@meeper what's also fucked up to me is how widespread the modern conception of hinduism as some barbaric idolatrous polytheism (with like the jagganath chariot and the aghori sticking out) is when its monism and monotheism predates christianity and now almost every major sect is essentially monotheistic. this bothers me so much because the west has the same patronizing othering attitude towards hinduism that muslims had. perhaps the great irony is how similar sufi practices like dhikr are to hindu/sikh practices.