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Namaste Sri Rajesh Ramachanderji,

 

advaitin, Rajesh Ramachander

<rrajeshchander> wrote:

> We Hindus have already forgotten our dharma and failed to

> protect our religion. Let us at least hold on to such lofty

> principles which are part of our dharma for we are anyway

> doomed to be confined to the exhibits of a museum in future

> for curious onlookers. Why is it that we Hindus only talk

> about global oneness? No doubt it is lofty principle but at

> the same time why don't we also learn to stand up against

> a planned agenda by the baptist church or the mullah who

> plan's to wipe Hinduism from the face of India. We cannot

> be cowards who talk only lofty principles while at the same

> time cannot stand up for our dharma. So pathetic is the

> present situation that we are being abused and terrorized

> by the minorities in our own country. Indeed we can

> distinctly go down in history as the most cowardice race

> that has ever lived.

>

> We have no one but ourselves to blame for we have forsaken

> our dharma. Swami Vivekananda's said "And then every man

> going out of the Hindu pale is not a man less, but an enemy

> more." Swami ji also warned us that: "Religion and religion

> alone is the life of India, and when that goes, India will

> die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in

> spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one

> of her children."

>

> Yours sadly,

 

 

Well said Rajesh-ji. There is an intense sadness today even in our

speech regarding Vedanta. We so easily lose sight of the Eternal

(Sanatana) Dharma within which Vedanta arises as the supreme

expression of Truth. If Oneness is evident, then there is no need for

Vedanta. The very context of Vedanta is the field of action - it as

the means to return from the prison of activity to the eternal beauty

and bliss of Oneness. The Way of action is Dharma. The Way of

returning is Vedanta. One is the path of Works, and the other is the

path of Knowledge. The guiding light for our actions is dharma, not

Vedanta. If we try to obtain the rules for our actions from Vedanta,

it leads to cowardice and hypocrisy. Actions are governed by Dharma.

This world is our karma bhumi, and dharma is the Oneness that

inevitably exists beneath our actions. The Dharma Chakra of the Lord

is nothing but the Lord ensuring Oneness in duality - across two

points in Time.

 

Warm regards,

Chittaranjan