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Any Given Sunday speech by the Legend Al Pacino. Brilliant delivery of Dialogues.
Any Given Sunday speech by the Legend Al Pacino. Brilliant delivery of Dialogues.
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Any Given Sunday speech by the Legend Al Pacino. Brilliant delivery of Dialogues.
I always wanted to speak here, because when I grew up the primary influence, spiritual influence was from Swami Ranganathan of Shri RamaKrishna Mission (head of Delhi).
So, I have looked at Swami Vivekananda's complete works and referred to all my life.
My latest book is actually entirely a 'defence of Swami Vivekananda'. The challenge for me, is that, I am giving a response to certain issue that the people(critics) have raised, but unfortunately for me most of Vivekananda followers and Scholars do not even know of the issue.
So, its like asking Doctor telling a patient that I know how to solve the disease and the patient says I do not even know what disease you are talking about. So, I have double challenge. First I have to explain what the problem is? Why its so serious? and then What is my response.
Now, lot of you who are tuned into the Media, and those who are reading books are aware that there is a lot of 'Indian Left' critic of Hinduism and of Swami Vivekananda, that this is 'Oppressive', it is 'Hegemonic', it is something 'artificial', something 'new', made by 'British', it is al about construction and full of problems.
But, very rarely I come across somebody who has gone further and tried to find out, from where this idea originate, what was the argument, because 'Indian Left' and the 'Media' who parrot this, really do not have the scholarship to come up with it, they are not very well read in Sanskrit or Philosophy or Vivekananda. But they are just parroting and cranking out something they have heard somewhere else.
Now, I have spent the last 14 months researching this issue and then I wrote a response to this thesis. I was at a conference of American academy of religion in November 2012, they were discussing my previous book 'Being Different', where I was talking of Philosophical difference between Dharma Civilization and Western Civilization. Intellectually, what are the premises, categories, terms, Metaphysics of one and how they differ from other. Lot of issues like nature of Time, Sanskrit Non-Translatable (Sharaddha, Atman, Shruti, Smriti).
West do not have idea of Shruti and Smriti(Shruti-Smriti difference do not exist in West), as west has this notion of 'Prophets', who speaks and thats final and close.
So, the whole idea that Shruti is re-discovered for each age and Smriti is man made text and interpretations, which goes on indefinitely and mapped on.
If you say Vedas are 'Prophetic'. Its Not! The idea of Prophets is not present in our faith (Prophet is not same as Rishi). A Prophet is not somebody who has a higher stage of Conciousness, so Shri RamaKrishna cannot be called as Prophet because he did not say that God speaking to me and told me this to tell you. Prophet is a messenger and he doesn't have to have any qualification. Abrahmic scholars will tell you that Prophet will be whoever the God has chosen to please convey my message. He is simply a messenger. That's it!
So, the whole idea of higher state of conciousness is not required in Abrahmic faiths. Where as in our traditions, everyone can achieve Rishi state, becasue everyone is sat-Chit-Ananda, which is NOT true of Abrahmic Prophets. So, our Spiritual exemplars are not the same as Prophets.
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My position is that USA is following a trajectory that is drastically opposite and different from the Young's analysis.
Not only USA, I mean China is not dissolving, France, England, Russia, they all now are more into Nationalism than ever before.
So, the Post-Modernist popularity is to:
(a) 'Deconstruction the Nation-States', that nation-states are going out off style and they are no good. (b) Deconstruction of dominant identities. (c) All culture is 'text' for deconstruction, using trendy theories.
I just do not see any evidence in Post-Modernism in the 5 permanent UN security council for example. There is no evidence that they are dissolving themselves. I see no evidence in fortune 50 or fortune 100, in saying hey you know it does not matter whether you use my brand or my competitor's brand, because its the same thing. It does not matter whether my market share goes up or down, there is no such thing as the other and its all the same.
If a Post-Modernist started talking in a corporate office, he would get fired. They do not want such a guy around.
I mean I just do not see this trendiness in Indian intellectualism being 'truly' reflective of American Society.
Is Post-Modernism for Export only? (Effect on India)
(A) Deconstruction ideology failed in American mainstream society.
- It had little impact on American Nationalism.
- Its thriving in Liberal academics cocoon and pop culture.
(B) By denying the unity of anything including lived experience, postmodernism is the credo to 'Fragment' the 'third world' in an 'intellectually' deep and 'respectable' fashion.
(C) Post-Modernism softens the target:
- Third world intellectuals are a franchise to reproduce for local consumption.
- Many genuinely made to believe they are serving the downtrodden.
