Can The World Survive Without Religion (Yes or No) A Hindu P (General)

by satyansh , Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 15:02 (5105 days ago) @ dhw

"but not long ago I read an account purporting to give Nathuram Godse's reasons for the assassination. He has always been dismissed over here as a Hindu fanatic, but apparently his motives were politically very rational, as he felt that Gandhi was leading India and especially the Hindus to disaster. Your own account would seem to justify his motivation, if not his action. You have also highlighted the difficult problem of achieving a balance between the need to avoid violence and aggression, and the need for self-defence."-Nathuram Godse's letter is one of the finest proofs in Indian history about Gandhi and his obsession with minorities. I always say Gandhi motives were admirable and i admire him for a lot of things but when to comes to the cost my country paid i hate him for that. I am not one of those Indians who says Muslims dont deserve to be in India.They are as Indian as I am. Infact and i support them living in India. But when you have a country where minority appeasement is so prevailing that you have 2 constitutions one for India and one for Kashmir and it's Muslims it hurts you. The problem of achieving the balance between being secular and being pseudo secular has existed since our independence.-"On a lighter note: I don't know if you're a cricket fan, but from all your posts I suspect that Sachin Tendulkar is a Hindu. He is, I think, a living example of how plain decency in a human being elicits respect from others. No-one ever sledges him! (Apologies to our American friends, who will be wondering if such secret codes should be reported to Wikileaks.)"-I love Sachin Man. I am huge fan of Tendulkar. as far as wiki leaks are concerned I think Hillary Clinton has already shown how much she loves wiki leaks. i dun need to say more(LOL). But I like Americans very open minded people. I infact like westerners, they have come a long way from being those racist people who hated anyone other than them to be quite tolerant.Well there will be nut jobs everywhere but majority of them have realised you just cannot avoid other races now.-"Your response concerning concepts of the afterlife again makes it clear that there are all sorts of theories/beliefs/philosophies. Dvaita/Vishistadvaita appears to be the equivalent of the Christian heaven and the Muslim paradise. In the others, it seems that there is a loss of identity at death, in which case presumably enlightenment must be achieved in this life, after which the practitioner merges into the great oneness. In that case the duality between spirit/soul/self and body is ultimately of no account, since they both cease to exist anyway.-This thread has been a real eye-opener for me, and I suspect for others too, and although Hinduism remains far too convoluted for me to say I "understand" it (perhaps no-one does), I have a much better idea now of what it involves and what it stands for. I hope you'll continue to enlighten us!"-Well those are the concepts that Hinduism preaches. I myself struggle in my own way to find out whether there is a after life or there isn't. I agree with you about hinduism being convoluted for you, heck it is confusing to me too. Hence I said its too open ended. What would like to know is what are your views on spirituality from a western perspective.