HERMENEUTIC SCIENCE AND HINDUISM
Hinduism as Agamism or Tantrism with Temple Worship as its most significant external manifestation, holds the KEY for world unity for it has brought even religious experiences within the fold of Scientific Investigations not the positivistic kind now dominant in the West, but the hermeneutic kind and which is now known also as the qualitative sciences.
The notion of Hermeneutic Science runs through the whole gamut of Tamil Culture and from Sumerian times and which took very rigorous shape by the time Tolkaappiyam (3rd BC), sustained since then as the essential dynamics of Tamil culture.
You can see the Hermeneutic scientific dimensions in the Meyppaaddiyal of Tolkaappiyar as much as in the Metaphysical Gynecology of Tirumular.
Since the scientific temper frees the mind from dogmas, excessive attachments to religious scriptures, gurus and messiahs, the bringing in the realms of religious experience into it, will also free the mind of human beings from beastly animosity that they show towards religions other than their own. It is infusion of the scientific temper that will put an end to the religious animosity so widespread now throughout the world.
Dr K Loganathan Krishnan Ullaganar
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