Guest guest Posted January 31, 2000 Report Share Posted January 31, 2000 With 40% of India's population in poverty can the majority of Indian people afford to go along with the Bhakti marg? Would Karma yoga not be a more useful path in India? Now I know why it is that Vivekananda did a lecture called something like Buddhism: the fulfilment of Hinduism. All responses welcome on this idea. Daksha Patel Talk to your friends online with Messenger. http://im. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2000 Report Share Posted January 31, 2000 Let them have the means to earn money. If they are poor money is wat they need. Let the choice of path which they want to follow be theirs. Who r we to decide which path they should follow ? With empty stomach one can't follow any of the paths. Why is it that four asharaams r prescribed in ones lives. If one has to rise above money one need to know wat all money does. One need to have a close enconter with money. If u keep on telling one becuase of money all these can happen will one understand. May be one may temporarily. But someday the things which one hasn't fully uderstood are going to tempt one for sure. Can one understand something fully just by talks. Let's not tag the poverty by declaring that they should follow this or that path. To me the idea that one will attain the self realization just by following one path seems to be too ideal a path to follow. I think as one gets closer to realization one travels through all the paths as one follows the spiritual path. Evry path has it's own merits n i guess it will be real life for one who drinks the blend of these paths. I feel that blend these in a proper way will be the most accelerated one. It will be really foolish to think that a person who does bhakti doesn't follow karma yoga. As lons as one lives one will do one act or the other. And as long as their is an act their is Karma Yoga. Even if one does bhakti or Dhyaan or Raja Yoga i guess they all will fall under Karma Yoga. On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, [iso-8859-1] daksha patel wrote: > =?iso-8859-1?q?daksha=20patel?= <bilubeta > > > With 40% of India's population in poverty can the > majority of Indian people afford to go along with the > Bhakti marg? Would Karma yoga not be a more useful > path in India? > Now I know why it is that Vivekananda did a lecture > called something like Buddhism: the fulfilment of > Hinduism. > All responses welcome on this idea. > > Daksha Patel > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2000 Report Share Posted February 1, 2000 Hi! Daksha, I agree to what u say to quite an extent. There is a great need for ppl who know the 'Art of Working' as been descibed in the Geeta ( " To work for work's sake.Duty for duty's sake " ). We need to become strong economically and financially with the help of the ideals of Karma Yoga. But still comming back to the basics. Our religion has provided us with different paths to reach God depending on the person's mentality. For the emotional ppl Bhakti is the perfect path to reach God. But for the active ppl Karma is the prescibed path. It all depends on ur mental makeup. Bottom line is follow which ever path suits ur mentality. U can experiment with all of them or stick to one. No problem. The best part is that by following even one u get the qualities of the other paths. What Anurag was taking about. Kedar.S. daksha patel <bilubeta on 31/01/2000 10:47:10 AM Please respond to Ramakrishna Ramakrishna cc: (bcc: Kedareshwaran Subramanian/CAL/NOTES) [ramakrishna] Re:The usefulness of Karma Yoga =?iso-8859-1?q?daksha=20patel?= <bilubeta With 40% of India's population in poverty can the majority of Indian people afford to go along with the Bhakti marg? Would Karma yoga not be a more useful path in India? Now I know why it is that Vivekananda did a lecture called something like Buddhism: the fulfilment of Hinduism. All responses welcome on this idea. Daksha Patel Talk to your friends online with Messenger. http://im. --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- GET A NEXTCARD VISA, in 30 seconds. Get rates as low as 0.0 percent Intro or 9.9 percent Fixed APR and no hidden fees. Apply NOW. <a href= " http://clickme./ad/NextcardCreative5CL " >Click Here</a> ------ Sri Ramakrishnaye Namah Vivekananda Centre London http://www.btinternet.com/~vivekananda/ [This message contained attachments] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2000 Report Share Posted February 1, 2000 On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, [iso-8859-1] daksha patel wrote: > =?iso-8859-1?q?daksha=20patel?= <bilubeta > > > With 40% of India's population in poverty can the > majority of Indian people afford to go along with the > Bhakti marg? Would Karma yoga not be a more useful > path in India? Daksha u seem to be laying down a path for whole India. India once used to be called a " Golden Sparrow " . All the knowlede India has if people of India accept that India alone can feed the whole universe let alone their own stomachs. If Swami Vivekananda says a single yogi is enough to win a war then we can get a feel of wat knowledge india possess. If it so happen that need of food will decide the spiritual paths. Then i think money is wat should be greater than spiritual paths. > Now I know why it is that Vivekananda did a lecture > called something like Buddhism: the fulfilment of > Hinduism. > All responses welcome on this idea. > > Daksha Patel > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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