Western culture

Swami Ji is a traveller between the cultures and so he likes to compare the Indian and the Western culture with each other. What are cultural differences? What do people think of the other country or culture? Which habits could not be understood in India at all...

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India in the West
After three weeks of writing about relationships of western women and Indian men, I believe this will be my last blog entry in this series. I had no idea when I started, that I would have so much to write about but I had a notion already that it is something that m... Read More

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Supermarket
The day before yesterday I told that an Indian man who moves to the west to be with his girlfriend or wife, has to get used to western individualism. Yesterday I explained how one also needs to be independent in other ways in the west. I would like to take this ima... Read More

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Formalities at Events
I yesterday wrote about thankfulness and mentioned that Indians are, in many ways, very formal while not being formal at all when it comes to thankfulness. That is a feeling that I get quite often and even though in the west there are many manners that people take ... Read More

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We recently had a participant in our Ayurveda Yoga Holiday at the Ashram and I would like to tell you a little bit about her problem and our suggestion what she could do against it - of course without revealing her identity. I just believe that her issue and feelin... Read More

Tags: Ayurveda , Yoga , Feelings , Loneliness

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Elderly People
I yesterday mentioned that people in the west had to send their parents or grandparents to a home for the elderly. I used the words ‘had to’ consciously, because they really were in a difficult situation, not finding another way. There can be many p... Read More

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Words of Wisdom

  • Life

    Learning is not only for children. Life can always teach you something, your age doesn’t matter. It is wonderful to be curious for something new, something you have not experienced yet.

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  • Food

    Don't eat while walking. Can't you take ten minutes to sit down and eat consciously? You are not just filling a garbage box, it is your body!

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  • Prediction

    Human is just a puppet in a big play. You think you are in charge but there is something bigger than you. Nature, god, the universe, however you want to call it. Even if you know your body, you don’t have full control over it. Nobody knows when, what can happen. Nobody can predict anything.

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  • Belief

    People who are really religious have a strong belief that nothing happens without God’s wish. So if you really think this, how come you get so excited and even angry if someone does not share your belief? Don’t you think that this, too, is God’s wish?

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  • Responsibility

    The karma philosophy makes it easy to escape responsibility!

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  • Religion

    People prefer making religious donations rather than charity donations to secure a seat in heaven by giving to a preacher or temple.

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  • Lie

    People usually don’t lie because they want to harm someone but to hide their thoughts, to hide their feelings, shortly to hide themselves. It is one of the greatest problems that a person can have: low self-esteem.

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  • Feelings

    You need to bring love and feelings into your work. Enjoy what you are doing, meet others with happiness and feelings instead of being like a stone. There are principles in business but they are man-made. Make love and feelings a part of those principles.

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  • Sex

    If you work with sex, do it, but don't call a sex workshop a Tantra workshop!

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  • Sex

    Polygamous relationships don’t really work. If you are really in love with someone, you will be jealous, you won’t be able to avoid that! If you love your partner, it is impossible!

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  • Superstition

    A lot of doctors close their practices on Thursday due to superstition! People and doctors both think a doctor's visit on a Thursday means another doctor's visit later! They study, they learned a lot of science and they know about the body, its diseases and cures – but that does not keep them from believing that Thursdays are bad days!

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  • Change

    If someone opens your eyes about a bad habit, an injustice from your side or a simple mistake, be happy about it! Be ready to change yourself for the better!

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  • Religion

    It is impossible to be ‘religious but not superstitious’ because religious scriptures are full of superstition. You cannot separate superstition from religion, its origin. It as a positive sign though, if you think this much - you have taken the first step!

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  • Religion

    Religion kills. Fasting can take the life of an unborn baby.

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  • Ego

    Don’t let your ego keep you from saying sorry. It does not make you small to apologize. Overcome your ego and apologize for the wrong you did.

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  • Belief

    Whatever your belief is, give your child as much freedom as possible to decide on his own. If you force a child into one belief, you don’t give its mind the possibility to develop in its own way.

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  • Belief

    Learning science as a subject in school or university is one thing but keeping a scientific point of view and attitude is another one. People can be highly educated but belief in superstition makes them educated fools.

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  • Relationship

    Breaking with someone causes pain, hurts and makes people feel bad. If there is any way to avoid it, please do.

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  • Feelings

    People cannot express what they feel. They often do not even really know whether they like something or not. They look at their neighbours and see what their reaction is. Then they can imitate it. Easy.

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  • Negativity

    In the West, many people live in negative thinking and live in fear with a negative attitude. They are hopeless, suspicious, doubtful and always see the dark side of things. Most of all, they don't enjoy life. Come out of this negativity and see how beautiful life is!

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