What Is Hinduism?

In this book, Acharya Peter Wilberg offers an introduction to Hinduism from a number of radically new perspectives - historical and philosophical, economic and political, socialist and Marxist. Its aim is to overcome the whole idea of Hinduism as just one major world 'faith' among others - and instead to reveal anew the radical essence of Hinduism as the 'Eternal Truth' or 'Sanatana Dharma'. At its heart is an understanding that the question of God's reality is not a question of the existence or non-existence of a single divine being - one that merely happens to have or 'possess' some form of consciousness. Instead the 'Eternal Truth' of Hinduism is the recognition that God IS Consciousness. This is not a consciousness that is 'yours' or 'mine'. Nor is it the Private Property of ANY body or being - human or divine. Instead God is consciousness AS SUCH - that 'pure awareness' recognised in Hindu religious philosophy as the Divine source and Divine essence of ALL things and ALL beings.