Swami Aksharanand: Hindus, stop preaching all religions are same!

August 5, 2005 at 2:17 pm · Filed under Hinduism, India, Historical, Society, Swami Aksharananda

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Swami Aksharananda Swami Aksharanand ji, who holds a Ph.D. degree in Hindu Studies from the University of Madison, Wisconsin (USA) deplored that it was unbecoming on the part of leaders of one billion strong Hindus to look at the United States and complain about the cross border terrorism (from Pakistan) and cry like babies.

He spoke extensively regarding the falsity of the “equality of religions” propagated by Gandhi and the modern day gurus and saints. The concept that “All religions are one” as propagated by Gandhi incessantly is the most destructive concept that is affecting us all. It is not only silly but dangerous fallacy to propagate the idea that all religions are one. Some of these gurus and sanyasis from India come here at the United Nations and invoke Allah and Jesus Christ. In fact, what are they saying to us Hindus, who are under severe attacks every day by the same forces of Allah and Christ. Hinduism and other religions can’t be equated and called same because “religions” of the world have been born in the environment of hostility. Tracing the origin of Abrahamic religions, Swami Aksharananda said that when Christianity came on the scene, it had to develop an antagonistic philosophy to deal with Judaism. When Islam came on the scene, it had to develop an antagonistic philosophy in order to deal with both Christianity and Judaism. He stressed on the point that Islam and Christianity in their very genesis are hostile and antagonistic creeds.

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  1. Ajith from India said,

    August 7, 2005 @ 12:30 pm

    Appreciating the concern of swamiji, I would like to add that Hinduism is not actually a religion. Hinduism as a word doesn’t have origin in India. It is the name given by outsiders to the way of life and science followed in Bharat Kanda. In fact this was prevalent all over the world before the west explored the earth.

    The rationality of following this path is to live in equilibrium along with the earth’s nature. The core philosophy is Sanathana Dharma and it belongs to every individual on earth. This has to be saved not by preaching, but by implementing it in its original country by the followers and assisted by knowledgeable Gurus. This will need thorough related ancient Indian knowledge.

    The first step to protect this is to denounce the word Hindu and accept it as Bharatiya- the culture, science and society of ancient India. The next step is to set an example in India rather than just preach.

  2. Dev Babu from Australia said,

    August 7, 2005 @ 11:36 pm

    What a great speech by Swamiji !!! Though it may sound a bit agnostic for few, Swamiji’s speech is pounding if viewed from the religious context and not Spiritual context. This is where the HINDUS (Vedic followers) get confused.

    Religion & Spirituality have to be taken in their right context. Hinduism or Sanatana Dharma is the name of the religion for the Vedic followers. From this plane of reference, Swamij’s words are golden.

    From our Spiritual perspective of Vedas, yes all Religions are same, as all names and forms merge with the ultimate BRAHMAN.

  3. Lalit from Sweden said,

    September 5, 2005 @ 12:38 pm

    I find this speach baseless :

    I have never heard something like, Islam and Hinduism are same, from great names, whom are refered in this speach.

    Yes, i have heard something like Allah and Ram in spiritual sense are same.

    For Example: Bapu (Mahatma Gandhi) use to say ” Ishwar, Allah thero nam”.

    That is what all spritual Sadgurus teach in India.

    I think Dr. Aksharanand is a perfect example of

    ” Pothi pad pad jag mua, pandit bhya na koi
    dhai akshar prem ka pade so pandit hoi”

  4. N.Devan Raj from Malaysia said,

    November 15, 2005 @ 12:59 am

    It was an awesome speech by Swami Aksharanand ji. The teachings of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa & Ghandi ji that all religions are the same cannot be accepted(it is not in the VEDAS). From Australia if I wish to go to USA I can fly or sail but if you insist on driving there!!!!. Muslims says lets drive, Christians say lets sail with my small boat, Hinduism says you can sail but you might end up somewhere else, its better to fly.

  5. dharshan from Malaysia said,

    November 15, 2005 @ 1:11 am

    Great speech by the Swami. It is true that we indians are cowards we tend to compramise even on religious teachings

  6. Dave Raum from United States said,

    January 5, 2006 @ 1:54 pm

    I’m a “white Hindu”, 54 year old man acquainted with Krsna consciousness since i was 17 years old. Outside of Srila Prabhupada, i don’t believe that i have ever heard such an outspoken personality as Swami Aksharanand. I totally agree with his speech, but i hope that this doesn’t provoke us “Hindus” to violently enforce our beliefs on others as the Muslim and Christians have !
    Hare Krsna ! :-)

  7. Neeraj from United States said,

    January 6, 2006 @ 3:03 pm

    This is a masterpiece and shows that Pujya Swami Aksharanandaji is a rare gem that has emerged in our midst. I totally agree with the superb analysis of Swamiji. Hindu leaders who teach that all religions are one clearly do not know what they talk about I have always wondered why we Hindus have accepted such foolish ideas — it has contributed to our opression in India. It time the Hindu Gurus stop indoctrinating Hindu people that all religions are one - it shows there ignorance of Hindu Dharma and is most disrespectful of the religious teaching of Christianity and Islam! Those who continue to sing “Eshwar Allash tero naam” need to know that they are making a fool of themselves and every Muislim hates them even more because Muslims would never accept Allah as being the same as Eshwar. I salute Swamji and for those of us who try to study Hinduism this speech is both a motivation and inspiration.

  8. Anant from United States said,

    January 31, 2006 @ 3:01 pm

    This is one of the best speeches I have ever heard from a Swamiji. It is really profound. Swami Aksharandana is fearless and brilliant. I totally agree with Swamiji because the facts are there for all to see. How can Hindu leaders teach that all religions are one when the other religions claim that non-believers (we Hindus) will burn in hell, that we are kafirs, that we should be converted or killed if necessary? We need to wake up. Thanks Swamiji.

  9. Sanket P. from Canada said,

    February 1, 2006 @ 12:04 pm

    A lot of hot blood and contraversies there. Would like to put my two cents in there.

    First of all, it has been hugely misinterpreted what Sri Ramakrishna and subsequently Mahatma Gandhi said. They did not say “All the religions are same”. They said all religions ultimately lead to the same goal….GOD.

    Second of all, if anyone has read Swami Vivekananda, he mentions explicitly that Hinduism is “THE MOTHER OF ALL RELIGIONS”. A mother will have 2-3 kids but not all are the same. Using the same metaphor he explains that Islam is its tantrum child, Buddhism is its rebel child, Christianity is its lost child…..so on and so forth.

    What underlines the fact in the end is that all the religions finally belong to the same mother religion…….Hinduism. So where does the question of all religions being the same arise and where does the question of “Hindus, stop preaching all religions are same!” arise????

  10. Arjun from United Kingdom said,

    February 9, 2006 @ 6:57 pm

    Swamji has come at the right time..
    One of the best speeches I’ve heard in true hindu spirit.

    Aum Kranti Aum

  11. Ajeet Tailor from United States said,

    February 10, 2006 @ 8:00 am

    Wonderful clarification on the difference between saying that all religions are the same and saying that Hinduism is beyond the dogmas of religions! Would love to hear from Swami ji.

    Aum

  12. Veer from United States said,

    February 10, 2006 @ 5:33 pm

    Many of our so-called “Mahatmas” and “Swamis” in Bharat can learn from
    Swami Aksharanda Ji who was not even born in Bharat.
    As you may know, he was born and raised in Guyana, South America, yet he has more knowledge on Hindu Dharma than all these fake sadhus have combined.
    This speech reminds us of our long history of slavery/oppression at the hands of the Muslims and Christians.
    This speech, best of all, makes us proud of our Hindu heritage.

    Jai Sri Ram!!!

  13. Vinoo from United Kingdom said,

    February 11, 2006 @ 8:09 am

    It is great speech by Pujaniya Swami Aksharanda Ji as it is telling the truth where Hindus today stands. Hindu Dharma is great faith and can not be compared with other so called religion which is so narrow minded. At least Swamiji has come out boldly telling other sadhus who are propgating advere message in their discourses.

  14. muski from Australia said,

    February 12, 2006 @ 4:55 pm

    The fact that all religions are the same is a rather distorted version of reality. I dont need to mention anything that Swami Ji has already mentioned, but looking at the hostility of Islam and Christianity and comparing that to Hinduism is injustice. From my perspective, I would be doing Hinduism more justice if I were to say that Nature based religions like Paganism, Polytheism, Philosophy and Science like Ancient Europe was before Christianity would be more related to Hinduism than creeds like Christianity and Islam. I have been to many Bhajans, temples and spoken to many people who are supposedly well knowledged in their culture, but I hear the same garbage that all religions are the same. When I object to this notion I am labelled a Communal Saffron Fanatic. I certainly Hope to hear more inspiring speeches from Swami Ji and hope more and more Hindus realise the fallacy of all religions being the same.
    -Muski

  15. manoj from India said,

    March 23, 2006 @ 4:22 am

    I think Swami Aksharanand ji is doing which he shouldnt do. He wouldnt have said all these, if he would have known the meaning of religion in the true sense.just by reading books, u cant understand religion. Religion is not something we follow but something which we practice in our daily life. I think i even shouldnt call him ’swami’. The forms of god like rama,krishna etc which hindus follow and worship never talked or preached of hinduism as the only religion. they teached mankind of what is their human life is for. and that is why the true religion of one is “ManavDharma”, the religion of mankind.

  16. manoj from India said,

    March 23, 2006 @ 4:26 am

    i totally disagree with Mr aksharanand. i would like to ask two questions to him.

    why have we given a human life by god ?
    how is a hindu different from muslim or christian?

    The day you answer these 2 questions u are a true swami, guru etc.

    so Mr aksharanand first go to the basics and then teach others

  17. V Krishna from Europe said,

    April 9, 2006 @ 4:35 pm

    Jesus was not a bad man. The Roman emperor constantine rewrote the bible to suit his own agenda, he took reincarnation out of the bible. Some say Jesus spent time in India. Many westerners of the so-called new-age movement accept reincarnation and that Jesus was a master of light.

    I am sceptical about the Islamic religion, I think it is very sectarian and
    is blantantly designed to promote Arab interests worldwide.

    Dead religions include the astec religion, and the roman religion. The former required human sacrifice, the latter was a an instrument of Roman hegmony.

    “All religions lead to god” how is this statement applicable to the Aztec religion. The Aztec religion is not the same as hinduism or Buddism.

    What is the Aztec religion was revived in New Delhi ?
    should it be tolerated ?

