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I'd hesitate giving entire credit of freedom to SCB. We needn't go from one unifocal hero-worship to another, particularly those in past. No country fetishises past personalities as much as Indians do. They existed, acted and thought according to their times & circumstances. https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1294525879796641792
I'd hesitate giving entire credit of freedom to SCB. We needn't go from one unifocal hero-worship to another, particularly those in past. No country fetishises past personalities as much as Indians do. They existed, acted and thought according to their times & circumstances. https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1294525879796641792
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US doesn't make giant statues of Washington or Adams, or talks about their ideals anachronistically!
But seeing the extent and dark depths of self-annihilating Gandhian sickness that our country is in the grips of, I have no hesitation saying, Gandhi was pure evil! The very +
US doesn't make giant statues of Washington or Adams, or talks about their ideals anachronistically!
But seeing the extent and dark depths of self-annihilating Gandhian sickness that our country is in the grips of, I have no hesitation saying, Gandhi was pure evil! The very +
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..opposite of wholesome spiritual light of the highest philosophy of Hinduism. The culmination of negativity of a 1000 years of enslavement. The “mass movements” were mass hypnosis, like the benighted, blind following that makes up saviour cults of false gurus. The mass and +
..opposite of wholesome spiritual light of the highest philosophy of Hinduism. The culmination of negativity of a 1000 years of enslavement. The “mass movements” were mass hypnosis, like the benighted, blind following that makes up saviour cults of false gurus. The mass and +
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..their ‘guru’ were reflections of each other, unconsciousness complimenting itself. There's nothing to demonstrate that Gandhi-led movements that led in any measure to India gaining freedom. Just a fed idea that people are reluctant to shed. It's like the resistance within +
..their ‘guru’ were reflections of each other, unconsciousness complimenting itself. There's nothing to demonstrate that Gandhi-led movements that led in any measure to India gaining freedom. Just a fed idea that people are reluctant to shed. It's like the resistance within +
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..each of us to let go off any long-held egoistic notion. There can be no dilution of the evil that Gandhianism is. That the apparently enlightened, people like you, a ‘Hindu nationalist’ PM, the foremost leaders, and most prominent personalities, even spiritual gurus... +
..each of us to let go off any long-held egoistic notion. There can be no dilution of the evil that Gandhianism is. That the apparently enlightened, people like you, a ‘Hindu nationalist’ PM, the foremost leaders, and most prominent personalities, even spiritual gurus... +
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..don’t see through this pathological condition afflicting India, shows just how dark it is.
And sorry. There's enough evidence to show that Gandhi, like most of INC, were collaborators (at least cooperatives) in the British enterprise and control over India. India's freedom+
..don’t see through this pathological condition afflicting India, shows just how dark it is.
And sorry. There's enough evidence to show that Gandhi, like most of INC, were collaborators (at least cooperatives) in the British enterprise and control over India. India's freedom+
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..has to be seen in conjunction with the circumstances that led to the demise of colonialism all over the world.
All that said, I've said this before and I repeat: Gandhi wasn't wrong about everything. Some of the things he was rigid about were actually very right (e.g. jati-
..has to be seen in conjunction with the circumstances that led to the demise of colonialism all over the world.
All that said, I've said this before and I repeat: Gandhi wasn't wrong about everything. Some of the things he was rigid about were actually very right (e.g. jati-
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dharma as the foundation of Hinduism). It was just his aura, the idea he represented--and fanatically propagated--which was pure negative.
We are yet to snap out of various enslaving, deluding ideas that continue to bind the consciousness of this land.
Hinduism is a culture +
dharma as the foundation of Hinduism). It was just his aura, the idea he represented--and fanatically propagated--which was pure negative.
We are yet to snap out of various enslaving, deluding ideas that continue to bind the consciousness of this land.
Hinduism is a culture +
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..of action, sanguine & warlike. Our very character has been corrupted. We have thought paralysis and passive by default. We are caught in momentum. That is the reason for our diminution. Why we fail to wrest initiative. Lacking channeling into assertive action, our natural +
..of action, sanguine & warlike. Our very character has been corrupted. We have thought paralysis and passive by default. We are caught in momentum. That is the reason for our diminution. Why we fail to wrest initiative. Lacking channeling into assertive action, our natural +
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..aggression has been perverted into a fanaticism of ideas. That's why Hindus are such fanatics of their own opinions. All this SM chatter is not a sign of vibrancy, freedom or refreshing thought. It is the noise, the kolaahal of the unconscious.
..aggression has been perverted into a fanaticism of ideas. That's why Hindus are such fanatics of their own opinions. All this SM chatter is not a sign of vibrancy, freedom or refreshing thought. It is the noise, the kolaahal of the unconscious.
We will continue to be this mass of confused, ill-founded, loud ideas not founded in true knowledge, until we truly come into our own.
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