Guest guest Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Dear Members: Kindly take a moment and sign this petition to the Russian bureaucrats!. Please show your support for the devotees of Sri Vishnu. http://www.ivarta.com/cause/iv001_russia_temple.aspx May Sri Vishnu bless us all, Reema. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 On 1/4/06, reema_sriganesh <reema_sriganesh > wrote: Dear Members:Kindly take a moment and sign this petition to the Russian bureaucrats!. Please show your support for the devotees of Sri Vishnu. http://www.ivarta.com/cause/iv001_russia_temple.aspxMay Sri Vishnu bless us all, Reema. Dear Reema, Funnily, I identify with the Russians. Blame it on geographical ignorance or whatever, but you can't deny that a large part of Europe still doesn't much see differences between Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and other non-Christian religions, Judaism excepted. A number of my colleagues are European and it's stark just how many of them regard all people of the subcontinent as being of a kind. You and I know that while that's nearly true on a racial level, the cultural and social differences can be cut with a knife. The more homogeneous a society, the greater its stability and peace. Muslims, and even Anglo-Indians, have moaned of persecution and prejudice in our own country, despite being of the same race; that's because religion is for a large part cultural and social conditioning. Look at, say, Tibetan or Nepalese immigrants within India; they make particularly strenuous efforts to retain a separate identity. Diversity more often than not breeds strife and bloodshed. The elephant in the room that none of us will openly acknowledge is the fact that minorities, especially in large numbers, within a country ensure psychological separatism and lay the eggs for everything from discord to treason to hatch. For examples, turn to the former Yugoslavia, southern Thailand… the list is long. Do you think an organization as superb as ISKCON needs to force itself somewhere at the risk of alienating its followers by getting to be initially rejected by the native populace when in small numbers, and be outright detested when the numbers swell? I think not. Sorry for getting long-winded about a non-astrological post L Respects, Ramapriya ayirpamar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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