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This was in response to the OP about western values. Are you not sick and tired of a colonial propaganda of attributing everything to the west. I pity people
by naruvimama 5y ago
This was in response to the OP about western values.
Are you not sick and tired of a colonial propaganda of attributing everything to the west.
I pity people who actually believe Renaissance or Industrial revolution was something that happened overnight.
Even as the "liberal" elite and evangelists try to force their agenda on the rest of the world, their own homesteads are turning more dharmic.
- orwin 5y agoI pity people who think renaissance was a thing.
- random314 5y agoThis is an old trope that has been recycled forever. Huxley noted it in 1945 https://m.imgur.com/i1JVHn0 https://m.imgur.com/i1JVHn0
- naruvimama 5y agoNothing springs up overnight, it requires transfer of knowledge and industry from a more sophisticated society. And a breakthrough or political condition that favors a change. You are seeing that today with China and the US.
- random314 5y agoIsn't being "dharmic" a reference to performing your caste duties irrespective of whether you will be rewarded in this life. The reward comes next time in the form of a caste upgrade. They are verses that specify that one must perform ones caste duties ("dharma") no matter what even if you are better at other things. Why on earth would United states turn dharmic?
- naruvimama 5y agoThat seems to be colonial/Christian interpretation of dharma. You should perhaps watch some videos of what actual Hindu gurus say.
- IgniteTheSun 5y agoI'm also very troubled by the misuse of the term dharmic in this thread. Westerners misusing Indian terms to suit their own desires should be pushed back on. It sometimes seems like a deliberate strategy to confuse and therefore hide the philosophy conveyed by those terms even though much of that philosophy is universal and nonsecular. Also, in reading threads on this forum over the years, it is quite clear that many fall into the classic trap of confusing ethnicity with religion. Leaders that call for extremist measures are usually promoting the interests of some subset of their community - not promoting the ideals called for by their religion - but many of their followers don't understand religion well enough to realize that. This is just as applicable to the west as it is to other places.
- random314 5y ago> watch some videos of what actual Hindu gurus say. I am watching videos of what actual hindu gurus are saying and quoting hindu texts https://twitter.com/DalitChef/status/1283967349691826184?s=19 https://twitter.com/DalitChef/status/1283967349691826184?s=1... Right from the horses mouth. Quoting prabhupada. https://twitter.com/Devendrakumar_/status/1284479310187728901?s=19 https://twitter.com/Devendrakumar_/status/128447931018772890... More knowledge from Prabhupada. Click on the video to hear him explain clearly. "The word dharma is used. Dharma means occupational duty. Dharma does not mean some religious sentiment. No. Natural division and the occupational duty." Mixing of varna is deleterious to society. https://vaniquotes.org/wiki/The_Vedic_civilization_is_varnasrama-dharma._If_the_varnasrama-dharma_is_not_properly_protected,_then_there_will_be_population_who_are_called_varna-sankara,_mixed_population https://vaniquotes.org/wiki/The_Vedic_civilization_is_varnas...
- random314 5y agohttps://iskconeducationalservices.org/HoH/practice/dharma/the-four-varnas/ https://iskconeducationalservices.org/HoH/practice/dharma/th...
- naruvimama 5y ago"duties according to his or her own nature" Where do you find a fault in this? The greatest sages and kings are famouly NOT born into families of priests or nobility.
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