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Jai Hind.

Hi! Im A.S.Badri. Im an Indian and im 15 yrs old. No..No.. 15 yrs young, i say.

Im a web expert. I know how to handle BBC codes and HTML.
I have many online pals.

I too have a forum which i want to unite all vaishnavas under one roof.

I am 16 yr old high school student, I am an atheist but consider myself to be a Hindu and nothing else. I live in Toronto.

How can you be an athiest and a Hindu?

Well if u read up on philiosphies like Samkhya u would see that they have an atheistic view, here's some info:

"Classical Samkhya espouses an atheistic philosophical dualism , positing two fundamental principles as the source of all things."

http://www.kheper.net/topics/Samkhya/Samkhya.htm

Smakhya is still considered part of the Hindu philosophy, so u can be an atheist and be a Hindu, the important thing is u have to be a seeker of truth. Veer Savarkar was an atheist/agnostic, even Buddha never said anything about God but many Hindus still believe him to be the 9th incarnation of Vishnu.

Thanks... never knew about all that, well I did know that Buddha was an athiest but I thought that because of that, Buddhism separated. Interesting to know that Hinduism's greatest champion was an athiest.

How Do people?

I'm 18, from the UK - devout hindu, anti-pakistani!

jai hind!

warmest welcome, i fit your same discription, only i live in US

hi
I am 14 years old. hindu/jain
uhmm ....
i like to read up on other religions

deadsilent20 welcome to the forum, so u a Jain huh. I knw most Jains to this day still consider themselves as part of the Hindu community which is a good thing, I never met a Jain, good to knw though, hopefully will learn some new things from u.

yea ill try msotly tho i haev been brought up in a guju communtiy so i know a mixture or a bit of both.
thanks for the welcome
ill try to share more things

Hola from Kochi, India. Thanks Dr.J for recommending this forum! Hello BharatVarsh, nice to see familiar faces! BTW, am 32 growing younger :D

32, one year older (or younger) than my cousin, he also says he's younger by the year, he's like a big kid but smarter, welcome, now we have atleast 2 residing Indians here

Ya welcome to the forum MoonChild.

whats up moonchild

i see you've dropped the '666'...

Infact I use "666" only in the forums I dont get MoonChild ;) in ezboard, MoonChild was already taken, and hence my "reincarnation" as the Moon666Child.

I usually go by the name redenex. But in one of the forum (my first) thoiugh I registered as redenex, we had an option to change the display name. I chose MoonChild - thanks to Iron Maiden song - but the name caught on.

are u malu? I've actually never met a malu hindu before...only malu christians.

Welcome Arnab, you sound quite interesting, who would've thought we'd have a Muslim-Buddhist-Atheist-Hindu convert on the forum :o

It's ok not to know so much about your religion or be devouted, it doesn't take much knowledge for a Hindu to know their identity and be very proud of it, when you learned and understood the first couple facts of what Hindu Dharm is, that must be when the "miracle" hit u.. you can learn some things here and teach us also, but if you write articles for Hindu culture then u must know something right? I couldn't easily write an article... so what age did you move from Bangladesh?

Other than for the fact that you live in Toronto or was originally a muslim from Bangladesh... I am pretty much the exact in description. Including the premed, 19 years, former athiest... all of that.

arnab u sound quite interesting, I shud have known u a little earlier, I too live in Toronto and cud have met u yesterday along with 2 other Hindus, one of them a Hindu activist from UK who was visiting Toronto. One of the things we discussed yesterday was the lack of proper hindu websites, a lot of hindus seem to have no idea abt webdesigning and stuff like that, I have been to sikh sites and they r excellent in appearance as well as in content (hindus shud learn something from them), so can u give a link to ur website that u mentioned in the last post, I just wanna take a look at it.

jai sri krishna arnab

What uni do you go to?

You said u was a muslim convert for a while, i too thought islam was fascinating, it was jus so clearly set out, thats the most appealing thing about it, what made you leave it?

