The fly goes for the sore.

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> Since you don't see the difference between a follower of Vedic culture and

> a Christian, I guess you don't see nothing wrong in killing and eating

> cows.

 

Your guess is wrong, Prabhuji. No need to shoot with cannons at a fly. When

I said that I developed a certain appreciation of some aspects of western

culture I did of course not refer to meat eating and cow killing. I was

merely thinking of nice roads, clean toilets, buses, planes and trains which

arrive in time, hygienic hospitals, good drinking water, crystal clear

rivers and lakes, nice parks and gardens, phones which work, government

offices and authorities which handle your affairs efficiently or handle your

affairs at all, courts which do not take a decade or two to look into a

crime, policemen who do not let you get away with murder for a bribe of 100

rupies, politicians who do not slide tax money into their own pocket while

kids are starving etc.

 

I wrote what I wrote simply to express amazement about Madhusudani Radha

being labelled a shameless madwoman just because she presented some

statistics which showed that there is a good deal of moral degradation in

modern India. I did not mean to glorify christianity or minimize the glories

of vedic culture. I love India and vedic values and that is why it breaks my

heart to see some of the things Indians are doing to their own country and

culture. As you live in Vrindavana, you have seen the horrible substances

that pollute the Yamuna. Why do Indians tolerate this? Christians are cow

killers and that´s an unexcusable sin but at the same time they keep their

countries somewhat clean, at least superficially. So is there any harm in

emulating *that* part of christian culture?

 

Actually it is not christian culture. It is sattva guna. Cleanliness is next

to godliness. So if India is the emblem of vedic culture, it has to

establish more cleanliness in its towns, its politics, in everything. Then

there is a chance that the west will begin to respect or adopt vedic

culture. Until then India will continue to be disregarded even by the

mlechhas.

 

And please don´t tell me that the degradation of indian village culture is

all the fault of the westerners. It takes two to tango. The british left

India in 1947. Out of their own accord, Indians continue to eagerly embrace

western technology, western collaboration, western life style etc.

 

 

ys Anantarupa das

 

PS: Did you know that India is one of the greatest exporters of cow leather

for the production of shoes and leather jackets in the west? These things

are going on and we have to call a spade a spade. At the same time I do

acknowledge Krishna Kirtis point that we should not overgeneralize and say

that everything about India is bad. There is so much the west can learn

from India and there is also a lot that India can learn from the west.