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Re: ARTICLE : Subhash Kak: Hinduism At Century's End
Kashyap Marg <Kashyap.Pandit@Kashmir.India.Desh> wrote in article
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> The first issue that confronts the modern Hindu is that of self image.
> Due to an unfortunate posturing Hindus often claim that theirs is not a
> religion but rather a way of life and that Hindus do not believe in
> conversion. Both these premises are false and indefensible, Hinduism is a
> religion based on the illuminations of the Vedic rishis, as expressed in
the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Shaivic agamas.
This has been debated to death on this newsgroup, but the fact is that
Hinduism does not refer to any religion per se, at least certainly not to
anything defined as such in the Vedas. It is an umbrella term that includes
a number of different religious cultures, but it certainly does not refer
to a single system of belief.
