brag

Originally Posted by brag

I wrote the piece below in September 2009, but was not able to make the connection with Judaism. I had a clue though, as after watching the forty two, three hours long video CDs entitled Om Namah Shiva, I thought the stories resembled most of those in Jewish Scriptures.

Only recently, however, I found research and information alleging that Judaism and Hinduism are the same religion. This provided the missing piece in the puzzle about all religions having the same Hindu mother. Now I am more convinced than ever that the Abrahamic/Semitic religions all sprung from Hinduism.


Sent: Thur. Sep 17, 2009 4:00 p.m.
Subject: One Religion: Syncretistic Religions

The more I study Hinduism, Christianity and Islam, the clearer it becomes that Christianity and Islam emerged from a mother religion, Hinduism, to become syncretistic religions.

Everything in the two Abrahamic religions, Christianiy and Islam, points to a re-interpretation of Hindu religious practices, thought and philosophies to give both Christianity and Islam their common Hindu base. It is possible that Christianity and later, Islam, emerged out of the Commission by King Constantine for unity through one religion for the entire, then fragmenting, Roman Empire for full control of all its peoples and lands.

A part of the Constantine Commission may not have agreed with the new Christian version of Hinduism, presented as Chrisitianity, so it emerged with its own version of the religion known as Islam a few hundred years later. Islam emerged as a religion that is in direct opposition to Hindu philosophies. It looks like a book that was plagiarized to look like new revelations when they may have been only re-interpretations of Hindu thought.

The whole argument in both Christianity and Islam is about contradictions of Hindu philosophies and practices, or a re-interpretation of old ideas without having fully understood them.

For example, the framers of Islam believed that Hinduism was a polytheistic religion that saw the world as moral chaos. Islam then arrived at a concept of a God that can hardly be matched in its description. Islam shows no understanding of the role of maya or illusion/delusion in Hinduism and the goal of Hindus to remove delusions of the so called imperfect with new vision for seeing perfection in the Cosmos as God.

But, as we continue to study new religions, we find that they are presented as revised versions or so called purification of old religious beliefs. It does seem quite logical, because as new movements are born, followers have to be convinced of the old as no longer satisfactory to the needs of the time, and new Prophets had to come to correct them. So new religions always showed that the old was corrupt, perverted, misleading, abominable, etc. The old was replaced by so called new, clean and new rational sets of ideas.

Religions then became more simple, and simple ideas then replaced complex ones. All that was once understood were then abolished or abandoned, as was also done in the practice of European colonialism. What they did not understand, they destroyed.

History clearly shows that religious thought is declining and even regressing without the ancient sacrifices of time, food, money, energy and knowledge which are now thrown out the window, and replaced with quick fixes, ignoring sacrifices and sadhanas. New religious ideas are continuously getting simpler, something like once a week Sunday worship, for guarantees of instant salvation.

The people of the olden days did not only "believe," but lived in divine presence, and experienced what nature offered as its mysteries. Much of what Hinduism now teaches were real life experiences of most people. In fact, Hindu books were written to preserve experiences as the legitimate documentation of the powers of God.

The oldest religion, Hinduism, offers a lifeline of true spirituality. It will only be appreciated by people who are developed to understand the subtleties of language and symbolisms as the language of spirituality.

Hindus cannot continue to believe that it can transform the masses. It will only create more problems for Hindus, and will only lead to a fear that Hinduism can be wiped out by Islam and/or Christianity.

The fact remains, however, that neither Islam nor Christianity can wipe out Hinduism, since people can be wiped out, but not souls and consciousness. Consciousness can only be heightened and experienced as God. It can only be done by individuals seeking advanced understanding and new ways of spiritual living. To heighten consciousness, self awareness has to be developed, and that requires discipline and experiences for legitimacy and promotion.

The truth/reality is that heightened consciousness cannot exist in a vacuum. When consciousness lowers, the the individual may not seem to fit in.