[QUOTE=Surya Deva;53755]But that is what is happening, the new age revolution of spirituality/yoga/paganism is a fact of our times. The people instrumental in this were the countless Hindu gurus that went West, but not a single one condemned the native religions. It is due to their efforts today, I can sit and talk about Vedic stuff with white people.
A phenomenona you are missing out is called globalization. We are not living in times like before where it would would months or days to get a message across to the other side of the world, we are living in an age of communications, where the world has become a global village. I am talking to you thousands of miles away pretty much live. It is impossible for any culture to remain the same in todays world, every culture is going to get affected by other cultures. At this moment that dominant culture driving globalization is Westernization. This is simply a fact of our times. Hindus guru’s have started a new age movement there, which has over the decades caused many revolutions here. What Hindus need to is spiritualise this new-age movement as much as they can(like Yogananda) by taking part in it and mixing with Vedic culture.
The negative approach of destorying Abrahamic religions is not going to work. This will only alienate people. All religions are finding it hard to resist the new-age religious movement, because new-age religion is made out of many religions, many traditions. They are only one, and new-age is all of them. This gives new-age religion more currency amongst the current generation. As soon as somebody goes around talking about one religion, hey presto, you’ve alienated everybody and lost your audience.
Whatever meets your aim of establishing dharma on this planet use it, even if it means accepting new-age teachings like Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna and Buddha are all masters and avatars, Yoga science is an ageless wisdom that humanity once practiced. Go with the flow and allow dharma to come back.[/QUOTE]
When I say “destroying Abrahamic religions,” I mean it in the sense of organized religion. Christianity and Islam as organized religions are far too dogmatic, intolerant, oppressive, illogical, and paradoxical to do any sort of mixing with any other religion.
It is not possible to mix these religions with Dharmic ones. The result will be chaos.
Now if you are referring to “taking the best of any religion” as “taking the valid, non-doctrinal, and universally applicable and palpable parts and creating an amalgam,” then that just might work. However, this isn’t the right time to do it. There needs to be enough dissension within the Abrahamics, enough sectionalism and strife, for that to succeed. Most Christians in the world today are far too doctrinal/dogmatic to start accepting Vedic additions.
