India is a home to seekers of spirituality

[blazeofglory]

Of course India is great home to all those who seek enlightenment. Of course there are other countries, Jerusalem, Kaaba, Tibet whereto tens of thousands of pilgrimages flock every year seeking spiritual fulfillment.

This argument is not without some rational foundations. Take for example the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Purana, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana. These are matchless books, and no books exist that can match with these books of wisdom.

This is my dispassionate and objective argument. I have gone through both western and eastern religious books and read massively literature related to them.

A single book, the Mahabharata is such a wonderful book that is enough to represent what the East stands for.

Buddhism originated in India and spread to all over the world in due course of time. Even Zen Buddhism came from India. Zen means Gyan ( knowledge) in Sanskrit.

Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages. This is an indisputable fact amongst linguists. This is a synthetic and scientific language with a very full developed grammatical base.

I am not advocating as a nationalist or religious or sentimental bigot. I do not call myself a Hindu. I read all texts. But nowhere I came across these ancinet texts when it comes to grading them objectively.

I believe I am not biased towards any path holders or believers here.


I am not religious or nationalistic at all. What ancinet India bequeathed to us down the historical channel is world heritage. We must all notwithstanding which countries we come of, which tongues we have or which cultural heritages we are in, these great books of wisdom our ancestors passed to us historically belong to all indifferently.

[Red-Headed]

Even Zen Buddhism came from India. Zen means Gyan ( knowledge) in Sanskrit.

'Zen' is a corruption of the Chinese 'C'hen' or 'Channa' which is a contraction of the Sanskrit 'Dhyana'/'Dhyati' meaning 'he thinks'. It is related to the Aryan root which includes the word 'Semantic'.


Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages. This is an indisputable fact amongst linguists.

Which linguists? Those on drugs? :banana: The Aryan descended languages of India, like Sanskrit, are related to the Aryan languages of Europe. There were Aryan speaking Europeans before there were any Aryan invasions of India. You will find that Sanskrit is related to the five basic Aryan language groups of Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, Italic, Celtic & Germanic. To claim that Sanskrit is the mother of European languages is quite frankly ludicrous. The original languages of India were non-Aryan & there is no evidence that any of the Aryan invasions of India pre-dated those of Europe. Even the claim that Sanskrit is the oldest written Aryan language is considered to be on shaky ground if the Glosel runes turn out to be genuine.


This is a synthetic and scientific language with a very full developed grammatical base.

Why? I don't understand what you mean.


I am not advocating as a nationalist or religious or sentimental bigot. I do not call myself a Hindu. I read all texts. But nowhere I came across these ancinet texts when it comes to grading them objectively.

I would read some Derrida, Umberto Eco, Michel Foucault & Noam Chomsky if I were you.

[lupe]

In many ways, yes it is.

It is also home of millions of poor people who are left to die from hunger and related diseases, only with the hope that they will be reborn among the higher cast.

[chrismythoi]

i must admit that after having read hesse's the glass bead game, i do feel a desire to track down some wise yogi in india. however i ultimatley agree with the point that human ideas transcend national boundaries and so therefore i shall content myself with living in europe and seeing in the world all the beautiful things, such as herman hesse

[NikolaiI]

I was recently thinking about creating a thread called India's spiritual heritage, but you beat me to it basically. :)

[Griffith]

In many ways, yes it is.

It is also home of millions of poor people who are left to die from hunger and related diseases, only with the hope that they will be reborn among the higher cast.
Indeed but this spirituality has been threatening by capitalism. The necessity of transform all the population in a uniform substance due to it´s desire of a larger consuming market generates, in this way, a nocive propaganda of equality what can make that the inferior cast wants to become equal. If this occur, the degeneration of the indian spirituality will become inevitable.

[lupe]

Indeed but this spirituality has been threatening by capitalism. The necessity of transform all the population in a uniform substance due to it´s desire of a larger consuming market generates, in this way, a nocive propaganda of equality what can make that the inferior cast wants to become equal. If this occur, the degeneration of the indian spirituality will become inevitable.

"A nocive propaganda of equality"? Rarely somebody has been so shockingly honest.

Yes, it is really unacceptable that the "inferior" (!!!) cast "wants to become equal". Who do-they think they are?

Your comment is revealing on the role than Hinduism (and the other established religions in other contexts) has played and continued to play in order to preserve the status quo. The strategy has openly followed the same logical arguments: we have to keep the people as much uneducated and superstitious as possible; prevent them from any form of emancipation or enlightening; convince them that their fate can not be changed, because it's controlled by one (or many) invisible deities; and promise them that if they keep quiet and pious, they will be rewarded in the after life – or the next life.

In many parts of the world, the struggle for the progress of humanity has had many victories over this parochial obscurantism. In India, there is still a lot to be achieved. Until then, do not worry for the "degeneration of the indian spirituality" (sic).