The Banality of Valentine Day

[Guest guest]

yeah! we should also stop celebrating Mother's day, Father's day,

Teacher's day, and whatever day there is, because everyday is

mother's ,father's and teacher's day.

 

Celebrating birthday too is a waste of time. Its the ego attachement

of the physical self. We are born spiritually everyday, so everyday

should be our birthday yes!!!! Anybody disagree with this, speak up

now !

 

During Thaipusam, they go on Air every hour saying : Happy

Thaipusam. What's so happy about. Its a religious occassion.

 

 

 

 

, shakti shakti

<hindushakti2000 wrote:

>

> (Feb 11, 2006): Christian western confidence has fallen to low

ebb. Those who dreamed of world evangelization and conquest are now

desperate. There is a crisis of confidence. The international

dimensions of the current malaise indicate that it cannot be

attributed to western failure of nerve or marketable ideas. They

have lost the capacity to confront non-Christian world militarily

but they have devised plans for cultural invasion, shape public

opinion, and undermine spiritual traditions. With the help of multi

national corporations, the Christian west is now engaged in a

psychological warfare to breakdown the barriers to free market

activity, smash through or bypass the culture and spiritual

tradition. This will give way before organized Christian evangelists

can promote their well-packaged conversion products.

>

> Celebrating Valentine Day and selling Valentine Cards in India is

a cultural invasion that introduces one of the worst features of the

collapsing Christian empire. It is a deliberate and cleverly devised

plan of deceitful battle for our mind. It is a subtle attempt to

liberate Indians from their rich culture and enslave them with

rigid, fundamentalist, exclusive dogma. It is a deliberate plan to

force Hindus to discard their spiritual tradition and force them to

escape from freedom to slavery.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Shakt Shakti,

 

For me Valentine’s Day means saying ILU to my Sweetheart and my Friends.

Another occasion to say ILU is great ! Who cares where it comes from.

Everything is ultimately God given.

 

Let’s not be divisive. Who knows which side of the fence we reincarnate ;-)

Today Hindu, tomorrow Christain :-p

 

What do our sacred texts teach us, that for the Divine Mother, all are her

children – pink orange green or whatever.

 

Do we really need to make Shakti Sadhana a Hindu vs Christian battle-ground.

Coke vs Pepsi, Nike vs Adidas :-(

 

Where is the enemy ? Christ ? Krishna ?

 

 

 

t is people like you and me, who can either love or hate.

 

Gimme love anytime.

 

In peace

 

Red

 

 

shakti shakti <hindushakti2000 wrote: (Feb 11, 2006): Christian

western confidence has fallen to low ebb. Those who dreamed of world

evangelization and conquest are now desperate. There is a crisis of confidence.

The international dimensions of the current malaise indicate that it cannot be

attributed to western failure of nerve or marketable ideas. They have lost the

capacity to confront non-Christian world militarily but they have devised plans

for cultural invasion, shape public opinion, and undermine spiritual traditions.

With the help of multi national corporations, the Christian west is now engaged

in a psychological warfare to breakdown the barriers to free market activity,

smash through or bypass the culture and spiritual tradition. This will give way

before organized Christian evangelists can promote their well-packaged

conversion products.

 

Celebrating Valentine Day and selling Valentine Cards in India is a cultural

invasion that introduces one of the worst features of the collapsing Christian

empire. It is a deliberate and cleverly devised plan of deceitful battle for our

mind. It is a subtle attempt to liberate Indians from their rich culture and

enslave them with rigid, fundamentalist, exclusive dogma. It is a deliberate

plan to force Hindus to discard their spiritual tradition and force them to

escape from freedom to slavery.

 

Promoting Valentines Day is a deliberate ploy to trivialize our cultural

tradition, spiritual festivals, social customs and religious holidays. In the

name of love, romance and courtship, Valentine Day is used to promote

pre-marital sex, and trivial, valueless western life style. For the multi

national corporations, India is a market place. The marketing experts, the media

and the business people join together to promote Valentine cards, fast foods and

party gadgets to make money. They neglect traditional culture and promote fast

food culture and throw away products.

 

The marketing of discarded western goods and meaningless cultural festivals

devalues our spiritual past and create a cultural crisis. A nation is known, and

the people have been recognized on the basis of religion, art, festivals,

customs, food, language and spiritual tradition. A nation�s cultural habits

and religious practices make them unique. India has survived hundreds of years

of Muslim invasion and Christian colonization because Hindus were able to

preserve the spiritual tradition. Now the Christian west is attempting to

decimate our eternal Hindu culture by dubious means. This Valentine Day

celebration is a clear form of cultural invasion, a psychological trick to

oppress our dynamic, vibrant and eternal culture.

 

The deliberate and cunning strategy to devalue our Hindu culture needs to be

resisted. Hindus need to examine how western cultural habits and religious

holidays like Valentine Day are infiltrating our society. Our survival as a

nation, our social, political, economic, cultural future depends on resisting

cultural invasion disguised in many forms including Valentine Day. It is a

deceptive, open and covert form of psychological warfare to annihilate our Hindu

tradition.

 

There is nothing wrong in modernizing our nation, embracing progressive ideas,

but denial of our rich Hindu cultural traditions and festivals for flimsy,

meaningless consumer products and transient habits are dangerous for the future

of our nation. It is time to resist cultural invasion and keep our distance from

festivals like Valentine Day.

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi NMadasamy,

 

Okay this is tongue-in-cheek. If I seem like a smart alec, slap me !

 

The way I see it ......... Yeh , so let's celebrate all creation everyday ! Ego

is essential for existence, a hook to hang the hat. Without it, I think we will

not be who we identify ourselves to be; therefore even worship or movementt to

merge with Sakti is impossible. What moves if not the ego ? What is ego, a

quality ? Even Devis and Devtas have ego, else how could they exist, even if in

the sansara of our mind ?

 

Ego has to be good, else it would not exist. It is essential, the observer.

Sat-Chit-Ananda. Existence=Shakti=Ego / Consciousness=Shiva=no Ego /

Bliss=Their Play=The ultimate O

 

Let life be a celebration.

 

Cheekily with love,

 

Red

 

 

 

 

NMadasamy <nmadasamy wrote:

yeah! we should also stop celebrating Mother's day, Father's day,

Teacher's day, and whatever day there is, because everyday is

mother's ,father's and teacher's day.

 

Celebrating birthday too is a waste of time. Its the ego attachement

of the physical self. We are born spiritually everyday, so everyday

should be our birthday yes!!!! Anybody disagree with this, speak up

now !

 

During Thaipusam, they go on Air every hour saying : Happy

Thaipusam. What's so happy about. Its a religious occassion.