I love this video!. Prof. Vaidyanathan is 100% right about the reasons for gun violence in the USA. I have been living in the USA for more than 52 years and everything he said about the USA is correct and no exaggeration. The dysfunctional family is the major reason but the easy availability of guns is the primary reason. Dysfunctional families are not anything unique to the USA, it applies to other western countries also but what is unique about the USA is gun ownership. According to some estimates, there are more than 400 million guns in the USA, and the population of the USA is 330million. Americans love guns, they would not vote for the politicians who oppose gun ownership, so in my opinion, as long as the American voters support gun ownership you are not going to see any major changes. Other than offering thoughts and prayers, American voters do not care much about these tragedies.

He never thinks of Psychopaths stone throwers in India but wants to solve problems of USA. Same upon such professors

Promote Hindu Dharma in US

To maintain a church were few comes on some odd days is easy to clean with the kind of automation tools they use like in big industries, so nothing to actually worry like how you have to worry for physical labour in third world countries

I love hearing Prof Vaidya and he is correct about what is causing gun culture. Bullying is common cause as children are raised to dislike others. Only one thing we talk about maintaining relationships and nuclear families but mother-in-law harassment- psychological, putting daughter in law down-economically, even if she is more educated or richer than the MIL is very common -constant comments and hatred is showered at her. This occurs more if mother-in-law is uneducated and controls her husband and has more than one son. Despite this the daughter in law has to follow rituals put up with lazy inlaws who have no interest in being elders and want to enjoy everything on par with the next generation. Let's acknowledge nuclear families nowadays are due to older generation being immature, selfish and being bullies.

i just fail to understand how some industries continue to survive and thrive.. tobabbaco, alcohol, guns, arms, narcotics.. the world does not need these.. and yet…here we are..

very sad to see these developments…

😂INDIA HAS DECLINED FAMILY VALUES SINCE 2000s, WAKE UP AND BECOME AWARE. MILLIONS OF ELIGIBLE BACHELORS/BACHELORETTES ARE SINGLE, DIVORCED, OR WIDOW – AND THEN REMAIN SINGLE. DON'T BELIEVE IN PERSONS THAT THROW SHT AT OTHER COUNTRIES. WHICHEVER EXAMPLES PERSONS GIVE ARE OF LAY PERSONS. MOST OF EDUCATED/MIDDLE CLASS IN USA, CANADA – ARE MARRIED 🙏HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

US has gun violence issues. This does not concern us the indigenous people of India. Just as our issues don't concern them

It's my humble request plz plz provide Hindi version of this vv imp video so that we can easily and confidently aware our people bec in India this is also happened,i m from Punjab and here thousands of people are running agenda of weapons it's vv sad 🌹🌹🙏🙏🌹🌹

Weapons are for Real Men.. If u r pussy no need of one.. Violence is our biology..

The gun problem in the US is by a misreading of the 'right to bear arms' in the Constitution. 'To bear arms' means to join the armed forces to defend the country and not to have a gun and kill any one anywhere any time for any reason or no reason. The US Supreme Court can now correct "two centuries of error'". They corrected 'one century of error' in Baker v. Carr, in 1962 as the judges themselves said there..

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America has gun violence problem because of the simple adage.
Those who live by the sword, die by the sword.
Their religion spread by the sword.
They control the world by the sword.
They deracinated the world by the sword.
The chicks are coming home to roost.

Nice. Two points to add. US 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms stops any type of legislation… 2nd British for their nefarious purposes kept a strict gun law in their colonies in which a few Brits ruled the entire colony so they had to keep guns in control and thankfully those provisions got copy catted into the current gun laws in all the former British colonies. Cheers and Jai Hind.

The problem of America is not problem of the world! Let them deal with it!!!!

Prof RV has brought out the role of "institutions" of family and "communities" very nicely.
The underlying maxim (Vedic Maha Vakya, indeed) "Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu" is the norm in India, SE Asian and East European countries too, But taboo in the Western Life. Natural calamities (including Covid!!) were faced by families boldly with help from neighbors and strangers only.
The 27 words of US Second Amendment is held more sacred than the life of an individual and the catastrophe in the family . Is not the word "militia" (= military force – esp. one conscripted in an emergency"-OUP) in the amendment, absolving the system after each shootout?
The Catalog of a gun-seller lists 400+ types of guns – different lengths (inches to feet), bores, mechanisms, magazines (5 to 35 rounds). No rationing of the number of rounds and deals on special days!!! THERE MAY NOT BE A SINGLE PRODUCT IN THE WORLD WITH THESE MANY OPTIONS.
The System is trying to find a Cure for the malady than its Prevention, in the first place..

