{"id":424,"date":"2015-02-26T03:52:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T03:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azmi.co\/cust\/ngba-wp\/?page_id=424"},"modified":"2023-06-16T16:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T16:54:22","slug":"hinduism-women","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=424","title":{"rendered":"Hinduism-karma and reincarnation &#038; women &#8230;&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">In the name of All\u0101h,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">the Beneficent, the Merciful.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: red;\">DEDICATED TO<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">All\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">Lord of the worlds<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: red;\">AND TO<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">Mohammad\u2013who brought the world<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">to our feet and eternity to our arms.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">*<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">HINDUISM-KARMA, REINCARNATION<br \/>\n&amp; WOMEN<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">CONTENTS<br \/>\n1. Sanatana Dharma is Islam<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">2. Gods and Goddesses<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">3. Scriptures<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">4. Astrology<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">5. Karma and Reincarnation<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">6. Soul<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">7. Moksa is moot<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">8. Hell<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">9. Heaven<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">10. Woman<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">11. Vegetarianism<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">12. Castism<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">13. Origin of Hinduism<br \/>\n14. Yoga unGodly<br \/>\n15. Om\/Aum does not exist<br \/>\n16. Shiva a mirage.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Contrary to what is being projected, Hinduism is NO peace and tolerance. V<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ideo taken\u00a0 from <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xpe270<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vedas: Violence and Intolerance?\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=xpe270&#038;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1.\u00a0 SANATANA DHARMA IS ISLAM:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Except the Mahabharata <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(which comprises the\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=537\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Bhagavad Gita<\/span><\/a>)\u00a0 which is said to be mythology<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> (shown later),<\/span> Four major books of Hinduism are the Vedas <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013Rig (also Rg), Atharva, Yajur and Sama.<\/span> Whereas All\u0101h God tells us He revealed the Qur\u2019an to the Prophet\u00a0 Mohammad through the Angel Gabriel. There are different views as to who God revealed the four Vedas. Though <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=475\">Swami Dayananda Saraswati<\/a> <\/span>(article <strong><em>God\/Veda<\/em><\/strong>) wrote<strong><em>: <\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn the beginning, God revealed the four <em>Vedas, Rig, Yajur, Sama <\/em>and<em> Atharva<\/em>, to <em>Agni, Vayu, A\u2019ditya<\/em> and <em>Angira,<\/em> respectively.\u201d<br \/>\nThat \u201c<em>Brahma<\/em> learnt the four <em>Vedas\u201d<\/em> from these four men who \u201cAmong all men those four alone were purest in heart.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And that the age of the Vedas, since it was revealed is \u201cOne billion, nine hundred and sixty millions and some hundred thousand years.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Apart from the obvious question to the Swami\u2019s statement <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013isn\u2019t Brahma God? And since Brahma is God and He revealed the Vedas how could He \u201clearnt the four <em>Vedas\u201d? <\/em>Didn\u2019t He\/God \u00a0know what he revealed?\u2013<\/span> it is said that the Rig Veda consists of hymns composed by \u201cbard-priest.\u201d (Details later).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Hindus the correct name of their religion is not Hinduism but <em>Sanatana Dharma<\/em> which means Ancient Law or Eternal Way.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Though \u201cThe word Sanatana Dharma is not mentioned in the Vedas.\u201d\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/The-word-Sanatana-Dharma-is-not-mentioned-in-the-Vedas-Why-do-Hindus-call-themselves-Sanatanis\">https:\/\/www.quora.com\/The-word-Sanatana-Dharma-is-not-mentioned-in-the-Vedas-Why-do-Hindus-call-themselves-Sanatanis<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, and some practitioners and scholars refer to it as\u00a0<strong>San\u0101tana Dharma<\/strong>, &#8220;the eternal tradition,&#8221; or the &#8220;eternal way,&#8221; beyond human history\u201d <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hinduism\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hinduism<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But what is the \u201cEternal Way\u201d or Ancient Law?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0 Eternal Way and oldest religion is Islam \u2013<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>submission to the law of Allah God. <\/em><\/span>The first human beings submitted to this law of All\u0101h God, <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013<em>Islam<\/em>.<\/span> Only this submission to All\u0101h God was not yet known as Islam. The following makes this point clear:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cThen He (All\u0101h) directed Himself to the heaven and it was a vapour, so He said to it and to the Earth:\u00a0 Come both, willingly or unwillingly. They both said: We <em>come willingly<\/em>\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 41:11).<br \/>\n<\/span>We \u2018come willingly\u2019 or we submit to your command <em>\u2013<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Islam<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013<\/span> and by submitting to God\u2019s command they are\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Muslims<\/em>.<br \/>\n<\/span>Thus, \u201cMuslim\u201d and \u201cIslam\u201d are integral and are as old as the heavens and the earth.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Muslim<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Islam<\/em>\u00a0are primeval.\u00a0Predating Hinduism\/Sanatana Dharma.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Whereas \u201cMuslim\u201d <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(one who submits to God)<\/span> and \u201cIslam\u201d <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(peace and submission to God)<\/span> date back to the beginning of creation. \u201cMuslim\u201d and \u201cIslam\u201d were not yet named\/known as such until the revelation of the Qur\u2019an in the Seventh Century.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All things and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=592\">All people are Muslims<\/a>,<\/span> submitting to the command of All\u0101h God.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Also, whereas \u201cIslam\u201d and \u201cMuslim(s)\u201d are Divine designations in the Qur\u2019an. There is no place in the Vedas where God\u00a0 designates followers of the Veda as \u201cHindu\u201d\/\u201dSanatanist and their religion as \u201cHinduism\u201d\/\u201dSanatana Dharma&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=416\">Islam<\/a><\/span> teaches that And God raised messengers among all people. Thus, Islam does not deny that there are truths in other religions.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If then, the Qur\u2019an consists of teachings and other aspects of previous Scriptures, it would be puerile to claim that the Qur\u2019an\/Islam owes its existence to past Scriptures or that the Qur\u2019an is based on, or borrowed from, other Scriptures <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013a younger child who is given the same\/similar instructions from his parents as his elder siblings were given could hardly be said to have borrowed from his elder sibling.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Divine Scripture have lost their pristine purity. We have Hinduism teaching karma, reincarnation and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=537\">Yoga<\/a><\/span>; Christianity teaching <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=203\">Trinity<\/a>, <u><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=215\">Son of G<\/a>od<\/u>, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=270\">inherited sin<\/a><\/span> and vicarious atonement; and Islam teaching Unity of God, Prayer. Zakaat\/Charity, Fasting and Hajj as their respective cardinal doctrines and passport into heaven.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Surely God is not the author of confusion.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">So whose teaching is the correct one?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">What materials were left out or went missing from these Scriptures that preceded the Qur\u2019an? What was added to them?\u00a0 Are oral transmissions more reliable than written texts?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Qur\u2019an, which was both memorized and written down at the time of its revelation to the Prophet Mohammad, is the Criterion that All\u0101h God has given to us to distinguish between Truth and Falsehood in religions\u2013(Qur&#8217;an 2:185; 25:1).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Like a person undertaking a journey would need to have his route clearly mapped out lest he go astray.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Likewise, cardinal doctrines of a religion, as they delineate between Heaven and Hell, are to be clearly expressed by God; they are not to be left to the function of interpretation(s).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hinduism teaches <i>karma <\/i><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013an equal and opposite reaction to one\u2019s deeds\u2013<\/span> and <i>reincarnation <\/i><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013rebirth into any of the kingdoms of creatures and plants according to his deeds; though this belief is disputed.<\/span> No one seems to know the origin of <i>karma <\/i>and <i>reincarnation<\/i>.<br \/>\nHindus are also divided as to whether Rama, Krishna, and Hanuman are God(s) or not, whether the emancipated soul returns to repeat the cycle of births and deaths or not; whether God incarnates Himself or not; and whether the soul reincarnates in different kingdoms of animals\/plants or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">2, GODS AND GODDESSES:<i><\/i><\/span><strong><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/strong>Hindus believe in 330 million gods<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">1<\/span><\/sup>. The consequence of more than one God is illustrated by Rajagopalachari: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 21pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cViswaamitra was a king who attained sainthood through terrible austerities. He had long ago exhibited his spiritual powers by starting to create another Brahma and a rival universe: he had gone as far as the creation of new constellations, but was prevailed upon to stop by the entreaties of the alarmed gods.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">2<\/span> <\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Imagine a dozen disgruntled\/ambitious gods creating their own \u201crival\u201d universes. How eloquently All\u0101h calls us to reason in the Qur\u2019an:<br \/>\n(i) If there were other gods with All\u0101h, the idolaters with the help of these other gods would have been able to seek a way to the Lord of the Throne\u2013(Qur\u2019an 17:42).<br \/>\n(ii) If there were other gods besides All\u0101h governing the heavens and the earth wouldn\u2019t there be confusion in them\u2013(Qur&#8217;an 21:22).<br \/>\n(iii) If there were other gods with All\u0101h, each would have taken away what he created, and some of them would have seek to dominate others\u2013(Qur&#8217;an 23:91).<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">If there was more than one God it would be expected of the other Gods to send their own prophets to contradict All\u0101h.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The five most prominent Gods of Hinduism are Brahma (Creator), Vishnu (Pervader), Shiva (Destroyer), Krishna and Rama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><i>Brahma:<\/i><\/strong> His wife is Sarasvati, a \u201cgoddess\u201d whom He \u201ccreated from his body.\u201d According to one story &#8220;Brahma was born of an egg that developed from cosmic waters full of creative elements,\u201d wrote Anoop Chandola, whereas another story says that\u00a0 \u201cBrahma was produced on a lotus that grew out of Vishnu\u2019s navel\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">3<\/span><\/sup>.<br \/>\n\u201cBrahma is found guilty of cohabiting with his own daughter. It is for that reason that he is deprived of being worshipped\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">4<\/span><\/sup>.<br \/>\nWendy Doniger O\u2019Flaherty notes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBrahma desired his daughter and took the form of a stag to pursue her as a doe. The Brahmins called him to shame, and Rudra shot him with an arrow. The deer\u2019s head came away from Brahma\u2019s body and became a constellation in the sky. But then Gayatri and Sarasvati [the wives of Brahma] had no husband. They performed <i>tapas <\/i>for Siva, and he agreed to revive their husband, giving Brahma the four heads of Nandin and others of his hosts. Brahma arose and praised Siva.\u201d (<i>Siva The Erotic Ascetic<\/i>, p. 126).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><strong><i>Vishnu\/Visnu:<\/i><\/strong><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"> was \u201ca minor solar deity in the Rgveda, who later became one of the most important and popular divinities of Hinduism.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">5<\/span> <\/sup>(God\u00a0\u00a0 grows in status). \u201cVisnu is punished for seducing the wife of Jalandhara\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">6<\/span><\/sup>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 While part of Hinduism teaches that God took several forms as humans, and as animals\u2013Boar, Fish, Tortoise, Man-Lion\u2013one party argues that God does not incarnate, \u201cbecause it is said in the Yajur Veda, \u201cHe is unborn.\u201d&#8230;He is pure, is never born and never takes on a human form\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">7<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(Seems <i>avatara<\/i> was mistranslated <i>incarnation<\/i> instead of <i>representation,<\/i> as a prophet is a representative of God).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Vishnu is said to have taken the form of the Fish to save \u201cManu (the first Man), the sages and the Veda from the great flood\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">8<\/span><\/sup>.<br \/>\n(The Bible and the Qur\u2019an says that Noah built an Ark, in which he and righteous members, and animals took refuge. The Qur\u2019an 25:37 shows that this flood was restricted to Noah\u2019s people only. And Maurice Bucaille has pointed out in his book <i>The Bible The Qur\u2019an and Science<\/i> that this flood was not a global phenomenon<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">9<\/span><\/sup>). