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Leela

@leelaraagam

31 Jan

I don't even know where to begin with this; but let's just start with false equivalence, shall we?
When Newton identified gravity, he was *shunned* by the Catholic Church. Notwithstanding the fact that Newton was a Christian.
In fact the church 👇
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@SadhguruJV

shunned *anything* scientific. A struggle that continues, in some fronts, even to this day. (Ask the Evangelicals about the creation of earth. LOL.)
So the true statement would be that Yoga is as Hindu as the Adam & Eve story is Christian!

How can @SadhguruJV or anyone
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deny Yoga its Hindu roots? By cutting of its Hinduness (or Hindutva!), you are essentially denying it, its soul. And not only that, you are facilitating the billion-$$$ Yoga-industrial-complex that runs on the very basis that Yoga is non-Hindu.

And if your aim behind
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Leela

@leelaraagam

29 Jan

https://twitter.com/thecaravanindia/status/1354436499614347266

Make no mistake; folks like Divya Dwivedi are the ones who practice caste-based discrimination.

Notice how they never eschew their (ex?) Hindu identities? Observe how they always sneak their "UC / Brahmin privilege" into the conversation? It's always about staying in the (1/)

https://twitter.com/thecaravanindia/status/1354436499614347266

spotlight, & staying relevant.

As folks from all social groups advance their status in India, these people feel threatened. So they have to spin these stupid narratives. It's a desperate cry for attention.

Ideally, we should ignore them. However, Unfortunately, given the (2/)

media spaces that they occupy, we cannot. So we must *absolutely* call them out.

They are BIGOTS. They are hate-mongers. They are pathetic social snobs.

They "other" Dalits.
Dalits were not allowed into temples previously;
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Leela

@leelaraagam

28 Jan

I love the poetry of Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar, & this is my favorite. 💕 & the reference to Shri Ram🔥

क्षमा, दया, तप, त्याग, मनोबल सबका लिया सहारा
पर नर व्याघ सुयोधन तुमसे कहो कहाँ कब हारा?

क्षमाशील हो ॠपु-समक्ष तुम हुये विनीत जितना ही
दुष्ट कौरवों ने तुमको कायर समझा उतना ही
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अत्याचार सहन करने का कुफल यही होता है
पौरुष का आतंक मनुज कोमल होकर खोता है

क्षमा शोभती उस भुजंग को जिसके पास गरल है
उसका क्या जो दंतहीन विषरहित विनीत सरल है

तीन दिवस तक पंथ मांगते रघुपति सिंधु किनारे
बैठे पढते रहे छन्द अनुनय के प्यारे प्यारे
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उत्तर में जब एक नाद भी उठा नही सागर से
उठी अधीर धधक पौरुष की आग राम के शर से

सिंधु देह धर त्राहि-त्राहि करता आ गिरा शरण में
चरण पूज दासता गृहण की बंधा मूढ़ बन्धन में

सच पूछो तो शर में ही बसती है दीप्ति विनय की
संधिवचन सम्पूज्य उसीका जिसमे शक्ति विजय की

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Leela

@leelaraagam

28 Jan

First things first: good riddance to bad rubbish; I am glad Mathangi S no longer considers herself a Hindu.
(Could you please stay the eff out of defining it as well?)

When I read articles like these by ex-Brahmins (?) suffering with some strange (1/)
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mix of guilt, superiority complex ("look we know we are better but we'll try our best to hide it"), I really feel like telling them to STFU.
Firstly, Brahmins make < 5% of India's population. So please. While people like Mathangi definitely don't represent Hindus; neither (2/)

do all Brahmins. To assume that a small minority represents the larger group is just stupidity.
Hinduism belongs to *all* Hindus, including Dalits, & other castes. (And Brahmins.)

So please. Don't speak for all Hindus when your experience is so so unique. (3/)

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Leela

@leelaraagam

5 Nov 20

Observations. #371.
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BIGOTRY OF HIGH EXPECTATIONS

#WokeStapo: Listen ye Hindus, you cannot celebrate Navratri unless there are 0 crimes reported against women in India.
Hindus: But.. but that's impossible! No country has that stat!
#W: 💅
H: 👀
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H: But not all are Hindus!
#W: Always Hindu-Muslim! You people are bigots!
H: 🙄
#W: Hs, you cannot celebrate Holi since face-paints have chemicals & so much water wastage!
H: But.. but we can use natural colors...
#W: You are wasting water! Also, excuse me, I need to paint+

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my face..
H: For Halloween?
#W: No dum dum. I mean't my make-up! Sheesh.
H: But those are chemicals too. And water is wasted on golf-courses.
#W: 👀
H: 👀
#W: Listen ye Hindus, you cannot celebrate Diwali! Too much noise & air pollution!
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Leela

@leelaraagam

25 Sep 20

Observations. #222.

"SPREADING BRANCHES"

A false allegation made against NRIs like me is that if we really loved our roots, how come we are not living in India? How come we gave up our citizenships & adopted foreign lands.🤠
The aim of this statement is to delegitimize our
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claims to our roots. Honestly, it's cruel.🥺

Two kinds of people do this:
a. Fellow Dindu / Abrahamic NRIs who envy our unabashed love for our culture & traditions. It pricks at their low self-esteem issues which urge them to be more like their white counterparts - at which
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they fail spectacularly; obviously, 'cuz they ain't white. LOL.🤦‍♀️

b. Indians who had aspirations to immigrate but couldn't due to a whole host of reasons. It pricks at their perceived inabilities / shortcomings. So the green monster of jealousy rears its ugly head.🙄

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