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09/16/2016, 23:01:03
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It hasn't changed since his father's day. Still the same old discredited shit that no-one took any notice of back in 1961, or whenever it was that Shri Hans wrote to JFK & the UN, exhorting them to take up the science of of the soul as the solution to imminent nuclear armaggedon. That was a big worry at the time, which those of a certain age may vaguely recollect.

I say discredited, but maybe overtaken would be more charitable in this pc age. Back in the early C19th when Hindu India was allowed to flourish intellectually, the Muslim rulers having been supplanted by the British, it was catch up time, big time. So those who sought to take Hinduism several pegs up from peasant superstition, looked for a correspondence in the latest European ideas. That was the discovery of electricity & the expectation that the soul would be found as a result. The background to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein novel.

Certain individuals,of the type that Stalin recognised when he said that history is made by those who show up, took aspects of yoga which they claimed gave them a voice in the debate, added in a progressive social outlook vis a vis equality of the sexes, the irrelevancy of caste & it caught on big time. Or maybe not, given the huge population of India, but at least enough to make them, the Sant Mat gurus, a force. Why & how a small part of the western LSD generation of the late '60s early '70s discovered & adopted this movement, virtually unknown outside the subcontinent & controversial within it, is of course the subject of this forum, though for me now only of intermittent interest in the particulars.

There is no secret place of peace inside, common to all mankind, which is in the gift of any other human to reveal to the rest. There is no-one, nor ever has been throughout all of time, not a priest, pandit, imam, shaman, pope, caliph, prophet, guru, who knows what happens after death, nor will there ever be. Anyone who claims otherwise because they have a special connection to a superior power is a liar.

This is a perspective which enormous numbers of people worldwide are resistant to. I don't see any possibility of universal peace as long as this is the case. In the meantime we have to put up with irrelevant little Hitlers like Prem Rawat guffing off on the fringes of the UN, an organisation based on the alliance of the victors in the world war which ended 70 yrs ago, & which despite much good work is now looking distinctly elderly & frayed around the edges, in the matter of bringing peace to the world.

I don't know what's in Pinker's book, but I'm sure it's of little comfort to those unfortunate to be caught between big power politics & resurgent Islam in the middle east, or between western hedonism & the cocaine traders in Mexico & central America.

Rawat telling people to just breathe doesn't really cut it.

 




 






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