Wednesday, May 14, 2003
How Upanishad has influenced America:
American philosopher Thoreau was heavily influenced by the great universalist substance of the Upanishads. Bapu was inspired by Thoreau and launched satyagraha. Martin Luther King Jr was influenced by Bapu and launched the civil rights movement in the US. In fact didn’t Bapu’s notions redraw the world map?
American Senator Harris Wofford said that in the early ’50s, he’d taken Dr Ram Manohar Lohia around American colleges in the South and Dr Lohia had asked why Bapu’s ideas were not in the syllabi. A year later they were, and one of those who attended a workshop on Gandhian civil disobedience in Montgomery, Alabama, was a Black American called Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. She was arrested by the rules of segregationist law. The resulting uproar changed the apartheid history of the United States and eventually, South Africa’s.
American philosopher Thoreau was heavily influenced by the great universalist substance of the Upanishads. Bapu was inspired by Thoreau and launched satyagraha. Martin Luther King Jr was influenced by Bapu and launched the civil rights movement in the US. In fact didn’t Bapu’s notions redraw the world map?
American Senator Harris Wofford said that in the early ’50s, he’d taken Dr Ram Manohar Lohia around American colleges in the South and Dr Lohia had asked why Bapu’s ideas were not in the syllabi. A year later they were, and one of those who attended a workshop on Gandhian civil disobedience in Montgomery, Alabama, was a Black American called Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. She was arrested by the rules of segregationist law. The resulting uproar changed the apartheid history of the United States and eventually, South Africa’s.
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