Nexus Between Entities Influencing India

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Going back to some key statements wherein Rajaram outlines his demands on Hindoos (to give up what *makes* them Hindoos - i.e. their heathenism - "or islam will get you"):

I as a Hindu can say with a ‘straight face’ that I find nothing to ‘extol’ in the “many complicated rituals of the Vedas and the Agamas.” They are obscurantist relics that should have been consigned to the dustbin of history– along with Gandhian ahimsa and Nehruvian pancha sheela.[/b]

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(The past that did exist, the Islamic past — none of us wants it to return. But return it will if we keep engaged in “complicated Vedic rituals and Agamas” dear to people living in the past.)

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The past and its aberrations like meaningless rituals and commentaries are not what we need today in this existential struggle for survival. They never helped anyone but its perpetrators.

To put his position in perspective, I've tracked down other stuff I well remember reading Rajaram blabbing about himself in public. If anyone who may be reading this thinks the following cut-and-paste is "taking things out of context", they can always visit the links for themselves, which will contain the context. (Personally, I think several of the following points are revealing in themselves.)



bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/interfaith-dialogue-discourse-of-the-deaf-and-the-dumb-virendra-parekh/

"As a historian interested in religions and philosophy, I have consulted Christian scholars (including F. Clooney) on specfic issues relating to history and doctrine. I don’t engage with them on matters of belief, ethics or values. (I have also written about and lectured on Christianity in the West, including at the Gregorianum in Rome on the Qumran texts.)"

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"I am sending a copy of this [article] to Dr F Clooney who happens to be a very nice and friendly person and also to the now infamous Diana Eck."

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"I have many good friends among Christians, and also a few relatives by marriage."

And *he's* the sort that's assumed the position of lecturing to Hindus about who the enemy is and isn't. And about how Hindus following/upholding *heathenism* (rituals) were the ones supposedly "helping the perpetrators".



Actually, it's Rajaram who would know *all* about helping the perpetrators:



- as per his own admission, he has christian relatives by marriage. Apparently his solution to dealing with the threat of christoislam - as he demonstrates by example - is to allow christoislam to marry itself into Hindu families and then do nothing about the parasitic christoislamic presence inside the Hindu host family. When he hasn't kicked out christianism from his own family, why is he *lecturing* Hindus about how (not) to deal with christoislamism? I mean, he's made himself into Da example on how NOT to deal with christoislam.

Curious that he is able to live with christians in his family, without kicking them (and the 'Hindus' who married them) out. Yet he can't *stand* actual Hindooos continuing actual Hindoooism, though these never betrayed Hindu religion by allowing their families to become infiltrated.



- Rajaram cosies up quite happily to Francis Clooney etc. and other "friendly" christists. He further finds that Clooney is just a lovely person. All of which is in sharp contrast with how Rajaram has nothing but mean things to say about established Hindu acharyas and other Hindoos still keeping to heathenism. A "curious" dichotomy of taste/behaviour.





The following two excerpts from Rajaram's comments are related. (Again, the full context - if there's any - is available at the links).



www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=2136

(There is record of Christians, even an occasional missionary becoming a Vedantin and preaching it. I have myself lectured on Vedanta and the Gita at the Universal Unitarian Church.)

Apparently he's all for peddling Vedanta not only among aliens but among christians besides... No wonder, then, that he'd express his desire to divorce vedanta from Hindu religion (despite the two being inseparable, like philosophy is inseparable from the religion of the Olympic Gods):



bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/the-god-particle-and-all-that-bunk-kanchan-gupta/

"My preference is to keep science separate from religion. I feel Vedanta also should be formulated as metaphysics without reference to God or anything divine."

All the above is what Rajaram said about himself.





The following however is something that IS wrote in a comment at IS' blog. Anyone know more about the following (to confirm/deny)?



bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/hindus-should-stick-with-tried-and-tested-methods-vijaya-rajiva/

[NS Rajaram] is connected to the John Templeton Foundation, a extraordinarily wealthy fundamentalist Christian funding agency which was originally set up to finance Protestant missionaries in India and Africa. It has now taken to financing secular scientists in order to give a credible face to its religious superstitions. The Vatican has done the same by setting up a congregation for the study of evolution, science etc. Both the Templeton Foundation and the Church are trying to subsume science to religion in order to save face and give themselves greater credibility in this age where they have lost ground in the West. I do not know what Dr. Rajaram’s real motive is or why he is connected to the Templeton Foundation. It may be just for the huge money they throw at scientists who give them useful papers on this and that subject — like Science and Vedanta which is Dr. Rajaram’s special interest.

*If* verified, it certainly explains why Rajaram is so chummy with christianism and so hateful of Hindus and their heathen religion. And why he wants to help lift Vedanta out of Hindu religion to donate it to "universalism" (including christianism).



Now didn't Elst reveal that Meera Nanda too was working for the chrisist Templeton foundation? At least she doesn't pretend to be Hindu all while being her anti-Hindu self. <- Actually, that's something to be said for her...