In this video, Tharoor has given voice to many of us who consciously or unconsciously live what true Hinduism is all about. But somehow those sensible feelings used to become a bit lonely in the loud noise Hindu nationalists (so called) create all the time.
I truly love Nasadiya Sukta, the same one which was the theme song of Bharat Ek Khoj.
सृष्टी से पहले सत नहीं था,
असत भी नहीं
अंतरिक्ष भी नहीं,
आकाश भीं नहीं था
छिपा था क्या कहाँ,
किसने ढका था
उस पल तो अगम अतल जल भी कहाँ था
Do you know that such thoughts are or were considered crime in other religions. You may be aware that Galileo was sentenced to indefinite imprisonment and kept under house arrest until his death in 1642. Why? Just because he believed that the earth revolves around the sun This was against church belief that the earth was the immovable center of the universe.
Church crushed many of the independent thoughts and killed people if they conflicted with their set of theories.
Similarly people who don’t believe in Allah are kafirs in Islam.
But hinduism asks you to question the very existence of srishti with a very scientific mindset.
Nasadiya Sukta is the prime example of that philosophy – https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasadiya_Sukta
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