Gita, Svadharma, West

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Krish said:

>>The concepts of equal rights, rights of women, and children etc. are

>>modern ones, to a large extent what we owe to the Western >>civilization.

 

I think, Krish is referring concept to mean application.

Conceptually, Sarve Janah Sukhino Bhavantu, which is Hindu, is perhaps much

older. Ofcourse you may ask what sukha has to do with rights?

Equal rights is not same for children vs adults. A child can

not vote or drink alcohol or drive etc.!

Modern civilization is surely a product of the West

(ie., Post industrial Revolution). This is true and we

are in the shadow of West.

Let us also not forget the greatest race war was

propogated by Hitler(West), Haolocaust is a

product of the West. So also slavery, Bosnia-Serbia, plundering

of native Americans, Colonial arrogance. In my opinion West has surpassed the

others

both in destruction as well as in the HEALING/Reconstruction.

Personally, I have mostly benefitted by both the WEST

and the East (being a Brahmin). However, it would be

wrong on my part to boast the greatness without also

pointing out the unsurmountable amount of

sorrow caused by both these civilizations on less fortunate ones.

 

>>It is very nice to proclaim about division

>> of labor, if one does not

>>have to come down.

This is inevitable and a natural fact of life.

How you manage it is a different issue.

Labour to suit the

traits that are determined AT birth.

This is where we havemisunderstood Gita a 100%.

by stating that

labour(caste) is determined BY birth.

Many still cling to the same

misconception. A thing will not become right

just because: It is accepted by many

(including scholars and gentleman)

(just as slavery was accepted by many great

Western souls. These souls may not have

practised it, but certainly did nor raise their

voice against it to the extent to change it).

As I pointed out before, what are we doing

to set this right (the prescriprion) is

worse than the forces that created it.

We said then that you are not good enough to more than

half of our society. Now we are telling them

that you don't have to be. You poor things

of the past, we will promise you everything

(impossible to deliver) just because you are here.

 

For a long time people believed that Earth

was fixed and Sun went around Earth. Both East and West

thought this way, until Copernicus proved it otherwise.

Hindu almanac still calls Sun a planet.

The Church did not receive it well either. Many gave their life.

Darwin's theory is not accepted by the Church.

K. Sreekrishna