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My trip to India
This was during my second year of university, it was summer and my friends and I wanted to go somewhere for 2 weeks to travel, so they chose India, I minded a bit at first since I was not fond of this country but at the same time was really reading into Paganism and the connections of the Indo-europeans, as well as the Swatsika so I agreed. My desire to go there was one based on the fascination of connections with ancient Indo-Europeans.
Now a little about India, the country ovbiously is a developing country, I mean we could not even drink the water, so we had to bring our own. Also, they dont have western style toilets and toilet paper, except in some hotels so this was a challenge. Personally, I never used one of those, as the smell was unbearable and it was really just un-sanitary.
The very north of India and some Sikh populations of it were fair skinned Indians, looking similar to Med-Europeans, dark hair and dark eyes. They had a caucasion face, a bit symmetrical, not too bad. The rest of India had a very brownish skin tone, some very undesirable facical structures but caucasion features a bit. The south of India had a very dravidian, very dark people with negro features.
Arriving at the airport, we had to pay someone to carry our luggage and get a ride to our residence. Immeditatley, outside the airport we noticed the garbage everywhere and were exposed to many homeless people. They also have this amusement ride where you sit on the back and a person with a bike transports you to your destination.
However, India also had some very modern buildings and huge malls, wasn't rubbish everywhere certainly, nevertheless the beggars and poverty was widespread everywhere. In the cities, it was more modern but still unbearable bathrooms.
Most of the street food was unsafe to eat, although my friends did, because the utensils and machinery was never washed.
The people in general are very family orientated and celebrate many festivals, and have a great sense of community. There are also many wild animals, such as dogs and cows roaming freely, we saw many cute puppies at a cemetry but were warned not to touch them due to many diseases they may carry.
3/5 of my friends were girls, and the indian men and women stared at them endlessly, the guys especially stared at them as if they were food porn. The look in their eyes was frightening and uncomfortable. They are able to communicate in broken English and are charmed by white people from Europe, as they believe us to be moral. (Even though they charge us ovbiously higher prices to scam us).
Now, finally, we arrived to what I was curious about their religious institutions. They go to a temple called a "Mander", it is filled with statues and idols of their respective Hindu gods.
The Mander's(temples of theirs) are very elegant and often made of marble and aesthetic materials, they look very beautiful.
However, there is immense poverty and homeless people who are very religious, but not allowed to seek shelter in these temples weather its cold or burning hot.( as I was informed). Inside the Mander, they have a black rock they refer to as a "shivling",basically you pour milk on it for blessings, and all this milk exits out their sewage system, milk was being wasted on a rock while people were starving outside.
My friends, went to do it, we were given bags of milk for it, but I came across a beggar who was literally shaking and staring at the milk, clearly he had not eaten in many days. I gabe the poor man my milk and my guide told me he said "God bless you". I have to wonder, was the blessing of a humble beggar more that of a esteemed stone which has no real purpose?
I had understood the mentality of the people and how it works, the religious institutions were for people with money, all the poor people, who I viewed on the level of animals were literally on the level of Trash to them. Behind their elegant religious institutions, were mass poverty and despair. There was nothing Aryan or Indo-european in this.
Most of their "Saints" were unable to answer my questions theologically and were deflecting and telling me some bullshit.
The society was very capitalist, and they viewed people with less money as trash.
Also, the caste system didnt make sense to me as these "Brahmin" looked like negros.
Most of their religious institutions were hollow, meaningless, lacking anything pure or organic. Everything was about making some money. The modern Hindu faith is debased and fit for such a degenerate people.
I was greatly dissapointed by my trip, there was nothing Aryan or Indo-european here. Just a decayed people, with morals that of animals. Most of the people cannot understand their own faith. It would be accurate to say their a insecure god fearing people, not god loving.
I wouldnt go back there, hardly anything beautiful or romantic was found. Ironically, my friends said they experienced great culture food and a new outlook on life, the irony. People dont see beyond the deception.
This is why Im also hesitant make connections with "Indo-europsans" its true, our ancestors spoke the same tongue and had the same gods, but the connection of blood is eternally severed. I will stick to norse Paganism, because Indo-European faith of Hinduism is distorted and no longer belonging to us.
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