Post 244 (Acharya):
Thanks for the book suggestion. Could you summarise the part of it that particularly relates or applies to our situation? (Unless your post 244 has already done just that)
As paranoid as my previous post might have come across, I couldn't help noticing:
- they are western-based websites that are collecting Samskrit documents, neither one of which is Hindu in outlook and at least one, if not both, link to Indology;
- how the contribution to the Samskrit websites were one-sided (from Hindus whose only thought, probably, is that our religious scriptures will be digitised and stored safely - but who don't think about what the 'benevolent' site hosts might be in it for, since they are after all disinterested in Hinduism);
- untransparent interest of the west in Samskrit, whilst simultaneously denouncing Hindu traditions, and supporting communists and missionaries in destroying Samskrit in its native India (this is what the Indologists are doing and supporting).
- Why the interest in Samskrit Hindu documents over and above interest in traditional Native north American or African knowledge? Or Chinese documents for that matter?
My family was pretty excited about the Samskrit sites, until I brought up my misgivings. (They're not knowledgeable about the anti-Hindu Indology departments in the west, nor about their influence in increasing communist power/reliability in India and furthering anti-Hindu perception.)
It's too late to take back the literature that Hindus have already donated to such sites, but is there no way to spread the word to stop future contributions?
I don't know why Indians, Hindus I should say, always feel flattered when others
- adopt Yoga, saying it is non-religious (while it is particularly Hindu) or rename it to Christian Yoga/praise moves,
- learn Ayurveda (patenting and selling it),
- use Hindu construction ideas for boats like catamarans,
- talk of Samskrit as a great logical programming language (all the while denouncing its use by Hindus as 'brahminical'),
- announce they plan to use Hindu texts like the Vedas for something-or-other in their space programme,
- and some Indologists describe themselves as Vedics even merely for having been able to read the Vedas once over (no Samskrit word called 'Vedics' by the way - shows how much they know).
Imitation might be considered the best form of flattery, but only if the original is given due recognition. Here the original is not credited, but ignored, or even made demonical (or is that 'brahminical'?)
Thanks for the book suggestion. Could you summarise the part of it that particularly relates or applies to our situation? (Unless your post 244 has already done just that)
As paranoid as my previous post might have come across, I couldn't help noticing:
- they are western-based websites that are collecting Samskrit documents, neither one of which is Hindu in outlook and at least one, if not both, link to Indology;
- how the contribution to the Samskrit websites were one-sided (from Hindus whose only thought, probably, is that our religious scriptures will be digitised and stored safely - but who don't think about what the 'benevolent' site hosts might be in it for, since they are after all disinterested in Hinduism);
- untransparent interest of the west in Samskrit, whilst simultaneously denouncing Hindu traditions, and supporting communists and missionaries in destroying Samskrit in its native India (this is what the Indologists are doing and supporting).
- Why the interest in Samskrit Hindu documents over and above interest in traditional Native north American or African knowledge? Or Chinese documents for that matter?
My family was pretty excited about the Samskrit sites, until I brought up my misgivings. (They're not knowledgeable about the anti-Hindu Indology departments in the west, nor about their influence in increasing communist power/reliability in India and furthering anti-Hindu perception.)
It's too late to take back the literature that Hindus have already donated to such sites, but is there no way to spread the word to stop future contributions?
I don't know why Indians, Hindus I should say, always feel flattered when others
- adopt Yoga, saying it is non-religious (while it is particularly Hindu) or rename it to Christian Yoga/praise moves,
- learn Ayurveda (patenting and selling it),
- use Hindu construction ideas for boats like catamarans,
- talk of Samskrit as a great logical programming language (all the while denouncing its use by Hindus as 'brahminical'),
- announce they plan to use Hindu texts like the Vedas for something-or-other in their space programme,
- and some Indologists describe themselves as Vedics even merely for having been able to read the Vedas once over (no Samskrit word called 'Vedics' by the way - shows how much they know).
Imitation might be considered the best form of flattery, but only if the original is given due recognition. Here the original is not credited, but ignored, or even made demonical (or is that 'brahminical'?)