In ancient Indian society, people become fully contributing members of society at a younger age. They became warriors fighting in battles, bankers, scientists, yogis, kings and queens.
Crowdsourcing examples from pre-Independence India of pre-18 achievers. Please reply below.
Crowdsourcing examples from pre-Independence India of pre-18 achievers. Please reply below.
"Modernity" has pushed an infantilization of society, where a person is useless at 18 and often even at 21.
21 years of life and 15 years of education renders him or her "unemployable". useless to do anything. It is worse in India with English-medium.
21 years of life and 15 years of education renders him or her "unemployable". useless to do anything. It is worse in India with English-medium.
Please reply with ages of achievements.
Adi Shankaracharya left home at the age of eight, started writing bhashyas, or commentaries on scriptures at the age of 12, and by 16 had completed his major works.
amritapuri.org/40614/shankara…
Adi Shankaracharya left home at the age of eight, started writing bhashyas, or commentaries on scriptures at the age of 12, and by 16 had completed his major works.
amritapuri.org/40614/shankara…
This is also false, maybe so for a diseased Western society. All the ashrams in India are based on notions of shatayu, 100-year old lifespans. They were not all hallucinating. Need more data.
We project history of ignorant Europe as world history.
We project history of ignorant Europe as world history.
I think the state of Indian society after 100-150 years of British rule is not a good indicator. Many of the institutions of health and well-being had been destroyed by that time.
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