12-14-2004, 09:34 PM
Pathma, some men are blessed with clairvoyance and the ability to see into the future. Since i am not one of them i am content to judge the issue based on what we already know for sure and what has transpired.
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I am sorry Pathma, try as i might, i do not see any merit in the scenario you have painted. While you take pleasure in the destruction of the dasnami order, for me it is a source of great concern. However, wishful thinking does not a reality make. Never having lived in India for any appreciable length of time you have a somewhat distorted view of the Indian polity
I credit Adi Sankara for singly reviving a tradition that was either fast slipping into ritual for its own sake or was getting lost in the sunyavadi doctrines of the brilliant Brahmana Dharmakirti. I am not sorry that Buddhism lost that ideological struggle despite the valiant effort by Dharmakirti for almost certainly it can be said that Buddhism was ill equiped to handle the onslaught of islam in the subcontinent.
Nobody is above the law but just because you are a Brahmana does not mean you should be held to a different and higher legal standard or that you should be held without bail.
These are indeed tough and humiliating times for us Pathma, but do not be so eager to write our obituary for we are a tough bunch we Smarthas. We may revel in our individuality but we are also disciplined enough to know what part of our tradition we should keep and what we should discard. Let me just say that we have survived worse and we will prevail in the end.
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I am sorry Pathma, try as i might, i do not see any merit in the scenario you have painted. While you take pleasure in the destruction of the dasnami order, for me it is a source of great concern. However, wishful thinking does not a reality make. Never having lived in India for any appreciable length of time you have a somewhat distorted view of the Indian polity
I credit Adi Sankara for singly reviving a tradition that was either fast slipping into ritual for its own sake or was getting lost in the sunyavadi doctrines of the brilliant Brahmana Dharmakirti. I am not sorry that Buddhism lost that ideological struggle despite the valiant effort by Dharmakirti for almost certainly it can be said that Buddhism was ill equiped to handle the onslaught of islam in the subcontinent.
Nobody is above the law but just because you are a Brahmana does not mean you should be held to a different and higher legal standard or that you should be held without bail.
These are indeed tough and humiliating times for us Pathma, but do not be so eager to write our obituary for we are a tough bunch we Smarthas. We may revel in our individuality but we are also disciplined enough to know what part of our tradition we should keep and what we should discard. Let me just say that we have survived worse and we will prevail in the end.