  18. Raj Kumar Sukhdeo from Canada said,

    April 14, 2006 @ 2:23 am

    Only tonight - I was sitting and a thought in me wanted expression - ” Does God play sports with us ?” I was literally writing a short essay asking God if all religions are the same then why all these contradictions ? Why each one claims to be the only authentic truth and becomes so hostile to followers of the rest.Whislt commonalities may be thought to exist in all religions - I do think that Hindus open themselves the most to the diction that all religions are one.Here is where I feel some of the monks of yore and present day places hindus in an uncomfortable position open to the onslaught of the hostile forces .If you say all religions are the same - then why some openly encourage slaughtering of animals and some don’t ? Swami Aksharananda - I came online here to review some ideas on differences with Islam and Hinduism and I was happy to find a statement from you.You are one of the monks that makes me feel strong -I have been inspired by you in Guyana.Your approach to unravelling the upanishadic concept of ” fearlessness” makes me appreciate you alot.

    Raj Kumar Sukhdeo
    Canada

  19. Radha Nehorah from Trinidad and Tobago said,

    April 14, 2006 @ 9:19 pm

    Namaste Swami Ji! .I must say this is a very enlightening speech. Topic was well handled. May God grant you good h ealth to keep spreading the word of Hinduism. The Gayatri Mantra says it all .

  20. Lau Raj Kumar from New Zealand from New Zealand (Aotearoa) said,

    April 24, 2006 @ 1:21 am

    Namaste Swamiji. I totally agree with you about all religions not being the same. But I feel that out of respect for other religions that do come under the Hindu umbrella you spared them. In fact there is only one Dharma and that is the Vedic Dharma. Religions are not dharma and neither is dharma a religion.
    All religions of the world have been started by anyone individual, eg Islam was started by Prophet Mohammed, Christianity was started by Jesus, Sikh by Guru Govind Ji and so on. So all these religions are the ideas and concepts from that person’s point of view. On the other hand Dharma is the knowledge that was given to the mankind at the time of creation by the God. Also, all these religions have started in the last 5000 years or so. Therefore it cannot be for all mankind as human have existed on this planet for lot longer than 5000 years. This will make the God unjust in depriving the earlier generations of a religion.

    Swamiji please take up this issue of religion and Dharma next time when you speak and make it available to us on this site please.

  21. sunjay somani from India said,

    May 31, 2006 @ 12:59 pm

    Yes, we Hindus have the widest mentality and outlook as far as the inner development of a human being in his progress towards Godhood is concerned.The whole gist if our religion (or Dharma) is to go inwards, and like in a true scientific spirit, realise the falsity of this outward universe (which now even modern science is starting to believe ;that matter has no existence by itself, on itself.) Which other religion has dared to reach out and touch that unseen absolute factor which supports creation itself in this universe, except Hinduism? All other religions and their initiators have just limited themselves to propogate the do’s and don’ts of morality;limited to statements like thy shalt not steal etc.,but we have dared to explore the inner crevices and corners of the human mind, physche,and inner conciousness,through meditation on the spirit ,in order to understand the ultimate source of all uniuverse! Thousands of years ago, we knew that there is something beyond matter in this universe !!

    What a daring of the spirit ! One is amazed to see the deep divide between this lofty search for truth and this other ground level instructions imparted by religions like Islam and Christianity ,where dictats are given in a parrot like manner by blunt headed priests who themselves are in need of mental counselling !! Its like an Msc student being compared to a class 2 student !! The western world is yet to be stunned! Stunned by the vast experiences of truth our ancients have left for us to discover in our selves..Its time we Hindus realised that we have a far , far superior legacy of spiritualism left to us than followers of any other religion. However, what we make of it today is entirely our responsibility and people like Swamiji are needed by the dozen to shake away the slumber we are in today.

    Sri ram..Sri ram..

  22. Nidhi from United Kingdom said,

    June 5, 2006 @ 12:09 pm

    Ive been searching for you my entire life. Im 20 years old but damn it feels like its been a long journey and my feet had started to hurt !

    Swami ji, your train of thought is precisly what Hindus need. Hindus are now associated as weak, spinelss cowards

    We once watched over this world as warriors and kings, our time is coming once again.
    And to all those that do not agree with Swami jis sentiments, then I suppose your used to having a shoe to the face….

    It only needs one person and the rest will follow !

    JAI HIND
    AUM KRANTI AUM

  23. G.S.K.Menon from India said,

    June 14, 2006 @ 6:24 am

    It is time all Indians returned to their ancestral religion - Sanatana Dharma. Indians have nothing to do with these Desert Religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam. If you wish to see the superiority of Hindu religion, customs and rituals, come to Kerala and see how the followers of these Desert Religions are imitating Hindu rituals. Even the Padres are calling themselves as ’sanyasis and sanyasinis” ! How can beef eating and wine drinking Padres and nuns shamelessly call themselves so ? Even their residences where beef is eaten three times and intoxicants consumed is called “ashram” ! Hindus keep silent at such distortions. It is time we convince our converted and misled brothers and sisters to return to their ancestral religion -Hinduism.
    G.S.K.Menon

  24. karnam .s .rao camp. usa from United States said,

    July 21, 2006 @ 9:39 pm

    IT IS IMPORTENT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THE MESSAGE WE GET TO LEAD HARMONIOUS AND PEACEFUL LIFE TO LEAD AND PRESERVE HUMANITY TOCONTINUE AS SUCH .THE HINDU PHILOSPHY ADVACATE THAT THE HUMANITY EXISTING ON EARTH FALOW THE LIFE AND CONDUCT OF LOVE COMPASSION GOODWIL TOWARDS ALL. EVERYON SHOULD SHUN VOILENCE AND HATRED .THIS IS IMPORTENT TO PRESERVE THE HUMAN CIVILASTION ON EARTH, ANY BODY WHO ACTS AGAINEST THESE CIVILISED WAY OF LIFE IS BEAST AND SHOULD BE ELIMINATED.,

  25. Jay from United Kingdom said,

    August 16, 2006 @ 10:38 am

    What a guy!

    This Swami has basically spoke the harsh truth that we Indians and followers of Sanatana Dharma need to hear and act upon.
    While the rest of the world goes to hell in a handbasket. Where is India and where are the Indians who need to stand up and be counted, we need to be a beacon of light to the rest of the world as it descends into hell.
    Their is no unity in our fellow Indians and they have no fighting spirit whatsoever. Here in England my fellow Indians think they are English and White and still behave like colonial subjects. Fools! We are the Aryans not them! Wake Up!
    As for Muslim and Christians one day the Tiger will awaken and you better run for the hills coz we sons and daughters of Bharat are gonna mash you up, I hope I live to see this day I will be in the front line! Go on Jah

  26. henna from United States said,

    September 11, 2006 @ 10:48 pm

    I am 24 years old and when i think of how much time i spend in a day thinking about religion it surprises me, cause i dont spend even a sec a day thinking about it. when i meet someone new thats the last thing on my mind to ask them. honestly, does it matter in today’s world what religion the next person is???? I haven’t heard of one good thing that two people from different religion came together to do and yet i have heard of millions of riots and wars that resulted cause we didnt want to accept other religion. all we ever do is point fingers at others when what we actually need to do is look at ourselves. is the next generation even gonna know the word religion???? i do wonder about that.

  27. Ramanadhan Nagarajan from United States said,

    October 7, 2006 @ 3:53 pm

    Swamiji is a bit aggressive. The view of any idea will differ based on their experiences and exposures. And that is how I think Swamiji and others who are favouring him misunderstood the thoughts of Swami Vivekananda and other sages spreading the word of universal tolerance.

    We need to admit that the patience and tolerance ( it is not cowardliness) that we HINDUs show towards others have been misused by them quite often.

    Jesus insists on showing the other side of the face when any body hits one. We’ve been doing this from the beginning. Any good idea from any relegion you quote, we Hindu’s would have been following them even with out knowing the source of those ideas.

    Though I respect Swamiji’s feelings, I as a true Hindu can not accept them. If you have better ideas to reach God, convey them to the Society. Let’s concentrate on those areas.

    Relegions can not be the same, as they are based on the area of origin. That is quite evident. What the sages are trying to convey is the goal of all relegion is the same and NOT the relegion themselves.

  28. Brij Vedwaani from Korea (South) said,

    December 2, 2006 @ 7:55 pm

    Wonderful Vichaar from LOW RAJ KUMAR of NEW ZEALAND
    Swamiji - On the same note I would like to add more to Mr Kumar’s thought on Dharma and Religion.
    I agree to some of his thoughts, KARMA seems to be missing from the equation.

    I adhere Principals of Vedas and its philosophy, but swamiji , I cannot understand why people are more focused on DHARMA and not KARMA.

    I believe that the Law of Karma continues to impact throughout cycles of birth and death through the incessant chain of causation.

    There are three principal themes presented in the Vedas, and these are JNAANA, KARMA and UPAASANA.
    Swamiji is it true that man’s actions can earn him MUKTI only if they conform to YAJNA?
    Could Swamijii or anybody submit more articles on KARMA, SANSKAAR and MUKTI please.

