East versus West

Respected sir, thank you very much for bringing into discussion very interesting issue about the east and west.

it is perhaps ridiculous to generalise that east is spiritual and west is materialistic. because  now a days we are also running behind the material thing, wealth. whereas people of west are also starts YOGA, for mental peace. this shows that there is worth in our values. at the same time we should not denied  the useful ness of material thing. whether we are living in east or west it is the fact that we are living in big houses, uses all the luxurious of life, all have ambition to reach higher than they are, all want betterment in their life, . so this is the common human desire. so we cannot  set limit that only west is materialistic and we are spiritualist. west is more advance in science and technology  than us, they have invented many things  which are even used by us.

if we look from the traditional perspectives then we can say that east is traditional, religious and devotional. we are proud on what we were, but the tragedy is that people are now calling that Indians are highly hypocritic people. we are living in day-dreams, illusions than in reality because even we are not following our tradition sincerely. rather we go on telling other that our culture is this and that but if we try to implement this things in our life then no one does so .for example we are proud that our forefathers were wearing dhoti, we can take pride on that but how many of us will ready  to accept to wear dhoti from now onwards than pant shirt??.how many of us will prefer  to live life of hermit if we are truly spiritualist??how many of us wants to live in hut than in big bungalows??? the results will be zero. then the question arises that if we are religious and spiritualist then why we are running behind all this material thing??.this shows our vanity , hypocrisy.

and it at one extent also right that west is adventurist, scientific and materialistic one. if we read the history then we can find that most of the adventurous work were done by them. they  have done sea voyages and found new lands. I have never heard that any Indians have explored the sea and found the new lands.  even if we check the list of new inventions then we will see them at the top. our contribution is very less.

they are far ahead than us in all the ways .they put  human being at the centre than god. they have freedom of thinking, of religion, of expression etc .but  still we are not able to free ourself from that. we are spiritual, religious people then even in our country there is corruption, poverty, unequality, and many vices in our. how paradox!!!!!!!!!

my point is that no one is perfect. all have something good and bad. and we should not generalise any thing because even two brothers are not equal, all fingers of our hand is not of same length. similarly whole east and west cannot be totally same. even west is also religious, spiritual and we are also materialistic.

it is a time of globalization .all are merging into each other and world is becoming now a global village.so east and west are same in most ways.