By: Gajendra Naorem *
Indian Cultural Contamination:
Problems with Indian spiritual [ritual?] organizations is that they start with spirituality and end in rituals!
They start with universal message of omnipresent, omnipotent & omniscient supreme God and end with localized Hindu idols like Siva, Durga, Kali, Ganesh, Rama etc.
Instead of expanding toward eternity & universality they tend toward temple worship and idolatry. Even in those reputed yoga institutes, the pure impersonal yoga system seems to end up with idolatry.
Take up any popular international society or organization of Indian origin viz ISKCON [International Society for Krishna C ONsciousness] or Satya Sai Baba Mission or Divine Life Society or Brahma Kumari or Ananda Margi or Chinmaya Mission or Ramkrishna Mission or Aurobindo Mission or Swami Narain or Shanti Niketan or Paramarth Niketan or whatever society/ organization/ mission/ institute/ niketan, all are contaminated with outdated rituals and idolatry.
I have personally experienced this truth in all these organizations during my extensive tours & research. If you don't believe me then, you are welcome to testify yourself by visiting these places.
Because of their wrong cultures/ wrong worship systems India remained undeveloped for the past so many years. Development in India came up only within the past two/three decades when their conservative mindsets were set aside to welcome globalization with openness and modern technologies like Computer revolution. Else, with their former conservative & ritualistic culture, India should have remained in the dark ages still!
However, even with the acceptance of globalization and modern technologies, Indians still remain addicted to their old habits/culture of rituals and idolatry thus bringing in their outdated culture to the new countries wherever Indians migrate.
Indians are set to contaminate the whole world by expanding their localized idolatry/ ritualistic worship systems to the rest of the world.
So, it is high time for the people of other countries to be aware of Indian Cultural Contamination of the whole world.
Remedy:
Now is the right time for the right thinking citizens of the world to patronize/encourage true spiritual/philanthropic organizations who are away from such localized/sectarian idol worshippers.
What today's world needs is Unity, Love, Peace, Development & Happiness under one God not Disunity, Hatred, War, Backwardness & Misery under sectarian worship systems.
Let us do away with all kinds of sectarian worship systems and be united under one Universal Father [God]. Then only there will be true Unity, Love, Peace, Development and prosperity in the world and this will ultimately lead to Happiness of all on earth.
PS: Since abolition of all the prevailing unwanted worship systems of the world at one go may not be possible, let us [right thinking people] encourage only the spiritual parts of these worship systems while discouraging the ritual/dogmatic parts, thus helping them all evolve toward spirituality & unity in one God.
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* Gajendra Naorem contribute regularly to e-pao.net . He is the Founder Director of "HAPPY WORLD" located at Kakching, Manipur . You can contact the writer at happyworldsociety(at)gmail(dot)com . This article was webcasted on August 22nd, 2007
