by Paul Trafford

    The word   “Hindu”  was  derived from the land name, “the Hindustan”, but what is its true religion and the founding father of it. Since hundreds of years whole Globe has been identifying Hinduism as the religion of Hindustan or India. And nobody is certain about the Founding Father of this religion and religious text.

   Name after River Indus or Sindhu   

             There is  a lot of controversial remarks regarding its religious text . It is a matter of ignorance, since thousands of years people residing in this ancient land of civilization, few knows what is the original or starting religion of this land. Since thousands of years people have been living at the Valley of Sindhu River or Indus River. The population residing at the valley of the river Sindhu was identified by the whole world as the Hindu. That is logically true the people residing at the valley of Indus are termed as “Indian” by the Greek or the people residing in valley of Sindhu as “the Hindustani” by Arabians.

 Whether Afghani is the religion of Afghanistan?

       The people residing in “Afghanistan”  are “Afghani” but their religion is Muslim , not Afghani , similarly people living in Pakistan  are called as Pakistani, their religion are not Pakistani, rather Muslim . People residing in England are termed as English people there religion are different from their land name. But in the case of Hinduism, people are identifying the name of religion with the name of their land “the Hindustan” which should be incorrect.

     What is the true religion of the ancient civilization of India? As per many saints or learned it is the “Sanatana” religion and as per Brahma Kumaris organization it is “Adi Sanatan Devi Devata Dharma” . As per them in ancient India, deities were residing as the normal human being of today with utmost virtuous and vice less life.

 The word Hindu is absent in Ancient Religion Text of India

      As the word “the Hindu” was never being mentioned in any important epics of India, that may be The Gita , the Mahabharata  , the Ramayana ,the Veda or Puranas, etc so identifying the religion of this land with Hindu creates a sense of doubt .  As per the history text book the origin of the word Hindu has come from the Arabian who termed the people residing at the valley of the river of the Sindhu as the Hindu. So Hindu is not the original word mentioned in sny ancient religious text of this land. This word was coined by the people who visited from outside to this land.  The land where Hindu was residing was identified as the Hindustan and their religion as the Hinduism.

     Still now it is a mystery “which is original religion of this holy land and who the Founding Father is and what is its religious text”. Regarding other religion such as Islam, Christianity or Jews people know their religion, their founding father and the religious text. But regarding India there are so many debatable opinions and theories by different philosophers.

 Brahma Kumaris about the mystery of Ancient religion  

    As many ancient religion text has mentioned the word “Sanatana Dharma” as the religion of this land which means “Eternal Truth/Teachings/Tradition” but originally when god and goddess were there, the name of the religion of this land was the “Adi Sanatana Devi Devata Dharma” as per Brahma Kumaris spiritual University. As in ancient time India was termed as “the golden sparrow”. The land where there was absolute peace, stability and prosperity. The land where there was truth, knowledge and divinity It was the land of milk and ghee, where god and goddess were living on this land which has been   adored as the Heaven, Paradise, land of angels, Golden age, etc.As people of this land have been worshipping the deities, who was the forefather of the present generation and were in living form leading their life as we are living today. 

       According to the Brahma Kumaris Spiritual University the God Himself founded this through the teaching of the Gita , but with time the people of this holy land and the world as a whole  had forgotten their founding father of their real religion of this land  and as the most ancient civilization , religion of this land should be the ancient most religion of the whole world or the human civilization. As per the God is again establishing this religion for the new age, and the whole cycle of world drama will repeat again. So this the time for transformation.