WHERE THE DIFFERENCE LIES AND WHERE LIES POSSIBLE HARMONY ... 1

WHERE THE DIFFERENCE LIES AND WHERE LIES POSSIBLE HARMONY ... 1

The essential difference between the Semitic religions and the Sanatan Dharma is that the former are based on 'unique prophetic revelations' whereas the latter has as its basis universal spiritual realisations accessible to all. The former is as if a stumbling onto some aspect of spiritual truth without a comprehensive understanding of the gamut of spiritual truths whose aspect it is. Hence, there is neither philosophy nor reason, rationale nor psychological development but doctrine which one must submit to on grounds of faith, a faith imposed on humanity by way of 'divine' inviolable decree. There is neither freedom to think nor dissent but simply to submit. This is the summum bonum of these religions and, worse than that, to engage in forceful and forcible conversion of the infidel/kaffir/kuffar to the 'one true faith' so as to bring them to 'light' and 'heavenly refemption', 'salvation from original sin' et al.

The Indian dharma traditions are a class apart and stand in refined philosophical distinction from these faith-based Semitic religions. Theirs is the body of realised transcendental principles of reality and their rational exposition in terms of philosophical delineation. One is a faith, superstitious and sterile ; the other is a discovery of fact, real and realised.

End of Part 1

To be continued...

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Sugata Bose

Photo : Maharshi Yajnavalkya

13Sharmistha Chatterjee, Riya Bhattacharya and 11 others

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