Reason for Fundamentalism and Biogtry
Friday, 15. August 2008 - 4:38 AM
So this is both a question and a test of how well you know your Hinduism. 
What according to Sanatana Dharma is the root cause of religious fundamentalism/bigotry?
Friday, 15. August 2008 - 4:38 AM
So this is both a question and a test of how well you know your Hinduism.
What according to Sanatana Dharma is the root cause of religious fundamentalism/bigotry?
15. August 2008 - 7:38 AM
Umm..lemme guess here.
Is it the assertion that “My Way/God is the only way. All others are false/bad/evil” ?
15. August 2008 - 8:45 AM
Holier than thou which makes ones reiligion bigger and better than any other belief. BTW, happy independence day.
15. August 2008 - 10:08 AM
asuri pravritti (from BG chapter 17 for example).
15. August 2008 - 11:12 AM
Sandeep,
sanatana dharma doesn’t propagate bigotry because belief in God and belief in rituals(veda) are decoupled. So people in India with differing views always co-existed.
17. August 2008 - 4:39 AM
Belief itself is the cause of bigotry. Only direct experience and testable testimony based on direct experience is the starting point for the determining “satyam”. Rationalism breaks down beyond a point, and leads to logical paradoxes. The idea of god itself is a logical paradox.
20. August 2008 - 10:32 AM
Dogma!
20. August 2008 - 1:16 PM
Agree with kaangeya.
First reason for Fundamentalism and Biogtry is lack of a complete “darshana”. in saddharma, emphasys is laid not on belief-based presumption, but on actual experience. That is why philosophy in Indic is known as ‘Darshan’ -> ‘to see comprehensively’. Or as siddhArtha says ‘ehi passiko’ – come and see’.
Second Reason is deriving the Truth from revealations brough by someone else / from outside rather than realizing the truth within. A Truth realized ‘outside’ or revealed, becomes a liability which needs to be insisted upon for validity, and needs a reaffirmation of “faith” upon this external agency. On the contrary, a self-realized-truth remain valid for oneself and need not require an insistance or sertificate from external party. siddhArtha says, ‘appa deepo bhava’ – ‘become your own lamp’. Call it reason, enlightenment, self-realization.
Finally, exclusivism or monopoly on the path to truth-realization.