04-05-2005, 09:32 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->but still haven't pointed to the evidence *you* had on day after Diwali i.e. the day after he was arrested. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I did not have any more evidence than you did, Viren. (But then we were not looking for evidence then). I was just clear and level headed and dispassionate and knew that the police would not simply fabricate.
But I had heard rumours for more than ten years before about kanchi and other mathas, about how they were only interested in power and money, and women! Of course I disbelieved it all, but it kept repeating everywhere I went. They told me, "dont bother with them, they are doing pujas, eating like gluttons and putting on weight and warming the peedas only. They are not meditating or striving in tapas or interested in teaching the religion of propagating".
This last part I knew. Anyone who is striving, or had a glimpse of satchidananda would know that the first reaction is a burst of conscience, an outporing of love, seeing everyone as equals and all discrimination goes. The immediate reaction would be to hug and kiss everyone - just like Mata Amma.
From this I knew that the power of the sampradaya had died centuries ago. And it was only a matter of time that the instinctive and intellectual forces of the external mind took over. It did.
But I feel it is the same with 'most' of the other mathas and acharyas. There is no truth, no spirituality, no striving, but just holding on to their positions of power and hoodwinking the Hindu people and living off their patronage. Is it surprising that Hindu society is in such a state when the leadership is such?
Let me post you something just to show how wrong we Hindus may have been misled. (I hope it does not create another bushfire. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> )
Regards.
Pathma
PS
Even though they are smarthas, in practice they are saivas and I have no qualms criticising my own. I would rarely criticise another tradition.
I did not have any more evidence than you did, Viren. (But then we were not looking for evidence then). I was just clear and level headed and dispassionate and knew that the police would not simply fabricate.
But I had heard rumours for more than ten years before about kanchi and other mathas, about how they were only interested in power and money, and women! Of course I disbelieved it all, but it kept repeating everywhere I went. They told me, "dont bother with them, they are doing pujas, eating like gluttons and putting on weight and warming the peedas only. They are not meditating or striving in tapas or interested in teaching the religion of propagating".
This last part I knew. Anyone who is striving, or had a glimpse of satchidananda would know that the first reaction is a burst of conscience, an outporing of love, seeing everyone as equals and all discrimination goes. The immediate reaction would be to hug and kiss everyone - just like Mata Amma.
From this I knew that the power of the sampradaya had died centuries ago. And it was only a matter of time that the instinctive and intellectual forces of the external mind took over. It did.
But I feel it is the same with 'most' of the other mathas and acharyas. There is no truth, no spirituality, no striving, but just holding on to their positions of power and hoodwinking the Hindu people and living off their patronage. Is it surprising that Hindu society is in such a state when the leadership is such?
Let me post you something just to show how wrong we Hindus may have been misled. (I hope it does not create another bushfire. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> )Regards.
Pathma
PS
Even though they are smarthas, in practice they are saivas and I have no qualms criticising my own. I would rarely criticise another tradition.