Azygos

Rama came for a mission....to uphold righteousness and destroy the evil of Ravana and maintain Dharma

 

Brahman has no attributes.......admitted.....but the personal god has attributes....and the incarnation of god must have attributes like any other person.....

 

Every incarnation has both an earth consciousness and a god consciousness. At normal times, the earth consciousness prevails. Only at certain times, does the god consciousness prevails. That is why Krishna in Mahabharata reveals he is god to arjuna only at very few places. The dominance of earth consciousness in the god incarnation helps him to acheive the mission that he came for, which would not be possible in the god consciousness mould.

 

Regards,

Saurav

 

India: its religion,science & superstition : a rational perspective

 

For the last 4 months, i have been trying to discover the wonderful religion of sanatana dharma or hinduism.

And so far although i am short of any realizations, i feel completely mesmerized with its serenity, its depth, its tranquility, its taming of the highest intellect, its conception of the highest, and finally its revelation of the divinity of man. I feel blessed to have been born in the country which has given to this world the most wonderful, the greatest of all religions and its nectar of spirituality, a way of life which synthesizes with such ease the highest renunciation, the highest ethics and the highest morality unparalleled in the annals of human civilization.

 

Not only did India had spirituality, along with it, it was gifted in art and literature. Indian literature has been bestowed with the greatest of the epics, the works of Kalidasa, and innumerable more works in Sanskrit. And the diverse languages which arose from it have further aggrandized our literary treasure, not to forget the classic dravidian languages. Also in art and arctitecture our civilization has been nonpareil. In Music, India had gifted the world the diatonic scale around 350 BC, along with the beauty of our classical music and dance forms.

 

However, when the question of science arises, it is an enigmatic problem indeed.

For the greatness of our religion is we have discovered the highest truth within ourselves without the revelation by any divine prophet.

The other religions have been inspired, the religion of hinduism has been expired.

But to discover the natural sciences one has to look outward like the greeks did. Indeed, our forefathers also looked outward first. Our great astronomical discoveries are in a league of their own, the modern numerals and the marvellous zero have all come from India.

In medicine, the indigenous ayurvedic system of medicine, is still in practice and holds its own inspite of the gigantic rise of western medicine. In surgery, plastic surgery, tonsillectomy were known in India even around 1000 BC. And last but not the least, inspite of the best medical care, the highest life expectancy in the most developed of the European nations and japan has not reached 90 while in the vedic age, the average life expectancy was regarded as 100. Thus, the four phases of human life were regarded as 25 years apiece.

 

But as soon as the aryan indians looked within, they discovered a new world, and limitless possibilities, which didnt exist when looking towards the external nature. And thus, they grasped the highest metaphysical truths whose treasures are there in the vedas and the upanishads.

 

Not looking towards the external nature, should mean the aryan indians never let the materialistic technology to be invented and take them away from their goal. But some recent nationalistic historians proclaim that India had all the knowledge of the modern sciences.

Like the 100 kauravas were all test tube babies, the brahmasthra was the hydrogen bomb, all those vimanas mentioned in the epics of ramayana and mahabharata surpassed modern aircraft, dhitarashtra the kaurava king was kept informed about the events in the battlefield by vedic television, the arrows were actually missiles and innumerable more such ancient marvels which rival and sometimes surpass the modern marvels of today.

 

In my humble opinion, i feel that these latter theories are far fetched. Indian science could not never have been so advanced. For to prove these, we need certain archaeological evidence. Unfortunately so far we have none. Much of the blame lies with our historians and the archaeological survey of India, one of the most incompetent bodies in the country. Lack of interest in History among today;s youth is another matter for concern, for our country;s history has been taken over by the coterie of Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, S P Sharma and co. who are declared communists and their shibboleths smack of anti nationalism. They have been acclaimed abroad, and from the pseudosecularists in power (the congress and the left) for denigrating our pure religion by the worst calumny. And unfortunately these historians rule the roost and are the writers of the commonly prescibed NCERT school history books as well as university level books especially in JNU. To preserve our history and prevent it from getting distorted we as informed citizens must come forward and protest this history rewriting which is brainwashing the future generation and portraying our forefathers as uncivilized barbarians, glorifying the mughal barbarians and the communist dictators like Stalin, and defaming our pristine religion of sanatana dharma. No wonder, they are not interested in excavating the truths because their nefarious designs would stand exposed, and their hypocrisy will be unveiled amongst all.

 

My only doubts are regarding Indian materialistic science having ever existed. For the only possibility of them having existed is because of their mention in the epics of ramayana and mahabharata. The aim of both these epics was to portray society, its strengths and weaknesses (like the story of eklavya which reflects the follies of the caste system), and the role of the Rama and Krishna, the godly incarnations to maintain virtue, and defeat the forces of evil which wanted to inflict a reign of chaos and adharma.

