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		<title>By: Bharani</title>
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		<description>Hai Sandeep, Thanks for posting.... I am really impressed.</description>
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		<title>By: Kabir Khan( INDIAN )</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kabir Khan( INDIAN )</dc:creator>
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		<description>Dear All Humanity.

Please Dont Fight In Matter Of Religious. Dont Bring This matter In Indian. Just be indians. People Are Deing With This matter. Respect Humainity Being Human. Mr. syed, Prophet(SWAS) teach us That Give Only Invitation of islam. Just Invitation. No One Can Force Or Tell Bad About Any Religion.No One Can Solve This Matter in This World. This Matter Will take us to End OF World. Iam Indian i Love My India &amp; Its People. 

Freinds With Any Type of Discussions No One Can Solve this Matters of religious. I Request To All - Please Be In Your Religion What You Are. Respect Every Religion. Be Peace</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear All Humanity.</p>
<p>Please Dont Fight In Matter Of Religious. Dont Bring This matter In Indian. Just be indians. People Are Deing With This matter. Respect Humainity Being Human. Mr. syed, Prophet(SWAS) teach us That Give Only Invitation of islam. Just Invitation. No One Can Force Or Tell Bad About Any Religion.No One Can Solve This Matter in This World. This Matter Will take us to End OF World. Iam Indian i Love My India &amp; Its People. </p>
<p>Freinds With Any Type of Discussions No One Can Solve this Matters of religious. I Request To All &#8211; Please Be In Your Religion What You Are. Respect Every Religion. Be Peace</p>
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		<title>By: zaki</title>
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		<description>DEAR FRIENDS

MAIN UPER JITNE BHI LOG APNI BAAT LIKHE HAIN USE PHER CHUKA HUN

HINDU BHAIYEYO SE KEHNA CHAHTA HUN KE AAP APNE AADI

GARANTHON KO AUR VED AUR UPNISHAD KO PARENHE YE KITABEN   HI AAP KE DHARM KA BASE HAI AGAR NAHI HAI TO

HINDU DHARAM KE ITIHAAS SE VED AUR UPNISHSAD KO HATA 

DE YA PHIR IN BHUMULYA PUSTAKON KO MAAN LE. AAJ KE SANDARBH ME AAP LOGON KE PANDIT JI LOG AAM HINDU KO

ISKE BAARE MAIN NAHI BATATEN HAIN AUR NAHI AAP APNI

AADI KAAL KE PUSTAKON KO PARHTE HAIN.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DEAR FRIENDS</p>
<p>MAIN UPER JITNE BHI LOG APNI BAAT LIKHE HAIN USE PHER CHUKA HUN</p>
<p>HINDU BHAIYEYO SE KEHNA CHAHTA HUN KE AAP APNE AADI</p>
<p>GARANTHON KO AUR VED AUR UPNISHAD KO PARENHE YE KITABEN   HI AAP KE DHARM KA BASE HAI AGAR NAHI HAI TO</p>
<p>HINDU DHARAM KE ITIHAAS SE VED AUR UPNISHSAD KO HATA </p>
<p>DE YA PHIR IN BHUMULYA PUSTAKON KO MAAN LE. AAJ KE SANDARBH ME AAP LOGON KE PANDIT JI LOG AAM HINDU KO</p>
<p>ISKE BAARE MAIN NAHI BATATEN HAIN AUR NAHI AAP APNI</p>
<p>AADI KAAL KE PUSTAKON KO PARHTE HAIN.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Syed,

*...on March 26th, 2009 12:42 pm you commented

....Brahma means ‘The Creator’. Translated into Arabic it means Khaaliq. Muslims can have no objection if Almighty God is referred to as Khaaliq or ‘Creator’ or Brahma. However if it is said that Brahma is Almighty God who has four heads with each head having a crown, Muslims take strong exception to it. 

Well, Hinduism is not rigid to compel you to figure out that Brahma/Khaaliq &quot;.. has four heads with each head having a crown&quot;. As you expect you can just pray the GOD with the name Khaaliq. You don&#039;t even have to use the word Brahma.

