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Re: Vedanta discussions
Vidyasankar Sundaresan (vidya@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
: Under the circumstances, I wonder how the ISKCONites can continue to claim
: that "Hindu" is a word coined by invaders, that there is no such thing as
: "Hinduism", and that "Vaishnavism" is not "Hinduism". I suggest the ISKCON
: crowd give up their hypocrisy and come up with a consistent argument about
: such things.
I suggest you try getting an argument if you really want to bash
the "ISKCONites." Jai Maharaj isn't even a real person. He's certainly
not a Vedic astrologer, and probably not even a Hindu. He's some American
guy in Cleveland who has a strange obsession with his net.personality alter
ego. And if that verse he mentioned were really in the Puranas, then why
did he not give the verse number? I would be interested to know exactly
which verse in the Puranas it is that identifies the term 'Hindu.'
Call me weird if you must, but I think it takes an enormous leap of faith
to believe that a guy who can't even tell the truth about his real identity
would tell the truth about what is contained in scripture. But then, I
suppose this says a lot about your argument when you have to rely on such
a person to take shots at ISKCON members.
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