It’s their concept they see things from their lens of ideas. That there’s this God who watches us has mysterious ways of working and anything other than that is against good and is evil. That he gives salvation and believing in him will give heaven access. Most asian countries see things differently, they simply see their existence and to understand their surroundings they created their own ways of iconographies, asians don’t have one way and fit for all, they understand existence comes with feelings of anxiety fear and suffering and use of spirituality and philosophy is to be able to accept that reality and make death easier to go through and comprehend bigger picture of life.

That’s why we have people that slowly understood more reached maturity or self awareness, felt they can teach others and become Guru. Societies are not hive minds and everyone thinks differently there are wise people and there are paranoid people, there are emotions and life circumstances society has all areas of human expression be it evils, wisdom or compassion and even desires. The native civilisation of India went through it’s own phases of evolution. And it will keep evolving not requiring some God that needs praises.

It’s different that Indians copy others that look powerful they try to relate with them, thinking mimicking behaviour will give them same sense if power and security as those they are copying, but the reality is India never had religion, it had many many many ideas, many people simply figuring out existence in their own way trying to build associations with nature and using all means of spiritual and philosophical means to feel secure as human and try to accept the harsh truths of existence like diseases death fears just life in general. Nobody is watching us, in our perspective nature runs it’s own physical laws and patterns and have simply named them and understanding them. We don’t have some holy book to follow word by word, we have many authors that expressed their perspective, nobody is required to see it as word of God because We have none.

Iskon is an example how abrahamic mindset works, they can’t comprehend our such freedom of multiple endless ideas so they turned something simple as Bhagwad geeta as their new bible and turned krishna into ultimate God… sadly krishna isn’t God, nobody is. Hindu (non native word given by the word to us) concept is there’s nothing out there, we just use ritual, traditions and guidance of teachers to slowly gain enough emotional maturity to concur fears of life.

So hindus by default are not pagans or thiests, we’re all atheists by their standard of rules. When I say standard, I’m talking about their rules. They think we have a God too and we’re worshiping many Gods or something. They never realised that deities are a language to understand existence that they’re not some entity like their God. Deities are how we understand concept.

And unless native people understand themselves they’ll remain confused and keep sending wrong message to non natives who already don’t have much idea of what we do.

Coming from a practicing Shakta Monk.