Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam

So let's bring in Hinduism here.....


The two first teachers of Budhdha were Hindus ascetic Allara and Udaka. These were the people who taught Budhdha initial Gyan Yoga, or Meditation etc. These were in the same tradition as so many Unknown Gurus/sages who wrote Upanishads. And then later the desciples of Budhdha were again Brahmins who compiled initial texts.

So unfortunately, a naturally evolving religion Hinduism which created Buddhism was evolving naturally till it went to middle east in half hearted way, then it created Christianity, either through Theravada or through appolonious and then from this Christianity Islam was created.


Buddha knowing well what Hindu ascetism is (meditation, god realization, Tapasya, Sadhna), wanted to dilute it for common man as he didn't want people to do the hardwork he did; so he asked people to adopt middle path. His middle path was thoughtful, simplified version of Hinduism (infact initially too simplified version which later got complicated when Budhdhism started taking shape of organized religion).

In case of Christianiy what came to Christianity was half baked, there was no Budhdha who was simplifying things deliberately in proper manner. And then when Islam got things from Christianiy, there was another half baked, half knwoledge transfer.


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Somebody said so well, "little knwoledge is a dangerous thing":-)

But all knowledge is little if you stop learning???, and that is what aggravated problem for Islam and Christianity; they were first based on little knwoledge and then they didn't let themselves evolve.


What Budhdha proved was that there was no need of religion (middlepath was basically to say so, neither you need to worry about God, nor hard-core ascetism, nor extreme knowledge/intellect, nor extreme material wealth, almost noting, except truthful life).