Are Indians aware of their privilege?
More than four thousand years of continuous literary tradition. Over a dozen distinct libraries. The Vedic corpus, Sutra texts, Abhidharma pitaka, Mahayana corpus, Jain literature, Nalanda corpus, Siddhantas etc. Even reading half of them will give you a distinct and divergent mind.
For most of history, the majority of Indians had no access to these texts. But today we have printing technology and the internet. 'Arrogance' is the only word to describe this generation of Indians who refuse to make use of this magnificent inheritance.
@yajnadevam Whom do you think, it would be funded? People are busy in money making process or too shy to organise. The organization skill has systematically been eroded in colonial era from the psych on large scale or Freedom fight was the last of that sort, was nearly genuine from bottom up
The pattern is simple, whether it is "democracy" or not, for a ruler or policy maker, it is always the family first and people are next.
An age old problem with power of "humanity".
The root cause, I guess, is not even about the family being a trust circle but really "mamakāra".
"The country" is a "powerhouse of substandard". The work, design, people and even thinking process. Fix the people with the thinking process and the rest follows. It is only possible with the right education, so prepare the engaging course materials with attractive subsidy.
Vast abundance was/is/will never be auspicious. Eg., food, money, comfort. The only exception is the soul, other terms spirit, passion, love or whatever.
@vonbrauckmann@Kash_Patel@AGPamBondi BG 2.45: Rise above to a state of pure spiritual consciousness. Freeing yourself from dualities, eternally fixed in Truth, and without concern for material gain and safety, be situated in the self.
@khoomeik@yajnadevam Today I pulled a cryptic tweet from Twitter to decrypt, what somebody told me that it must be English text & the decrypted tweet was compared against Shakespeare's book, bcs it is a classic one with sophistication & guess what, It turned out to be the best decision in recent time
In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?”The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”
– a parable from Your Sacred Self by Dr. Wayne Dyer
This is one of my favorite parables.