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Manav Tandon
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Duties of a Hindu Student
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So, we’re in HSC, and we think we’ve got it down. We organize garbas and field trips, and maybe have a weekly meeting to discuss issues affecting our chapter. Satisfied with the successes at our campus and in our local area, we are content with living in isolation, cut off from other HSC chapters, the national body, and the rest of the Hindu world.
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Hinduism in Southeast Asia
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One of Hinduism's central tenets is the belief that Truth is one, but different people find different ways to realize that Truth. This belief is the source of its tolerance and pluralism and the reason why Hindus never ventured out of India to conquer and convert people to their faith. However, despite the lack of any proselytizing spirit in Hinduism, it has still been able to attract, in the past as well as the present, people from so many different ethnicities, races and nationalities that it's no longer appropriate to call it an Indian religion. The amorphous and evolutionary nature of Hinduism has helped facilitate the smooth assimilation of its beliefs and practices into the indigenous cultures of the civilizations it has influenced and vice versa.
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