05-22-2007, 02:39 AM
I guess 'Dharmo rakshati rakshit: sums it up. For several hundred years Sikhs would have been bewildered and dejected had any Hindu claimed that Sikhs were not Hindu. Now it is the turn of Hindus to be dejected and bewildered that Sikhs do not consider themselves Hindus.
How do Jains feel about their separate religion?
There are sects and movements in islam that pay with their blood to have the right to be called Muslims - which the other Muslims routinely trash. There are sects and cults in xianity that claim to be xistians while the mainstream ones routinely trash them as non-xitians. On the other hand there is Hindu Dharma that its progeny feel so alienated about that they want nothing to do with it.
How do Jains feel about their separate religion?
There are sects and movements in islam that pay with their blood to have the right to be called Muslims - which the other Muslims routinely trash. There are sects and cults in xianity that claim to be xistians while the mainstream ones routinely trash them as non-xitians. On the other hand there is Hindu Dharma that its progeny feel so alienated about that they want nothing to do with it.