Let me begin this contribution, the third piece about our culture and traditions, by sharing something you are familiar with. Very often, I have heard the NRI parents in the USA making the following remark: ?When I came to the US so many decades ago, I knew very little about Hinduism. My ignorance was driven home when I had children and they began to ask what Hinduism was. Because I had to educate them, I ended up learning more about Hinduism in the US (thanks to this or that organization or Swami) than during all the years I spent in India?.
It is true that the task of preserving Hindu traditions is immense; the caricaturing of Hindu beliefs and traditions in American school texts is pernicious; and the negative stereotypes of India in the media are tenacious and pervasive. However, I disagree with the conclusion that this state of affairs is due principally to the intrinsic limitations of ?American pluralism....
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The VedAs are our paramANam
The VedAs are ?the edifices of eternal knowledge". They has timeless relevance to the practioners of Sri VisishtAdhvaitham and other darsanams based on Vedic Doctrines. There is a lot there that is absolutely relevant to our contemporary life. As such, the VedAs have "everlasting appeal and "applicability for all times and nations "for men, women and children as the fundamental units of the family....
Dharma is not religion.
Religion is only a method of worship and is a word which came into use in the nineteenth century. The word is based on a Christian concept and rooted in a Christian background of affiliation. ...