| hrwire@gmail.com 2006-07-31, 2:24 am |
| For the most part as a citizen your course in life, your
> career, your marriage, your village was set from birth. Please correct
> me if I am wrong.
I don't think India would have been a free country if a citizen was
following this all his life.
> Yoga itself was never a path for the general population. Much of its
> texts were kept secret and were not accessible to the average Indian.
One is free to follow their path in Hinduism..........nobody scares
that a person will end up in Hell and other rubbish. And Hinduism
doesn't believe in evangelizing.
Pray, where did you learn this secret about yogic texts being kept
secret? I'm enlightened by this message.
> Self determination as a concept came to India with the British and
> Dutch. The modern cultural values almost were the death of traditional
> Hindu values in the 20th century. In the 30's and 40's there were a
> number of holymen who focused a great deal on trying to hold on to
> traditional values in India. For the most part the younger Indian
> middle class began to embrace western values. Many converted to
> xtianity. They viewed the ancient traditions as dead.
Most of the coverage that the press gives in the west is biased.
Instead of mentioning on the recent developments in Hyderabad or
Bangalore, they devote their space to some wierd news
stories.......which are common there too. Many didn't convert to
xtianity just like that. Those smooth talkin preachers and evangelists
converted them by promising money and by converting them, these people
are ensured of easy access to a jobs and other sops etc
> By the 50's and 60's some of these holymen were bolstered by interest
> from the west in yogic traditions. In many cases these men found a
> greater audience in the west than in their own community. I am
> thinking here of BKS Iyengar and Swami Prabhupada for example.
The problem is that the Bible doesn't delve much into the
soul.......there's just some plain talk about heaven and hell.
> As for westerners who come to India to learn yoga from ashrams, yoga
> communities and studios, I suspect these seekers (I include myself as
> one) are looking for an authentic practice that is not available in the
> West.
I didn't just talk about yoga but about the person's state of mind in
general, they seem pretty lost......maybe in translation. Most of the
westerners who have tranlstated the Vedas(the oldest works) have tried
to downplay the importance of them.
>
> I believe that has become the topic of this thread.
I think the right place to discuss about your discourses would be
alt.xtianity or other numerous ones...........if they don't suffice you
can join the countless number of people who in the name of preaching
try to convert people.
Sharath
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