10-09-2004, 12:15 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bhootnath+Oct 8 2004, 11:35 PM-->QUOTE(Bhootnath @ Oct 8 2004, 11:35 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> Okay , any PHD holders in Ghandian studies here ?what is the connection between bhakti for Rama and this fanatical non-violence concept ?
I want to know , how much role BRITISH played in proping up Gandhi, and his virtues.
As for his Mahatma, Yup what he did to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was very Mahatmatic... <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Gandhi's in his obsession with non-violent social change used any tool that came along his way, to sell his idea - including Bhakti - to effect social mindset change. <i>Who better than Rama?</i>
Ofcourse his politics were never contextualized in a nation-state framework, and nor did he pay any attention to individual development and/or social development at his/her/their own pace. He was a very simple man with little knowledge of other religions - heck he did not even know hinduism. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> THat is why he is a spiritual imperialist for forcing, nay shoving, his views down the throat of others.
I want to know , how much role BRITISH played in proping up Gandhi, and his virtues.
As for his Mahatma, Yup what he did to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was very Mahatmatic... <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Gandhi's in his obsession with non-violent social change used any tool that came along his way, to sell his idea - including Bhakti - to effect social mindset change. <i>Who better than Rama?</i>
Ofcourse his politics were never contextualized in a nation-state framework, and nor did he pay any attention to individual development and/or social development at his/her/their own pace. He was a very simple man with little knowledge of other religions - heck he did not even know hinduism. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> THat is why he is a spiritual imperialist for forcing, nay shoving, his views down the throat of others.