Thursday, November 30, 2006
How to Empower Hindus ?
Now let me give some answers:
What role should it (dharma) play in Life?
A: One needs to live per Gita as much as possible. One can live like a bhakti yogi, gyan yogi, karma yogi, dhyan yogi, as a brahmana, kshatriya, vaishya or shudra, sanysai, aacharya, poojari, swami, brahmachari, etc.
How much importance must it be given in daily Hindu life?
A: Full. More the better.
How much devotion should one posses to be called Hindu?
A: A Hindu never kills cow or eats cow, belives in re-incarnation, understands the qualities of aatma, jiva and paramatma, considers Bharat as devabhoomi, the cradle of the Vedic civilization, knows major holy tirthans and rivers and mountains in Bharat, knows that spiritual advancement becomes faster for a vegetarian, undersands the positions of devas, devies and the supreme god, knows that Gita is The Book of Hindu dharma and it is the summary of the Vedas, the original Books of Hindu dharma (meaning sanatana dharma), respects gurus, sashus, and shasras, etc.
What does Hindusim Mean to each and everyone?
A: All should know what it is from Gita. More one knows the better.
what is our duties towards Hindusim and Hindus?
A: Our duty is to live per dharma, and keep Bharat for the Hindus where no anti-vedics cause any trouble to the Hindus or to the temples, tirhtas, riveers and mountains, and to the vedic libraries and mathas and asramas,and the aacharyas.
What are the objectives and goals of Hindusim Worldwide?
A: It is a universal dharma for all teh mankind of all the times. With it one can realize god, be with god, play with god, and make own and others' live more spiritual in this world and after. The final goal is to get free from the cycles of birth and deaths, but one, after getting moksha, can choose to live here just to serve - enlighten - others.
A Hindu must fight adharmis in every way possible - non-violently when possible, but violently if that is the only way left to fix the asuras and rakshasas.
Who is a good Hindu?
A: More one lives per gita, better Hindus he/she is.
The thing the world needs to be made aware of is that the practice of dharma does not cause any trouble to any one.
We have no interest to convert by force, and we must fail all the efforts of those who try to convert us.
Hinduism places total emphasis on knowing the truth, and live per it. The Absote Truth is God: satya, shivam, sundaram. We know God is not jealous of any one simply because He is the Supreme.
Have any more questions? Ask.
jai sri krishna!
jai sri krishna!
Nehru may have had gay tendencies, reveals biographer
Nehru may have had gay tendencies, reveals biographer - The Indian Express
The suggestion that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru may have had homosexual experiences was made after extensive research and conversations with those who knew him, according to Prof Stanley Wolpert, author of Nehru: A Tryst With Destiny, a new biography which has outraged sections of the Indian intelligentsia.
Speaking to The Indian Express from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) where he teaches Indian history, Prof Wolpert said his conclusions were based on "interviews with a lot of people and my own discussions with Nehru".
But the controversy, he added, was being blown out of proportion because the references to Nehru's gay tendencies "constituted only a small section of the book." The 'revelation' though is mentioned on the book jacket.
Prof Wolpert said he did not broach the subject during his three meetings with Nehru in 1957-58, when he spoke with the Indian leader for his doctoral dissertation on the Indian freedom movement. But his own interaction with Nehru during the meetings also helped him to the conclusion, he added.
"My own aim as a scholar is to get as close to the truth as possible... I believe in the Indian motto of Satyameva Jayate.... if I was not convinced enough I would not have written it ... those who say 1 have overstated it should counter it with evidence, "the historian said, while himself not proffering any "evidence."
In the book which has just hit the stands in the United States, and is due for release in India shortly, Wolpert implies that Nehru had several homosexual encounters during his early years in Allahabad, and later at Harrow and Cambridge.
He also describes instances when Nehru dressed in drag "Wearing his wig, made up with lipstick, powder and eye shadow, his body draped in silks and satins, Jawahar most willingly offered himself up night after night to those endless rehearsals for the Gaekwar's At Home as a beautiful young girl, holding out her jug of wine and loaf seductively to her poet lover, Omar," he writes in one passage.
The book has received favourable reviews in the American press Publishers Weekly describing it as a "warts-and-all portrait of India's brilliant and charismatic first prime minister" in which Wolpert "convincingly goes beneath Nehru's exalted image to reveal some pesky demons." The New York Times Book Review described the book as being "respectful of its subject but free of the hagiography that has often diminished academic writing on Nehru."
Neither review touched on Nehru's supposed homosexual liaisons.
Asked why none of the previous biographies, including the more recent one by M J Akbar, did not allude to this aspect of Nehru's fife, Wolpert said "I have no idea."
In the book, Wolpert says Nehru's first attachment was with a young man called Ferdinand Brooks who was his French teacher. Brooks was a theosophist but Wolpert says before coming to India the "handsome' man was a disciple and lover of Charles Webster Leadbeater, a renegade Anglican curate who was accused of child molestation and pederasty on several continents. Leadbeater openly advocated mutual masturbation among young boys.
Wolpert also suggests Nehru may have had a gay relationship in Harrow and makes much of Panditji's admiration for Oscar Wilde
Author : Chidanand Rajghatta
Publication : The Indian Express
Date : February 5, 1997
Source :www.hvk.org/articles/0297/0047.html
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Hutch Telecom Reportedly Helping Christian Fundraising Drive in India
Hutch Telecom Reportedly Helping Christian Fundraising Drive in India
One of the largest cellular mobile carriers, HutchisonTelecom, part of Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL),reportedly shared their Indian customers address database with Christian charity World Vision International (WVI).
World Vision, since has started amassive fundraising drive to solicit donations fromHutch customers. The letter sent by World Vision asksIndian customers to sponsor a child, but fails to mention that World Vision is a Christian charity.World Vision has been known to be involved in theconversion of impoverished children to Christianityoften by extortion or fraud.
Notably, World Vision recently protested the proposed "anti-conversion" lawsin Sri Lanka that seek to prevent conversions by forceand fraud. Furthermore, according to theorganization' s website, World Vision hires "only candidates who agree with World Vision's Statement ofFaith and/or the Apostles' Creed", which effectivelyprevent non-Christians from being hired.
http://www.christia
Samuel Selvakumar the CEO of Hutch is a great sponsor of Conversions. He sponsored the Benny Hinn programme in Bangalore also.The same goes with Citibank now; Most of you must havereceived photographs of some " orphans" with yourCitibank card and requesting you to give funds to Citibank...which would in turn be sent to "World Vision International"In fact the funds from the ICC relief match held forTsunami relief was sent to World Vision Intnl as well.