But to consider ALL the incidents in both epics to be true would be a folly. The mahabharata was written by not one, but multiple authors. 2,00,000 lines cannot be written by a single man, howsoever great he might be! and all writers wrote under the pseudonyn of Vyasa, so Vyasa could never have been a single man.

Then why those stories of those vimanas, etc at all? I think the authors also brought in an element of fantasy or technically science fiction. Havent modern authors written about parallel universes, and other worlds. But they are all figments of imagination within the authors;s mind. But then, one might counter by stating that Science fiction stories are depicted in the future. However, that is probably because according to the western mind, science advances with age. But in the vedic age, in the minds of the aryan rishis, the men of yesteryer in the sattvic age must have been more advanced in science and technology. Both ramayana and mahabharata tell the stories of the past, a past where materialistic science along with spirituality was at its zenith.

 

It has also become a recent trend by defenders of Hinduism to attach subtle meanings to all our customs and attach some symbolic vedic truth with all those puranic stories. And although, i admit that there is some relative truth in them, i dont see the point in justifying all those superstitions and those customs which need to be shunned. Vedas and upanishads, our primary scriptures or srutis have nothing to do with superstition. The puranas at some place, state that a man can live for 1000 yrs which is preposterous.

THe purnas are secondary scriptures, the authenticity of some of them is doubtful, and they are to believed only as long as they agree with the vedas. Since the vedas speak of only one incarnation, we should stick with it instead of trying to trace Rama;s ancestry and getting involved in useless speculation about the ADVENT OF KALKI. All these unnecessary dependance on a future incarnation is totally uncalled for. Remeber these words "great is a nation with heroes. But The greatest is the one which DOES NOT NEED HEROES". If every citizen of the country can be like our aryan rishis of yore, if the qualities of nationalism, knowledge, truth, integrity and unbound strength are there in everyone then we wont need to depend on an incarnation to liberate us from the clutches of the ills of poverty, illiteracy, corruption, nescience, superstition and degradation in every possible field of life. We dont need to prove how much our forefathers knew about science, the fact of the matter is even if that science had existed it has now been lost. The need of the hour is twofold, the first is to spread the word of the vedas and the upanishads throughout the land, among the masses especially those who never had access to them. The second is to progress simultaneously in western science and education, be self sufficient in industry, agriculture, services which would automatically provide jobs to our vast human resources, and raise the standard of living. Depending on a future incarnation is absolute cowardice of the highest degree. Remembering Vivekananda;s words "awake, arise and stop not until the goal is acheived" should be the rallying cry of every patriot in our hallowed land. We dont need incarnations, the vedanta says "everyone is potentially divine"......the divinity is within us all.....and that divinity can make India glorious again, even more glorious than its past.............

 

 

 

 

The question was how to attain pure Sattva.

The text said "When Ahara becomes pure"

Now Ramanjuja translated it as food

Ahara-shuddhi was his idea.

So what makes food impure according to him were Jati dosa, Ashraya dosa and Nimitta dosa......the concept of Ashraya dosa (not taking food from wicked persons) led to the concept of untouchability in India....of course, he was not to know but it inadvertednly did.....

 

Now the flaw with this concept is anyone can take pure food but will it be good karma.And a non veg person is then doomed for life. Then all herbivores would go to heaven. If a monkey is fed milk and nuts his entire life will he become a yogi!

 

Sankaracharya said the word Ahara means thought collected in mind; when that becomes pure; the Sattva becomes pure; not before that. You may eat what u like, even non veg.

 

This makes sense, rationally and philosphically.

 

Regard,

Saurav

 

According to Ramanujam,

 

All three, brahman, individual soul and nature are eternal

So they are all infinite

 

But can u explain how there can be 3 infinites......

If two things are infinite, then both must be same

 

Hence, the logic of dualists is false.......there is a lower truth in dualism, a still higher truth in qualified monism and the highest truth in monism or advaita....

 

regards,

Saurav

 

 

Once again i will clarify myself:

 

1. How BJP is Pro Hindu

 

* It supports the propagation of the Hindu religion

and culture in schools.

* Refuses to yield to the fanatical demands of

the muslims

* Refuse to appease MUSLIMS

1. Banning the book "satanic verses" by Rushie

This book for that matter has been banned nowhere in the world including some Islamic countries

2. Banning the book "sufis of bijapur" by Eaton

This book depicts the true fanatical nature of some of the

sufi saints.

