Inspiration

Sri Aurobindo on Mahatma Gandhi's non violence

Written By Kaali on Sunday, August 7, 2011 | 8:36 AM

Sri Aurobindo

“Many educated Indians consider Gandhi a spiritual man. Yes, because the Europeans call him spiritual. But what he preaches is not Indian spirituality but something derived from Russian Christianity,non-violence, suffering, etc. The gospel of suffering that he ispreaching has its root in Russia as nowhere else in Europe—other Christian nations don"t believe in it.”


“Purification can come by the transformation of the impulse of
violence. In that respect the old system in India was much better: the man who had the fighting spirit became the Kshatriya and then the fighting spirit was raised above the ordinary vital influence. The attempt was to spiritualize it. It succeeded in doing what passive resistance cannot and will not achieve. The Kshatriya was the man who would not allow any oppression, who would fight it out and he was the man who would not oppress anybody. That was the ideal. Gandhi"s position is that he does not care to remove violence from others; he wants to observe non-violence himself.”





- Sri Aurobindo on Gandhi
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Marxist historians and Intellectual myopia

Max Muller

During the colonial British rule, under the leadership of world famous sociologist and philologist Max Muller, special team of pseudo historians made a massive preparation to post date the vedic period and in attributing numerous conjectures to Indian history. 


But, interestingly, Swami Vivekananda had a great reverence towards Max Muller for his deep interest on Indology and Indian philosophy. Max Muller must not have fair idea how he was deviated in the research as he never visited India and depended on translators.


Thos research papers emerged as cultural weapons in the hands of Indian Marxist historians who have tried to defame the 'Sanathana Dharma' at any cost.


Some of the conjectures developed by Marxist historians as follows

1) Aryan Invasion Theory.
2) Making conjectures on racial difference between Aryans and Dravidians.
3)Traced flaws in Puranas and tried to defame the mythological character.
4)They have highlighted the rich cultural heritage of Buddhism and Jainism by ignoring the fact that those religions are also part of Sanathana Dharma.
5) Highlighted the epics of Shudras who faced injustice by ignoring the some great shudras who have played greater role  in the history of 'Sanathana Dharma' .

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Sri Aurobindo, the great Indian mystic and poet, in his 'The Renaissance in India with A Defence of Indian Culture' , has proved all this theories  are a mere  conjectures and myths. 
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Who is Hindu - Riddle 1 - Solved

Written By Kaali on Saturday, August 6, 2011 | 9:40 AM

Swami Vivekananda
Ambedkar in 'Riddles in Hinduism'  : Who is Hindu ? Now ask the same question to a Hindu and there is no doubt that he will be completely bewildered and would not know what to say



Answer : “The word Hindu, by which it is the fashion nowadays to style ourselves, has lost all its meaning, for this word merely meant those who lived on the other side of the river Indus (in Sanskrit, Sindhu). This name was murdered into Hindu by the ancient Persians, and all people living on the other side of the river Sindhu were called by them Hindus.”
- Swami Vivekananda

Yes, Hinduism is not a single religion, it is a civilization and more as a way of life. Ambedkar made a conjecture by comparing with Abrahamic religions. What he would say about the vertical split of Buddhism in India through Mahayana and Hinayana, as one sect considers Buddha as a great human being while other considers as a god. 


Hinduism is based on Vedas. Gods, Upanishads, various sects, tantras, puranas and all the literature of the Hinduism is based on the Vedas. In the words of Vivekananda, it is better for Hindus to call themselves as Vedantins instead of Hindus. Whatever it is, due to the passage of time and linguistics formed, the word Hindu emerged as synonym for the "Sanathana Dharma". 
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Riddles Solved

Written By Kaali on Friday, August 5, 2011 | 12:32 AM

Ambedkar
 It was Bala Saheb Ambedkar, who made a blatant rational and hypothetical criticisms on the foundations of the Sanathana Dharma in his various scholastic works. I have developed much interest on his works, when I started reading a small booklet called 'Ramudi Krishnudi rahasyaalu' which is a mere synopsis of 'Riddles in Hinduism'.

After spending 3-4 years  extensive research on Indology and Indian philosophy, I had to go through the 'Riddles in Hinduism' last month. I feel, Ambedkar could not follow the works of Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo and  Dayananda who elaborately made numerous analysis indirectly on those riddles.

I feel, those riddles are a mere deliberate attempt of  projecting Sanathana dharma with a pre occupied reluctance, but not a balanced  analysis.

I here by starting a new column in this blog called 'Riddles solved'. 
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