Thoughts on Hinduism
Yesterday, I was listening to a swami and he was mentioning a few things:Hinduism is what makes a weak mind stong mind. Which means it is some kind of a self help system which are plenty available in the self help isle of any book store.
Also he mentioned that Adikavyam is Ramayanam and Adikavi is Valmiki.
How can that be? In India, never was a poem ever written before Valmiki? It is so hard to believe.
I wonder what ever happened to the literature existed before Valmiki. Was there a Hindu uprising which might have destroyed them all?
He started off saying about kids who grow up in America and fearful of intermingling with the kids here who would have a different religion and the fear of influenced by them and joining them, and he brings in examples. This is nothing but fear mongering. There are lots of so called sanyasins roaming around in US who are hell bend on teaching Hinduism to kids by influencing their parents and shaking them up for money for their own survival.
I find teaching any religion to kids are preposterous. I think kids need to grow up with no influence of any religion and should have the right to think and form their own opinion about everything by themselves, and not by the influence of any religion. Living in this scientific world, we need to teach them about scientific principles and not believe in pseudo science and other questionable elaborate concepts like palm readings, astrology,hoemopathy, vastu, feng shui and such. Lots of concepts are out there, which are false and is a headache to human society, like chinese people thinking that you can cure diseases with rhinosorous horn powder, tiger penis powder etc. These unscientific ways need to be ended and made awareness of growing kids not to accepts anything which doesn't fall in the realm of scientific evidence, and bring them up under strict scientific evidence based belief system. They should never be taught about god or any other higher beings, never make them believe in spirituality and other fakery.
I understand that the curiosity of death and birth lead people to believe in so many things, but, it is a natural phenomenon happening everyday. That is part of how Universe is all about.
Also he mentioned that Adikavyam is Ramayanam and Adikavi is Valmiki.
How can that be? In India, never was a poem ever written before Valmiki? It is so hard to believe.
I wonder what ever happened to the literature existed before Valmiki. Was there a Hindu uprising which might have destroyed them all?
He started off saying about kids who grow up in America and fearful of intermingling with the kids here who would have a different religion and the fear of influenced by them and joining them, and he brings in examples. This is nothing but fear mongering. There are lots of so called sanyasins roaming around in US who are hell bend on teaching Hinduism to kids by influencing their parents and shaking them up for money for their own survival.
I find teaching any religion to kids are preposterous. I think kids need to grow up with no influence of any religion and should have the right to think and form their own opinion about everything by themselves, and not by the influence of any religion. Living in this scientific world, we need to teach them about scientific principles and not believe in pseudo science and other questionable elaborate concepts like palm readings, astrology,hoemopathy, vastu, feng shui and such. Lots of concepts are out there, which are false and is a headache to human society, like chinese people thinking that you can cure diseases with rhinosorous horn powder, tiger penis powder etc. These unscientific ways need to be ended and made awareness of growing kids not to accepts anything which doesn't fall in the realm of scientific evidence, and bring them up under strict scientific evidence based belief system. They should never be taught about god or any other higher beings, never make them believe in spirituality and other fakery.
I understand that the curiosity of death and birth lead people to believe in so many things, but, it is a natural phenomenon happening everyday. That is part of how Universe is all about.
posted by Hem Ramachandran at 1:48 PM
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