Guest guest Posted April 15, 2006 Report Share Posted April 15, 2006 bandho, hari OM, i might be a gate crasher into this discussion, and i haven't read the previous exchanges. but going by the tone of the below three mails, i would like to make my humble submission: 1. The parsis who were persecuted in their homeland persia came to India and a king of Gujarat gave them shelter. this was on condition that they would not eat beef and not disturb the prevalent social system by marrying hindus (this, in hindsight, served the purpose of preserving their identity). They have ever since been very active in the society(contributing positively), and the hindus never persecuted them. 2. The Jews escaping persecution from their homelands came to India and were given shelter for bhagavaan knows how many years. they were never persecuted. 3. The syrian christians were the first christian denomination to arrive in India, they were never persecuted. why is it that right now we see that the Hindus have become "violent", "intolerant". This is because we have lost 35 % of our land to a marauding political ideology in the garb of a religion (islam), and we do not wish to lose any more. This intolerance is much more heightened when we have christian missionaries, the self professed "savers of heathens" abuse sanaatana dharma in the vilest possible terms and whose aim is to wipe out sanaatana dharma, we need some amount of intolerance to protect ourselves. shaThe shAThyam samaacharet. we cannot afford to be dhimmies. personally, i would prefer to preserve my identity by defending my motherland and be called a "fanatic", "intolerant", "violent" person, than getting myself killed at the hands of marauding ideologies. svasti, JAYA BHAARATII, shrivathsa. On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 advaitin wrote : > >There is 1 message in this issue. > >Topics in this digest: > > 1. Re: Personality development through Gita –I > "Tony OClery" aoclery > >______________________ >______________________ > >Message 1 > "Tony OClery" aoclery > Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:49am(PDT) >Re: Personality development through Gita –I > >advaitin, ombhurbhuva <ombhurbhuva wrote: > > > > > > Dear Michael, Also search "Attacks on Hindus in India" > > and you will get over 6 million hits, so don't think > > Hindus are better off in India. Anyway, these numbers are bogus > > > > because they also include substring matches > > which may or may not be relevant to the string being > > searched. > > > > ||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > > > > Namaste Mahadevaadvaita, > > Yes I did that. The news is not good. 25 of the first 60 > > hits were about Hindus attacking other folk. My point: > > Hindus do not have the high moral ground by any means > > so Rajyji needs to address that before launching into > > a homily on tolerance. > > > > Best Wishes, > > Michael. > > >Namaste M, > >Just butting in as I am in Dundalk right now visiting my mother and >sister and family. > >Considering the experience in the recent past here and comparing >that violence to India there is something in common in the >iconclastic attitudes of fundamentalists. They don't seem to be >pliable enough to analyse their own thoughts. Hence attacks on >Christian missionaries in India and other various community >violence, Muslims etc. The only thing that bothers me is the drift >away from India's tolerance and secularism by some of these >fundamentalist groups.............ONS...Tony. > > > > > > > > >______________________ >______________________ > >Discussion of Shankara's Advaita Vedanta Philosophy of nonseparablity of Atman and Brahman. >Advaitin List Archives available at: http://www.eScribe.com/culture/advaitin/ >To Post a message send an email to : advaitin >Messages Archived at: advaitin/messages > > > >------ > Links > > > > >------ > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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