Week 63 - Hinduism Classes, Future Thinking, Afghan Shiva Statue
2/27/2021 - Modern Hindu Content
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Resource Highlight: Samskara Foundation
Samskara Foundation is a group “dedicated to encouraging the education and promotion of traditional Indian knowledge system, languages, culture and way of life.”
They are about to start a batch of weekly online classes in mid-March across a variety of topics and age groups. The classes are (linked): Rooted in Dharma, Dharma through Devanagari, Mahabharata: a Guided Study, Educational Heritage of Ancient India, Bhagavad Gita Svadhyaya: Ekashini, and Hanuman Upasana.
You can follow them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SamskaraFdn and on Twitter at @SamskaraFdn
Philosophy Highlight: Future Thinking
Palladium Magazine has an interesting tweet below outlining three important questions people should wrestle with in the modern era.
It would be an interesting exercise for Hindu communities to reflect on their own answers to these. We encourage readers to bring these questions up in their discussion groups, families, and congregations as well to sharpen their thinking and ideally inspire some seva. As we at Eternal Path think about this, our quick answers are below.
We live in a world where people have interest in exploring Hinduism and building community with Hindus, but that a lot of interesting discussions and information are hard to access. Reflecting on (1) makes us realize the pain point of incomplete information.
We envision thousands of Hindus in the diaspora being able to confidently: teach Hinduism, support Hindu communities, and build lasting institutions. Our future is ideally an antifragile Hindu community; one that is vibrant, decentralized, and self-preserving in knowledge, tradition, mutual aid.
We are building that future in (2) every week by sending out interesting Hinduism related content, and connecting readers to resources to help them on their spiritual journeys. We hope you can forward to and sign up your friends, family members, congregants, etc so that they too can take steps toward moksha
Aesthetic: Statue of Shiv Bhagwan from 9th Century Afghanistan