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Vishnu took the form of the \u201cBoar (Varaha), who killed Hiranyaksha, and rescued Earth from the cosmic ocean into which the demon had thrown her\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">10<\/span><\/sup>. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(It may be asked, what was the demon standing on when he threw the earth?)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 As the Dwarf, Vishnu is said to have, in two strides, \u201ccovers earth, air and sky\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">11<\/span><\/sup>.<br \/>\n(The diameter of the earth is approximately 8,000 miles long. Unless the Divine Dwarf is taller than earthling\u2019s approximately three feet, it would take more than two strides to cover earth, air and sky. If this was a figurative expression, Vishnu would not have needed to incarnate)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Vishnu came as Rama, the \u201chero of the Ramayana, who killed the demon Ravana of Lanka (Ceylon)\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">12<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(But, both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana are, as noted further on, \u201cmythological works of Hinduism\u201d).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the story of the <i>Bhagavad Gita<\/i> (which is a part of the larger epic, the <i>Mahabharata<\/i>), Vishnu is said to have come as Krishna who was the \u201ccharioteer of Arjuna.\u201d But as noted the Mahabharata (which consists of the <i>Bhagavad Gita<\/i>) is said to be \u201cmythological.\u201d It does not seem reasonable that God would take form to engage in a \u201cmythological\u201d discussion with Arjuna. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><strong><i>Shiva\/Siva:<\/i><\/strong><\/span> Shiva is known as Mahadeo (an incarnate of Shiva). Shiva\u2019s <i>linga\u201d <\/i>(sex organ [female, <i>yoni<\/i>]) was \u201ccursed\u201d by the sages because of his \u201cdangerous sexuality\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">13<\/span><br \/>\n<\/sup>(<i>linga-<\/i>worship is prevalent in Hinduism). Shiva is said to have two sons, the \u201csix-headed\u201d Skanda and the elephant-headed Ganesh. <i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hamlyn notes: \u201cThe Vedas revile worshippers of the phallus, whereas the worship of Shiva in the form of a stone <i>linga <\/i>has long been wide-spread,\u201d and that \u201cFor the great majority of peasants the most important deity is not Vishnu or Shiva, but the village goddess <i>(gramadevata)<\/i>, often called Earth Goddess or Mother, significantly always feminine\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">14<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">(It is doubtful the Vedas would \u201crevile worshippers of the phallus\u201d if such worship was of Divine inspiration; especially considering that Shiva is part of the Triune Godhead\u2013Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.\u00a0\u00a0 Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva could not be attributes of God: Attributes of God do not have wives and children, nor do they grow in stature, as Vishnu is said to have grown from a \u201cminor solar deity\u201d to \u201cone of the most important and popular divinities\u201d).<\/span><span style=\"color: red;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Hindu beliefs, Godhead consists of three personnages: Brahma, the Creator;\u00a0 Vishnu, the\u00a0 Pervader, and Shiva, the Destroyer. But this <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=3617\">Hinduism-Trimurti is artificial <\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><i>Ram\/Rama, Krishna\/Krsna: <\/i><\/strong>Rama is said to be the son of King Dasrat and Queen Kausiliya. He is said to have two sons, Lava and Kusa. Rama drowned, swimming <i>bhow Sagar (turbulent river)<\/i>. The story of Rama is told in the <i>Ramayana,<\/i> which<i>\u00a0<\/i>\u201cis not history or biography. It is a part of Hindu mythology\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">15<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Krishna\u2019s parents are said to be Vasudeva and Devaki. Krishna \u201chad many grandchildren.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe story of Krishna is a composite of elements added to the main stock at different times and from different sources\u2026.Krishna first appears as hero and slayer of Kamsa\u201d who had ordered \u201ca slaughter of the innocents at Krishna\u2019s birth\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">16<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">.<br \/>\n<\/span>Krishna, mistaken for \u201ca deer,\u201d was shot\/killed by a hunter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Krishna \u201chad illicit relations with Radha, wife of his maternal uncle, in addition to a number of milk-maids, although he had a large number of wives\u201d which are said to be \u201csixteen thousand one hundred and eight and his children numbered one hundred and eighty thousand\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">17<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">Swami Dayananda Saraswati wrote: <i>(The Bhagavad-Gita)<\/i> \u201cBeing opposed to the Veda, it cannot be held to be an authority.\u2026.Krishna could never be God\u201d<\/span><sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">18<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">.<\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">(Since the Ramayana is \u201cmythology,\u201d what is the true account of Rama? Since the Mahabharata, which comprises the Bhagavad-Gita, is \u201cmythological,\u201d what is the actual teaching of Krishna? For details on Krishna, see <i>Ency. Brit<\/i>.; 15<sup>th<\/sup>.Ed. Vol. V. Art. Krsna; and Vol. VIII, Art. Radha.\u00a0\u00a0 For Rama, see Vol. VIII, Art. Rama).<br \/>\n<\/span>Anoop Chandola explains: \u201cThe Vedas included several major gods and goddesses some of whom must have been culture heroes\u2026.As the tradition of honoring culture heroes continued, in due course new heroes were added, <strong><i>two of them most important: Rama and Krishna<\/i><\/strong>\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">19<\/span><\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><i>Ganesh\/Ganese\/Ganesa: <\/i><\/strong>The elephant-headed son of Parvati and Shiva (also known as Mahadeo). There are various stories about the birth of Ganesh. One of which is that he was born from the rubbings of Parvati\u2019s body.\u00a0\u00a0 Ganesh, placed as guard, while Parvati took a bath, tried to prevent Mahadeo (not knowing they were related) from entering. Enraged, Mahadeo drew his sword and decapitated Ganesh. Alarmed, Parvati informed Mahadeo that Ganesh was his son. Whereupon, Mahadeo decapitated a baby-elephant and fitted the head onto Ganesh.<br \/>\nTheir other son, Skanda, was born when Parvati \u201cspits upon the earth\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">20<\/span><\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><i>Hanuman:<\/i><\/strong> \u201cthe monkey-god who helped Rama\u201d \u201cwas a historic person who was afterwards deified,\u201d wrote Swami Dayananda. (<i>Light of Truth<\/i>, p. 24).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><i>Sarasvati:<\/i><\/strong> wife of Brahma. Goddess of \u201cart, music and letters.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><i>Laksmi:<\/i><\/strong> the wife of Vishnu represents \u201cprosperity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><i>Gauri:<\/i><\/strong> known also as Sati, Parvati, and Durga, has \u201cthousands of names and forms. She is also the \u201cconsort\u201d of Shiva. In her calm state she is known as Gauri \u201cthe white goddess,\u201d and in her \u201caggressive\u201d form is known as Kali \u201cthe black goddess.\u201d She is also known as Uma, \u201cwho produces, sustains, and dissolves the universe\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">21<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">(That Uma is the one \u201cwho produces, sustains, and dissolves the universe\u201d seems to contradict the view that Brahma is the Creator and Vishnu is Preserver; and also contradict the Vedanta\u2019s view that the universe is \u201cself-creating, self-dissolving, self-manifesting,\u201d as Jawaharlal Nehru wrote:<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\"> \u201cthe Vedanta was not only spiritual but rational and in harmony with scientific investigations of external nature. \u2018This universe has not been created by any extra-cosmic God, nor is it the work of any outside genius. It is <i>self-creating, self-dissolving, self-manifesting, <\/i>One Infinite Existence, the Brahma.\u2019\u201d<\/span><i><span style=\"color: purple;\">The Discovery Of India<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: purple;\">, p. 337. Emphasis added). \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">3.\u00a0 SCRIPTURES:<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">The sacred Books of Hindus are<br \/>\n-the <i>Vedas <\/i>\u2013Rg\/Rig, Atharva, Yajur, and Sama<br \/>\n<i>-the Mahabharata<\/i>, which comprises the <i>Bhagavad-Gita, <\/i>which notes the dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield in the war between the Pandavas and the Duryodhanas<br \/>\n-the\u00a0<i>Ramayana<\/i>\u2013 the story of Ram\/Rama\u2013 and -the\u00a0<i>Puranas<\/i>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">\u00a0\u00a0 It is noted that <\/span>\u201cThe great mythological works of Hinduism are the Epics, namely the <i>Mahabharata<\/i>\u2026..and the <i>Ramayana<\/i>\u2026.and the compendia of creation myths, king lists, legends and religious doctrines called Puranas\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">22<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nRajagopalachari wrote in his <i>Ramayana<\/i>: \u201cThe<i> Ramayana <\/i>is not history or biography. It is a part of Hindu mythology\u201d) (p. 8).<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: purple;\">(The <\/span><i style=\"color: purple;\">Ramayana<\/i><span style=\"color: purple;\">, the story about Ram\/Rama, being \u201cmythology,\u201d <\/span><i style=\"color: purple;\">Diwali <\/i><span style=\"color: purple;\">\u2013the festival of light grounded in the <\/span><i style=\"color: purple;\">Ramayana<\/i><span style=\"color: purple;\">\u2013 would also be a myth).<\/span><i style=\"color: purple;\">\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">\u00a0\u00a0 The Rgveda was \u201ccomposed\u201d by \u201cbard priest;\u201d and \u201cBy about 1000 BC this body of chanted poetry had apparently grown to unmanageable proportions, and the best of the poems were formed into an anthology called Rgveda, which was then canonized. \u2026The Vedic literature was oral and not written down until very much later, the first reference to a written Vedic text being in the 10th century AD\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">23<\/span><\/sup><\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Abdul Haq Vidyarthi notes in his book <i>Muhammad in World Scriptures<\/i>, Vol; 1:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cNo scripture, writing or book has got so many people to its credit who learn it by heart, as the Holy Qur\u2019an has. Religious scriptures underwent vicissitudes and had dark ages upon them, that their very contents and their existence became suspected. It was in this obscurity that the Vedas grew from one into four, and then from four to as many as 1131, there is a verse in Maha Bhashya which explains that there are one hundred and one shoots of Yajur-veda, one thousand of Sama-veda, twenty-one kinds of Rigveda and nine of Atharva-veda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 9pt; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In these days we can see a dozen vedas published, in fact, which throws light on their vicissitudes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 9pt; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Masorah and Septuagint versions of the old Testament, the different authorized editions of the Sadducees and Pharisees, the apocryphal literature believed as part of inspired scriptures by some sects and rejected by others, the different versions of apocryphal Gospels, prove the credibility of the fact that no religious scripture was kept intact or properly maintained or committed to memory in the life-time of the prophet to whom it was revealed.\u201d (pp. 314-315). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">As noted above, the <em>Mahabharata<\/em>, which comprises the Bhagavad Gita, is mythology. The Bhagavad Gita is a story about Krishna which also promotes yoga. For an insight into the Gita and yoga see<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=537\">Hinduism-Bhagavad Gita, Krishna, Yoga<\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">4. ASTROLOGY:<br \/>\n<\/span>If our lives are controlled by the planets under the dictates of God, it would be conflicting for God to send prophets and revelations and for Him to take forms to guide us against the dictates of the planets, as He would be calling on us to work against His own power as instilled into these planets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If a man born at an \u2018auspicious\u2019 time is cloned at an \u2018inauspicious\u2019 time, how would the planets influence him, favorably or unfavorably? Or would the planets have no influence on him, seeing that he would be a duplicate <em>(produced in a lab)<\/em> and was not born?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is incredible that the \u201clow caste\u201d of India and the world\u2019s poor were all born under unfavorable influence of the planets, and all monarchs and magnates were born under their favorable influence, and that all the kings and queens of the Royal family were born at \u2018auspicious\u2019 times so that they became monarchs, and all the members of the Royal family were born at \u2018auspicious\u2019 times so that none of them (seems) poor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To eradicate poverty <em>(almost)<\/em> all that needs to be done is to time one\u2019s conception to coincide with the \u2018auspicious\u2019 sequences of the planets <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013almost everyone would be born a Rajah or a Ranee\u2013<\/span> and to make society more progressive and safe, parents <em>(or governments)<\/em> should obtain an astrologer\u2019s reading of children and school them in vocations according to the findings of the planets; and those children projected to criminality could be jailed right away, <em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">(counseling them would be pointless, as their fate is written in the planets).<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em>Governments should not be blamed for their country\u2019s woes \u2013unemployment\/poor economy\u2013 the planets are to be blamed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Swami Dayananda Saraswati wrote: (Hindus) \u201cshould regard <em>Astrology\u00a0<\/em>\u2013which treats of the influence of stars and constellations on the destinies of man, of auspiciousness and non-auspiciousness of time, of horoscopes, etc.\u2013 as a fraud, and never learn or teach any books on this subject.\u201d\u2013(<em>Light of Truth<\/em>, p. 73).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Islam man\u2019s fate is not written in the stars. Fourteen hundred years ago the Prophet Mohammad took the stars from the clutches of the astrologers and sat them firmly in the laps of the astronomers: declared the noble Messenger of All\u0101h, God, through Divine Revelation <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013\u201cAllah has made subservient to you whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 31:20; 45:13).