WHAT IS HINDUISM?
‘The New Yoga’ as a new Hinduism ................................................................
In contrast to the Torah, Bible and Koran, Hindu
‘scripture’ has no dogmatically restricted canon of
scriptures, no supreme institution, no single spiritual
founder such as an Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Buddha or
Mohammed and no authoritative leader such as a Pope,
Archbishop, Ayatollah or Dalai Lama. A philosophically
revived and refined Tantric Hinduism can and should serve
the noble and most necessary purpose of resisting ‘The
New Atheism’ and the secular ‘Monotheism of Money’ that
dominate today’s world – along with the unquestioned
assumptions of the purely technological ‘science’ that is its
dominant ‘religion’. In this way, a new Hinduism can help
bring an end to the rising ocean of spiritual ignorance, and
to the grave ecological devastation, economic inequalities
and global mayhem that go with worship of science and
technology and the monotheistic god of the Abrahamic
faiths – essentially a deification of the ego and of the human
being’s narrow and limited ego-consciousness. Such a New
Hinduism alone can accomplish this world-transforming
aim – not through Jihad, violence or war but through the
supreme principle and innate power of Awareness (Chit).
‘The New Yoga of Awareness’ is a new Hindu world-view
which recognises that ‘God’ is not a supreme being ‘with’
awareness – a type of divine Superego. Instead God IS
awareness – that pure awareness whose light is the divine
Source of all beings, yet also immanent within them as their
eternal and divine Self.