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**Ifroham4** · 01-18-2006, 08:00 AM

I remember in school days one teacher told in the class that only indian acheivement was idli and sambar, rest all knowledge comes from western world[...] I understand your point...you look at technology aspect, but i am looking at life, which is not a technology based.

Two comments (not really disagreements, just comments):

1. It seems that I had much better teachers than you, and I'm glad for that! I do believe that a teacher who had the temerity to say some such thing to students in my school would have lost his or her job.

2. As far as life is concerned, I see even less need to go back to ancient traditions. We have a living tradition which is based on the ancient tradition and has evolved from it, and to me that is more valuable because it is closer to me. The wisdom of Basavanna, the dasa-poets of Karnataka, the siddhars, nayanmars, azhwars and the other Tamil poets is worth as much as the vedas and upanishads. But opinions (and tastes) differ.

01-18-2006, 08:00 AM	#12
Ifroham4 Join Date Apr 2007 Posts 5,196 Senior Member	I remember in school days one teacher told in the class that only indian acheivement was idli and sambar, rest all knowledge comes from western world[...] I understand your point...you look at technology aspect, but i am looking at life, which is not a technology based. Two comments (not really disagreements, just comments): 1. It seems that I had much better teachers than you, and I'm glad for that! I do believe that a teacher who had the temerity to say some such thing to students in my school would have lost his or her job. 2. As far as life is concerned, I see even less need to go back to ancient traditions. We have a living tradition which is based on the ancient tradition and has evolved from it, and to me that is more valuable because it is closer to me. The wisdom of Basavanna, the dasa-poets of Karnataka, the siddhars, nayanmars, azhwars and the other Tamil poets is worth as much as the vedas and upanishads. But opinions (and tastes) differ.
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