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I made some assertions to provoke people to start thinking in a certain way. One of them is contrary to what Post-Modernists fashionable theories are claiming, the dominant powers in the world are not going away, the Grand Narratives are not becoming lighter. Nation-States are not dissolving, boundaries are not disappearing. This is true for the corporate sector, for the countries as the nation-states, Organized religions and so forth.
So, I have a serious problem with those, who think that since Post-Modernism is kind of ground reality, India should self-destruct, self-dissolve, self-deconstruct just because everybody is doing it. I do not see anybody doing it. Thats the major point I want to make.
De-Constructing India has become very fashionable, has been exported very successfully to third world intellectuals, who differentiate themselves from their peers in their universities or where ever they are working, depends upon how much foreign legitimacy and endorsement, or how many associations they have with the West. This IMPORT of ideology into India (which for the West not necessarily to be consumed domestically), it's kind of EXPORT ONLY variety.
Now, in India, this Post-Modernism led to the creation of Sub-Nations (all kinds of sub-nations, fragmented identities in India), being given Ideological importance by the Indian intellectuals. While the Nation as a collective identity not only less importance, but also denigrated and also deconstructed. So, India's plight is sandwiched between 'South Asianism' on the outside putting pressures and Sun-Nationalism on the inside putting pressures.
In this video, Rajiv do mentions the power structure of Christian Seminaries near Princeton University, where this Richard Fox Young is part of. (RFY is NOT an associate professor at Princeton University but at Princeton Christian Seminary near Princeton University.)
Rajiv also mentioning the the requirement of 'English Language' and other 'Western Academic Standards' as a tool to BLOCK any insiders view(Indian perspective) or research, to be even considered as academic or scholarly.
This is an whole lot of tools for the 'GateKeepers' to eliminate any insiders view into Academia.
Link to the Original Lecture is : youtube.com/watch?v=HpwPqK6RUGE
This was a part taken out from the video lecture 'Where is India in Eagle's Eye?'
The important terms in this video are, Deep Culture Deep State, Judea-Christian, Liberalism, Post-Modernism, Intellectuals, Nation-States, India.
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This talk was delivered early this year in New Delhi, in front of Sanskrit scholars from India. This talk was mainly about introducing the #IntellectualKurukshetra in the field of studying Sanskrit by the likes of Sheldon Pollock and other Pollockites in Western academia.
The effort now, is to give a major push towards re-colonizing India again.
You may also notice at the end of the talk, where Rajiv was infact 'anticipating' a major intervention/obstacle (25:17) by #Pollockites to stop this book of mine from getting published.
Do watch this video to understand how deep the problem is and what consequences it may well have on India.
#BattleForSanskrit
In this interview, Aamir Khan says that, Narendra Modi is a criminal and must be punished for his dreadful activities in killing thousands of Indians (mark mostly Muslims) during the Godhra Riots happened in Gujarat 2002.
He also extended his support to united states decision to deny Narendra Modi the VISA for US, despite his un-liking of US president George W Bush (For his criminal decision of declaring WAR n Terror).
Aamir Khan also made it a point that, Narendra Modi is indeed a very unpatriotic person per say, and so as his party BJP, and his supporters.
Ironically, some times back, Aamir Khan made a very controversial statement that, it would be anti-national to elect a single party majority government in India, and Indians should should a government of multi-party coalition.
As single party Government would be against the 'IDEA OF INDIA'.
Aamir Khan, during lok sabha elections of 2014, supported the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
#BattleForSanskrit
#BreakingIndia
#Battle4Sanskrit
There are Secular Lenses, which includes both 'Enlightenmen' and 'Post-Modernism'. The Enlightenment lenses includng things like, Anthropology, Social Theory, History and Western Feminism.
And then there are those are into the American Right, which is very substantial group amount of scholarship, use Abrahmic categories, they have Missionaries agendas, either they are appropriating like Christian Yoga is a kind of appropriation or there is denigration.
So, there are these two, there is Left approaching and there is right approaching. Unfortunately, Indian study is kind of both squeezed and sandwitched from both sides.
So, the Study starts generally looking at caste, minority religions and women and their problems. So, the beginning is 'Lets study some problem', rather than what are some resources, what are something they can offer, what are there is something they have already done for humanity. So, it starts all with 'Problems' and then it works its way up as, these problems are characterized and considered as foundation of Hinduism, and which is then considered as foundation of Indian Civilization, and which is considered as the foundation of Indian Nation-state.
So, The Problemetization is driven in this manner and it works its way up. Some people works at one level, some work at another level, but very few actually put it all together. But if you become a student of how this industry works, you will find out that 'Composite Effect' is the deconstruction of all of this and Indian State.
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This video is just a small part of a longer 'power-point video lecture' by Rajiv Malhotra on "Where is India in the Eagles Eye". The original video can be found out Rajiv Malhotra's youtube channel.