10-02-2006, 02:02 AM
Its the statements like the above that make no sense to a lot of people (including myself).
For the above statement to make any sense you will have to define what is the "hindu way of life". You could perhaps compare a particular caste's way of life in a particular village decade over decade but thats about it. There are no rules and fortunately we dont have to follow what a few nuts said 1300 or 2000 years ago either. So that in one way would mean that no hindu has ever lived the hindu way of life.
Having said that I still agree that the hindu way of life is loosing out. The way of life I refer to is a consensus reached to by a self-confident hindudom - whatever it is, if that involves daily doses of 10 patiala pegs by topless women then so be it. The keyword being a self-confident-hindudom. The self-confidence is lacking and hence the way of life of hindus today is nothing but way-of-life-through-imitation. The self-confidence has to come back and then whatever way hindus live will be the hindu way of life.
For the above statement to make any sense you will have to define what is the "hindu way of life". You could perhaps compare a particular caste's way of life in a particular village decade over decade but thats about it. There are no rules and fortunately we dont have to follow what a few nuts said 1300 or 2000 years ago either. So that in one way would mean that no hindu has ever lived the hindu way of life.
Having said that I still agree that the hindu way of life is loosing out. The way of life I refer to is a consensus reached to by a self-confident hindudom - whatever it is, if that involves daily doses of 10 patiala pegs by topless women then so be it. The keyword being a self-confident-hindudom. The self-confidence is lacking and hence the way of life of hindus today is nothing but way-of-life-through-imitation. The self-confidence has to come back and then whatever way hindus live will be the hindu way of life.