Ishwa helper Reged: 03/03/02 Posts: 553

Re: Mahadev as Guru and on Earth!!! [Re: sickofviolence] #18960 - 07/31/02 03:31 AM Edit Reply Quote

Hmm, of course the respect part is okay, it's as ancient as Hinduism is. Considering everyone as god is also okay, basically. But not everyone is aware of his divinity. Then someone has to have the guts to mention that when needed, whatever diplomatic action that takes. The same counts towards the systems developed by someone who isn't aware. Some such systems may be very harmful. Just having Sadhana and waiting for prosperity to come is very naive. It takes a lot of hard work, critical examinations and awareness of social tendencies (within and outside the own society/nation), etc. True Sadhana is not oneway traffic: it is not only just getting rainfalls of divinity, it is also supplying others with the waters of that rainfall. It's about hard work to irrigate the deserts of poverty of uncritical minds not depending on the engine of selfawareness, but on the artifical waterfalls of dependance.