Swarajyamag

Published on 6th July, 2016, on www.swarajyamag.com . Like Christianity and Islam and Judaism, Hinduism can be seen as a religion as well as mythology. In fact, all faiths can be seen as religions or mythologies. Or the very opposite– all faiths can be seen as ‘ways of life’, neither religion nor mythologies. It all depends on the meaning we choose. It depends on who is using the word, and why. A word never has a fixed meaning and meanings change over time. For example, the word ‘gay’ meant happy in the early 20th century, and today it means a ‘male homosexual’. Very different meanings! ..