(Hindu Monk- cell phones are ubiquitous in developing world.)


by Corey Cananza

Thanks for your article, "On Turning 60." It is good for a young person like me to read your realizations. In traditional cultures, the elders were respected, unlike the modern American culture, where old people are abandoned to an old-age home. So by listening to the realizations of those who are older than us, we gain knowledge. It is wiser to gain knowledge about life and the various difficulties one will encounter in life through hearing, rather than direct experience.

I am a 25 year old American man, who has been living in India for the past 2 years. I am involved in an organic farm project in south India, with a school and temple also on the same property. We are trying to promote the traditional Vedic culture and show how it can be followed in a practical format. Naturally, I am very strongly against feminism, and have studied many anti-feminist articles. I spent the last 4 years of my life as a celibate Hindu monk, but am deciding to get married, and am going to find a nice young Indian village girl and live in India.
 
Reading your articles, I am struck by how similar your ideas are compared to the ideas presented in the Vedas. The Vedas also say that this life is meant for spiritual advancement, and not for simply sex life. The Vedas say that we should try to minimize sex agitation, which is why the traditional Indian culture, Vedic culture, restricted association between men and women. The Vedas say that the goal of life is to serve God in a devotional mood, or what is called bhakti-yoga. I see no difference between what you are writing and what the Vedas say, which shows that all of these different religions are presenting the same ideas, that God is one.
  
Traditional Indian culture says that life is meant for spiritual advancement, and that sex life is an insignificant part of life. In contrast, this modern atheistic society teaches us that there is no God, no soul, that we evolved from monkeys, and that sex is the highest happiness we can attain in life. I very much like your articles because you write about how traditional cultures taught people spiritual values, and how this modern atheistic western culture brainwashes everyone into a mindless zombie focused only on sex.
 
Sex is not something that we can entirely live without, at least in our youth. Marriage and sex is required for the vast majority of people during the younger part of one's life. But, we must see sex life in its proper perspective, which is to be used mainly for procreation with one's wife. Sex life should be given up after age 50 so that one can focus his consciousness more on spiritual life, on making spiritual advancement, and preparing for death.
 
God is on our side, and the good men will prevail. We will take back this world and live once again a religious and moral life, once this evil modern society totally collapses. Those who are on the side of good, on the side of God, will triumph. Gandhi said that evil may seem for a time to prevail over good, but in the end, good always prevails over evil. May that be our prayer, that those who are on the side of God, whatever religion they may be, will prevail over the evil demoniac men who are trying to destroy our planet. God will protect us.