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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