Little Digression - Kumbh Mela

[Guest guest]

OM

Pranam

 

Western media continuously depicts the culture and

traditions of aryavrata in a poor light. Somehow even the

most sacred traditions of India are disparaged and treated

with condesension.

Seems pretty easy to skip the fact that millions of devout

and semi believing human beings are gathering together in

harmony, for a common purpose, without causing any obvious

disturbance - this simple fact is a rarity these days, what

then to say of the unification in thought and conciousness

of 70 million jivas across boundaries of Colour, Caste,

ethnicity and beliefs. A common man, a scoundrel, a Saint,

a Politician, an illiterate, everyone has united her and

his conciousness with that of the Purity and Auspiciousness

and Catholicism that is Mother Ganga.

 

Perhaps it is fear in the minds of this select media,

perhaps it is also a trick of the their mind to continue to

delude itself, because it is very difficult to accept faith

and culture, when it goes hand and hand with poverty and

corruption.

 

Pranam

OM

 

British TV channel condemned for making much of naked Nagas

http://in.news./010113/57/h2u7.html

 

LEADERS of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Bajrang

Dal, the Shiv Sena and the Hindu Jagran Manch lashed out at

a British television channel for projecting the Maha Kumbh

in bad light.

 

The Uttar Pradesh unit of the VHP criticised the channel

for showing naked Nagas performing acts of penance on the

Sangam banks in Allahabad.

 

He said that the Maha Kumbh was being celebrated for

thousands of years much before the dawn of Christianity and

to denigrate the sadhus and saints is to hurt the religious

sensibilities of millions of Indians.

 

Saffron organisations have decided to urge the Government

of India to lodge its formal protest through diplomatic

channels. They will also take out processions condemning

the British TV channel’s "biased" and "malicious" coverage.

 

Many saints and yoginis have reportedly been shown smoking

ganja. The focus of the channel is on bizarre practices

like a saint pulling a car by a string attached to his

penis or tantriks indulging in esoteric practices or black

magic.

 

Hinduism is not all about smoking ganja, he said. The

channel’s footage exhibits some sadhus saying that ganja is

a religious offering.

 

The Hindu Jagran Manch also condemned a section of the

British and western media for not explaining the

significance of the Maha Kumbh but projecting minor

practices as mainstream Hinduism.

 

OM

 

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Namaste,

 

True to the spirit of 'shraddhaa' and humility, prayers like

these will NEVER be wasted:

 

durjanaH sajjano bhuuyaat sajjanaH shaantimaapnuyaat.h .

 

shaanto muchyeta bandhebhyo muktashchaanyaanvimochayet.h ..

 

 

Regards,

 

s.

 

 

advaitin , kartik@K... wrote:

> OM

> Pranam

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> Western media continuously depicts the culture and

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