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yes in fact some people in fact the Buddhists will claim that and I don't blame them because
what happens this again it's very difficult to really say that this was presented to fight
Buddhism but Buddhism in his original nature or in his originality was be a beautiful tradition vast
and magnanimous at the same time what happens if everything that you're gonna present if it's not
if you are not Vigilant if Society is not Vigilant that particular feature we can become regenerate
so Buddhism was press pure and Pristina there's a golden period of India just few hundred years
after Buddha there was the best time we had the universities we had art Music Learning tremendous
discipline and nobody could speak you know nobody who spoken spoke a lie that was the kind of nature
we had there's a golden period of India Hinduism sorry about the Buddhism so that was the period
but then after 500 years this idea started to get degenerate this happens with everything
everything keeps changing all great civilization then there's ups and downs so Buddhism had a bit
of a down and the downwards that he turned into it because there was no a focus on God because that
doesn't invoke at God he said I can talk about spirituality without you know invoking a god
that is wise there is no God in Buddhism there's no going by the way no Creator God in Jainism too
so this because of that is slowly degenerated and turned into a crust you know materialistic
philosophy cross materialism and the idea is this came about by the child Works who
said look my friend this this all this idea of Moksha and individual soul is all nonsense aim
of life is to get as much pleasure out of it as possible Pleasure Principle Hedonism in ancient
Miracles so Hedonism just enjoy pleasure is the principle behind which in fact one of the gurus
we had also with 100 roles of focusing on the same just have fun eat drink be merry and copulate no
problem there's nothing else you just it's all this make-believe this idea of Atman Brahman and
God and all this so Buddhism turned into strongly a very material cross materialistic ideology that
infected India about 1500 years back it's true story if you look at that it will frighten you
there was no ethics no morality was all crashing fast at that time we had this young person you
know this India produces Giants when the time is there when there's a real need and
this young boy in South India Kerala this ADI shankara came about a young boy you only live
till the age of 32 because such sharp intellect tremendously sharp intellect he could in a way
this place Buddhism not because he didn't he had problems with Buddhism but simply because
Buddhism had become cross and degenerate it was necessary to chop it down when I say chopping
down the sincere Buddhists are not chopped now but this philosophy that are degenerated
he needed to cut it out you know prune it that's what he did now the ideas that he came up with
you may think that some people say Buddha I mean hidden Buddha so but in a way you can do
this kind of you know gymnastics and actually you know he borrowed ideas from Buddhism and
Etc but I would say not true because this idea of otherwise this is even in the maharama is visible
in advance sorry in in in ancient scripture so it's not something that came after Buddha it's
far earlier than Buddha so idea was already there but it was kind of lying dormant and the only way
ADI shankara could remove this kind of you know this kind of Highly materialistic ideology India
subscribed to Wars to chop it down using advaita vedanta not vedanta without gods and goddesses you
essentially so he moved from principle personality one in Hinduism Hinduism to say Hinduism died
so that is what he promoted either idea of Advan our nature is essentially out on Spirit Etc and
so on this is and because it is so philosophically so sharp even today you can't challenge physical
in a way agreeing with this idea of quantum so this is Central so he pulled it out it was lying
dormant even the bhagavad-gita was lying dormant in India again and adishanka said give three
particular you know Foundation to revive Hinduism the three foundations Tony kind of focused on was
the idea of bhagavad-gita the upanishads and the brahmasutra he said well let us Focus Etc and of
course this idea opening so he said let's bring these two as a foundation stone to revive Hinduism
that's what he did so we can't see it's borrowed from from Buddha but its ideas when you look at
the deeper ideas that Buddhism comes with is not much different from what other than the teaching
that gives example you see Buddhism says there's no Atman there's no Spirit what he was attacking
was either say one individual going from one life from their life because they're taking that saying
there's no individual at all it's just a flux it's an appearance Buddha is teaching you know
otherwise understanding the same thing he said that the ego they seem to go from one life is
not a reality the spirit is the reality the ego that goes from One Life to another life is no
it has no reality it's an appearance so it's no different from the deeper vision of Buddhism but
of course when there are two theologians trying to fight with each other from then Buddhism they keep
fighting in the time of they manage to defeat all the Buddhists of you know philosophies and score
high marks by focusing on the idea what do it with under and that is how Hinduism was revived foreign
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