because you see hinduism is in a way lumbered with lot of baggage his collective's idea of
spirituality over thousands of years a lot of it is really outdated and yet we are kind of
stuck with them because we are kind of hanging on to it because kind of continuing tradition
look i'll give an example that really makes me shudder you see nepal is devastated at the moment
and one man that i meet he said you know why they are devastated mr
khan said no you tell me he said because they got this very bad habit of once a year
they call their cattle have you seen have you heard about that they kill millions of
animals for no reason just they go in the frenzy their whole nation and kill million
animals or something half their livestock they also they destroy it and the meat is just vested
and you ask them why are you doing it oh it's some kind of to do with some religious belief we ask
them what religious belief goes against everything is religious as far as we know in hinduism because
nepal is a hindu territory yes we don't know but we do it see this is a baggage that we carry
and unfortunately in every society even now here look in the united kingdom i'll pass a
very cutting comment that they keep pointing i think hindus you are kind of you know cost system
and you give special diet you know priority to somebody who has been born in this higher upper
caste or something i see you do the same you seen the headlines today weren't you
the new princess has been born the whole nation is ah this is hereditary caste system of the english
they go wild they want to take the picture of the princess coming out i'm not trying to put
them down but i'm simply saying see we all carry baggage so if you like this baggage of
hell hanging on to this hereditary monastery you know monarchy is also a baggage and the thinking
westerners think this is getting out of hand because why are we so mad about one you know
girl get being born there are hundreds of girls being born every day why get fixed in all the
newspaper headlines and huge you know big thing come on grow out of your tradition it is difficult
same is true with hinduism we are care we carry a lot of baggage and it's difficult to jettison
the back because become attached to it we'll hang on to it with our dear life but if you are
thinking youngster then i say focus on esoteric hinduism that i've been promoting and eaten here
not seeing and serving a god in heaven but seeing god in humanity refocusing your attention on what
humanity is all about this is not any different from if you like buddhism it talks the same thing
doesn't it doesn't refer to a god doesn't talk to here after yesterday here and now resolving your
human condition that's why the word dharma sorting out your human condition look what is our problem
look at look we all feel we are okay we are happy we are you know had a good breakfast all that
really when you look at all of humanity the whole living kingdom struggling suffering you see
something is not right here this would draw buddha to find a resolution to the human condition i said
resolving addressing and resolving the human condition is what dharma is about and that's what
buddha did i am a great devotee of buddha i'm not a buddhist because everything that he talks about
i can relate to equally well it is as it is no different from non-theistic hinduism these ideas
of our essential nature trying to kind of overcome the delusion regarding this kind of tremendous
love we have for this world around us trying to overcome this delusion same thing in buddhism
to see through the flux and once you kind of push the flux away you are no longer if you like
controlled by the desires and then the suffering following that follows so at deeper level
esoteric hinduism and buddhism are not different in fact many people said adi shankara was a hidden
buddhist because adishan kardeen was advaith no room for this the monotheist god so they say adi
shankara even he's the one who replaced buddhism with hinduism in india about 1200 years ago they
say it was just buddhist in in principle except you're using different vocabulary to regain if
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