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Dharma Seva Foundation Trust
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--[old 153], Beracah Road, Varadhambal Thottam Main St, Kilpakkam,
Chennai-600010 | Regn
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on LDSFT and Hindu Dharma |
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| | | Must
Read - Articles for All - B
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- 02 | Bala
N. Aiyer, M.D. International President, LDSFT |
01 October, 2007 | |
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An
English Translation of a speech prepared in Tamil for the occasion of the 2nd
Anniversary of LDSFT | |
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this, at basic level of studies, we must encourage all Hindus to study and learn
various aspects of the Hindu paths including the sampradhayas of Smartha, Saiva,
Vaishnava and Saktha, as also the philosophical paths of Vedantha and the simple
thoughts of Village Devatha worship methods. We must teach these without any difference
and once they complete, they can be taught the paths of their choice in higher
studies to follow.
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Then,
there are those who are not interested in seeking spiritual knowledge or performing
any devotional prayers to a Supreme Being, those that ignore such thoughts, the
Agnostics, and those who do not believe in such a Supreme force, the Atheists,
among Hindus who are also part of our community. We must encourage having them
join with us in seeking the truth and learn the paths of Dharma and the true meaning
of our philosophy and prayers. In the same way, those who have been following
other faiths and paths also shall be encouraged to join us in Hindu Dharma if
they come to seek the truth and wish to follow our faith.
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Now,
we need to teach our younger generations all aspects of Hindu Dharma in the proper
way, in accurate but simple way. When we teach our philosophy, history, principles,
devotion, art and the daily practice of our Dharma, we need to think if we are
teaching our faith with proper meaning and proper paths or if we are just teaching
some meaningless blind beliefs and traditions. We also need to analyze if we are
just repeating some baseless age-old texts of the past century about our history
and philosophy as well as the Vedic Texts translations as dictated by the Western
authors of the British rulers in stead of teaching the proper paths, texts, philosophy
and proper history of our faith according to our own research.
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At
the present time, with Western Culture spreading with computer-internet world
view of our younger generation, it is not easy to teach our children the time-old
ancient traditions of Hindu Dharma. At the same time, we can take advantage of
the digital revolution of modern age with Computers, internet, DVD and Television
media to spread this glorious knowledge of our ancient sages more efficiently
around the world to everyone.
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We
have given the details of LDSFT objectives, plans and progress and also photos
and sound recordings of events as also some simple lessons on Hindu Dharma for
everyone in our websites. Please see the websites: www.Lokadharma.org and www.us-hindus.com
. In our families, the parents have been spending most of their time in pushing
their children in their school studies to get more marks, pass competitive examinations
to secure proper higher education in professional colleges and top universities
to gain top employment, forgetting the spiritual part of the human development
of the individual. There is no time for them to pursue the spiritual studies of
Hindu Dharma.
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need to learn all aspects of Hindu Dharma ourselves and then teach that to everyone.
Now this becomes a very important project. In this modern age we do not have the
joint family system like ancient days. We do not have the grand parents to tell
and guide the children about our Dharma and its traditions and customs. We are
also not able to tell them to just listen to the elders and blindly follow the
rules. So, we need to study all aspects of our Dharma ourselves, then as a group
we must take efforts to teach the various aspects of out faith, the philosophy
and traditions of religious beliefs and prayers to the general public and to our
youth.
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we have already discussed, we need to attend to the restoration and renovation
of thousands of our village temples and arrange for daily prayer services and
rituals. We need to train and support several priests, purohits, preachers and
teachers to attend to the growth of our Dharma. We need to create a mechanism
for the proper help for the welfare of these members of our society and their
families for a decent living and for their educational needs. When we work on
these aspects of our Dharma, our people will develop a vigour and a true interest
in our faith. They will start involving themselves with temple activities, learning
our traditions and our Puranas as a united group and show more interest to support
the Temples and other institutions of Hindu Dharma and in the growth of our faith.
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need many Priests, Poojaris, Gurus, Preachers and Teachers for this. We need regularly
employed persons like bankers, engineers, doctors, lawyers, computer specialists
and businessmen who will study and learn Hindu Dharma to become part-time Priests,
Preachers and Teachers on evenings and week-ends to work as volunteers or with
remuneration. We need to organize periodic seminars, lectures, students' camps
and summer retreats to spread the message and develop a disciplined group of devoted
Hindu Dharma followers who will be the future for our community.
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today's seminar, there are several eminent speakers and leaders of our community
who will discuss these aspects of the education of Hindu Dharma and its history
and philosophy. All of you, elders of our community, also should think about the
problems and solutions of these aspects of our Dharma and its survival and help
to create many plans and projects for the advancement of the Hindu Dharma and
Hindu community.
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| | Talk
on LDSFT programmes and Hindu Dharma education Speech
prepared for LDSFT Anniversary Celebrations - Full Text -
by Dr. Bala N. Aiyer | | | | | |
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Vidyã Yã Vimukthaye' Strength
of Knowledge will lead to Liberation | |
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