SPIRITUAL   DIALECTICS - 4
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? What is Hindu Religion
=It is , in reality, the 'SANATAN Dharma' of  BHARAT  that survived after Buddhism, as Vasisnavism and then was established as Brahmanism and flourished under  SHANKARACHARYA and then went under the influnce of  PURANIC scripture and  under went  further change .  Finally became HINDU Dharma , the name being a PERSIAN 'INVADRES'  distortion from  SINDHU   to HINDU   (a phonatic slang   under Persian invders who could not pronounce SINDHU any better than Greeks. 
? Shoud there be many  Religions  or only one.
= Should there be many types of  flowers in a garden , or only one type?
? Do you believe in Idol Worship.
=Yes and No. To a real believer, it is  not an 'Idol' but a symbol.  "Suppose this is a thermometer"- is also a way of teaching. The statue of Liberty is as much a symbol. Jesus is not there in a picture, but if   any one shows disrespect to it , you may be the first christian to resist.
? Do you believe in Re-incarnation.
= Yes I do. But do not you believe in Re-cycling !
?   Why Hindus have so many gods .
= Hindus have  not only so many gods but to a good hindu (Sanatanist) everything  is  divine and your Cosmos ,even, is within the supreme Divine, known a Purushottama or the Absolute.  Every thing is part of  God or extension or expression of the Divinity.
Our Religion is Absolute Monism with Pantheistic out-look. Even our enemies are also another expression of the Divine.
?  Then why people of different reigions  fight so much and so often against each other or one another.
= Religion are often less followed for God-Search but most often exploited for Political, Ethnic , Scocio-economic or commercial gains.
 History will  tell you that there are, even,  fights between different sects of the same Religion.
? Why God allows it.
= God has  got nothing to do  in it. the Cosmos is a Cosmic game -field , like the play on your TV screen. Maybe , God enjoyys the  in-fighting game of his chidren, as a father often enjoys the fughting episode amongst his  rest-less children.
?  You say , -God is not in heaven but in everything.
= I want to say God is not only in heaven but everywhere and in everything because everything and even heaven is within your God  and my Purushottama.
? What is meant by : "our father who is in Heaven"
=as much as : 'I and my father is ONE'
?  But we are not God .
=But we  can try to be like 'Him' or be God's good children .
( Concluded) . 
** This paper was read sometimes between   2001 & 2002 --in Unitary Church of Delaware, U.S.A ,in a  Reigigious gathering  arranged and conducted by Bharat gajjar , a religious Guru of delaware, U.S.A)