Hinduism, Neo-Hinduism, the Bhakti and Advaita Vedanta movements have looked beyond the caste (varna and jati) social hierarchy systems, but Wokism would take those gains away as it is focused on classism and class warfare. Wokism also takes Hinduism farther from the Vedic tradition. Live 7/26/2025.

0:00 – Intro to discussing woke progressivism's relationship with Hinduism (particularly in India)

2:03 – Personal views of wokism, unrealistic but hopeful ideas with a negative endgame, a big business cult of a carrot & stick situation | depopulation agenda | destroying tradition, family

7:20 – Wokism is a virus exported to Bharat that will effect all Hindus worldwide | fighting wokism

11:00 – Wokism is an enemy of Hinduism as it promotes a class system which the Bhakti Hindu movement has moved beyond

13:07 – Defining Sanatana Dharma | returning to Vedic roots | modernized Sanatana Dharma

17:09 – Defining Hindusim | modern religion that is essentially Sanatana Dharma & Christian universalism

19:22 – Defining Neo-Hinduism | Hinduism mixed with modern ideas that are not tied to scriptures

21:57 – Wokism is against many Hindu values, including being anti-tradition, anti-family, anti-gender roles, pro-depopulation, wokism is a pawn of Big Corp, is pro-science denial, pro-Marxism, anti-rationality

27:14 – Hinduism/Neo-Hinduism has moved to see beyond class due to the Bhakti movement & Advaita Vedanta, particularly in West all are one | Sri Swaminarayan example of classism among monks in 1800's Gujurat

33:14 – Wokism is obsessed with hierarchy & class to promote victimhood, reparations, oppression, punishment of rich | example of NYC 2025 Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to end millionaires | high class equals horrible | regressive goal of turning system to days like under Muslim rule to punish others | promoting revenge & punishment, us vs them | identity politics wants to see race in a world where many of us want to end divisions

43:21 – Woke progressive Hinduism is irrational & moves farther from Hinduism's roots

45:54 – Warning against woke progressivism, which will destroy Hinduism & India | Great Britain will become officially Muslim | future is all hate speech

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