HINDUISM - I

I was not in a mood to share my religious thoughts until some of my friends made me to do so.Still I am not going to cover the religions that originated outside India and have no relation or impact on Hinduism.No one can write about Hinduism fully since it is bound by cultures and people of various ages and various geographic areas.Within my knowledge I will do my level best to say what is Hinduism and what not.First of all there is no religion named Hinduism in India or being mentioned in Vedas.But we have to agree in one way or the other people who lived
in various parts of the country follow a similar kind of culture,way of life, dresses etc... without having communication among themselves.The foremost thing in this list is the concept of a leader or ruler and a social setup.There was always a formal setup in family as well.
The leader is called the Rajan.Immediately people will think of the various civilisations as being fostered in their minds, the famous Arya and Dravida cultures.There are contradictions among the archeological people itself.Some are saying that Aryans have not entered the interior India (India is being referred to as bharat in ancient literatures) and some are denying that.
The civilisations that originated/settled in the bank of the river Indus are called Sindis (some people in the Marwadi community are still calling themselves as Sindis).People of these civilisations are called Hindus (let us take at this moment).if they have not crossed the river then were come the Dravidans in the list of Hindus? something to think? the dravidan origin will be in the banks of Krishna,Godavari and Tamirabarani. Some other thoughts are there as the Brahmins here to be the genes of Aryans.Can we think of it in some way or the other.
(Just remember I'm speaking only in the early stages of Veda). As per the archeological results, the people in Harappa or the so called Aryans don't know the metal IRON and the animal HORSE (since the remains of these two things has not been recovered yet).In temples even today (ancient temples of shiva,Vishnu) iron is not being taken into use.There should have some worship in the Dravidan region and before the arrival of Aryans.The Dravidans worshipped Pasupathi apart from the nature worship.There was some custom for the worship.People worshipped Pasupathi or so with some families doing the offerings or Pujas.These people were being respected by the society.If you think of a question of the status of these
people after the srrival of aryans, the answer would be more or less like this.They were being identified as "NAMBI'S" and added to the Brahmin community.Something not being exposed byanyone speaking pages about ARYO Dravidan cultures.Let us discuss the things in the next postings.
See let us first try to answer the question " is there anything called Hinduism".If something has been called as a religion which is having no philosophies which were built over the blood of Jews, which is formed and realised after 400 years of its founder,If there is something been called a religion which won't preach a systematic life,a life that never hurts others,a life without suicide bombers, why don't we call the group of people practising similar cultures and life as belong to "Hinduism".A religion is one which should sell itself among the people with its philosophies.Hinduism did it.It will do in the future also.The next thing is the controversies arising out of Hindu saints in the recent past.
The most extreme part is that people started supporting the ill notified saints on the grounds of Hindu laws.These people may be misinterpreting Hinduism for all mal practices.These people will generally compare the saints caught in sex scandals with viswamitra.Hinduism is based on something called "Dharma".It is not like what these people think that Dharma applies for all at all stages at all time at a standard form.the answer is yea but not in a standard package.Dharma is not static.It will vary with the environment and time but not on persons. Dharma is defined something GOOD accepted by the people at that time.It applies to the case of viswamitra as well.We will discuss all these things in the following posts.Once a British man commented that the Indian culture is built on the Veda and it is barbaric.Swami Arbindo replied that The Great Indian culture is fully built on Veda and nothing else. Let us think something better.