06-11-2007, 10:41 PM
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Our sardar well known for his love of the leg and a peg can take issue with this I can understand. I do have a copy of A. Parthasarathy's "The Eternities: Vedanta Treatise". Most of what Khuswant has said is absolutely bogus, either he hasn't read the full book or read it while intoxicated. His comments about past life or meditation is pretty selective nitpickings ignoring everything else mentioned around it.
Here's Kushwant on critising A. Parthasarathy's views on Ahimsa
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->About Ahimsa he writes : âThe concept of kindness has been gravely misconstrued in India. They blunder in following the spiritual doctrine of ahimsa â non-injury. And refuse to inflict any form of injury. They are more concerned about the act of kindness rather than the thought of kindness⦠The Hindus followed the doctrine of ahimsa blindly. They have abstained from injuring anybody irrespective of the consequences accruing there from. Even if it led to their destruction later. This fanatic approach to life has rendered the Hindu race passive and vulnerable to weakness that turned out to be a diabolic weapon in the hands of the oppressors and invaders. It was made use of to destroy the Indian tradition, culture and religion.â
Parthasarathy is weak on history. As a matter of fact our ancestors did resist invaders by use of arms. They were not defeated by ahimsa but greater military prowess of the invaders. Gandhiji who looked upon the Gita as his Bible declared ahimsa to be âparmo dharmaâ, the primary faith. It was not based on weakness or cowardice; it was based on courage, the like of which the world had not seen. Where soldiers and policemen armed with modern weapons failed, he, the naked faqeer succeeded. When murderers roamed the streets thirsting for human blood, he alone stirred their conscience and forced them to lay down their weapons. How can Parthasarathy or anyone else question the greatness of ahimsa as the supreme courage?
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When Congress rioting goons where out on the streets of Delhi in Nov 84, why didn't Kushwant use Gandhi weapons and make those frantic phone calls to President Zail Singh?
Our sardar well known for his love of the leg and a peg can take issue with this I can understand. I do have a copy of A. Parthasarathy's "The Eternities: Vedanta Treatise". Most of what Khuswant has said is absolutely bogus, either he hasn't read the full book or read it while intoxicated. His comments about past life or meditation is pretty selective nitpickings ignoring everything else mentioned around it.
Here's Kushwant on critising A. Parthasarathy's views on Ahimsa
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->About Ahimsa he writes : âThe concept of kindness has been gravely misconstrued in India. They blunder in following the spiritual doctrine of ahimsa â non-injury. And refuse to inflict any form of injury. They are more concerned about the act of kindness rather than the thought of kindness⦠The Hindus followed the doctrine of ahimsa blindly. They have abstained from injuring anybody irrespective of the consequences accruing there from. Even if it led to their destruction later. This fanatic approach to life has rendered the Hindu race passive and vulnerable to weakness that turned out to be a diabolic weapon in the hands of the oppressors and invaders. It was made use of to destroy the Indian tradition, culture and religion.â
Parthasarathy is weak on history. As a matter of fact our ancestors did resist invaders by use of arms. They were not defeated by ahimsa but greater military prowess of the invaders. Gandhiji who looked upon the Gita as his Bible declared ahimsa to be âparmo dharmaâ, the primary faith. It was not based on weakness or cowardice; it was based on courage, the like of which the world had not seen. Where soldiers and policemen armed with modern weapons failed, he, the naked faqeer succeeded. When murderers roamed the streets thirsting for human blood, he alone stirred their conscience and forced them to lay down their weapons. How can Parthasarathy or anyone else question the greatness of ahimsa as the supreme courage?
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When Congress rioting goons where out on the streets of Delhi in Nov 84, why didn't Kushwant use Gandhi weapons and make those frantic phone calls to President Zail Singh?