Aside from his criminal activities, sadhguru is not a guru of Hinduism. I will be surprised if he even understands sanskrit. With Logan paul, he claimed no connection with religion. In India, he hints in a different direction. Why would you want Hinduism to be connected with a charlatan?
After twenty years studying yoga/Hinduism, that seems to me a strange proposition. Perhaps it comes from the fact that there is no "Hindu church" - no central authority.
Consider the fact that almost anyone who considers self "Hindu" considers reincarnation a natural way to look at human (and other) lives. Any "thinking Hindu" will be aware that it is only a temporary state (of any given lifetime) to be born in a Hindu culture, or Moslem culture, or secular culture. To me, that is a humbling thought: and counsels against the natural human tendency to be proud merely for having been born into a family of a particular culture or religion.
> With that said, the story doesn't have much to do with religion. The guy who funeral they said shouldn't matter was a political leader, not a priest.
He was also more of a national/ethnic leader than a religious one, with religion only serving as a convenient delineating factor for the "nation" he represented, and even then, only later in his career. He started out as a Marathi ethnic-nationalist, and then started adopting elements of Hindutva as a way of broadening his "brand" to non-Marathis.
Ambedkar said similar things to muslims as well, you can stop hating on Hindus. Hinduism does not condone honour killings, it’s a cultural thing. The amount of hate and comments from you is appalling, while everything you say is not wrong but please be civil.
Which seems a pretty blanket statement to me. There are other beliefs which many hindus believe are a core part of Hinduism for e.g. vegetarianism. I am not trying to create a strawman here. You will be surprised, how many regions (yes regions, not branches / sects as you put) have fish/meat as a part of their tradition.
It is not wrong to demolish the old and build something new in its place. I'm all for it. Culture should never be (rather, cannot be) static.
The problem with RSS/BJP is that their focus is more on demolition; their 'new' department lacks things like basic aesthetic sense. Their vision lacks originality, indigenuity in all things. They seem to simply imitate dominant forms (currently western culture and capitalism), and make surface-level adjustments and call it 'Indian'.
One would argue even their vision of neo-Hinduism itself is essentially a copy of traits from Abrahamic religion, but surface level adjustments such as what deities to worship. There is no philosophical inquiry any more, in fact anything other branch than _Bhakti_ ("devotion", or personally I would call "blind devotion") is rejected. Anything that doesn't conform to hierarchy is rejected.
Their monuments aren't inspiring, their plans for the future are lazily researched, everything they do seems a shallow copy something else. The very currency notes they introduced are ugly.
As a non-religious athiest hindu this is the first time I am hearing this, could you give some pointers. I would have expected it to go the other way (if at all), that is, only a small minority of hindu's do not cremate their dead.
Your obsession with dead people and their lies, does not apply to a living tradition like Hinduism.
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