/lit/ - Literature

Any recommendations for a primer about Hinduism and Hindu culture?

I would like to read something to get a deeper understanding of Hinduism, not the theology as priests understand it but Hindu culture as understood and practiced by the the average Pajeet on the street. Preferably written by someone who grew up in that culture but is well versed enough in our culture to bridge the gap.

>>12751121
Perhaps he cannot *disprove* it, but can you yourself *prove* it? You're the one taking the positive claim here (if you subscribe to Christianity), while simultaneously acting like you are yourself in the clear. You are not. Prove to me that every chain in the sequence you listed are inspired by the same God, which is only directly traceable to one of those cultures. If you cannot do so, but continue to claim so, then I have the exact same right to claim that the Vedas and Hinduism are inspired by the same God, that the deity Ganesha (see attached) is exactly the same as YHWH and Christ, and that all of Vedic and later Hindu culture was born from the same source as the latter figures.

If people like >>12749021 >>12749717 can so recklessly and disingenuously fuse completely different conceptions of Divinity as if there were no contradictions at all, I have every right to do the same. If Plato/Plotinus's "One" is allowed to be attached onto YHWH and Christ's figures, despite being conceived of by a completely different culture and time period, despite being a nondualist conception as compared to a dualistic one, despite literally not being remotely similar to the latter in any regard, then I have every right to equate whatever I want to these same figures, and to equally call it "Christian Theology". You have no basis to prove me wrong, either, by your own assertions.