06-02-2009, 06:46 PM
Ravish:
You are embarrassing me.... I am just a messenger. We need all sorts of people.
I frequently think about our own sutras and bhasyas model (SBM). First there are folks who create sutras, upanishads and other high quality texts. These were one set of folks - who created Ideas. Then there is a set of folks write commentaries (bhasyas) on these texts. They expanded the material for more consumption. Sometimes more bhasayas were written on these commentaries. Ultimately the ideas became suitable for mass consumption as stories, street plays or epics.
So the groups like BRF and IF have intellectuals of high caliber; we need them to keep thinking and postulating new ideas and set directions. They are the strategists creating the vision/mission. By doing so they have done their dharma. And by presenting it here and elsewhere they have managed to spread it. It is upto rest of carriers now.
Think of Adi Sankara, he created 4 mathas, and these mathas have been doing their job for centuries now.
I honestly don't know the motivation of the gurus here, but if I see something of value then I spread it :-)
Don't expect modern youth {I am not old either :-)} to come and visit these forums. Teenagers and twenty somethings have other stuff to do. Only few among them will come over here, such is the distraction in the World. That is why I go to Orkut. We have to hang out where they hang out :-) Let us learn that from the Christian Missionaries.
You are embarrassing me.... I am just a messenger. We need all sorts of people.
I frequently think about our own sutras and bhasyas model (SBM). First there are folks who create sutras, upanishads and other high quality texts. These were one set of folks - who created Ideas. Then there is a set of folks write commentaries (bhasyas) on these texts. They expanded the material for more consumption. Sometimes more bhasayas were written on these commentaries. Ultimately the ideas became suitable for mass consumption as stories, street plays or epics.
So the groups like BRF and IF have intellectuals of high caliber; we need them to keep thinking and postulating new ideas and set directions. They are the strategists creating the vision/mission. By doing so they have done their dharma. And by presenting it here and elsewhere they have managed to spread it. It is upto rest of carriers now.
Think of Adi Sankara, he created 4 mathas, and these mathas have been doing their job for centuries now.
I honestly don't know the motivation of the gurus here, but if I see something of value then I spread it :-)
Don't expect modern youth {I am not old either :-)} to come and visit these forums. Teenagers and twenty somethings have other stuff to do. Only few among them will come over here, such is the distraction in the World. That is why I go to Orkut. We have to hang out where they hang out :-) Let us learn that from the Christian Missionaries.