Devas
I want to say a few words to dispel certain silly mistakes made about the Hindu notion of devās by Westerners not of this tradition. It is common for Westerners, and especially for certain tendentious devotees of Semitic traditions - most notably the Christian one - to accuse Hinduism of polytheism...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1976]
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Religious studies
Year: 1976, Volume: 12, Issue: 4, Pages: 467-472 |
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| Summary: | I want to say a few words to dispel certain silly mistakes made about the Hindu notion of devās by Westerners not of this tradition. It is common for Westerners, and especially for certain tendentious devotees of Semitic traditions - most notably the Christian one - to accuse Hinduism of polytheism', meaning by this the nonsense that enlightened Hindus believe there to be a multitude of gods', all equivalent to the single Semitic one. But this is simply false. The Hindu equivalent, so far as there is one, to Christianity's God, the Father, Supreme Being or Person', is Brahman, manifest as Isvara, and sometimes called Purusottama' (lit. Supreme Personl': see Bhagavad Gītā, 15: 15-18), and of which there is only one. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500009604 |