[ Hinduism ]

The opinions of the Six Wise Men and the Indian Elephant come to mind.

Cannot one truthfully say that "Hinduism", or the entirety of Sanathana Dharmam, is:-

1. A Religion, the most majestic and comprehensive that ever Man was blessed with;

2. A system of and for community and for individual living, again so extensive in its scope, and so eminent in its practicability, that it has no compeititor, much an equal;

3. A catalogue of life values, unmatched by the best conceived by other civilisations;

4. A compendium of philosophy, reaching into the innermost recesses of the human soul, with apt and valid answers to the most esoteric questions that the human mind can conceive;

5. A inexhaustible library of textbooks (and other materials) on essential education for this world and the next;

6. The distillation of all the sciences, shrewedly concealed in enigmatic formulae that only the initiated can unravel and utilise;

7. A tantalising mirror to the historic continuity of the very existence of Divinity and Humanity, of Mortals and the Immortals, and of the inter-changeability of these apparent sets of antitheses.

8. The Original Divine Path, from which have descended, torn and tattered, imitative and sometimes contradictory debased tenets such as Judaism (who have a kosher kitchen of three sets of cooking utensils, one each for vegetarian, for fish, and for meat), Christianity (who have adopted our abhishegam as an essential rite for purification and initiation), and Islam (who wash their feet before entering homes and places of worship, who wear two unsewn pieces of white cloth for religious purposes including visiting the Kaaba, who circumambulate the and venerate the Shiva Lingam, of "Black Stone" embedded in the East Corner of Kaaba, as an esential rite in the Haj Pilgrimmage).