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">5. KARMA &amp; REINCARNATION:<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><i>Karma <\/i><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">and<i> reincarnation <\/i>are not clearly expressed in the Veda: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 21pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe origin and the development of the belief in the transmigration of souls are<i>\u00a0<\/i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">very obscure<\/span>\u2026This doctrine of <i>samsara <\/i>(reincarnation) is attributed to the sage Uddalaka Aruni, who is said to have learned it from a Ksatriya chief. In the same text, the doctrine of <i>karma<\/i> (works)\u2026also occurs for the first time, attributed to Yajnavalkya. Both doctrines appear to have been <span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">new and strange ones<\/span>,<\/span> circulating among small groups of ascetics who were<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; background-color: #ffff00;\"> disinclined to make them public<\/span>\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">24<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Anoop Chandola states: \u201cThrough contact, the Aryans and non -Aryans began to modify and integrate each other\u2019s pathways. In the context of religion, for example, the Austro-Asiatics may have contributed the belief in each life passing to another life. This belief later, in the form of reincarnation, became a major element in the <i>Upanishads<\/i>.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">25<\/span><\/sup> <span style=\"color: purple;\">If reincarnation was Divine bequeath<span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">26<\/span><\/sup><\/span> it could not be speculated to have been \u201ccontributed\u201d by the \u201cAustro-Asiatics.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 In believing that his suffering is the result of his actions in a past life, man \u201cis thus induced to reconcile himself to social cruelty, exploitation and oppression,\u201d wrote V.M. Tarkunde. (<i>Radical Humanism<\/i>, p. 69). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Also, whereas in earlier times India\u2019s \u201cintellectual inquiry and philosophical development\u201d was \u201ccomparable\u201d to the Greeks, as V.M. Tarkunde notes: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBy the 8<sup>th<\/sup> century A.D., however, the school of thought which came to prevail in the country was the other-worldly Vedant philosophy. It regarded physical existence to be an illusion, the human body to be the prison-house of the soul, and escape from the cycle of births and deaths to be the highest human ideal. Self-denial, abstinence, celibacy, desirelessness and meditation became the highest virtues. The best spirits being thus preoccupied in other-worldly pursuits, the rest of the society came easily under the domination of ambitious princes and self-seeking priests. The theory of Karma, which says that our sufferings in the present life are the result of the sins committed by us in our previous lives, reconciled the poor to their miserable lot and consolidated the prevailing caste system and the barbaric custom of untouchability.\u201d (<i>Ibid., <\/i>pp. 10-11). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 It is incredible that only Africans and Hindus and Bangladeshis seem to have the worst <i>karma, <\/i>considering that these are the nations\/people that suffers the most of famine, flood, and poverty; even though they engage in little or no war or aggression or oppression or exploitation of others; and are probably more religious. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If suffering is the result of bad karma, no attempt should be made to alleviate the miserable conditions of the sufferers and the poor\u2013those who try to improve the lot of the poor and the suffering would be working against karma. If their conditions can be improved, karma is meaningless \u2013seeing that it can be subverted\/defeated. If karma can be annulled, man can change the natural law of God. If man can change the natural law of God, man would be greater than God. But man could never be greater than God.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: purple;\">Also the need for higher education would be pointless. (Perhaps lower caste Hindus should be schooled to see how many are poor or illiterate because of karma).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <i>The Higher Taste<\/i> (published by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness) states: \u201ckilling an animal interrupts its progressive evolution through the species.\u201d(p. 44).<br \/>\nIt could not be that \u201ckilling an animal interrupts its progressive evolution through the species\u201d seeing that <i>karma<\/i> \u201coperates impartially and unerringly, awarding us exactly what we deserve,\u201d and \u201cand insures that those who cause violence and suffering to other living beings must themselves experience equivalent violence and suffering \u2013immediately or in the future.\u201d (<i>Ibid<\/i>. p. 38).<br \/>\nBy killing this animal <i>karma<\/i> was \u201cawarding\u201d it exactly what it deserved <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013its manner and time of death were dictated by <i>karma<\/i>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In his commentary to <i>Bhagavad Gita As It Is, <\/i>16:1-3, Swami Prabhupada says (on p. 745) in explaining <i>Ahimsa<\/i>: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c<i>Ahimsa<\/i> means not arresting the progressive life of any living entity&#8230;.If a particular animal is killed, then his progress is checked. If an animal is staying in a particular body for so many days or so many years and is untimely killed, then he has to come back again in that form of life to complete the remaining days in order to be promoted to another species of life.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But there could not be \u201cuntimely\u201d killings seeing that <i>karma<\/i> is \u201cawarding us exactly what we deserve.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(The belief that <i>karma <\/i>\u201coperates impartially and unerringly, awarding us exactly what we deserve,\u201d seems to imply that karma is an entity separate from, and operates independent of, God. Also, such a belief seems to contradict the Veda, which teaches forgiveness).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><i>\u00a0\u00a0 The Higher Taste<\/i> states that \u201c<i>karma <\/i>insures that those who cause violence and suffering to other living beings must themselves experience equivalent violence and suffering\u2013immediately or in the future.\u201d (p.38).<br \/>\nAccording to this teaching the millions of Jews and Gypsies that Hitler killed or caused to suffer were only being repaid for what they had done to him or to other(s) in a past life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Since a person at the time of his\/her death becomes what he\/she remembers, as the <i>Gita <\/i>(8:6)<i>\u00a0<\/i>teaches, then if at the time of his death a mass murderer was stormed by remorse and thought about Krishna he must now be in Krsnaloka. Or he may have thought about Jesus and is now sitting \u201con the right hand of God\u201d\u2013(Mark 16:19). <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(<i>This is not cynicism. Based on their beliefs Hindus must be receptive to such a possibility).<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The invaders of India who committed atrocities against Hindus are not to be blamed because they were only fulfilling <i>karma<\/i> which \u201cinsures that those who cause violence and suffering to other living beings must themselves experience equivalent violence and suffering \u2013immediately or in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(It is not reasonable that the thousands of women and young girls that were raped in the \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d of Bosnia were rapists who were now being repaid for raping others in a past life. Women who are gang-raped must have raped several others on a single occasion, to be gang-raped now). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Page 70 of <i>The Higher Taste<\/i> states that those who kill animals \u201cwill have to take an animal form and somehow or other be killed by the <strong><i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">same type<\/span><\/i><\/strong> of animal we have killed.\u201d (Italics\/ emphasis added).<br \/>\nSo Rama will have to take an animal form and be killed by the buck and boar he and his brother, Laksmana, killed and ate in the forest, as the Ramayana says.<br \/>\nBut if a couple of poachers were to kill the last remaining elephant which would make the elephant extinct <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013much like dinosaurs\u2013<\/span> they could not be killed by the \u201csame type\u201d of animal (seeing that it would be extinct). Thus, the poachers might live forever. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(If karma (or God) was to make sure that a couple of elephants were in existence to repay these poachers, and if these poachers should leave Africa and live in Alaska, then when they die and take on these animal forms (say as mice) to be killed by the elephants, someone would have to take these mice to Africa or bring the elephants to Alaska so they could kill the mice, and these elephants would have to know which mice to kill. But elephants are scared of mice! <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 If <i>karma<\/i> should dictate that a soul inhabits a body that becomes extinct soon after the soul inhabits the body, <i>karma <\/i>would have to reassign the soul to another body or this soul might be left to wander forever without a body. But <i>karma<\/i> could not reassign this soul because <i>karma<\/i> \u201coperates impartially and unerringly, awarding us exactly what we deserve,\u201d as <i>THT<\/i> says).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Gita 8:6 says: \u201cWhatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, O son of Kunti, that state he will attain without fail.\u201d<br \/>\nSwami Prabhupada explains:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 27.75pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA person who at the end of his life quits his body thinking of Krsna attains the transcendental nature of the Supreme Lord \u2026..Maharaja Bharata, although a great personality, thought of a deer at the end of his life, and so in his next life he was transferred into the body of a deer.\u201d<br \/>\nThus, a saintly person can attain \u201cthe transcendental nature of the Supreme Lord\u201d or end up as a scavenger; a wicked person can also attain \u201cthe transcendental nature of the Supreme Lord\u201d; a person may also end up as a dinosaur, vegetable or a toy; or become a mythical creature, such as Pegasus, or Cyclops, which he has seen in a book or the movies; or may even become extinct animals, depending on what he\/she \u201cthought of\u201d \u201cat the end of his life.\u201d One may even become an automobile if it is the last thing \u201cthought of\u201d at the time of an accident, <i>(death)<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This teaching of the Gita (8:6) that one becomes what he \u201cthought\u201d of at the time of his death seems to contradict the doctrine of <i>karma <\/i>where an individual\u2019s next life is determined by his actions in his present life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(It is interesting to note that the Swami says on Gita 8:6 that Maharaja Bharata \u201cAlthough as a deer he <i>remembered<\/i> his past activities,\u201d but in his purport to Gita 4:5 the Swami says, \u201ca living entity <i>forgets<\/i> everything due to his change of body\u201d). (Emphasis added).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To return as humans in the next life one has to have good <i>karma<\/i> (do good works) in the present life. Since <i>karma <\/i>\u201coperates impartially and unerringly, awarding us exactly what we deserve,\u201d and \u201cinsures that those who cause violence and suffering to other living beings must themselves experience equivalent violence and suffering\u2013immediately or in the future,\u201d as <i>The Higher Taste<\/i> says; how then are some people born with such defects as blindness, deafness, paralysis, Down\u2019s syndrome\u2013what \u201cviolence and suffering\u201d have they committed against others so that <i>karma<\/i> should operate \u201cimpartially and unerringly\u201d against them?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(Surely, they had to be pure in their past life to return as humans, and should not have defects\u2013they could not have given defects to anyone for karma to subject them to defects. People who are euthanized must have been practitioners of euthanasia in a past life. A woman who has had multiple abortions must herself have been aborted several times in a past life; and so must be the doctor who performs abortions). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Page 40 of <i>The Higher Taste<\/i> says that in animals \u201ctheir intelligence and emotions are less developed,\u201d the animal is \u201cstringently controlled by his natural instincts,\u201d and are \u201ccompelled by bodily demands to follow rigid behavioral patterns.\u201d And Hinduism teaches, as Anoop Chandola states that Lord Vishnu\u2019s <i>avatars<\/i> (incarnates) include \u201cFish,\u201d \u201cTortoise,\u201d \u201cBoar,\u201d and \u201cMan-Lion\u201d (<i>The Way To True Worship<\/i>, p. 32).<br \/>\nAs the intelligence and emotions of animals are \u201cless developed,\u201d and they are controlled by \u201cnatural instincts\u201d and follow \u201crigid behavioral patterns,\u201d it does not seem reasonable that Lord Vishnu could have accomplished his purpose as these animals; nor would he have been able to return to Godhead status from these animal states; because on incarnating himself as these animals, his intelligence would have been \u201cless developed\u201d and he would have been controlled by \u201cnatural instincts\u201d and would have had to follow \u201crigid behavioral patterns,\u201d as <i>THT<\/i> says. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 29.25pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(If to incarnate Himself as man, God took birth through woman; to incarnate Himself as animals and fish God must take birth through animals and fish, which means that God was in the egg of a \u201cFish\u201d and a \u201cTortoise\u201d, and in the wombs of a \u201cBoar\u201d and a woman\u2013\u201cLion\u201d[?]).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hinduism teaches, as Swami Prabhupada notes (in his Purport to <i>Bhagavad-Gita As It Is<\/i>, 2:17): \u201cThis soul is described as one ten-thousandth part of the upper portion of the hair point in size.\u201d<br \/>\nAs the soul may occupy a form according to its <i>karma<\/i>, assuming that there is an individual in North America whose <i>karma<\/i> dictates that his soul must reborn at the bottom and work its way up again to human form, <i>i.e.<\/i> from tree to bird to fish to rhino to camel to\u2026then\u00a0after spending his life as an apple tree in B.C. and waiting for it to die or be hewn; and if <i>karma<\/i> then dictates that he should be a ghost shark, the soul <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013this \u201cone ten-thousandth part of the upper portion of the hair point in size\u201d particle\u2013<\/span> must now chart its way to the Atlantic and navigate down thousands of feet of water to the ocean floor to unite with this fish; then to the forest of South America into the egg of a harpy eagle; then over mountains and oceans, probably battling storms and hurricanes, to Africa to seek out a rhino and inhabit her; then over to Arabia to implant into a camel,\u2026and finally, if it is the will of <i>karma, <\/i>back to North America or Europe to become a blue-eyed blonde; (or to the Amazon jungle to be an Arawak Indian).\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> (Since some trees, such as the redwood, live thousands of years then the soul is \u2018trapped\u2019 for a longer period as plants than as humans and other creatures).<\/span> (This is not conducive to reason).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is not reasonable that man\u2019s soul is relegated to a lower form of life as a result of bad <i>karma. <\/i>If the soul does not remember its past life, it would be of no consequence to it what form it is made to inhabit. It would have no regrets, seeing that remorse comes through reflection on the past. But if it is conscious of its past life, it would, in all likelihood, strive not to sin. