Shatrubodh : An insight about the civilizational threats

When Devas and Rakshasas fight, the smartest trick Rakshasas use, is to trap Devas in their own morality. The path connecting the two points in time, looks rosy, heavenly, righteous, even ecstatic, because the kind of kick and high, that you get out of creating a very holy pious and moral self image, is incomparable to any other narcotic substance. Fortunately or unfortunately, our civilization has set for itself, such a high standards of moral behavior, that we can be easily trapped by any enemy, whether it is an insider or an outsider. So much so that even the most wicked of our civilizational enemies, can give us guilt trip with their words when we fight them using their techniques, and we will start to rethink our strategy to fight them, will get self conscious and will walk right into their trap when we are about to slay them and then they will rise up again, filled with confidence and treachery. And we? We backtrack hoping that the Rakshasas have a change of heart. Our own trait ...

We hear people blabbering this. I use the word blabbering, not because of getting carried away by my own biases. But I do so, because people use this phrase, "All religions are the same" either unconsciously or without rigorously going through the religious texts of different religions. That is why I used the word "blabbering". To understand why that isn't the case, we, for a moment, need to be objective and forget that we follow a certain religious system/faith system. All the religious practices or the faith systems/religions, were essentially man made. Our ego born out of our adherence to our faith may not let us accept it but that's the objective truth. But note that all these religions, were not born in the same geography. Atleast when we pit Santana Dharma or Hinduism, against Abrahamic faiths, that is pretty much a fact. These two religious systems were born in diffrent parts of the world, separated by thousands of miles. Thus they were not only produ...

While studying and comparing multiple religious systems, we, the Hindus, are often confused between two concepts, or say, two ideologies - Monotheism and Monism. Now let's take a look at the types into which religions are divided by scholars. Basically there are two types of religions on the basis of number of entities they worship- Monotheistic and Polytheistic. If you use Google translate on web, translation of Monotheism given there is Ekeshwarwaad (एकेश्वरवाद), i.e. the ideology which worships one ultimate entity (whatever be it's name, but it's ultimate source of everything). If you use Google translate to translate Polytheism, it says BAHUDEVA-VAAD (बहुदेववाद). Be careful, here's a dangerous turn, make no mistake. Meaning of polytheism is an ideology which worships multiple deities,( Devi-Devata) and it's not the worship of multiple ultimate entities, because if an entity has to be ultimate, it can only be one and not many, that is why we the Hindus, use t...