How can proselytising religions claim to be peaceful, especially when they are also exclusive in their monotheistic creed? Is it not a contradiction in terms? Only a broad-based democracy of faith that allows the personal pursuit of any Chosen Ideal (Ishta Dev/Devi) within its liberal fold of philosophical catholicity can lay claim to peacefulness for it rejects none of the pathways to God and accepts all, even the agnostic and the atheist as diverse perspectives on the same eternal truth of life and the being. In this regard the Indian dharma traditions are truly spiritually inclusive and peaceful, not the religions of the Abrahamic tradition which are all, to a greater or lesser degree, violent in their attitude towards religious denominations that differ with them on perspective.
The Vedanta, thus, remains the hope of future humanity for peace and spiritual wisdom, and the Vedanta is the climactic evolution of the long ancient tradition of the Sanatan Dharma which is commonly referred to as Hinduism, a historical aberration that seems now beyond linguistic rectification.
Written by Sugata Bose
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