Sreekrishna's comments

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Thank you for noticing my querry on the West.

Thugh I do enjoy the notes on Alwars, I ma

unimpressed by the myth and would like to

know the meat of their sayings. Many of the

poems are on the greaness in strenght and beauty

and losse me. The verses are nice to be heard

and probably good for mrditayion, to have some

mental peace from your day to day mundane and

worried thoughts.

We have to accept the world as it is, to ehat it

should be. There is an inherent competition

for survival, one wants a better job than the

other etc. The one who knows the game and

plays it well usually succeeds to achieve

what he wants, settling in the US or

rising in the corporate ladder. As the goal

is kept in mind, the probabilty of success is

higher. What has appealed to me about Hinduism is

yhay it accommadates a wide variety of religious

interest. And it does not steress absolute

morality and accepts the constraints of time

and place.

But it has had its drawbacks, in the practice

of caste and male chauvinism. The latter is

universal and probably because a woman was

disadvantaged during pregnancy. Even here,

the respect for a woman, childbearing one, puts

our religion in better light. Still, a modern

woman will find it difficult to accept the

secondary status.

To some extent, the emigrants from India have

chosen a different path, but do not have to

feel guilty about it. What finally matters is

one's own thoguts. One does not need a group

support ( as organized religions are just

that ) to strenghten his own realization of

the peurpose of his existence.