[QUOTE=Surya Deva;53646]Those who previously had negative views on Hinduism/India, will have had their views reinforced. People who were previously neutral, will have new negative views. You cannot expect people to listen, while you go around labelling everybody a white supremist and Christian fundamentalist who is oppressing you. This basic human frailty, if you attack another human being, their receptiveness to what you say will diminish and they will go on the offensive. Hence why Swami Vivekananda, or basically none of the Hindu gurus that went to the West, never condemned the native religions. Their approach worked wonders as they were instrumental in bringing many revolutions in the West.
You do realise that Krishna was a diplomat right and Krishna is known as one of the most devious people in Indian history? In one of the Puranas Krishna is even called the deceiver of all deceivers. Krishna got the Pandavas to tell many lies, he himself lied. The aim was to get the final objective.
Here our objective is not to destroy Abrahamic religions, but to establish a dharmic world. If this means accept a few lies like accepting secret and esoteric knowledge of Western occultism and paganism as equal traditions to Yoga and Tantra, or the positive acceptance of Jesus, Moses and Mohammed, then sobeit. As long as the objective is met.
You are a young teenager in highschool. Swami Yogananda Paramhansa, who did in fact accept Jesus as an avatar and completely reinterpreted the gospels to give them a dharmic slant, was a highly advanced spiritual master from a recognised and long lineage of kriya yogis who was a massive success in the West and widely published. Why did he accept Jesus, but you cannot? Do you know Ramakrishna accepted Jesus and Mohammed?
Yep, spirituality the worldover gets treated with skepticism and negative views. In India it is no more favourable. The fact of the matter is Yoga, Ayurveda, Vedanta has succesfully penetrated deep into the West, despite mainstream disapproval. In the West some 20 million Americans practice Yoga. They are not fussed whether it comes from India or China.
So your point that first India needs to develop for these things to get acceptance is in error, these things have been flourishing in the West even before India’s economic boom began. The credit does to the work of Hindu gurus in the West.[/QUOTE]
And what has sweet-talk with those who oppress us accomplished for, say, the last 1000+ years?
Yes, I knew this.
I must respectfully disagree. The formation of a world religion is not possible in this era of materialism, superficial perceptions, ignorance, and so forth. Maslow’s philosophy you see.
I do not accept Jesus because he was an egotistical and non-existent man who spouted trite and clich?d phrases with every breath. The barbaric semitic shepherds/people he preached to thought this was “civilization” and “morality.”
I do not accept Mohammed because he was nothing but a mass murderer of kaffirs. Where else do you think Muslims throughout the ages have got the inspiration to conquer and murder us Indians and other infidels?
Once again, most of the practitioners of Yoga here are woefully ignorant of Hinduism and spirituality. They prefer to do it as an exercise. I do not deny the extent to which Yoga has penetrated the West, but I do know that it is a rather superficial one.
For example, I had several friends in school whose parents ran Yoga classes at the mall. Quite frankly, they were surprisingly ignorant of Yoga and Hinduism. Some of them even had your typical Christian biases.
i’m not even white.