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    First recorded incident of mass sati / Siege of Chitod fortress by Akbar

    Gujarat riots? were they not triggered by burning alive of 59 Hindus, when muslim crowd torched the S-6 coach?
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    Can I Worship...

    Veneration, not mode or language, matters. Hindus have no issues if you do worship Shiva in your own fashion.
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    What are the consequences of mocking God?

    that is NOTHING I say. Putana, a she demon wanted kill Krishna by offering Him her breast on which a deadly poison was applied. She thought that He would ingest poison with her milk. But He had other ideas. He sucked the milk PLUS her life. She got liberation. Vishnu had alerted whole of His...
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    Laxshmi and Vishnu

    No. They are complementary principles, male and female. Together they sustain the world. Both are unborn too. Patriarchy is a fact across the culture, so no point in underlining it. But only "patrirahist" Hindu scriptures invariably mention the name of the mother. Arjuna is frequently refered...
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    What is Sikh peoples attitudes towards Muslims?

    Dehu shiva var mohe hai shubh karman te kabhun na daroon na daroon ersoh jab chahe laroon, nishche kar apni jeet karoon [O Siva, grant me the boon that I will never fear to do the right action That I will not fear, will fight when I want, and with determination will be victorious] -...
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    First recorded incident of mass sati / Siege of Chitod fortress by Akbar

    Muslim atrocities in this regard are a matter of fact and record. Hindu kings never persecuted Buddhists, never enslaved and raped their women. No firm instance has come to light so far. Extermination of defeated males and enslaving their women and children goes far back to Abraham, aka...
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    What makes one Hindu or a follower of Sanatana Dharma

    Sanatan Dharam has no founder like desert religions or Buddhism. It is not a religion of book. As per definition, it is not a religion. It is a DHARMA, a path, a broad path. A large river having numerous tributaries, an omnibus concept. A Hindu may or may worship, may or may not observe fasts or...
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    Priestesses in Hinduism?

    Yes. Not necessarily. Not neccasrily. But, in some temples at arti times ALL the males are barred. Mahalaxmi temple of Kolhapur is one such.
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    What is Sikh peoples attitudes towards Muslims?

    Did not Guru Gobind Singh: Grant protection to muslims of Maler Kotla only? Ask not to believe a muslim even if he swears loyality by putting his hand in boiling water? Prohibit Sikhs from taking halal meat?
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    Aniconic Hinduism?

    Yes, a lot many. But do Hindus worship idols? NO. Idols are just a representation as SSGS is for Sikhs.
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    Is it ok for Hindu's to smoke Pot

    Asia has to be weird, what else Yogi? Never mind that similar intoxicants have known and used by many cultures. Why, our own Lord, 2000 years used to a few glasses of wine, stronger than a beer. Is pot good for anyone? Then it is good for a Hindu too. Is it injurious to health of anyone...
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    Your opinion on converts

    No problem. Hindus do not have any dogmatic doctrines.
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    Is Brahman same as Buddhist void(sunyata)

    Gaudpada and later Shankara accepted Shunyata in so for as it conformed to the Par Brahma [transcedent].
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    Animal sacrifice during Hajj.

    Any issues with what namelss has outlined?
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    Jesus, Krishna and Buddha were the same person

    Correction. Krishna did claim He Himself is GOD, beginning, middle and end of all. 7 There is nothing else besides Me, Arjuna. Like clusters of yarn-beads formed by knots on a thread, all this is threaded on Me. 8 Arjuna, I am the sapidity in water and the light of the Moon and the Sun; I am...
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    The Characteristics of unbelief

    Have you tried doing what the Gita says?
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    If Jesus was born in India?

    He would have been laffed off.
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    Jesus, Krishna and Buddha were the same person

    Pathetic whine.
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    Sankhya Philosophy

    Sankhya is physical realism. It believes in immortality of prakriti ie matter. This has a very profound effect on all the Indian philosophies. Sankhya is not of theological. It was perhaps the earliest to advance the theory of evolution of the world. It critically examined the nature of matter...
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    Did Krishna exist?

    Lord Kalki will appear at the end of the present kaliyuga, which is yet to run for another 4,27,000 years. He will launch a campaign against the unjst, oppressors and corrupt ones and vanquish them.
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