Wasn’t Vedic culture destroyed because of its own faults and not external forces like Macaualay’s schemes?.m4a

From R Jogani P

The Q to be asked is not how did Darwin or Macaulay or Islam or anything else spoil our culture but rather “How did we let all of them spoil our culture?” Any culture which cannot protect itself from outside forces needs to introspect. It is the job of outsiders to disrupt us and they are doing a damn good job of it. We should expect no favours from them.

There are far too many weakness’ in Indian culture which make us incapable of successfully meeting challenges posed by foreign aggressors.

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Hare Krishna question from Rajesh Chowdhury this is a comment on the earlier question answered how did Macaulay destroy Vedic culture so the comment is that rather than saying that somebody destroyed Vedic culture we should be asking the question why did we allow them to destroy the Vedic culture it is our culture that has many faults because of which it got it was destroyed by others the problem is within us not with others answer yes it is true that if Indians had followed the Vedic culture faithfully then the external forces would not have had so much influence in terms of debilitating and destroying it even at its foundations or to speak of any superstructure so the destruction happened because we did not follow the Vedic teachings properly so when we say that there is problem with our culture we also have to understand it carefully the problem is not in the scriptures, the scriptures and the revelation of God and taking a few profound principles which are applicable universally based on adjustment of time and place circumstances of course so they are universal principles which offer illumination just as the sun offers illumination at all times, ancient, modern, medieval post-modern, all times so like that the Vedic scriptures offer illumination for life at all times but those principles if they are not understood properly and if they are implemented dogmatically by people with vested interest then they can become misused as tools for perpetuating power by selfish people so that was what happened in the Vedic culture and there was the discriminatory caste system, there were many unfortunate social practices and those practices which were rationalized in the name of religion became the target of attack by many western people so yes what Shila Prabhupada did was Prabhupada did not go about blaming anyone he of course, he strongly spoke against those who were misleading but Shila Prabhupada focused not on blaming others but on presenting the proper understanding when Shila Prabhupada was asked how were you able to spread Krishna Conscious so vigorously all over the world, Prabhupada’s reply was disarmingly sweet and simple he said Krishna is all attractive I just presented him and he attracted everyone and of course this is not to deny Shila Prabhupada worked vigorously ingeniously, industriously to share Krishna Consciousness no doubt but along with that it is the truth that the conception of Krishna as God and the whole experience of bhakti is so rich, so fulfilling that one cannot but become attracted to it if one understands it properly and if one is presented to it properly, it’s quite likely that one will understand it so that’s what Shila Prabhupada did and that’s what we should do so even in my Macaulay answer also I have emphasized the point that our purpose is not to blame our purpose is to understand social historical forces at work and to see how they have acted and how they can be countered or how they can be channelized for sharing Krishna Consciousness so our focus is definitely not on blaming anyone nor is it on blaming the Vedic culture itself we have to understand the original Vedic culture and we have to understand how it has become distorted and correct those distortions so we don’t at all play the blame game when we want to say that somebody has caused this, somebody has caused this we simply want to identify the forces that have attacked the Vedic culture so it’s like a war is going on, we need to know from where the enemy is coming but if the enemy wins, we are not going to say that the enemy won because we were no use or the enemy was better the point is that we should know from where the enemy is coming so that we can counter so both are true the enemy might have been strong and we might have been weak but we have inner strength we means it’s not we in a egoistic sense it is actually the message of God that is coming through us through the Vedic culture so it is God’s message, it is meant for everyone so there is no we and they in terms of God’s message being meant for everyone but within this cultural context there are some people who are receptive to God’s message and some people are hostile to God’s message so we can have the Vedic differentiation in that limited context so the point is that there are no, the faults are not inherently in the Vedic culture as it is given in the Vedic literature but in its application, especially in its misappropriation by people with vested interests there is a serious problem they all work very vigorously to try to rescue the pristine Vedic culture from the hands of those who are misappropriating it and causing alienation of people in general so the original Vedic message is very broad, it is universal it is attractive, all attractive in fact so if we understand it properly and present it properly then whatever harm has been done by whichever social historical forces that harm can be countered and people can again get enriched and empowered by the fruits that the Vedic culture is offering to them so that was Srila Prabhupada’s mood Srila Prabhupada, he focused on writing books and speaking about Krishna to people and as he spoke about Krishna to people more and more people became attracted and whatever misconceptions they had, he addressed them so we should not focus on blaming anyone, we should focus on sharing Krishna consciousness in an intelligible and sensitive way and people will become attracted and in that way, whatever negative effects might have been in history, we can slowly but surely contribute to counter them Thank you, Hare Krishna