Are Westerners who have taken the faith of Hinduism to heart viewed as inferior by consevative Hindu's???

Question

I can't really point to any internet source to support my question. I have been on 100's of sites and thats the vibe I get.I may be in error in thinking this and do not seek to offend anyone.

Answer 1

People are people first... you'll find welcoming Hindus and not-so-kind ones, just like in any other religion. Most Hindus believe you have to be born Hindu, but there's a movement of Westerners who've very much been accepted into Hinduism. If you look at the faces of a lot of teachers featured in many magazines (Hindu) they're not ALL Indian... so find someone supportive and go with your heart.

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Answer 2

Yes in some cases it happens, its because Hinduism should come by birth...

Hindusim doesnt usually believe in conversion as it accepts every path can lead to God..

So you can follow Jesus and still be a Hindu...
which may not be acceptable to conservative Hindus,who pray in only Hindu ways, this may be the reason they may view a western hindu as different from normal born hindus...

by the way i dont think they think that you are inferior...

You can be a Hindu yourself... you need no care about conservative hindus by the way

Answer 3

Yes one one of them is The Aryan Invasion Theory By Max Muller who wanted to destroy Hinduism,but He later refused his own theory by quoting""I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language… in that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians...To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar."