Union with the Divine will inform, unite and transform diverse cultures

[Guest guest]

Dear Sandy and All,

 

Perhaps we have to accept that we are a product of our own cultural

conditioning. We will have a natural bias perhaps, to the culture we are born

in. That used to work well, but now that East is meeting West, or West is

meeting East as never before, it can be expected that there may be cultural

misunderstandings. The fact that we are at the 'dreg-end' of the Kali Yuga,

means the spiritual, political, and economic corruption are at an all-time high

in every country, and this has a deleterious effect on the country's moral code

(dharma).

 

i remember when i lived in Canada, and they banned The Lord's Prayer in American

schools. We all used to say it together in the Morning Assembly at school before

the classes would begin. Yet in India, you can see people praying and meditating

out in the open. They have spiritual festivals out in the open, and it is not a

special church doing it for them, necessarily. It is a culture of spirituality,

where all can partake, even tourists.

 

Westerners have for years gone to the East, in search of themselves. Remember

the Beatles, who did so, to " find themselves " ? They went to India, because that

was the only place they could get what they were searching for! So, you can't

tell me that India is not a more spiritual country, as a whole.

 

In Sahaja Yoga organisation, we had a chance to immerse in the Sahaj Culture. Is

the Sahaj Culture strictly Indian? No! The Sahaj Culture, is a Culture of

Dharma. Spirituality informs the culture of Sahaja Yoga, and not vice versa. You

don't need to become an Indian, to become a Sahaja Yogi. The fact that people

wore saris, was to please Shri Mataji. Saris are beautiful, tasteful, and

dharmic, and they actually represent the Kundalini, because they get wrapped

around like a Kundalini wraps itself around you. A woman does not have to wear a

sari, to please the Divine Mother within. It is just nice for women to dress

respectfully.

 

In the Western culture today, and i will be very blunt and frank, women are

dressing like prostitutes. Even myself, as a woman is disgusted, that i have to

look at female bodies. We are inundated. This is a perversion of dharmic

culture. At least in India, you can see the average women beautifully and

tastefully dressed, and you can admire her beautiful qualities.

 

Also in Western culture today, men have very lustful eyes. The fact that many

women no longer dress modestly as our mothers did, has exacerbated this

situation. The media are also largely to blame, for promoting this undharmic

culture.

 

So if you meet Indian men, they are especially innocent, i have noticed. They,

in general, do not look lustfully at women, because their culture shows respect

and dharma for women, because of its innate spiritual qualities, that are not

lost as they have been lost in Western Culture. If Indian women dressed like

many American women do today, i am sure the Indian men would be in uproar.

 

Besides that, it is much nicer to see a woman dress beautifully and modestly. It

does not draw attention to wrong things. We are the Spirit, not this body. This

has to be re-learned by Western Culture, who are far, far too focussed on the

external body.

 

So the Sahaj Culture, that we are " not this body, not this mind, not these

emotions, but that we are the Spirit " has to be learned. The more people learn

this, and apply it in their lives, the more the culture in every country will be

informed by this spirituality.

 

It is the only way we will save our countries from destruction from within.

 

So Sandy, put away your biases, put away your wanting to attack Shri Mataji, and

try and see the forest for the trees. i accept that it is a trying time when we

are having this inter-cultural mix at a time of the 'end-dregs' of the Kali

Yuga. This is a spiritually transformative time. There is a lot of work ahead of

us. Try and have a more detached outlook and do not take things too personally.

 

Everyone has to examine themselves, in regards to communicating with people from

other cultural backgrounds. But without Dharma, this is not possible. Without

respect, this is not possible. Without an open mind, this is not possible.

Without Love in Action, this is not possible.

 

regards to all,

 

violet