No single person in the history of mankind has been as influential and successful as Swami Vivekananda was, in establishing a broad framework for civil interfaith discussion
Even in this era of the overall decline of dharmic values in our life and despite concerted actions of anti-dharmic religions and hostile government policies, it still appears to be a strong resilient force
The progressive thinkers who were educated either in western universalities or their Indian counterparts were greatly impressed by the progress of Western civilization, everything native, to them was superstitious and obscurantist
Seeds of secularism were first sown by the British Colonialists as an administrative policy for two main reasons : Deconstruction of those Dharmic values that were less amenable to colonial economic order and creation of pro-colonialist socio-political order
This Capitalist Financial Colonialism is an extension of erstwhile political and military colonialism lead by European and even Arabian states. Root and identity of this order lie in Abrahamic tradition
The only way to break the vicious circle seems returning to roots; rediscovering our tradition, its values and knowledge system form original source itself
First Bauddha analogy that comes to mind pertains to the fire circle created by firebrand. As evident, there is no circle as such but a false appearance.
Like any other philosophical system, both the schools attempt truth from their respective stand point. The question of the Vedanta school is – Who am I? For the Buddhist school it is – ‘What is ‘I’?