{"id":152961,"date":"2025-11-11T17:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=152961"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:44:35","slug":"why-buddha-rejected-hindu-gods-the-truth-no-one-talks-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/11\/11\/why-buddha-rejected-hindu-gods-the-truth-no-one-talks-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Buddha Rejected Hindu Gods \u2014 The Truth No One Talks About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheBuddhistGuy\">The Buddhist Guy | All Religions, One Channel<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Over 2,500 years ago Prince Siddhartha broke with the Vedic world and became the Buddha. This video traces why he rejected priestly authority, ritual sacrifice, and caste privilege\u2014not because he denied the existence of devas, but because he placed liberation in personal insight, ethical practice, and meditation. Learn how the Buddha\u2019s Middle Way, an\u0101tman (no\u2011self), and critique of ritual transformed South Asian religion and society\u2014and why that ancient clash still matters today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Buddha Rejected Hindu Gods \u2014 The Truth No One Talks About\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bkz3c_E06gI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buddhist Guy | All Religions, One Channel Over 2,500 years ago Prince Siddhartha broke with the Vedic world and became the Buddha. This video traces why he rejected priestly authority, ritual sacrifice, and caste privilege\u2014not because he denied the existence of devas, but because he placed liberation in personal insight, ethical practice, and meditation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152962,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152961\/revisions\/152962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}