I am listening to absolute tripe about South Asian ancient life in a lecture given by some American dude/Prof who is talking about "Kaarma", "Vaarna" and other such rubbish.
According to him, Jainism and Buddhism are religions where you cannot escape bad karma. Everything you do, is bad karma and your life is geared towards avoiding ltos more bad karma. Bizarre, then he goes on to talk about the different stages of life - Brahmacharya, Grahasta, Vanaprastha, Sanyasa
and says things like the trigger for the Sanyasa stage of life is getting grey hair or having grandchildren. Its an American desi perspective on Indian philosophy. Everytime I sit in and listen to the last fifteen minutes of the class, I get really angry because of the flippant attitude to teaching. It almost makes me get up and say shut up, because all this is crap.
Anyway, thats the monday morning rant!
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