[Assam] Blue bloods for UN Chief - UN reform?? Tharoor=

[Barua25]

Umesh:
As you know, we have two levels of Hinduism or rather Hinduisms.  The popular Hinduisms are the what common people do by tradition. All the pujas (Durga puja, Swaraswati puja, Lakshmi Puja, Jagadhatri Puja, Ganesh Puja, Hanuman Puja, Kali Puja, Ogni Puja, Shiva Linga puja, etc) will definitely fall into these.  Vedic Yagnas will also fall into these.

The higher kind of Hinduisms are the so called spiritual Hinduisms when one follows the Upanishad paths. The modern Brahmo Samaj (which incidentally failed) was also designed to represent this higher Hinduisms aimed at union with the Brahman and the Atman - the Hindu ideal of creation. This was definitely an attempt to copy Christianity. 

I will have to refresh my reading. I think Dr Radhakrishnan also talks abut these different layers of Hinduisms.

People normally participate in these popular Hinduisms. When asked to justify why they are doing all these pujas, they try to say the Brahman-Atman theory as a defense.

More later
RB


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: umesh sharma 
  To: Barua25 ; assam at assamnet.org 
  Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:36 AM
  Subject: Re: [Assam] Blue bloods for UN Chief - UN reform?? Tharoor=


  Rajen-da,

  What is popular Hinduism? Do you mean going to temples and praying at the altars is popular Hinduism (and is bad)? Or it is performing all those rituals -similar to those perfomred at Vatican by Pope or at Ajmer's Dargah Sharief or at Golden Temple , Amritsar .

  Umesh 

  Barua25 <barua25 at hotmail.com> wrote:
    >Gautum Buddha was one, Nehru was another as was Ashoka and also somewhat Mahatma Gandhi ---but they all >displayed a streak common to all. Later in their lives they lived among the common man -shoulder to shoulder-in >slums and amongst poverty and even through violence?

    Good observation. What is also common to these people none of them were orthodox Hindus but were supporters of the secular path and none of them believed in the so called popular Hinduism. 
    RB 
    ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: umesh sharma 
      To: assam at assamnet.org 
      Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 3:37 PM
      Subject: [Assam] Blue bloods for UN Chief - UN reform?? Tharoor=MahatmaGandhi=Nehru


      Hi,

      I checked the bio fo Shashi Tharoor -India's nominee for UN Chief post. Seems like a blue blood (like Rajiv Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi) born in London raised in India and US. Which Indian can afford to have children in UK -even now?

      Well, we must not be biased against blue bloods -after all Gautum Buddha was one, Nehru was another as was Ashoka and also somewhat Mahatma Gandhi ---but they all displayed a streak common to all. Later in their lives they lived among the common man -shoulder to shoulder-in slums and amongst poverty and even through violence?

      As United Nations Chief -  these are the qualities the candidate should have -besides a knack for organizational reform. Does Shashi Tharoor have them? Has he engaged in dramatic organizational reform, has he suffered poverty or developed empathy for the poor and the oppressed by staying for long stints in his life/career among them. His life and career seems to have started in country's capitals or metros (London [birth] to Mumbai and Delhi [education] to Boston [education] to Geneva[work at UN] etc) and ended therein

      http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/tharoor_bio.htm

      http://www.shashitharoorcom/about.html

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashi_Tharoor

      Any comments ?

      Umesh


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  Ed.M. - International Education Policy
  Harvard Graduate School of Education,
  Harvard University,
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