So, is that mean you and your fellow men are going to accept Hinduism and convert ?...  :) well, not necessarily. Because Sanathana Dharma/Hinduism don&#039;t expect anybody to convert to its religion and gives full freedom to follow their own birth religions righteously and through which asks one to attain the spiritual goal.

That&#039;s SANATHANA DHARMA/HINDUISM.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Syed,</p>
<p>*&#8230;on March 26th, 2009 12:42 pm you commented</p>
<p>&#8230;.Brahma means ‘The Creator’. Translated into Arabic it means Khaaliq. Muslims can have no objection if Almighty God is referred to as Khaaliq or ‘Creator’ or Brahma. However if it is said that Brahma is Almighty God who has four heads with each head having a crown, Muslims take strong exception to it. </p>
<p>Well, Hinduism is not rigid to compel you to figure out that Brahma/Khaaliq &#8220;.. has four heads with each head having a crown&#8221;. As you expect you can just pray the GOD with the name Khaaliq. You don&#8217;t even have to use the word Brahma.</p>
<p>So, is that mean you and your fellow men are going to accept Hinduism and convert ?&#8230;  <img src='http://blog.sudeeprana.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  well, not necessarily. Because Sanathana Dharma/Hinduism don&#8217;t expect anybody to convert to its religion and gives full freedom to follow their own birth religions righteously and through which asks one to attain the spiritual goal.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s SANATHANA DHARMA/HINDUISM.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<description>Syed,
	I appreciate your pain to quote through references to explain. You also questioned why Hindus are proud rather than being thankful to HIM like Muslims on July 26th, 2009. 

Well, you are right, all these knowledge was given to us by GOD and we should be thankful to HIM and I do.

But, don&#039;t you think &quot;INDIAN on November 28th, 2009 12:41 pm&quot; is showing only his proudness of being Muslim when he made the below comments?:
&lt;&quot;who ever is going in the worng dorection please wake up, there is no &lt;god other than ALLAH. ISLAM is the fastest growing religion in the world. &lt;please follow the right path otherwise nobody can save you from the fire &lt;of hell.please read LA ILAHA ILLAL LAH MUHAMMEDUR RASOOL ALLAH.&quot;

Well, that makes me think and convince myself that even though Islam gives firm rules and regulations to be followed, still some goes against that.

Now, you too by making the below comment on March 9th, 2009 10:44 am, is not showing your proud ness of being Muslim?:

&lt;&quot;My sincier request is to you guys to read your own holy scriptures and I &lt;am sure you get some idea and then compare it with other religions, &lt;especially with ISLAM. Read Quran, this is the book from my lord and &lt;your lord, ths book chalenges the reader to find a fault in it, surprised? &lt;Yes my friends this is the only book on the face of earth which chalenges &lt;the reader. Hope god guides you to the straight path.&quot;

That gives example that firm rules alone not enough to uplift a person and help in achieving his highest religious goal. For that Hinduism allow(gives freedom) people to make their own opinions, make mistakes and when they out of bitter experience seek to clarify the true path, will then reveals its true concepts.


*on April 18th, 2009 10:31 am You urged Hindus to read Vedas properly and then reply. 

Let me clarify to you and ALL, that Wise declare that no one is allowed to read the four VEDAs by his own. It should be learned only through a GOD realised GURU.
Reason: VEDAs are not highly regarded for just being the oldest scriptures of world but for being able to put light on the highest truth, that are highly complex, difficult to perceive and might lead to different perceptions as per the various and different levels of understanding and capacity of men that will ruin himself and one who follows him.

*On March 26th, 2009 12:42 pm 

	You quoted from Zakir Naik&#039;s speech that 
&lt;&quot;...the major difference between the Hindu and the Muslim beliefs is the &lt;difference of the apostrophe ‘s’. The Hindu says everything is God. The &lt;Muslim says everything is God’s.&quot; 

...Which I have to say is partially Void.

Because Sanathana Dharma(or popularly know as Hinduism) have itself introduces many paths unlike other foreign religions in the name of &quot;Philosophies&quot;. What Zakir Naik quotes will apply only to those follow &quot;ADVAITHA PHILOSOPHY&quot;, but not to others. That means, in its complete annotations, Sanathana Dharma/Hinduism also says, that everything belongs to GOD. But it extends to say that, that is not all. These are high concepts to perceive correctly and so are advised by the Rishis, Wise and the scriptures that learning through a Guru for his spiritual upliftment is the best way.

