How come there is a sustained strong culture and religion in India when no one in India live with an intention of upholding the culture or religion?
How come continued heavy funding by christian missionaries in establishing numerous schools, colleges and hospitals did not have any considerable impact on religious conversion? Whereas they are overwhelmingly successful in every other place in the world.
How come Mughals were not successful in spreading islam as much as the effort that they had taken for the same? In the end after failed attempts they resorted to forceful conversion.
If you notice, almost all the countries in the present day are heavily influenced by American culture, everyone changed their lifestyle very similar to american lifestyle, american media rule their places but India alone is an exception. Why is this the case?
Ever wondered why Buddhism, which was widely accepted in many parts of the world, have no presence in its birth place - India?
I repeat no one in India live with a strong intention of upholding the culture or religion.
Because you should understand there is a science behind "cultural influence" and everyone in India is being controlled by the conscious effort of few people who are experts and thorough professionals on this subject.
About 1000 years back when buddhism was growing at a rampant pace, Adi Shankara came up with a revolutionary concept of 'Self' in order to combat ever growing influence of Gautam Buddha in India. According to this concept, if one person live with the importance of 'Self' then that spreads among everyone in the society who has attachment to that person. So he had setup four mathas (and also in Kanchi) where the shankaracharyas follow the process defined by him thereby living a life giving importance to 'Self'. As a result, it got spread to everyone in India living with the importance of 'Self' (unconsciously) and are not impacted by anything external whatsoever. The system is so strong even today. The continued efforts by different religions, like Mughals and Christian Missionaries, through campaigns, establishments and various other means could not disturb the strong system. As no one in India ever live with strong intention of maintaining the culture or religion, the sense of culture remain strong because of strong influence of these four mathas across India. Adi Shankara came up with a thoughtful and professional approach to establish a process in order to have a continued strong cultural influence across India. Even god was not considered external, right now if you think god as someone as an external entity or a third person whom you can rely on then you will realize that the life is actually worse. We unconsciously believe god to be part of 'Self'.
Before Adi Shankara, everyone lived life being influenced by external entities at large. If you look at the history of Tamilnadu it was largely a competition between shaivaites and vaishnavaites, people were vigorously involved in literature contributions in praise of either shiva or vishnu mainly because of competition. The race got so intense that some of the shaivaite kings used to attack vaishnavaite temples and vice versa. It is worth to note that such a competition between shaivaites and vaishnavaites stopped abruptly ONE FINE DAY, there was no more than 63 nayanars or 12 alwars and no more temples being constructed on praise of shaivaites and vaishnavaites, this is mainly due the fundamentally revolutionary concept of 'Self' and the corresponding process implemented by Adi Shankara.
You should always understand that you lead a life that you are unconsciously strongly influenced by the hindu culture. Any culture is successful if it can influence the people towards itself, it is not through the intention of individuals to stick to culture and such a coordinated intention based society is deemed to fail. Even today, rest of the world is largely influenced by the external influencers. An article or a campaign or any kind of recognition with motive make a large impact on everyone's life, contradictory to indians who are least bothered by the same.
Adi Shankara achieved it through a thorough professional approach.
How come continued heavy funding by christian missionaries in establishing numerous schools, colleges and hospitals did not have any considerable impact on religious conversion? Whereas they are overwhelmingly successful in every other place in the world.
How come Mughals were not successful in spreading islam as much as the effort that they had taken for the same? In the end after failed attempts they resorted to forceful conversion.
If you notice, almost all the countries in the present day are heavily influenced by American culture, everyone changed their lifestyle very similar to american lifestyle, american media rule their places but India alone is an exception. Why is this the case?
Ever wondered why Buddhism, which was widely accepted in many parts of the world, have no presence in its birth place - India?
I repeat no one in India live with a strong intention of upholding the culture or religion.
Because you should understand there is a science behind "cultural influence" and everyone in India is being controlled by the conscious effort of few people who are experts and thorough professionals on this subject.
About 1000 years back when buddhism was growing at a rampant pace, Adi Shankara came up with a revolutionary concept of 'Self' in order to combat ever growing influence of Gautam Buddha in India. According to this concept, if one person live with the importance of 'Self' then that spreads among everyone in the society who has attachment to that person. So he had setup four mathas (and also in Kanchi) where the shankaracharyas follow the process defined by him thereby living a life giving importance to 'Self'. As a result, it got spread to everyone in India living with the importance of 'Self' (unconsciously) and are not impacted by anything external whatsoever. The system is so strong even today. The continued efforts by different religions, like Mughals and Christian Missionaries, through campaigns, establishments and various other means could not disturb the strong system. As no one in India ever live with strong intention of maintaining the culture or religion, the sense of culture remain strong because of strong influence of these four mathas across India. Adi Shankara came up with a thoughtful and professional approach to establish a process in order to have a continued strong cultural influence across India. Even god was not considered external, right now if you think god as someone as an external entity or a third person whom you can rely on then you will realize that the life is actually worse. We unconsciously believe god to be part of 'Self'.
Before Adi Shankara, everyone lived life being influenced by external entities at large. If you look at the history of Tamilnadu it was largely a competition between shaivaites and vaishnavaites, people were vigorously involved in literature contributions in praise of either shiva or vishnu mainly because of competition. The race got so intense that some of the shaivaite kings used to attack vaishnavaite temples and vice versa. It is worth to note that such a competition between shaivaites and vaishnavaites stopped abruptly ONE FINE DAY, there was no more than 63 nayanars or 12 alwars and no more temples being constructed on praise of shaivaites and vaishnavaites, this is mainly due the fundamentally revolutionary concept of 'Self' and the corresponding process implemented by Adi Shankara.
You should always understand that you lead a life that you are unconsciously strongly influenced by the hindu culture. Any culture is successful if it can influence the people towards itself, it is not through the intention of individuals to stick to culture and such a coordinated intention based society is deemed to fail. Even today, rest of the world is largely influenced by the external influencers. An article or a campaign or any kind of recognition with motive make a large impact on everyone's life, contradictory to indians who are least bothered by the same.
Adi Shankara achieved it through a thorough professional approach.
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