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Originally posted by: MannMeinRadha

The simple fact still remains that nowhere in our mythology or history or any of the religious core texts our religion was ever called as Hinduism or our people as Hindu. Sanatan dharma or simply dharma ( since at that time no other religion existed in or around the civilization ) was how it's referred always. Only after foreign invasion, they started calling us Hindus because of a very narrow very truncated idea about our religion that actually encompassed many types of faith under one umbrella, including many tribal faiths , and was spread far beyond Indus Valley.

So this term itself, Hinduism, carries a heavy weight of shame and pain and anger because it is a reminder of what has been done to us by repeated invasion by Abrahamic religions.

We started calling ourselves Hindus only because that is what we were being called by others, not out of choice but out of compulsion . And then it got part of vocabulary like so many words, that originally carried a negative connotation.

For e.g, the word Negro was once used to describe blacks when they were slaves . They never chose to be called Negros or niggers. It was coined as part of their painful history of slavery. Just like blackface.

Therefore this word is now no longer considered as an acceptable term to use for blacks. Even the word nigga or nigger is unacceptable unless used by blacks for each other and not by other races.

The word Hindu is what we were described by those who neither understood us, nor respected our culture , considered us as "other" or "lesser" and wanted to deny how ancient and widespread our dharma was and how many different often opposing ideologies it accepted and embraced within it.

People often quote texts like Brihaspati agam, meru tantra or madhav digvijay to claim that Hindu word indeed was a part of our lingo ... Ab maine toh teeno hi texts padh nahi rakhe hain .. And there is also debate around the exact date of these verse - whether they were always there or were much later additions... Here it goes...

The land between Himalayas and Indu Sagar ( Indian Ocean), God created a country called Hindusthan.. Brihaspati Agam - I have seen Sadhguru quote this multiple times.....

One who meditates on Omkar as the primary sound, believes in Reincarnation and rebirth, respects cow to the most, and hate evil can be called as Hindu - Madhav Digvijay...

One who renounces ignorance and inferiority is Hindu - Meru Tantra - Shiva tells Parvati...

If some expert on ancient Indian texts is roaming around on IF then he or she can throw some more light on this btw..

and then there are some other references given in this article .. If u find time u can go through it.. Ignore what is written about other religions.. I think its false..

https://www.patanjaliyogsandesh.com/article/3293/oldest-name-of-indian-people-is-a-hindu-indeed

Bharat however is clearly the word that we gave to ourselves and there is a consensus around it so its there in the constitution as well alongside India..

Originally posted by: InsaneDivine

People often quote texts like Brihaspati agam, meru tantra or madhav digvijay to claim that Hindu word indeed was a part of our lingo ... Ab maine toh teeno hi texts padh nahi rakhe hain .. And there is also debate around the exact date of these verse - whether they were always there or were much later additions... Here it goes...

The land between Himalayas and Indu Sagar ( Indian Ocean), God created a country called Hindusthan.. Brihaspati Agam - I have seen Sadhguru quote this multiple times.....

One who meditates on Omkar as the primary sound, believes in Reincarnation and rebirth, respects cow to the most, and hate evil can be called as Hindu - Madhav Digvijay...

One who renounces ignorance and inferiority is Hindu - Meru Tantra - Shiva tells Parvati...

If some expert on ancient Indian texts is roaming around on IF then he or she can throw some more light on this btw..

and then there are some other references given in this article .. If u find time u can go through it.. Ignore what is written about other religions.. I think its false..

https://www.patanjaliyogsandesh.com/article/3293/oldest-name-of-indian-people-is-a-hindu-indeed

Bharat however is clearly the word that we gave to ourselves and there is a consensus around it so its there in the constitution as well alongside India..

These random texts have no validity and no authenticity. These are just random books written by random people. Sanatan dharma has lakhs of books written on dharma , just like any religion has many books on religious texts. That doesn't mean they've any relevance.

Only core texts are authentic. They're the pillars of dharma. In none of them the word Hindu or Hinduism is even mentioned, forget identify as one.

Rest, all these books have no significance. Utterly irrelevant. Aise books har din koi na koi likh raha hai. Koi farq nehi padta inse.

If tomorrow I, a hindu, write a book on Hinduism and start calling it jhugli jhugli jhul jhula , would anyone accept it ?

By definition, the core texts of Dharma are - Vedas , Upanishads, Ramayan , Mahabharat, some of the oldest Puranas like Bhagvat Puran. They're equivalent to what Quran Sharif is for Islam and Holy Bible is for Christianity.

Rest everything, including all smritis like Manusmriti are basically extrapolations or religious texts or research and discussions, that any religious scholars can write. But only the above core texts are considered timeless as they're not written but revealed to the world by ancient sages. It is even said if Vedas get lost in time, again they'll be revealed to the sages of other times , for the benefit of mankind as the message and knowledge of Vedas can never disappear. They're tied to the creation of the world. They contain the secret of creation.

The whole story of some asura stealing Vedas and throwing it into the ocean , then Lord Vishnu recovering it , is actually symbolic , metaphorical. It signifies that time is like an ocean and Vedas can be lost in the depths of it temporarily but they can not be destroyed. They'll be recovered by divinity when they're needed again for creation.

https://x.com/i/status/2054553027319939359

Like I said before Same Govt in a Different Lungi.

An Uneducated CM with 10th pass and 8th pass in cabinet talking about Abolishing NEET.

Like they say Elect an Actor, Expect a cinema.

Stalin atleast educated to tha. So he had his reasoning and people could defend it even though wrong.

Yahan to wo bhi nahi hai. Would love to see the defense of 'We are different and you don't know the facts of TN'.

It is a learning experience to read you and there are some questions I want to ask you (and please, it is not for mocking you, it's seriously meant).

It is right that the term "Hindu" (and likewise terms) had been coined by foreigners. And also the word "Bharat" has always existed and is even fixed in the constitution.

What should one then take as idigenes terms instead of "Hindu - hindustani - hinduism - Hindi language" to empower the indigene culture of Bharat?