Word: hinduism
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...proud to tell people that you did know Ganesh." Dazzled by the arcane wonders of the printed word, he embarks on a brief but disastrous career teaching in a district school, goes on to write a book: 101 Questions and Answers on the Hindu Religion. ("Q. What is Hinduism? A. Hinduism is the religion of the Hindus. Q. Why am I a Hindu? A. Because my parents and grandparents were Hindus.") Eventually Ganesh stumbles on his true mission: a career as a masseur and mystical Hindu visionary. He discards his Western clothes for the traditional dhoti and koortah, nails...
...wife going to Iran, a minister on his way to the American Church in Paris. Conferees listened to experts on such varied subjects as the mission work of the church, on the implications of the industrial revolution in Asia for Christianity, on population problems, "cultural empathy," and on Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Roman Catholicism. Again and again they returned in their discussions to the problem of changing the stock image of the American as a materialistic go-getter...
...brick buildings equipped with such unascetic features as electric lights, telephones, and outboard motor dinghies to ferry sadhus and supplies across the river. Fifty holy men from all over the country are spending a month there studying political philosophy, social service and hygiene, as well as the principles of Hinduism. Yoga exercises are also on the curriculum-not as a means to spiritual perfection but to tone up sagging sadhu physiques (students are reminded that Prime Minister Nehru stands on his head half an hour each morning to get plenty of blood into his brain...
...Unless Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other sects are merged into or replaced by a great World Brotherhood, sectarianism will continue to divide the world, isolate peoples, and stimulte conflict which is deadly dangerous in the atomic-space age. (Sometimes it is inter-sect strife which causes destruction and death, as in India. Sometimes it is the point of view of a sect or sectarian which hinders effective action, as with the student in my Survey of Civilization course who wrote, "World peace is an ideal which can never be reached, for when Christ cast Adam...
SIVA, the Creator-Destroyer of Hinduism's trinity, once stood on a demon and with one of his four arms began to shake a little hand drum. To the beat of this rhythm Siva moved his body, and with his movement the world took shape; he danced on and on until creation was completed...