<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->pratiloma-vivAha<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Bharata's mum (Shakuntala) was a Brahmana woman and his dad a Kshatriya king. He himself is one of the great Heroes of Hindu Dharma. His situation turned out exceptionally well.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->LOL.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Pandyan, I don't know about Tat wale baba or many another, but speaking in general: one has to bear in mind that many Hindus do not know about other religions. They're not as knowledgeable about the dynamics in the rest of the world as our generations have the opportunity to be through books and the internet. They especially have no clue about the modern ideologies, instead knowing only about the old ways. From their view, they always see the world as a reflection of themselves. Remember a couple in love: to them the world is always beautiful because their lives feel beautiful. Like that, goodytwoshoes also think the world is benign and wonderful, because their heart is benign. Because their spirituality gives them peace, they are convinced that all religion-ideologies must be the same too and cannot imagine the existence of the very real and dreadful mental torture traps out there which prey on others.
Though such people may be wrong in a very essential sense when they make such dangerous generalisations, the sincere ones are not trying to deceive. They consider the circle of their experience and then they (inaccurately) extrapolate to the world at large when making such statements. (Ideally, they should not speak of what they don't know.)
But in such cases, I tend to think people should take what is good and what makes sense from those individuals who have something of value to say, and leave that which does not fit the facts. And to be able to do that, we have to rely on our own common-sense and our ability to discern truth from non-facts. (In fact, every human should be training themselves in being able to distinguish between the two, that is the only way we can guard ourselves against being imposed upon.)
And so ends yet another lecture from me on The stuff people already knew.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->LOL.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Pandyan, I don't know about Tat wale baba or many another, but speaking in general: one has to bear in mind that many Hindus do not know about other religions. They're not as knowledgeable about the dynamics in the rest of the world as our generations have the opportunity to be through books and the internet. They especially have no clue about the modern ideologies, instead knowing only about the old ways. From their view, they always see the world as a reflection of themselves. Remember a couple in love: to them the world is always beautiful because their lives feel beautiful. Like that, goodytwoshoes also think the world is benign and wonderful, because their heart is benign. Because their spirituality gives them peace, they are convinced that all religion-ideologies must be the same too and cannot imagine the existence of the very real and dreadful mental torture traps out there which prey on others.
Though such people may be wrong in a very essential sense when they make such dangerous generalisations, the sincere ones are not trying to deceive. They consider the circle of their experience and then they (inaccurately) extrapolate to the world at large when making such statements. (Ideally, they should not speak of what they don't know.)
But in such cases, I tend to think people should take what is good and what makes sense from those individuals who have something of value to say, and leave that which does not fit the facts. And to be able to do that, we have to rely on our own common-sense and our ability to discern truth from non-facts. (In fact, every human should be training themselves in being able to distinguish between the two, that is the only way we can guard ourselves against being imposed upon.)
And so ends yet another lecture from me on The stuff people already knew.
Death to traitors.