A DEVELOPING CONVERSATION ON THE UNLIKENESS OF HINDUISM AND ISLAM OR CHRISTIANITY
Sudhansu Barman : I think Muslim and Christians are also Hindu like Baisnab and Sakta.
Sugata Bose : No, Sir, no way. I hope you have read my essay with care and attempted to comprehend it. A Hindu by definition has to accept the Vedas as inviolable. Islam and Christianity do not do so. Hence, they cannot be considered to be Hindus. However, from the sectarian standpoint I am in agreement with you that these religious sects are fragmented misrepresentations of Hinduism of the dualistic schools. Vaishnavism and Shaktaism, though latter developments of Puranic and post-Puranic times, are both philosophically founded in the Vedas and are fundamentally different from their Semitic 'siblings', especially from Islam with its outside of universe concept of God.
P.S. : An aside. Going through your profile I discovered that we are distant day twins being both born on 10 June, 1961. There we are, after all, close siblings of a common mother, Mother India. @Sudhansu Barman
Sudhansu Barman : I think Muslim and Christians are also Hindu like Baisnab and Sakta.
Sugata Bose : No, Sir, no way. I hope you have read my essay with care and attempted to comprehend it. A Hindu by definition has to accept the Vedas as inviolable. Islam and Christianity do not do so. Hence, they cannot be considered to be Hindus. However, from the sectarian standpoint I am in agreement with you that these religious sects are fragmented misrepresentations of Hinduism of the dualistic schools. Vaishnavism and Shaktaism, though latter developments of Puranic and post-Puranic times, are both philosophically founded in the Vedas and are fundamentally different from their Semitic 'siblings', especially from Islam with its outside of universe concept of God.
P.S. : An aside. Going through your profile I discovered that we are distant day twins being both born on 10 June, 1961. There we are, after all, close siblings of a common mother, Mother India. @Sudhansu Barman
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