Dangers to the youth Impersonalism and Voidism

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This is from Aravind's post on another thread,

 

"From my limited experience w.r.t preaching at Universities here in

the US, I have observed that the most dangerous influences on the

youth are impersonalism and voidism . And, our primary duty is to

fight these two evils. If it requires, from a strategic viewpoint,

that sometimes we have to side with the Christians/Jews, I think we

should consider, albeit cautiously...............Today's educated

youth is opting for pure abstract philosophy (with advaitic basis) w/o

any religion whatsoever - and this, trust me is a dangerous trend."

 

 

If you have the time, I would like to understand your experience of

the negative influence.

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achintya, "v_raja_ram" <v_raja_ram wrote:

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> This is from Aravind's post on another thread,

> Today's educated

> youth is opting for pure abstract philosophy (with advaitic basis)

w/o

> any religion whatsoever - and this, trust me is a dangerous trend."

>

>

> If you have the time, I would like to understand your experience of

> the negative influence.

 

He's referring to the "armchair Buddhist" syndrome that is all too

common in American Universities today. There is widespread discontent

with mainstream Christianity among liberal students, who consequently

turn to "Eastern" religions for all of life's answers. The trouble is,

they aren't approaching religion the way it should be approached -

with humility and open-mindedness. Instead, they are approaching

religion with a lot of expectations and preconceived notions. Thus,

they want equality, equal rights, no or minimal restrictions on

irreligious behavior, etc etc. And neo-Vedantic as well as Neo-

Buddhist religions tend to serve those expectations rather well.

 

K

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On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, krishna_susarla wrote:

> There is widespread discontent

> with mainstream Christianity among liberal students, who consequently

> turn to "Eastern" religions for all of life's answers. The trouble is,

> they aren't approaching religion the way it should be approached -

> with humility and open-mindedness. Instead, they are approaching

> religion with a lot of expectations and preconceived notions. Thus,

> they want equality, equal rights, no or minimal restrictions on

> irreligious behavior, etc etc.

 

Popular psychology also ratifies such attitudes as effectively as does the

abstraction characteristic of nirvisesa/sunyavada, but it does so from within

the realm of mundane duality (vyavahara).

 

MDd

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achintya, mpt wrote:

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> Popular psychology also ratifies such attitudes as effectively as

does the abstraction characteristic of nirvisesa/sunyavada, but it

does so from within the realm of mundane duality (vyavahara).

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> MDd

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'Eastern' religion, especially Vedanta, is dismissed academically as

Hinduism rooted in Indian culture. True mayavadi, on the other hand,

is out of the reach of your average Kali Yuga mundane speculator.

There are so many Western counterfeits, even encouraged sometimes by

Indian gurus. The Yoga and Meditation teachers that market liberation

as a commodity, a new improved technique for sense gratification are

charlatans that even a superficial reading of sastras can debunk.