| Arise Arjuna Hinduism And The
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| HINDU FUNDAMENTALISM: WHAT IS IT? |
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| While the news
media of the Western World, and of India itself, speaks of Hindu fundamentalism, no one
appears to have really defined what it is. Is there a Hindu fundamentalism comparable to
Islamic or Christian fundamentalism? Using such a term merely assumes that there is, but
what is the evidence for it? Are there Hindu beliefs of the same order as the absolute
beliefs of fundamentalists Christianity and Islam? It is questionable that, whatever
problems might exist in Hinduism, whether fundamentalism like that found in Christianity
or Islam can exist at all in its more open and diverse tradition which has many names and
forms for God, many great teachers and Divine incarnations, many scares books, and a
pursuit of self-realization that does not recognize the existence of any eternal heaven or
hell. There is no monolithic faith called Hinduism with a set system of beliefs that all
Hindus must follow which can be turned into such fundamentalism. |
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