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
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
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,