idols?

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> ... the idols kept at home ...

 

The undeclared policy of the colonial British in India was to destroy vedic

culture. (It was not such a difficult job after all, as the gradual demise

of actual brahminism, beginning with the departure of Lord Krishna to His

own abode, meant that people were becoming increasingly bewildered by

material conceptions). The British burned sastras, ridiculed vedic beliefs

and trained Indians loyal to them as mindless "teachers" to spread their

envious, atheistic, ideas. They practically replaced the word 'deity' (or

murti, arca vigraha, thiru, swami, etc.) with 'idol' (meaning 'an image made

from ones imagination') and 'purana', 'sastra', 'agama', etc. with

'mythology' (meaning, again, 'fanciful tales') in the Indian English

lexicon. More than fifty years after the British have left, these

misconceived terms remain as firmly established in the Indian English

vocabulary as when they were present (if not more firmly.) If our gurus are

slack and don't preach vigourously to their disciples on this (and many

other topics too), it seems they can infiltrate ISKCON too, as the

above-refered-to posting to this conference on pamho.net seems to indicate

they can.

 

Ys

 

Rasananda das