User talk:Serenadesea

The writer of this article has not read the Vedas. He says that Rig Veda Chapter 10 verse section 166 speaks of Rishaba. It does not!

Furthermore, the Vedic peoples did not believe in transmigration. They hoped simply for a happy afterlife, due to the quality of their sacrifices.

Beyond that, the Vedic people's did not believe in following a Universal way; they simply bribed their nature gods for security and wealth of various kinds, and in the Atharva Vedas, they even gave sacrifices for the injury of their competitors. Read it on Sacred Texts.com.

Also, the writer says the Vedic peoples believed that "everything they put into the fire went to God." Vedic peoples did not believe in "God." They believed in several nature gods; they were polytheistic.

I don't know where this person has the nerve to write a bunch of stuff he's never researched.

Additionally, regarding astika and nastika schools of thought:
Astika and Nastika have nothing to do with whether or not a religion has God as its central theme; it is a classification with regard to whether or not they pay allegiance to the Vedas.

This wikipedia article looks very nice, with all of its pictures, nice vocabulary, etc., but an unknowledgeable person would get severely misled by reading it.

Hinduism as an outgrowth of the Vedas?
I feel that the Vedas have nothing to do with Hinduism; Hinduism began with the Bhakti movement (introduciton of Lord Shiva), the revival of Jainism, the advent of Buddhism, and the writing of the Upanishads.

The Vedas HAPPENED in India, but they are in no way associated with Hinduism, per se. The Vedas are about animal sacrifice to nature gods; the Upanishads, Jainism, Buddhism and Shaivism, etc., are about self-purification and self-realization.

I know this is a controversial subject, and I am interested in hearing other people's opinions about this.

thank you