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Unless Gods are not subject to karma: regarding the hunter that killed Krishna, Krishna must have killed this hunter in a past life for this hunter to kill him; or Krishna would have to be reincarnated in order to kill this hunter, according to karma. And Rawan must have killed Rama in a past life so that Rama should have killed him; or Rawan would have to reincarnate to kill Rama, according to karma. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the case of Cain and Abel, the very first humans in creation, as there was no prior killings for Cain to kill Abel, Abel would need to be reincarnated to kill Cain. He would have to be reincarnated before Cain died or was killed by another.<br \/>\nIf Cain had killed others, Cain would have to be reborn several times for each of his victims to repay him, according to karma. And depending when and where Cain (or his victims) was reborn they would have to be informed about their duty to kill Cain and track him down. Each would have to be born in the same period that Cain was given birth.<br \/>\nAs Cain would have been returned as a sub-human for killing Abel, then Abel would have to wait until Cain had gone through the various rung of the karmic ladder\u2013from plant to beast, etc; as Hinduism teaches \u2013till he was reincarnated as man. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><i>(Abel may still be trying to find Cain).<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And in the case where a person is a mass murderer, or where one was killed by a gang, one would almost forever be undergoing rebirths only to be killed or to kill those who killed him in this past life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If karma returns a person as a human, which must be the result of righteous living in a past life, that person should not die as a babe or youth; but there are thousands who die when yet a baby or a youth. Or are still-born.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Whereas in earlier times India\u2019s \u201cintellectual inquiry and philosophical development\u201d was \u201ccomparable\u201d to the Greeks, as V.M. Tarkunde notes: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBy the 8<sup>th<\/sup> century A.D., however, the school of thought which came to prevail in the country was the other-worldly Vedant philosophy. It regarded physical existence to be an illusion, the human body to be the prison-house of the soul, and escape from the cycle of births and deaths to be the highest human ideal. Self-denial, abstinence, celibacy, desirelessness and meditation became the highest virtues. The best spirits being thus preoccupied in other-worldly pursuits, the rest of the society came easily under the domination of ambitious princes and self-seeking priests. The theory of Karma, which says that our sufferings in the present life are the result of the sins committed by us in our previous lives, reconciled the poor to their miserable lot and consolidated the prevailing caste system and the barbaric custom of untouchability.\u201d (<i>Radical Humanism<\/i>, pp. 10-11). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><i>Karma <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013<\/span><\/i><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">law of action and equal reaction\u2013<\/span> is for science. Along with his right to retaliate, man is endowed with reason and to be merciful and forgiving.<br \/>\nThe God Who gives to all human action an equal and opposite reaction is devoid of mercy: there is no room in Him for forgiveness.<br \/>\nIf karma\/reincarnation were Divine truths, trying to improve the conditions of the unfortunate <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013which is the \u201creaction\u201d to their bad karma\u2013<\/span> would be to work against karma; if such works are successful man would have subverted karma. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">6. SOUL<\/span><br \/>\nHindus are divided on the state of the reincarnated soul.<br \/>\n\u201c<i>The Vedas<\/i> explain that the soul\u2026may inhabit any of 8,400,000 general species of material bodies &#8230;the primitive microbes and amoebas\u2026the aquatic, plant, insect, reptile, bird, and animal species, and culminating in human beings and demi-gods\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">27<\/span><\/sup>; but the sage Uddalaka Aruni taught his son: \u201cWhatever these creatures are here, whether a lion, or a wolf, or a boar, or a worm, or a midge, or a gnat, or a mosquito, <strong><i>that they become again and again<\/i><\/strong>\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">28<\/span> <\/sup><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><i>(they do not reincarnate into other kingdoms<\/i>).<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">If souls reincarnate the animals, birds, fish, vegetables one eats could be his parents, relative, etc.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\nIf karma and reincarnation were Divine expressions, it would be expected that there should be no difference between the various schools of Hinduism, as to the type of creatures into which one is reincarnated.<br \/>\nThat souls do not <i>transmigrate<\/i> from one creature to another is evident from the fact that man can clone creatures and humans. Karma can not dictate that a soul enter a clone <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013which is a duplicate of a being\u2013<\/span> the being would be alive and still has its soul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Swami Dayananda wrote: (the soul) \u201cGuided by God it enters the body of some living creature with air, water, food, drink or through any one of the openings of the body. Having entered it, it gradually reaches the reproductive element, and thereby establishes itself in the womb, and is thus invested with a body and eventually born. It is clothed with a male or a female body.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">29<\/span><\/sup><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: purple;\">(Thus, according to the Swami, in being reincarnated the souls of the Hindu Gods were in the wombs of their mothers waiting to be fertilized.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">If more than one soul is to be reincarnated as egg-laying creatures these would have many souls nesting in the clusters in their wombs. A woman who has multiple births would have up to eight souls taking residency in her womb. If the soul enters the womb \u201cthrough any one of the openings of the body,\u201d how does the soul enter a seed when it has to be reincarnated as a tree, and in the case of a seedless plant?<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">If the soul sits in the woman\u2019s \u201cwomb\u201d where does it sit in the man? his testicles? eunuchs have no testicles. If the soul enters a barren or menopausal woman it might sit in her womb till the woman dies). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Swami states: \u201cHe (God) caused the soul to enter the body and He Himself entered the soul thereafter.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">30<\/span><\/sup><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Thus, since the soul is incarnated as dogs, rats, cats, and pigs, God eats all the things these animals eat, and dwells in the same conditions as these animals dwell (?)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We occasionally read of an individual recalling about having had an experience in a distant place and\/or of a past time. While this is an extraordinary phenomenon, it is no proof of reincarnation. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(Everyone should remember his\/her past life if reincarnation was a reality).<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">I<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">f<\/span> a person who recalls event(s) from a past era must be deemed to have lived in that time, then those people who foretell the future must be deemed to have lived in the future. While we read of people claiming to have had an experience of a past life, we do not, however, hear of anyone relating having had an experience of life in the future (i.e. of heaven). There must be many that were in heaven, for as Swami Prabhupada explained the Gita 8:3: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn the process of sacrifice, the living entity makes specific sacrifices to attain specific heavenly planets and consequently reaches them. When the merit of sacrifice is exhausted, the living entity descends to earth in the form of rain\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Thus, with the many monsoons and hurricanes plus the regular rainfalls per year there must be hundreds of billions who were on \u201cheavenly planets.\u201d However, we are yet to hear of a report of anyone relating his\/ her account of heaven. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If souls are reincarnated as various creatures they must remember their past lives and be master linguists\u2013in both human and animal speech\u2013having experienced lives as these creatures; and the souls <i>must<\/i> remember their past lives seeing that God is inside the soul, and God is Omniscient. In fact, every one or nearly everyone should be a master linguist. But there are no such known individuals <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013in the nearly two billion years since the Veda is said to have been revealed, there should be legions; surely with such talents one would come forth to be known.<\/span><br \/>\nIf the soul does not remember its past life then a person who relates an experience of a past time cannot attribute such an experience to reincarnation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The souls as animals can be said to be at no disadvantage, nor as a means of punishment for a past life of evil. An animal is suited to its kingdom. A worm, dog, cat, cockroach, etc; must be just as comfortable and happy in its state and surroundings as man <i>(generally)<\/i> is in his. In fact, the souls, in some cases, are worse off in the form of man than they are in the form of animals if we take into account the miseries man suffers at the hands of his fellow man <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013enslavement, torture, eviction; discrimination, as in the caste system.<\/span> Consider how some dogs and cats are treated regally, pampered, well nourished, and may even inherit their master\u2019s will.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: purple;\">(These dogs and cats could not have been humans relegated to animals, so as to be pampered in reward for pampering animals in a past life. Because, according to karma, those who do good go to a higher form of life, not to a lower form. In the physical sphere, man, by virtue of his ability to reason, is the highest form of life. If sub-humans had wisdom bees and hornets, by virtue of their size, sting and flight might be ruling the world \u2013forcing man to constantly wear armor. And apes, that have hands as man, would be designing sky-scrapers and bullet trains and powering space-crafts and ocean liners).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Souls do not come from any external place to join with the fetus. The limbs and soul are latent in the life-germ much like the parts and fragrance of a plant are latent in its seed\u2013(Qur\u2019an 23:12-14). As the fragrance of the flower, though a different medium, manifests from the seed likewise the soul, though a different medium, manifests from the cell according to the laws inscribed by All\u0101h, God. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hindus are divided as to the status of the soul after its <span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">emancipation from the cycle of deaths and births. Whereas Swami Dayananda is of the view that \u201cThe emancipated soul\u2026.is again born into this world;\u201d it is said that <\/span>\u201cAll other writers teach and all the world believes that the <i>Emancipation<\/i> is that condition from which <strong><i>no soul returns to this world<\/i><\/strong> and becomes subject to births and deaths\u201d<span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">31<\/span><\/sup><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><span style=\"background: yellow;\">.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: purple;\">(As noted,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=475\">Swami Dayananda<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: purple;\">quotes the Mundak Upanishad, III, 2, 6, as saying that the soul, after enjoying its emancipation, \u201cis again born into this world.\u201d <strong><i>But this teaching is not of the Vedas<\/i><\/strong>.<br \/>\nIf there was such a teaching in the Vedas (and moreover a clear teaching) it is reasonable that the Swami would have used it for his quote, rather than using the Mundak Upanishad.<br \/>\nAlso whereas the Mundak says that the soul, after its emancipation \u201cis again born into this world,\u201d it is said that \u201cAll other writers teach and all the world believes that the <i>Emancipation<\/i> is that condition from which <strong><i>no soul returns to this world<\/i><\/strong> and becomes subject to births and deaths.\u201d However the Swami disagrees with this view, and gave arguments to support the Mundak Upanishad.<br \/>\nBut the Swami\u2019s submission is irrelevant. If the Vedas were clear on this issue \u2013and it is expected that cardinal doctrines of a religion be clearly expressed and not left to the function of interpretation\u2013 it is hardly likely that there would be an opposing view). (Italics\/emphasis added).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">7. MOKSA:<\/span><br \/>\nHinduism teaches the belief of <i>moksa <\/i>or \u201cLiberation\u201d of the soul from the cycle of deaths and rebirths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If the universe is \u201cself-creating, self-dissolving, self-manifesting,\u201d there is no God in control of it, and if the soul is \u201cunborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval,\u201d it is not reasonable that our actions <i>(karma)<\/i> can generate a force which can trap the soul in a cycle of deaths and births.<br \/>\nIf the soul can \u2018liberate\u2019 itself then this means that the soul has personality\/character, it is not reasonable that this <i>independent<\/i> soul having a choice would elect to inhabit sub-human bodies and, from a human standpoint, to dwell in lowly conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If the universe is \u201cself-creating, self-dissolving, self-manifesting\u201d and if the soul is \u201cunborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval,\u201d we would have three independent sources <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013matter, soul, and God.<br \/>\n<\/span>Unless the soul is a willing participant or is held captive by God, it is doubtful that this <i>independent <\/i>soul would allow another to dictate to it as to what is good and what is bad. God subjecting this \u201cconscious\u201d independent soul into bondage is the same as man taking man into slavery \u2013an injustice. God, whether we call him <i>Eli, Ishwar,<\/i> or <i>Allah<\/i> is not unjust.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: purple;\">(God taking this soul into bondage is not the same as a king ruling his subjects. The king receives treasures from his subjects, but God does not. The king can be slain and overthrown by his subjects but God cannot be slain or overthrown by the souls. The subjects can be slain but the soul cannot be slain. If God gives the souls punishment in judgment through karma, man is keeping Him busy with their cloning, grafting of new plants, and crossbreeding of new animals, for Him to assign errant souls into. And the forest fires that ravage North America and elsewhere, the souls that inhabit this multitude of trees, were their term of karmic reaction expired for them to be razed or did they suffer premature death?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If our works (<i>karma<\/i>) can generate a force that could \u2018trap\u2019 the soul into a cycle of rebirths, there is no need to sing praises to God in order to achieve heavenly bliss. In fact there would be no need for belief in God. All that would be required to attain \u2018liberation\u2019 and heavenly bliss is to avoid harm to others.