One should overcome anti-colonialism (this is historically outmoded) and recognize that this is the price (loss of family and mental health) the west (especially America) has had to pay, to fulfill its historical purpose of bringing modernity to the world and its accompanying prosperity. Instead of hating the west, we should rise to global consciousness and see the people of the west as our fellow human beings, from a human rights perspective — commiserating with their woes. Until we do this we will never be free of the west or of neo-colonialism. This goes beyond forgiveness. It is possible to critique the west without hating them. Hatred boomerangs back to the hater. Indians are harming themselves (not the west) by hating the west.

The other side of this attitude is blind nationalistic narcissism, presently plaguing India. No nation can be truly free until it is mentally secure enough to critique itself. Example: the hallowed joint family has many problems — especially abuse of daughters-in-law. It is excellent for men — not for their wives. There are worse sins than being westernized. The sun may be setting on western civilization. Nevertheless, there are many western virtues that continue to exist — especially in America. In every day America, generosity, honesty, and pragmatism are virtues we Indians would do well to emulate. The question your average American asks is not whether to donate, but how much and to whom. Beneath the prosperity of the west is not just capitalistic exploitation, but solid karmic reasons. Capitalism presupposes honesty at the micro-level.

I note in this presentation, a tone of glee at the pain of America from gun violence and the breakdown of the family in the west — not genuine human compassion! This can only hurt Indians themselves by trapping them in a bubble of narcissism. The insinuation that America has lost its moral compass is not true. America still has a rarefied moral awareness, unique to this nation as once noted by a senior RKM monk. The religion of America is moral awareness and unselfishness. Average Americans are kind, helpful, and morally astute. Their individuality allows for a moral community — something impossible in identity-plagued societies. An Indian who is free from the encumbrance of the colonial hangover can learn a lot from America.

More bhogi value loses control very fast on odd situation while more yogic value masters on odd situation.

Sir I hope you focus .. why India has a violence problem due to lack of access to guns to general law abiding civic public and only terrorists and criminals have access to guns. Indians seems to ideals preachers rather than practical pragmatics. Push for guns to every one in India just like people have in USA. Hopefully less Hindus will be killed in Kashmir by armed terrorists.

Lief 💅.Respected Prof.R.Vaidyanathan ji.I am also keeping an eagle eye on this World a violence problem especially up coming younger generations shooting culture so on and not due to dysfunctional families but level of poverty,jobless and Multiple diseases like a pestilence of evil virus.I know that we are facing hard times and assumption could not be from truth.The only solution is to start Gurukula education for all religious children’s around the world then only children’s life starts from right path of seed faith life 🙏,

In India the massacre of Sikhs or kashmiri pandits and genocide of tribals for land would not have happened had the general population been armed . There are worse atrocities in India. Just that even those who speak up are killed. Atleast USA has a modicum of freedom of speech.

Wow so much to unbundle there! One word that is never used is pioneer which is the basis of the gun culture and probably a very bad word like colonialism. Even though I am a Canadian being a rural person I have seen and handled guns. Actually on a farm there are a few used for guns. I really don’t understand why shooting a few people has become an indication that “I’m having a bad day” in the US. His analysis of the family is probably correct. Strange how Indian people are always complaining about churches trying to convert them but then they praise them for keeping the white people in line! I’ve probably generated enough hate now but will close by saying that even with all the bad publicly the US is getting I think they are better set to resist the New World Order than Canada which has been pretty well taken over due to our current PM.

Class explanation by
Professor R.Vaidyanathan

Why Indians care about terror of guns and violence in America??

Sir, just an aside – I was looking for parallels to school shootings in US to something in India, if possible. Because dysfunctional/abusive families and childhood angst etc are not limited to US. It occurred to me that acid attacks are in the realm of an Indian equivalent to US shootings. Acid attacks are aimed mostly at women who dumped a lover etc but the incidents are derived from the same roots of suppressed and misdirected fury.

