Dear Jeyamohan,
I am an ardent reader of your blog in Tamil and English. Sorry, I can’t write in Tamil. I was born and brought up in Mumbai and am now living outside Tamil Nadu.
The endeavors you are undertaking to train young people on philosophy and the arts are laudable and precious. Despite attending various prestigious Indian institutions, I never gained any knowledge about Indian philosophy, art, or culture. I was completely ignorant about this entire lore of knowledge until I began to read your site.
I am really wondering this: how can a country ignore its tradition and indigenous knowledge completely and practically develop a hatred against it? How can we attain original thought and arts if we have no roots?
We have outstanding nation builders in India. How come they couldn’t see this reality? I know your efforts are very small, and you have a lot of financial and organizational limitations. I wish our corporate organizations would help you with this mission.
Ravikanth
Dear Ravikanth
When India attained freedom, we faced a big communal crisis. After witnessing the riots of the 1940s, our nation-builders decided to ignore the traditional education entirely because a major part of it was associated with religion.
Even today, the issue persists. We do not have many places to learn our traditional knowledge and wisdom without adopting old rituals, customs, and outdated mentalities related to it.
Unified Wisdom is slowly developing a system and an institution to teach our philosophy and arts without the outdated way of life and its emotions. That is why we cannot raise enough funds for this venture. Currently, I am funding this entirely with my personal savings. In this situation, we can’t expect enough funding from institutions and well-wishers to do much. Our entire system is either westernized or unbearably orthodox. Ours is a new path, without many travelers. Any activity has its own results. Lets hope!
Jeyamohan
