The incomplete teaching of the Quran

Monday, November 20, 2006 The incomplete teaching of the Quran I am provoked to write this because I see that Muslims are not stopping at quoting just from the Quran to prove that there is only one God but are turning to Hindu scriptures and quoting out of context to sustain their theory. (The context of all Hindu scriptures is the discovery of our own divine self.) Muslims appear to be unable to go beyond the incomplete teaching of the Quran that there is only one God. I say incomplete because instead of religion being a teaching to enable the practitioner to discover the divine or the spiritual within oneself and as one's true self, as is what religions teach in the Hindu culture, the Semitic culture of religions, which includes the Christian and Islamic religions, are more interested in testifying that there is only one God, as if acceptance of this would be the be all and end all of religion. No Hindu religious scripture says that there is only one God and promptly names the God to be so and so or the God to be the one who sent his only son down onto earth etc. When Hindu scriptures say that there is one God is it only saying that Truth is one and seeks thereby to say that its various expressions are not any separate from the one Truth - even as we are not separate from that one Truth. The irony is that the Muslim who parrots that there is only one God says he is not an idol worshipper, without understanding that when you separate God from yourself, you are in effect doing nothing but making an idol of God. Only the Hindu religion leads man from idol worship, which is the beginning of his religious journey, to the destination of his journey, which is the discovery of himself as that which he was thus far worshiping, thereby ending idol worship with the end of the dichotomy of the worshipper and the worshipped. 9:07:38 PM Posted By Venu Gopal Comments (2) Uncategorized Comments iyer53 Monday, November 20, 2006 9:37:16 PM Hinduism is a way of life and not a religion.First you understand that before comparing other religions with hinduism K. Venugopal Monday, November 20, 2006 10:12:08 PM For the Hindu Hinduism may be a way of life. But Hinduism itself, as expressed in its scriptures and myriad other ways, are teachings that take you to your divinity. Such teachings are called religions. Hinduism is a culture of religions.