America at its best 3880Rifty But you are up to something sinister, as you are twisting the narrative to make it look silly and worthless. And then you are blaming me for giving the correct version...
America at its best 3882whatever the history of caste intolerance, may be we can spare ourselves debating the history of it here, the modern india has come a...
No, you don't. I am not up to anything sinister. I did not mention that segment of the Mahabharata to demean Indian culture. If it offended you to see it explained exactly as it was told in the epic, then I'm afraid you have the problem, not I.
No, I have far too much respect to its contribution to world civilisation to do that. My own guru wrote a two volume work on India and World Civilization and it had a powerful effect on me. I am scorning the viewpoint that myth is literal truth, as some Hindu revisionists are trying to foist upon us now.
I have read quite a few translations, some better than others. My point is still valid.
They are not irreconcilable from accepting the difference between myth and history.
In some ways you are right, as Hinduism is the most evolutionary of all religions. But once again, don't confuse myth with history.
We could explore that, but I am not a Christian and don't have my heart in it.
Now you are the one taking the high moral ground. People with insight and tolerance exist in all societies. Hinduism is full of paradoxes - tolerant philosophically (Vedanta, etc.) yet intolerant socially (caste) and containing people of varying degrees of intellectual tolerance. Some of the present right wing 'fundamentalist' Hindus are creating a grotesque parody of what Hinduism actually stands for.
Not difficult for any person with an open mind.
America at its best 3881It wasn't, actually. He determinedly missed every point I made and answered it with refutations of things I did not say or mean. If I get...
You're enbreastled to your opinion.
As I suspected, you call any personal criticism name calling. It's not. Sometimes you just have to face facts. I'll look at your paper then, and tell you what I think.
No, I learn from everyone if I can. If I appear to patronise you it is only because you chose to wear the cap of the martyr. I didn't place it on your head.
Well, one must take it for what it is, that's all.
A considerable number, I would have thought. But I was not defining productive in the way you are. Never mind. You are determined to be offended, I see.
America at its best 3883Not at all. It is you who have done that. You have not replied to a single point that I made. You evaded all...
As it would anybody who studies it well. Indian history and philosophy have certainly helped me enormously.
America at its best 3884I know only one person in India who is a Sanskrit scholar, and she is a Bengali lady. I have neither seen nor heard...
Really? I don't feel that way. It is you who can't stand criticism. If I appear to have been dismissive of your work then it was not my intention.
Fair point, but not everyone has a background in Indian philosophy. It needs to be put into perspective, but not treated with rose-coloured glbuttes.
What I objected to was your immediate buttumption that I was acting in some western colonialist way by daring to criticise what some 'scholars' in India today are doing to Hindu culture and history. I was not doing that, and I was not - repeat NOT - laughing at Indian cultural foundations.
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