The same sun, because there are no four, not even two...

Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism... four different reflections of one and only sun, single eternal wisdom, Sanatana—dharma...

It was always hard for theologians and philosophers, for the man of knowledge and information, to catch and comprehend wisdom... because the son blinds, dazzles, its bright is not easy to gaze at directly...

Study is always of the reflection... and there are those who forget the real sun...

When the Christian—Jewish western world, with their colonialist attitude and explorers, started to discover Hinduism, they found before them a religion very different from what they were used to — a religion that although it speaks of one God, it is related to a no end of gods, which was mistakenly classified as polytheistic; a religion which rites and ceremonies change according to the various areas inside India; A religion that consists of different sects and cults, that although they all accept the Vedas as the revealed scriptures, each one of them sticks to different books as the sacred texts par excellence. It took some time for the western world to understand that the Sanatana—dharma is not only a strange small sect or an obscure cult of some strange few, but that it is a religion with nothing less than one billion followers, which converts it into the third greatest religion in the whole world, in terms of the number of believers.

More than a religion, Hinduism is a family of religions grouped under the same ceiling, which I would call the Vedas. It would be impossible to understand Sanatana—dharma without understanding that under this umbrella of the Vedas there are four principal designations that coexist harmoniously — Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism and Smartism.