Monthly Archives: January 2009

Parallels in Hinduism and Islam

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

For my freshman seminar, I recently read through Muhammad Iqbal’s poem, “Complaint and Answer,” as one of the assignments. As I read through Iqbal’s poem, I could not help but stop several times to note down the enormous parallels between what God seemed to consider the ideal Muslim, and what Lord Krishna (a Hindu deity) [...]

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Are you a dancer or a choreographer?

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

What does Swadharma need in order to grow?
My bias, heavy and entrenched, narrowed my answer to this question — honest, humble intellectual discourse on excerpts of Hindu scripture. 
But that is clearly not enough. People might say “it is nice that you are putting time into Swadharma,” or “I am glad that you are doing this” [...]

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Absorbing other faiths

Sunday, January 25, 2009

In The Hindu View of Life, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Hindu philosopher and former President of India, proposes a relevant history of South Asian Hinduism where neighboring faiths were systematically accepted, absorbed, and slowly whittled into the core religion.
Historicity aside, the point is insightful, and provides an interpretation of some mythological stories. For example, he says that [...]

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