I Wish To See Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism And Jainism All Officially Combined Into1 Religion. Do You Agree??

Question

I don't understand why these religions are viewed as seperate entities anyway. They are all Indian born dharmic religions. They are 90% identical, they share all major fundamentals. Moreover, Guru nanak (founder of Sikhism), Mahaveer (founder of Jainism) and Buddha (Founder of Buddhism) NEVER refuted Hinduism. What they refuted was the innacurate practice of Hinduism. Many people wrongly assume that they wanted to establish a spiritual path, different from that of orthodox Hinduism. Such an assessment is misleading. The manner in whuch Hinduism was praticed was wrong, and these holy prophets wanted Hinduism to be practiced accurately. They wanted to take Hinduism back to its purest form.

Their purpose was to ADD to Hinduism, to CONTRIBUTE to Hinduism, to REFORM Hinduism and most fundamentally to PURIFY hinduism. Their purpose was NOT to refute Hinduism.

So why the hell are these religions being perceived as different when they should all be classed as one???

Hinduism doesn't have any inherent evils...The manner in which Hinduism was practiced can be said to have evils. Such as caste based discrimination, which wasn't even a vedic tradition. Why on earth are you comparing akbar to the likes of buddha, nanak and mahaveer???!!!

Answer 1

i'm glad you didn't say muslim people!! I F******. HATE MUSLIM PEOPLE!! WHY DON'T THEY JUST TO ALLAH AND ROT.

Answer 2

I disagree. Only someone with a superficial understanding of these religions would think they could be combined effectively. Dharmic religions are as varied and different as early Greek philosophy. Just as you could not combine Democritus with Empedocles, you also could not combine Buddhism with Sikhism.

The Buddha and Mahavira never refuted Hinduism because Hinduism as we understand it today, did not exist. There were the four Vedas and only three complete Upanishads by the time Mahavira and Siddhartha came about. Modern Hinduism is based on synchretism between schools that developed out of the heterodox philosophies (of which Buddhism and Jainism are a part) and the orthodox philosophies of Vedic Brahmanism.

As Buddhism declined in India, it was incorporated into popular Hindu myth by making the Buddha one of the avatars of Vishnu, and doctoring legends to make everything fit. That's why if you read about Buddhism from a Hindu author, you will think Buddhism was just an outgrowth of Hinduism. However, all of this was done much later, and if you study current, peer-reviewed studies of Indian philosophy, you will see that the Hindu perspective is quite skewed.

In reality, the diversity of philosophies in ancient India rival the Greeks. This is something to be respectful of, rather than trying to wash them all the same color.

Answer 3

Agreed that Buddhism, Sikhism & Jainism are offshoots of Hinduism and their teachings are closer to hinduism. But the fact remains that they are different in their beliefs and teachings which came into being as a reform to the then existent prevalent Hindu concepts and practices. Over the time they have evolved into full fledged religions with a commanding following. To merge these into Hinduism is against the very spirit of Hinduism which gives its followers the freedom to worship God as they want to. It is because of this basic nature of Hinduism that these religions came into existance and survived. Respect for everyone's way to find God is the soul of Hinduism. To want an official merger of other religions will only cause chaos. Hence I'd like to differ with you on this. Thanks

Answer 4

Good luck with that! Although such broad sweeping statements serve more to alienate people than serve to unite them! Hindus emphasise on duty rather than who's god has the biggest you know what.....!
That is why Hinduism has absorbed local traditions of different states in the subcontinent and now has many deities followed locally in different part of india. There is no mention of these deities in Vedas! Hindus visit sikh as well as buddist places of worship! Hence you serve the cause better by not alienating them and respecting their belief!
However this should not apply to violent faiths in India that intend to conquer all by hook or by crook and preach hatred to brother against brother! The Indian muslim agitates when saddam is killed in Iraq, who he's not seen or heard from but has nothing to say when people he lives with, eats with, looks to in times of need the indians are killed just because they are non-muslim!
Around 64, 000 people have died due to Islamic terrorism in the last 20 years! No protests by indian muslims against Islamic extremists to be seen there! Their silence is defeaning!!

Answer 5

Since you are not living in India & not aware of the various civil laws enacted for the purpose of marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption, maitenance, etc on the basis of religion & no common civil code for all irrespective of their religion to follow same law. All such enactments which are made for Hindus include Sikhs Jains & Buddhist in it; indirectly you can say that the Indian government has officially recognized all these as part of Hindus. There exist no different enactments for these religions & their followers & for all civil purpose they are combined as one under the various available civil laws. What the religious fanatics in any of these religions feel & think hardly bothers the Indian government, but what is officially recognized is that these all are Hindus for all the civil issues in India.

Answer 6

By doing so you will kill the diversity, which is the law of nature. Though the base is same, but all are profound in their own domain. I would like to see my Beloved (God) from all possible directions.

But I can understand your concern. It's the division created by mischievous mind, which creates differences. Problem is with the mentality and not with the religion. It' stinking mind of followers that tries to make a structure and business out of a religion.

Answer 7

the main objective of the brances of hinduism , as they might be called was to remove the social evils of the main hinduism which are no longer prevelant (at least the scale has gone down significantly).

today, i being a hindu, i am not taking into consideration whether u are a hindu or muslim b4 answering ur question....

"So why the hell are these religions being perceived as different when they should all be classed as one???"

this is easily answered, many people like akbar tried to reform these relegions, akbar introduced din-i-ilahi which was a combination of all the good aspects of all the religions but he was unseccessful as this is not possible to change the minds of about a 5000000000 people......

Answer 8

Why would you want them under one religion name ? they are parts of various philosophies originating from the diverse thinking of Hinduism. that should be sufficient by itself, why would you want them under one religion name and make Hinduism similar to others ?

The most basic difference in Hinduism from others is it does not stick to any one prescribed path for its followers. All followers are free to choose their own paths except that they do not force it on others.

Its the free nature of Hinduism that has resulted into such rich texts as Vedas and such diverse paths like Jainism, Buddhism etc.

Answer 9

All religions are "Hindu" (an awful word that needs to be forgotton) so from now I will just call it Religion.

Religion has many confused followers that go around thinking that there is only one name of god and they close themselves off in thinking that all other names are lies. Not everyone pronounces Water the same one could debate the original pronuciation or who said it best but are you going to reject water because they dont think its pronounced properly?

Answer 10

Well good luck with that. The same problem exists in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. For some reason, each denomination thinks the others are doing it all WRONG. The only sect that tried to unify everyone was the Bahais, and you can see how popular they've been.

Answer 11

Every religion talks about the same thing called ultimate reality or Supreme Consiousness or Brahman, etc...
"Officially" you can combine all the religions into one, who cares.
What makes the difference, is you and your spiritual mindset.

I can tell you one example of the current day religious chauvinism,
1 Indian boy claims the sun as "Indian Sun"
1 Pakistani boy claims the sun as "Pakistani Sun"
1 British boy claims as "British Sun"
All these boys were claiming the sun as their own.

Now you know the fact that there is only one Sun. And everybody is claiming their Sun is superior than others.

What to do? In Hinduism it is called as "MAYA" / illusion.