After twenty years studying yoga/Hinduism, that seems to me a strange proposition. Perhaps it comes from the fact that there is no "Hindu church" - no central authority.
Consider the fact that almost anyone who considers self "Hindu" considers reincarnation a natural way to look at human (and other) lives. Any "thinking Hindu" will be aware that it is only a temporary state (of any given lifetime) to be born in a Hindu culture, or Moslem culture, or secular culture. To me, that is a humbling thought: and counsels against the natural human tendency to be proud merely for having been born into a family of a particular culture or religion.
After twenty years studying yoga/Hinduism, that seems to me a strange proposition. Perhaps it comes from the fact that there is no "Hindu church" - no central authority.
Consider the fact that almost anyone who considers self "Hindu" considers reincarnation a natural way to look at human (and other) lives. Any "thinking Hindu" will be aware that it is only a temporary state (of any given lifetime) to be born in a Hindu culture, or Moslem culture, or secular culture. To me, that is a humbling thought: and counsels against the natural human tendency to be proud merely for having been born into a family of a particular culture or religion.