Logic: These books hurt the sentiments of the muslims

although they are true

3. Allowing M F Hussain to paint hindu goddesses in the nude

Logic: Hindu sentiments are of no consequence because they

are in a majority. But M F HUssain is a muslim so he can have his way

 

* Recently In Andhra Pradesh, The congress government

under Y S R Reddy approved of 5% reservations in

govt. jobs and educational institutions for Muslims

THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED. RESERVATION IN THE NAME

OF RELIGION. The Problem with people like u, is u

lack foresight....which i possess in plenty....

sorry....but i know i am right even at the risk

of being called self righteuous

 

*. BJP Supports abolition of ARTICLE 370

It is only because of the lopsided article 370

that we were not able to change the demography

of kashmir after partition. And till date,

this blunder by Nehru is haunting us along

with his decision to drag the kashmir imbroglio

to the U N

 

* BJP supports A Uniform Civil Code

The UCC is a necessity that has been conveniniently

ignored by the pseudosecularists .

1. Muslims are NOT OVER THE LAW OF THE LAND

why do muslims have a personal law board guided

by the archaic laws of the quran. We have NO

PLACE FOR THE ULEMA and there primitive laws

As a hypothetical question, if hindus feel

the laws of manu are apt for today, will that

be allowed? NO...so why this disparity

2. THe subject of polygamy. A civilized society

and polygamy are poles apart

3. TRIPLE TALAQ a deplorable

concept still holds

4. Miniscule property rights for muslim women

5. The Shah Bano case and a recent case

in which a woman raped by her father in law

was ordered by the deoband clerics

to leave her husband and live with her

father in law, are testimonies to

the lawlessness that prevails within

the muslim community

 

* BJP against the influx of Bangladeshi immigrants

who are committing heinous crimes and yet being

given citizenship by the communists in west bengal

and the congress in delhi....so that they serve as

effective vote banks....

* In Assam, the IMDT act has been scrapped by the

HONOURABLE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA.....the court

has stated that this act by which deportation

of illegal bangladeshi muslims from assam was

hampered is deplorable and atleast 3 crore bangladeshi

immigrants have been given ration cards and voting

cards by the congress government in ASSAM led

by Tarun Gogoi....another instance of gross

anti nationalism.....for i dont need to tell u

that bangladesh at this moment has large number

of ISI camps planning terrorist activities against

India.

 

 

SINCE ALL PSEUDOSECULARISTS ARE AGAINST

THE IMPOSITION OF UCC, ABOLITION OF

ARTICLE 370, so naturally it proves

they are against the hindu community

ALL THEY WANT IS A MUSLIM VOTE BANK

 

 

U cannot equate the whites and blacks question

Blacks were being discrimination

IN India, the ground realities are different.

Moreover, blacks were always nationalistic

Muslims are mostly antinationals.....they

have been sympathsing with the kashmir

militants, have openly sympathises with mass

murderers like Osama Bin Lader.....and hence,

i must tag the majority of muslims as

anti nationals.....

 

A DEMOCRACY IS NOT MEANT FOR APPEASEMENT OF MINORITIES.......THE Laws of the land are same

for all.....u cannot provide minorities with

seperate provisons....we have the judiciary

to look into matters of violation of human

rights....

 

 

BJP DOESNT HATE NON HINDUS but it only

asks for equality for all......no

special priveleges or appeasement

of muslims....U FORGOT THE BASIC

TENENT OF A DEMOCRACY is MAJORITY RULES:)

 

 

U said "HISTORY HAPPENED, LIVE WITH IT!"

So let me tell u "People who dont read history

are destined to suffer for the repetition of its

mistakes"....all the wrongs of the medieval past

cannot be corrected, but some must be corrected

to avoid repetition of them in future.

 

 

The question is a temple stood there in a city

which is considered as the birthplace of Rama,

and hence it is one of the most sacred of

places for hindus.....Would, a temple built

in Mecca, Medina or Jerusalem be acceptable

to the people there??? NO....

Why dont the muslims realise the sentiments

of the hindus......dont u think, that a

sacrifice on their part, would build

bridges between the 2 communities and unite

he country........

 

U SAY GANDHI CURBED RIOTS.....

he did ONLY in a relative sense....he used his

goodwill among hindu masses to preach them

non violence but his sermons HAD NO EFFECTS

on the Muslims....who killed trainloads of

hindus.....and when hindus tried to retaliate

Gandhi came up preaching Non Violence and then

going of fasts....thus blatantly exploting

his goodwill among the hindu masses..........

If the hindus had also become violent, the muslims

who were in a minority would NOT have dared to

commit those atrocities..........

 

II. A 2nd point of gandhi;s antinational attitude

was when during 1948, Pak. Rangers attacked Kashmir

India decided to suspend the transfer of 500 crore

rupees to Pakistan which was due to it....but again

Gandhi went on a fast, and to pacify him the govt.

transferred the money to Pakistan.

 

Regarding your statement

you are

contradicting yourself. If this system benefits only 1% of

lower castes as stated in (A), how can society be hurt to

a very great extent as you imply in (B)? You cannot claim both

that the system is "highly detrimental to our society,

educational system, and country" while also claiming that

it only effects 1% of lower castes.

