Swedish Model, Teach all major religions mandatory for all

Below mail sent as input suggestion to New Educational Policy.

Namaste,

The country is seen in turmoil over lack of proper understanding on religious values. Kashmir Youth and even school students are in streets, why? Do we provide a platform for all children to learn,understand and accept that all different religions talk on love,compassion and truth?

Sweden schools, make it mandatory for all children before they complete their school life to learn about all major religions of the world for all students. I felt its a shame that children in Sweden learns that Caste is Security, while here in India we are taught Caste is bad, how ignorant we are of our own strengths? Please bring real secular education of treating all major religions equally, making it mandatory for all children.

If Rene Guenon talks of Caste for preserving Hinduism, Jagadguru Kanchi Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi elaborately explains all these....why are we denied all these wisdom? Is not education which says 'thamasoma jyothirgamaya', and we claim SatyameJayam, its time we share these truths to our future generation without sacrificing more human suffering and lives because of ignorance.

If Christianity is given the special treatment in Sweden, for exactly the same reason in India Hinduism could be given special treatment.

Also attached contents of Swedish religious book about Hinduism, which may be a shock to many of us about how Caste is Security to Hinduism.

The sister religions of Hinduism, for example, the religions of Greece and Rome, have long since perished. But thanks to the caste system with the Brahmins as safe-guarders of religion we have today a Hinduism which is still living and which down to this century has produced flowers of sanctity.

http://www.reneguenon.net/Ingles/Inglesguenonbiografia.html மற்ற தேசங்களிலும் சரி, நம் தேசத்திலும் சரி; மற்ற மதங்கள் போய்விட்ட போதிலும் இதுமட்டும் பதினாயிரம் வருஷமாகப் போகாமலிருக்கிறதென்றால், அவைகளில் இல்லாத எதுவோ இதில் இருக்கிறது என்றுதானே அர்த்தம்? அது என்ன என்று பார்த்தால், வர்ண தர்மம்தான் நமக்கு மட்டும் பிரத்தியேகமாக இருக்கிறது. ஆகையால் வர்ண தர்மம் சமூகச் சீர்குலைவுக்கே காரணம் என்று புது நாகரீகக்காரர்கள் சொன்னாலும், இது இருக்கிற நம் சமூகம்தான் சீர்குலையாமல் இருந்து வருகிறது. http://www.kamakoti.org/tamil/part1kural32.htm http://www.thelocal.se/20101011/29540

In a move described as "the government steamrollering the agency", Björklund has decided that Christianity should continue to receive special treatment when teaching religion in schools.

“It’s not that the Christian religion is better than any other, rather it has to do with the enormous influence Christianity has had on our country, and still does have in our part of the world,” Björklund explained.

The agency had proposed that the world's five main religions, which are all taught in religious education classes Swedish schools, should be given equal emphasis.

Preserving our Monuments - What have I done?

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/06/architecture/victoria-lautman-wells/index.html

"There are hundreds of them, just crumbling to dust. My goal is to show people, tell as many people as I can, about these stepwells. People will start asking, 'How do I go see them?' When tourists start coming -- then that's when things will be preserved."

Will teachers talk about Victoria's interest in preserving India's ancient step wells, and ask the students what ARE WE DOING TO PRESERVE COUNTRY'S MONUMENTS?would the local tourists like to visit these places to preserve?

We can make our students to rediscover the country's past just like what Victoria from America is trying to do about country's deep step wells. In the country, deep step wells are just one of the millions of things to rediscover....

Read Mahakavi Bharathys thoughts on the education and how he questions even the style architecture of Universities in the country done in Italian style, while architecture of British Universities are not done in Italian style, but Britain's own style...and He says our Universities/Schools should have that Indian style of architecture even...Wonder what he would say, when he sees many things British now in schools and colleges and even homes and in governance and posts after 100 years of his writing.

Thirumoolar on Temples and Pujas there

http://www.tamilvu.org/library/l4100/html/l41A0ind.htm

ஆற்ற அரு நோய் மிக்கு அவனி மழை இன்றிப்

போற்ற அரு மன்னரும் போர் வலி குன்றுவர்

கூற்று உதைத்தான் திருக் கோயில்கள் எல்லாம்

சாற்றிய பூசைகள் தப்பிடில் தானே.

