The honor and pleasure is mine! Actually I’ve been planning to start a Hindu Caucus - Gengis Khan asked me a long time ago (I don’t think he’s around any more) but I’d rather call it Sat Dharma caucus, as Hindu is a word made up by Muslim invaders anyway.
I have lots of articles, quotes and essays I can post (and I can always write up more, and search for stuff here and there), and I’m sure others would have stuff to contribute. There are a lot of misconceptions about the ancient Vedic religion and philosophy and there is nothing I’d like better than to sit down and discuss such things.
Making it a “Caucus” in the Religion Forum means people can’t disrupt with fanatic fact-free or sectarian criticism.
PS - A great teacher in the last century said that the West - I think he said specifically the USA - and India need to team up. India could be the eyes - with spiritual vision - and the West the legs, with their money and power. The legs go in the wrong direction without the eyes. And they certainly are going in the wrong direction.
Let me know if you do this.
I am not religious, but I do see the literary similarities very clearly between the idealsand events in the Bibles (Christian and Jewish) and those in the Bhagavad-Gita.
Vishnu coming as Krishna is like Yahweh coming as Yeshua.
Vishnu returning as Kalki on a white horse to destroy the wicked is exactly like Yahweh returning as Yeshua in Revelations to do the same.
PS - A great teacher in the last century said that the West - I think he said specifically the USA - and India need to team up. India could be the eyes - with spiritual vision - and the West the legs, with their money and power. The legs go in the wrong direction without the eyes. And they certainly are going in the wrong direction.
The fate of the West is tied to that of the Hindus. The biggest tests will be if either the Christians, Buddhists, Jews or Hindus can learn to help each other without * 'disintegration "into a welter of chattering politics and bloody ruin."' *
(* Partial quote from Churchill about cooperation on the defense of India from Japanese invasion.*)