How much damage to society can these 1% effected by the system

do to the country?

 

U have not understood my viewpoint.......

A. Reservations are 22% in all states and in certain

states like UP it is upto 50%

So, the provisions are there....

But the awareness of these benifits is only among 1% of the

lower castes in the cities....who are exploiting these benifits

generation after generation....these people are lower

castes only in name, as they are economically and socially

at par with the upper castes.

*** U have conveniently ignored my position that

reservation produces sub standard doctors, engineers,bureaucrats,

educationalists, etc. Thus, i repeat when a quarter of our

professionals will be of substandrad quality if will naturally

be detrimental to our society and country

*** The uneducated lower castes will never be able to make

use of these benifits.....thus, my stance that education and

only education will uplift the lower castes stands vindicated.

 

U SAID

Hinduism is not the identity of India neither by law nor

by population. Just because 80% of the people are Hindu

does not mean the country must be a Hindu nation.

India was founded as a secular nation, a land of freedom

and free of religious persecution. India is a DEMOCRACY first,

and democracies do not have their identities based on religion.

 

*** Firstly, the laws of the land have been framed just 50 yrs back

by these same pseudosecularists of the INC. So they dont hold

much water.

*** India WAS NOT FOUNDED AS A SECULAR NATION.....India in the

past 5000 yrs was NOT SECULAR.....secularism means

NOT CONCERNED WITH RELIGION......but the land of India has

always been concerned with religion.......In 50 yrs, u cannot change

5000 yrs of our history......

*** Even without being secular in the conventional sense,

our religion is the all embracing one and hence, it never

persecuted anyone in the name of religion......so we dont

need a tag of secularism from anyone

when the tenets of our religion are based on acceptance,

tolerance and respect, then WHY THE HELL DO U NEED TO

INTRODUCE THE ALIEN TERM SECULARISM???

 

 

U SAID

You are being prejudiced, ignorant, and hypocritical when asserting

that Islam is entirely violent. There are 120 million Muslims living in India,

are you claiming that every single one of these individuals is a plundering war monger?

Islam is not a monolithic entity. The Koran's different interpretations bring different

Muslims to different conclusions in life.

 

My reply...

Indian Muslims have always actively sympathised with terrorists.....whether

in Kashmir or America....so i have no sympathy for them....if they are

NOT war mongers, then why dont they come forward and publicly denouce

these terrorists.....SILENCE MEANS TACIT APPROVAL OF THEIR ACTIVITIES

 

ISLAM NOT A RELIGION OF PEACE

http://www.integralworld.net/harris20.html

The fundamental intolerance and fanaticism of Islam are an undeniable fact.

They can readily be proven from a large number of Quranic verses.

I will merely give the verse numbers, so you can check it for yourself.

Islam promises hell to the Kafirs in Quran 3:85, 4:56, 5:37, 5:72, 8:55, 9:28, 15:2,

21:98-100, 22:19-22, 22:56-57, 25:17-19, 25:55, 29:53-55, 31:13, 66:9, 68:10-13, 72:14- 15,

98-51.

Islam warms against mixing with Kafirs in Quran 2:21, 3:28, 3:118, 5:51, 5:144, 9:7, 9:28,

58:23, 60:4.

Islam calls on Muslims to wage war against the Kafirs in Quran 2:191, 2:193, 4:66, 4:84,5:33,

8:12, 8:15-18, 8:39, 8:59-60, 8:65, 9:2-3, 9:5, 9:14, 9:29, 9:39, 9:73,9:111, 9:123, 25:52,

37:22-23, 47:4-5, 48:29, 69:30-37.

Islam encourages the war against the Kafirs by glorifying it in Quran

2:216, 9:41, 49:15,

or by promising lust in paradise to the Shaheeds who die in such a war,

in Quran 3:142, 3:157-158, 9:20--21. The Hadis is also explicit enough,

and proves that Prophet put the Quranic injunctions into practice.

 

ALSO YOUR ASSERTION THAT FUNDAMENTALISM EXISTS IN EVERY RELIGION

IS FALSE....Show me one hindu scripture which asks people to defend their

religion by means of violence and any scripture which promises a lustful

paradise to the shaheeds who die in the cause of religion...............

 

 

KASHMIRI PANDITS DEFENDING THEMSELVES VIA ARMY?

Your statement is Ludicrous...

Do u mean each armyman will protect one pandit apiece???

Where were the pseudosecularists when the ethnic cleansing was being

carried out in Kashmir....why do the kashmiri muslims actively

sympathise with the militants......WHY? In Kashmir, the pandits

are minorities...why doesnt the govt. take care of them..........

DO U HAVE ANY ANSWERS???

 

Again Your statement

This statement has no relevence to the present.

Hindus in India are not under attack by anything but their own misconceptions.

Look around you, there are foreigners in India and they are not going to go away.