  29. r.k.patel from New Zealand (Aotearoa) said,

    January 4, 2007 @ 3:43 pm

    Is there a need for the religion to be a good person..??
    Do I have to be religious to be a good-person..??
    Do you have to belong to some religion to be a good-person..??
    Do we have to be this or that cast,creed,culture or race to be a good-person..??
    Do we have to belong to this or that religion to be a good-person..??
    Would I like it if you or somebody hurt,harm,injure or kill myself..??
    Would I like it if you or somebody hurt,harm,injure or kill my near and dear..??
    Would I like it if you or somebody damage or destroy my things or property..??
    Would I like it if you or somebody damage or destroy the things or the property of my near and dear..??
    Would you like it if I or somebody hurt,harm,injure or kill you..??
    Would you like it if I or somebody hurt,harm,injure or kill your near and dear..??
    Would you like it if I or somebody damage or destroy your things or your property..??
    Would you like it if I or somebody damage or destroy the things or the property of your near and dear..??
    The answers offcourse are that ‘no,not only I,you and others would not like it but also like the insects,birds,beasts,brutes or animals we will instinctively react to it or do all possible we can to save our life and the life of our dear and near ones.
    We have seen again and again this instinctive attitude and behaviour in ourself,others and also in all beings.
    Not only that human beings have again and again done heroic things in life threatening situation to save the not only other human beings who are complete strangers but also even other beings and other’s things or property which did not belong to them.
    I would say Religion comes from Love for people and things or all-beings and all-things.
    I would say Love is Care for the other or others or all-beings and all-things.
    I believe Love is higher than or behind or beyond the grasp of the intellect,reasons, thoughts or thinkings.
    It is the Hindu belief that God whom we call Paramaatman Bhagavan has made this world or the universe.
    It is the Hindu or Indian belief that I,you,others,all-beings and all-things called the world or the universe is born-off or born-from and live-in God or Bhagavan,whom we know as or call Paramaatman Bhagavan.
    Therefore we Hindus or Indians believe that God or Paramaatman Bhagavan is our Father,our Mother or Our Self and also the father,the Mother or the Self of all-beings and all-things.
    We Hindus or Indians therefore believe that God or Paramaatman Bhagavan is inside-of and outside-of all names and all forms or all bodies that is ourselves,all-beings and all-things or the world or the universe.
    We Hindus or Indians believe that nobody has seen [!!] or known [!!] or nobody can see or know Love or nobody would ever be able to see or know God or Paramaatman Bhagavan or Love.
    We Hindus oe Indians believe that Love or God is unseen and unknown or unseeable or unknowable.
    We Hindus or Indiand believe that we,all-beings and all-things or the world or the universe is not created,but that it is projected by ourself.
    Therefore we Indians believe that the names and forms or the world or the universe is unreal or false.
    These thoughts,thinkings,theory or philosophy of the Vedas,Upanishads,Vedanta and Gita were invented hundreds of thousands of years before and were successfully developed into Religion.
    We Indians believe that there is only one God or Paramaatman Bhagavan.
    We Indians believe in the Unity of the God or Paramaatman Bhagavan and the world or the universe.
    We Indians believe that we that is all-beings and all-things called the world or the universe and one God or Paramaatman Bhagavan are not two separate entities.
    We Indians believe that whatever or whoever God or Paramaatman Bhagavan is or whatever or whoever we,all-beings and all-things are or the world or the universe is,is ONE THING or ONE BEING.
    Therefore there is ONE God and ONE Religion.
    And therefore the statements made by all the people who have had seen [!!] or known [!!] God or Patamaatman Bhagavan have in that context quite correctly had said that all religions are ONE.
    Our ancient Rishi-Munis have,for aeons been challenging the world that everything there is to know about the God or Bhagavan or Religion and also about our self or the world or the universe has had been discovered,developed and experimented in India for aeons.
    The thoughts,thinkings,ideas,theory or the philosophy of the God or Paramaatman Bhagvan can be found in the Vedas,Upanishads,Vedanta and Gita for the scholars of the Sanskrit language and also in the hundreds and thousands of treaties and commentaries written on them by the eminent scholars in all the main languages of India and also in the English, French and German languages.
    Tens of thousands of years old relics of the Schools,Colleges and Universities have been found at Naalandaa and Takshilaa in India.
    Tens of thousands of years before,tens of thousands of students from all over the world used to come to India to study at these schools,colleges and universities.
    There is no need to talk about and criticise what Gandhiji,Vivekananda,Ramkrishna or this and that had said about God or Bhagavan or Religion.
    The truth is that I and you that is we educated or intellectual Indians or those who have the ability and capacity to do are extremely selfish-people.
    We educated or uneducated,capable or incapable or either rich or poor Indians love or care for only ourself or me or mine.
    That is we educated or uneducated,capable or incapable or either rich or poor Indians don’t care for anything or anybody except ourself or me or mine.
    We educated or intellectual Indians have got the control through the governance system called the democracy which we fondly like to call Lok-Raaj or Swa-Raaj over the lives of all uneducated Indians and also on the resources of the land and exploiting them.
    And the so-called Brahmins and Kshatriyas standing by and watching the rape and plunder of the people and resources and they are not saying a word.
    But it is quite correctly said in the Vedas,Upanishads,Vedanta and Gita about the God or Paramaatman Bhagavan that He,She or It is the Truth and that He,She or It never dies.
    And that we that is the names and forms or bodies ie I,you,others,all-beings and all-things called the world or the universe is the Untruth and that we all die.
    Think of that..!!

    rkpatel,
    wn,nz.

  30. r.k.patel from New Zealand (Aotearoa) said,

    January 4, 2007 @ 6:47 pm

    The long and short of the Religion is selflessness or unselfishness.
    Are we selfless..??
    Are we unselfish..??
    That’s the question.
    Because anybody who is not-selfless or who is not-unselfish can not be Religious.
    Our true nature is selfless or unselfish because we that is all-beings and all-things or the world or the universe are born-off or born-from the nirantar,niranjan and niraakaar or nameless,formless,bodyless,selfless or unselfish God whom we Indians know as or call as Atman,Paramaatman or Bhagavan.
    Anybody who is Religious or selfless or unselfish loves or cares for all-beings and all-things and believes in justice or fairness and freedom for all-beings and all-things and also freedom from the self or selfishness.
    Anybody who is not-selfless or unselfish and does not love or does not care for the other or others or all-beings and all-things or the world or the universe and who is unjust or unfair and does not believe in the freedom of others or freedom from the selfishness is an unreligious person.
    He,she or it may know everything about the Religion and therefore may talk about it;but he,she or it is an unreligious person.
    So according to the definition of Religion or selflessness or unselfishness,we Indians are atheists,because we are extremely selfish people.
    Are we selfless or unselfish in our relationship with the other or others,all-beings and all-things or the world or the universe because the God or Paramaatman Bhagavan lives inside-of and outside-of you,me,others,all-beings and all-things.
    This is the long and short of the Religion and God or Bhagavan and ourself.
    Religion is about Relationship with ourself and me or mine and also with all-beings and all-things or the world or the universe and also with God or Bhagavan.
    We Indians love or care for only ourself or me or mine.
    We Indians don’t care for anything or anybody except for ourself or me or mine.

    Think of that..!!

    rkpatel, wn,nz.

  31. Brij Vedwani from Korea (South) said,

    January 22, 2007 @ 7:48 am

    Namaste Swamiji

    Raj Kumar seems to be only creation with knowledge of Dharma!! Please contribute more to this site on VEDIC DHARMA,and how to earn MUKTI through YAJNA.

    Brij Vedwani
    South Korea

  32. Mahesh from India said,

    February 12, 2007 @ 7:26 am

    Ram Ram Swamiji,
    What you expressed in your lecture is your hatred and your ignorance about Islam and Christianity. You misquote the Quran and the Bible to place before your audience a brutal and intolerant idea of Islam and Christianity. When I say I am a Hindu, it is no amount of violence(what you say is done by other religions) that can brake me from loving and respecting my Muslim and Christian brothers. It will take you more than seven re-births to even begin to thing like Mahatma Gandhi. It is Hindus like you who give peace loving Hindus a bad name. Complete the following saying swamiji: “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth__________________________________________”. It is because of intolerant people like you in India which is forcing this once spritually strong land into becoming a land known for its violence and hatred throught its diverse cultures.
    When you talk about Mahatma Gandhi, you talk about a person who changes the people of the world who hated each other into loving them. Its about time you stop just reading books, but begin to understand them. All i can say swamiji is first become a Hindu and then preach Hinduism

  33. Mahesh from India said,

    February 12, 2007 @ 7:34 am

    Swamiji pls talk about the opression of the dalits(Hindus of a lower cast) by the Brahmin(Hindus of the upper cast) in India.(Did God make the cast system, something to think about)

  34. NIDHI BHATIA from France said,

    February 12, 2007 @ 8:29 am

    THIS IS A MESSAGE FOR RAM RAM SWAMIJI (LOL) !
    I ADVISE YOU TO THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK FOR ALL HINDUS.
    IF YOU BELIEVE THAT BEING A COWARD MAKES YOU A HINDU, I THINK YOU ARE PART OF THE WRONG RELIGION. MAYBE YOU CAN BECOME A CHRISTAIN OR A MUSLIM. BUT MYSELF AND MANY OTHER HINDUS TAKE GRAVE OFFENCE AT PANSIES LIKES YOURSELF THAT GIVE US REAL HINDUS THAT ARE UPHOLDING THE NAME OF HINDUISM ARE BAD NAME.
    AND AS FOR GHANDI. THE GUY WAS A FOOL OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. BECAUSE OF SO MANY OF HIS MISPLACED AND NAIVE DECISIONS, INDIA IS HAVING TO SEE SUCH DAYS.
    AND BEFORE YOU TELL THE REAL SWAMI TO BECOME A HINDU BEFORE PREACHING IT, I THINK YOU LITTLE BOY NEED TO UNDERSTAND HINDUISM. BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, YOU SEEM LIKE PERFECT PREY FOR CONVERSION.
    MAKING ME LAUGH, TALKING ABOUT TOLERANCE AND PEACE. WHAT A FOOL !

  35. NIDHI BHATIA from France said,

    February 12, 2007 @ 3:34 pm

    mahesh from India. I trust you will take my above message on board and will stop polluting my country !

  36. Mahesh from India said,

    February 13, 2007 @ 8:12 am

    For peace read about Mata Nirmala Devi. Your eyes will definately open.

  37. NIDHI BHATIA from France said,

    February 13, 2007 @ 8:53 am

    THAT IS PRECISELY THE SORT OF ANSWER I WAS EXPECTING OUT OF OUR COWARD MAHESH FROM INDIA !
    THERE IS NOTHING MUCH ELSE YOU COULD SAY !
    THEREFORE, I AM HAPPY YOU HAVE TAKEN MY MESSAGE ON BOARD. WELL DONE !

  38. NIDHI BHATIA from France said,

    February 13, 2007 @ 8:53 am

    THAT IS PRECISELY THE SORT OF ANSWER I WAS EXPECTING OUT OF OUR COWARD MAHESH FROM INDIA !
    THERE IS NOTHING MUCH ELSE YOU COULD SAY !
    THEREFORE, I AM HAPPY YOU HAVE TAKEN MY MESSAGE ON BOARD. WELL DONE !

  39. Mahesh from India said,

    February 14, 2007 @ 3:06 am

    @ Nidhi
    Its good that a coward like you are in france, we dont need ***** like you here.

  40. Mahesh from India said,

    February 14, 2007 @ 3:10 am

    And something MUCH ELSE for you (nidhi) is learn to write English(Grammatically)

  41. Mahesh from India said,

    February 14, 2007 @ 3:13 am

    @ nidhi. For peace read about Mataji Nirmala Devi. Your eyes will definately open.

  42. Mahesh from India said,

    February 14, 2007 @ 7:23 am

    Sorry Nidhi for whatever I said earlier, if I could iI would remove it, and the things you see in astrics are only astrics. so pls accept my apology, and be at peace with me, yourself, and others around you. Peace out.

  43. Chandra Mauli from Canada said,

    February 14, 2007 @ 12:47 pm

    “Yes, i have heard something like Allah and Ram in spiritual sense are same.”

    The long period of slavery has created an atmosphere of mental slavery and imitation.During this period our minds became soft. We became escapists; we wanted to avoid conflict at any cost, even conflict and controversy of ideas, even when this controversy was necessary. We developed an escape-route. We called it “synthesis”. We said all religions, all scriptures, all prophets preach the same things. It was intellectual surrender, and our enemies saw it that way; they concluded that we are amenable to anything, that we would clutch at any false hope or idea to avoid a struggle, and that we would do nothing to defend ourselves. Therefore, they have become even more aggressive. It also shows that we have lost spiritual discrimination (viveka), and would entertain any falsehood; this is prajñâ-dosha, drishTi-dosha, and it cannot be good for our survival in the long run. People first fall into delusion before they fall into misfortune.

