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Namaste Brother!

This tickled me and I thought I’d share it with you. Its nice to see a Christian brother find something helpful in the wisdom of the East for a change and to want to share the inner meanings of a common Sanskrit greeting with his flock. I hope it helps everyone who listens.

We should not be surprised when this happens. It will certainly happen more in the future. The wisdom of the Vedas is actually not the ‘wisdom of the east’ or ‘India,’ or the ‘Hindu religion’ but merely wisdom itself. As such, it is meant for all people, in all places, at all times, and in all languages. Its certainly too important to be kept in India, or locked away in the Sanskrit language. Luckily for us, Srila Prabhupada thought the same way and spent his time sharing it.

There’s no reason at all why the spiritual teachings of Lord Jesus Christ have to be permanently affiliated with Greek philosophy and the commentaries of Thomas Aquinas and his successors. Although that combination has served Europeans quite well over a number of centuries, more depth is required if Christianity itself is to survive the philosophical onslaughts it is currently undergoing. A carefully delineated siddhanta – a definitive statement of the existential nature of the soul, matter, time, space, God, illusion, moral law, and the relationships that exist between them – is required if Christianity is to perform its difficult task in the years ahead.

Combine the moral and devotional teaching  of Lord Jesus Christ with the foundational philosophy of the Vedas and you have something quite remarkable. Namaste, dear readers.