Stop complaining and live with it. If they violate the law, punish them.

They're regular citizens living in a democracy just like you are.

 

** India is under constant attack...if we were not, then why did we have to

fight 4 wars with Pakistan including the recent one in Kargil

** Terrorism is a ground reality...In India.....

** The ISI is plotting against the country....the recent attacks on Ayodhya

and at Akashdham are testimony to this fact. ISI building terror camps

in Bangladesh and Nepal.

 

 

You SAID:

I Cannot help but simply laugh at your statement

"i have concrete information regarding this for islam is ANTI SCIENCE."

Islam is anti-science! Oh my oh my. Do provide us this "concrete information"

you possess, good sir.

I would have never thought that a religion could be anti-science!

How simply shocking!

 

My friend, u should do a study of the abrahamic faiths which will

prove that all these religions are anti science

Wasnt galileo persecuted by the christian church......and wasnt there

such a hue and cry about darwin;s theory of evolution....

THat is why ISLAM DOESNT BELIEVE MODERN SCIENCE because it knows that

all the theories in QUran would crumble like a pack of cards

 

I have been to madarsas and asked the children whether they receive

any scientific education....the answer was a unanimous "NO"

 

Your STATEMENT

"Public schools are not hindu temples"

I agree wholeheartedly.......And religion is NOT TAUGHT IN TEMPLES EITHER

Where will children learn about religion but in SCHOOLS....

U can teach children any subject under the sun, but when it comes

to religion....it becomes xenophobia???

TEACHING VEDANTA WOULD MAKE PEOPLE XENOPHOBIACS, U ASK ME TO BELIEVE SUCH

.!

IF someone doesnt want to learn of our democractic process, because he says

he believes in anarchy.......can that be allowed

Therefore compulsory religious education is a MUST......whether u believe

in religion, a god or not is secondary.....

 

*** U ARE GENERALIZING MY STATEMENTS WHICH I MADE IN REFERENCE WITH U and possibly

NRIs who agree with U....

*** NRIS have made hefty contribution to our forex reserves and at time of

calamities they have contributed handsomely....agreed!

*** I am against all people who agree with the pseudosecularists irrespective

of caste, creed, religion, nationality, residence

 

*** U Said "India is NOT FOR HINDUS".....i disagree....INdia, was, is, and will be

the land of sanatana dharma and its followers.....muslims should either behave themselves

or find some other suitable accomodation......

U have forgotten that the partition of India was solely on the basis

of religion......Hence, millions of Hindus had to leave their homes in

Pakistan....and become refugees in their own country........but again

it was muslim appeasement by INC which allowed the muslims to stay back in such

large numbers.........sheer hypocrisy of the highest degree

 

*** Finally u say "ground realities my friend...India is a democracy"

WIth all due respect, Democracy is NOT ANTI RELIGION..............

COMMUNISM IS ANTI RELIGION........................................

IN A DEMOCRACY>>> Majority rules

 

 

U Said

You sound like a Nazi when you say that.

BUt that's not surprising; the RSS does openly claim its appreciation and admiration of

Hitler and his policies. Fierce nationalism lead to World War I, World War II, and other

great catastrophes in history.

 

*** U associate nationalism with jingoism...... Again shows your

petty mindedness..... The RSS appreciated hitler;s organization skills

which revived german industries after WWI......They dont appreciate

his persecution of jews, either.....

Nationalism doesnt lead to xenophobia..........

If qualities like self sacrifice, and renunciation make a man a fascist

then vivekananda and aurobindo would be fascists in your view.

*** A person must first think about his mother.....For every Indian,

India is his mother......his motherland....thus, we are committed

to our duties of sacrifice and renunciation of the highest degree

for her and her alone........and the religion of sanatana dharma

is the lifeblood of our motherland....and we have to protect its

pristine purities at all costs......

 

 

Regards,

Saurav

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*. Brahman the impersonal god

*. Ishvara the highest conception of brahman by the MIND (personal god)

U must remember that for every thought in mind, there is a form as its counterpart.....

Can anyone in this world, envisage an omnipotent, omnipresent, brahman....NO......

hence, in the path of devotion (bhakti yoga) u need anthropomorphic forms of Ishvara

for prayer and worship

 

*. According to dualistic theories like the vaishnavs, as preached by Prabhupara and

(dvaita by madhavcharya), the brahman and jiva are seperate

*. When it comes to visitadvaita (qualified monism) of Ramajuna, there is both a transcendal aspect and a personal god....

*. In advaita (absolute monism) it is maaya which creates the barriers of time, space and causation and hence

the illusion of duality........everything is brahman........how to overcome maaya? by Jyana, by the

knowledge of discrimination.

