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The real reason for forbidding foreign travels seems to be religious
and law-related than political.  Apastamba and Gautama gruhya
sutras have several rules about what to do when the person
stays  away for long and even does not return forever.  One has to 
worry about how to treat the foreign traveller - as a deserter or a 
deceased person, and how to release his wife and belongings.  Also 
one has to judge if he is capable of his religious duties. The rules 
are first mentioned for a brahmana, and perhaps can be extended to 
other varnas.  In the current times, certainly the prohibition rule 
requires amendment. But no scholar is working on this issue these 
days to get the latest rules into the Hindu law books!  We can make 
up our own rules, and may have to give up some other previleges.

dAsan
RTV Varadarajan 

--- In SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Arvind Rangan <rarvind@xxxx> 
wrote:
> 
> All those reasons... look good.
> But if someone were to just visit an overseas land. Say for example
> one of the gurus had to perform a Dolai utsavam in a foreign 
country,
> what happens then. will it be still wrong to travel and get back 
home
> ?
> 
> Arvind
> 
> 
> Hello Ashok,
> 
> Saturday, December 11, 2004, 3:27:13 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > Obviously, the writer is not qualified to give a
> > definitive answer to this question, but here is one
> > point of view:
> 
> > 1.  India is permeated with tremendous spiritual
> > vibrations due to the nature of the Great Ones that
> > incarnated there - this would not be available in most
> > other places in the world.
> 
> > 2.  When a person lives in a country outside of India
> > (applies to all living outside their own country), he
> > or she gets bound karmically to that country by virtue
> > of merely living there - for example, many people may
> > have sacrificed their lives for this other country,
> > and the foreigner is living off their labor/sacrifice;
> > or the country may have been occupied illegally and by
> > deceit, and the foreigner, if he lives off that land,
> > and consumes the food grown in that soil, is literally
> > taking on the bad karma of that land; or the country's
> > leaders may lead or may have led the country into
> > wrong wars (like Hitler, and others for example)- the
> > person again gets karmically bound if he lives in that
> > soil/country, etc.  India is the only country in the
> > world that has not initiated a war on its own,
> > illegally occupied territory, etc.
> 
> > 3.  The person could be used as a medium (almost
> > always without his knowledge) for evil from this
> > foreign country to enter India when he visits India.
> 
> > 4.  Other causes could be: simple practical reasons
> > such as differences in culture, weather, religion,
> > lack of good/moral values in society (for example,
> > Sweden has a highly permissive/liberal society - the
> > environ is not suitable for spiritual progress either
> > for the person or his progeny), etc.
> 
> > Yet some Great Indian Yogis have travelled/lived in
> > foreign countries, as ordained by their Indian Gurus -
> > why?  Perhaps their motive was not to have a
> > comfortable, rich (moneywise) life but to propagate
> > spiritual values throughout the world as per the
> > principle : Vasudeiva Kutumbakam.
> 
> > Ashok Krishnamurthy
> 
> > --- Arvind Rangan <rarvind@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> this question mighthave popped up.. but neverthless,
> >> i would like to
> >> ask again.
> >> 
> >> Why is it that, "Kadal thandaradu", crossing the
> >> ocean is forbidden
> >> for us ?
> >>   
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Best regards,
> >>  Arvind                         
> >> mailto:rarvind@xxxx
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Arvind                            mailto:rarvind@xxxx








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