The Dhaarmik Traditions - Indic Studies Foundation

a catechism. There are thousands of appropriate slokas to choose from or if one so
desires one can write ones own sloka. It is recommended however that there be a
disciplinary approach and that a certain time be set aside for meditation and
prayer, preferably at the same time and place everyday, and that the same prayer
be chanted until it can be repeated by rote. This is where a Guru's guidance is
highly recommended. One cannot become a Doctor before writing the board
exams. Remember ,the Dharma reminds us all we are potentially divine and it is our
own Avidya that creates a veil and blurs the vision of where we ought to go.
The absence of a real or even a titular head of the Hindu faith has had unintended
consequences. One of these is the fact that rival theologies, have assumed that the
absenceof a head implies vulnerability and weakness and that they can be
especially aggressive when it comes to the Dharma. As a consequence they feel
they can make any kind of unsubstantiated allegation and get away with it , since
there is nobody of sufficient stature to rebut such statements, which they would
not make even against another faith like islam , that also has no titular head.
However, the Mullah in Islam has greater authority and the organizational structure
of Islam is far more hierarchical than that of the Hindu faith, which has hardly any
organizational structure to speak of.
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But the same adversaries do not realize that once unleashed the democratic power
of almost 1 Billion adherents is formidableand is growing in strength as more and