  44. Chandra Mauli from Canada said,

    February 14, 2007 @ 1:02 pm

    Many Hindu modern teachers have been too accommodating in their definition of Hinduism and left it devoid of any real critical voice. They say that you can find God by following faithfully whatever religion you like -whether Hinduism, Christianity, Islam or Buddhism - as if the differences of religious doctrine and practice had no meaning at all. They give the impression that anything called a religion should be accepted and the results can only be good. They have left behind the great Hindu tradition of debate and turned the religion into a blind acceptance of all creeds, including a whitewash of their history, however bloody, and however anti-Hindu.

    Part of this has been a sincere effort to be tolerant of other faiths, and we should be open to what other people say and honor different creeds. But perhaps a greater part of it has arisen from a lack of self-confidence. Those under foreign rule tend to praise or flatter their rulers out of fear. Those who have been told that their religion is that of heathens or kafirs first respond by saying that their religion is equal to any other, before taking a critical view of the religions so rudely denigrating them.

    Such politically comfortable statements of religious accommodation and appeasement should be questioned.Hinduism is a pluralistic path that accepts One truth and many ways to it. It holds that all individuals should be free to find the truth according to their nature and temperament. However, like all things in human life religion is a varied phenomenon and contains both the good and the bad, the high and the low. That there are many paths does not mean that all paths can only be good or that all must lead to the highest goal. A religion that does not recognize liberation as the goal of life, that does not have a path to Self-realization, that has no living yoga tradition cannot take you to that Divine Self whatever you may do with it. This is not a statement of intolerance or religious bigotry but the plain and honest truth that cannot be ignored. You can’t climb a mountain by digging a hole into the ground, however well you can dig!

    Hinduism is a religion with a strong sense of dharma. It cannot accept anything or everything that calls itself a religion as true. From its point of view religion should be a moksha-dharma and a yoga-pantha, a teaching that gives inner liberation and projects a path to achieve it. Its purpose is not to make one subservient to a particular God, prophet, guru, savior, holy book, church or institution but to free us from all external bondage. Religions which do this are not true moksha-dharmas or spiritual paths but just additional forms of conditioning that keep us trapped in the worldly mind and its egoistic motives.

  45. shoba from United States said,

    February 14, 2007 @ 2:20 pm

    swamijis speech was great. Muslims remain loyal to islam, christians to their respective church,then why should Hindus stick to this stupid notion that all religions are the same. It`s already too late , Hindus wake up imm: it`s getting late.

  46. swamijyoti from India said,

    February 14, 2007 @ 2:59 pm

    DO ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY TEACH RESPECT OR EVEN TOLERANCE FOR THE FOLLOWERS OR WORSHIP-METHODS OF OTHER RELIGIONS?

    Every Religion has three aspects: a) Relationship between man and God; b) Relationship between man and other persons of the same Religion; c) Relationship between man and persons of other Religions. In respect of aspect ‘c’ of Religion (relationship between man and persons of other Religions), Islam and Christianity do not teach respect or even tolerance for the followers or worship-methods of other Religions. In simple language, they teach hatred and war against followers of other Religions, particularly against followers of Hindu religion. They teach that people of other religions are condemned and wretched ones whose Religions have to be destroyed and removed from the surface of the earth, who have got to be converted out of their religions by any means, even by slaughtering them, if necessary.

    One will be surprised to find this teaching of Islam and Christianity, which teaching is quite contrary to what one learns as a member of Sacred Sanatana Hindu Dharma. But with the above revelation one can understand the origin and history of the World Wars I & II and also the history of Hindu-Muslim Conflicts, including the cause of sufferings of the Hindu community; and also the problems which have been developing in north-east India and elsewhere in the country, connected with Christian Missionaries.

    We have to judge any Religion, not by what is done or proclaimed by a few individuals of that community, here and there. There will always be individuals in every religious community who would be noble or ignoble in their conduct. We should not be hasty in speaking about other religions in terms of the noble or ignoble conduct of a few persons of a community here and there. We should rather go by the following criteria:

    i) Basic teachings of the Holy Quran in respect of Islam and the basic teachings of the Holy Bible in respect of Christianity; ii) The past histories of these Religions-Islam and Christianity; iii) The recent and current histories of Islam and Christianity.

    My request to our revered Hindu Sadhus is not to speak much on Islam and Christianity until our Sadhus become more familiar with the ideology and history of Islam and Christianity with relation to Hinduism. The Slogans “Hindu-Muslim Bhai Bhai” or “Hindu-Christian Bhai Bhai” and “Islam, Christianity and Hinduism teach the same thing” are not doing good to Hindu Society. These slogans are misguiding Hindus; one-way traffic has been established from Hinduism to Islam and from Hinduism to Christianity. A number of Hindu girls are marrying Muslims and Christians. They correctly tell their parents, “Your religious Sadhus are declaring that all religions teach the same thing. Then why are you taking objection to our getting converted to Islam or Christianity?” Hindu parents have become helpless. They put the blame on Hindu Sadhus for teaching such things. Muslim Maulvis and Christian Padris never teach their followers that all religions teach the same thing. In fact, they teach hatred and war against Hinduism.

    My humble request to you revered Hindu Sadhus is that you may kindly study the teachings of Holy Bible and Holy Quran along with history of Christian Church and Islam and then decide whether it is right or wrong to declare before your Hindu audience that all religions teach the same thing.

    Reason-wise, both Islam and Christianity are very weak, but in aggressiveness, both of them are very strong; they do not tolerate any questions.

    Both Islam and Christianity have the following Common Beliefs:

    1) God is jealous. Worship of God in the form of an Idol or any other Symbol like Sun, Moon, Stars, Earth, Ocean, Rivers, etc. is equivalent to worshipping somebody other than the One God. This arouses jealousy of the One God who inflicts severe punishment for this type of worship. Hindus who worship God in many forms including Nature, are the worst offenders according to Christianity and Mohammedanism. Hindus are called Heathens, Pagans, Condemned ones, infidels, idolaters, Kaffirs, etc., deserving severe punishment, torture and extermination wherever possible.

    2) Christians and Muslims have both entered into Covenants with God, by which each religious community has received an Exclusive, Irrevocable Power of Attorney from God that its way of worship alone is right, that after death they alone will go to Heaven, others will go to Hell. Of course, the way of worship by Christians is different from that of Muslims. However, both communities claim Exclusive Rights. Believers of Islam become Non-Believers for Christianity and vice-versa.

    3) This Heaven for Believers is eternal, and the Hell for Non-Believers is also eternal. Once in Heaven, their enjoyments are eternal; once in Hell, others’ sufferings are also eternal.

    4) There will come a Day of Judgement when all the dead ones will rise and stand before God to get the verdict of either Eternal Heaven or Eternal Hell.

    In addition to their Common Beliefs, the Christians and Muslims have also their own special Beliefs. Some of those are outlined below…………(Please read “APPEAL TO HINDU SADHUS” by Prof. G.C.ASNANI, 822, Sindh Colony, Aundh, Pune - 411 007 (INDIA), Email: gcasnani@hinduvoice.net)

  47. shoba from United States said,

    February 14, 2007 @ 4:32 pm

    why is it that hindus around the world and hindusthan still sleeping,unlike the mohomadians and christians who are fighting for their rights? So swamijothi lets try to wake up Hindus who are pretending to sleep rather than blame other religions. Once again i say muslims and christians respect their religion and will do anything to protect them.It`s we Hindus who dont know how to fight forcefully to protect hinduism.We have to first set our own right before we try to set others right.

  48. Shamb from United States said,

    February 14, 2007 @ 7:11 pm

    Occidental religions are Aadesh (preaching) based. Ours are Updesh based. Aadesh you have to follow no mater what. Updesh is matter of accepting and than following. Therefore aadesh based religions do not have any room for thinking. It creates fanatic approch. Rest is history, misery and world at war.

  49. Venkat Thiagarajan from United States said,

    February 14, 2007 @ 7:38 pm

    Swamiji’s speech is simple and really touches on a point any comparitive religious debate must consider. As he says perhaps the diaspora which has the first hand experience of seeing how Christian or Muslim lands treat other religions can educate the Hindus and even others in India as to how important it is to preserve and nourish our cultural traditions!!

  50. Dipak Basu from Japan said,

    February 14, 2007 @ 11:46 pm

    This Swamiji does not know much about different religions, particularly he is completely ignorant about Hinduism or Sanatan Dharma. He is an enemy of Hinduism and of the Hindus. Since Hindu saints came across other religions, they have done everything to create harmony nor war between religion. Sri Chaitanya had accepted Muslims as his disciples. Ram Krishna Paramhansa converted himself to both Christianity and Islam to understand these religion. Swami Vivekananda has proclaimed that Hinduism is the Universal religion because it respects every other religion.
    If you look at Bhagwat Gita, there are close similarities beyween what Sri Krishna said and what Jesus Christ said. Some time it looks as if the same person is saying these.
    Prophet Mohammed also said belivers are those who accept that the God is one. In Rig Veda we have the description of the creation, which all came out of One-Brahman.
    That is the reason Sri Krishna said in Bhagwat Gita,” I am the One source of all”. Hinduism accept Buddha as one of the Avatar. most Hindus accept Jesus as another Avatar.
    This is the way forward to find out common ground of all religions, as all saints from all religions came from the same source- Brahman or Allah or Jehova.
    It is not surprising that he got his PhD from an American university, not from a Sanskrit University in India - in the later case he would know the true Hinduism.

  51. Chandra Mauli from United States said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 1:28 am

    “”This Swamiji does not know much about different religions,…………….
    If you look at Bhagwat Gita, there are close similarities beyween what Sri Krishna said and what Jesus Christ said. Some time it looks as if the same person is saying these……”"”

    Another spiritually ignorant, illiterate, self- alienated Hindu Dhimmi talking non-sense due to lack of self-confidence.

  52. Dipak Basu from Japan said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 1:55 am

    For Chandra Mauli:

    I am sure you have never read any of the holy books of Hindu religion or of any other religions.
    If you are hostile towards other religions why don’t you emigrate to Nagpur or Ahmedabad? You live in the United States but hate people of other religions, how can you justify that.
    Your Guru this very ugly Swami should also go and live in Nagpur or Ahmedabad.
    You are the enemies of Hindu( Sanatan Dharma) religion because you are ignorant of our religion. Before you can open your mouth go and read the Holy Books of the Hindu religion and try to prove that what I wrote is wrong.

