Defects and merits of Christianity , Hinduism, Islam Defects and merits of Christianity , Hinduism, Islam
Hinduism has two defects. The first is that all the rituals are not conducted in the mother tongue. The rituals involve hymns in Sanskrit. In the ancient days, Sanskrit was the mother tongue of the sages. They understood the meaning of the rituals and were very much interested in God. Every ritual explains about God only directly are indirectly. Today the rituals are like the dead bodies without life. Their real aim and purpose is lost. Not even a trace of devotion is developed through any ritual. At least the priest should translate the hymns and should create interest in the ritual. If you observe the other religions, this defect does not exist because all their rituals are performed in their mother tongue.
This is the reason for the sincere devotion in Christianity and Islam. Added to this, like Ghee for fire, the concept of only one present human birth in the other religions has developed tremendous interest in God due to fear. In Hinduism the belief of several future human births brought lenience towards spiritual field. If you allow the candidate to pass the examinations in several attempts, no serious view can be developed. If you say that one has to pass the examination in single attempt, the education system will be perfect. Observing the other religions must rectify these two defects.
Christianity and Islam have their own defects. They should also rectify their defects by observing Hinduism. Selfishness, pathetic scenes and fear develop their belief in God. If you want to develop interest in God by saying that Jesus suffered for your sins and by showing the pathetic scene of crucifixion, it is not real and pure love. When you get interest in Jesus since He suffered for your sins, your love to Him is only based on selfishness. Your love to Jesus should be based on His divine personality and knowledge without any trace of selfishness. Similarly, these two religions try to create fear in the minds of human beings by mentioning the permanent hell. Fear should not be the basis for the love to God. The love should be spontaneous and without any selfishness in a free atmosphere. The reason for this deficiency in the foreign religions is due to absence of metaphysics in the scriptures.
Those scriptures mainly deal with the development of proper human behavior to balance the society. Such scriptures are mainly dealing with ethics only and not with the philosophy of God like the nature of God, path to please God etc. The analytical development in the spiritual knowledge is not much in these scriptures. They have confined God to the path of Pravrutti only and God is simply an administrator bound by His own rules. He is just a judge to deliver the judgment and a jailer who jails the sinners. He is just a mechanical examiner without any freedom or love to devotees. He cannot go beyond the rules of justice. Of course, all this is good for the initial development of the human beings.
Mere happy life in a society is not sufficient because such life is not eternal. The life after death should be also analyzed. Mere judicial procedure is not the ultimate of God. The love towards God, the sacrifice for the sake of God, the concept of contemporary human incarnation for the sake of most beloved devotees etc., are points of higher importance than mere limitation to the petty family only. The view is at the best generalized to the service to the society. Society is only a large family of your colleague souls only. God is beyond society. You must transit from the service to family to the service to the society and finally to the service to God. These three are the subsequent steps in ascending order. The foreign religions are mainly confining to the first two steps only and not to the third step. In the name of the third step they are only staying in the second step (social service) only.
The basis for this deficiency is lack of the concept of contemporary human incarnation. They criticize the idol worship of Hinduism. But they are doing the same in another form in their churches and Mosques. The exploitation of the devotees by priests is common to their religions also because the concept of the contemporary human incarnation is completely eradicated from the root in these religions because the selfish priests do not allow this. The same thing happened in the case of Holy Jesus. Hence, Holy Mohammad did not allow this concept for the fear of such horrible jealousy towards the contemporary human incarnation.
In Hinduism also the selfish priests oppose the contemporary human incarnation. However in Hinduism, this concept is at least partially alive since Gita says that God will come again and again (Yada Yada hi…) and that God will come in human form (Manusheem tanumashritam…).
Re: Defects and merits of Christianity , Hinduism, Islam Hello Sridatta,
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Christianity and Islam have their own defects. They should also rectify their defects by observing Hinduism. Selfishness, pathetic scenes and fear develop their belief in God. If you want to develop interest in God by saying that Jesus suffered for your sins and by showing the pathetic scene of crucifixion, it is not real and pure love. When you get interest in Jesus since He suffered for your sins, your love to Him is only based on selfishness. Your love to Jesus should be based on His divine personality and knowledge without any trace of selfishness. Similarly, these two religions try to create fear in the minds of human beings by mentioning the permanent hell. Fear should not be the basis for the love to God. The love should be spontaneous and without any selfishness in a free atmosphere. The reason for this deficiency in the foreign religions is due to absence of metaphysics in the scriptures.