முன்னவனார் கோயில் பூசைகள் முட்டிடின்

மன்னர்க்குத் தீங்கு உள வாரி வளம் குன்றும்

கன்னம் களவு மிகுந்திடும் காசினி

என் அரு நந்தி எடுத்து உரைத்தானே.

http://www.rediff.com/news/report/pm-modi-receives-artefacts-worth-rs-668-cr-stolen-and-smuggled-to-us/20160607.htm PM Modi receives artefacts worth Rs 668 cr that were stolen and smuggled to US http://www.theweek.in/theweek/cover/illegal-trade-of-art-and-artefacts.html

According to conservative estimates, in any given decade starting from the 1950s, the number of idols smuggled out of India was between 10,000 and 20,000, and the worth was about Rs 20,000 crore. “Next to human and drug trafficking, art is the most profitable business,” says Prateep Philip....

The richness of Indian artefacts is the main lure. The Chola period sculptures, or the panchaloha idols, have been in demand because of their mix of five metals—gold, copper, silver, iron and lead. In some cases, tin or zinc is used.

Many blame the government’s apathy for the loot.....For instance, the Sripuranthan temple remained locked for several years....

Why only blame the govt? Why temples should be locked for several years? Would thefts happen if people regularly visit such temples? Who will tell them about the benefits of temple worship? The lines of Thirumoolar? Would the modern so called spiritual leaders ask their so called followers, instead of coming here, will you go and pray in temples?NEVER. How can they when they want to be Gods themselves and demand fee for Darshan/Initiation/Course fee/etc. for they alone know the Art of luring.

Thirumoolar says its very clearly what happens when temples are kept in poor maintenance, he said it 3000 years before.Kings built great temples in the absence of so called science and technology, but now with the presence of it or perhaps we have this and lost that knowledge of making idols building temples, we lack knowledge and wisdom to maintain and so face consequences as said in Thirumoolar. Anyway as the article says slowly idols are returning and find their place here...hope of silver lining seen.

Why did we become stone hearts?

When I saw in TV that day, I felt the country and society is waiting for a really big major disaster.For the society is getting ready to welcome such suffering by having turned the hearts to stone hard. Very often teachers say,'You are preparing to fail, if you do not prepare well for exam'. Same here, we are preparing for a failure or disaster by not doing the duty towards our fellow human suffering.

I used to talk about our TNagar scenes with students, there we see multi story jewellery/silk shops and right in the front we can also see limbless people on the ground with sand and sweat all over the body looking for few coins...Lets ask ourselves...Why did we become so stone hearts?

Even animals are better...None questions...PM wants to wear costly dress and so the people want to wear in silks and golds, completely blind and oblivious to the society's suffering.How did we become so insensitive?

I squarely blame on education as quoted,'Open your eyes and see what a piteous cry for food is rising in the land of Bharata, proverbial for its wealth. Will your education fulfill this want? Never'...More than 100 years back by Swami Vivekananda said it and we continue to see the ugly insensitive faces amidst us.

Any Guru wants to talk on these....Any action plan for these people begging...Any trust to be formed to help these poor? Yet every so called spiritual gurus wants to talk on Yoga, Tantra, Mantra,Meditation,Art of Killing...what not...ready to indulge even in the name of spirituality while people are dying and suffering, if they really care they will tell their followers go and help those suffering people instead of coming here...Would any of these so called Gurus say it?Never.

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/08/25/for-a-man-who-had-to-carry-his-wifes-dead-body-for-10-kilometre/ Lets cover our face in shame or do something to wipe the tears of fellow human suffering.

Hinduism a way of life

http://www.chakranews.com/hinduism-way-life-really-know-means/5662?utm_campaign=Contact+SNS+For+More+Referrer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=snsanalytics

Hinduism a way of life - I was reading this to see what the writer wants to convey and was disappointed nothing much was explained about way of life in the article.

To me, when we call it way of life(in fact almost every religion would like to claim theirs also a way of life not really a set of rules and regulations) what comes to mind is Hinduism's best social security, Caste system or Varna Dharma as its called. Its this Caste system or Division of labour based on our previous birth's good/bad deeds now gives us a place in society. Each one finds their determined role in Varna Dharma or Caste system and is expected to perform each one's duty without expecting any result as said in Bhagavad Gita. In the absence of Caste or Varna Dharma all these things are of no meaning, but mere words. If Swedish religious text books for classes 7-9 can teach their children in Sweden that Caste is a Security by giving determined roles and people belonging to one caste finds a sense of security being part of that caste, here in India, thanks to English colonial master's education even after 70 yrs of independence we still like to be intellectual slaves to such education and unable to think like our forefathers on Varna Dharma.