  53. Chandra Mauli from United States said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 2:00 am

    Please join the following forum and be aware of dangers to Dharma from Aasuric forces of Chrsitianity of Islam.

    http://www.hinduunity.org/HinduUnity/viewforum.php?f=1

  54. Dipak Basu from Japan said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 2:05 am

    I ask everyone not to listen to these UGLY swamis, but read Bhagweat Gita, Upanisad and Rig Veda if you want to understand our religion. Also you should read the books written by Vevikananda and Ari Aurobindo.

    There are many of these fake Swamis everywhere, particularly in the U.S, where they earn their money to spread false idea about our religion. There are many of these Swamis who take out fake Rolex watches from their hair. This is not religion but pure business.

    Our religion is not made by Golwalkar, Savarkar, Asoke Singhal or Nathuram Godse, but by Rishis and saints who always spread the message of tolrence and humanism, which are banned word in Nagpur or Ahmedabad.

  55. Chandra Mauli from United States said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 2:16 am

    “For Chandra Mauli:

    “I am sure you have never read any of the holy books of Hindu religion or of any other religions.”

    So anyone who doesn’t subscribe to your’s views and mode thinking has not read any books of Hinduism or other religions. This can be true only if you think of yourself as the ultimate standard and source of undisputed knowledge. Quite funny test for determining what others have read. This is height of self-obsession.

    “If you are hostile towards other religions”
    Come out of your self-imposed idiocy and see the light kido!. How come questioning something amounts to hostility?.

    ” why don’t you emigrate to Nagpur or Ahmedabad? You live in the United States but hate people of other religions, how can you justify that.
    Your Guru this very ugly Swami should also go and live in Nagpur or Ahmedabad.”

    This time i am letting you go for this kind of stupid ad hominem attack. If you do it again i assure you that you will a bloody nose.

    “You are the enemies of Hindu( Sanatan Dharma) religion because you are ignorant of our religion.”

    Proof of your knowledge of Hinduism is in your first post i.e.typical rantings reflecting the slave Hindu mentality of surrender and immitation.

    ” Before you can open your mouth go and read the Holy Books of the Hindu religion and try to prove that what I wrote is wrong.”

    Like you and then declare that truth is same as falsehood. Come out with facts instead of indulging in cursing and spitting at your opponents.

  56. Chandra Mauli from United States said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 2:27 am


  57. Dipak Basu from Japan said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 2:43 am

    “”" If you do it again i assure you that you will a bloody nose.”"

    I piss on this bloody Swami . He is disgusting, ugly, ignorant.

    You are disgusting, degenerated monsters financed by some cheat liars Marawaris and Gujarati business community spreading hate and violence. Do it in Nagpur. If you are so narrowminded why do you come out of Nagpur. Go back there along with your UGLY Swamis and MumbaiKars.

    Have you ever read or ever seen any of the Holy Books of Hinduism I have mentioned ( Bhagwat Gita, Rig Veda or Upanisad. I do not think so. You just read your Golwalkar( never took any part in the freedom movement but a perfect slave of the British), Savarkar ( who was a traitor apolosized to the British) or Asoke Singhal( agent of the Marwaris) and this UGLY Swami.

    You are not Hindus, you are the worse enemies of the Hindus.

    .

  58. Chandra Mauli from United States said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 2:45 am

    For Dipak Basu:

    Why don’t you read this book by one of the founding fathers of America, Thomas Paine.

    Age of Reason
    by Thomas Paine

    http://www.ushistory.org/Paine/reason/index.htm

  59. Mahesh from India said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 2:45 am

    well said Dipak Basu, It is through ppl like you that the true meaning of hinduism will spread. Pls do read about Mataji Nirmala Devi. Peace.

  60. Chandra Mauli from United States said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 2:54 am

    “I piss on this bloody Swami . He is disgusting, ugly, ignorant.”

    So this is your Hinduism which you want all of us to follow.

    “You are disgusting, degenerated monsters financed by some cheat liars Marawaris and Gujarati business community spreading hate and violence.”

    I think it is some more of your’s Hinduism i.e. abusing and repeating same things like a pre-programmed automata.

    ” Do it in Nagpur. If you are so narrowminded why do you come out of Nagpur. Go back there along with your UGLY Swamis and MumbaiKars.”

    Why don’t you fuck-off from Japan and do it in Mecca or Medina or in Vatican.

    “Have you ever read or ever seen any of the Holy Books of Hinduism I have mentioned ( Bhagwat Gita, Rig Veda or Upanisad. I do not think so. You just read your Golwalkar( never took any part in the freedom movement but a perfect slave of the British), Savarkar ( who was a traitor apolosized to the British) or Asoke Singhal( agent of the Marwaris) and this UGLY Swami.”

    Do you have your head in your a$$ and talk from there, you jerk. Oh sorry i forgot that you are a pre-programmed automata.

    “You are not Hindus, you are the worse enemies of the Hindus.”
    Then you should be happy that we are destroying Hinduism and making your job easier.

  61. Chandra Mauli from United States said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 2:58 am

    “well said Dipak Basu, It is through ppl like you that the true meaning of hinduism will spread. Pls do read about Mataji Nirmala Devi”

    Mahesh, this what you realize after Kundalini jagran by Mataji. Then Dipak has already acheived that state without any need for your Mataji.

  62. Dipak Basu from Japan said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 3:10 am

    “Why don’t you fuck-off from Japan and do it in Mecca or Medina or in Vatican.”

    Great Mumbaikar Borgi bandits of Shivaji or Guju or Maro sucking the blood of the Indians —- this is absolute great.

    I respect Buddhism, so I live in Japan.

    You hate Christianity, you should go back to Nagpur and raise another group of Borgi Bandits to kill and steal the people as the followers of another Mumbaikar Shivaji did.

    Why should I go to Mecca or Madina, non-Muslims are not allowed to go there.

    I regularly go to Varanasi, Mathura, Bridavan, Haridwar _ I am a Hindu.

    And you are a follower of a NAZI Golwalkar.

  63. Mahesh from India said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 3:20 am

    Pls dont fight, be at peace, all of us are hindus here. Spread the love to all around you. We are of one world.Peace

  64. AntiCommie from United States said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 4:35 am

    Dipak Basu,
    “You are disgusting, degenerated monsters financed by some cheat liars Marawaris and Gujarati business community spreading hate and violence.”

    I guess this statement teaches us all what YOU have learned from the Gita, Vedas and Upanishads (hint: since you are a arrogant and foul mouthed BANGLU - these books are not found in Das Kapital)

    By the way how did my slurring your entire community in public (by calling you all BANGLU COMMIE SNAKES) make you feel?

    Imagine a state which relects COMMUNISTS - Communists killed 100 million people in the last 90 years - and you bongs talk about the spreading of hate and violence? HYPOCRITE - first remove the commies from power in your Banglu Pradesh - after that talk about spreading hate and violence -or is it justified to spread hate and violence against “upper class fat cats” based on the hate filled “calss theory”.

    Before Dipak Basu came to this thread there was actually a reasonable discussion going on from which we could all learn something. This banglu commie snake farted in this thread and soiled it. Instead of discussing the points raised by the Swami he goes off into all kinds of tangents about all other people and organizations.

    By the way why dont you read the Koran -especially sura 9 (sura means chapter - no not in banglu but in arabic)

  65. AbuDipakAlBasuAlZarqawi from United States said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 4:40 am

    Anybody who is sincerely looking for information please read this article
    Myth of Hindu Sameness

  66. AbuDipakAlBasuAlZarqawi from United States said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 4:46 am


  67. Dipak Basu from Japan said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 4:49 am

    For Anticommie from the United States:

    I have exposed your real character: you are a group of beastly Guju, Maro or Borgi spreading hate among different religions. If you so uptight about other religions why don’t you go back to your villages near Nagpur and burn some SATIs or put melted silvers on a Dalits ear. This is exactly what you are.

    You live in USA but have no respect for the religion of the majority of the people. Thus, you are not any different from Laskar or Dawood Ibrahim who live in India( or used to) but hate everything Indian.

    Your Guru , this bloody swami, is UGLY, disgusting, foul mouth beast.

    Before I came here there are much adoration of this beast, I have stopped that.

  68. Dipak Basu from Japan said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 4:52 am

    Bengalis have not killed anyone in India.

    But you Borgis, the followers of Shivaji, have killed thousands from Surat to Murshidabad, all over North India.

    Gujus and Maros are sucking the bloods from every India today, through their cheating, lying and robbing the banks. Rs.150,000 Crores of bank loans are unpaid. Who has taken those monies _ Gujus and Maros.

  69. rkan from United States said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 1:08 pm

    I pity foolishness exhibited by ignorant people like Dipak Basu, who think that “all religions are same” and bring in unnecessary and irrelevant society problems and hatred for speicific communities(Basu’s hatred for Gujaratis) as reason for supprting this thesis.

    The Swami is perfectly right. Philosophically and theologically Hinduism is different from other religions like Islam and Christianity. Even spiritually, Ram and allah, jesus are not same beings and cannot be same beings. This is in direct contradiction to teachings of Vedas. It is height of irrationality to consider what is obviously different as one. Unity cannot be achieved through lies and rejecting reality, the reality being obvious contradictions between religions and differences in founders of religion(for semitic ones) and Hinduism being based on apaurasheya(Unauthored) Vedas.

    The teachings of the so called swamijis like Vivekananda, Ramakrishna etc. will be safely rejected by any Vedantic scholar. None of the schools of Vedanta (Advaita, Visistadvaita or Dvaita) teach such nonsense as taught by these neo-vandantis or Gandhians. Such teachings have lead unfortunately to destruction of Hinduism from within.

    It is time to go back to Vedas and reject all beliefs in pseudo Hinduism starting from non-vedic beliefs. Hindus like Basu need to learn with their brains and heart and not from emotional mood swings.

  70. AntiCommie from United States said,

    February 16, 2007 @ 5:12 am

    DipakBasu - Since you keep stinking up this thread - I will also hit back.

    DipakBasu says - “Bengalis have not killed anyone in India.”

    Do you remember the Naxalite movement in West Bengal - who were the Naxalites? aliens from outer space. they were Bengalis, and they killed lots of people. The reason they could not kill tens of millions of people in India is because the Central Government was too powerful for them and crushed them out. And we are supposed to think that the Naxalites would have let everyone live if they had the chance?

    Even today there are Naxalite and Maoist movements all over central India - the Bengalis have a very big hand in those movements. The Maoist revolution in Nepal with 20000-30000 dead was started by Comrade Prachanda. Prachanda is a graduate of the Bengali Communist “adda” aka Jawaharlal Nehru “university”.

    Look at these statements by the DipakBasu
    “You live in USA but have no respect for the religion of the majority of the people. ”
    “If you so uptight about other religions why don’t you go back to your villages near Nagpur and burn some SATIs or put melted silvers on a Dalits ear.”
    Now we can conclude from these statements that Dipak must have his head up his nether end, I mean you have shown so little respect for Hinduism on this thread, but you demand repect for religion from others!

