Mlecchas (foreigners) and Hinduism

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Mlecchas (foreigners) and Hinduism

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Long ago, someone once left me a comment asking me if mlecchas were not also people. I thought he/she was a hindu-baiter and deleted the comment. Also because I am always suspicious of people who give me a false e-mail-id in their comment and use pseudonyms.

Today, I received a letter from a South American lady who wants to follow the Sanatana Dharma and is excluded by some individuals from some Hindu forums. I am told that some foreign Hindus are even told that they “cannot attain moksha in their mleccha birth”. They can also not visit some punyaksetras I hear. This made me angry.

I always become very angry when people who seek knowledge are denied on grounds of the bodies they are presently occupying and had a few hours of boiling blood. I tried to tell myself “not to get disturbed by the world” as Gita says and got a headache and stomach nausea when I tried to control this anger.

So I am trying to clear my head with a few facts.

There are Hindu-baiters. It is a fact. Some of them are indians and some of them are foreigners. Some of them were born Hindus and later forsook Hinduism either for another religion or for atheism or for communism or something else and some of them were born to other faiths. I know I am supposed to practice “advesham” but at this time I would blacklist them.
There were many white colonials who distorted our texts and wrote insultingly about them.
But there are people of other religions and nationalities who would like to understand Sanatana Dharma as they call it and follow what I call (rather obstinately) as Hinduism, with their goal on God.
These people should be included and given access to information. Of course in the past, many nasty colonials pretending to be seekers misused the trust placed in them, so one has to be cautious.
Some of these people seek philosophy under famous Gurus, matadhipathis, Godmen and so on. Some of them like the rituals, some like the bhakthi marg perspective, some are after the vedas and some after the upanishads, some like yoga, some dhyaana and so on.
Some of them have a rather hopelessly mixed-up perspective of Hinduism.. but so do many modern Indians.

To me the terms mleccha or stri or s’udra.. are not derogatory. They simply mean foreigner, woman and person employed in service industry (eg software services. A kshatriya would be in the armed forces and a a brahman would be a seeker of truth like Ramana Maharshi and Vivekananda).

A woman Veda Scholar is a Veda Scholar. A mleccha seeker is a Seeker.

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