Then you may ask what about the common man who don&#039;t find or cannot afford a realised Guru. Well, for them there are other scriptures like 
*Smirithis
*Darshan shastras
*Puranas(means older History - 18 major and 18 minor, which alone can be compared with scriptures like Bible and Quran as they are similarly structured and reveal same kind of information like creation, rulers, rules, history, quotes and some philosophies, but the Puranas also extends to induce people towards the final goal)
*Bhagawatam
*Writings of Gurus and Acharyas
*Writings of Bakths, Saints
*Ithihas (means greater events/History i.e., Ramayan and Mahabharata)
*Bhagavad Gita...

Then what about people who cannot afford even the above scriptures?:

They don&#039;t have to worry, but doing Pooja regularly to God(even in his heart) but truthfully without any material expectations will lead them to their spiritual upliftment and the highest goal in course of time (Nevertheless, their will be some difference like time factor but still he will attain the right path)

*On April 8th, 2009 12:47 pm 

&lt;shocked to read this that my friends follow a centuries old religion &amp; 100 &lt;of ages have been put into it &amp; even today they are not sure who is the &lt;creator of Hinduism. 

Well, it could be the prevail of common sense among Hindus that though the religion is oldest, still the people approach it are new and go through every phase of learning.


*on March 9th, 2009 10:44 am 

&lt;&quot;...I asked him is the whole world created by krishna he said yes, I asked him why your lord only choose and listen to indian peoples? what about the other part of the world, is your lord not partial. He couldnt answer the question...&quot;

The answer is, it is the same Krishna choose and listen to other parts of the world too and HE never ever shows partiality. Rather, it is the people who forgets him, show bias being ignorant and wrongly perceives different names, revelations, Avatars and gunas of GOD as different GODs.
You would have definitely come across the name &quot;Allah Rakkha Rehman&quot;, the thousand names of the GODs. May I request you to list down those thousand names to be shared with its meaning if you are aware of?

