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spirituality you can be a monotheist person a person who doesn't believe in a Theos means
God but believes in humanity you can even be spiritual without reference to a religion or
God see this is the openness of the idea of pluralism so far so good does it mean that
all relings are same nothing of the sword nothing all rings are different let me give
you the background the three abrahamic religions remember the word religions is really meant for
the abrahamic Traditions the three abrahamic Traditions have serious problem because that
particular spiritual Enterprise came into being at a particular point in history said 2000 or
1400 400 years ago and it was meant for the Society of that particular period fair enough
so the prophet who lived there at that time had to kind of promote spirituality suited
to the time they lived in and the people they were interacting with the society they were
interacting with so all of them are different all three of them are different so that is if you like
the all original but then this is the biggest problem with the abrahamic relation is they are
Unfortunately they don't have a evolving system so what their Prophet said two thousand years
ago or 14 is final you can't you know evolve if Society was doesn't matter you have to stick to
this you know when my stickler is written up here because our Prophet said so this is dramatically
different from the Indie Traditions Hinduism Buddhism Jainism which recognized the evolving
phase of the way you unfold spiritual is society walls the way you promote radio spirituality must
continue to evolve and we are we subscribe to that ideas we are not the same in fact the
problem with the abrahamic relations this because they are fixated on Ancient prophets and ancient
scriptures they're straight we're coming to conflict with rationality common sense of science
for example you've got this idea in the Genesis six day creation strength through all the three
abrahamic tradition six decreation now this flies in the face of modern cosmology that is utterly
nonsense or the idea of other many were special beings put on Earth by God again this flies in
the face of if you like modern theory of evolution that will come out of the Animal Kingdom so there
are effect said on Ancient scripture and they even sometimes make serious problems with the theology
again I show you the variation for example in the Abraham especially in Christianity you've got this
idea that uh Humanity can only be saved if we sacrifice a God man now these flies in the face
of the indication how can this be possible why do we need to kill a goat man for this if you like
all the sins of humanity so straight away you see the variation vast variation so if somebody says
that means already is the same thing nothing doing we in the Traditions themselves are different from
each other we have organize it we allow that we say fine abrahamic relations are different
between themselves too but again because they are so fixated that this tradition is fixated
you know the ancient prophets and what they have left behind nothing doing so some of the Abraham
Christians will say if you find a modern Prophet or you must be not acceptable the last prophet
already is gone now so if anybody claims to be modern Prophet they said kill him that is why
you see this violence in the same tradition so the fixation on Ancient structure and ancient
prophets in a way creates tremendous stress and tremendous Hassle and violence in modern world
so we are not the same we'll be very clear and the reason why I feel a little proud I'm not trying to
score Point by simply saying the Hindi tradition especially Hinduism has got this powerful idea of
evolving face of spirituality so modern spiritual Giants represent the same ideas of spirituality so
suited to our times not the ancient times anyway this is one of the criticism I get one from the
Hindus what you're saying I can't find it in the way the husband the modern Vedas are from Swami
Vivekananda why do you need to dig out all stuff so we are the evolving face of Hindu we present
a more modern contemporary face of Hindus we sometimes the Hindu struggle with but we must
learn to grow up recognize evolution is the name of the game is society wolves the way we present
ideal spirituality must reflect this evolved Society that's what is so we are not the same
even with the integration there's a variation but if you don't mind we say this is the way but the
indicators are all open to Evolution there's the specialty and that is the idea of Dharma [Music]
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