DHARMA, RELIGION AND THE FINAL ABSORPTION

DHARMA, RELIGION AND THE FINAL ABSORPTION

We, Indians, traditionally have had no religion in the Semitic sense. We have had but the science of the Spirit which we call the Sanatan Dharma. Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism et al are all part of that broader dharma tradition of the nation and not contra-disposed to it despite minor philosophical variations among them.

The Semitic religions are but additions to our absorbing culture, adornments of our synthetic spirit, our assimilating, harmonising character where every strand of spiritual aspiration gains a place. We have to indigenise these faith-bound traditions as well and fully incorporate them into our national fold like some of the Islamic Sufi traditions we have so succeeded in doing.

An Indian Christianity, an Indian Islam would mean these religions losing their fundamental exclusive character in the cognition of the deeper spiritual conceptions of the Vedas and becoming eventually assimilated sects of the Indian dharma tradition. It may take time and it will but this will be the final fate of Islam and Christianity in India as she rises to her fullest spiritual stature in the coming centuries.

Written by

Sugata Bose

10Sharmistha Chatterjee, Subhrajyoti Bhowmick and 8 others

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