Journal of Medicinal Plants Studies

[Angrboda]

I'm much more interested in what being a hindu/muslim entails.

Some say that Hinduism is more a way of life than a set of beliefs, so in that sense, the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Some Hindus believe that the divine speaks to all but in different ways. Thus the Indian sage Ramakrishna Paramahansa, who started as a priest in a temple devoted to Kali, spent a number of years as an avowed Christian, and he saw the two traditions as expressions of the same truth. The notion of "Hinduism" as a 'religion' and a set of beliefs is somewhat foreign to the original traditions, though it is becoming more common as a term of self-description. And like other major religious traditions, there is an enormous amount of diversity within the whole. One of the Sramana traditions, the Lokayata, were avowed materialists, from what we can tell. I consider myself to be both a Taoist and a Hindu.