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Meera Nanda
8 quotes
“The more prominence Hinduism gets abroad, even for wrong reasons like the new age and paganism, the more prestige it gains in India.”
Meera Nanda (born 1954) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dharmic ecology and the neo-Pagan international: the dangers of religious environmentalism in India", 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lunds University, Sweden. 8 July 2004. Quoted from Elst, Koen…
“It is this pagan connection that has brought people like Koenrard Elst, David Frawley and many others in close collaboration with Hindu nationalists.”
Meera Nanda (born 1954) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dharmic ecology and the neo-Pagan international: the dangers of religious environmentalism in India", 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lunds University, Sweden. 8 July 2004. Quoted from Elst, Koen…
“Indian government funded in part the work of ISKCON (Hare Krishna) in re-forestation of Vrindavan. Department of environment is supporting temples to maintain sacred groves. Ecological aspects of Sanatana dharma have been included in the school text books of at least one state, UP.”
Meera Nanda (born 1954) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dharmic ecology and the neo-Pagan international: the dangers of religious environmentalism in India", 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lunds University, Sweden. 8 July 2004. Quoted from Elst, Koen…
“I will argue that sacredness of nature does not protect nature. Just because people venerate trees and rivers does not meant that they will take care of them.”
Meera Nanda (born 1954) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dharmic ecology and the neo-Pagan international: the dangers of religious environmentalism in India", 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lunds University, Sweden. 8 July 2004.
“Pride in the achievements of your own tribe is a legitimate emotion. But when pride is fuelled by prejudice against others, it becomes jingoism. Hindu triumphalism is jingoism, pure and simple. It is in fact a very dangerous jingoism targeted directly at Muslim and Christian minorities at home. The fundamental problem with Hindu triumphalism lies with its entirely self-serving and wilful denial that the great monotheistic religions of the world - Islam and Christianity - do have ample theological justifications for pluralism and tolerance.”
Meera Nanda (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Far from being considered the crown jewel of Hinduism, yogic asanas were in fact looked down upon by Hindu intellectuals and reformers—including the great Swami Vivekananda—as fit only for sorcerers, fakirs and jogis….”
Meera Nanda (born 1954) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Not as Old as You Think… …nor very Hindu either. There is telling evidence to debunk this nationalistic myth”, Open The Magazine, 2011, Online Edition, (also quoted in [http://indiafacts.org/eight-anti-india-intellectua…
“The roots of “Vedic science” can be traced to the so-called Bengal Renaissance, which in turn was deeply influenced by the Orientalist constructions of Vedic antiquity as the “Golden Age” of Hinduism. Heavily influenced by German idealism and British romanticism, important Orientalists including H.T. Colebrooke, Max Mueller and Paul Deussen tended to locate the central core of Hindu thought in the Vedas, the Upanishads and, above all, in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Shankara. Despite the deeply anti-rational and idealistic (that is, anti-naturalistic) elements of Advaita Vedanta, key Hindu nationalist reformers – from Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee to Swami Vivekananda – began to find in it all the elements of modernity. Vivekananda took the lead in propagating the view that the monism of Advaita Vedanta presaged the future culmination of all of modern science. Since modern science denied the role of any supernatural force outside nature, Vivekananda claimed that only Vedantic monism was truly scientific for it treated God as an aspect of nature and did not invoke any force external to nature….”
Meera Nanda (born 1954) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and the Hindu Nationalism in India) 2003 (also quoted in )
“The Hindutva literature is replete with glowing tributes to Hindu “renaissance”, which they claim to be similar to the European Renaissance that ushered in the modern age in the West. What they forget is that the Renaissance in the West re-discovered the humanistic and naturalistic sources of the Greek tradition that had been overshadowed by the Catholic Church – the Renaissance humanists rediscovered this-worldly philosophy of Aristotle and critical-realist Socrates over the other-worldly philosophy of Plato. The neo-Hindu “renaissance”, in contrast, re-discovered the most mystical and anti-humanistic elements of the Vedic inheritance – Advaita Vedanta – that had always overshadowed and silenced the naturalistic and scientific traditions in Hinduism and Buddhism. Neo-Hinduism is no renaissance, but a revival. There is no denying that the neo-Hindu “discovery” of modern science in ancient teachings of Vedas and Upanishads had a limited usefulness. Since they had convinced themselves that their religion was the mother of all sciences, conservative Hindus did not feel threatened by scientific education. As long as science could be treated as “just another name” for Vedic truths, they were even enthusiastic to learn it…..”
Meera Nanda (born 1954) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and the Hindu Nationalism in India) 2003 (also quoted in )