When everyone knows what to do and how to do in each of one's Caste, thats the way of life and best social security for the society.All works are for society's welfare but at the same time a cleaning process for the individual's own hearts to see the divine within one's own Self. Everyone's doing their work or prescribed duty for society's welfare, without any competition or compulsion makes it the cleaning process of one's own heart.So Hinduism tells one to live the live according to the prescribed duty and by doing it for society's welfare one will see the God within one's own Self and that is Mukthi or Liberation or Salvation or end of the way of life as one may want to call.This is how I understand Hinduism as a way of life with Kanchi MahaSwamigal's Deivathin Kural to help in this understanding.

MS Subbulakshmi's music in UN and so called tribute now....

Ever since I came to know that ARR will perform in UN to remember MSS, I was thinking only through such events he can get a chance to get a name as only second Indian to perform in UN assembly hall after MSS.

The very fact that talking of MSS to ARR ITSELF IS THE biggest blunder of degradation that has happened to carnatic music world. (Only music I liked in ARR was Roja film, after that he became a tool in cultural degradation through music, but well supported by degraded masses to love such noise and music)

http://www.thehindu.com/thread/arts-culture-society/article9002846.ece

people questioning the validity of the whole show. How exactly does Rahman represent MSS or her music genre?

Does anyone talk of the composer of Maithreem Bhajatha? Kanchi MahaSwamigal composed it for the special occasion when MSS was invited to represent Indian classical music.

True to that, when I google further, I came across this article which proves that....

http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-cultural-incongruence-rahman-paying-tribute-to-ms-2244013

She would have cried “Jai ho!” if, instead of incurring the astronomical costs of transporting and hosting 40 musicians from India, the show had been held in Chennai, and the proceeds donated to her favourite charities -- healthcare and education.

In her 1966 UN concert, MS advocated friendship among nations and world peace, with an anthem echoing values from the Upanishad- damyata (austerity), datta (charity), dayadhvam (compassion), qualities she practised in her own life.

The New York Times declared, “Subbulakshmi’s vocal communication transcends words.”

I wonder anyone who understands these lines or in carnatic music term called the Bhaava of singing, music soaked with Bhakthi and Bhakthi alone which NONE seems to have after MS Subbulakshmi and yet each want to claim they are paying tributes to MSS...காலத்தின் கோலம் என்பதா அல்லது கலியின் காலடியில் கர்நாடக சங்கீதத்தின் நிலை என்பதா?

பள்ளிப் பருவத்தில் வந்தே மாதரம் பாட்டைப் பற்றி படித்தது ஞாபகம் வருகிறது. பாரம் பாரிய கர்நாடக சங்கீதத்தில் பாடிய ''வந்தே மாதரம்'' பாடலை ரஹ்மானின் modern கத்தலையும் ஒரு புத்தகத்தில் பாட்டிக்கள்(grandmas) வருத்தத்துடன் இப்படிப் பண்ணறாங்களே என்று துக்கப் பட்டார்கள். இன்று கத்தல்களை சங்கீதம் என்று கத்துகிறார்கள்.... மகாகவி பாரதியின் வரிகள் ஞாபகம் வருகிறது ...

நண்ணிய பெருங்கலைகள்-பத்து நாலாயிரங் கோடி நயந்துநின் ற புண்ணிய நாட்டினிலே-இவர் பொறியற்ற விலங்குகள் போலவாழ் வார்

http://mio.to/album/MS.+Subbulakshmi/Live+at+United+Nations+Vol+2

Kendra Vidyalayas - One model for one country?

While I was a witness to the Kendra Vidyalaya in CLRI, Adyar morning assembly and being part of their Awakened Citizen Program inaugural day, what went in my mind was,'Why all schools be like Kendra Vidyalaya CLRI?' . Really speaking it was wonderful patriotic feeling is what I went through. School conducting the assembly in Hindi brought in the National unity through the language.

I sincerely believe one country one syllabus,just as one common entrance exam the govt is trying to bring. And I feel Kendra Vidyalaya should be that one school system to be followed.If there are any issues in the existing system, they could be sorted out, rather than bringing numerous boards and syllabus into the country/states.