I always questioned if the Quran really contained all this specific barbarism that I've heard from others, so one day at the library I rented a Quran published in Pakistan written in Arabic with English translation next to it, and then at the mall I bought another Quran to compare if the very same verses matched, to see if a western Quran would distort anything, so I sat down one night and read several verses from each chapter, not only was everything true, it was even more barbaric then I imagined, I suddenly REALLY understood why there was an Indian partition and so many other things! Even the spirituality of Islam is based on the material world!

From where did you read this info in 15minutes which changed your outlook of Hinduism? Just curious because I'd like to maybe read it..

No, I didn't read anything. I rather visited an ISKCON temple and that was the turning point of my life.

So there still are Hindus in Bangladesh... hope their numbers rise.

according to his story this temple wasn't in Bangladesh, because he didn't even convert to Islam until he moved to canada..

I was reffering to the fact that he was Hindu from Bangladesh.

Once we, the Hindus used to be the majority in East Bengal (Bangladesh). However, now our number is as low as 9%. Even during 1971, there were 30% Hindus but now there are only 9%. One can ask what has happened to this huge number of hindus in bangladesh. many of them are disoriented like my parents....but most were killed or forced to change religion etc. A systemetic genocide is taking place in bangladesh and noone gives a shit!

Well in Bengal as a whole Hindus used to be the majority till 1881, it was only in the 1881 census that Muslims first became majority in Bengal, according the Jinnah's demand the whole Bengal shud have gone to pakistan but Hindu leaders like Savarkar managed to save the Hindu majority West Bengal while East Bengal went to Pakistan, also there is an area called Chittagong Hill tracts in Bangladesh, that area was 97% non muslim (mainly Buddhist since Chakma tribals r buddhists) but Nehru and Congress still gave that area to Pakistan.

Namaste all. I was introduced to this site from Hindu.net forums.
Hope to partcipate here as well.

Best wishes for successful practice of Hindu Dharma!

Jaya Sri Radhey! :)

Warmest welcome jayasri and thanks for your blessings,

It's about time we had someone religious join us, how old are you? Who is Sri Radhey?

Thanks, it's my pleasure, SaffrOn... :D
I have introduced "Sriradhey" here, If you're interested to know more. :)

Welcome Home, Jayasri

Hey jayasri, whos ur avatar? I think I've been to one of their temples in Austin. I dont remember what its called though, some vaishnava temple like hare krishna.

Thanks, MoonChild! :D
Hi, piviti. He is Jagadguru Sri Kripaluji Maharaj, his programs are broadcasted on TV Asia, Aastha and Sanskar channels.
Yes, they have a beautiful Ashram- Barsana Dham and Raseshvari Radharani Temple in Austin, Texas.
Glad you've been there.:)


Jaya Radhey!

Hi i m 23 vats brahmin....
name kapil vats
any vats here

we already know u and all, but Welcome, lol, finally someone uses this thread.. 23 good

Sorry guys..I started my thread before I saw this one :(


After reading the first post here, I fear I me not be welcome :) ...I did read Siddartha by Herman Hesse, and wanted to be him for awhile thereafter :D ...I also love Ghandi, I learned about him through the teachings of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr...

I also am an Indian....Feather no dot.....

Hello brothers and sisters. My name is Navin and I am glad to be part of this ongoing discussion of topics that really matter. I was born Hindu, but now have renounced any sort of religious label for myself. I believe the purpose of any true religion is to unite humanity. Yet it is often religion that divides us, cutting us into sects, and separating us from each other. It is not a coincidence that most of the violence on this planet is committed in the name of God. Look at Israel. Look at Kashmir. Look at Pres. Bush.

However, much powerful knowledge and wisdom has come to us through religion. Look at how many great sages and saints have come from the Hindu tradition. And the Buddhist, Christian (and yes even the MUSLIMS) have passed on to humanity many great truths.

Let's try to remeber this as we proceed.

peace,
Navin

I used to have your attitude, but times eventually change...

The problem is people's interpretation of religion to do it. And if one person follows a creed that preaches against another, you eventually start a chain reaction, which is what has happened in the world. Remember one bad applein a basket is enough to contaminate all the others.