OCEANIC DIFFERENCE DESPITE OCCASIONAL APPROXIMATIONS

OCEANIC DIFFERENCE DESPITE OCCASIONAL APPROXIMATIONS 

When superficial references are made to Sufi Islam as being approximate to the Sanatan Dharma, remember the essential difference between Sufism and the Sanatan Dharma. Theirs is Islam with its doctrinaire baggage. Ours is the body of saintly realisations chronicled collectively as the Vedas. Oceanic difference.

Theirs is a single life visit to planet earth to pass the terrestrial test taken by their God whereas ours is the continuous cycle of birth, life and death in the inward progression towards Self-realisation as opposed to heavenly God-approximation which is their aim.

Ours is the only philosophical system that is in consonance with the findings of modern science whereas theirs is the enforced down-thrust of medieval misconceptions about the higher truths of the Spirit apprehended aeons ago in India.

True it is, though, that a sect of Sufi Islam in India has absorbed certain elements of the Vedanta and approximated the Vedic Dharma largely while still holding onto Islamic essential doctrine necessarily, for they are bound by its original tenets.

Thus, facile posts online that tend to highlight superficial similarities between the dharma of the Rishis and the Semitic intolerant religions are better understood in the perspective of their doctrinaire background which have never accepted the sublime truths of the Sanatan Dharma and have merely plagiarised its precepts, principles and practices wherever they have suited them or where they have been overwhelmed by the Vedic Dharma's superior spiritual force spontaneously, for the latter has never infringed upon the rights of others to pursue their own evolutionary course nor imposed upon any race its own discoveries of the natural order of things obtaining in the realm of the Spirit.

Written by Sugata Bose