Quantum wrote: let's see what great choices could have been available to her back then?...mmmmm....child bride, and all those horrors? marriage to a man pig, uncontrolled breeding and domestic slavery?,...no human or womans rights?...worked like a dog and chucked out on the streets in old age
Do you mean all men are that way or do you mean the way Lekhraj treated his wife and family after "God called”?
Seriously, you are being way too defensive. I liked Dadi Gulzar as a personality (or Dadi Bullseye as some kids called her) and I mentioned some positive qualities I saw in her, didn’t I?
I don’t think critiquing is the same as "being critical” in the secondary colloquial sense (whereas ”critical” in its primary sense means analysing
all aspects, good, bad and indifferent). And any ”negative criticism” was not about the person (ad hominem) but about the situations and possible sins of omission if not commission.
I do pity a lot of these poor dudes because they were good people corralled by circumstances, ignorance and human fallibility.
e.g. You say ‘educated’ but it was not much beyond primary level. The ”Dadis" had no idea who Adolf Hitler was until Western BKs came along, despite India and Nepal contributing many troops to the armies of the Empire that Lekhraj admired.
And as ex-l has oft-pointed out, Lekraj (a.k.a. God, Father of all, seed of humanity and all religions) had no idea about Judaism, Tao, Shinto etc , had a mistaken understandings of his own cultural traditions or history (Buddhism, vedanta, the sramana traditions etc) let alone the rest of the world. Africa - the birthplace of humanity, or China - a quarter of the world’s population with a longer, more accurate written history (like the Jews) than India are non-entities. So the education was not dissimilar to what a child might get in a fundamentalist madrasa or Roman Catholic primary school before Vatican 2 - reading, writing and religious indoctrination.
ex-l also is making points from a particular perspective, comparing to the broader society at the time where poverty and deprivation was commonplace, not a ’spiritual test” only for an exclusive group. There was economic malaise caused by the Great Depression in the 1930s, WW2, Partition etc. Everyone struggled throughout India and many parts of the world.
Sharing different perspectives is what we do in a discussion with different people. If we all agreed on such things all the time, we’d be like a... cult !
17 Apr 2015
