Brother could you tell me what do you mean when you used promoted idiotic conspiracies like Malala.I will be glad if you reply me

it is very difficult or impossible to know the truth.

no, i didn’t coin Macauleys children. read it don’t remember where, but more than once.

I was thinking of Swami Vivekananda while typing out my first comment. He always taught us to be fearless. I read most of his work as a teenager, even if I had limited understanding of the more serious topics. But this simple idea of being fearless, it stayed with me, and I feel that I get closer to being in that state of mind as I grow older.

On a related, but slightly different note, have you read “Swaraj in Ideas” by Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya? It is a lecture published in the Vishwa Bharati Quarterly in 1954 (possibly a reprint of an earlier lecture, since Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya passed away in 1949). It is a powerful essay touching on the same topics you have written on, and definitely pertinent in this age of Macauley’s children. By the way, did you come up with the phrase “Macauley’s children”? I had not encountered until earlier today, and the first time I read it, it hit me. It hit me in a way language had not hit me in a long, long while. I hope it hits a few more readers the same way.

thank you. Just read a quote by Swami Vivekananda “You4r Atman is the support of the whole universe. of whose support do you stand in need of?”

The title, “what will the world think of us”, as used by the television anchors in their talk shows and what-not, is the bane of India. I use the word India as an English translation of ‘bhaarata-varsa’, and not the political nation state in its current form. Introspection and insight, the precursor to a scientific temper,does not arise from mollifying others. It comes from moving away — as completely as possible — from any external locus of identity. The current nation state has been doing the exact opposite. I often wonder if there is any internal focus left in India at all.

An internal focus is not by itself a solution to anything. Until, that is, we realize that the internal is the only truth. Everything else is ephemeral. The world, their thoughts, their laughter, their laughing stock, and of course, the panelists so scared of all of the above — none of that is true.

As an addendum, I want to say that just like I used “India” in a different sense, I also used “scientific” and “truth” differently. I have no doubt that you already know all this and much more, but I still would like to overcome the handicap of English:
(1) Science is “vignaana” in Sanskrit, which expands as “vishesha gnaana” (specific knowledge).
(2) Truth is “satyam” in Sanskrit, which is not the same as immediate factual correctness. It indicates that which is constant and pervades all.

If you have read upto this point, I thank you for your patience.

Perhaps you did not read the full article. Maria Wirth, the author of this blog is actually SUPPORTING the mystic dreams and visions of yogis and saints. She is a German lady who is speaking FOR Hinduism. so I’m surprised at the tone of your response. Please don’t blindly lash out without reading the article properly.

Yes, you are right. It is amazing how the media and the intellectuals of our country keep harping about the Gujarat riots or any other riots where Muslims or Christians have been the casualty. Hardly nothing is written about the Godhra train victims or the sufferings of the Kashmiri Pandits during the 1989-90 period. Unfortunately if you notice it is mostly the Hindu intellectuals and a so called secular media who don’t acknowledge these things. And when this is pointed out to them they are quick to call us fundamentalists and non- secular. This is probably the irony of being a Hindu in India.