[FairfieldLife] Re: The Billionaire Yogi Behind Modi’s Rise

2018-08-04 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Is interesting to see where Maharishi’s teacher, our Guru Dev Swami Brahmananda Saraswati was with sectarianism and the traditional caste system while he briefly was something of the equivalent of the Pope of Hinduism during the 1940-50’s postcolonial Indian independence period. Something of a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Billionaire Yogi Behind Modi’s Rise

2018-08-04 Thread srijau
some westerners and most especially Americans like to cling to the idea of their superiority while an honest understanding of India shows them to have been little more than savages on the fringes of civilization. Desperate, they resort to slander

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Billionaire Yogi Behind Modi’s Rise

2018-08-04 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From NYTimes, History: "..as a political force, Hindu nationalism predates India’s independence in 1947 and reflects centuries of resentment among the subcontinent’s Hindu majority. Hindus submitted reluctantly to waves of Muslim conquest from the north starting almost a thousand years ago,