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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:
Dear Mukunda,
Language expands and grows as a function of time. During 
that process so many new words are coined(by the public)or some words 
become no longer in usage. Our religion(vedic) unlike 
Judaism/Christianism/Islam,has scientific origin and it is universal 
and hence applicable on this planet and elsewhere! This is not the 
case with every other existing religions. The other religions are 
applicable for respective believers only. For example,Christianity is 
for those who believe in Christ and the religion proclaims that the 
non-believers(catholics and not protestants)in Christ would go to 
hell so is true with Islam. Acc. to that I would go to hell! THere 
are lots and lots of logical inconsistencies and contradicting 
statements in their scripures.

Wrt the "Day of Judgement",Islam/Christianity claims that 
the Prophet would blow the trumpet(from heaven)and announce the "day 
of judgement(which itself is uncertain)" and the souls will be judged
(to go to heaven/hell)based on their actions. After all, a soul can 
only committ a "finite" no. of crimes in one birth and why should 
that soul spend an eternity in hell for it's finite crimes. It 
violates the "compassionate" nature of God. Plus,it's geocentric 
based. So it only applies to life on earth. What about the people who 
live on other planets(if science finds it). Their religion fails 
there. Scientifically speaking,sound can travel only through a medium 
otherwise it can't be heard. Acc. to those religions(heaven/hell are 
outside the earth's surface)and most of the inter-stellar space is 
vacuum and sound can't be heard even if somebody blows the trumpet! 
Since the dawn of "Day of Judgement" is uncertain,some souls(which 
died some years ago(say 20))would have to wait for years than some 
souls which died yesterday. 

I have heard that according to the 
vedAs,"Energy=mass*velocity of light to the power 1.998" which is a 
very close approximation to the twentieth century physics "Theory of 
Special Relativity" which predicts that E(energy)=m(mass)*c(light 
speed)**2

Similarly the age of the universe predicted by the 
physicists is roughly the same as predicted by the vEdAs. One day I 
counted(based on my little knowledge)the period of all yugams(and we 
live in 28 kali),praLayam and the total was lying in the range 10-20 
billion years. Acc to vEdAs,there are 84 lac species and I asked(I'm 
not a biologist)one of my friend who is a postdoctoral in biology and 
she said she doesn't know how many species are there. Maybe the 
german scientists stole our vEdAs and published the results! 

So obviously the word "hinduism" is not as old as vEdAs and 
it must be only a few centuries old! People use the word in ignorance 
because they don't know the origin of it.

AzhwAr EmperumAnAr Jeeyar TiruvadigaLE saraNam
nappinnai





--- In ramanuja@xxxx, Pattangi <danp@xxxx> wrote:
> sri:
> Please accept adiyEn's humble pranams.
> 
> The Term Hindu has not been used by our Purvacharyas, given that 
why do the 
> educated and those trying to follow our Sri Sampradaya use that 
term?






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