Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
Syncretism is its strength. Ability to use these to the benefit of the few in
the dominant class was its curse. This is inevitable in a fallen society
where an eternal class war is ever present. Where "Self" is all there is,
and where "I am God”, there cannot be another way. This embedded
class war is expressed in their concrete form in war between families,
tribes and nations. It has a double edge that cuts both ways. So Bhagawat
Gita with its sublime teachings of ways of salvation is placed in a
context which essentially teaches that "Killing is OK, if the opponent is
usurping what you think is yours" While Ahimsa is the catchword of
modern Hinduism, killing ones own brothers is made sacred in Bhagawat
Gita. Only the most exquisite religion like Hinduism alone can achieve
that. How one can be blinded by the lofty philosophy to hoodwink at this
abject fallacy I still cannot fathom. Even if the whole Mahabharata is an
Aryan tale, its teaching cannot be read otherwise.
Hinduism is not a monolithic Asvaththa Tree but a forest.
We cannot therefore define Hinduism in any structured way. It is not one
monolithic tree whose roots branches and spread throughout below. It is
rather a forest filled with a million trees each having its own branches
and roots and is still growing - both in number of trees and in their
branches! The branches are the various new schools of thought and
practices that were incorporated into it during the subsequent periods in
history. It would be presumptuous to define that the trunk is belief in the
eternal nature of soul and of supreme God because there are other trees
in that forest, which are atheistic and deny even the existence of any
God. Nevertheless, in defining Hinduism, most theistic Hindus assume
God or gods in some way, but none agreeing with each other. It is
important to understand that the great ninth avatar of the Hindu God -
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