Dear Datta,
You are misjudging real Christianity on the basis of us imperfect Christians. You are correct as far as saying that our love for God should not be based on selfishness. Our ultimate goal in this life is loving our Beloved for the Beloved's own sake.
However a Christian's love for God begins, the ultimate goal is a pure unselfish love for God simply because He is Our God. We are all on a journey in Christ and not everyone's love is as far along as others.
For example, our love for God may begin with a healthy fear of Hell, but that is just a seed. As we grow as Christians of faith in Jesus Christ, our love is transformed by His Grace to real love for Him. That is the same love demonstrated by the martyrs.
Also, you are viewing the Cross incorrectly. The bloody Crucifixion of Jesus Christ demonstrates His unselfish love for us. Your judgment of Christians as having selfish love for God because we are humbled by the Crucifixion is incorrect. The Crucifixion shows us God's love because he held nothing back for us who deserve nothing. He shows us the unselfish love he wants us to have through His Grace.
Our journey in Christ may begin with a love that is in our own best interest, but as we grow in Christ, He fills us with his Holy Spirit so that our love becomes pure and unselfish. Only in Jesus does this become reality. Only by his Grace can we love unselfishly, and purely for the sake of Christ Himself.
Please don't judge our faith on immature love. Judge it by the ultimate goal of Christian teachings. Pure love of God for His sake.
Finally, the truth that eternal Hell exists is NOT there just to frighten people into being Christian. We teach about Hell because it is a truth. Hell is the consequence of rejecting God. using Hell as a club to scare people into loving God is a misuse of that teaching. People must know the whole Truth if they are to make a free-willed decision to follow Christ.
To hide the fact that Hell (eternal separation from God) exists, would be irresponsible and a lie.
For example, I tell my children not to stick their hand in fire because they will get burned. They should rightly fear being burned if they stick their hand in the fire. I am merely telling them the truth to protect them from hurting themselves because I love them. It would be a lie for me to tell them they can stick their hand in the fire and not be burned. And it would be my fault for not telling them the truth if they did get hurt because of that.
Re: Defects and merits of Christianity , Hinduism, Islam this paragraph jumped out at me.
Sridatta writes:
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If you want to develop interest in God by saying that Jesus suffered for your sins and by showing the pathetic scene of crucifixion, it is not real and pure love. When you get interest in Jesus since He suffered for your sins, your love to Him is only based on selfishness. Your love to Jesus should be based on His divine personality and knowledge without any trace of selfishness. Similarly, these two religions try to create fear in the minds of human beings by mentioning the permanent hell. Fear should not be the basis for the love to God. The love should be spontaneous and without any selfishness in a free atmosphere. The reason for this deficiency in the foreign religions is due to absence of metaphysics in the scriptures.
The image of the crucifixion is the scene of perfect love and it is well for us to meditate upon the crucifix.This is the greatest love anyone had.
It is also where Jesus told us we were to follow Him to if we were His true disciples.He also said that we had to take up our cross and follow Him.It is an act of love.
Christianity does not try to 'create fear.'
Hell is real and it's exsistence has to be taught because it is the real consequence if our own actions lead us away from God.Truth.
But Christianity is based upon love-however, for some ppl it may be a fear of hell that motivates them to obey God.Nothing wrong with that.Even Jesus says we should fear going to hell.
Our act of contrition sums it up this way:
Oh My God
I am heartily sorry for having offended thee
and i detest all my sins
because i dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell
but MOST OF ALL because they offend thee my God
who art all good and deserving of all my love
I firmly resolve
with the help of thy grace
to confess my sins
to do penance
and to amend my life.Amen.
Fear is not the best place to start but it's a better place to start than no place at all.Afterall when we were children we could simultaneously love and fear our parents.
Remember what Jesus said about those who could kill the soul? To fear not those who could kill the body but could kill the soul.
Jesus means the same thing-love is better but we should be concerned about the consequences of our actions.The teachings of Christianity are based upon that love.Salvation,Redemption, eternal life with God--the life,death and ressurection of Jesus is central to the teachings of Christianity. Very little mention of fear,BUT we also have to teach about hell because it is real.It exsists.We must teach the truth in love.If we confirm ppl in their sin that's not love.
This condemnation of Christianity is skewed.We don't base our faith on false hopes.
Truth matters.
GB!~
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