A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at 48th All Orissa Sri Aurobindo Study Circle Conference, Matrubhaban, Cuttack, 2018.
What really is Indian culture? Is it yet another religion, one among several others? What we see today is a mixture of many currents and streams and forces and practices that have entered the vast sea of Indian Thought like rivers pouring and mixing their waters into it. But behind it all is the core of Indian culture burning like a flame of aspiration ever bright and high. It is this that we must try to understand today.
At best they invite some gods and beings of the vital world where much falsehood is mixed with fragments of truth, at worst they invoke certain dangerous forces in the atmosphere.