(Not really anymore:)Choosing Gemstones(Sundeep)

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Om Gurave Namah

Namaste dear Sundeep,

 

I checked that Wikipedia link. Where is Frida Khalo I wonder? Now I

am disappointed... (Anyway, I dislike modern art (Frida Khalo is

just one interesting person as far as I am concerned). To me it

resembles to clumsy copy of Egyptian murals made by untalented

child. Michelangelo and Phidias are example of artists. You can

conclude from this what I think of modernism generally. Darwin and

Marx, they both give me creeps. The only good result is a little

more respect to women comparing to middle age)

 

Well those people from your surrounding are at least ready to accept

that ritualistic side. That is something for a start (even though I

am aware that this can not be in any case a complete substitute for

ritual+deeper understanding+spiritual approach).

 

What you said about people from your country and their religious

approach it is not too far from what I can recognize here. I think

that it is worldly wide spread " problem " in many various religions.

Most of people I meet here also perform rituals from Orthodox

Christianity without any deeper understanding (yet this is not

stopping them from considering themselves as very religious).

Specific for Serbian Orthodox is that many rituals actually have

their origin in very old Slav pantheistic religion (example:

celebrating day of family deity), so this is some kind of mixture

between native religion and Christianity. Can you guess how many

Serbian Orthodox are aware of this fact? Maybe 20%. Of that share

one can find maximum 5% of those who can name you a few precise

rituals with such origin. How many religious people who have deeper

understanding one can find among this latter 5%... God knows.

 

Last few sentences that I had in mind for this email are one of

those I would rather send you privately.

 

 

Regards,

Maja

 

Hari Om Tat Sat

 

 

sohamsa , " vedicastrostudent "

<vedicastrostudent wrote:

>

> Dear Maja,

>

> > There is a lot of people around me who I can not simply say " it

is

> > good for spirituality " not even if I have a whole week available

> to

> > elaborate this sentence. I live in such country unfortunately.

>

> It's not really an issue of country. You'd be surprised how many

> Indians are not spiritual. I used to be one of them for most of my

> life (and I had no shortage of like-minded friends). My own

personal

> opinion (based on knowing myself and lots of other Indian friends

> and relatives) is that most Indians are simply into ritualistic

> religion by birth without understanding or even wanting to

> understand deeper meanings, that's all. As with most other people

> in the world, it takes some kind of personal awakening to really

> become spiritual. Of course, there are rare people who have a

> spiritual side to them right from the beginning, and of course,

you

> cant use the people on this group as examples, because this group

is

> simply a collection of those rare types, not representative of the

> general populace.

>

> However, I do agree that the " general western attitude " , which is

> very prevalent in the East as well, is one of " taking control " of

> one's life and reshaping one's environment to fully achieve one's

> desires. This attitude I think is what is counter to spirituality

> (which encourages you to look inward and actually question your

> desires), and although rooted in the West - see the

term " Modernism "

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism , is pretty prevalent in

the

> East as well.

>

> JMHO,

>

> Sundeep

>