^ Interrupting above, but please read that ^
<!--QuoteBegin-Viren+Aug 27 2008, 04:16 PM-->QUOTE(Viren @ Aug 27 2008, 04:16 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->came in email
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<i>Q. Does Hinduism also not lay exclusive claim to be the only right faith? For instance, in the Gita Sri Krishna calls up
on people to abandon all other dharmas and surrender to Him.</i><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]87099[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->I just wanted to comment on this question and say that the question itself is <i>so</i> loaded - christoconditioned. What acrobatics must have been required to twist Krishna's words into that?
Krishna says no such thing in the Gita. He says people can and do worship all Gods and that he naturally accepts all this devotion since it is ultimately rendered to him anyway. That is because he is Brahman - as he explicitly reveals in the Gita - and because, similarly, Brahman is all the Gods. In Hindu Dharma, we can see scriptures revealing various Gods as being Brahman (from Guha, Ganapathi to Devi, Shiva and more).
(The gawd jeebusjehovallah of the terrorist ideologies being non-existent - and terrifyingly demonic if it had existed - and since it does not have anything remotely to do with our Gods/Brahman, is obviously utterly irrelevant to a Natural Traditionalist's discussion on Gods.)
Swami Dayananda Saraswati should have boycotted that question or - as is more in conformity with his being a Swami - should have corrected the questioner.
<!--QuoteBegin-Viren+Aug 27 2008, 04:16 PM-->QUOTE(Viren @ Aug 27 2008, 04:16 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->came in email
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<i>Q. Does Hinduism also not lay exclusive claim to be the only right faith? For instance, in the Gita Sri Krishna calls up
on people to abandon all other dharmas and surrender to Him.</i><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]87099[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->I just wanted to comment on this question and say that the question itself is <i>so</i> loaded - christoconditioned. What acrobatics must have been required to twist Krishna's words into that?
Krishna says no such thing in the Gita. He says people can and do worship all Gods and that he naturally accepts all this devotion since it is ultimately rendered to him anyway. That is because he is Brahman - as he explicitly reveals in the Gita - and because, similarly, Brahman is all the Gods. In Hindu Dharma, we can see scriptures revealing various Gods as being Brahman (from Guha, Ganapathi to Devi, Shiva and more).
(The gawd jeebusjehovallah of the terrorist ideologies being non-existent - and terrifyingly demonic if it had existed - and since it does not have anything remotely to do with our Gods/Brahman, is obviously utterly irrelevant to a Natural Traditionalist's discussion on Gods.)
Swami Dayananda Saraswati should have boycotted that question or - as is more in conformity with his being a Swami - should have corrected the questioner.
Death to traitors.