THE HINDU IS RIGHT AND THE HINDU IS WISE

THE HINDU IS RIGHT AND THE HINDU IS WISE

The Hindu has a pragmatic sense of God. He does not carry his whole bank balance to office but just the required sum in his purse. So, he is happy to worship the Avatar and the concise version of God in His image and cares not to befuddle his brain with thoughts of the Infinite right away. After all the water in the cup and the water in the sea are the same water. And the Hindu knows it. He also knows that there is no other way to know God save through the anthropomorphic way, of seeing the sea in the saucer, of sensing the atmosphere in the puff of air inhaled.

The Hindu is practical and the Hindu is wise. He has made bread and butter of philosophy while the tall talkers of monotheism gasp for breath in the void of their imaginary infinitude which they term God. The Hindu has solved the dimensional problem, harmonising differences in magnitude in the zero he has discovered and attaining peace in realising that the small is but the big if in kind they agree, notwithstanding differences in degree. After all the standing figure is the lying figure with height transforming to length while volume and mass remain conserved.

Written by Sugata Bose