Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00758)

Anand,

> Here in my city there is Rajanish Ashram which has almost 
> Californian culture and many other conservative organizations.
I've never been in your city, but I find it hard to image any place in 
the world with anything like a California culture. I will ask Indian 
friends who live here, but I suspect they will think I'm trying to tell 
them a joke.

> Each 
> organization has unique philosophy and yogic practice which they 
> follow. Atleast 15 big organizations and many more small spiritual, 
> yoga organizations are there in the city. But interesting thing is 
> follower of one organization does not attack beliefs or 
> personalities of other organizations.
Perhaps, you are thinking of San Francisco. Rajneesh was once popular 
in San Francisco. Though San Francisco is in California, the culture 
there is nothing like the rest of California. It is sort of its own 
universe. 
> Almost same condition is there in whole of India. Governmet 
> also does not fear that any organization could be subversive. 
> It would be interesting to know why such big difference is there in 
> social condition here and elsewhere. 
There is no government persecution of religion here either. It is 
certain radical fundamentalist Christians which are occasionally a 
problem. But you may have a similar problem with radical fundamentalist 
Muslims. Some came here about four years ago, hijacked several 
commercial airliners and flew two of them into two Skyscrapers in New 
York. It made a lot of people here very upset and distrustful of Muslims. 
Jerry





Anand Gholap wrote:

> Jerry,
> There is huge difference in social condition here and the US, France, 
> Greece etc. Here in my city there is Rajanish Ashram which has almost 
> Californian culture and many other conservative organizations. Each 
> organization has unique philosophy and yogic practice which they 
> follow. Atleast 15 big organizations and many more small spiritual, 
> yoga organizations are there in the city. But interesting thing is 
> follower of one organization does not attack beliefs or 
> personalities of other organizations. Every person respects others' 
> rights to follow philosophy, organization they like. So it is much 
> easier. Almost same condition is there in whole of India. Governmet 
> also does not fear that any organization could be subversive. 
> It would be interesting to know why such big difference is there in 
> social condition here and elsewhere. 
> Anand Gholap