HINDUISM   the word is very confusing. Do we have to break a coconut  to clear the confusion?

  Most people get confused what Hinduism is. Hinduism has several of the  greatest thoughts in the world. It is very broad, vast like the mighty ocean. It is not a particular religion. It is a collection of all different kind and even contradicting thoughts. Atheism, monotheism, polytheism, cosmo-theism, micro-theism; Jainism,Buddhism and even Indian Christianity & Islam  is part of Hinduism. Middle eastern/ Mediterranean thoughts and even Christianity was influenced by Hinduism. Many of the sayings of Jesus, that is narrated in the gospels are borrowed from Buddhism. So Hinduism is not an isolated or secluded religion  within in the geographical boundaries of  the Indian Sub-continent. The literature of Hinduism is so vast a human many need several lives  to read them. All the scholars of Hinduism were never able to learn even a small fraction of Hinduism.

 So it is unfortunate that Hinduism is understood as it is practiced by a  Hindu religious man or devote. In other words what we see these days as Hinduism is temple religion, and it has very little to share with Hinduism.

 The temple  religion is very confusing and it is very far away from the core of Hinduism. People measure  religion by what is practiced and performed by its members. “ The holy books”  has great ideas and thoughts. But that doesn’t mean that what ever is done by a member of that particular religion is what is said in those books. You cannot identify the deeds of any devote to his religion. A cunning devote { not a true one} will always try to associate his deeds to the religion and 'he god of that religion. That was one of the major draw backs of all religions. 'In the name of god'- the cruel, cunning and selfish did evil. Wars in the name of god has killed more humans than the total of all political wars combined. And is continuing even now in many parts of the globe.

 Religion cannot disclaim the deeds of the devotee. If the devotee is doing evil in the name of a religion, that religion has something wrong fundamentally. Christian priests are getting arrested world wide for crimes they did. Several pastors are in American prisons for crimes and fraud.  But in India & Kerala things are different. Politicians and religious leaders commit crime and seek shelter under the party or religion. That is evil. It must not be tolerated in order for the civilization to survive.

 andrew 

From all the responses here I see that my comment has some effect as it pricked some deep in their heart. It is possible that the same person can is writing comments under different name. Some must be back scratching to show solidarity with Vidhyadharan to comfort him. Looks like some felt that I am shining. If it was for shining I could have used different languages, and also fill the comment column with comments. I appear here rare only nowadays. That does not mean I am not watching. I wrote here with clear understanding only.

It is very difficult for people generally to say the word ‘sorry’ including me. Where I could say a word ‘sorry’ I might spend a lot of time and energy creating words or spitting out words to defend myself as Vidhyadharan did here (I am at fault because I misunderstood Vidhyadharan). Now Vidhyadharan has two options- either say sorry or change name as he admitted that he was ignorant. These two lines of Ullur were posted here several times in the past. Ignorance is not an excuse in any human court here on Earth. The place where ignorance is not considered against you is in God’s court as God does not consider your ignorance against you according to Bible.