Dharmic illusion

Imagine a conversation between Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva:
Brahma: OK, guys, we’re meeting so that we can figure out what all this hullabaloo regarding Sanatan Dharma is about.
Vishnu: It began with a politician saying that Sanatan Dharma should be eradicated from India. And others saying that saying that Sanatan Dharma should be eradicated is like saying that Hinduism should be eradicated, and that those who say that should themselves be eradicated.

Shiva : Well, is Sanatan Dharma, which means Eternal Duty, the same as Hinduism?
Brahma : Your guess is as good as mine. The thing about what people call Hinduism is that there seem to be as many Hinduisms as there are Hindus, which includes people who call themselves atheists.
Vishnu: Too true. But dash it all, there’s got to be something that all these different Hinduisms agree on?
Brahma: Don’t they all agree that everything that arises out of sensory perception is illusion, and that beyond the veil of illusion, or maya, there’s Cosmic Consciousness, of which all humans, and us Gods, are individual sparks of an Everlasting Flame? Which that other religion, which calls itself Science, calls the Big Bang Theory.
Vishnu: If all is illusion, then those who want to eradicate Sanatan Dharma are an illusion, as are those who want to eradicate those who want to eradicate Sanatan Dharma. Illusions, the lot of them.
Shiva: And a bigger illusion is what they call politics, which is really what this commotion is about.
Brahma: You mean all this hoo-ha about what this Sanatan Dharma is or is not, and whether it should or should not be eradicated, and who should be eradicated is about an illusion called politics?
Shiva: Yup. In what’s called Kal Yug everything’s about politics.
Vishnu: But aren’t all the illusions called politicians meant to tackle things like poverty, hunger, and disease?
Shiva: Yes, but in the illusion of politics the things you mention are too real to be tackled.
Brahma: I guess that’s the biggest illusion of all…

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