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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Re: [mukto-mona] বাংলাদেশ :জন্মাষ্টমীর শোভাযাত্রা [3 Attachments]

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Clearly the Hindus of Bangladesh have been getting more religious also. It is going backward along with the Muslims.

About 20 years back, I used to write some commentaries in an internet newspaper in Bangladesh. The editor of that newspaper sent me Janmashtami greetings - wishing something like 'blessings of Lord Krishna' on me and my family. (I am trying not to reveal the identity of that Muslim gentleman because I did not obtain his permission to use it in a public forum.) That was the first and last Janmashtami greetings that I have received in my life of more than 60 years. I thanked the gentleman, but told him that I and the Hindu people that I had mixed with by then, including all my extended family, were not religious enough to ever exchange Janmashrtami greetings.

I am disappointed with this regression of Hindus in Bangladesh. But I suppose, when the majority moves toward religiosity, it is more challenging for the minority to move toward secular humanity. I can also see that the Muslims of Bangladesh can get some praise here - they are being tolerant and welcoming of the religious celebration of the Hindus.

Sukhamaya Bain

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On Tuesday, August 15, 2017 5:39 PM, "'Jamal G. Khan' M.JamalGhaus@gmail.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 

জন্মাষ্টমীর শোভাযাত্রা


শুভ জন্মাষ্টমী উপলক্ষে আজ সোমবার রাজধানীতে বিভিন্ন সংগঠনের অংশগ্রহণে বর্ণাঢ্য শোভাযাত্রা বের হয়। ছবিটি দোয়েল চত্বর এলাকা থেকে তোলা। ছবি: সাইফুল ইসলাম
শ্রীকৃষ্ণের সাজে এক কিশোরী। পলাশী থেকে তোলা ছবি। ছবি: সাইফুল ইসলাম

see more at: http://www.prothom-alo. com/bangladesh/gallery/ 1289316/Also watch:US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard: 

Janmashtami Message 2017

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https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=aGRwNE35HQI

Published on Nov 26, 2016
History: Kedarnath Datta Bhaktivinoda Thakura (1838-1914 http://bit.ly/2fSaL B8) was an influential thinker and spiritual reformer of the Bengali Renaissance period who cultivated a more open form of Gaudiya Vaishnavism (one of the major traditions in Hinduism). In 1880, he was the first to send writings on Caitanya's theology to the Western world when he sent his works to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the U.S. and to Reinhold Rost in Europe. His son Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura (1874-1937) took a vow of pious renunciation (sannyasa) and started Gaudiya Matha monastic organization in 1920. In 1932, Mahatma Gandhi challenged India's leading orthodox Hindu organisations on the practice of untouchability. In reply, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati disregarded caste/social background as a criteria for religious eligibility and argued that Vishnu temples should be open to anyone. Gaudiya Vaishnavism did not spread globally until one of his disciples, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977) http://bit.ly/2gur eiz, decided at age 69 to bring Gaudiya Vaishnavism to the United States. In 1966, he founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in NYC. A temple was then started in SF, then some devotees started one in London where they met George Harrison. The movement then became more popular throughout India after Prabhupada returned there in 1971.  In 1996, the Government of India issued a commemorative stamp to honor Prabhupada. In 1998, India's then-prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee stated, "If the Bhagavad Gita, the holy text of the Hindu traditions, is printed in millions of copies and scores of languages and distributed in all nooks and corners of the world, the credit for this great sacred service goes chiefly to ISKCON. For this accomplishment alone, Indians should be eternally grateful to the devoted spiritual army of Swami Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare Krishna movement, and to his followers ... The arrival of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in the United States in 1965 and the particular popularity his movement gained in a very short span of 12 years must be regarded as one of the greatest spiritual events of the century."

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