    You Gurudev KarlMarxDa farted that “religion is the opium of the masses” and now you fart that people must respect religion - typical Bengali hypocrite.

    There were several people on this thread who disagreed with the Swami but they did it politely and left it at that, you on the other hand decided that you needed to insult and abuse other people and forcibly tried to shove your point of view down everyone’s throat. This is because like typical Bengalis you have a intellectual, cultural and moral superiority complex. That is why you people never debate politely - never. the moment you are challenged and caught on the wrong foot you start abusing the sun/moon/savarkar/blue cheese/red wine anything that you feel like abusing.

    I mean take a look at Bangladesh - the superiority of Bengali culture combined with the superiority of Islam = Superior squared. If my culture produced Bangladesh I would think 100 times before walking around with a big superiority complex.

    Nazis were extremely racist and prejudiced people.
    Bengalis are extremely racist and prejudiced people.

    Nazis hated Jews because they were rich and successful and they did not have any country.
    Bengalis hate Gujaratis/Marwaris/Punjabis because they are rich and successful. (keep in mind that all these groups have their own states so that part does not work but I dont think that matters to your jealous Bengali brain)

    Nazis wanted money without working for it
    Bengalis want money without working for it.
    You lazy bums put in 10 minutes of work in one day when everyone else in India works at least 10 hours a day. totalparasites

    So whose the Nazi now?

  71. NIDHI BHATIA FROM ENGLAND from France said,

    February 18, 2007 @ 9:38 am

    TO FOOLS LIKE DIPAK BASU AND MAHESH AND ALL THE OTHER PRATS ON THIS SITE, WHY DON’T YOU ALL ROUND YOURSELVES UP TOGETHER AND BECOME THE LATEST SUICIDE BOMBERS. THAT WAY, WE’LL HAVE FEWER COWARDS IN THIS WORLD THAT THINK THEIR HINDUS.

    AND MAHESH, YOU BLOOODY IDIOT, IT’S PRATS LIKE YOU THAT WILL SPEND YOUR LIFE WORRYING ABOUT GRAMMATICAL ERRORS, WHILST THE REST OF THE WORLD ENTERS YOUR HOUSE, KILLS YOUR MUM, YOUR SISTER AND SMASHES YOUR DADS HEAD BEFORE YOUR EYES. AND YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING MORE TO SAY THAN, ‘THAT WAS GRAMMATICALLY INCORRECT.

    HINDUISM ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE REPRESENTATION OF STRENGTH, AND LITTLE COWARDS LIKE YOU THAT READ THE DICTIONARY AND SIT BEHIND THE COMP SCREEN WILL COME AND GO, WITHOUT A SQUEAK !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!!

  72. sadaananda from Malaysia said,

    March 10, 2007 @ 11:40 pm

    Namaste
    Of course, all religions are not the same; But it is the Goal, that is: Self Realisation. All that remains, is The Truth. Aum Tat Sat. people all over the world eat different food at breakfast; bacon and toast in the west, Idli and Apom in India - but the goal of eating breakfast is the same - to give one the energy to start off the day, is it not. Why bother how you would eat your breakfast; using forks and spoons or chopticks or simply your hand? Just eat your own food in silent and peace. The wise guru says, don’t speak while you eat. But as I see on here, not only many speak as they eat, some fart as well. All this is to point about Proper Mannerism. And that is Dharma. It is Adharma to spit at others, literally or verbally. If something begins with a spit, it will end up with another spit. This was how this thread started on Aug 25, 2005 in the first place. let’s stop sprouting our Samskaras, the karma of this present life is too much already…Aum tat Sat

  73. gary from United States said,

    March 23, 2007 @ 7:43 pm

    Wonderful comments by Swamiji. To propagate that all religions are the same or equal undermines the very religion one holds. The extended premises of Hindu philosophy are the summit for those aspiring for truth. The ideas Swamiji so rightly refutes are philosophically unsound and contrary to common sense. Thank you.

  74. Nusrat Ali from Germany said,

    April 2, 2007 @ 12:01 pm


  75. Malay Bose from Ireland said,

    April 2, 2007 @ 6:59 pm

    The fundamentals are same for all the religions. Sanatan Dharma is the mother of all religions. This person that claims himself to be a swami is one of the hundreds of fundamentalists who wants to be a hindu by dragging other religions down. Is this swami not actually proud of India holding its civilisation which includes all the religions of the world. The world which fought on grounds of religion looks up to india and should look upto india as an example on how religions can exist side by side. Including swami vivekananda in his speech and saying that he propagated that Islam and chritianity as same a religion is an absolute absurd comment. I didn’t hear of swami aksharananda until i visited this website. But I know and come from a very dogmatic hindu family, that if swami keeps talking like this he is qualified to become the leader of fundamentalist hindu partys like shiv sena or bajrang dal, who dont have any popularity or support from the masses in india. And Gandhiji if he had ideas like this swami would be working in south america like this guy’s ancestors and could never be a father of a nation.
    Last thing, stop being a fundamentalist, talk about equality about love not hatred. dont find differences, find similarities and u will find more followers and happiness.

  76. John Sudhaker from Germany said,

    April 3, 2007 @ 6:05 am

    Aksharanand.Bravo.You have hit rightly on the head of a most important issue of the time.Malay Bose is just beating about the bush like a layman of
    1940s.Lot of water have flown under the bridg since then.Study the research
    of history of india now tricling out daily. U will come to Know how Britshers used Gandhi and Nehru and allowed them to be the leaders of India brushing
    away the real leaders like Subhash & Petel,Lal-Bal-Pal,Veer Savarker &
    Bhai Permanand,and Lohia etc. Nehru was thrusted on India by Gandhi while
    Patel was choosen by thumping majority of the then congress and all Indians.
    Gandhi then took hunger strike to thrust Nehru on indias throne against the wish of the majority.
    Another thing.Gandhi cried to every indian then that India can only be divided on my dead body , and lo he was the first man to sign on Indias partition,and
    a great ,beautifull country was divided,and nothing happened to Gandhi.
    Another thing.All relegions dont say the same thing.Study History of Islam and Koran,remain in touch with greate intelectual groups of the times.Latest U can read the muslim intectuals speaches in the Islamic sumit in America in March2007.Similarly read the History of christianity & Bible and see what missionaries are doing and preaching in India under veticon christian lady ruler of India.
    Another thing. Do you know,what is the inspiration of terrorism in Europe and India, Why it is that all terrorists are muslims ?
    Dear Malay Bose you have to be fair and rational and real.We need thousand
    Aksheranands more to remove this spiderweb of” All Religions Are Equal and Say the Same thing”from our Hindu minds. Mother Teressa was asked in Bombay by a cerespondent of BLITZ if she considers all Reigions equal,she boldly rebuffed and said NO,Christianity is the best and ONLY best relegion of the world. And she was given a noble prize.

  77. Karan Vir Singh M.Tech. from Germany said,

    April 3, 2007 @ 7:11 am

    The psyche of Hindus that ‘All Religions Are Equal’ is a centuries old misbelief. The reason for this being ignorance in the minds of Hindus about the principles and history of the Sanatan Hindu Dharma. A Hindu, brought up in the Sanatan Hindu tradition, cannot even imagine in his dreams that ‘In order to attain heaven any religion can advise the ritual of serial killing’.

    For thousands of years, these religious persons (Islam, Christians) have carried out demonical killings of Hindus in a manner that can be described as ‘Neither in the Past nor in the Future’. (Means an event that has neither occurred in the past nor will occur in the future). In spite of this, the Hindu mind (psyche) asserts ‘there must be some mistake somewhere. Would religions like Christianity, Islam that have been advocated by Prophets advise committing of sins?’ The founders of those religions must have themselves not understood them properly, else how will religion advise killing? In such a disillusioned state of mind, he started painting a completely different picture of those religions (Islam and Christian) to himself and to those who believed in him. His concepts about such religion are different, rather, totally opposite from what those following and practicing it perceive it as. This picture, which was painted by the Hindu mind, must be wiped off. This picture was dangerous and self-deceiving, but he satisfied himself with it and refused to accept anything against his perception or the actually occurring events. He totally neglected it. Hence, he had no desire left to seek the truth about those religious concepts and thus, our noble Hindu souls prescribe that ‘there should be no objection to those Christians and Muslims desirous of reciting the Vishnusahastranaam or the Bhagavadgeeta whilst following their own religion!’

    Revered and Learned Swami Aksharanand is 100% true and right.My hats off to him.He has shown the path to Hindu saints & sadhus,gurus & swamis.

    AUM KRANTI AUM.

  78. Nusrat Ali from Germany said,

    April 3, 2007 @ 12:13 pm

    Hello Dear Admnistator(Editor),
    Pl let me know why U have removed my post regarding Aksharanand ji?
    Have I written some thing wrong? I will feel obliged if you kindly let me know it. Otherwise show my post to your readers and let them decide. Are you afraid of Islam,Xtianity,or communists ?——Nusrat Ali

    Why are U sending me Malay Bose’s trash post individualy?Dont want to listen me but must want ME to listen to you?What a onesided justice it is.
    Nusrat Ali

  79. Ashwani Aheer from India said,

    April 3, 2007 @ 12:53 pm

    Yes, Yes,Dear Nusrat I also felt the same when I saw your name and April 2@12.01Pm but no matter inside the post. I wondered why so? But your second post made the matter clear.or is it that the matter was deleted due to some wrong comand or tech mistake?

    Anyhow I apriciate the most clear and and logical speach containing some
    bitter truths and facts. It is difficult to digest the harsh truths. I welcome him
    and his plane thinking.Let us hear more from him.He has set the ball rolling,it willgather mass very soon.

  80. Nusrat Ali from Germany said,

    April 4, 2007 @ 8:54 am


  81. S. Sharma from United States said,

    April 19, 2007 @ 2:14 am

    Dear Brothers & Sisters,

    All of your questions and concerns are fully covered and more than adequately answered in the “Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”. The knowledge that is imparted frees one from all man made religions and controversies. No one explains pure knowledge of God/Vedas better. Vedas are inherently the birthright of all life on this planet or on any other planet. Many do not know about it and are trapped in various man made religions and love-hate cycles. Many fortunate ones have known and tasted the bliss in freedom in Him. Others will need many more births until they will come to that stage of quenching their thirst at that generous ocean of knowledge and eternal bliss. Brahman is eternal and omnipresent in all beings whether Hindus, Muslims, Christians and all others.

    The Muslim learns to hate and kill the infidels. The Christian learns to love the non-believers to bring them to an exclusive safe site of heaven. A true Christian is incapable of killing a soul but may wish you hell if you do not comply. The Hindu learns both love and hate but would notr kill or fight for fear of violence. He may curse and do nothing else.