Again, Please don&#039;t conclude with the statements of a student who might be still on the verge of learning. Rather, I would say, if you are genuinely interested to know Hinduism as stated in your comment, to learn from a (right) Master.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Syed,<br />
	I appreciate your pain to quote through references to explain. You also questioned why Hindus are proud rather than being thankful to HIM like Muslims on July 26th, 2009. </p>
<p>Well, you are right, all these knowledge was given to us by GOD and we should be thankful to HIM and I do.</p>
<p>But, don&#8217;t you think &#8220;INDIAN on November 28th, 2009 12:41 pm&#8221; is showing only his proudness of being Muslim when he made the below comments?:<br />
&lt;&quot;who ever is going in the worng dorection please wake up, there is no &lt;god other than ALLAH. ISLAM is the fastest growing religion in the world. &lt;please follow the right path otherwise nobody can save you from the fire &lt;of hell.please read LA ILAHA ILLAL LAH MUHAMMEDUR RASOOL ALLAH.&quot;</p>
<p>Well, that makes me think and convince myself that even though Islam gives firm rules and regulations to be followed, still some goes against that.</p>
<p>Now, you too by making the below comment on March 9th, 2009 10:44 am, is not showing your proud ness of being Muslim?:</p>
<p>&lt;&quot;My sincier request is to you guys to read your own holy scriptures and I &lt;am sure you get some idea and then compare it with other religions, &lt;especially with ISLAM. Read Quran, this is the book from my lord and &lt;your lord, ths book chalenges the reader to find a fault in it, surprised? &lt;Yes my friends this is the only book on the face of earth which chalenges &lt;the reader. Hope god guides you to the straight path.&quot;</p>
<p>That gives example that firm rules alone not enough to uplift a person and help in achieving his highest religious goal. For that Hinduism allow(gives freedom) people to make their own opinions, make mistakes and when they out of bitter experience seek to clarify the true path, will then reveals its true concepts.</p>
<p>*on April 18th, 2009 10:31 am You urged Hindus to read Vedas properly and then reply. </p>
<p>Let me clarify to you and ALL, that Wise declare that no one is allowed to read the four VEDAs by his own. It should be learned only through a GOD realised GURU.<br />
Reason: VEDAs are not highly regarded for just being the oldest scriptures of world but for being able to put light on the highest truth, that are highly complex, difficult to perceive and might lead to different perceptions as per the various and different levels of understanding and capacity of men that will ruin himself and one who follows him.</p>
<p>*On March 26th, 2009 12:42 pm </p>
<p>	You quoted from Zakir Naik&#039;s speech that<br />
&lt;&quot;&#8230;the major difference between the Hindu and the Muslim beliefs is the &lt;difference of the apostrophe ‘s’. The Hindu says everything is God. The &lt;Muslim says everything is God’s.&quot; </p>
<p>&#8230;Which I have to say is partially Void.</p>
<p>Because Sanathana Dharma(or popularly know as Hinduism) have itself introduces many paths unlike other foreign religions in the name of &quot;Philosophies&quot;. What Zakir Naik quotes will apply only to those follow &quot;ADVAITHA PHILOSOPHY&quot;, but not to others. That means, in its complete annotations, Sanathana Dharma/Hinduism also says, that everything belongs to GOD. But it extends to say that, that is not all. These are high concepts to perceive correctly and so are advised by the Rishis, Wise and the scriptures that learning through a Guru for his spiritual upliftment is the best way.</p>
<p>Then you may ask what about the common man who don&#039;t find or cannot afford a realised Guru. Well, for them there are other scriptures like<br />
*Smirithis<br />
*Darshan shastras<br />
*Puranas(means older History &#8211; 18 major and 18 minor, which alone can be compared with scriptures like Bible and Quran as they are similarly structured and reveal same kind of information like creation, rulers, rules, history, quotes and some philosophies, but the Puranas also extends to induce people towards the final goal)<br />
*Bhagawatam<br />
*Writings of Gurus and Acharyas<br />
*Writings of Bakths, Saints<br />
*Ithihas (means greater events/History i.e., Ramayan and Mahabharata)<br />
*Bhagavad Gita&#8230;</p>
<p>Then what about people who cannot afford even the above scriptures?:</p>
<p>They don&#039;t have to worry, but doing Pooja regularly to God(even in his heart) but truthfully without any material expectations will lead them to their spiritual upliftment and the highest goal in course of time (Nevertheless, their will be some difference like time factor but still he will attain the right path)</p>
<p>*On April 8th, 2009 12:47 pm </p>
<p>&lt;shocked to read this that my friends follow a centuries old religion &amp; 100 &lt;of ages have been put into it &amp; even today they are not sure who is the &lt;creator of Hinduism. </p>
<p>Well, it could be the prevail of common sense among Hindus that though the religion is oldest, still the people approach it are new and go through every phase of learning.</p>
<p>*on March 9th, 2009 10:44 am </p>
<p>&lt;&quot;&#8230;I asked him is the whole world created by krishna he said yes, I asked him why your lord only choose and listen to indian peoples? what about the other part of the world, is your lord not partial. He couldnt answer the question&#8230;&quot;</p>
<p>The answer is, it is the same Krishna choose and listen to other parts of the world too and HE never ever shows partiality. Rather, it is the people who forgets him, show bias being ignorant and wrongly perceives different names, revelations, Avatars and gunas of GOD as different GODs.<br />
You would have definitely come across the name &quot;Allah Rakkha Rehman&quot;, the thousand names of the GODs. May I request you to list down those thousand names to be shared with its meaning if you are aware of?</p>
<p>Again, Please don&#039;t conclude with the statements of a student who might be still on the verge of learning. Rather, I would say, if you are genuinely interested to know Hinduism as stated in your comment, to learn from a (right) Master.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<description>Sudeep, 
	Your professor&#039;s casual way of handling that query is good. My applause to him. 

Arshad, 
	Your move to share about Islam and Hindu scriptures on July 15th, 2010 are good. But your below statements
&quot;this msg is for all hindu brothers who dont know thier religion. The most popular among the Aryan religions is Hinduism.&quot; is void. 

