Religiousness and the Educated - Sunny Narang

 

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To be simply and openly religious in a modern circle needs confidence.Because it is seen as mildly superstitious ?

Maybe when modernity and science become God, everything that cannot be proved by it are superciliously dismissed.

Every village in this land is religious.

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• Priya Ramanathan

  the urban thinking mind easily dismisses of what is not proved then infantile science of today dismisses the infinite its an irony but to think of it Ive always thought so too but it takes a certain maturity or standing away from what one thinks as right and observing that makes one understand there is much more 

  

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• Sunny Narang

   I have only been sustained in my theism by the rural people of this land. I refuse to have "educated" anti-everything "inner spirit" urban friends anymore ! The least I demand is openness and positive listening .

  

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• Aparna Krishnan

  Yes, I find the urban educated minds far more closed (and dismissive) compared to the openness and humility of the illiterate theist rural india. and interestingly the theist is far more open and accepting of the atheist, than the other way around (and i am not talking of perversions and extremisim - to understand those one needs a very detailed and nuanced reading anyway.). i have wondered why.

  

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• Sunny Narang

  Simply what university degree did Buddha or PBUH or Jesus have ? Or Nanak or Kabir ? If these values were not there , then we would have nothing human in human society , what has modernity given us , Atomic Bombs, Constitutions run by Lawyers and Police , it has as many if not much more negativity than any tradition . And every concept of modernity whether Nation State or Branding is totally fictional including printed money with no value basis . Don't get me going, I can tear apart every single delusionary faiths of modernity created by humans also with no scientific or rational basis . They are more irrational than any shaman , who at least has a soul connect ,. these only screw up everything, human community and nature.

  

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• Aparna Krishnan

  The village very slowly, but very completely changed my understanding. Of religion as the basis of the Indian framework. Of its power to give an impoverished community the strength to practice a deep generosity, saying that food is secondary, as they fed the beggars with their own last meal. Primacy of roti,kapda,kakaan they are able to question, when posited against dharmam.

  

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• Anjali Kapoor

  Aptly worded Aparna and true.

  Before eating when I recite sanskrit mantra ओऊम अननपते.....with folded hands and eyes closed in a restaurant in Delhi people stare at me.My family is used to it by now.But I don't care as I have to thank God for providing me with food.

  

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• Sunny Narang

  Well I am a Dilliwallah who lived with the left liberal craft environmantal activist and NGO crowd for more than two decades. Only people I found ultimately to keep friendships were rural. What subtle they all look at you as you are an anachronism from another age.

  

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• Sunny Narang

  Once during resource collection to send to a Muslim locality after riots in Delhi I landed up with many boras of Atta and a left feminist leader whose name I will not take asked me why I had a tilak on my forehead as I had directly come from a puja . What right did she have ? Should'nt she be happy a practising Hindu is coming ? The intellectuals educated by western systems have lost it .

  

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• Sunny Narang

  I can tell innumerable stories like this.

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• Aparna Krishnan

  i know. in some recent big meeting the organiser proudly mentioned that lamps were not lit in the inaugaration.

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• Aparna Krishnan

  Gandhiji was devoutly hindu, and devoutly respectful of all religions. My village people are devoutly hindu, ane devoutly respectful similarly of all gods, (of Jesus they tell me,'he is also a good god, he has done much good'. Simhadri, varalu's brother, when he was in class 10, told me on a Christmas Day,'Isu Krist was 2000 years ago - and still his goodness is remembered. Will anyone remember any of us for even ten years'.

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• Aparna Krishnan

  only the religious can bow to all religions. the irreligious can only dismiss all religions,