Dear Bhagavatas: There can be no comparison between a billion year old "Sanatana Dharma" and religions that have mushroomed in the recent past, say a few hundred years, (may be a couple of thousand years)! They are all "kal ke bache", incorporating points they find convenient to do so from our ancient religion and masquerade as "new" ones. I entirely agree with Sri Suresh Iyengar's assessment. The fact is that none of them could fool the intelligentsia among the Hindus whether by force or by inducements during the last few centuries! We can safely leave it to the mighty hands of Bhagavaan and not feel over anxious about a development that is bound to vanish as quickly as it appeared! Once again, your attention is invited to the "Mission statement" of "Sri Ranga Sri". No further discussions on the subject will be approved for featuring in "Sri Ranga Sri". Thank you for your understanding and co-operation. Moderator ===================================================================== Dear Sir First of all adiyen is not too worried about even projecting the image of Hinduism. If we all belive "Truth triumps" and Sanathana Dharma is based on Truth, then it will survive no mater what is done to deface or eradicate. In communication, one need to tell and another need to listen. But the listener need to accept the one who tells him some thing. Other wise that talk will just yield no result. For a listener to take interest in the other person, either he needs to have the craving for learning about the subject the other person is talking or some circumstances and attributes of the other's should attract him. One of the attribute is wealth. That is the universally accepted attribute for the present era. The present form of wealth's author is US. Here every thing is driven by numbers. That is what I was trying to communicate and no casting aspersions on any locals. Same way our house will be in order if we start making things easily available and restore the systematic study our ancient seers engaged in with out any bias against any subsects which was not really the character of India once upon a time. Almost all the Acharyas' have debated and established their faith and none of the debates turned in to violence. That indicated that they were true seeker's and not bothered about the externals. I would think Sri Veda Vyasa, has done precisely the same, sytematising the learning and making it available easily. And time immemorial, as per our scriptures, there always had been time the threats for the survival of Sanatana Dharma, but all of a sudden it will come right back up. That shows it is truthful and will survive ever. Anekakoti namaskarams Suresh Parthasarathy --- Gopi Chari <ekcvv@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Parthasarathy, > Adayen! > > What is really dangerous to our community here is > Indians. A very few > Hindus bother to read our scriptures. Those that do > not read any > scriptures still have no problem in talking and > arguing about it. Most of > the 'Hindu' s feel it is their obligation to be > 'secular'. Unfortunately, > they feel that secular means knocking the practices > of the religion. > Quite a few of these practices may have nothing to > do with the > scriptures. Then we have non-Hindu Indians. Most of > them neither know > their religion & scriptures or Hindu scriptures. But > the first chance > they see any perceived problem with the Hindus they > make noises. An > example is the present problem with California > education. > > I find locals in US to be less aggressive than that. > They seem to have > (those that learned some thing about Hindus) are > quite respectful. In > general, those spiritual sorts are lot less > materialistic than Indians. > > I honestly think that we have to get our house > straight before we say > unnecessary things about local people. The question > is how do we go about > making Hindus understand their scriptures and > history! > > I do not have any answer! > > Gopi Chari > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/VkWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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