Because Hinduism is not at all one of the religions of Aryans. The RELIGIONS OF ARYANS are classified as &quot;Saiva, Vaishnava, Saaktha, Koumara, Ganapathya and Soumara&quot;, which are collectively called sanmath, which compliments each other and also co-exist.

These religions were used to be known as &quot;Vaidika Dharma&quot;, as it has the Vedas for its authority and source (Vedokhilo Dharma Mulam); 

For these same reasons religions like Buddhism and Jainism that are though sprouted from India are excluded from the above classification and not called as &quot;Vaidika Dharma&quot;. Rather they are considered to be evolved for practice by people on certain occasions, to solve few problems, on few regions, but will not itself serve the ultimate goal or the full purpose of a religion and hence will also fade away over time.

The Rishis and wise declare that RELIGION does not end with man&#039;s mere intellectual belief and faith in scriptural teaching; but it demands his intuitive experiencing of the Reality, the nature of which is suggestively pointed out in the scriptures. Religion finds its fulfillment and frutification in  realisation of the Truth, which is the sole purpose and goal of religion. For this realisation, Vedic religion advocates all the three paths, viz, &quot;Karma, Bhakti and Jnana.&quot; They are complementary to one another. All these paths duly integrated and harmonised. Meditation on self is simultaneously stressed on for the Realisation.


Again, the religion of Aryans that are called Vaidika Dharma is also called as SANATHANA DHARMA as it delineates and embodies values and doctrines which are of eternal validity.

Sanatana Dharma stands for &quot;Rita&quot; - the majesty of moral and spiritual law.  It looks upon the whole universe as being under the purview  of a moral law and subserving to the supremacy of God, its creator. Times may change, ages may roll by, continents may rise and disappear, but values of life like truth, love, compassion, one&#039;s duty to mother, father, preceptor and to fellow beings, and the eternal reality of the spirit and unity of all life, are truths and values that subsist and will subsist for ever. These are the eternal values and  truths which are embedded in the Vedas and are embodied in the religion that had evolved out of Vedas. These values being of eternal validity and universality, are the justification for the religion that embody them, for being called as Sanatana Dharma, the eternal Dharma, law/religion.

For it is these above reasons and many more, it is popularly told that Sanathan Dharma, the religion of Hindus is not just a religion but set of rules and values, beliefs and practices or a way of living. 


Then why the name Hindustan and Hinduism got popular? Well, here is what Bavishya Purana says about the evolution of word Sindustan/Hindustan...

vikramaditya-pautrasca
pitr-rajyam grhitavan
jitva sakanduradharsams
cina-taittiridesajan

bahlikankamarupasca
romajankhurajanchhatan
tesam kosan-grhitva ca
danda-yogyanakarayat

sthapita tena maryada
mleccharyanam prthak-prthak
sindhusthanam iti jneyam
rastramaryasya cottamam

mlecchasthanam param sindhoh
krtam tena mahatmana
ekada tu sakadiso
himatungam samayayau


&quot;Ruling over the Aryans was a king called Salivahana, the grandson of Vikramaditya, who occupied the throne of his father. He defeated the Shakas who were very difficult to subdue, the Cinas, the people from Tittiri and Bahikaus who could assume any form at will. He also defeated the people from Rome and the descendants of Khuru, who were deceitful and wicked. He punished them severely and took their wealth. Salivahana thus established the boundaries dividing the separate countries of the Mlecchas and the Aryans. In this way SUNDUSTAN came to be known as the greatest country. That personality appointed the abode of the Mlecchas beyond the Sindhu River and to the west.&quot;
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During British era, they find it difficult to control Indians under their steps and treat like slaves as they do it in Africa and other colonies as they find Indians are highly morale and high spirited. They employed a team (The Asiatic Society) for 50 YEARS to translate the Indian scriptures, under Max Muller and John. They realised the greatness and mammoth ness and coined the name &quot;Hinduism&quot; for collectively religions, scriptures and the practices followed here and popularised it around the world through their publications, THOUGH  IN A DEMEANING AND DEGRADING WAY as per the order from the East India Company. THE ABOVE TRANSLATIONS ARE STILL USED AND TAUGHT AS LESSONS  IN INDIAN SCHOOLS

