09-26-2006, 07:01 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-agnivayu+Sep 25 2006, 07:54 PM-->QUOTE(agnivayu @ Sep 25 2006, 07:54 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Here are 2 wonderful pieces of counter-propaganda when someone insults you about the cow.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...nationworld-hed
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/edito...5-12-zito_x.htm[right][snapback]57955[/snapback][/right]
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Good info Agnivayu, thanks.
Ravish, both things are on the rise - material liberalism you mentioned, as well as spirituality-oriented lifestyle. Reason for open materialism is partly the sudden "freedom" everyone seems to have realized, and the media which makes these things a hip thing to do.
But once again, these signs you mentioned, provide for all the more reason, why children must be carefully brought up in a spiritual-cultural-religious environment. This is why it is even more important to give them a sound foundation rooted in spirituality, strong concience and will power, so that they would not only be able to sustain their values, but propogate.
If everyone thought pessimistically like you are suggesting, then phenomenon like Shivaji would not have happened, neither Vivekanand, Gandhi or Guru Govind Singh. Why these have happened to protect Hindu culture, is because someone dared to give them an upbringing they got, despite all the odds of then soceity.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...nationworld-hed
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/edito...5-12-zito_x.htm[right][snapback]57955[/snapback][/right]
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Good info Agnivayu, thanks.
Ravish, both things are on the rise - material liberalism you mentioned, as well as spirituality-oriented lifestyle. Reason for open materialism is partly the sudden "freedom" everyone seems to have realized, and the media which makes these things a hip thing to do.
But once again, these signs you mentioned, provide for all the more reason, why children must be carefully brought up in a spiritual-cultural-religious environment. This is why it is even more important to give them a sound foundation rooted in spirituality, strong concience and will power, so that they would not only be able to sustain their values, but propogate.
If everyone thought pessimistically like you are suggesting, then phenomenon like Shivaji would not have happened, neither Vivekanand, Gandhi or Guru Govind Singh. Why these have happened to protect Hindu culture, is because someone dared to give them an upbringing they got, despite all the odds of then soceity.