No need of any theoretical discussion: the positive answer is given by the VERY SAME INDIAN GURUS; and the unescapable fact that they all obsessively focus on / go to / want to go to Western Countries.
- Why the majority of Indian Gurus only go to Western countries, and to the USA most of all; as if “god” is only needed there ? (I dared ask at the Sadhana Mandir, Suami Ram Ashram in Rishikesk). Why they do not go to Africa, South America; South East Asia ………?????????
- Why the Catholics and other Christians, with their neo-platonic based theories of god, have reached to more diverse places ?
It appears to be a sort of flat-world vision: “Themselves” and at the other end of the world ” The West”: India – The West. There is no South, neither North, etc.
And the answer which almost any average person would tell you is that it is about money. As you can clearly see it in the modern Ashrams, the product of may of these gurus, in the South and North of India: “selling packages”; courses, and all what in the original long Indian tradition of Guruship does not exist. And so in many modern ashrams it seems to be: a service to Westerners. And in some, Westerner are the ones who either by seva or by salary, run the entire system. From generous donations until money laundry, that appears to give them certain privileges; besides that many of them even openly criticize the local Indian beliefs, for the majority of them accept only a Monotheistic way of Vedanta (Vedanta fabricated in the West which came back to India with monotheistic characteristics): “Hindu people kill flowers for their pooja“, told me a senior, western meditation instructor in one of the Ashrams in India. An so the majority of Ashrams and yoga centres end-up being a Western attraction where even the more diverse Indian spirituality is criticized to the core. But fairly speaking, it is already a relationship between both the two groups of people (Indians and westerners), and which reveals that obsession for going only to the west; and which also denotes a colonial trace, for Indian staff and instructors only like and want to see Westerners (regardless if westerners are degrading them). Have someone seen how Indian staff treat other participants in the Ashrams who are not white westerners ??????
“The diversity of a philosophy” seems to produce a supremacy of only one sort of people, when it comes to “SPIRUTALITY”. What is coherent with the fact that the emissaries of such philosophy go to speak about spirituality only to one particular audience.
So, an apparently more “diverse philosophy”, which goes and embraces only one particular sort of audience, and brings said audience, whom do not embrace such diversity but only grasps and accept a particular narrow set of practices, is really diverse ? (or submissive)
OR IT HAS SOLD ITS DIVERSITY ?????????????????
Because that obsession of going ONLY TO THE WEST, seems to SADLY be more of a “SEEK OF ACCEPTANCE” (besides the obvious selling of …..) from the West. Furthermore, many Indian youtubers, social media influencers and even intellectuals try to prove by western modern science that the Indian philosophy is equally certain. It seems a bitter struggle to be accepted and to prove to the west that Indian philosophy can be corroborated by means of Western Science. As if Western Science (on my opinion) were some sort of absolute, ultimate word in matters of knowledge. Because who really has certainties, does not even need to quote of pair any western scientific criterion or result to prove its own certainties.
It is SAD, indeed, that so vast a system of knowledge and philosophy, as how Indian philosophy is, is nowadays looking for approval and acceptance of the Modern Western Science.
So, my friend, unfortunately the answer to the question seems to be given by the representants of that philosophy who seems to have a flat-world obsession of going only to a particular (not diverse) audience; and by Modern Indian Middle Class, who want to emulate to the West; trying to make Indian thought more “western appealing”.
Hado 
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