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Re: ARTICLE : Becoming Hindu
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To: srh@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu
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Subject: Re: ARTICLE : Becoming Hindu
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From: gdurgadas@aol.com (GDurgadas)
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Date: 2 Oct 1996 14:06:18 -0400
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Posted-Date: 2 Oct 1996 14:06:18 -0400
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As a convert to the Sanatana Dharma, I've heard and read so many
conflicting opinions as to what constitutes a Hindu, or one can or can not
become one that I take them all with a grain of salt. I honestly think
that the world religion which is Hinduism is coming to an important fork
in its exspansion westward. That is, it's becoming a truly world
religion, expanding to include non South Asians in its embrace, and
steadily losing its nationalistic identifi-
cations with India. It's similar to the process Christianity underwent
when it broadened its peremeters beyond the originally Jewish adherents
(and thus its identification as an exclusively Jewish sect connected with
Israel/Pales-
tine) to include "gentiles". For Hinduism the process seems to have
started late in the 19th century with Rama-
krishna's disciples, and picked up steam with the 60's. I know of quite a
few Brahmanas who are already giving namadiksha to nonIndians so they can
officially enter the religion, complete with name-change and all
Bliss of Shiva
