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

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<strong>H<strong>in</strong>duism</strong>: <strong>What</strong> <strong>Really</strong> Happened <strong>in</strong> <strong>India</strong> – M. M. N<strong>in</strong>an<br />

Sri Swami Vivekananda<br />

"All Vedantists believe <strong>in</strong> God. Vedantists also believe the Vedas to be<br />

the revealed word of God-an expression of the knowledge of God-and as<br />

God is eternal, so are the Vedas eternal. Another common ground of<br />

belief is that of creation <strong>in</strong> cycles that the whole of creation appears and<br />

disappears. They postulate the existence of a material, which they call<br />

akasha, which is someth<strong>in</strong>g like the ether of the scientists, and a power,<br />

which they call prana.<br />

Irfan Habib<br />

“H<strong>in</strong>dus are those who have been debat<strong>in</strong>g with each other with<strong>in</strong> a<br />

common framework for centuries. If they recognize another as somebody<br />

whom they can either support or oppose <strong>in</strong>telligibly, then both are<br />

H<strong>in</strong>dus.”<br />

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=76155575<br />

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