Most people from the west think that Hinduism is a religion but it is
not so. The Indus [Sindu] valley culture is named as Hinduism by
the Muslim invaders in the past, who were not able to pronounce Sindu they
called Sindu culture as Hindu culture. Thus name Hindu came into
existence. Hinduism is mere culture not religion. This Hindu culture
consists of different caste, creeds, ideologies, beliefs and way of life in
different regions of India.
Santana Dharma was pure Vedic religion prior to the existence of the present day
Hinduism. Hinduism is not pure Vedic religion; it is hotchpotch mixture
of many ideologies adopted by other ideologies, cultures and
traditions.
As one goes deeper in annals of the history he becomes aware of
the fact that, the so called present Hinduism has adopted many things from
Buddhism, religion of Abraham, Jainism and Islam. If one goes
deeper enough he will become aware everything is mixed up and messed up in
time.
No one is taken pains to rectify it because; because people have
been inherited them, from their ancestors and they think it is blasphemy even
to hear anything against their inherited religion and belief. Once one gets
involved with the religious class it is the end of the pursuit of truth.
J.K and Osho went deep in to it and exposed their fallacies to
some extent, but it is only in surface level. Maharishi, Dayananda in his book
Satyarth Prakash clearly mentions what is Vedic and what is non-Vedic. But the
orthodox class still wants to maintain the inherited falls legacy as supreme
truth. Thus, there is no use of arguing or convincing the people who
accepted their false legacy and propagate them as truth. Since, the pursuit of
truth is a very personal journey; and it is not the pursuit of argument, there is
no need for to indulge in convincing others, seeker of truth has to get
convinced for him-self to drop all conditioning, which he has inherited from
his belief system.
Prior to Sri, Sankara in 8th century there was no Advith in Santan
Dharam. Santana Dharma or Vedic religion
has no founders whereas Advaita and qualified Advaita and Dwaita are identified
with their founders. All of them have non-Vedic rituals barred by
the Vedas. The dualism
came only in 12 th century. The orthodox Advaita and Dwaith area adulterated add-
ons . Both Advaita and Dwith schools based on Vedas and they condemn each other
with Upanishads and Puranic citations and try to prove they are right and others
are wrong. The religionized Advaita is nothing to do with the ultimate truth or
Brahman because they worship idols, human worship, and symbol worship and indulge
in non-Vedic ritual barred by Vedas.
That is what Yajurved says: not
to worship the things which are part of the falsehood.
Translation 1.
They enter darkness, those who
worship natural things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire,
stone, etc).
They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means
created things, for example table, chair, idol etc.)
[Yajurved 40:9]
Translation 2.
"Deep into shade of blinding
gloom fall asambhuti's worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on
sambhuti are intent."
[Yajurveda Samhita
by Ralph T. H. Giffith pg 538]
Translation
3.
"They are
enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the
greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the
material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who
worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies
(human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness,
in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and
sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time."
[Yajur Veda 40:9.]
So, Yajur Veda indicates that:-
They sink deeper in darkness those
who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example table, chair,
idol etc [Yajurved 40:9]
Those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time." [Yajur Veda 40:9.]
The religion of the Veda knows no idols
Max Müller says:- "The
religion of the Veda knows no idols; the worship of idols in India is a
secondary formation, a degradation of the more primitive worship of ideal
gods."
Therefore, there was no individual
god or temples and worships in Vedic religion, which existed prior to
Buddhism. Thus the individualized gods
and temples must have been built later on, when the worships of idol were
introduced. Thus the Vedic religion which
existed in the past was free from idol and nature worship and idol worshiping
rituals.
Thus, the present day’s worship of individual gods, created things,
nature and human are against Vedic teachings, and it looks like it has been
fabricated and introduced by priest craft. Since it, has passed on from one
generation to the next it is hard for the people to believe the truth of their
own religion, because they have sentimentally and emotionally involved in it
and they refuse to accept anything else other
than their inherited beliefs.
It is impossible to find and realize the truth via religion and
scriptural study. Even Upanishads conform this.
