The Baha'i Faith believes all cultures in the history of humanity are a part of the progressive Revelation from God in God's relationship with humanity and Creation which eternal and constantly evolving and changing with possibly infinite universes.
Bahá'í Faith and Hinduism - Wikipedia
Bahá'u'lláh was familiar with Hinduism, which is clear from a
tablet to
Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl, the English translation of which is included in the volume
Tabernacle of Unity. In this tablet Bahá'u'lláh answered questions about
Hinduism and
Zoroastrianism by
Maneckji Limji Hataria. The subjects include
comparative religion, and constitute, while much remains implicit, a dialogue of Bahá'u'lláh with Hinduism and the other religions discussed, giving an understanding of what Baha'u'llah meant with the
unity of the world religions.
[3]
In another tablet (published in
Gleanings, section LXXXVII) Bahá'u'lláh discussed the absence of records about history before Adam. Here he refers to the
Jug-Basisht (
Book of Juk), which is the Persian translation of the
Yoga Vasistha, a
syncretic philosophic text.
[3] The translation was done during the
Mughal Dynasty in the sixteenth century A.D. and became popular in Persia among intellectuals with
Indo-Persian interests since then.
[4] In the
Story of Bhusunda, a chapter of the
Yoga Vasistha, a very old sage, Bhusunda, recalls a succession of epochs in the earth's history, as described in
Hindu cosmology.
Juan Cole states that this means that in
dating Creation, Bahá'u'lláh promotes the theory of a long chronology over a short one.
Brahman (God)
See also:
God in the Bahá'í Faith and
God in Hinduism
In Hinduism
Brahman is believed to be the Absolute Reality. Followers of
Vedanta see Brahman as an impersonal reality, of which each soul (
ātman) is a part. The theistic traditions of Hinduism, which include
Vaishnavism and
Shaivism, consider Brahman as a
personal God, whom they call
Bhagwan or
Ishvara (Lord).
[5] According to the Bahá'í teachings these differing views are all valid, as they represent different points of view looking at the Absolute Reality.
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