| How I Became A Hindu - My Discovery Of Vedic Dharma |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| DISCOVERY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HINDUISM | |
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little regimentation in thinking, action or even appearance, no central authority, church
or dogma of any type. RSS groups included everyone and everything as long as there was a
purpose to uplift the nation or to help people. It honored the great sages and rishis of
India from Vedic times to the modern age, including Buddhist, Jain, Sikh and even some
liberal Muslims. Sangha members had a wide range of religious views from almost atheists to swamis. I met Sangha members who were strongly anti-Gandhi to those who greatly honored him. I met those who were staunch capitalists and others that were almost socialists. The Sangha discipline allowed for free-thinking, including internal criticism. Such experiences made me think that Indian journalists were living a totally unreal world. If there were real Hindu militants like Islamic militants such as Hamas, these journalists would not be able to make their criticisms at all. They would really be targeted and threatened! I realized that Indian journalists would denigrate Hindu activists in the media, knowing quite well that they would not be attacked in return. To date there has been no shutting down of newspapers by any RSS related group.
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