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLiberation\u201d <i>(moksa)<\/i> of the soul is \u201cattainable only by a male of twice-born genus who has followed the sacrificial code through the three life stages of student, householder, and forest dweller\u201d\u2013(<i>Ency; Brit<\/i>; 15<sup>th<\/sup> Ed; Vol. 3, p. 988).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As noted, Moksa is the liberation of the soul from the cycle of deaths and rebirths (reincarnation); and is attainable only by MALES.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However.\u00a0As shown, reincarnation is NOT a Divine doctrine. Thus, as there is no deaths and rebirths <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(reincarnation)<\/span> from which to be liberated <span style=\"color: #800080;\">THERE IS NO MOKSA.<br \/>\n<\/span>Wikipedia notes: \u201cThe Vedas suggest three goals of man: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kama\">kama<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artha\">artha<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dharma\">dharma<\/a>.<\/span> To these, the Upanishadic era added\u00a0<em>moksha<\/em>. The acceptance of the concept of\u00a0<em>moksha<\/em>\u00a0in some schools of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hindu_philosophy\">Hindu philosophy<\/a><\/span>\u00a0was slow. <em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">These refused to recognize\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">moksha\u00a0for centuries, considering it irrelevant.<\/span><\/em>\u201d (Emphasis added).\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moksa\/Moksha, is the liberation of the soul from the cycle of rebirths and deaths \u2013reincarnation. But as there is no Divine doctrine of reincarnation and karma, then Moksa, which is based on reincarnation and karma, is not only \u201cirrelevant\u201d, Moksa does not exist. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(See also\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/vedkabhed.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/25\/no-reincarnation-no-moksha-no-mukti-in-the-vedas\/\">https:\/\/vedkabhed.wordpress. com\/2013\/01\/25\/no-reincar nation-no-moksha-no-mukti-in-the-vedas\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">8. HELL:<\/span><br \/>\nHinduism also teaches the existence of \u201chell\u201d: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cThe friends have sung in unison, the prudent wish<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080; line-height: 1.5;\">to sacrifice: Down sink the unintelligent.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">(\u201c<i>Down sink<\/i>: <i>narake<\/i>, into hell, says Sayana.)\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080; line-height: 1.5;\">(Ralph T. H. Griffith, <\/span><i style=\"color: #800080; line-height: 1.5;\">Hymns Of The RgVeda,<br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Book IX. Hymn LXIV. Verse 21,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080; line-height: 1.5;\">note # 21, Vol. 2, pp. 338, 339).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe demoniac person\u2026they become too strongly attached to sense enjoyment and fall down into hell\u201d\u2013(Bhagavad-Gita, 16: 16). And Arjuna says to Lord Krishna that he heard \u201cthat those who destroy family traditions dwell always in hell\u201d\u2013(<i>Ibid.<\/i> 1:43).<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: purple;\">If humans were reincarnated into forms according to their good or bad deeds (karma), it would seem needless to have a \u201chell.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This hell could not be a rebirth into a lower class of animal.\u00a0 As noted above, the souls as animals can be said to be at no disadvantage, nor as a means of punishment for a past life of evil. An animal is suited to its kingdom. A worm, dog, cat, cockroach, etc; must be just as comfortable and happy in its state and surroundings as man <i>(generally)<\/i> is in his. In fact, the souls, in some cases, are worse off in the form of man than they are in the form of animals if we take into account the miseries man suffers at the hands of his fellow man<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> \u2013enslavement, torture, eviction; discrimination, as in the caste system.<\/span> Consider how some dogs and cats are treated regally, pampered, well nourished, and may even inherit their master\u2019s will.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">9. HEAVEN:<\/span><br \/>\nAs explained by Swami Dayananda one Divine day is 4,320,000,000 years; and the period of the Grand Dissolution of the universe, which is known as the \u201cduration of Emancipation\u201d of the soul, is said to be \u201c3,11,040,000,000,000 years;\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">32<\/span><\/sup> and he quotes the Mundak Upanishad, III, 2, 6, as saying that the soul, after enjoying its emancipation \u201cis again born into this world.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">33<\/span><\/sup> And that:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 21pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe <i>emancipated<\/i> soul roams about in the Infinite All-pervading God as it desires, sees all nature through pure knowledge, meets other <i>emancipated<\/i> souls, <i>sees<\/i> all the laws of nature in operation, goes about in all the worlds visible and invisible, sees all objects that it comes across, the more its knowledge increases the happier it feels. Being altogether pure, the soul acquires perfect knowledge of all hidden things in the state of Emancipation. This extreme bliss alone is called Heaven <i>(swarga).<\/i>\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">34<\/span><\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Imagine this soul <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013this \u201cone ten thousandth part of the upper portion of the hair point in size,<\/span>\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">35<\/span><\/sup>\u2013 \u2018roaming\u2019 the vast galaxies for some 3.11 trillion years, and meeting other souls. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As noted, the length of the soul\u2019s \u201cduration of Emancipation\u201d is \u201c3,11,040,000,000,000 years.\u201d So, this eternal soul, being of the same \u201c<i>essence<\/i>\u201d as God, as the Swami wrote, after spending perhaps one billion years <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013about quarter the Divine day\u2013<\/span>dwelling in and feeding on refuse, and other lowly conditions this soul now \u201croams about\u201d freely in heaven for more than 3.11 trillion years, where it \u201cacquires perfect knowledge of all hidden things\u201d <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(only to forget it afterwards),<\/span> and eventually returns to earth to spend 4<strong>.<\/strong>32 billion years, perhaps some as sub-humans, to again \u2018roam\u2019 in heaven for another 3.11 trillion years, receiving the same knowledge, and forgetting. Repeating this cycle again and again and&#8230; <i>Ad infinitum.<\/i><sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/sup> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Interestingly, as noted, Swami Dayananda quotes the Mundak Upanishad as saying that the soul, after enjoying its emancipation \u201cis again born into this world.\u201d<br \/>\nBut this teaching is not of the Vedas. If there was such a teaching in the Vedas it is reasonable that the Swami would have used it for his quote, rather than using the Mundak Upanishad.<br \/>\nAlso whereas the Mundak says that the soul, after its emancipation \u201cis again born into this world,\u201d it is said that \u201cAll other writers teach and all the world believes that the Emancipation is that condition from which no soul returns to this world and becomes subject to births and deaths.\u201d However the Swami disagrees with this view, and gave arguments to support the Mundak Upanishad.<br \/>\nBut the Swami\u2019s submission is irrelevant. If the Vedas were clear on this issue \u2013and it is expected that cardinal doctrines of a religion be clearly expressed and not left to the function of interpretation\u2013 it is hardly likely that there would be an opposing view.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the Gita 10:28, Krishna declares, \u201camong cows I am the surabhi.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd Swami Prabhupada explains: \u201cIn Krsnaloka in the spiritual sky there are cows which can be milked at any time, and they give as much milk as one likes. Of course such cows do not exist in this material world, but there is mention of them in Krsnaloka. The Lord keeps many such cows, which are called <i>surabhi.<\/i> It is stated that the Lord is engaged in herding the <i>surabhi<\/i> cows.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If man should live to be a million years, it is doubtful that he would tire of a life of affluence and would deem it \u201cinfinite misery;\u201d when in fact his rat race in this world is, without doubt, driven by his desire for a life of ease and luxury. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(A survey should be carried out to determine how many individuals would prefer the Hindu heaven <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013to be with Krishna \u201cherding the <i>surabhi<\/i> cows;\u201d and to roam the heavens for 3.11 trillion years, gathering knowledge, and forgetting it\u2013<\/span> and to return to earth, possibly as sub-humans, for some four billion years dwelling in sub-human conditions; and how many Hindus, affluent and destitute, would prefer a life in the Hindu heaven instead of life in the Muslim paradise <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013of splendorous Gardens, fine garments and fruits, and magnificent companions for eternity<\/span>). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">10. WOMAN:<\/span><br \/>\nHinduism regards Woman as being of lower birth: the <i>Bhagavad Gita<\/i> teaches, as Krishna says: <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201c\u2026those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth\u2013women, vaisyas [merchants]\u2026.\u201d \u2013(Gita 9:32). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to \u201cthe laws given by Manu in his <i>Dharma Shastra\u201d<\/i>: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><i>\u201c\u2026In childhood, must a female be dependent on her father, in youth on her husband, her lord (husband) being dead, on her sons. A woman must never seek independence.\u201d\u201d <\/i><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Manu says: <i>\u201cThough the husband be cruel and untrue to his wife, this does not free her from her obligations to him. Though unobservant of approved usages, or enamoured of another woman, or devoid of good qualities, yet a husband must constantly be revered as a god by a virtuous wife. Although the wife must honour her husband as a god, and remain a widow after his death, the husband, seven years after marriage, if there be no son, may supersede her by another wife. A wife who speaks unkindly may be put aside without delay. If a wife drinks, shows hatred \u00a0to her lord, is mischievous, or wastes his property, she may at any time be superseded by another wife.\u201d <\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 The wife is forbidden certain worship: <i>\u201cNo sacrifice is allowed to women apart from their husbands, no religious rite, no fasting. As far as only as a wife honors her husband, so far she is exalted in heaven. A faithful wife who wishes to attain in heaven the mansion of her husband must do nothing unkind to him, be he living or dead.\u201d <\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 She is required to incinerate herself on her husband\u2019s funeral pyre: <i>\u201cIt is proper for a woman, after her hus-band\u2019s death to burn herself in the fire with his corpse; every woman who thus burns herself shall remain in paradise with her husband 35,000,000 years by destiny;\u201d \u201dDying with her husband, she sanctifies her maternal and paternal ancestors, and the ancestors of him to whom she gave her virginity.\u201d <\/i>Also, <i>\u201cConfidence must not be placed in women.\u201d \u201cIf one trusts a woman, without doubt he must wander about the street as a beggar.\u201d <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><i>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">\u201cManu debarred women from reading or listening to the <i>Vedas<\/i>.\u201d And \u201cafter being seven years old, the sooner a girl is married, the better.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">37<\/span> <\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">Like Islam, Hinduism also allows polygamy. King Dasrat had three wives, Kausiliya, Sumitra, and Kaikeya. Krishna had more than one wife:<\/span> Krishna \u201cmarried the princess Rukmini and took other wives as well.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">38<\/span> <\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hinduism allows <i>polyandry<\/i>\u2013Draupadi had five Pandava brothers as husbands at one time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hinduism also allows <i>Niyoga <\/i><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013contract marriages\u2013<\/span> in which a childless widow\/widower can have temporary marriages with up to \u201celeven\u201d spouses, one after the other, for raising children; and in a marriage where the husband is sterile or the wife suffers from a chronic disease; and also \u201cIf a man be not able to control his passions while his wife and she is pregnant, he may contract <i>Niyoga <\/i>with (a widow) and beget offspring on her.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">39<\/span><\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(<i>Niyoga<\/i> \u201cis the temporary union of a person with an-other of the opposite sex\u201d, under certain circumstances, for the purpose of producing children\u2013(Swami Dayananda Saraswati, <i>Light Of Truth<\/i>, p. 731)<br \/>\nExcept in the case where the marriage has not been consummated, remarriage is not permitted so long as \u201cthe other party is alive.\u201d However, \u201cremarriage is absolutely prohibited in the case of a twice-born man or woman (<i>i.e<\/i>., one belonging to a <i>Brahman, Kshatriya<\/i> or <i>Vaishya Class<\/i>) who has had sexual intercourse with his or her consort\u201d, says the Swami. <i>(And he numerates four reasons, and states)<\/i>: \u201cFor these reasons, remarriage, <strong><i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">polygamy<\/span><\/i><\/strong> and <strong><i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">polyandry<\/span><\/i><\/strong> are prohibited in the case of the twice-born.\u201d\u2013(Light Of Truth, pp. 129, 130. Italics\/emphasis added). Which means that \u201cpolygamy and polyandry\u201d are allowed for those who are not \u201ctwice-born\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Swami Dayananda quotes the Rig Veda as saying:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u201cO thou who art fit to procreate and art strong, do thou raise upon the married wife or upon these widows, with whom thou hast contracted <i>Niyoga<\/i>, good children, and make them happy. Do thou beget with on thy married wife ten children, and consider her the eleventh (member of thy family). O woman! Let ten children be raised on thee by the married husband or thy husbands by <i>Niyoga <\/i>and do thou consider thy husband as the eleventh (member of thy family.\u201d\u2013(Rig Veda X, 85, 48). (LOT, pp. 131-132). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA man may also contract <i>Niyoga <\/i>with eleven women (one after the other), just as a woman may enter into the relation of <i>Niyoga <\/i>with eleven men (one after the other)\u201d, the Swami wrote, citing the Rig Veda, X, 85, 45: \u201c\u2026..take unto thyself the eleventh husband by <i>Niyoga<\/i>.\u201d\u2013(LOT, p. 136). