MY INTRODUCTION

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Thursday,Feb 15th

 

Hari OM.

I am P.B.V.Rajan. I am living in the same city (Jeddah) as Madhav, one of the

moderators. My interest in Advaitin started only after I met him 3 years back.

His scholarship of all the Hindu texts in their original form and his ability

to translate them to me in English has helped to comprehend the spiritual

component of Hinduism much better. When we meet we have some discussions on

the subject. Meeting Madhav and learning from him has been the best thing that

happened to me in Jeddah.

 

As an Engineer+ MBA and a private business executive in Gulf for the past 20

years, my interest in the religion was more on the cultural aspects. Although

I used to attend satsangs, they were more to reinforce the identification to

ones background (Tamil Iyengar from Kanchipuram etc), more than a wake up call

to the soul.

 

My present interest, which is more genuine, has helped me to read more on the

subject. I am now finalizing a draft (after several revisions) of Explaining

Hinduism in 2,000 words (4 A/4 pages) to be sent to my 2 daughters to begin

with and if it works in communicating it correctly, hopefully to a larger

group of young people. This is because I observe that several aspects of

Hinduism are confusing in practice and even conflicting. Youth have no time or

inclination to dig into spiritual matters, so we have to reach out in simple

and short communications.

 

I am a frequent contributor to "Letters to Editor" column in Saudi English

language newspapers, wherein I have more than 100 letters published in year

2000. So I plan to write in such short format communications style about

various Hindu religious subjects to the Hindu Youth. I find that they should

be the first target audience to be converted back to Hinduism of the Spiritual

thoughts. Even I was practicing only the Hindu cultural Life style. I want to

make this my life mission.

 

I was very fortunate to have met with Dr Sadananda during a brief Holiday in

madras where my family lives now. I had the good fortune of meeting on few

occasions Swamini Sarada priyananda. I have read her small A/5 size 96 pages

book " Vedanta in everyday life" several times but still to grasp the meaning.

I find the mail to be very heavy in terms of content and frequency in this

list, so I restrict myself to reading as much as I could. I enjoy the

scholarship displayed and learning from it. I am at least happy I could follow

most of the discussion; before 3 years I would have wondered what religion

they are talking about!

 

With pranams to all

 

P.B.V.Rajan (Prathivadhi Bayankaram Varadha Rajan)

 

 

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