One religion focuses on living a good, decent life, doing one’s dharma while being cognizant of impact of one’s actions over many births.

Other focuses only on after life, advocates even hurting others in its name.

Under which system can they coexist - serious answers pls

Just had a discussion with a good friend, nay, my Dharmic brother about something.

Often we, well I do at least, blame parents upbringing when a kid turns into self hating deracinated person with little love for country.

Question is how much do parents control? ++

It is neither fair nor correct to say it is all their fault. But let me parcel out possible causes and let you think about % blame apportioned

1. Upbringing. Parents setting (or not) example, imparting Dharmic education, teaching value systems in age appropriate way over time

2. Company. The kind of people a kid grows around / with, their value systems and if they mesh wish them family’s value system

3. Environment. Broader society, TV and other media and their influence

4. Poorva janma karna of parents and kids themselves and what it means in this life.

We all assign % credit for how a kid turns out based on our world view and experiences.

Thoughts?
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Earlier today I saw someone, who didn’t like the name of Patanjali and changed his name to some random word, tweet about moral authority and drivel to that effect.

So just sharing some thoughts after having observed so-called liberals and what they consider democracy.

2/n Just for record those I/ we call liberals aren’t Liberals. So let’s get that out of the way. I will use lowercase ‘l’ to refer to them.

They are usually moneyed, kids of well to do or at least well connected persons. And they have a weird sense of democracy.

3/n They are usually elitists and class conscious but their snobbish attitude is suppressed typically.

They claim to speak for the people and fight for the people but they don’t understand the people.

They want masses to pay tax, vote for whom they point and thank the Masters

4/n By the way while at it they want the masses to have no pride in their roots or have the gall to even dream that they can have aspirations of self reliance.

This is not just in India. In US we saw liberals basically de-platform 72M voters because they voted for other guy

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Anyway. While their favorite INC was ruling they pushed their agenda. As the country grew tired and replaced them with Modi ji, liberals have been apoplectic.

How dare the commoners think they know what’s good for the country was the cry that went up.

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#NoPropagandaHoli

I don’t care if you are a real Hindu, Hindu in name only, Abrahamic or atheist.

Hindu festivals ARE NOT an opportunity for your propaganda.

We won’t take it lightly anymore and give back.

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You want a waterless holi, we will demand a bloodless Eid.

You want a green Deepāvali, we will demand a green tree-less Christmas.

And worse, HINOs, if you want to use our festivals to make your secular mark and curry favor with the left be warned. You will be exposed.

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Don’t care if you can hit or throw or catch a ball better than billion people.

Don’t care if you can run around trees like a monkey with heroines for two and a half hours.

Don’t give a dang if you are an industrialist.

Hindu Civilization is bigger than all of you.

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If you think your professional success or financial success gives you a perch to lecture to Hindus how we should celebrate our festivals you are mistaken.

You life is not even worth one billionth of a grain of a sand in the whole world compared to our civilization

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If you don’t want to celebrate, fine. Don’t.

But don’t lecture us how we should. Hindu wallets and hard earned money built your careers. We can take it down.

Ask Padukone what happened to Chhappak. That is the result of messing with Spirit of patriotic Indians.

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Two monotheistic religions in their own way are on a path of attack against Hindus.
One spends billions converting Hindus. They feel they have a god-given right to reap a billion Indian souls, appropriate our festivals/ religious symbols and fool gullible people

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They use money, ignorance & threat to convert Hindus and use foreign funding to keep marginal communities depressed.

Other large monotheistic faith uses force. They feel any kafir-majority country is anathema to them. They use violence, forcible wedding/ rape to propagate

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They use violence to achieve what the other does through money. Both teach their children that those unlike them will go to hell and some even go to the extent of preaching violence against those unlike them, such as Hindus.

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Reason they reserve their worst venom for us is because we refuse to go away like other indigenous/ pagan faiths. We stand firm.

So as long as they continue to preach monotheism, that others unlike them will go to hell don’t expect me to respect them.

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I respect their right to their religion. But I WILL NOT be wishing them on their festivals. If that makes me non-secular then I wear it as a badge or honor.

I used to wish them until few years ago until I took the red pill.

We were all revering Cows and other animals much before all these 'Activists' cropped up. Respecting the environment, the trees and animals are a way of life for Hindus

On the eve of Maattu Pongal, here are a few personal Cow Remembrances 1/n

I was all of 4 when we moved to Vadakara. School was still a year away. We lived in a House named 'Kottaram' (Palace), which had a long backyard. Beyond that was a small house where a Brahmin Family Resided. Mami had a cow. 2/n

Around 2.30 pm, she will call "Konthe" (Colloquial for Kuzhanthai or Child), and that was the sign for me to run across pulling up my half trouser.

