Islam/Sanjay

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advaitin, "Sanjay Srivastava"

<sksrivastava68> wrote:

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> On 5/7/06, Eric Paroissien wrote:

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I apologize to Muslims if my angle is not orthodox, i'll take history

as my guide; the Prophet of Islam receives his divine inspiration in a

context of social revolution, words are words and belong to culture

more than to divine inspiration, in the same way than one could say

the Self is profound silence and wordless, and all Holy books send a

ripple on His unripplable calmeness; ... that is, Islam is from the

beginning a social/political event running along a vivid stream of

spirituality that is requested to pledge allegiance to the social

order every now and then, while Hinduism was lucky enough, for a

reason someone could explain to me here, to keep a vast part of it's

spirituality out of the massive gravity of the political star; in the

same way Europe has to wait for philosophy, the "siècle des lumières"

in the XVIIIth century, and the denial of God, to dare say "I am

everything that is", thus reintegrate God in His true home in man's

heart, that some Mystics had always tried to do at the risk of their

freedom or life like Meister Eckhart.

then two questions:

While it does not really pose to us student of Advaita a real problem

that the facade of Hinduism clashes (in India only please) with the

facade of Islam ... do we say that Islam IS its facade or IS the vivid

stream of the above utterances that see life with the eye of God?

Can we ask why Hinduism could not be define by its holy men who have

risked their life to defy the political and social order of their time?

I have no interest in politics, i am only presenting the issue of

spirituality and social dis/engagement, and addressing the repproach

made to Islam that some of its holy names had controversy with the

sultan of the time, thus blending all issues under one tag easy to handle.

The fact is, there is no one block extremist Islam against the world

in general or Hindus in particular, there are within Islam many

sensitivities and streams [one can grant that to human intelligence]

and the Sufi are a vivid influence [see Islamic music and its verses

many know] and when metionning Islam and violence one should keep in

mind that after enduring such yoke as colonialism the Islamic

countries [set apart 4 or 5 oil exporters] have still not found a way

to be accepted at the banquet of the wealthy, one could easily see in

the world that any forceful affirmation of Islam is nothing compared

to the continuous coercion of the West on the Islamic domain.

I have spoken too much and you can ignore anything i said which is not

directly related to the issues of this list.

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Can we ask why Hinduism could not be define by its holy men who have

risked their life to defy the political and social order of their time?

 

 

Generally speaking, this is the case. Although Hinduism isn't defined by it's holy men, it is defined by the spiritual laws or teachings they discovered or founded.