'Scholar' Strives to Revive Sanskrit & Vedic Chanting ?

[Guest guest]

, Lili Masamura wrote:

>

> The thing that bugs me about this is the promises of

> "prosperity" and "fortune" and "power". Whatever

> happened to chanting God's name because you love God,

> and not because one wishes to obtain material benefit?

> The world got in the state it is today because people

> lost sight of God and began to focus on material

> things. Shri Krishna enjoins us to "leave all things

> behind". To do otherwise is to join forces with the

> asuric mentality. Now this Mr. Thiagarajan is lining

> his pockets by exploiting the Vedas. That will cost

> him dearly at some point!

> Lilith M.

>

> --- Devi Bhakta wrote:

>

> >

> > Chennai, INDIA: "Chanting mantras brings peace and

> > prosperity, power

> > and great fortune. May the whole world become

> > prosperous, " says Dr.

> > Rajagopalan Thiagarajan, a Vedic scholar who has

> > taken the Hindu

> > world by storm with his recordings of Sanskrit

> > chanting of Vedic

> > scripture.

> >

>

 

kia ora Lilith,

 

I was wondering about that, and Rajagopaian being

labeled as Dr. and Scholar. I never heard of, nor met,

a doctor or scholar who was centered in our spiritual river.

 

certainly the wealth of the WE -- our planetwide culture --

and the celestial culture and cosmos -- is infinite. and each

of us comes to realize it in enlightenment --

 

yet VERY certainly the enlightened do NOT put "peace and

prosperity, power and great fortune" as the goals of the Vedas,

nor of enlightenment. [peace, in the West, means dominance.

the period after a war, when the subjugated people become

obedient slaves of the Corporate State.]

 

and "power" -- sounds like some gross advertising gimic pitched

to bad soldiers, alcoholics and meat eaters ...

 

 

 

 

 

Millennium Twain

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

IMO, it is our understanding of spirituality that needs to be corrected.

 

The Vedas say there are four stages of life: Brahmacharya, Grihasta, Vanprastha

and I forget the fourth. Life on earth has to be lived not escaped. It is only

in a human body that we can work out our karmas. In order to do that

prosperity, as in good health or enough money for a comfortable living (there

are eight forms of Lakshmi), peace so we can do our sadhana, 'fortune' to have

the karma to want to do our sadhana and 'power' over ourselves to complete that

sadhana are all necessary.

 

Sometimes, westerners bring such a warped attitude to Hinduism, that it is like

asking a horse to fly.

 

 

Millennium Twain <yonibluestar wrote:

, Lili Masamura wrote:

>

> The thing that bugs me about this is the promises of

> "prosperity" and "fortune" and "power". Whatever

> happened to chanting God's name because you love God,

> and not because one wishes to obtain material benefit?

> The world got in the state it is today because people

> lost sight of God and began to focus on material

> things. Shri Krishna enjoins us to "leave all things

> behind". To do otherwise is to join forces with the

> asuric mentality. Now this Mr. Thiagarajan is lining

> his pockets by exploiting the Vedas. That will cost

> him dearly at some point!

> Lilith M.

>

> --- Devi Bhakta wrote:

>

> >

> > Chennai, INDIA: "Chanting mantras brings peace and

> > prosperity, power

> > and great fortune. May the whole world become

> > prosperous, " says Dr.

> > Rajagopalan Thiagarajan, a Vedic scholar who has

> > taken the Hindu

> > world by storm with his recordings of Sanskrit

> > chanting of Vedic

> > scripture.

> >

>

 

kia ora Lilith,

 

I was wondering about that, and Rajagopaian being

labeled as Dr. and Scholar. I never heard of, nor met,

a doctor or scholar who was centered in our spiritual river.

 

certainly the wealth of the WE -- our planetwide culture --

and the celestial culture and cosmos -- is infinite. and each

of us comes to realize it in enlightenment --

 

yet VERY certainly the enlightened do NOT put "peace and

prosperity, power and great fortune" as the goals of the Vedas,

nor of enlightenment. [peace, in the West, means dominance.

the period after a war, when the subjugated people become

obedient slaves of the Corporate State.]

 

and "power" -- sounds like some gross advertising gimic pitched

to bad soldiers, alcoholics and meat eaters ...

 

 

 

 

 

Millennium Twain

 

 

 

 

 

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...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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