A get together of alumni of Madhuvanam WInter School and other interested people was organised at Malabar Christian College on 3rd March 2013 by alumni from Calicut. Apart from winter school students, Sri Gopinath, periodicals editor Mathribhoomi, Sri Chandra Haasan, one among the five voracious readers in Kerala, Sri Noushad, teacher from Perambra and Babu Mash from Mokeri Govt College also participated in the live discussions. Sri Noushad was present in the two day get together at the residence of Ms Aswathy Nair held two years back.
The first prominent question came from Babu Mash of Mokeri Govt College. he asked why there is an untouchability to the word 'spirituality' among the wise and why do they deviate often?
Krishnan Kartha gave the following answer.
It is because the word spirituality is one of the most misused words. Often spiritualists and preachers regard materialism as some thing inferior. When an ideology professing materialism and ruling out religion came to popularity, the grievance of the religious people icreased. We must go to the root of the problem to solve it. Once the root is observed, the problem evaporates.. The dialectical materialism came into being when the so called religion and spirituality was harming people like anything. Rich became richer and poor became poorer.. Religion had become an aide to the rich since sins could be easily compounded with donations of money. Then naturally, the theory of materialsm was welcomed by people.The spiritual aspect of the emergence of materialistic thought is this. It was the need of the nature to save itself.
But the ideology, though born in industrially advanced soils, it had to be taken , for its up binging, to soils where agriculture was the main occupation. We can see that the ideology got firm roots in economies with predominance of primary sector, viz agriculture and allied operations. They are directly connected with soil. This is the spiritual side of the growth of materialism. The matter and spirit has such a dichotomy. Seemingly polar but essentially united. ...... "
Krishnan Kartha further stated the following:
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