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Re: ARTICLE : Who decided that all vaishnavs are not hindus?
Roy Raja (rajaroy@ecf.toronto.edu) writes:
> In article <4t4h8g$bts@babbage.ece.uc.edu>, Shrisha Rao <shrao@nyx.net> wrote:
>>In article <4t1rf6$hba@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
>>Roy Raja <rajaroy@ecf.toronto.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> SRV has a FAQ that says that all vaishnavs are not hindus. This is
>>> really a far reaching statement, and I want to know who decided that.
>>
>>I'm calling your bluff. Show me where the SRV FAQ says that. Give an
>>exact quote.
>
>
> What bluff. FAQ says that not all vaishnavs are hindus. What is the
> difference. Can you give a definition of vaishnav, and then prove that
> there are some vaishnavs who are not hindus.
I am a moslem born vaisnava who worship Visnu as the Supreme Personality
of Godhead. I am certainly not a hindu. Vaisnavas worship one God, but
nowadays most hindus worship many gods. a hindu might worship Lord Siva or
Goddess Kali or cosider all gods are inferior to the formless Brahman.
So technically the very word hindu is a persian invention . Hindus are
followers of varnasram, which is a gradual process of elevating civilized
human beings to the level of satva guna. yet vaisnavism is beyond the
three gunas. It is as Srila Prabhupad said on the pure satva. So vaisnavas
are not to be labelled as a designation under tri guna. Pure vaisnavism is
transcendental. even mixed vaisnavas who perform bhakti under the three
modes of material nature are more elevated than non vaisnavas.
So vasnavism in that sense transcends hinduism . Hindus are born hindus
yet anybody can become vaisnavn transending the bodily designation.
Namacharya Haridas Thakur was a moslem vaisnava and not a hindu. He didn't
even enter the temple of Lord Jaganath.
Hare Krsna
