Friday, 26 September 2014

REVERSING THE GAZE: LET US LIVE OUR LIFE THROUGH OUR CULTURAL LENS NOT THROUGH SOMEBODY'S LENS; let us be original not a copy.

As Hindus, we are the last remaining carriers of our past wisdom traditions, yet we see our people living a colonized lifestyle, by seeking approval from their Western counterparts for whatever it is we do- be it with regards to our practices or our beliefs.
Until now, we have been seeing ourselves from the eyes of Westerners and modifying

our lifestyle accordingly to become « someone else » and « live someone 's life renouncing our unique perhaps the only chance to live our own life with our own will and wish », it is time to reverse the gaze by looking at ourselves and the rest of the world from a dhārmika lens and through the eyes of our ancient RISHIS who composed the Vedas. However, in order to do that, we first need to understand our dhārmika categories well, and gain a better understanding of our culture and associated traditional models and as TIROUVALUVAR said not only we should master our culture intellectually but also apply it to each and every second of our life and live our culture not only intellectually but also emotionally and socially.

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