    The Vedantist is in eternal freedom of bliss as he is free of both love and hate, of material body and wealth, and of any selfish rewards. The fire can not burn him. The water can not wet him. The sword cannot pierce him. He strives to becomes one with the Lord and shares and spreads the words of the blissful life experiences to others. He sees no religions, only Brahman. He becomes free from earthly bindings. But when confronted by evil on earth, He (Krisna) fights to destroy the evil to the decisive end.

    “Lord, I do not want wealth, nor children, nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth, but grant me this, that I may love Thee without the hope of reward — love unselfishly for love’s sake.”

    S. Sharma

  82. Satheesh Kalyanaraman from India said,

    April 28, 2007 @ 10:40 pm

    Yes, Hinduism can accept any religion how fire accepts anything in to it but again the very base of Hinduism which is spirituality, culture, thoughts and lifestyle is getting modified to accept any scrap.

    No other religion or dharma (no equal word in English) can consider as the whole world is one family (Vasudaiva kutumbakam) and every living entity as the part and parcel of the almighty ( Man is not the only creation and he exploits the entire nature for his selfish needs). Other religions give importance man too much. You see in India people worship and protect trees, women, water, hills and all living beings. Nother rrelegion goes to this level.

    As swamiji said, the religions like Christianity and Islam are the result of revival in the culture in those regions at that particular situation. Why terrorism? Why do we have to be violent? Why can t we follow Gandhiji who followed ‘Bhagavath Geetha’.

    Why their is only Hindu man and Islam man? Why isn’t Hindu Dog, Islam and Christian Dog. Why are they not categorized. For God, all are his children. Is it right exploiting and eating our brothers and sisters.

    What ever we say? I would be happy pray to allah, Jesus or Krishna… God help my fellow beings. I am able to do this because I am a Hindu. If We don’t understand Krishna, Bhagavath Geetha, Upanishads and preach we will loose our culture and the world will loose an opportunity stay human.

    I pray to the almighty………… Give happiness and health to the whole world….. Let him shower love and mercy to the whole world.

    Thank you Swamiji.

  83. vicks from India said,

    May 11, 2007 @ 9:57 am

    Hi friends i fully agree with what the learned guru have said. If we analyse throughout the world there are muslims causing trouble. We have muslim terrorists ,muslim fundametalists, muslims create problems in their own countires and later emigrate to western countries there they argue in the name of mdemocracy .In the first place they never want it but when they are arrested they demand it by way of human rights.in the internet u have fvideos of people being beheaded conducted by the same muslims. in bangladesh which india did liberate we have people who are raping hindu women . upsurping their properties. a good mix of islam and bengali fundamentalism. we have the state of bengal where muslim districts mhave come up which talk of ushing in sharia rule . these communist bastards are muslim cock suckers they would lovingly give their wives and daughtetrs for having holy sex with this muslim . who have ultra big cocks. where did the naxalite menance come from muslims and communists. and regarding mata nirmaladevi she had shown disrespect to the indian flag . shame on those indians respecting this bitch .

    islam never reconciles with other relegions thats a fact. brothers tell me if a islamic ountry like iran or iraq commit actions against their own people aand minorities . the whole islamic world keeps mum as if i dont know. but when israel punishes palestininans what they say we hate israel.

    what about those muslim secular forces they dont shout much or do any thing against their own community to improve.
    please check all the bomb blast done in india they were commited by muslims.

    our so called secular leaders were responsible for the mess be it caste or giving too much of leverage to muslims
    what do u speak about it i ask those so called secular people living abroad are they not shocked when these muslim extremists commit such violent acts, or are they all looking for the day when the countries they live will convert to majority islam and they too will convert . are u pigs wanting it to happen

    understand that hinduism never tried jihad to conquer countries but yet it suffered thanks to the secular forces over here.

    yes we have our drwbacks the caste system but understand that can all change when we unite in our actions to be a better race . and do not stay divided like i find over here.

    swamiji is right in every way to hell with all dirty pigs and secular forces.

    an open challenge to all se4cular peole please do stay in islamic countries and criticise their ways of fundamentalism . if u stay alive or your famliy anf friends are not harmed in any way will be your achievemnet .and do let us know

  84. Balraj Ragoonanan from United States said,

    June 25, 2007 @ 11:06 pm

    The Swami is absolutely correct in every word he spoke, and many of us may have missed the point of his presentation due to his downright honesty, that may have aroused the ire of many Indians who fail to examine themselves, and find out how little they know and feel about their religion.

    The majority of the Diaspora Hindus are very proud of themselves as Hindus, and may still hold on to the thought of India as spiritual mother land.

    It seems like Indians are so ashamed of themselves, as second class citizens, not necessarily as Hindus, that they hide their religious affiliations as Hindus from anyone of another faith, especially when they encounter Christians and Muslims and others of the monotheistic persuation.

    Hinduism in the West do connote a second class people or people of an inferior religion, and that is ever growing as Fundamentalist Christians continue to refer to Hindus as a people with false Gods, Devil worshippers and idolators, creating an atmosphere for evangilization and seeking converts in the US and in India.

    Hindus of India are so badly misinformed or uninformed about Hinduism, their priceless way of life which is the envy of most of the great Western intellectuals, that they find themselves unable to speak about their own beloved religion openly only for fear of revealing how little they know and can share about Hinduism and Hindu philosophies.

    Indians know so litlle about their own history and their Gods that they prefer to hide than to reveal that they do not know much about the intellectual aspect of their religion. Westerners are challenged by the scientific and metaphysical aspects of Hinduism while Hindus hang their heads in shame only because they are too lazy to learn about their history, heritage and Hindu/Sanathan Dharam way of life.

    Indians seem to prefer not to say they are Hindus than to show how little they know about a religion to which they are attached.

    Indians hardly know Brahman as the Supreme Absolute, God as Deities and functionairs of God residing in another Loka, Idols/Murtis as Gods and not symbols of God, the truth about class stratification (caste), cow protection, the history of egalitarianism in Hindu society, and the host of Hindu concepts and practices.

    Most Hindus would prefer to cut off a discussion about their own religion in favor of a compromise with some one of another religious persuation, and say all religions are the same.

    As I see it from the many Indians I meet, most Indians do not really mean all religions are the same. They mostly fear revealing their ignorance about a religion that is dear to them, of which they are proud to practice among people of like minds, but ashamed to let people of unlike mind see.

    I experienced the crux of the Hindu problem when an Indian friend told me that in company with his American friends at lunch, he would order meat, only to show he is not a Hindu. I looked at him and just could not believe what I heard.

    Would any Christan or Muslim say that all religions are the same–never in their lifetime.

    I once met an Indian looking man at a conference, and as we tried to know each other, I said I was Hindu, and he said he was Muslim. My first reaction on hearing he was Muslim was that it was all the same. Well he reacted so strongly, and he made sure I understood that Hinduism and Islam were not the same. Well, I learned my lesson, and vowed to learn much more about my Hindu religion, so that I would never have to show my ignorance about my religion if I ever had to explain.

    It was only after that encounter with the Muslim that I realized why I said what I said. Instead of saying I am a Hindu by culture only, and not formal education, I was hiding how little I knew if a discussion ensued about my religion.

    Today I will take on any Christian or Muslim about my religion, as I became motivated to learn about other religions as well, and to stand up for my own.

    Where ever Muslims and Christians go they have the thought of reaping souls for their Allah and Jesus, and every chance they get to dominate over Hindus they will take advantage of it. They see themselves as evangelizers of the world so as to dominate over the Hindus of India and make India a Christian nation.

    The mission of Lord Macaulay, centuries ago, was to make Indian a Christian country, aame as the mission of the Christians of the US.

    The Muslims have the same agenda of making India a Muslim country and with the oil wealth of the Middle East, they may succeed. Hopefully the Muslims of the Middle East will desteroy themselves first, and Hindus will be spared the atrocities of the Muslim Invasion of India some thousand plus years ago.

    It seems like mot Hindus today in India could care less about who rules them, forgetting that those who rule set the terms of behaviors and beliefs for all minorities.

  85. Lokesh from Trinidad and Tobago said,

    June 26, 2007 @ 10:20 pm

    I think that if Mr. Ajith wants to correct Swamiji, then he should start by referring to his India as Bharat and not India. If we (in the west) are to denounce the word Hindu and accept it as Bharatiy then there must me a Bharat. So, as he says, the next step is to set an example in India rather than just preach, then he should start with himself and use the word Bharat.

  86. Balraj from United States said,

    June 27, 2007 @ 3:10 pm

    First we Hindus need to get it straight in our heads what cow protection means, and do as the Nepalese did by making the cow their National Animal, and outlawing cow slaughter. This can easily be done in India.

    If I am not mistaken, the protection of the cow is already enshrined in the Indian Constitution, and needs to be implemented. I stand corrected if I am wrong on this.

    Right now many Muslim organizations are sympathetic towards the call by some Hindus for banning the slaughter of cows in India, and would like to respect the wishes of the Hindus.

    But no, our Hindu brothers and sisters in India are too busy making money; creating a movement banning the slaughter of cows will take away too much of their precious time making money for others whose eyes are on evangelizing, and stealing from us. They would not make a simple move to build on this little support they are about to get from Muslims. Is it because of Sonia Gandhi, or something else?

    Muslims, Christians, and others in India can import all the beef they need from Pakistan and Bangladesh, and so too leather and leather goods. Is this kind of help to these countries adharmic? That may be an issue, but I doubt it, as each one creates his own karma, while government policy creates a different kind of karma that affects the government, not the individual.

    Cow slaughter brings all of us closer to aggressive, uncaring, barbaric behaviors and finally self destruction, like the Muslims of the Middle East are doing to themselves.

    First we move up the so called ladder of progress from eating vegetables, fish, chicken, lamb, goat, and finally beef. Beef is the equivalent of the flesh of our own mothers, the only animal mother that gestates over a period of nine months to bring forth her calfs and provide us with milk when we need it.

    The cow is just like our own human mothers, ready and able to provide help of almost every kind we need, like the human mother we know and love. Take one look into the eyes of a cow, and your heart melts, just by looking at the humility those eyes convey. What kind of person kills a cow?

    But wait, after killing our cows we move on to killing each other with our guns and bullets; next we moved on to killing ourselves with suicidal bombs. Next we will say what a waste, and start eating the flesh of our fellow human beings, after the cows are all gone, as we learned nothing about compassion due to their slaughter for food. Only a matter of time my friends, and we will be as barbaric as we all started out.

    Can Hindus take fifteen hundred more years of Islamic and British slavery combined, the total number of years of the advent of Islam, five hundred short of the entire life of Christianity.

    It is not hate I am speaking about, my friends. It is wisdom in learning to get ahead, and prepare for the evangelizing war looming ahead of us. We must understand the full meaning of Ahimsa. Ahimsa does not preclude self defense. When it comes to living peacefully, mighty protection of every kind is needed, and we must be prepared to put it in place long before the war of aggression, in whatever form it takes, comes to us.

