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Articles: My Experience | What I know about my own great Culture and Religion...
- Mr. narayanamurthy amirapu
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Last weekend while i was walking around the streets in Galway, I accidentally met a Harekrishnite from Russia, who is here in galway on a tour, it happened so he asked me about my whereabouts as our conversation went on for sometime. I happened to ask him how he was in to this harekrishna.
He breifed me about his experinces aswell the reasons which made him to be apart of ISCKON, as our conversation went on which was about the Indian culture, dharma and Vedanta and the present situations prevailing in India. I was perplexed by his knowledge and his devotion towards an alien religion, culture. I could not answer some of his questions about our culture, as well the depth of knowledge he has had really made me feel deprived.
It indeed had made a very big impact on my mind, I started thinking did i neglect the basic nuaisances of our culture, religion which we boast as one of the oldest in the world, a unique in it own way. He has lamented about the present scenario of the youth and their negligence of culture, where as which has made many of the foreigners attracted to it, which is an abyss of knowledge.
He has put many such questions for which i do not have anwers, there were many such aspects where i was not aware of my own roots, my own culture, many more things were out of my reach, which i never ever dreamt that i would be questioned by a unknown entity who by his sheer grit determination and devotion has made me feel the differnce.
I should confess to you all, I was a bit ashamed as well in convenient when I was questioned, ashamed because I could not attain a proper comprehension about by roots and in conveneince caused because he was a foreigner. We bid goodbye to each other and departed, but even today his questions haunt me, some times I feel restless, and it makes me sick to digest the fact that I lack the basic knowledge of many apsects which i should be proud of, which have made us to be Unique.
I do not know whether I have justified to my conciousness, but I still feel that we really lack the essence of our culture. I cannot blame anyone neither my parents nor teachers. I feel that due to impact of Modernisation and the Present state of Art of the world around has made the damage, to neglect these. What do u say?
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