A Half Wall separated the houses and I would climb up to watch the guy who milched their cow. 3/n

Once he milched, I will get my quota of a very small glass of raw milk. She never ever took the milk inside without giving me my share fondly. Once I drink it, I played with the calf and then ran back home 4/n

We moved back to Palakkad when I was 9. Grandfathers Agraharam house was 20 kms away and I was a frequent visitor

Thatha and Paatti maintained 3 Cows

The Big Red, Elder Karumi (Blacky) and the Younger Karumi 5/n

A short story:

In Nov 2018, a man from UP’s Shamli named Saleem gave an affidavit in local court that he and his family were changing religion. News leaked in local media and became national news. I also visited him and wrote a report +

Saleem was born in Hindu Jat family and named Susheel. He was left orphaned at 8. One Mohd Sabdar picked him from streets and took him in as assistant in his transport business. Sabdar changed his name to Saleem and even got him circumcised as Islamic ritual +

When he turned 15, Sabdar got him married to Wajida. As Saleem grew independent, he left Sabdar & began to work for another transporter, a Punjabi Hindu. Susheel told me Sabdar never paid him a salary

In 2018 when he was 31, he decided to revert to his original name and faith +

Wajida supported him. Things were fine till her father Israel arrived from Jharkhand. He tried to change Saleem’s mind. When he remained adamant, Israel brainwashed Wajida into leaving him. When Saleem went for a tour, Israel quietly took Wajida and their 5 kids to Jharkhand +

Saleem immediately went to Jharkhand on his return. Israel asked him to read kalma again and serve Tablighi Jamaat for 40 days as penance. Saleem refused. He did not have Wajida’s support anymore.

On 16 Jan, he sent me a Whatsapp video saying he was ready to commit suicide +

"Who likes to fire crackers during Diwali?" asked the teacher.

About half of the nine-ten year olds in the classroom raised their hands.

"You should be ashamed," chided the teacher. "Crackers are harmful to our environment!"

The ones who did not raise their hands felt proud.

Kangana's malady: An acute case of a right wing afflicted
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I really feel sad for this lady. But it exposes a critical problem of a right wing mind. Of a life lived comparing.
Since she is in arts field. Let's take music which has distinct classes of

music e.g. Western classic or Hindustani/Carnatic Classical. A virtuoso in any one of these music forms will not seek to denigrate or compare one art against another. Actually, a good classical artiste won't even denigrate folk music. It is equally as hard to compose a great

bhakti poetry as it is to compose a spiritual shloka. One can find something mystical in both.
Art is really about losing oneself - An exploration melting into knowledge and finally into empathy and union. As you grow in an art form, you lose your identity even as humility grows.

You start seeing beauty all around. A great saint in one religion sees greatness in another religion too. Such a person is indeed a virtuoso.
The problem with a right wing mind is that it needs control and a sense of power. They resemble the angry executives who populate our

corporate office hiding their incompetence behind arrogance and anger. That's the cowardice that Mohua Moitra talks about. They compare, compete, denigrate others (Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise) and then create their own competition field (Padma Award) and in the worst case may be

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Gujars have claimed every living species in this galaxy to be their own, be it Attila Hun or Mihirkula, Parmars, Pratihars, Chauhans, Pulkeshin Chalukya, Shivaji Bhonsle, Bhatis and what not.

It's high time that the verity of their claims needs to be checked.

When Thomas Twining traveled in 1794 in Doab he found 3 tribes of robbers- Pindaris, Mewatis, and Gujjars. "Goujer on contrary implies nothing but craftiness and unsparing barbarity and communicates nothing but terror and dismay

Hari Ram Gupta an eminent historian describes Gujars as 'a tribe of thieves'.
When Babur first came to India he saw Gujjars coming from the mountains and stealing away the cattle and buffaloes. They looted Indians and foreigners alike.

Historian HR Gupta while talking about Gujars says:
"they oppressed poor grass cutters and extorted money from them, those who did not pay it were beaten by them".

Basically Gujars who now claim every dynasty to be their own, were always a nomadic pastoral tribe and even now in JK. However, they took to stealing as their main profession. Proverb was 'dog, rangar, cat and gujjar, without these 4 everybody could sleep with doors open'.