White people have gone from savages to civilized and technologically advanced in the last 1000 years and Indians have gone from civilized and spiritually advanced to a subjugated people in the same 1000 years in which white men had a linear progress. How can we explain this ?
In my view the answer lies in the passive and escapist attitude of Indian culture. The idea of running away from this life and trying to find answers beyond this world. Why do we have to quit the temporal world to explore spirituality ? Why did Buddha leave his palace and his duties of a king to explore the nature of human existence. Couldn't he have done the same while still attending his day to day duties. When Gita talks about duty as supreme ? I think that makes sense. You don't have to quit your duties to seek spirituality, to explore the limitations of human existence. Christ was a carpenter and a preacher at the same time. If this world is maya, why are we here. Why did nature destined us to be here. To think that this world is maya is a very fatalistic attitude and makes a person passive and unwilling to live life fully.
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