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Niyoga<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> \u201ccan be entered into even in the lifetime of the husband (or of the wife)\u201d, according to the Swami. And he quotes the Rig Veda: \u201cWhen a man is incapable of producing children, let him address his wife as follows: \u2013O Thou that art desirous of getting children do not expect me to raise off-spring upon thee. Do thou, therefore, seek another husband.\u201d The woman seeking to contract <i>Niyoga<\/i>, should, however, continue to serve her husband by marriage; similarly when a woman on account of some chronic disease is rendered incapable of bearing children, let her address the following words to her husband. \u201cMy Lord! Do not expect me to bear any children. Do thou, therefore, contract <i>Niyoga<\/i> with a widow.\u201d (LOT, p. 137).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n(This arrangement would seem to have the potential for breaking up a marriage, or engender adultery, should either the husband\/wife find that one of the men\/women of Niyoga to be more fulfilling than his or her spouse).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 9pt; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Niyoga<\/i> may be entered into by a husband while his wife \u201cis pregnant\u201d, as the Swami states: \u201cIf a man be not able to control his passions while his wife and she is pregnant, he may contract <i>Niyoga <\/i>with (a widow) and beget offspring on her, but let him never misconduct himself with a prostitute or commit adultery.\u201d\u2013(LOT, p. 140).<\/span><br \/>\n(And if the husband cannot equal his wife\u2019s passion, or if he suffers from some prolonged emasculating ailment and she cannot control her passions, the wife should also be able to supplement the husband\u2019s affections, by contracting Niyoga with a widower.<br \/>\nLike, as stated above, this relation would seem to have the potential of being a home-wrecker or encourage adultery).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Children born of the <i>Niyoga<\/i> relation belongs to the person for whose benefit <i>Niyoga<\/i> was contracted: \u201cO widow!\u2026.if thou contractest <i>Niyoga<\/i> for the benefit of thy second husband\u2026.the child resulting from this union shall belong to him.; but if thou enterest into the relation of <i>Niyoga<\/i> for thy benefit, the child shall be thine\u201d\u2013(Rig Veda, 18, 8)(LOT, p. 135<span style=\"color: purple;\">).<br \/>\n(But this would be denying the children the love and nurturing of one parent.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Allah God tells us to hold fast to family ties).<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 9pt; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<i>Niyoga <\/i>lasts only so long as two or four children are not born according as it has been contracted for the benefit of one of the parties, or of both. They should not approach each other after this. In this way ten children may be produced by successive <i>Niyogas.<\/i> Sexual congress after this is regarded as proceeding from lust. Hence, those who resort to it are degraded (from their <i>Class<\/i>). Even if married people cohabit with each other after they have produced ten children, they are considered lustful and held in great contempt, because marriage and <i>Niyoga<\/i> are entered into for the object of getting children but not for the gratification of passions like animals,\u201d the Swami wrote. (LOT, p. 137<i>).<br \/>\n<\/i><\/span>(So if a man of 25 and a woman of 16 produces ten children by the ages of 55 and 46, respectively, then these fairly young and active man and woman are to go through the rest of their lives suppressing their natural masculine and feminine needs. God should not have instilled in them this passion then.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">But Allah God tells us that He has created man and woman and has put love and affection between them, to be shared for as long as they live (or are capable). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to Hinduism\u2019s \u201crules of sexual intercourse\u201d there are, in a month, \u201cten nights out of which it is best to choose one for sexual intercourse,\u201d states the Swami. And \u201cthere should be no sexual intercourse till the return\u201d of the wife\u2019s period, \u201cor, in case of pregnancy for one year,\u201d he says. This rule of abstinence from conjugal relations also applies in the case of <i>Niyoga<\/i>, where the parties \u201cshould declare before an assembly of their male and female relations that they enter into the relation of <i>Niyoga <\/i>for begetting children, they will have sexual congress for <i>generating a new life<\/i> once a month, in case conception takes place they will not co-habit for one year. If they should go against that declaration they should be considered as sinners and should be liable to punishment by the State and the Society,\u201d the Swami wrote. (LOT, pp. 21, 133, resp).\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n(Whereas a celibate can control the mating impulses, an individual having experienced this act, even though he may have practiced celibacy for most of his life, would likely find it difficult to refrain from it for a year. Perhaps even stressful. This may lead to illicit relations.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In Islam, marriage is for life. If spouses are not fulfilling to the other, they are allowed to end the marriage). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The unchaste Hindu woman is subjected to a ritual: \u201cA woman who has been unchaste should worship Siva in his calm aspect, Siva who is Kama. Then she should summon a Brahmin and give herself to him, thinking, \u2018This is Kama who has come for the sake of sexual pleasure.\u2019 And whatever the Brahmin wishes, the sensuous woman should do. For thirteen months she should honour in this way any Brahmin who comes to the house for the sake of sexual pleasures, and there is no immorality in this for noble ladies or prostitutes.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe Brahmin guest represents \u015aiva\/K\u0101ma, who purifies the woman whom he seduces, for extreme sexual licence may remove sexual stigma, just as extreme<i> tapas<\/i> (austerity) does.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">40<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And for the Hindu wife and husband guilty of \u201cmisconduct\u201d:<br \/>\n\u201cShould a wife out of her family pride desert her husband and misconduct herself, let the king condemn her to be devoured by dogs before all men and women. Similarly should a husband forsake his wife and misconduct himself with other women, let the king cause that sinner to be burnt alive publicly on a red hot iron-bed.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">41<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">11: VEGETARIANISM:<\/span><br \/>\nAccording to Anoop Chandola, \u201cThe Dravidians are conjectured to have added such aspects as yoga, <i>puja<\/i> (\u201chonor\u201d or \u201cworship,\u201d especially image worship), <strong><i>vegetarianism<\/i><\/strong>, and several deities including Shiva and Mother Goddess Uma.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">42<\/span><\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">Rajagopalachari points out that \u201cit has always been the rule in India to permit any food legitimately obtained and consecrated as a sacrifice.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">43<\/span><\/sup><br \/>\n\u201cThe eating of beef, previously countenanced, is later absolutely prohibited. In the Mahabharata there are references to beef or veal being offered to honoured guests,\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">44<\/span><\/sup> states Jawaharlal Nehru.<br \/>\nSheldon Pollock points out that \u201cRama and Laksmana killed many animals\u2026and ate them.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">45<\/span><\/sup><br \/>\nSwami Prabhupada notes that \u201canimal killing in a sacrifice is recom-mended in the Vedic literature.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">46<\/span><\/sup><br \/>\nAnd Swami Dayananda wrote: \u201cThe <i>Aryas <\/i>should neither themselves kill such useful animals as cows, nor let others do the same (as cows give milk and calves) \u2026.\u201cTherefore, it is that the <i>Aryas<\/i> have always regarded the cow as the most useful animal.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">47<br \/>\n<\/span><\/sup><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">Hinduism\u2019s vegetarianism is economy than theology.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Krishna\u2019s saying: \u201cIf one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it\u201d\u2013(Gita 9:26), does not mean that only vegetarian offerings are accepted. It is not the worth of the gift that is taken into consideration, but one\u2019s motive, as defined by the words \u201cwith love and devotion.\u201d Even simple inexpensive offerings are acceptable, as long as it is offered \u201cwith love and devotion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">Krishna instructs the yogi to \u201clay kusa grass on the ground and then cover it with a deerskin\u201d\u2013(Gita 6:11-12).<br \/>\n<\/span>The yogi cannot get \u201cdeerskin\u201d if animal is not to be killed. The yogi would have to find a dead deer; and even a recent dead one. Though some may consider it an abomination to skin a dead animal.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">(Without being cynical, the Hindu would have to go to the Muslim butcher to kill this deer to get him his deerskin. Though Hindus (not all) condemn the Muslim for killing animals and even kill Muslims for their religion and destroy Masjids; the most notable being the 500-year old Babri Masjid).<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">The Rgveda says of the Maruts, who are noted as \u201cdeified mortals,\u201d that \u201cDeerskins are on their shoulders.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">48<\/span><\/sup><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">It is strange \u201cdeified mortals\u201d would garland themselves in \u201cDeerskins\u201d if killing animals were forbidden.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Describing an arrow \u201cmade of a piece of a deer\u2019s horn and attached to the shaft with leather strings,\u201d as Griffith explains, the Rgveda states: \u201cHer tooth a deer, dressed in an eagle\u2019s feather, bound with<span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\"> cow-hide<\/span>, launched forth, She flieth onward.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">49<\/span><\/sup><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Unless this deer was killed or dead it would be cruel to cut off its \u201chorn.\u201d Surely the cow would have to be killed <i>(or be dead)<\/i> to get its skin to make leather to \u201cbound\u201d the arrow. To buy leather would be condoning others killing cows.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ideal situation could not be \u201cvegetarianism\u201d seeing that God had \u201crespect\u201d for Abel\u2019s animal offering and \u201chad not respect\u201d for Cain\u2019s \u201cfruit\u201d offering\u201d\u2013(Genesis 4:1-5); and when He gave instructions all over the place, from Genesis to Deutoronomy <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013from Noah to Moses\u2013<\/span> to utilize the meat of animals. Animals are allowed as food\u2013(Genesis 9:3); as proof of innocence of murder, in which (they) \u201cshall strike off the heifer\u2019s neck there in the valley\u201d\u2013(Deuteronomy. 21:1-9); and as an offering to God\u2013(Leviticus 1:2). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Condemning the eating of meat, which eating of meat is recommended by God, is unGodly. In fact when Noah, after the Flood, \u201coffered burnt offerings\u201d \u201cof every clean beast, and of every clean fowl\u201d <strong><span style=\"color: purple;\">\u201c<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: purple;\">the Lord smelled a <strong>SWEET SAVOUR\u201d<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u2013<\/strong>(Genesis 8:20-21).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">12. CASTISM:<\/span><br \/>\nHinduism has a four-tiered caste system. This caste system is rooted in the Veda and the Bhagavad-Gita.<br \/>\nThe Rig Veda says:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cWhen they divided Purusa how many<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080; line-height: 1.5;\">portions did they make?<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">What do they call his mouth, his arms?<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080; line-height: 1.5;\">What do they call his thighs and feet?<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The <span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">Brahman<\/span> was his mouth,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080; line-height: 1.5;\">of both his arms was the<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080; line-height: 1.5; background-color: #ffff00;\"> Rajanya<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080; line-height: 1.5;\"> made.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">His thighs became the <span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">Vaisya,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">from his feet the <span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">Sudra<\/span> was produced.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">(X. XC. 11-12. Vol. 2, p. 559).<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">50<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the Bhagavad-Gita:\u201d Brahmans, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras are distinguished by the qualities born of their own natures in accordance with the material modes\u201d\u2013(Bhagavad-Gita, As It Is, 18:41-44). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Whereas Brahmans and ksatriyas are considered the higher, women, vaisyas, and sudras are said to be of the lower castes or \u201clower births\u201d: Krishna says:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cthose who take shelter in Me, though they be<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">of <\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">lower birth<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> \u2013women, vaisyas [merchants]<br \/>\n<\/span>and sudras [workers]\u2013can attain<br \/>\nthe supreme destination.\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">(Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, 9:32).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Whereas a person can increase intellectually or regress regardless of the mental status of his\/her parents, if these division of castes were one of merit and not of class, women could not be categorized as being of \u201clower birth,\u201d as the Gita teaches. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">V. M. Tarkunde states: \u201cThe theory of Karma, which says that our sufferings in the present life are the result of the sins committed by us in our previous lives, reconciled the poor to their miserable lot and consolidated the prevailing caste system and the barbaric custom of untouchability.\u201d (<i>Radical Humanism<\/i>, pp. 10-11). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">13. ORIGIN OF HINDUISM:<\/span><br \/>\nSwami Prabhupada wrote that Buddha is \u201cthe incarnation of Krsna.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">51<\/span><\/sup><br \/>\nBut A. H. Vidyarthi notes that Buddha \u201cdiscarded the doctrine of incarnation to which a man and an animal is believed to be as God,\u201d and he \u201cdisbelieved in the unreasonable teachings of the Vedas as well as in their Divine Origin.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">52<\/span><\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If Krishna is God, whether Krishna came as Buddha (or any other) he should not \u2018discard\u2019 his \u201cdoctrine of incarnation,\u201d which is not only a fundamental doctrine, but he would be \u2018discarding\u2019 his own doctrine. He should not \u2018disbelieve\u2019 the \u201cDivine Origin\u201d of the Vedas, he would be disbelieving in himself; for as he says, that he is the \u201ccompiler of Vedanta\u201d and the \u201cknower of the Vedas.