It is sad that so many Indians want to live in America. I in fact fled America in mid-2018, so it'll be 4 years in August when I fled. I tell Indians (I call them Indians and not Bhāratīyas because they betray their motherland by leaving to live in another land) that "Hey, you're going in the wrong direction! I fled where you are going!"

I also want to add something here. That is, how generations view one another in the West. Over there, the elders are looked at as "old-fashioned people who need to get with the times." The same middle generation will look at children as, "What is this?! We didn't do things like this growing up!" Yet, the middle generation doesn't realize that the present children are looking at them in the same light as they themselves look at their elders AND how the elders look or looked at them when they were kids! See, each generation declines below the previous one in the level of consciousness, back down to a barely human level of consciousness before it slips out downward back into animal lives. Sanātana Dharma is the thing that helps humans elevate themselves onward to a form of consciousness beyond the human level. Without this, people are forever bobbing up and down between animal living and human living before returning to the former.

I need to mention something additionally about the Uvalde shooting. This is potentially an opening into the Hopi prophecy whereby the White Man is finally removed from positions of power, decision-making, money, and influence, if not from the Americas altogether by the Natives of the Americas, pole-to-pole. I don't agree with how the killer did this, but we have to look at the facts – he targeted children of Border Patrol staff… Being from a border region of America, like Bhāratīyas living near Pakistan, we are sensitive to things like this. It looms large in front of us.

The church thing is a very good point. The problem that we have is, Christians are like 4th graders. Those who are waking up out of Christianity and beginning to question it are 5th graders. 6th grade is when you lay out all the questions about it and distance yourself from Christianity. The problem is, white people, coming from a centuries-old Abrahamic background, are forever stuck in a "summer rest from school" and don't seem to return to school for junior high in the 7th grade, when they start to explore other paths of spirituality. Those who make it into high school in the 9th grade are those who have discovered Sanātana Dharma as their path. They use the whole of high school to study it. College is when you start living and practicing fully as Hindūs. Graduate school is when you are striving for mokṣa after having lived your life as a gṛhastha. Your Doctorate is mokṣa. The problem that we have in getting into the summer break after the 6th grade is that we don't return back to school after the summer is over, or we go to another wrong school and get sucked into its methods and beliefs (Islam or some other, for example). This in-between period between Christianity and Sanātana Dharma is a dangerous one, because we are not given guidance AT ALL as to where to go next, so some people end up being nihilists or cārvākas and never get out of this within the same lifetime. The church no longer serves its purpose because we have outgrown it, and its control mechanisms no longer work on us.

We need your help in bridging to Sanātana Dharma ASAP!

Another thing that we have noticed is that there is discrimination by Christians against those who are not, at the social level and at the job level. If you want to do well in America, you have to part of a church who can get you edge-wise into jobs. An American-born may be able to get into jobs edge-wise if one has good connections within the Hindū community, but that has not been my experience there.

Well ! In the USA – The Gun Culture and Gun Violence will never ever be controlled – in a few years the White Nationalists of the USA will start assaulting and killing the powerful immigrants in the USA – Because they are Really Crazy People – White Nationalists ( Racist + Crazy ). In truth the USA even ordinary citizens have high caliber assault weapons that are used in a battlefield – So, just imagine if you get mad at anyone for a minute second – and you do something crazy in the fit of rage with the gun you own – Its obvious – if you have access to something you will use it.

Prof. Sir your problem statement is very clear – Disfunctional families.
Now we have to support DMK and Congress who are promoting family values 😀

I am an American Hindū staying in Bhārat for extended periods. I am from Carrizo Springs, 50 miles south of Uvalde, where the acknowledged shootings occurred. Let me give you an extent of the decline of the White Man in America. Last night, I was in chat with a friend in America, and he has a girlfriend he met earlier this year, and he's early 40s… He was dreaming of having children with her in recent months. AND then he drops on me the bombshell of abuse and insults from her aimed at him. I read some of the chats he screenshotted for me (which I did NOT ask for). This is a white woman who is a mess inside, and you know what she does for a living?? She's a crisis counselor! See, the White Man, under the illusions caused by lack of access to dharma and the mind sciences of Sanātana Dharma, is literally mentally disintegrating in front of us. The dangerous thing is that he is devolving into an animal who has access to thought, speech, and action in ways that non-human animals do not. Go look at homeless people in Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, and you'll see what I mean – an example of the end-stage of western civilization, when it finally collapses under that weight of being rākṣasas. I give you an article here:

Nuclear Families in the West

September 4, 2019

A viewer wrote, "In Asia this is custom. But in America kinda frowned upon." [referring to extended families in a single home]

I have to agree with you there. I live in India and know of many families who live 3G to a house (3 generations). Once in a while, I find a 4G household. Now let's turn the western gaze that Dave has looked at us through and turn it back onto him.

