Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Religion, Spirituality and Conversion

Kind of depth that one can see in dharmic religions, is difficult to find in Abrahamic religion at least based on what is heard and written in common public domain. Probably what has evolved as dharmic philosophy, something similar did not evolve in Abrahamic religions. Some how I feel they remained static, strictly sticking to the "original text"( similar to fundamentalist in Hinduism who still believe in ritualism and not spirituality),while dharmic religions went on evolving. But of course even within other religions probably there are people and groups which followed their religion in spiritual form and in true spirit of "original text". We know Sufism being so soothing and likable even to people from other religions. It seems that those people who honestly want to convert people believing that they belong to " inferior religion" are ignorant and attempt must be made to educate them.