 

Vivekananda explained all three to be complementary to each other with advaita being the highest truth

and final conclusion of vedanta

 

THE NEED FOR RELIGION? It is very true that god cannot be found in books.....the scriptures are aids

to realizing the divinity within. Without those scriptures, it is like finding the goal without a map which

is an arduous task, indeed.....Religion is REALIZATION, this is all we need to remember....thus, we

dont need to study all religions.....just follow the one which suits our temperament, our culture, our beliefs

 

The path of Bhakti is the path of love for the divine........it is constant remembrance........initially the symbols

or idols are needed to concentrate the mind solely on god but in a higher state of realization they are no

longer useful / nor they are needed. In Bhakti, one surrenders absolutely to god.

* It is true, that Ramakrishna Paramhansa said that in this kali yuga, bhakti is the best path but Vivekananada

preached karma and gyana in the west. Since, we have by now imbibed some of the proclivities of the west,

bhakti cannot be the ideal for every Hindu in the present scenario.

* In Bhakti the atman does not merge with the brahman. Infact, the bhakta enjoys god

THe allegory given by Ramakrishna was "If god is syrup, by gyana u become the syrup itself. In bhakti, u can pour

the syrup into a cup and drink and enjoy it. So what would u like, becoming the syrup itself or drinking it"

 

However, for an agnostic the path of Bhakti is not the ideal path.......The path of gyana should be followed by him

along with Raja yoga (medidation)

 

A good karma is more of a prerequisite for realization. However, i;m not sure whether solely good karma can

give the highest realization. It may cause us to be born in higher materialistic worlds with more senses,

longer lives, lesser disease but after having utilised the fruits of karma, one has to return to the earth, the

karmabhoomi. Death is a certainty even in those higher materialistic worlds and misery and sorrow and joy

are all evanescent in higher worlds too.

 

I feel, its unfortunate that dualistic teachers including Prabhupara become so fanatical in their beliefs.

They feel that only their path is right, and gyana and monism are false. This is the problem with

every dualistic religion. (like Islam and Christianity too)

 

Since both vaishnavism and Islam are dualistic philosphies (also saivism) hence it is quite

natural that both will have certain common characteristics. However, while Islam is a highly

violent and fanatical religion, vaishnavism preaches love for all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vivekananda has time again stressed physical fitness

for everyone who wants to follow a spiritual path

because a weak body cannot undergo the spiritual

transformation.....havent u heard of the old maxim,

"a healthy body beholds a healthy mind"

 

But a Sanyasin, has to undergo complete renunciation

to god........thus, for a sanyasin cannot defend himself,

if the divine wills, then he will be protected or else not.

Madhavcharya also was a dualistic....naturally his

realizations were NOT at par with an advaitist, like

Vivekananda who went on prove that dvaita, visitadvaita

and advaita were all true and were complementary to

each other with advaita being the final conclusion of

Vedanta

 

In the novel Ananda Math by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

the sanyasins fight the British forces.......so i agree

that some sanyasins are not against resistance either

However, a violent sanyasin is against the ethos

of the institution itself, and for such a sanyasin

to realize the highest will be a herculean task indeed.

 

 

 

By Anti national i mean acts which are against India;s masses....and hinduism has been india;s identity.....it is becoming weaker day by day by casteist policies being played which are further dividing hindu society and the blatant appeasement of the minorties by the pseudsecularists.

Firstly i assert that gandhi;s charkha movement was a farce....not solely because tagore said so but simply because it was taking India back to the stoneage.....u cannot refute that industrialization and education for all, was what India seeked and NOT a primtive charkha........

 

Secondly, gandhi blackmailed everyone by going on those falsified fastes.....no going on a fast for religious purposes is NOT wrong but going on a fast solely to make people TOE your line...TO EXPLOIT THE GOODWILL THE NATION HAS BESTOWED ON U....is a crime.....

 

 

Secondly, about the caste system.......it needs upliftment....abolish caste u say? When will caste system be truely abolished? By LAWS>..can laws change anything...we have enough laws prevailing in this land for 50 yrs.......The caste system would naturally have eliminated with time but for the short sightedness of B R AMBEDKAR and others who introduced the element of positive discrimination which solely benifits 1% of these lowers castes and produces substandard professionals and educators which is highly detrimental to our society, our educational system and our country

Now let me give u an allegory.....would an educated man marry an illiterate woman....or vice versa....NOPE.....

