Thread by @SparesofWar

Wow. Trust a nutty Prof to ruin a perfectly good Sunday. Where do I even begin rebutting this BS. Like always, this is aimed towards our folk and not to brainwashed zombies with dubious erudition.

Hinduism or Sanatana Dharma is not a dogmatic set of practices to be headed

https://twitter.com/SoniaSikka4/status/1382069472765353985

by a cult leader/prophet/messenger. You don't need prophets to tell the obvious, do you? Does science have a single unified source for all information? Is there a single hallowed, know-it-all personality in your field of study?
Dharma is nothing but the order of the universe.

Just like how quantifying the age of the universe now and the countless universes before this is superfluous, it is impossible to ascertain the antiquity of Dharma. Dhriyate va iti Dharma. That which holds or is firm is Dharma.

Our bodies are nothing but microcosms of this vast creation. The very meaning of life is Brahmaanda-Pindaanda samanvayam. This is what Yoga enables a person to do. Western practices of Yoga have stripped it of its Dharmic roots, but the fact remains that everything that happens

is in fact a Yogic practice. This reconciliation is the cornerstone for a jiva's progress to realize its true nature.
SD is the only philosophy that sees Divine expression in everything - animate/inanimate, conscious/subconscious, physical/metaphysical, esoteric/mundane.

Sastras in fact say,
Deho devalaya prokta: jivao devasssanatanah. The body is a temple and the jiva represents the eternal Brahman.
Can any other philosophy past, present, or future even conceive such a thought let alone recognize the one that actually does?

Krishna says in the Gita,
Rasoham apsu kaunteya prabhashmi sasi suryayo: |
Pranava: sarva vedesu sabda: khe paurusam nrsu ||

O son of Kunti! I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the syllable Om in the Vedic mantras, the sound in ether, and ability in man.

He further goes on to say,
Punyo ganda: pruthivyam cha tejas chasmi vibhavasau |
Jivanam sarva bhuteshu tapas chasmi tapasvisu ||
I am the original fragrance of the earth, and I am the heat in fire. I am the life of all that lives, and I am the penances of all ascetics.

Therefore, everything is an expression of that Absolute Truth. The ill-informed Prof draws a parallel between Vedic scriptures and others. This is pitiable at best and laughable at worse. There is no other original thought apart from Vedas since they are a form of Brahman itself

Purusha Suktam says Naanya pantha ayanaya vidhyate. There is no other path than Him. That means He only is the repository of all knowledge. The corollary is, all knowledge is only meant to know Him. Knowledge is denoted by the root Vid from which the word Veda is derived.

Since He is all knowledge, and knowledge is ultimately His form, it is also as wholesome as Him. And it is from this knowledge that our Itihasas, Puranas, Upanishads, and other allied Sastras have sprung, so they are also equally wholesome just like how Isavasya Upanishad says

Purnamadham purnamidham purnaat purnamudachyate. This means the Ramayana and Mahabharata et. al are also on the same pedestal as the Veda and seek to convey the same message in a more accessible form. That's why it is said,
Vedavedye parepumsi jaathe Dasharataatmaje |

Veda: Praachetasaadaaseeth saakshaad Ramayanamatmana: ||
Just like how the Parama Purusha, Who is known only through the Veda appeared as the son of Dasharatha, the Vedas themselves have incarnated as the Ramayana through Valmiki.

Similarly, the Mahabharata is regarded as the Panchama Veda itself. All and sundry in the created multiverse can be ultimately grouped under three Purushartas - Dharma, Artha, and Kama upon fulfilling which, one gets Moksha. Vyasa Himself says about the Mahabharata,

Dharmecha artecha kaamecha mokshecha Bharatarshabha |
Yadi hasti tadanyantra yanne hasti natat kvachit ||
Whatever is there in the Mahabharata is everywhere, whatever is not there here is not available anywhere else.

Since she's so desirous of having a prophetic revelation, if there's anyone who can be considered so for SD, it is Vyasa. All sects and Vedanta margas ultimately refer back to Vyasa alone. It is even said, Vyaasocchistham jagat sarvam. The world is nothing but a spit of Vyasa.

No other philosophy can even aspire to think of what God actually is. That's why they camouflage that thinking under dogmatic dictums and sinful notions, so that it is not questioned. However, Sanatana Dharma has provided an irrefutable envisioning of Who the Creator is.

Vedam says, Yato va imani bhutani jayante. yena jatani jivanti. Yatprayantyabhisan vishanti tadvijijnasasva tad brahmeti |
From Whom everything has sprung, in Whom they live, and ultimately in Whom they re-enter, know that to be Brahman.
Gajendra Moksham also says the same thing

Yasmin idam yethaschedam ye nedam ya idam swayam |
Yo asmat paramaascha parastham prapadhye Swayambhuvam ||
I surrender to the self-emanating, self-sufficient Paramatma is One in Whom everything rests, One by which everything is made, One Who is the only cosmic reason, One Who

is above cause and result. Pothana writes this beautifully in the Telugu Bhagavatam, which is known to almost every Telugu speaking person
Evvaniche janinchu jagamevvani lopala nunduu leenamai
Evvani yandu dindu Parameswarudevvadu? Mula kaaranambevvadu?
Aadi madhyaanlayudevvadu?

Sarvamu taaneyaina vaadevvadu?
Vaani aatma bhavun Iswaru ne Saranambu vededan 🙏🏻
She claims Sanghis are defining what Hinduism is. Lol what is to define something that is beyond thought, action, and speech?

For a self-proclaimed multicultural enthusiast, @SoniaSikka4 only seems to be aware of a few keywords like RSS, Sanghi, Brahmanism, Manusmriti, and caste. Wonder what multiculturism she is preaching to her students?

Burning of women on the pretext of witchcraft in medieval England? Teutonic subjugation of Pagan natives of Eastern Europe? Numerous inquisitions and crusades to satisfy lust and greed? Suppression of scientific enquiry by the Church? Caste discrimination even among neo-converts?

Massacres of so-called heretics? Breaking of idols in pre-Islamic Arabia? Blatant portrayal of native worship as Satanic? No condemnation of mass executions during the holocaust? Appropriation of local customs and fooling gullible people?

Need I even mention about modern day malice? Abrahamic religions have sown the seeds for discord and disingenuity ever since the beginning of Kali Yuga since they focus only on Artha and Kaama without adherence to Dharma.

However, the time has come for the world to realize the greatness of SD on a much larger scale. Soon, there will be a new world order that will draw inspiration from towards Bharata and its infinite wisdom. No matter how much people keep braying under the auspices of academia,

there is nothing that can stop the ensuing juggernaut (which is incidentally derived from Jagannath) of Vaidika wisdom from re-ascertaining itself in ways that were previously inconceivable.