On Modern Western Thought and Sanatana Dharma:
"Sanatana dharma teaches that materialism and hedonism in their exclusive demands are very unsatisfactory, that cultures based on a purely psycho-physical definition of man are neurotic,+
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"Sanatana dharma teaches that materialism and hedonism in their exclusive demands are very unsatisfactory, that cultures based on a purely psycho-physical definition of man are neurotic,+
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that they cannot provide the basis of a truly stable society. These cultures lack vision and sympathy; they are violent. Think of all their meat industries and their slaughterhouses and even their laboratories and experiments. See how they kill whole species for food, +
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for entertainment, for commercial profits. Think of all the tears and sighs involved. They must be leaving karmas behind, must be setting up forces of nemesis somewhere. These cultures are also wasteful and self-destructive.
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Think of their poisoned food, poisoned soil, poisoned waters and air; how they mine away their soil, how they exploit whole continents and peoples, how they use away in a decade nature's assets accumulated over thousands of years to feed the ever-hungry Market, the new Moloch-God
And behind and supporting all this wastefulness and cruelty, one can also see the mindlessness of the whole prevailing system, its forgetfulness (vismriti) of any higher dimension. Think of its sensation-seeking, its entertainments, its education, its health systems based on+
a narrow definition of man.
Sanatana dharma also rejects the stupendous egocentricity of modern Europe which regards all human past as "primitive", all Asia as "outmoded", and believes that it has been the centre and secret meaning of all human endeavour and that man's history+
Sanatana dharma also rejects the stupendous egocentricity of modern Europe which regards all human past as "primitive", all Asia as "outmoded", and believes that it has been the centre and secret meaning of all human endeavour and that man's history+
by an inner law has been leading up to it and it has now reached its finale"!
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Ref:
On Hinduism
Pg 40
On Hinduism
Pg 40
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