The one who is religion-less. A real Hindu does not have any religion. To go beyond all religions is to be a Hindu. There are religions that are on one plane, and then there is Sanatan Dharma, which is another dimension — the eternal religiousness. Liberation from religion is religiousness. Sanatan Dharma is awakened intelligence.
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Questioner: Is Hinduism a religion that allows and accepts non-believers too?
Acharya Prashant: If you are accepting non-believers, then you also have to accept that Muslims and Christians are also Hindus. So, this is obviously a non-question. If you are saying that Hinduism accepts both believers and non-believers, then believers and non-believers is the sum total of everybody. You are saying, ‘A and A compliment,’ and that is the universal set. Then you are saying that everybody is a Hindu.
No religion can accept non-believers. So, you have to believe in something, yes you can have people who believe differently, that much can be accepted, but you cannot accept non-believers. A non-believer cannot belong to a religion. Do you know who is a non-believer? The one who lives in the atman. The mind lives in beliefs, the non-believer lives somewhere else. For him, no Hinduism and no other-ism applies.
A spiritual man does not belong to a religion.
