Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is one of the few very well-known guru-figures in our times, though I myself have come across him only recently. He has authored about four books so far, mostly transcriptions of question-and-answer sessions with his disciples. "Encounter the Enlightened" is one of the titles. It sounds like 'Enter the Dragon'! Bruce Lee of a spiritual master we seem to have here! "Oh, I am the enlightened one, encounter me!" So anyway, this is the first post in my blog here, and let me begin with this encounter thing and see if anything will come out of it. I don't have the book with me, but I am listening to an mp3 also titled the same.
In the first question, the guy asks: India is famous for its spirituality, there have been so many great masters who have worked for the upliftment of mankind, even today you are here and there are many other masters, still why is India in such a bad state?
Sadguruji begins with emphatically asserting "India is in such a state because till now it is in God's hands, unless you take it into your hands and do something meaningful it will remain this way."
India was in the hands of Britishers before Independence, and since Independence we have been trying to do all we can do to lead the country on the path of progress. But the swamiji talking in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century seems to be completely out of touch with times. He seems to say that India continues to be a fatalist country, even during the past sixty years! This is such nonsense, but that's the way these swamijis go on talking -- completely out of touch with reality or facts or logic. The purpose of this blog is to examine some of these statements in the light of rationality, so that via negativa we can perhaps reach to some insightful conclusions.
India is in such a bad state still, notwithstanding the phenomenal betterment of urban India in the past 15 years, not because the majority of its people don't put enough effort or lamely resign themselves to God, but simply because the Indian mind has traditionally been completely out of touch with surrounding reality and times, exactly in the manner of this swamiji and many others of the flock. The lack is not in our willingness to work, and in fact except for me I don't see anyone at all lazing around and wondering about the mystery of God's creation! Most everyone is trying to do something, trying to push the country ahead in their own way, by doing their own little bit - crooked politicians, con artists and such anti-social elements apart! As I see it, the fundamental deficiency is the deficiency of rigor in our thinking. We all know we have to do something meaningful, the problem comes in determining what constitutes this meaning. This blog is an effort to promote certain astuteness of logical thought and analysis in myself and the readers, so that we can move towards greater meaningfulnes in our lives and work for the improvement of our society in a more effective manner.
In the first question, the guy asks: India is famous for its spirituality, there have been so many great masters who have worked for the upliftment of mankind, even today you are here and there are many other masters, still why is India in such a bad state?
Sadguruji begins with emphatically asserting "India is in such a state because till now it is in God's hands, unless you take it into your hands and do something meaningful it will remain this way."
India was in the hands of Britishers before Independence, and since Independence we have been trying to do all we can do to lead the country on the path of progress. But the swamiji talking in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century seems to be completely out of touch with times. He seems to say that India continues to be a fatalist country, even during the past sixty years! This is such nonsense, but that's the way these swamijis go on talking -- completely out of touch with reality or facts or logic. The purpose of this blog is to examine some of these statements in the light of rationality, so that via negativa we can perhaps reach to some insightful conclusions.
India is in such a bad state still, notwithstanding the phenomenal betterment of urban India in the past 15 years, not because the majority of its people don't put enough effort or lamely resign themselves to God, but simply because the Indian mind has traditionally been completely out of touch with surrounding reality and times, exactly in the manner of this swamiji and many others of the flock. The lack is not in our willingness to work, and in fact except for me I don't see anyone at all lazing around and wondering about the mystery of God's creation! Most everyone is trying to do something, trying to push the country ahead in their own way, by doing their own little bit - crooked politicians, con artists and such anti-social elements apart! As I see it, the fundamental deficiency is the deficiency of rigor in our thinking. We all know we have to do something meaningful, the problem comes in determining what constitutes this meaning. This blog is an effort to promote certain astuteness of logical thought and analysis in myself and the readers, so that we can move towards greater meaningfulnes in our lives and work for the improvement of our society in a more effective manner.
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