How do you syncretize religions?

[Rainbow Mage]

We can still use the same old deities, but people are different in every age, they need new medicine to be happy

Is religion medicine? A cure to society's social ills? If that's the case why has secular society cured so many social problems religious theocracy cannot?

 

[Almustafa]

It should be but often it is not, if you have ever met a real Guru, or a really "high" being you would really perceive religion at its best...
An inner stillness, more vibrant colors, peace, love for all beings, loss of discrimination, the realization of spiritual immortality,seeing God(or whatever you consider the highest)

This is all nonsense though nothing can really put it into words


Often religion is the problem, because it has "expired" as soon as religion creates more unhappiness than happiness, it should be replaced, at least in my mind, your free to disagree.
Spiritual traditions are like milk, and a Cult is like sour milk

 

[Jainarayan]

Vaishnavism, a dualistic philosophy has the most adherents of any sect.

It should come as no surprise (nothing I do should be a surprise ) that as a Vaishnava I'm not a dualist. The closest I come is vishishtadvaita. Achintya bhedabheda is not nuch different than vishishtadvaita if we discount the idea of a heavenly paradise in Vaikuntha or Goloka. That smacks too much of the Christian Heaven.

 

[Sha'irullah]

Are Allah, Krishna and Shiva the holy trinity of this mesh book?

What? You think I need more?
Lets add Wotan and make it a "Quadinity"!

 

[Sha'irullah]

Yep you created one confused book there

Not that confusing if you compare it to a Republican doing something good for once. Now that would really be confusing

 

[bp789]

Vaishnavism, a dualistic philosophy has the most adherents of any sect.

I think people overestimate how dualistic Vaishnavism is. I'd say it's split about 50-50 in terms of dualistic and non-dualistic, but most people are unaware of the non-dualistic Vaishnava philosophies. The philosophy of Vishishtadvaita by Ramanuja is non-dualistic and qualified monism in that God, the universe, and all souls are one, but we also keep our identity. Sri Vaishnavas (who are common in South India) follow this philosophy, along with Swaminarayan Hindus (who are mostly Gujaratis).There is also the philosophy of Shuddhadvaita by Vallabhacharya which says everything is Krishna and there is nothing else, and this philosophy is found in Gujarat and Rajasthan. There is also another sect called the Pranami Krishna Dharma (or something like that) and while they don't have a name to their philosophy, the goal is to merge into Narayan. I'd say Acintya-bheda-abheda is similar too, but ISKCON takes a very dualistic approach to this philosophy, although it is technically considered dualism. I know almost no one personally that takes the Dvaita view of Madhva (that's the only Hindu sect with eternal hell).

Although having said that, I'll also say that many Vaishnavas (and Hindus in general) don't really pay much attention to the philosophies and just focus on bhakti.