[…] there was blood on ... the sides of his over-ridden horse", Sir Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf

Life is a shit sandwich: the more bread you have, the less shit you eat.

But it then follows that if Hindus think and say that there is Hinduism, and act to uphold it, then there is a Hinduism, or more probably several Hinduisms.

A water drop placed on the surface of ice can either spread or form a lens depending on the properties of the three phases involved in wetting, i.e., on the properties of the ice, water, and gas phases.