\u201d <i>(See the following text.) <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Krishna says in the <i>Gita<\/i>, (9:17, 15:15 respectively):\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI am also the Rg, the Sama and the Yajur Vedas.\u201d \u201cBy all the Vedas, I am to be known. Indeed, I am the compiler of Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd in his book <i>The Way To True Worship<\/i>, (p. 1), Anoop Chandola wrote: \u201cThe first recorded book of the Hindus is the <i>Rig Veda<\/i>. In it, \u201cbeing\u201d or <i>sat<\/i> is said to have its beginning in non-being or <i>asat<\/i>. More than a thousand years later,<i>\u00a0<\/i>the <i>Bhagavad Gita<\/i> challenged this view, holding that there is no \u201cnon-being\u201d state of being.\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">If Krishna is the <i>Rg Veda<\/i> and \u201cthe knower of the Vedas\u201d and the \u201ccompiler of Vedanta\u201d, as he declared, he should not have \u201cchallenged\u201d the teaching of the <i>Rg Veda<\/i> more than a thousand years later in the <i>Bhagavad Gita<\/i>. He is clearly challenging himself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Regarding the teachings of Hinduism. Lin Yutang notes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Sankhya philosophers believed that the world consists of two principles, souls and the material world, the <i>Prakriti<\/i>, or Nature, while the Vedanta philosophers believed in one all-comprising unity. Out of such debates in the forest grew these books.\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u201c\u2026the final consummation of Vedic philosophy is to be found in <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Bhagavad-Gita, <\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">written perhaps two centuries later, when an ardent devotion to a personal God took the place of these barren speculations. According to Buddhist records, there were as many as sixty-three con-fusing schools of philosophy at the time of Buddha (563-483 B.C.), which explained Buddha\u2019s revolt at their futile reasonings and ritualism.\u201d<\/span><sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">53<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jawaharlal Nehru wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe early Vedic Aryans\u2026.paid little attention to the soul.\u00a0\u00a0 In\u00a0\u00a0 a vague way they believed in some kind of existence after death. Gradually the conception of God grows: there are the Olympian type of gods, and then monotheism, and later, rather mixed with it, the conception of monism.\u201d<br \/>\nThat \u201cforeign elements\u201d brought their customs into India. And:<br \/>\n\u201cMany of these customs were unlike those of the Aryans, and so a curious mixture of opposing ideas and customs is observable\u2026.Gradually the absorption of the earlier indigenous elements as well as of new-comers was taking place, and <strong><i>the Vedic religion was being modified accordingly. It was beginning to take that all inclusive form which led to modern Hinduism<\/i><\/strong><i>.<\/i>\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">54<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><i>Britannica<\/i> explains: \u201cHinduism has developed slowly from the synthesis of sacrificial cults brought into India by the Aryan invaders of about 1500 BC with the religions of the various indigenous peoples they conquered;\u201d its \u201creligious belief, custom, and practice has been influenced by Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Islam, the tribal religions of Central Asian nomads, and perhaps even Chinese Taoism.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">55<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din points out:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndia was the home of rank idolatry. But to-day, the worship of the stone is back number there. \u201cThe Brahmins and the Aryas, the two prominent off-shoots of Hinduism in India, hate idolatry and break images. Brahma\u2019s creed, the earlier of the two, was started by Raja Ram Mohan Rai, <span style=\"color: red;\">who received his monotheistic inspirations from the Qur-\u2019an,<\/span> as he admits himself in his writings. Arya Samaj did the same. <span style=\"color: red;\">Even the staunch advocates of stone-worship now seek apologies for it.<\/span> They take pains to make it quite plain that \u201cthey are not polytheists in reality.\u201d They worship One God, but to concentrate their mind on the Great Unseen and Unknown they need something perceivable; hence the image <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><i>(Why not concentrate on the written name of God instead; or best yet come to Islam).<\/i> <\/span>What influence else than Islam can claim the credit for this wonderful change in Hindu theology? There was nothing in the Vedas \u2013the Hindu Bible\u2013 a Book of Element-worship, as it at present stands \u2013to inspire faith in One God. Traditional Christianity \u2013the so-called historic\u2013 herself benighted in such matters, could not guide others to these lofty ideas. To-day, the worship of more than one god is on the wane and Muslim monotheism hailed everywhere.\u201d<sup><span style=\"background: yellow;\">56<\/span><\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=137\">Qur\u2019an<\/a> <\/span>contains teachings of past Scriptures that are applicable for all time\u2013(Qur\u2019an 98:2-3). and has teachings not met with in previous Revelations. Thus, the Qur\u2019an consists of, exceeds, and supersedes all Scriptures.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">How aptly and succinctly then All\u0101h God calls us to reason: \u00a0What reason have you that you believe not in Allah?\u2013(Qur\u2019an 77:50; 57:8).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hinduism is complexity, mythology and uncertainty.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Islam is simplicity, Divinity and certainty:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSurely the owners of the Garden are on that day in a happy occupation. They and their\u00a0<strong>wives\u00a0<\/strong>are in shades, reclining on raised couches\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 36:56)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cEnter the garden, you and your\u00a0<strong>wives\u00a0<\/strong>being made happy\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 43:70;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAnd those who believe and whose\u00a0<strong>off-spring\u00a0<\/strong>follow them in faith \u2013We unite them with their offspring and We shall deprive them of naught of their work. Every man is pledged for his work\u201d\u2013Qur\u2019an 52:21)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAnd whoever does good deeds, whether male or FEMALE, and he (or she) is a believer \u2013these will enter the Garden, and they will NOT be dealt with a whit unjustly\u201d\u2013Qur\u2019an 4:124)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSurely the men who submit and the\u00a0<strong>women\u00a0<\/strong>who submit, and the believing men and the believing\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>women<\/strong>, and the obeying men and the obeying\u00a0<strong>women<\/strong>, and the truthful men and the truthful\u00a0<strong>women<\/strong>, and the patient men and the patient <strong>women<\/strong>, and the humble men and the humble\u00a0<strong>women,\u00a0<\/strong>and the alms-giving men and the alms-giving\u00a0<strong>women,\u00a0<\/strong>and the fasting men and the fasting\u00a0<strong>women,<\/strong>\u00a0and the men who guard their private parts and the\u00a0<strong>women<\/strong>\u00a0who guard, and the men who remember Allah much and the\u00a0<strong>women<\/strong>\u00a0who remember\u00ad \u2013Allah has prepared for\u00a0<strong>THEM<\/strong>\u00a0FORGIVENESS AND A <strong>MIGHTY REWARD<\/strong>\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 33:35).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSurely for those who keep their duty is achievement, Gardens and vineyards, And youthful (companions), equals in age, And a pure cup. They hear not therein vain words, nor lying \u2014 A reward from thy Lord, a gift sufficient\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 78:31-36).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Any wonder then that even in the face of our adversity and suffering Muslims still laugh and smile:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cAnd you hope from All\u0101h what they hope not\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:104).<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">M\u0101sh\u0101-All\u0101h!\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Alhamdo-lill\u0101h!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">14. YOGA\u00a0 UNGODLY<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=537\">Bhagavad-Gita<\/a><\/span>, Krishna says <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(quoting the relevant portions of the verses):<\/span> \u201cone can never become a yogi unless he renounces the desire for sense gratification,\u201d \u201che should live alone in a secluded place\u201d and with \u201csubdued mind, devoid of fear, completely free from sex life, one should meditate upon Me,\u201d for \u201cA yogi is greater than the ascetic, greater than the empiricist, and greater than the fruitive worker. Therefore, O Arjuna, in all circumstances, be a yogi\u201d\u2013(6:2, 10, 14, 46).<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>57<br \/>\n<\/sup><\/span>Clearly, if every man should begin practising this yoga, in about 130 years time, barring cloning and other methods of non-sexual production, mankind would be extinct.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To ensure the propagation of the species God instils pleasure in the act, but \u201cyoga\u201d is advocating that we deny\/renounce this God-given joy. Sex\/joy in the bed of marriage is not \u201clust.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLust\u201d \u201canger\u201d and \u201cgreed\u201d are not necessarily the \u201cthree gates of hell.\u201d A person can harbour these emotions without acting on them.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">One can be angry<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> (even God is said to be angry at times)<\/span> without harming another. One can be greedy but not hoarding; and not acquiring through illegal methods; and may even give in charity <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(benefitting others rather than sit secluded oblivious to the poor suffering\/dying from\u00a0 need)<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the Bible God enjoined on Adam and Eve to fill the earth: <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cAnd God BLESSED them, and God said unto them, Be FRUITFUL, and MULTIPLY, and REPLENISH\u00a0 the earth\u201d \u2013Genesis 1:28).<br \/>\n<\/span>There are many instances of marriage in the Bible, such as Abraham having a wife, Sarah\u2013(Genesis 17:15) and finding a wife for his son, Isaac\u2013(Genesis 24). Moses was married. And Solomon, the Wise, had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines\u2013(1 Kings 11:3).<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Marriage is so sacred that Jesus allowed severing the marriage-tie only in the case of fornication\/adultery\u2013(Mark 10:11-12. Even <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=274\">Jesus-had a wife<\/a><\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In His Qur\u2019an All\u0101h God states:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAnd of His signs is this, that He created MATES FOR YOU from yourselves that you might find quiet of mind in them, and He put between you love and compassion\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 30:21);<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cAnd marry those among you who are single, and those who are fit among your male slaves and your female slaves. If they are needy, Allah will make them free from want out of His grace. And Allah is Ample-giving, Knowing\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 24:32).<br \/>\n<\/span>Prophet Mohammad says: <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cWhen a man marries he has fulfilled half of the Deen (religion); so let him fear Allah regarding the remaining half (of his religion)\u201d\u2013(Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 3096).<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>58<br \/>\n<\/sup><\/span>It is well-known that Prophet Mohammad had, depending on who you read, from nine to thirty wives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 The Vedas also enjoin marriage and raising children:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cOh man and woman, having acquired knowledge from the learned, proclaim amongst the wise the fact of your intention of entering the MARRIED LIFE. Attain to fame, observing the noble virtue of non-violence, and uplift your soul. Converse together happily, living in a peaceful home, spoil not you life\u201d\u2013(Yajur Veda 5.17, 44).<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cMay happiness await you with your CHILDREN! Watch o&#8217;er this house as mistress of the home. Unite yourself wholly with your husband. Thus authority in speech till old age will be yours\u201d\u2013(Rig Veda X, 85, 27).<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>59<\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=537\">Bhagavad Gita<\/a>,<\/span> which is a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna, also alludes to marriage and having children.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Krishna is said to have had\u00a0eight main wives and many junior wives, numbering \u201c16,000 or\u00a016,100\u00a0in different scriptures.\u201d Out of these 16,000 wives \u201cevery wife had 10 children,\u201d and he had in total \u201c1,61,080 Children.\u201d\u00a0<sup><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">60<\/span> <\/sup>Krishna even had Radha, another man\u2019s wife, as consort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Without doubt, to oppose the law\/ordinance of God is to be against God; and to be, or to counsel, against God is unGodly.<br \/>\n<\/span>In renouncing the world one is rejecting that which God made lawful. We need to balance our living; not suffer the material for the spiritual or suffer the spiritual for the material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Since the Bible, Qur\u2019an, Veda and Gita enjoin marriage, then evidently celibacy diametrically opposes the law of God to <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cBe FRUITFUL, and MULTIPLY, and REPLENISH the earth\u201d\u2013(Genesis 1:28).<br \/>\n<\/span>Therefore yoga, which counsels that man \u201cshould live alone in a secluded place,\u201d\u00a0 \u201ccompletely free from sex life\u201d and meditate only on Krishna is <span style=\"color: #800080;\">UNGODLY.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, this yoga teaching of Krishna is NOT a Divine requirement. The <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=537\">Bhagavad Gita<\/a><\/span> is mythology. And Swami Dayananda Saraswati wrote: <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(The Bhagavad Gita) \u201cBeing opposed to the\u00a0<em>Veda<\/em>, it cannot be held to be an authority.\u2026<em>Krishna<\/em>\u00a0could never be God.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>61<br \/>\n<\/sup><\/span>And in his book\u00a0<em>The Way To True Worship<\/em>, (p. 1), Anoop Chandola wrote:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe first recorded book of the Hindus is the\u00a0<em>Rig Veda<\/em>.\u00a0 In it, \u201cbeing\u201d or\u00a0<em>sat<\/em>\u00a0is said to have its beginning in non-being or\u00a0<em>asat<\/em>. More than a thousand years later, the\u00a0<em>Bhagavad Gita<\/em>\u00a0challenged this view, holding that there is no \u201cnon-being\u201d state of being.