food for thought

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namaskaarams

 

let me share some thoughts with you all. please read my email in

full and then reply.

 

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while its all great and nice to discuss hindu philosophy via

emails and like the topics seen on this forum, there are some

important areas which need attention as well.

 

i guess (just a guesss) there may not be many hindus on this list

who are born and raised outside India - in the ages under 35 or

so. how do we target this audience ?

 

while there are many priests in the many temples in usa/canada

and elsewhere nations, not many of them are fluent in english and

in other foreign languages like french / german / spanish.

english fluency, to a great part, is badly missing and needs a

lot of work here.

 

the real danger lies in educated priests unable to present the

many facets of hinduism to the local people in their language or

to answer questions or to defend the religion against mounting

criticism on hinduism and hindu scriptures.

 

when we have functions in our temples, especially abroad, we need

to have our priests explain what is what about these functions,

in simple english to both the kids and adults who are born and

raised outside India. this need is very very acute.

 

all these can be done in parallel and this need not clash with

one another. i hope such needs would be considered in parallel.

 

thank you all

- Suresh

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