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Is Hindu monotheism incompatible with Abrahamic monotheism?

Is Hindu monotheism compatible with Abrahamic monotheism?

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 13.8%
  • No

    Votes: 13 44.8%
  • They have significant similarities

    Votes: 7 24.1%
  • They have significant differences

    Votes: 10 34.5%
  • Some Abrahamic and some Hindus believe in the same God

    Votes: 6 20.7%
  • Abrahamics and Hindus believe in different Gods

    Votes: 6 20.7%
  • I don’t know

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Its not possible to know

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • This poll doesn’t reflect my thinking

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Total voters
    29

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
The existence or otherwise of reincarnation is separate from the question of theism.

Shiva, Brahma and Vishnu may be different forms, faces or aspects of the same celestial being. They make up the trimurti. The Holy Spirit, Christ and Father are seen as one yet seperate within the triune Christian God.
"Once again, good to see you back. "Now, behave better." :)

Reincarnation implies the existence of God/Gods/Goddesses, but I am an atheist. I do not think any Vaishnava denies existence of Gods other than Vishnu, though they give first position to Vishnu. For Shaivas and Shaktas, Shiva and the Mother Goddess Durga are supreme.

The trimurti of Brahma Vishnu and Shiva (Mahesh) leaves out the Mother Goddess Durga; so they cannot be compared to the Christian triune. That makes it a 'diune' instead of 'triune', Purusha and Prakriti, Shiva and Shakti. The Mother Goddess Durga is too strong to be ignored in Hinduism. Just because the number 3 is involved, the two concepts cannot be considered similar.

Of course, when it comes to Brahman, it is one only, but then you cannot have the division of Brahman and humans. Brahman is everything, living or non-living. So be happy in your belief which is different from what Hindus believe.

You know all this, Adrian, but you still persist in your pathetic attempt to make the two religions the same. Hinduism cannot be straight-jacketed. And any messengers from God or Allah will be rejected out-right in Hinduism as charlatans and frauds. Hinduism has no place for such critters.

Even Mother Sita prayed to Mother Gauri to be married to Lord Rama, and Krishna married Mother Rukmani at this temple of Mother HarSiddhi and got her blessings. Lord Rama worshiped Lord Shiva before departing on his campaign against Ravana in Rakeshwaram. Hinduism is polytheistic and has a different paradigm. :)

Harsiddhi temple, Porbandar, Gujarat. Rameshwaram temple,
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Marcion

gopa of humanity's controversial Taraka Brahma
Shiva, Brahma and Vishnu may be different forms, faces or aspects of the same celestial being. They make up the trimurti. The Holy Spirit, Christ and Father are seen as one yet seperate within the triune Christian God.
Such comparisons are very tricky since Hinduism is not a religion but an ill-defined grouping of all kinds of Indian based paths with many different practices and philosophies.

If you acccept that, then comparing so-called Hinduism and so-called Abrahamic paths becomes a rather useless exercise.

Vedic types of polytheism originated in quite primitive times also from outside of India when different forces of nature were still being worshipped in the forms of gods.
This was also the basis for earlier European paths before they were swept away by Roman Christianity.

The Christian view of God is not the same as the Jewish or the Islamic or the Bahai one because the divinity of Jesus or Christ is in Christianity more or less accepted as linked to God the Father quite similar to how Krishna and Shiva are linked to God in India.

Shiva ended up in certain Hindu mythologies as part of God in the role of God as withdrawer ("destroyer"), since God is the supreme Generator, Operator and Destroyer of everything (not just Creator). But Shiva started out as a tantric (not a vedic) Guru of flesh and blood who walked the earth just like Krishna and indeed Jesus did.

Both Islam and Bahai do not recognize the higher statuses of Jesus, Krishna or Shiva and either see them as prophet or as made up gods who disturb the idea of a single God.

However in Tantra God is the Supreme Consciousness (Holy Spirit) who does find some type of special association in great tantric Guru's who are much more than great (quite differing) personalities like Muhammed, Buddha, Jesus or Bahaullah.

But this does not mean that Shiva or Krishna are the same thing as God since God is panentheistic, there is nothing without Him, everything is included in Him, is His projection or cosmic illusion. Something that includes and precedes everything cannot itself have a form or image.

So trying to compare so-called Abrahamic and so-called Hindu views of God is useless since they are not uniform blocks that you can compare to each other. I can understand why a Bahai would try to do this since they already try to force the so-called Abrahamic paths into a mold that seems to me to be too artificial.

Christianity is not really Abrahamic at all since Jesus is more like a tantric type of guru however primitively explained by (later) Christianity which moved in a more Hellenistic direction at an early stage in its development. Ideologically it has only a very indirect and rather forced relationship with the Jewish worldview.

However defective or perfected the concepts of God may be in all those different paths, the real God is factual not theoretical. Whichever form of God you subscribe to, in the end your intent is always known by the One who creates them all.
 
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