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">(If Krishna is the\u00a0<em>Rg Veda<\/em>\u00a0and \u201cthe knower of the Vedas\u201d and the \u201ccompiler of Vedanta\u201d, as he declared, he should not have \u201cchallenged\u201d the teaching of the\u00a0<em>Rg Veda<\/em>\u00a0more than a thousand years later in the\u00a0<em>Bhagavad Gita<\/em>. He is clearly challenging himself. GOD CHALLENGING HIMSELF?).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Anoop Chandola also explains in the same book noted above (P. 9):<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cThe Vedas included several major gods and goddesses some of whom must have been culture heroes\u2026.As the tradition of honoring culture heroes continued, in due course new heroes were added<em>,\u00a0<strong>two of them most important: Rama and Krishna<\/strong><\/em>\u201d<\/span>\u2013(Emphasis\/color added).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thus, not only is Krishna not God to make such a \u201cyoga\u201d pronouncement but this yoga is opposed to the Divine ordinance of procreation.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While there is merit in exercise and mediation (refining one\u2019s self into oneness with God), yoga as the way to God has no Divine foundation.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Clearly <span style=\"color: #800080;\">YOGA IS UNGODLY.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">15. OM\/AUM DOES NOT EXIST<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The word \u201cOM\/AUM\u201d which Hindus chant\/utter in their meditation <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(and which Hindus consider to refer to God)<\/span> is NOT mentioned in the Rg Veda.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Regarding the Gayatri mantra of the RgVeda which reads:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTat Savitur Varenyam Bhargo<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Devasya Dhi Mahi<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dhiyo Yo Nah Prachodyat\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>(\u201cThat Sun, bright and pure,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a0the god\u2019s great wisdom<br \/>\n\u2013may he sharpen and refine our intellect\u201d)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Abdul Haque Vidyarthi points out in his book <em>Muhammad in World Scriptures<\/em> that to give meaning to this\u00a0<em>Gayatri mantra<\/em>, \u201cthe pandits prefix these four words which <span style=\"color: #800080;\">DOES NOT EXIST<\/span> in the Veda\u00a0<em>Om\u00a0bhur bhava svaha<\/em>. The word\u00a0<em>Om,\u00a0<\/em>it may be noted, is <span style=\"color: #800080;\">NOT FOUND ANYWHERE<\/span> in the Rig Veda. These four words they interpolate and insert before the <em>Gayatri mantra<\/em>\u00a0for the reason that it may yield some significance at least.\u201d (Emphasis added, .For more on this see <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=183\">Mohammad-and Moulood<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Another source points out: \u201cOm is not mentioned in the ancient Rig-Veda. The only possible indirect reference is in hymns 1.164.39 which speaks of the syllable (akshara) that exists.\u201d\u2014 Presentation transcript\u201d (For more see <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/slideplayer.com\/slide\/7634863\/\">https:\/\/slideplayer.com\/slide\/7634863\/<\/a>.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">IF LINK DOES NOT CONNECT PLEASE COPY AND PASTE<\/span>).<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Clearly, Om\/Aum is meaningless.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">OM\/AUM DOES NOT EXIST.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">16. SHIVA\u00a0 A\u00a0 MIRAGE<br \/>\n<\/span>According to Hindus their Godhead consists of three personages\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver and Shiva the Destroyer.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">One Hindu source states:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn the Vedas we do not find any reference to the concept of Trinity. During the Rigvedic period,\u00a0Vishnu was a minor solar deity,\u00a0while\u00a0Shiva was almost unknown. The Rigvedic hymns speak of Rudra, a fierce god of the skies and thunder, father of Maruts, who was invoked mostly as the healer with wondrous medicines. But we are not sure whether he was in any way connected with the Shiva of later times.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u2026.Contrary to the popular opinion, it was probably not the Vedic culture which prevailed during the progress of Indian civilization, but other traditions which absorbed it and assimilated it into their practices acknowledging, either fully or conditionally, the validity of the Vedas, which gradually gave birth to a complex and diverse tradition that we today identify as Hinduism.\u201d (Color added).<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hinduwebsite.com\/hinduism\/hindutrinity.asp\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.hindu website.com\/hinduism\/hindutrinity.asp<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Apart from there being no reference to the Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva in the Vedas. As noted <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cVishnu was a minor solar deity\u201d<\/span> who is now one of the major Gods of Hinduism.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">It would be poor cerebration to entertain\u00a0that God grows in status. And considering that the Creator (Brahma) of the Universe and its Preserver (Vishnu) would need to be established from the onset of creation.<br \/>\n<\/span>And while Shiva, the Destroyer, may not be needed until the dissolution of the Universe, his identity would nevertheless have been established so there should not have to be uncertainty if he and Rudra, \u201ca fierce god of the skies and thunder,\u201d are\u00a0one and the same person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Equally significant. Hamlyn notes in his <em>Man and his Gods, encyclopedia of the world\u2019s religions<\/em>, (p.175):<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Vedas revile worshippers of the phallus, whereas the worship of Shiva in the form of a stone\u00a0<em>linga<\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>62\u00a0<\/sup><\/span>has long been wide-spread,\u201d and that \u201cFor the great majority of peasants the most important deity is not Vishnu or Shiva, but the village goddess\u00a0<em>(gramadevata)<\/em>, often called Earth Goddess or Mother, significantly always feminine.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is doubtful the Vedas would \u201crevile worshippers of the phallus\u201d if such worship was of Divine inspiration; considering that Shiva is part of the Triune Godhead. And that peasants would look to\u00a0\u201c<em>gramadevata\u201d\u00a0<\/em>as\u00a0<em>\u201c<\/em>the most important deity\u201d if Vishnu and Shiva were, respectively, Preserver and Destroyer,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Cardinal doctrines of a religion are to be clearly expressed; and not to be left to assumptions and\/or inventions.<br \/>\n<\/span>Not only is there NO Trimurti Godhead <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva\u2013<\/span> but, admittedly, no one knows who Shiva is.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thus, as it is assumed that Shiva is in the Veda(s) but as Shiva is not in the Veda(s) it may be said that <span style=\"color: #800080;\">SHIVA IS A MIRAGE.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0NOTES<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1. Murtahin Billah Fazlie, Hinduism and Islam, A Comparative Study, p. 226.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2.\u00a0Ramayana, p.19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">3. Anoop Chandola, The Way To True Worship, p. 39.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">4. Murtahin Billah Fazlie, Hinduism and Islam, A Comparative Study, pp. 23-24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">5. Ency. Brit; 15th ed; Vol; 8, p. 910).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">6. Wendy Doniger O\u2019Flaherty, Siva The Erotic Ascetic, p. 274.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">7. Light Of Truth, p. 219).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">8. Hamlyn, Man and his Gods, encyclopedia of the world\u2019s religions; Third Impression 1974; pub; The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited; p. 183.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">9. Maurice Bucaille, The Bible, The Qur\u2019an And Science, p. 34<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">10. Hamlyn, Man and his Gods, encyclopedia of the world\u2019s religions, p. 183.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I1. Ibid; p. 183.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">12. Ibid; p. 183.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">13. Wendy Doniger O\u2019Flaherty, Siva, The Erotic Ascetic, p. 257.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">14.\u00a0Hamlyn, Man and his Gods encyclopedia of the world\u2019s religions, p. 175.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">15. C. Gopalachari, C., Ramayana, p. 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">16. Hamlyn, Man and his Gods, encyclopedia of the world\u2019s religions, p. 184.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">17. Murtahin Billah Fazlie, Hinduism and Islam, A Comparative Study, p. 23. Fazlie quotes Ambedkar, Riddle of Rama and Krishna, (1988), p. 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">18. Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Light Of Truth, pp. 219.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">19. The Way To True Worship, p. 9. Italics\/emphasis added).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">20. Wendy Doniger O\u2019Flaherty, Siva The Erotic Ascetic, p. 271.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">21.\u00a0Anoop Chandola, The Way To True Worship, p. 23.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">22.\u00a0Hamlyn, Man and his Gods, encyclopedia of the world\u2019s religions, p. 178.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">23. Ency. Brit.15th Ed. Vol, 17, p. 151.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">24.\u00a0Ency. Brit; 15th Ed; Vol. 8, p. 911. Underlines added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">25. Chandola, Anoop, The Way To True Worship, p. 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">26.\u00a0On Hindus\u2019 inheritance. India is yet to regain her highly coveted Kohinoor \u2013the Taj Mahal of diamonds\u2013 illuminating Regal heads in Britain. Perhaps now that India has Super-Muscles and commands world allegiance she may yet out-wrestle the not-so-Great Britain in the arena of diplomacy and public conscience \u2013or perhaps Her Majesty would take the grand and noble step into the High Chair of pride and dignity as befits Royal Office and voluntary gift it to the sirdars\u2013 and take home to the forbearing Indians their sparkling heritage. The Maharanis will be joyed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">27. The Higher Taste, Pub. International Society for Krishna Consciousness, (1995), pp. 38, 39.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">28. Lin Yutang, Wisdom of India, p. 30. (Ital;\/Emp; added).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">29. Swami D, Saraswati, Light Of Truth, p. 300.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">30. Ibid; p. 227.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">31. Ibid; p. 285. Italics\/emphasis added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">32. Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Light Of Truth, pp. 141, 285, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">33. Ibid; p. 285.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">34. Ibid; p.301.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">35. Swami Prabhupada, commentary on Bhagavad-Gita, As It Is, 2:17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">37. Murtahin Billah Fazlie, Hinduism and Islam, A Comparative Study, pp. 192-197. Materials in italics quoted by Fazlie from W. J. Wilkins, Hindu Mythology, New Delhi, reprint, 1992. Modern Hinduism, London, reprint, 1975.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">38.\u00a0 Ency. Brit. 15th Edn. Vol. V, p. 922; Art. Krsna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">39. Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Light Of Truth, pp. 133-138, 140.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">40. This ritual cited in Wendy Doniger O\u2019Flaherty, \u015aiva The Erotic Ascetic, p. 256.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">41. Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Light Of Truth, p. 199.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">42. Anoop Chandola, The Way To True Worship, p. 8. Italics\/emphasis added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">43. C, Rajagopalachari, Ramayana, p. 90.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">44. Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India, p. 108.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">45. Sheldon I. Pollock The Ramayana Of Valmiki, Vol. II, p. 190. (Also p. 183).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">46. Swami Prabhupada, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, Cf. 18:3.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Since the Rig Veda is said to be Divine Revelation, it would be a contradiction to condemn animal-killing when animal-killing is enjoined in the Rig Veda. Since Rama is said to be God\/an incarnate of God, and as Rama ate meat, and as Hinduism allows the eating of meat, it would be a contradiction to claim vegetarianism as the teaching of Hinduism. Also, since Rama is an incarnate of Vishnu, and since Rama ate meat, then by extension Vishnu also ate meat. And as Vishnu came also as animals, unless Vishnu fasted he must have eaten what these animals ate (?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">47. Swami D, Saraswati, Light Of Truth, pp. 321-322.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">48. Ralph T. H. Griffith, Hymns of the RgVeda, Book I, hymn CLXVI, verse 10, Vol, 1, p. 245.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">49. Ibid. Book VI, hymn LXXV, verse 11, Vol, 1, p. 693.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">50. Ibid; Book X, hymn XC, verses 11-12, Vol. 2, p. 559.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">51. Cf. Bhagavad Gita As It Is, 4:7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">52. Abdul Haque Vidyarthi, Muhammad in World Scriptures, Vol. 1, p. 296.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">53. Wisdom of India, pp. 24, 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">54. The Discovery of India, pp. 79, 106-107. (Italics\/emphasis, added).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">55. Ency. Brit. 15th Edn. Vol. V, p. 52; Art. Hinduism. history of,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">56. Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din, Open Letters To The Bishops Of Salisbury &amp; London, pp. 17-18.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">57.\u00a0 Swami Prabhupada, <em>Bhagavad Gita As It is<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">58.\u00a0 This reference was taken from the <em>Internet<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">59. Two quotes taken from the <em>Internet<\/em>. (Emphasis added).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">60.\u00a0 Information taken from the <em>Internet.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">61.<em>\u00a0 Light of Truth<\/em>, p. 219.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">62.<\/span><em>\u00a0 Linga<\/em> is the male phallus\/penis, and <em>Yoni <\/em>is the female vagina.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the name of All\u0101h, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad. DEDICATED TO All\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High, Lord of the worlds AND TO Mohammad\u2013who brought the world to our feet and eternity to our arms. * HINDUISM-KARMA, REINCARNATION &amp; WOMEN CONTENTS 1. 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