05-04-2007, 09:20 PM
Ashok:
I am with you as far as any house cleaning goes.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->There hasn't been a collective hindu attempt to decide upon the hindu canon. Budhists did it, christians did it, muslims did it. <b>But in hinduism anyone can write up a text and give it a form of Agama or upanishad </b>(e.g. allopanishad) or purAna, and over centuries that starts getting counted as "official" hindu scripture.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The portion I have highlighted is what I like about Hinduism. Heck, Hinduism allows even me to write stuff. How <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo--> is that?
Kidding apart, why not let Ashok, Husky, Bodhi, Shiv, Hauma etc write, and if people like to read them and follow them so be it. It has both pros and cons. People who want to criticize Hinduism would pick the parts written badly, or by "evil" people to say "Look, Hinduism is disgusting". But some people are going to pick up the other invigorating parts and glorify them.
I am with you as far as any house cleaning goes.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->There hasn't been a collective hindu attempt to decide upon the hindu canon. Budhists did it, christians did it, muslims did it. <b>But in hinduism anyone can write up a text and give it a form of Agama or upanishad </b>(e.g. allopanishad) or purAna, and over centuries that starts getting counted as "official" hindu scripture.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The portion I have highlighted is what I like about Hinduism. Heck, Hinduism allows even me to write stuff. How <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo--> is that?
Kidding apart, why not let Ashok, Husky, Bodhi, Shiv, Hauma etc write, and if people like to read them and follow them so be it. It has both pros and cons. People who want to criticize Hinduism would pick the parts written badly, or by "evil" people to say "Look, Hinduism is disgusting". But some people are going to pick up the other invigorating parts and glorify them.