Important take away message of the movie Agora
When you lose lower classes to predatory religions, the great library burns & Hypatia is stoned to death.
All this because the elites (the intellectuals, the military/political elite and the financial elite) lost touch with Plebs.
When you lose lower classes to predatory religions, the great library burns & Hypatia is stoned to death.
All this because the elites (the intellectuals, the military/political elite and the financial elite) lost touch with Plebs.
Plebeians gradually converted while the “traivarNika equivalents of Græko-Roman society” ignored the Plebian plight and enjoyed the high flights of Puritanism and ideals.
Græko-Roman religion had everything to hold on to the masses. To give them succour and help. They had temples (with plenty of wealth and reach). They had gods and rituals whom people looked up to
But in spite of this, a desert cult managed to usurp rich græko-Roman religion?
But in spite of this, a desert cult managed to usurp rich græko-Roman religion?
People pissing on Modi for things I enlisted in this tweet are like those græko-Roman traivarNika people who did not give a flying crap to the needs and aspirations of the plebeians.
https://twitter.com/kal_chiron/status/1443619479737409549
I understand & emphasise on orthopraxy (© @blog_supplement ji)
Orthopraxy is emphasis on following rituals as diligently as is expected and prescribed in shāstra
This is different from orthodoxy - bullheaded emphasis on ideas which are not applicable in current space and times
Orthopraxy is emphasis on following rituals as diligently as is expected and prescribed in shāstra
This is different from orthodoxy - bullheaded emphasis on ideas which are not applicable in current space and times
But orthopraxy should not be confused with orthodoxy and cannot be at the cost of long term survival of civilisation
Orthodoxy masquerading as orthopraxy is a problem in current times
Both are useful & useless in different occasions. Need to have nīra-kshīra vivéka to sift them
Orthodoxy masquerading as orthopraxy is a problem in current times
Both are useful & useless in different occasions. Need to have nīra-kshīra vivéka to sift them
Ordinary Hindu had easy access to a Shruti-Smruti-purāNokta brāhmaNa until the concepts of “nation-state”, industrial revolution and urbanisation (forcibly) arrived in India.
This access has dried up significantly in last 100 years.
This access has dried up significantly in last 100 years.
https://twitter.com/hmishrahm/status/1443775793415417857
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