Dear All, 
IT&#039;S FOR THE ABOVE REASONS THE INDIANS AND THE REST OF THE WORLD LOST A CLEAR PICTURE ABOUT OUR HISTORY, CULTURE AND RELIGION FOR WE SEE DISCREPANCIES IN WHAT WE FOLLOW IN DAY TODAY LIFE AND WHAT WE ARE TAUGHT ABOUT OUR RELIGION AND THE WESTERN SCHOLARS NOW HAVE RAISED THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY AND ITS TRANSLATIONS
To know more about our true history try it: &lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;http://www.thetruehistoryandthereligionofindia.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.thetruehistoryandthereligionofindia.org&lt;/a&gt;

Here is what scholars and people from the west told about India:
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.
-Mark Twain.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. 
-French scholar Romain Rolland.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
-Albert Einstein.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sudeep,<br />
	Your professor&#8217;s casual way of handling that query is good. My applause to him. </p>
<p>Arshad,<br />
	Your move to share about Islam and Hindu scriptures on July 15th, 2010 are good. But your below statements<br />
&#8220;this msg is for all hindu brothers who dont know thier religion. The most popular among the Aryan religions is Hinduism.&#8221; is void. </p>
<p>Because Hinduism is not at all one of the religions of Aryans. The RELIGIONS OF ARYANS are classified as &#8220;Saiva, Vaishnava, Saaktha, Koumara, Ganapathya and Soumara&#8221;, which are collectively called sanmath, which compliments each other and also co-exist.</p>
<p>These religions were used to be known as &#8220;Vaidika Dharma&#8221;, as it has the Vedas for its authority and source (Vedokhilo Dharma Mulam); </p>
<p>For these same reasons religions like Buddhism and Jainism that are though sprouted from India are excluded from the above classification and not called as &#8220;Vaidika Dharma&#8221;. Rather they are considered to be evolved for practice by people on certain occasions, to solve few problems, on few regions, but will not itself serve the ultimate goal or the full purpose of a religion and hence will also fade away over time.</p>
<p>The Rishis and wise declare that RELIGION does not end with man&#8217;s mere intellectual belief and faith in scriptural teaching; but it demands his intuitive experiencing of the Reality, the nature of which is suggestively pointed out in the scriptures. Religion finds its fulfillment and frutification in  realisation of the Truth, which is the sole purpose and goal of religion. For this realisation, Vedic religion advocates all the three paths, viz, &#8220;Karma, Bhakti and Jnana.&#8221; They are complementary to one another. All these paths duly integrated and harmonised. Meditation on self is simultaneously stressed on for the Realisation.</p>
<p>Again, the religion of Aryans that are called Vaidika Dharma is also called as SANATHANA DHARMA as it delineates and embodies values and doctrines which are of eternal validity.</p>
<p>Sanatana Dharma stands for &#8220;Rita&#8221; &#8211; the majesty of moral and spiritual law.  It looks upon the whole universe as being under the purview  of a moral law and subserving to the supremacy of God, its creator. Times may change, ages may roll by, continents may rise and disappear, but values of life like truth, love, compassion, one&#8217;s duty to mother, father, preceptor and to fellow beings, and the eternal reality of the spirit and unity of all life, are truths and values that subsist and will subsist for ever. These are the eternal values and  truths which are embedded in the Vedas and are embodied in the religion that had evolved out of Vedas. These values being of eternal validity and universality, are the justification for the religion that embody them, for being called as Sanatana Dharma, the eternal Dharma, law/religion.</p>
