C P Brown: Cultural Clash

10. CLASH OF CULTURES

Western Culture
Let us take a look at the WESTERN society, the wealthiest, the strongest, and the most loquacious; That society consists of:
20% Single parents,
40 % Divorcees,
30% alcoholics

It abounds in Juvenile delinquency, same sex marriages, drug addiction, Aids, paedophiles, lesbianism, Euthanasia, pornographic literature, Blue films. They do not let us know that 80% churches are closed most of the year, not even 1 in 10000 people attend a church even on Sundays.
Let us face facts. Is this picture presented in their media? In their pictures? By their Converting Christian Chaplains? On the other hand there is not one western media that doesn’t keep denigrating India day in and day out, on some issue or other. Economically, the ENTIRE WEST is propped up by three industries – WEAPONS, Automobile and consumer goods and two driving forces SEX and food. For example the entire Income of Scotland is from sale of Whisky!! The ‘purpose’ of life is not a concept that crosses a single western mind.

Indian culture
From an Indian view point that type of competitive life, living on the dead carcasses of millions of Red Indians or Vietnamese or Iraqis is NOT WORTH LIVING. Breeding, killing and eating a millions cows / hen / sheep daily is abhorable. It is a waste of life. Soon the LIFE FORCE will destroy such civilisations as it has destroyed the Greek, Roman, Persian, Babylonian civilisations.

India teaches that the purpose of Life is to uphold DHARMA, and the main planks for living are Sarva Loka Hitattvam; Sarva bhuta Samatvam. As Aurobindo said India is the only country, which directed the entire human energy towards the aim of seeing and achieving divinity in this life. Thousands of books, monuments, arts, daily life, rituals, music, painting, sculpture, even clothes and ornaments, show a grand movement towards peace, and through peace intellectual scaling of heights in thought and finally Jeevan Mukti, through the four Purusharthas.

But due to the injection and infection of an ephemeral value system of the west a national amnesia has come over us .We are in a coma as a nation, which is now of our own making. We have to get out of the coma and be awake to the beckoning of Vivekananda / Aurobindo / Tilak / Bose, not to speak of all the Udghosha of the Upanishads.

The clash
A part of this waking up is to throw out all those poisonous concepts spread by Macaulay at a national level and CPB at a regional level in Andhra. CPB spread his own type of poison – Brahmins abhor Jangams hinting that; Brahmins excommunicated Vemana, suppressed Vemana, held tight their palm leafs, did not even know how to save their books!

Our Weapon is our culture

Aurobindo states on Sanskrit as the vehicle of our culture, (which is equally applicable to Telugu for Andhras and otherlanguages for their states). Indian scholarships have one advantage an intimate feeling of the language, which the European cannot hope to possess. For a European, Sanskrit words are dead counters while to the Hindu they are living things, the very soul of whose temperament he understands and whose possibilities he can judge to a hair. Lack of a sturdy independence, which makes us over-ready to defer to European authority, is today the curse of the nation? How very true when we see this statement in connection with CPB, and his nonsensical utterances.

We are at a cross roads as a nation. What is going to be our choice of Literary effulgence for the future generations a Potana or Tikkana or Nannaya or a Sri, Sri, Arudra and Bangorey. Are we going the CPB way downgrading our literary works and values and achievements? That is the clash / the fight / the argument.