    This time around they will not ask for Jizya when we fail to convert, they will kill us one by one and make room for their millions.

    We don’t have to lift a hand to defend ourselves, only by proper Hindu education and a basic knowledge of their religions, we can begin to prepare to stand them off with a better understanding of their own beliefs and ours.

    I know it only too well, as I invite them into my home, and watch them leave with their tails between their legs when they fail to convince me of their dogma.

    We must lift our heads from the shame of almost fifteen hundred years of foreign enslavement, my friends. Our Hindu leadership must stop fighting among themselves, and help us lift our heads with pride in who we are, in our Sanathana Dharma, our way of life.

    Let us prepare to lift our heads proudly once again, by also learning the fundamentals of our own religion and theirs too, so as to fight the war on another front, on an equal intellectual footing. Let us never continue to be ashamed of being Hindus, fearing to be embarrassed because we do not know the basic fundamentals of our religion.

    The Diaspora Hindus used to say they did not know their religion well because of language barriers, after failing to learn the mother tongue. But what excuse do the Continental Indians have, when they show so little knowledge about Hinduism? Language problems used as an excuse for not learning our religion is now a lie. Everything about Hinduism can be found in English on the Internet; the Internet can be our mechanical Guru, when we don’t have or cannot find a live one; we can learn everything we need to know about Hinduism on the Internet with a little clarification from live Gurus, here and there.

    There are also some people we can find on the Internet who are able and willing to help us. No more excuses; we must blame it on our own ignorance when we are made to feel embarrassed for not knowing our religion well; it is only sheer laziness on our part, and we deserve the ridicule and embarrassments when they occur.

    Let us not only depend on the Caucasian (white) Swamis and American Jewish intellectuals to save our religion. They are indeed contributing well, and that is admirable, but we mut do our share too.

    There are huge volumes of untranslated Sanskrit literature in India, waiting to be read, and we need to make Sanskrit the Spiritual language of India, and protect Sanskrit, and get these information lying in dust covered books known to all.

  87. Balraj from United States said,

    June 29, 2007 @ 10:49 pm

    One asks from where the concept that all religions are one originate? Is it from Hindus or elsewhere? Please read the analysis by Indologist, Dr Frank Morales, in the link below. A complete study may be necessary as it is worth the while. http://dr-frank.sulekha.com/blog/post/2005/01/does-hinduism-teach-that-all-religions-are-the-same.htm

  88. Balraj from United States said,

    July 2, 2007 @ 5:49 am

    My own personal belief and experiences are that mosst Hindus do not believed that all religions are the same. We mostly parrot what others may say, not knowing all the implications of the statement.

    The majority of us, Hindus may not have the training in the English language to discuss any religion in the way Christians and Muslims discuss theirs and other religions. Furthermore, the motive to proselytize provides a greater incentive to be thoroughly invested in knowing all the ins and outs of any religion.

    I remember very distinctly how I was at a loss for words when I first became active in a Hindu spiritual organization, and had to converse with my Hindu and non-Hindu friends, explaining the beliefs and practices of the organization/movement to which I still belong.

    Besides, most Christians and Muslims who strongly believe in proselytizing are armed, too, with some working knowledge about Hinduism, and are prepared to challenge our own beliefs and practices when we open ourselves for discussion about our religion.

    We Hindus, not being versed in the English language about religion and spirituality, often shy away from an open discussion about another religions, because we often feel most vulnerable, and rightly so, and we take the easy road by saying that all religions are the same. I believe we do not necessarily mean that all religions are the same in its literal sense, but say so as a way of cutting off discussion about religions when we are uncomfortable in discussing them.

    We politely (by nature) save ourselves the embarrassment of having to reveal how little we know about our own religion to which the majority of us are attached, and like.

    Only when we are among our like-minded Hindu brothers and sisters, we feel comfortable with our religion and, proudly announce who we are. We know fully well what some non-Hindus think about Hinduism, multiple Gods and Godesses, Idol/Murti worship, Hindu stratification (caste), dowry, cow protection, satee, etc., all the areas of discussion where our knowledge may be weak, and about which we don’t want to speak.

    Our discomfort in speaking about our own religion when we are among Christians and Muslims makes us vulnerable to pressure from non-Hindus. The reason may be that we are mostly Hindus by ritual practices and culture, also like many Christians and Muslims who are not oriented to proselytizing and sometimes dismiss the idea of talking about their own religions.

    Many of us never see the need to know beyond what we learned by practice, rituals, prayers, mantras, bhajans, etc. It could mean that we are satisfied to remain at the understanding and practice levels of our religion, not the intellectual and the argumentative sides.

    It is perhaps only when we find ourselves in embarrassing situations about our ignorance of our religion and religious practices and show how little we know, that we see the need to move beyond, and engage ourselves in discussion of all aspects of Hinduism. Hopefully, we are first not influenced to join other religions, and abandon our own that is interwoven with our own ancient, rich culture, based on Sanathana Dharma.

    Sometimes, it takes embarrassment to move some of us to another level before we understand the depth of our Hindu Sanathana Dharma, and the richness and beauty that it covers. When we do come to appreciate the wealth that is Sanathana Dharma, we often want to go on a rampage telling others how much more there is to know, and how we wasted our time in remaining only at some practice and cultural levels with only little understanding and a little practice.

    Often it is only when we move to another level in our understanding, we are in a better mood to question what and how much we know about other religions, and we are ready to confront others about any distortions of our own religion and even their understanding of theirs.

    We become better Hindu teachers when we understand our religion well, an almost impossible feat, but very worthy of accomplishing.

  89. Balraj from United States said,

    July 10, 2007 @ 3:29 pm

    It is beleived that Indians/Hindus can do more to elevate the status of Hinduism around the world if Hindus in the US and elsewhere would put money in studying Hinduism in some of the greater American Universities where Hinduism is being attacked with help from within the University themselves.

    Indian sponsored seats of Hindu learning can prevent attacks on Hinduism. Instead of Hindu organizations building million dollar temples all over the US, an example being the 19 million Hindu temple being built in Georgia, they can sponsor Hindu seats of learning in some of these Universities.

    The Government of India can be encouraged to establish a seat of Hindu studies and Sanskrit learning at the University of the West Indies if it is really interested in the affairs of Diaspora Indians as it says it does. It needs to be challenged to do so.

  90. Aditya Kumar from United Kingdom said,

    July 29, 2007 @ 11:02 am

    Namaste,
    I totally agree with Swamiji and feel that before passing comments people should read the real history as written by unbiased scholars rather than slavishly believing whatever Gandhiji or the slaves of the British wrote.
    If people are interested and they have the guts to open their minds and face the truth then they should read relevent websites such as hindunet.org, hinduwisdom.info, aditichaturvedi, sitaram goel, subhash kak and other such brave and feerless persons who are the true kshatriyas and who are doing genuine good work even at risk of own life. If Muslims like Ms Nisreen and Ms Ali had the guts to speak up I do not see why Hindus should not.

  91. T.G. Venkatnarayanan from India said,

    August 3, 2007 @ 3:13 am

    Namaskaram:

    I am a die-hard Hindu Brahmin. I love humanity but I do not agree with the neo-
    reformists and preachers telling that all religions are one. No. This is totally a
    wrong and distorted version and a piece of advice to only Hindus. Can this be
    told to a Muslim or a Christian? No. Hindus wake up and tell the world that you
    are the supreme creation of Lord Brahma. There is no religion other than Hindu
    and we all should be proud to be saying so to the world at large. In fact I will
    suggest that Hindus of my belief and philosophy should shun attending such
    discourses. Hinduism is a Sanatana Dharma and despite conversions etc. it will
    not be wiped out of this earth. Hinduism is eternal like the sun, the moon and
    the stars. The moment Hinduism dies the world dies. Om Sri Shanmuga Perumal Ambal Ayyan Thunai.

  92. akhter from France said,

    August 8, 2007 @ 5:00 pm

    YOU HAVE TO BE BRAVE AND FRANK AND SAY YOUR HEART OUT,CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG HINDUISAM THE WAY IT IS NOW WHITHIN A FEW HUNDERED YEARS IT WILL BE THE RELEGION TO ONLY BE FOUND IN MUSEIAMS,THE MASSES ON IT WAS SO BRUTLY USED WERE ILLETRATE POOR AND THREATENED,BY WAY OF CAST SYSTEM THE POWERFUL EVERSINCE HELD THEIR GRIP ,A RELEGION WHICH TEACHES TO WORSHIP COWS,MONKEYS,DONKEIES,SNAKES, RATS .BUT IF A HUMAN WHICH HAPPENS TO BE OF LOWER CASTE PASSES BY THE HOUSE OF A UPPER CASTE ,THEY WASH THE HOUSE AND THE STREET TO CLEAN IT.THE MOST RACELIST SOCIETY ON THE FACE OF EARTH ARE THE HINDUES,THE MORE INDIA IS EDGUCATED THE BETTER .SO MORE THEY WILL MOVE AWAY FROM THIS EVIL FORCE.THAT WILL HOPEFULY PUT THIS RELEGION IN THE BOX ,AND ITS FOLLOWES WILL HAVE TO LOOK FOR BETTER ALTERNETIVES SUCH AS ISLAM THE RELEGION OF PEACE ,THE FASTEST GROWING FAITH EVER SINCE,

  93. Deviji from United States said,

    August 9, 2007 @ 3:11 pm


  94. Vaibhav USA from United States said,

    August 9, 2007 @ 7:02 pm

    Isn’t re-incarnation the fundamental concept of Hinduism or sanatan dharma?? How come it is different than the Dogma of christianity??

  95. Amee from United States said,

    September 2, 2007 @ 5:00 am

    I am agreeing with Nidhi partly on her statement: “Hindus are now associated as weak, spinelss cowards.We once watched over this world as warriors and kings, our time is coming once again.”

    Hinduism states that all religions are equal, yet there are so many horrific acts in the name of Hinduism e.g.. the caste system. Yet Hinduism accepts all other religion as one!/??? Contradiction don’t you think? I am open to ideas about this one. Please answer this one.

    People are missing this important part of his speech: we Hindus are speaking for other religions, i.e. Christianity, Islam, etc. - stating that we are all equal when their religion does not preach such contradictions. How dare us speak for such religions?

  96. Amee from United States said,

    September 2, 2007 @ 5:04 am

    Hindus tend to pull the peaceful act when all else fails in their reasoning. It’s about time someone lets go of the old Ghandhi contradictory philosophies.

  97. Chhandita from France said,

    September 13, 2007 @ 5:49 am

    Finally, the only thing tht made me proud to be hindu is taken away…..all religions are equal!!!! if u want, go read the vedas. i have̷