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Re: ARTICLE : Becoming Hindu
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Subject: Re: ARTICLE : Becoming Hindu
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From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 03:19:35 GMT
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Organization: Consolidated Braincells Inc.
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References: <ghenDz6KGq.Cwt@netcom.com>
janahan (j.) skandaraniyam <skandar@nortel.ca> wrote in article
<ghenDz6KGq.Cwt@netcom.com>...
> >Neither Ramakrishna nor Vivekanand were particularly learned but far
from
>
> Anyone with their "third eye" opened, even a bit, will know the
> spiritual height of Swami Vivekananda, and will know who Sri Ramakrishna
> really was.
>
Well I have four eyes so I can see a little better. :-) ( or should that be
8-)?)
If you want to argue that R & V were some kind of mystics that's fine.
There's not really much difference between what they taught and what
country sants and babas have been preaching to the farmers of India for
many years My problem is when they or their followers try to present
themselves as spokesmen for traditional culture, (They are not)
interpreters of Vedanta and shastras (they are not) or possesors of any
kind of coherent and logical philosophy. (They simply haven't got one.)
As for my original contention that their influence on Dharmik people at
large is minimal, I stand by it. It is actually their lack of any kind of
systematic thought that makes them valuable to secular India.
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