The nuclear family model is a DISASTER in the making. Please take out a piece of paper, and with a pen, create a structure of a family in which the couple gets married and has two children, who in turn have two children, and so on. Everyone has two children, and none are disabled or at least productive and successful in spite of disabilities (I am profoundly deaf – imagine living in India with deafness and a language barrier all the same). All of them move out before age 20 and never move back home. As you create the family of man and woman, mark two children under them, who get married and have children of their own. Circle each couple who get married and later have children, mark down their spouses beside them and circle them as well. When you are done, when you have branched out four generations who have gotten married, count the number of circles. Those circles are HOUSES or abodes of residences! 15 of them! How much money is rolling into all of these houses over a 45-year rolling period as one generation pays off their houses and the newest generation buy their houses??

There are some things wrong with this. In order to support the extended family of four generations, how many houses are bought, how many toilets, shower facilities, laundry equipment, stoves, fridges, etc. are bought? This is a huge waste of resources AND money, and this is happening because of ego and poor family relationship skills. Invariably, westernized children are yearning for their own space and exceedingly glad to get out of the house. Their parents did not respect them, and the children did not respect their parents as well. This is very sad, because one should never look forward to leaving parents because they can't stand to be around them. Rather, they should be sad that this chapter in life is over, and it is time for the daughter to go live with her in-laws. I have seen the tears of many a father and daughters at wedding night.

What westerners don't understand is that there is a warm, loving bond within the family, and this happens whether there is an economic need to be conservative on resources for housing or not. Also, the Indian man who lives at home with his parents is usually NOT a lazy man who won't get out on his own. Like someone in this thread said, when the young adults are of age, they will work to support the family. They move through the stages of being a child in a secure environment, to being a young adult contributing to the household, to becoming the main earners when the parents retire as well as parents themselves when their children are born, to retiring themselves as their children take over the earning duties of the house.

With this in mind, look at their houses, and how they can be built modularly upward, building on a floor above as the family expands through the generations. I live in such a house right now, the original having been built in the early 90s and my floor built about three years ago. They do not have to buy land to put a whole new house on it, and they do not have to start from scratch financially. In other words, they are able to pick up from where their parents leave off and add onto it. They are able to take over the responsibilities and the inheritance even while the owners are still living. Such a family like that can only expand and grow, unlike the western nuclear family who has to start from scratch with every single generation. As a nuclear family, you don't make much progress. It is simply not smart economics to have everyone start from scratch just because their parents did.

An example is a grains seller at the corner of my society (subdivision). He is older, in his 50s. He has a son-and-wife living at home with them, and the granddaughter is about one year old. They have an interesting house, with multi-colored tile on the outside walls and a couple of white areas framed with names written in Gujarātī in blue tile. This is two stories on top of the grains shop on the ground floor, so three floors altogether. The older man's wife makes sarees and other dresses as well. They seem to be doing well.

Now, there are times when a family has three or four sons, which may be a space issue, because typically, the son stays home to contribute to and eventually be the primary earner for the family while the daughter goes to live with her in-laws. If you have a house with sufficient space, great, but if not, you might be looking at 3-5 houses in total, not this 15 houses/residences as is found in the West.

What is interesting is the nuclear family structure and how it mimics the life cycle of many animals (social scientists have written textbooks that explained how young adult animals leave the nest or dens just like human children do). This betrays the animalistic nature of westernized humans. They think that just because this practice is found in nature, that humans must necessarily do the same. If any of you are Hindūs, you will understand what I mean when I say that we see ourselves as spiritual beings having a human experience, not as human beings striving for a spiritual experience. It means living to your full potential as humans, which eventually means to work smartly, not very hard. And that includes surpassing merely starting from scratch with every generation and instead building on and learning from the successes of the past generations with love and reverence.

Wonderful presentation by Prof. Missed studying under him. But learning a lot from him on Youtube!

Churches played a great part in development. If some one is depressed he can talk to the priest . Church clergy is pretty well educated.