Vedanta, the Neo-Hinduism!

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• Subject: Vedanta, the Neo-Hinduism!
• From: dchakrav@netserv.unmc.edu (Dhruba Chakravarti)
• Date: 15 Jan 1996 11:56:17 -0600
• Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
• Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

Dear Friends:

Western scholars declare that Swami Vivekananda has preached some form 
of Neo-Hinduism in the west, that is irrelevant in mainland India.  This 
new religion is called Vedanta.

It is a nice hypothesis indeed.  Except that it is totally untrue. To my 
knowledge, Maharshi VedaVyasa was the first author of a Vedantic book, 
and he was born only a few thousand years before Swami Vivekananda.  In 
chapter 12 of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna described the 
Vedantists too.

ye tvaksharamanirddeshyamvyaktam paryupAsate.
sarvatragamachintyancha kUtasthalamachalam dhruvam. 12.3

samniyamyendriyagrAmam sarvatra samabuddhayah.
te prApnuvanti mAmeva sarvabhutahite ratAh.  12.4

Sri Krishna too, described Swami Vivekananda's neo-Hinduism.  I hope that 
these western scholars would see the light and not make such fanciful 
charges.

With best regards,

Dhruba.

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