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Hindu influence in the West on the rise
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I happened to come across many blogs where many are concerned about the interest in Hinduism in US and other western countries, after Rajan Zed, director of interfaith relations at a Hindu temple in Reno , Nev. , offered an official prayer in the U.S. Senate in July. He did the same in the Nevada State Assembly as well as at the California Senate.

Many do not know that one cannot stop the spread of Hindu concepts and ideals due to

1. Hinduism is a culture and not an organized religion like Christianity or Islam.

There are two very important cultures in this world today. One is Judaism and another is Hinduism. All western religions like Islam and Christianity came from Judaism. All eastern religions like Buddhism, Sikhism and to some extent Jainism came from Hinduism.


2. It has no hidden agenda or motive expect to spread truth.

All Hindus scriptures discuss about TRUTH and how to search after truth. Hindu scriptures state "self-realization" is the ultimate goal of every human being, whether the person is a Hindu or not."


3. As Rig Veda 89-1 states, it welcomes truth from every side.

Beauty of Hinduism is that it accept truth from very many sources. Hinduism is the result of deep meditation of Rishis, who searched after truth through out their lives.

4. It does NOT proclaim monopoly on GOD or TRUTH or SALAVTION.

No where in the Hindu scriptures, you will read that Hindus alone have monopoly on God or salvation. Hindu scriptures state, any person who searches after truth will ultimately attain self realization, whether that person is a Hindu or not.

Voltaire in Essay on Tolerance wrote: I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death, your right to say it. Hinduism is the symbolic representation of what Voltaire wrote.

Aa no bhadraah kratavo yantu vishvatah

" Let noble thoughts come to us from every side".


5. Absolute FREEDOM OF THOUGHTS & ACTIONS is the cardinal principle of Hinduism.

Even an atheist can condemn Hinduism and later can proudly proclaim he or she is a Hindu. In fact, unlike all religions and cultures in the world, Hinduism had an atheistic philosophy called CHARVAKA philosophy founded by Charvaka who rejected existence of God. Charvaka died in bed. He was not killed by any one. He died in bed due to old age.

6 Hindus do NOT actively convert people from other religions to Hinduism.
It is unheard of Hindus trying to convert others to Hinduism , since Hinduism is a culture with many religions in it. Of course, today HINDUISM TODAY Magazine and Arya Samaj convert people who are sincerely interested to become Hindus.

The more any one tries to suppress Hinduism the more it will spring back like a coiled spring.

In my book AM I A HINDU? I wrote:

“ Even if some one kill every Hindu on earth and burn every book on Hinduism, this “thought process” we call Hinduism, will come back to life again within few years, may be with a different name, since Hinduism, is the relentless search after truth.”



January 9, 2008 | 8:02 AM Comments  1 comments

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erin69 Erin Daymon
January 10, 2008 | 2:48 AM

You forget to write about the Caste System
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