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All those reasons... look good.
But if someone were to just visit an overseas land. Say for example
one of the gurus had to perform a Dolai utsavam in a foreign country,
what happens then. will it be still wrong to travel and get back home
?

Arvind


Hello Ashok,

Saturday, December 11, 2004, 3:27:13 PM, you wrote:

> Obviously, the writer is not qualified to give a
> definitive answer to this question, but here is one
> point of view:

> 1.  India is permeated with tremendous spiritual
> vibrations due to the nature of the Great Ones that
> incarnated there - this would not be available in most
> other places in the world.

> 2.  When a person lives in a country outside of India
> (applies to all living outside their own country), he
> or she gets bound karmically to that country by virtue
> of merely living there - for example, many people may
> have sacrificed their lives for this other country,
> and the foreigner is living off their labor/sacrifice;
> or the country may have been occupied illegally and by
> deceit, and the foreigner, if he lives off that land,
> and consumes the food grown in that soil, is literally
> taking on the bad karma of that land; or the country's
> leaders may lead or may have led the country into
> wrong wars (like Hitler, and others for example)- the
> person again gets karmically bound if he lives in that
> soil/country, etc.  India is the only country in the
> world that has not initiated a war on its own,
> illegally occupied territory, etc.

> 3.  The person could be used as a medium (almost
> always without his knowledge) for evil from this
> foreign country to enter India when he visits India.

> 4.  Other causes could be: simple practical reasons
> such as differences in culture, weather, religion,
> lack of good/moral values in society (for example,
> Sweden has a highly permissive/liberal society - the
> environ is not suitable for spiritual progress either
> for the person or his progeny), etc.

> Yet some Great Indian Yogis have travelled/lived in
> foreign countries, as ordained by their Indian Gurus -
> why?  Perhaps their motive was not to have a
> comfortable, rich (moneywise) life but to propagate
> spiritual values throughout the world as per the
> principle : Vasudeiva Kutumbakam.

> Ashok Krishnamurthy

> --- Arvind Rangan <rarvind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> this question mighthave popped up.. but neverthless,
>> i would like to
>> ask again.
>> 
>> Why is it that, "Kadal thandaradu", crossing the
>> ocean is forbidden
>> for us ?
>>   
>> 
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>>  Arvind                         
>> mailto:rarvind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 


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Best regards,
 Arvind                            mailto:rarvind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx






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