Our Weapon is our culture

India teaches that the purpose of Life is to uphold DHARMA, and the main planks for living are Sarva Loka Hitattvam; Sarva bhuta Samatvam. As Aurobindo said India is the only country, which directed the entire human energy towards the aim of seeing and achieving divinity in this life. Thousands of books, monuments, arts, daily life, rituals, music, painting, sculpture, even clothes and ornaments, show a grand movement towards peace, and through peace intellectual scaling of heights in thought and finally Jeevan Mukti, through the four Purusharthas.

But due to the injection and infection of an ephemeral value system of the west a national amnesia has come over us .We are in a coma as a nation, which is now of our own making. We have to get out of the coma and be awake to the beckoning of Vivekananda / Aurobindo / Tilak / Bose, not to speak of all the Udghosha of the Upanishads.

The clash A part of this waking up is to throw out all those poisonous concepts spread by Macaulay at a national level and CPB at a regional level in Andhra. CPB spread his own type of poison – Brahmins abhor Jangams hinting that; Brahmins excommunicated Vemana, suppressed Vemana, held tight their palm leafs, did not even know how to save their books!

Aurobindo states on Sanskrit as the vehicle of our culture, (which is equally applicable to Telugu for Andhras and otherlanguages for their states). Indian scholarships have one advantage an intimate feeling of the language, which the European cannot hope to possess. For a European, Sanskrit words are dead counters while to the Hindu they are living things, the very soul of whose temperament he understands and whose possibilities he can judge to a hair. posted by darsnik Friday, February 17, 2006 at 7:53 AM