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Old 22-04-2019, 10:39 PM
Vinayaka Vinayaka is offline
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Originally Posted by NoOne
The term "Hindu" is meaningless. It simply denotes someone that lives beyond the Indus river, irrespective of religion (from a Western perspective).

The correct term should be "Dharmist", someone that takes their eternal spiritual duty and calling seriously. Anyone who acknowledges and worships the gods is a Hindu really, basically anyone who is a polytheist and doesn't believe in the inane idea of "One God".

Still, whether we like it or not, we're stuck with it, as it's been in use for so very long. When driving along a road, and you see a different looking building, if you said it's a Dharmist temple, nobody would understand, or if you referred to yourself as a Dharmist, same thing. I'm personally comfortable with the term Hindu merely because it's the commonly used term for Sanatana Dharma.
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