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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And I'll just add, THANK YOU for pointing out how far Western yoga practitioners (not all, but quite a few) will say they believe in "Yoga" and "Vedanta" but deliberately avoid using "Hinduism" because of its [b]polytheist[/b] aspects.

Yet they are perfectly okay using the word "Buddhism". A lot of this comes from the mistaken belief that Buddhism is atheist. It's not. Buddhism also has a very polytheistic pantheon, which gets dismissed because who wants to acknowledge Kuan Yin, Tara, and Manjushri?[/quote]

Hindu religion is not polytheistic. It has one God, referred to as Ishvara, Brahman, Parameshvara, etc. All the others are just aspects of this one God. Only Ishvara, Brahman, etc. [b]are[/b] complete. [b]Christianity has the holy trinity.[/b] Does that make it polytheistic?
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Trinitarian Christianity has the Holy Trinity.  Unitarian Christianity does not. [/quote]

Didn't know that. Thanks!

In the case of Hinduism though, all Hindus believe in Ishvara/Brahman being the Supreme Being, and everything in existence coming from this being and merging back into this being.

The "are" in the quote above should have been "is". Sorry about that...[/quote]

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