A CURSORY COMPARISON WITH THE SEMITIC FAITHS
The Vedas carry spiritual revelations of the rishis which are universally verifiable. The prophetic revelations of the Abrahamic religions are, however, supposedly unique and non-verifiable. Hence, in the Semitic religions, namely, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, faith in the absolute declarations of the prophets and their absolutist injunctions is the sine qua non for adherents and challenging the doctrine is considered heresy. In the Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism), on the other hand, challenging all spiritual and philosophical propositions is the sine qua non as a stage in the process of rationalisation before depth meditation on such results in realisation which alone leads to perfected conviction in God, Spirit, Self et al.
In the Sanatan Dharma there is no compulsion to believe in anything. It is the science of the soul and requires only depth enquiry to arrive at the results. This is where the Sanatan Dharma essentially differs from the Semitic religions. It has no binding theology, dated in time and enforceable on all by force, to go by. Hence, it is the only scientific system of spirituality, liberal, universal in scope and allowing complete freedom to seekers to enquire, challenge, deliberate, debate and then to accept or to reject it. As such there is no scope for the violence of conversion in it as it has nothing to do with the politics attending religions as is the case with the Semitic faiths of pronounced proselytising violence attached to them.
Written by Sugata Bose
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