<p>For it is these above reasons and many more, it is popularly told that Sanathan Dharma, the religion of Hindus is not just a religion but set of rules and values, beliefs and practices or a way of living. </p>
<p>Then why the name Hindustan and Hinduism got popular? Well, here is what Bavishya Purana says about the evolution of word Sindustan/Hindustan&#8230;</p>
<p>vikramaditya-pautrasca<br />
pitr-rajyam grhitavan<br />
jitva sakanduradharsams<br />
cina-taittiridesajan</p>
<p>bahlikankamarupasca<br />
romajankhurajanchhatan<br />
tesam kosan-grhitva ca<br />
danda-yogyanakarayat</p>
<p>sthapita tena maryada<br />
mleccharyanam prthak-prthak<br />
sindhusthanam iti jneyam<br />
rastramaryasya cottamam</p>
<p>mlecchasthanam param sindhoh<br />
krtam tena mahatmana<br />
ekada tu sakadiso<br />
himatungam samayayau</p>
<p>&#8220;Ruling over the Aryans was a king called Salivahana, the grandson of Vikramaditya, who occupied the throne of his father. He defeated the Shakas who were very difficult to subdue, the Cinas, the people from Tittiri and Bahikaus who could assume any form at will. He also defeated the people from Rome and the descendants of Khuru, who were deceitful and wicked. He punished them severely and took their wealth. Salivahana thus established the boundaries dividing the separate countries of the Mlecchas and the Aryans. In this way SUNDUSTAN came to be known as the greatest country. That personality appointed the abode of the Mlecchas beyond the Sindhu River and to the west.&#8221;<br />
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During British era, they find it difficult to control Indians under their steps and treat like slaves as they do it in Africa and other colonies as they find Indians are highly morale and high spirited. They employed a team (The Asiatic Society) for 50 YEARS to translate the Indian scriptures, under Max Muller and John. They realised the greatness and mammoth ness and coined the name &#8220;Hinduism&#8221; for collectively religions, scriptures and the practices followed here and popularised it around the world through their publications, THOUGH  IN A DEMEANING AND DEGRADING WAY as per the order from the East India Company. THE ABOVE TRANSLATIONS ARE STILL USED AND TAUGHT AS LESSONS  IN INDIAN SCHOOLS</p>
<p>Dear All,<br />
IT&#8217;S FOR THE ABOVE REASONS THE INDIANS AND THE REST OF THE WORLD LOST A CLEAR PICTURE ABOUT OUR HISTORY, CULTURE AND RELIGION FOR WE SEE DISCREPANCIES IN WHAT WE FOLLOW IN DAY TODAY LIFE AND WHAT WE ARE TAUGHT ABOUT OUR RELIGION AND THE WESTERN SCHOLARS NOW HAVE RAISED THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY AND ITS TRANSLATIONS<br />
To know more about our true history try it: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thetruehistoryandthereligionofindia.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.thetruehistoryandthereligionofindia.org</a></p>
<p>Here is what scholars and people from the west told about India:<br />
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.<br />
-Mark Twain.</p>
<p>If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.<br />
-French scholar Romain Rolland.</p>
<p>We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.<br />
-Albert Einstein.</p>
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		<title>By: sudeep333</title>
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		<dc:creator>sudeep333</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I feel bad when people fight like this.... This thread was about &quot;Why, I am a Hindu&quot;. Hinduism is all about set of beliefs. The article was not commenting on other religion. Guys, Take it seriously, Please think before writing anything about what you are going to write.

