When you state that your intention is to preserve Dharma and embrace modernity at the same time without specifying what you are trying to preserve, you have lost your narrative.
If learning Sanskrit, preserving ancient texts in Universities and creating a generic clergy /1
If learning Sanskrit, preserving ancient texts in Universities and creating a generic clergy /1
utilizing a common codified set of rituals and observances, the Church can do it much better than Arya Samaj, Ramakrishna Mission, Chinmaya Mission or Sangh.
They have much experience with this and can achieve it without the violence of previous centuries. Some of what /2
They have much experience with this and can achieve it without the violence of previous centuries. Some of what /2
is suggested militates against all human nature. Rituals are rich, fulfilling and multi-hued only because they give a means for humans to express their need for celebration. If the choices are - feeding stray dogs or buying junk and engaging in gluttony, you can be sure that /3
90% of humans will choose the latter. If people have to give up jallikattu, 48-day fasts, ritual pollution rules in favour of just greeting each other, meeting friends and serving society, they will fill the vacuum of experience only with hedonism. Just as dull fasts end up as /4
a whole month of elaborate pre-dawn breakfasts and dinners after sundown.
Austerity of Protestantism and Wahhabi Islam is the catalyst of the decadence among middle class Westerners and richer Gulf Arabs /END
Austerity of Protestantism and Wahhabi Islam is the catalyst of the decadence among middle class Westerners and richer Gulf Arabs /END
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