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From: Chaitanyacharan (das) RNS (Pune – IN)
Date: 14-Mar-13 12:06 (17:36 +0530)
Subject: A book responding to the movie Oh My God!
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Respected Maharajas and Prabhus
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Several devotees had asked me to respond to the popular Bollywood movie “Oh
My God!” which while lampooning godmen also criticized many authentic
rituals and practices.
Accordingly I have written a small 96-page book answering 32 questions
raised by the movie.
The back write-up of the book as well as the article about it published on
ISKCON news is posted below.
your servant
Chaitanya Charan das
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The Bollywood movie Oh My God! fittingly exposed the arrogance and hypocrisy
of godmen. It also made several important points about specific religious
practices as well as the generic role of religion in society.
Oh My God! Re-answering the Questions responds to those points through
thirty-two question-answers like:
. Do we need middlemen to approach God?
. Does God help atheists and oppose godmen?
. Is religion made by man or by God?
. When we don’t chant “Papa, papa”, why should we chant “Krishna,
Krishna”?When we don’t chant “Papa, papa”, why should we chant “Krishna,
Krishna”?
. Does religion make people violent or helpless? When we don’t chant
“Papa, papa”, why should we chant “Krishna, Krishna”? Does religion make
people violent or helpless?
. When we don’t chant “Papa, papa”, why should we chant “Krishna,
Krishna”?
. Does religion make people violent or helpless?
. When God is present everywhere, why should we worship him in
temple stone images?
Discover sound principles drawn from the time-honored Vedic wisdom-tradition
that will equip you to separate the good from the bad in today’s religious
world. Presented here in a logical and lucid progression, these principles
will change the way you look at religion and at life.
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http://news.iskcon.com/node/4944
Chaitanya Charan’s New Book Responds to the Movie ‘Oh My God!’
By Praveen Shanmugam for ISKCON News on 25 Feb 2013
The book’s cover
A recent super-hit Bollywood movie OMG: Oh My God!, that showed a rational
atheist taking on arrogant godmen made millions of people think critically
about traditional religious practices.
Though the movie conveys some good, logical and reasonable observations
regarding the commercialization of religion and the misuse of it by godmen,
it errs in the direction of blanket generalization probably because of its
own ignorance.
The new book entitled “Oh My God! Re-answering the questions” by Chaitanya
Charan Das presented logically and systematically, carefully prevents the
rejection of all of religion in the name of some of these observations. At
the same time it answers the wrongly answered or otherwise unanswered
questions of the movie in particular and of the people in general. Hence the
subtitle: re-answering the questions.
The author is a monk with a degree in engineering who has spent over fifteen
years studying, living and sharing the Vedic wisdom-tradition of ancient
India. This is his tenth book.
The author beautifully explains in the book how the “time-honored Vedic
traditions give us a world view which is so cogent and coherent to explain
these fundamental questions of life.”
There is God, there is religion and there are religious practitioners. We
cannot mess up our observations of religious practitioners with God and
religion. Religious practitioners not being aware of the educational aspect
or misusing the process aspect of religion does not warrant any mockery of
religion or God per se.
The book points out how the “ideal of saintly devotion does exist –
definitely in principle and limited in practice”. We have to seek out such
saints, though such quality is always rare in any field.
The author writes this book on behalf of such saints who have combined the
sincerity of their devotion and the rationality of their mind and the
command of their fidelity to propagate the message of God.
The book is written as a “series of questions and answers to make it more
accessible, so that the reader can directly go to any question that
interests him/her, however since each successive question builds on the
previous one, the reader may gain more by reading from the start to end.”
The book answers 32 questions like: Do we need middlemen to approach God?
Does God help atheists and oppose god men? What is the definition of
religion? Is religion made by man or God? Doesn’t the institutionalization
of religion kill its spirit? Doesn’t religion make people violent? Why do
bad things happen to good people?
Credit to the author for his time and energy in clarifying these
misconceptions and explaining their true spirit and credit to his brilliant
reversal of the gaze and exposing the grandeur expenditure involved in the
non-religious world in the name of entertainment by those who criticize the
capital involved in religious traditions and rituals as apathetic
expenditure and as a wastage of time and resources. Such criticism is simply
pretending to be a part of the solution while in reality being a part of the
problem.
This brilliant exposure of the self-defeating logic underlying critical
questions raised against specific religious practices can totally shift the
paradigm of the readers.
For those who have become doubtful or disturbed by watching OMG, and for
those who want to have the knowledge of how the divine interacts with this
world, this book will be a great asset and an enlightening guide.
This book will empower its readers by giving them a whole new view of how
they look at religion and life, thereby illuminating their path with wisdom
and happiness.
The book is 96 pages and is available on Amazon as a kindle edition as well
as a hard copy that can be ordered from the author’s site
www.thespiritualscientist.com here.
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ॐ Hinduu Nation ॐ 