Now it is quite clear that unless the illiterate lower castes are educated, no progress can be made.....because only then will MORE INTER_CASTE MARRIAGES TAKE PLACE, and as more such marriages take place, naturally the progeny of such marriages will be of mixed caste.....and naturally they would never think of caste anyway.....inter caste marriages are a reality in Urban India and with further spread of education among the masses, the trend will be further towards intercaste marriaes

 

I REPEAT HINDUISM IS THE IDENTITY OF INDIA....for a person sitting in Chicago it is easy to make vile arguments regarding this statement........my friend u are not aware with the ground realities....ISLAM IS AN ALIEN RELIGION....a religion of PLUNDER, FANTICISM AND MAYHEM

ALL MUSLIMS IN INDIA ARE CONVERTED HINDUS WHO WERE IN A MAJORITY CONVERTED BY THE SWORD.....i admit some lower castes did convert willingly and some under the influence of the sufi mystics but they were in a minority

For long this argument has been made that "islam is a beautiful religion of peace but it has been made corrupt by its followers who have misinterpreted it. The time has come for the world to know at large that although it has few of the greatest truths, it has too many passages inciting violence in allahs name....and PROMISING THE SENSUOUS HEAVEN TO THOSE WHO DIE IN THE CAUSE OF ISLAM....Look at their conception of heaven...."beautiful horis dancing to the tunes of lecherous men and all women turning into horis (Read whores) to satisfy the lust of these men....the only saving grace is her youth is eternal"....such hedonism....and u call it a pure religion???

Nowhere have MUSLIMS LIVED IN PEACE.....the incidents at WTC, NY, London, Egypt, Kashmir......prove otherwise.....

 

Regarding NON VIOLENCE......the DISCOURSE OF GEETA came in the battlefield.......SRI KRISHNA always asked Arjuna to fight and uphold RIGHTEOUSNESS..............

nowhere did he ask to blindly perform Non Violence......infact in the 2nd chapter Krishna calls Arjuna a coward because Krishna realises that Arjuna has become afraid on seeing the mighty Kaurava Army and was thus taking refuge under the ideal of universal brotherhood.

The geeta asks to fight but only as a LAST RESORT......never does it asks to APPEASE the enemy

 

As Vivekananda said "Resistance for the householder, non resistance for the sanyasin"...and since the majority are householders including the government we have the right to resistance.....

 

Do u think it is fair to teach non violence to the kashmiri pandits or other victims of terrorism? It is like rubbing salt in their wounds.......is this the idea of a practical religon...the serenity of sanatana dharma is in its practicality....It can be the religion of the atheist, the agnostic, the saint and the sinner and lastly the believer........

To FIGHT to uphold righteousness is allowed by our religion as a last resort.......otherwise our religion would have been sheer hypocrisy, since an absolute religion of non violence is IMPRACTICAL....like true buddhism is almost an impractical religion...

Absolute non violence can be followed only by the realized like the sanyasin in 1857 who was stabbed by a muslim mutineer and when the hindus caught and brought the mutineer to him he replied "but it is thee, it is thee"...he had realized advaita...the divinity of man.....that everything was brahmana....but this ultimate ideal cannot be followed by the unrealized.......

The IDEAL IS ACCEPTANCE OF ALL, but not acceptance of INJUSTICE against our hallowed land.

 

If we had been strong could the islamic barbarians conquered our motherland since the battle of tarain in 1192? Could they have raped and mamed millions of our women and children? could they have killed thousands of our ancestors? could they have destroyed EVERY TEMPLE IN NORTH INDIA UNDER THE SUN? LASTLY Could we have been subjuated by 3000 Odd britishers for 200 yrs?

 

The BJP IS AGAINST APPEASEMENT OF MUSLIMS AND FOR RIGHT REASON....why dont the muslims give up their ante regarding the ayodhya issue....everyone knows from time immemorial that the muslims invaders destroyed the temples and idols and used the material for the construction of mosques........that is why there is NOT EVEN 1 ancient hindu temple in INDIA....except those in Khajuraho which were inaccessible otherwise they too would have been destroyed......

The muslims insist on a BABRI MASJID inspite of knowing that babar was a BARBARIAN...i feel it is blasphemy to have a holy place associated with his name but these fanatic muslims wont understand that........

 

THe muslims wont take up family planning because it is against their religion

Sometimes, THey wont take polio drops, because of their DELUSION OF PERSECUTION.....they thought those drops would make them impotent...i am not kidding, it really happened....

 

Niether is their ghetto mentality worth appreciating either....

 

Finally, in the name of secularism we are KILLING ourown religion.....the muslims can teach all about their prophet and anti hindu brainwashing agenda in the madardas (which btw dont teach any science subjects either......i have concrete information regarding this for islam is ANTI SCIENCE) but hindus cannot teach about their religion, about the geeta, about the Vedanta in our schools for according to the congress and the communists (leftists) it is COMMUNALISM....if teaching hindu religion is a crime, then all true hindus should embrace this crime......to die for this cause if need be....to renunciate our lives for this cause if need be....u petty people sitting in the west, can make all these . crappy comments on secularism without knowing any ground realities......ur attitude is entirely anti national......do u have the courage to PREACH SECULARISM TO UNCLE SAM......recenty america gave life sentence to an islamic cleric who advocated jihad on america......WHY DONT U GO AND FIGHT FOR THAT CLERIC...and others like him in USA....but how can u for america is your karta-dharta....u have already sold your souls to materialism and hence u dont have the right to impede in our affairs....we have to think of OUR ONLY COUNTRY....of our 5000 yr old civilization which today is at its NADIR...thanks to the Congress + the communists + the casteists and its votaries like u guys.....

