Re: Define the responsibilities of a Hindu
Originally Posted by
Viraja
Namaste KT ji,
Just now I noticed your post.
As suggested by you, then, a comprehensive list of 'responsibilities' for a Hindu would then include 2 major categories - i) Responsibilities to one's kith and kin ii) Responsibilities to the society.
It would have been great to arrive at relevant points based on the above criteria. Since I just thought of points as and when they occured to them and posted them, I did not think of any particular grouping or order. It would have been really nice to have taken your approach right from the beginning.
Thank you for the contribution.
Regards,
Viraja
Namaste Viraja,
Thank you for noticing my post.
And yes that's what I meant: obligations to those Hindus that are near and dear to us, and obligations to those Hindus that we don't know about. I also called these "strong" and "weak" bonds respectively.
It is interesting to think how in India we Hindus - though pretty solid in terms of the strong bonds- are so lacking in terms of the weak bond; just take a look at how they are so disorganised religiously, culturally and politically in their own country to their own detriment.
On the other extreme of the spectrum are the non-native Hindus (non Indian Āstika-s) where all that we have is weak bonds- organisational efforts such as Hare Krishna etc- that have helped build a presence of Dharma in those lands. But the real challenge today is how al this is going to survive without the strong bonds, surely it is not hard to find many who are the alone Hindu in their families and their circles.
Things to remember:
1. Life = yajña
2. Depth of Āstika knowledge is directly proportional
to the richness of Sanskrit it is written in
3. Āstika = Bhārata ("east") / Ārya ("west")
4. Varṇa = tripartite division of Vedic polity
5. r = c. x²
where,
r = realisation
constant c = intelligence
variable x = bhakti
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