🏹 KR IRS On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 10:34, 'N Sekar' via iyer123 < [email protected]> wrote:
> While I can appreciate the humour that we, Hindus, enjoy in messages, > memes, stories etc. that takes a dig at our Religion and at ourselves, we > have to understand that the same is being misused and abused by others and > they justify it saying the Hindus themselves do it and hence there is > nothing wrong. > > Yes, our Religion gives us unlimited freedom but it is incumbent upon us > to use it wisely and with caution. Why bring Krishna and Arjuna in this > joke? Can't it be between two people? > > I myself am guilty of forwarding such messages in the past but refrain > from doing so now because it, in a way, amounts to ridiculing our Lord and > Hero. > > You only have to see how the brahmin ladies are ridiculed in Tamizh movies > and tv serials - even the way they dress is not spared. All these because > we ourselves allowed others to ridicule us and now it has become a monster, > beyond our control. We in our household, don't watch any serials as we > can't stand our faith and practices being ridiculed in a crude fashion, but > many, many in the brahmin households are the chief patrons of these > serials. Why people like Mani Ratnam, Kamal Hassan - brahmins, are the > chief culprits as they show brahmins in poor taste in their films. > > Slowly and surely the ground we are conceding to them to ridicule us shows > no boundaries. How far it will go, is beyond my imagination. > > I am against caste differences and don't concede that any caste is > superior or inferior and hold the belief that a brahmin is one by his > conduct and not by birth and the brahmins who are defined in our scriptures > as such are extinct now. We have mostly become Vysyas by Varna, busy as we > are, in massing wealth, myself included. > > I write this to share my views and not to hurt the feelings of the one who > forwarded this mail. > > N Sekar > > > On Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 07:58:03 AM GMT+4, ARR < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > *Hilarious... *Hats off to the one who has applied his/her mind this way... > > *The Karma of Forwarding WhatsApp Messages: New Bhagavad Gita: Adhyaya 19 > (Chapter 19)* > _Arjuna_: "Hey Vasudeva! How can I do this most heinous and unpardonable > act of forwarding WhatsApp messages to my friends, relatives and revered > elders?" > _Krishna_: "O Paarth! At this moment, none of them is your friend or foe, > relative or in-law, young or old and good or evil. You have no escape from > following your Net-Dharma. Make haste to log on and send off the WhatsApp > forwards to one and all. That is the only Karma expected of you and Dharma > you must follow." > _Arjuna_: "Hey Murari! Do not implore me to do something that pricks my > conscience and stirs my soul." > _Krishna_: "O Kunti-Putra, you are caught in the vicious circle of Maya! > In this material world, you are committed to no one except to yourself, > your Dharma, and your mouse. Emails have existed for the last 25 years and > will remain long after you are gone. Now you have WhatsApp. Rise above Maya > and perform your bounden duty." > _Arjuna_: "O Lord Krishna, pray enlighten me on how is WhatsApp related to > Maya?" > _Krishna_: "O Vatsa, WhatsApp is the 7th element in the universe – Aap, > Vaayu, Jal, Agni, Aakaash, email and WhatsApp. It is at the same time > animate and inanimate, living and dead beat. It overloads the system and > fills up the hard disk. But it serves one great purpose. It leads people to > believe that they are filling their time in an intellectual pursuit by > reading and re-forwarding message. It gives them a sense of achievement > without investing their intellect and efforts. Like the Atman that leaves > one’s physical body and moves on to another, the WhatsApp moves from system > to system and never gets deleted or dies." > _Arjun_: "Great Giridhaari, kindly tell me what the true attributes of > WhatsApp are." > _Krishna_: "Neither fire can burn it, nor air can evaporate it. Neither > can it be conquered nor can it be defeated. WhatsApp is omnipresent and > immortal like your noble and eternal soul. Unlike an arrow shot from your > bow, many a time the WhatsApp forwarded by you, will even return to you > safely after some months or even years, allowing you to re-re-forward it to > the same people." > _Arjun_: "Great Saarathi, my salutations to you! You have opened my eyes > to the cult of WhatsApp. I was lost in the Maya and have been reading all > the WhatsApp that I keep receiving and doing no other Karma. Now on, I will > just press the "Forward" button without reading any of it and send it to > all and sundry, friends and foes, relatives and in-laws, young and old. > That will surely bring them to their knees in this epochal battle of Good > against Evil, in the Kurukshetra." > _Krishna_: "O Arjuna, victory or defeat is not in your hands. Do not > ponder over the fruits of your labour. Just keep forwarding WhatsApp and > make one and all read it and you will have done your supreme duty. ... > Tathastu... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iyer123" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/CABnwRDdyuEEA0egYM4fcz%3DMrk50fPE7Vo6iYvt%2B6AY5T8iw6SQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/CABnwRDdyuEEA0egYM4fcz%3DMrk50fPE7Vo6iYvt%2B6AY5T8iw6SQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iyer123" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/141456740.1659652.1661922248241%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/141456740.1659652.1661922248241%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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