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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Appeal to overthrow proposed ban on Sanatan Sanstha

Posted by: "Bhavna Shinde"
Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:40 pm (PDT)
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Namaskar.

There is a ban being proposed on Sanatan Sanstha by some politically driven
groups in Bhaarat (India). We appeal to you for help in overthrowing this
unjust proposal, by spreading this awareness drive and by writing to the
relevant authorities here: www.sanatan.org/en/08/index.html. At this link
you can read about the (flimsy) background of the proposed ban.

To learn more about Sanatan Sanstha, please read on…

*Who we **are ***

Sanatan Sanstha is a Charitable Trust based in India. For the last 17 years,
Sanatan Sanstha is engaged in spreading the Science of Spirituality for the
benefit of mankind. The primary objective of the Sanstha is to acquaint the
curious about Spirituality in a scientific manner and guide them to
undertake spiritual practice according to their respective religious
precepts, to make progress towards God-realization. In the process, Sanatan
Sanstha aims to create awareness about the role each one of us has in
bringing about communal harmony and building a healthy society to usher in a
"Raam-raajya" like just, divine era wherein society flourishes spiritually
and materially.

* *

*A word about our Growth***

From a handful of seekers (that is, volunteers practicing Spirituality for
God-realization) and centers in Maharashtra at the time of inception in 1990,
by Guru's Grace, Sanatan Sanstha now has over a thousand full-time seekers,
staying in 6 Ashrams located in various parts of Bhaarat (India) and
thousands more linked to over 2000 centers in Bhaarat and overseas.

* *

*Life at Sanatan's Ashrams and centers***

Sanatan Sanstha's ashrams and centers are centers for learning Spirituality
and Dharma, and examples of how to lead a spiritual life at an individual
level and in society, even in the current era of conflict and stress.

On the background of the recent allegations about Sanatan Sanstha, a report
from Hindustan Times on the simple life at Sanatan's ashram in Panvel, near
Mumbai: www.hindujagruti.org/news/4919.html

* *

*A glimpse into our activities** *

Sanatan Sanstha's ashrams and centers are a source of inspiration and
spiritual guidance, as people from surrounding areas feel the support of
Sanatan Sanstha's seekers in any event, be it eradicating malpractices from
public celebrations of Hindu festivals, or providing basic necessities
during floods, or helping the local police with crowd control at Hindu Holy
places during major festivals.

Sanatan Sanstha's ongoing scientific research in Spirituality continues to
benefit humanity to overcome problems with a spiritual root cause, and has
inspired many a spiritual organization in Bhaarat and abroad, like
www.SpiritualResearchFoundation.org<http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/>,
to liaise with Sanatan Sanstha.

Sanatan Sanstha also has a group of newspapers, run entirely by seekers,
often bearing financial losses, solely to provide spiritual guidance to
society and preserve Dharma (Righteousness) in the context of current
events, for the development of a spiritual, Dharma-based nation, to lead
all-round progress of humanity at large.

Read more here about Sanatan Sanstha's free medical camps, training in
Disaster Management, Moral Value classes for Children, lectures on Stress
Management and Satsangs on Spirituality and over 2.5 million copies
published of 100 Spiritual Texts in 12 languages:
www.Sanatan.org<http://www.sanatan.org/>

* *

*An appeal***

Such a selfless organization is being made a victim of vote-bank politics,
with a ban proposed! We will appreciate your support and participation in
our activities, and look forward to your participating in and spreading this
awareness drive.

"Sanghe shakti kalauyuge!" ("In this current era of strife, strenght lies in
unity!")

Regards,

Bhavna Shinde

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Sri Anantha Padmanabha Subramanya temple Manoor, Neemarga, Mangalore, India ( visit : www.ananthapadmanabhasubramanya.com) is an ancient, historical and regional temple for the Mangalore region which is considered to be very powerful sacred place which is now in a decayed condition.

We are happy to say that the renovation of temple is started with the help of honorable devotees of Mangalore and surrounding places. It is estimated that the cost for renovation is more than one crore rupees. To achieve this sacred great task the cooperation of devotees from far and wide is must. To know more about this temple kindly visit our temple website.

www.ananthapadmanabhasubramanya.com
email: manoortemple@yahoo.com

Some of us, mostly from Bharat Rakshak Forum and and some from this board will be meeting at Central New Jersey this coming Sunday, 19th Oct during lunch time.

If you'd like to join, please send email to <span style='font-family:Times'>munsnanduri at yahoo dot com</span> or <span style='font-family:Times'>amitava at computer dot org</span>

Apologies for the short notice.

A very very happy dasara to everyone!!

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Friends,

I've been trying to organize some thoughts on the development of Indian "national culture"... a term favoured by the American historian Carroll Quigley... and the concomitant evolution of our civilizational narrative.

The following articles are a historical analysis of how the unique course of our development has contributed to the shaping of our national psyche and political landscape. Like most articles on these sorts of subjects, they probably contain a lot of hot air <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> However, I hope they include the germs of a few useful ideas that might spark productive discussion.

Rather than reproducing the entire articles here, since they're quite lengthy, I'll provide links to them on my blog. Please read and comment if interested... on this forum, on the blog website or wherever.

I.F. Admins, thank you for your kind indulgence, and please move this thread to a more suitable section of I.F. if you see fit.

On The Psyche of Nations, Part 1

On The Psyche of Nations, Part 2

On The Psyche of Nations, Part 3

Afterthought on Quigley's Analysis: The Indian Political Spectrum

Civilizational Narrative and the Hindu Identity, Part 1

<b>Thy name is sovereign-i-ty!</b>

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Okay, that's fine; but at least learn how to say the word! From president and prime minister down to every blatherskite (TV anchors included) continue to mispronounce "sovereignty" that has lately latched on to their tongues and is sticking like glue to paper? Speechifying and preachy men and women have suddenly discovered that their sovereignty is under threat! <b>Never mind if their country is going south as Americans call going bankrupt; never mind if Zardari goes a-begging to New York with a kashkol and is promised donations,</b> but we don't know how much from "Friends of Pakistan" (our London-based envoy Wajid Shamsul Hassan is being credited for this beggarly brainwave); and never mind if the country itself has suicide bombers on the loose, waiting to kill.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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About 8 years ago
Rajiv Malhotra sent out an email alert on Prema Kurien
but the foolish US hindus ignored it and she has come up with an anti-hindu book

I shall investigate this book in this thread

<b>Indian-Elections</b>


mods, I think there was a thread for this...could not find...please merge.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Congress has broken my heart: Amar Singh
PTI | September 16, 2008 | 00:56 IST

Terming the defection of four Samajwadi Party Members of Legislative Assembly as 'betrayal' on the part of the Congress, party general secretary Amar Singh has said that the party has broken his heart.

"Congress party has betrayed us by engineering the defection of four MLAs of our party. They have not only broken my party, but also my heart," Singh said while addressing a tribal convention ahead of assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh.

"We wanted to fight against communal forces with the Congress, but now no alliance will be forged with it and the SP will field its candidates on its own in all the 230 seats in MP," Singh said.

However, he said that he is a 'Kshatriya' and will abide by the commitment his party has given to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to cooperate with her party in Uttar Pradesh.

"We don't have any complaint with Sonia or Rahul, but leaders of Madhya Pradesh roaming around them have cheated us," Singh said while referring to the defection.

Attacking the Bharatiya Janata Party for its failure to fulfill promises, he said that the state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is a 'champion of announcements' as he had made announcements worth Rs 40,000 crore in the state against the total budget of Rs 21,000 crore of the state.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/282...istian-art.html