One more dissenting opinion on Hindu code Bill.
Again am not bothered about this on an issue by issue basis. I am just amazed with how assertive some of these people were.
We look at them today as orthodox, backward, conservative, obscurantist etc
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Again am not bothered about this on an issue by issue basis. I am just amazed with how assertive some of these people were.
We look at them today as orthodox, backward, conservative, obscurantist etc
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But what are we now as Hindus. Do we have a sense of our religion as much as these people then had?
Tell me what you don't like in my religion I will reform it to make it look good is not a great long term survival strategy for any religion.
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Tell me what you don't like in my religion I will reform it to make it look good is not a great long term survival strategy for any religion.
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Here goes
"So, if contemplating the interests of certain people we do not like to obey the laws of religion, the State interferes and changes the religious code, it will be bringing into existence a new veda without having the capacity of the mantradrashta .."
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"So, if contemplating the interests of certain people we do not like to obey the laws of religion, the State interferes and changes the religious code, it will be bringing into existence a new veda without having the capacity of the mantradrashta .."
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This idea of a mantradrashta (mystical seer who can see religious truths by his yogic vision) is totally lost in the social and personal sphere.
Mantras i know are for chanting in puja room and for temple/family rituals. What is this Mantradrashta? We ask today.
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Mantras i know are for chanting in puja room and for temple/family rituals. What is this Mantradrashta? We ask today.
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Since that aspect of religion in the social and personal sphere is forgotten. We also don't understand why this man here is making such a big deal out of it when we read such today.
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"The state will have to presume further that it is competent also to, pronounce that the truths of vedic religion are false; that the vedic religion is mere mythology embodying imaginary conceptions"
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Hindus now have an easy route. They will say they don't agree with the interpretation of Vedic truths by such people who dissented then and instead say there is room for many interpretations. We need not get so worked up. We are evolving or Those lines are interpolations etc.
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"But it is well known that the greatest of modern men (learned) are ignorant of the other world and are not in a position to say that the sastras tell untruths. They are like born blind people who have to decide about the existence or otherwise of the world of colours"
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What is this other world again?
Let's be rational. Constitution is about scientific spirit. There is nothing other worldly about dull mundane matters like marriage, inheritance of property etc.
Don't understand why reference to "other world" is being brought up here we react
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Let's be rational. Constitution is about scientific spirit. There is nothing other worldly about dull mundane matters like marriage, inheritance of property etc.
Don't understand why reference to "other world" is being brought up here we react
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This chapter of our history needs to be studied seriously by Hindus.
It is easy to mock people of other faiths saying they are book religions. Blind followers of their books etc.
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It is easy to mock people of other faiths saying they are book religions. Blind followers of their books etc.
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But not until too long ago we had people who clung onto their customs and Sastras the same way.
They don't make them like that anymore!
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They don't make them like that anymore!
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Or may be we are also just as particular as them on our beliefs. So perhaps not much has changed. Just that instead of customs and Sastras we cling onto another book. C book?
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