonder they dont have a clue as to the purpose of worshipping God through these symbolic means, The so called bishops or mullahs or sikh leaders cant understand what the most illiterate Hindu understands by idol worship. What a pity.
Even some of the famous saints in our country have been ignorant on this issue. They simply failed to understand that the idol is never treated as God but only as a symbolic reference to an entity that has no representation in nature.
Guard your Dharma, Burn the Myth, Promote the Truth, Crush the superstition.
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