I respect every religion and you all should do the same.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel bad when people fight like this&#8230;. This thread was about &#8220;Why, I am a Hindu&#8221;. Hinduism is all about set of beliefs. The article was not commenting on other religion. Guys, Take it seriously, Please think before writing anything about what you are going to write.</p>
<p>I respect every religion and you all should do the same.</p>
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		<title>By: praveen chandra</title>
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		<dc:creator>praveen chandra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very very interesting article I have read today. Probably this expression of the person&#039;s belief is excellent. We definitely need similar blogs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very very interesting article I have read today. Probably this expression of the person&#8217;s belief is excellent. We definitely need similar blogs.</p>
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		<title>By: Neutral Person - who respects every other person</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neutral Person - who respects every other person</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Sudeep &amp; fellow contributors

Namaste. May I request you to STOP this thread immediately for the sake of everyone&#039;s faith.

I am not sure what your real intentions were, when you posted this blog, but I believe that you did it with good faith and with genuinely good intentions. If you are genuinely a good human being (which I believe you are), does not matter whether you are believing in religion or not or which religion, you should stop this thread immediately, as IT REALLY HURTS everyone by reading each other&#039;s comments.

Faith is PERSONAL aspect of every individual. It is like a womon married to a blind or poor man or a man married to blind or poor woman, and they would feel that her or his life partner is the best in the world in HIS OR HER EYES, not necessarily in some one else&#039;s eyes, as there may be richer and health man or woman out there. You really hurt the person, by saying that I have a rich husband or rich wife, where as yours is poor.

Religion is like the same. If you are Hindu, in YOUR EYES, Hinduism is the BEST in your World. If you are muslim, in YOUR EYES, Islam is the BEST in your World or if you are Christian, in YOUR EYES, Christainity is the BEST in your World. What you should remember here is that this is BEST in YOUR EYES - And there is NO WAY that you could change some one else&#039;s eyes AND MOST IMPORTANTLY you should not hurt other person saying that I am good because I am rich and you are bad because you are poor. 

So my Hindu &amp; Muslim &amp; Christian brothers, PLEASE BE PROUD OF WHAT RELIGION that YOU BELEIVE or even DO NOT BELIEVE, BUT PLEASE TRY TO RESPECT OTHER PERSON&#039;S PERSONAL FAITH IN THEIR OWN EYES. 

Every relion teaches us to be respectful to other religion as well to other faith.

So May I HUMBLY request Sudeep to stop this thread immediately to spread any hatredness among any person/s. And also to all the contributors NOT to bring anything hatred comments or advises to learn or say more about their faith. 

Thank you for reading this post in positive spirit. May God bless every one and May the Peace the prevail on this Earth with brotherhood.

Kind regards
Neutral Person

&quot;If We Can Do Any Good Thing in our Life, THEN atleast We DO NOT do wrong thing in Life&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Sudeep &amp; fellow contributors</p>
<p>Namaste. May I request you to STOP this thread immediately for the sake of everyone&#8217;s faith.</p>
<p>I am not sure what your real intentions were, when you posted this blog, but I believe that you did it with good faith and with genuinely good intentions. If you are genuinely a good human being (which I believe you are), does not matter whether you are believing in religion or not or which religion, you should stop this thread immediately, as IT REALLY HURTS everyone by reading each other&#8217;s comments.</p>
<p>Faith is PERSONAL aspect of every individual. It is like a womon married to a blind or poor man or a man married to blind or poor woman, and they would feel that her or his life partner is the best in the world in HIS OR HER EYES, not necessarily in some one else&#8217;s eyes, as there may be richer and health man or woman out there. You really hurt the person, by saying that I have a rich husband or rich wife, where as yours is poor.</p>
<p>Religion is like the same. If you are Hindu, in YOUR EYES, Hinduism is the BEST in your World. If you are muslim, in YOUR EYES, Islam is the BEST in your World or if you are Christian, in YOUR EYES, Christainity is the BEST in your World. What you should remember here is that this is BEST in YOUR EYES &#8211; And there is NO WAY that you could change some one else&#8217;s eyes AND MOST IMPORTANTLY you should not hurt other person saying that I am good because I am rich and you are bad because you are poor. </p>
<p>So my Hindu &amp; Muslim &amp; Christian brothers, PLEASE BE PROUD OF WHAT RELIGION that YOU BELEIVE or even DO NOT BELIEVE, BUT PLEASE TRY TO RESPECT OTHER PERSON&#8217;S PERSONAL FAITH IN THEIR OWN EYES. </p>
<p>Every relion teaches us to be respectful to other religion as well to other faith.</p>
<p>So May I HUMBLY request Sudeep to stop this thread immediately to spread any hatredness among any person/s. And also to all the contributors NOT to bring anything hatred comments or advises to learn or say more about their faith. </p>
<p>Thank you for reading this post in positive spirit. May God bless every one and May the Peace the prevail on this Earth with brotherhood.</p>
<p>Kind regards<br />
Neutral Person</p>
<p>&#8220;If We Can Do Any Good Thing in our Life, THEN atleast We DO NOT do wrong thing in Life&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: sameer</title>
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		<dc:creator>sameer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i love my india and i am proud to be an indian with hindu dharm.
i wanna say be hindu . be veg. go green. save earth 
The artical is realy very good why r you spoiling that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i love my india and i am proud to be an indian with hindu dharm.<br />
i wanna say be hindu . be veg. go green. save earth<br />
The artical is realy very good why r you spoiling that.</p>
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