Hinduism is India;s soul....it is only religion which can unite INDIA;s fractured masses......it is only by religion through which INDIAN's got their self respect a 100 yrs back when Vivekananda preached the greatness of our religion, our ideals, our family values, of the chastity of our women in the West.......

But all the great work of his and other great teachers has been undone by these anti natioanal pseudosecularists....but

remember the passion of nationalism is still ignited in millions of Indians, and it is their renunciation which will take India and her religion of santana dharma to the ZENITH once again in the time to come......

 

Regards,

Saurav

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plz stop being pseudosecularists

We need to propagate the cherished ideals of our religion

However, no fanaticism of the VHP type

Religious tolerance does not mean accepting the misdeeds of the minorities.......tolerance comes with strength not weakness.....remember what Vivekananda said "strength is life, weakness is death"......

 

Regarding Mr. Desai's post

* That Aryans are invaders

Misconception.....proved incorrect time and again......

The Aryan Invasion Theory is a myth.............

* That Hindus threw Buddhism out

Yes they did...

Buddha accepted the lower castes which included a majority of Huns and Shukas who were defeated invaders but due to the tolerance of Hinduism they were niether killer nor enslaved...however, acceptance by Buddha into their religion allowed them to start degrading both Hinduism and its offshoot buddhism by various superstitions.....

As Vivekananda has remarked "Its nonsense that buddhism demolished idolatory in India...it was a consequence of buddhism that idolatory came up in India......it was because the Shukas, Huns, and other subjuagted castes had no idea of the sanskrit language and hence their assimilation into the indian culture was incomplete......therefore it proved no purpose...and when buddhism returned from the foreign lands....it became NIHILISTIC.....orignal buddhism is NOT NIHILISTIC....buddha denouced the karma kanda of the vedas....NOT THE GYANA KANDA......he negated only the PHENOMENAL EXISTENCE....thus this pseduo buddhism had to driven away from our land which was a natural consequence....

 

* The upliftment of lower castes will take place though education not by positive discrimination or by fighting brahmins.............the brahmins deserve their credit ...they were the first to find all the metaphyscial truths and thus society bestowed some special privileges on them.......however with time, absolute power degraded brahmins and all those abbhorent crimes against the lower castes took place.......

 

*. Gandhi was NOT a realized man....refer to his autobiography.....he was a confused man........to recount some of his mistakes

1. Appeasement of MUSLIMS....we are paying for it till today

2. Promotion of Nehru instead of more able leaders like Patel

3. Blackmailing the nation by going on fasts to make the nation toe his line even when it was detrimental to the nation.

4.Calling the dalits as Harijans and thus glorifying the lower castes instead of trying to uplift them via education....beginning of caste strife...since then lower castes fighting the upper castes....

5.Charkha chalao movement......what .....even tagore criticized gandhi on this issue......gandhi had no belief in science and industries which were the crying need of india at that time rather than charkha.

 

Sri Aurobindo (The founder of Integral Yoga) became the first extemist president of INC in 1910....he was a staunch critic of Gandhi and his foolish policies.....we are paying for his policies till today....no doubt he was the greatest votary of the truth....and inspite of his many mistakes was a great man........but his principles stood in line of his country........he followed his principles till the end ...even when they were proving damaging for the country...........and thus when he died all one can say "he was killed because of his principles" by a patriot who "died for his country"

 

But the BJP is the best alternative we have....all of the other parties are anti hindu muslim appeasers anti national

If u have differences regarding my opinion, i am ready for any debate

To save the country, we need to save our religion and remember

"Hindusim is the identity of India"

 

I will request all unbiased readers to refer to the lecture by Swami Vivekananda "the future of India" in volume 3 collected works.....also available online at

http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/complete_works.htm

 

regards,

Saurav

 

The puranas are smritis and so they are NOT INFALLIBLE.....

moreover, they are the exoteric versions of the vedas and upanishads

 

The vedas had 2 parts

1. Karma Kanda (ritualistic part)

2. Gyana Kanda (knowledge part)

 

In time, Buddha, denouced the karma kanda......

Since then, the vedas refer only to the gyana kanda for all practical purposes...........as vyasa said "that in this kali yuga tapas and other austeries do not bring realization unlike in sattvic ages"

 

To believe in ALL the mythological lore of the puranas would really degrade our religion........they are best used to teach the principles of the vedas and vedantas to the masses........there are so many contradictions in the puranas themselves......going back to puranas would only degrade our pristine religion......

 

Regards