The word Hindu is a misnomer. The word Hindu is used to identify Indian people. The right word is Sindu, which means people of the Indus Valley.
The word Hindu is derived from the Indo-Aryan and Sanskrit word Sindhu, which means "a large body of water", covering "river, ocean". ... The term 'Hindu' in these ancient records is ethno-geographical and does not refer to a religion.
The Arabic equivalent Al-Hind likewise referred to the country of India.
The people on the Indian side of the Sindhu were called Hindu by the Persians and the later western invaders. That is the genesis of the word `Hindu'.
When we think of the Hindu religion, we find it difficult, if not impossible, to define the Hindu religion or even adequately describe it.
Unlike other religions in the world, the Hindu religion does not claim any one prophet; it does not worship any one God; it does not subscribe to any one dogma; it does not believe in any one philosophic concept; it does not follow anyone set of religious rites or performances; in fact, it does not appear to satisfy the narrow traditional features of any religion or creed. It may broadly be described as a way of life and nothing more.
Hinduism seems to be a name without any content. Is it a museum of beliefs, a medley or rites, or a mere map, a geographical expression?
The word Hindu was used initially to describe the people of India; it was never used to describe religion.
Thus, Hinduism is not a religion it is the way of life of Indian people with different castes, creeds, cultures, traditions, and ideologies of different parts of India under a single roof.
The Muslim invaders pronounce Sindus as Hindus to identify the Indian populace, not their religion.
Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru:~ 'The word Hindu can be earliest traced to a source the tantric text in the 8th century and it was used initially to describe the people, it was never used to describe religion. (The Discovery of India” on pages -74 and -75)
According to Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru, Its connection with religion is of late occurrence. The word Hinduism is derived from the word Hindu.
In Encyclopaedia Britannica, it says: - The word Hinduism was first used by the British writers in the year 1830 to describe the multiplicity of the faiths of the people of India, excluding the converted Christians. (Volume -20, Reference -581)
That is the reason today, the majority of the scholars they say that the word Hinduism is a misnomer.
The correct word should be Santana Dharma, the eternal religion or the Vedic Dharma, the religion of the Vedas.
All Indians irrespective of their religion whether they are Christians Muslims or Buddhists or Sikhs all are Sindus (Hindus) means Indians.
Thus uniform civil code is very much necessary to bring universal brotherhood among Indian people which will help to create unity in diversity in the Indian populace.
The ancient peoples of India belong to the Vedic Religion or Santana Dharma, therefore, Sanatana Dharma has nothing to do with present-day Hinduism.
The ancient peoples of the Indus Valley of Undivided India were called Hindus by Muslim invaders.
Hinduism is a name introduced by the British Rule in India by introducing Hindu law which is applied to different castes founded by different founders at different times.
All these castes have produced a great many saints, prophets, and Jagad gurus. If they had been born in Hinduism, in all probability they would have been deified in the same way as the founders of several Hindu sects.
Founders of caste-based parmaparas did great harm by projecting their caste as Sanatana Dharma or Vedic religion.
These Laws introduced by British rule to divide and rule policy have not only harmed the Indian populace and great crime on humanity.
Hinduism which is based on the caste system is not ancient Sanatana Dharma or Vedic religion because Rig Veda bars the caste system.
Sanatana Dharma has no founders, whereas Hinduism identified with different founders at different times.
Prior to Sage Sankara in the 8th century, there was no Advaita in Santana Dharma. Santana Dharma or Vedic religion has no founders, whereas Advaita and qualified Advaita and Dvaita are identified with their founders. All of them have non-Vedic rituals barred by the Vedas.
The dualism came only in the 12th century. The orthodox Advaita and Dvaita are adulterated add-ons. Both Advaita and Dvaita schools claim that they are based on the Vedas, and they condemn each other with the Upanishads and Puranic citations and try to prove they are right and others are wrong.
The religion, including orthodox Advaita, is nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth because they worship idols, human worship, and symbol worship and indulge in non-Vedic rituals barred by the Vedas.
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All Hindus indulge in non-Vedic practices barred by the Vedas introduced by the different founders of the different sects of Hinduism at different times, whereas the Vedic religion, or Santana Dharma is ancient and has no founder.
Hinduism is not Santana Dharma or Vedic religion. Hinduism is not a religion. Rather, it is a group of castes found within India that share common beliefs while still remaining very different.
The ancient peoples of India belong to the Vedic Religion or Santana Dharma, therefore, they have nothing to do with present-day Hinduism.
The ancient peoples of the Indus Valley of Undivided India were called Hindus by Muslim invaders.
Hindu idols or deities or temples have nothing to do with the Vedic religion or Santana Dharma. Vedic people ate beef.
The Hindu practices of idol worship, temple worship, and a ban on beef-eating were introduced many centuries later.
As one peeps into the annals of religious history, he finds that Hinduism which exists today is not a continuation of the Vedic religion, and it has no real historical foundation. Hinduism is of a much later origin.
As per the researchers, the two faiths the Hindu belief system has drifted miles away from the Vedic faith so the two seem to be two distinct faiths.
It is not difficult to discover that there is no noticeable continuity of Hinduism from the Vedic religion or Santana Dharma. ;~Santthosh Kumaar
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