Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00806)

Jerry,
> 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. 

No. It is not exactly Californian but inside Ashram it is more 
American than Indian.

> 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. 

It is interesting to know some Christians are also radical and 
fundamentalist. In Kashmir there is some problem but elsewhere there 
is no much problem. 
What makes me wonder is American society is so cosmopolitan, to some 
extent cultured and still students of Theosophy there attack each 
other's beliefs forgetting that everybody has right to follow anybody 
or any philosophy.

Anand Gholap
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> Anand Gholap wrote:
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> >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
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