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What is the religion according to you, do you? Why do you consider monotheism, polytheism and atheism to be all part of Hinduism and what is the culture of a land? How much is there between religion and culture yeah, so I have uh spoken about this in the past. I think a couple of times, perhaps so, do I? Okay? What'S a religion, so religion is a western concept in India we have the concept of dharma, which is a very much wider concept in the western uh perception of religion.
A religion is something that has one prophet, one god and one book, and everybody follows that that is the western concept of religion and that uh, that has been a force fitted on eastern cultures, so eastern cultures are have always been polytheistic. Even the ancient Arabic culture was polytheistic actually so this foreign western Abrahamic concept of one book, one prophet one - god has been force-fitted on eastern cultures, eastern traditions and that's how today we all see it, because this is the way we are taught about religion. So then we have imposed this ism suffix onto eastern traditions, Hinduism centrism, Confucianism, Taoism and whatever else Shintoism. So that's the kind of thing that's been done. Uh.
Our traditions are very, very diverse, very wide. Now. Why do I consider monotheism politician ethic ism to be part of Hinduism? Well, it's! So what is Hinduism?
It'S essentially a number of ancient philosophical traditions, a number of interrelated, interconnected, philosophical souls of thoughts, thought that are extremely diverse. So I have spoken about this in the past. Let me give you a very brief overview again, so we have, I think, eight or nine schools of thought in Hinduism major schools of thought. There are many other smaller schools of thought. The first one is Harvard which is atheism: it is pure materialism, it is rejects the existence of god. Then you have the Jain school of thought, drain of philosophy, which does believe in karma and rebirth, but it is also an atheistic school of thought.
It rejects the existence of any god and you have the both the philosophy, which is again a dharma philosophy. It believes in karma and rebirth, but it is again mostly atheistic. It rejects the existence of god, then you have Nyasa, which is realistic. It is a realistic philosophy based upon logic, so in the ATM or the self is distinct from the mind and the body. There is karma and rebirth and it does believe in the existence of god that is Nyasa. Then you have vaishyasik in which you there is the belief in karma and rebirth, and there is a belief in the existence of god. Then you have the Sankara philosophy, which is the holistic realism in which there is no need for god.
When you have yoga philosophy which admits the existence of god - and it is essentially a form of sankhya, then you have means which is based upon the Vedas. So in this philosophy the soul is immortal, it is eternal, but there is no supreme god. There is no creator god, so this is a skeptical theory, atheistic theory. To some extent it does believe in the law of karma. It says this law is an autonomous, natural and moral rule law that rules the world. And finally, we have Vedanta which says that there exists a supreme person who permeates the entire universe and yet who remains beyond it.
So these are the major schools of thought of what we call Hinduism today. As you can see, there is such a wide panoply of ideas and beliefs and its different systems. So you have monotheistic aspects to it. Like Vedanta says there is a supreme person who permeates the universe and yet is beyond it. So you could interpret that as kind of being monotheistic, but there are so many aspects of this divinity which manifest them themselves in a variety of ways which we call these different gods, right: 64, crore gods or whatever the hell. They call it in Hinduism. It'S not 64 crore gods.
This is the western concept. It'S a western myth. Anyhow, so you have polytheism, you have monotheism, you also have skepticism in atheism, you have materialism and you have spiritualism and what not. So it's a very diverse tradition, so many schools of thought and therefore all of these schools of thought. They encompass all of these different viewpoints and philosophies, and they are all part of Hinduism. However, the abrahamic monotheism is in no way part of dharma. It is actually a dharma if you look at it strictly, because it is talks about one god, one prophet and one book and everybody is forced to believe that you can't go beyond that.
There is no you're not allowed to question anything. You have to blindly obey blind obedience. That is not a dharma way of looking at anything, so those belief systems are clearly not part of Hinduism but the ones. I just mentioned the various ancient Indian schools of thought. Philosophical thought, those diverse viewpoints are all part of Hinduism now, what's the difference between a culture and a religion?
Well, in the case of the eastern traditions, there's very little difference between culture and religion, because what we call Hinduism is not really a religion, because we don't have one book, one god and one prophet we have so many viewpoints. So that is all whatever practices you have in a society in a civilization like India, that's all culture, so it manifests itself in the way you draw the kind of dress you wear the kind of languages, the kind of festivals you celebrate, the kind of traditions you Follow um the kind of practices you have rituals you have all of that, the kind of music you play, the kind of cuisine you have all of that forms. What'S called culture and clearly what is called religion is a major component of that