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thought provoking mail I received today from a close friend and when I
read it, I thought. I must share this with you all, the third
perspective expressed so boldly by an outsider on the burning issue that
every day we see our media, especially TV studios are debating.
I do not see sensible discussions, rational, logical arguments in the
popular debates but one can easily make out with little intelligence
what is actually being orchestrated to place a Hindu only in the dock
and his/her Hindu civilization, culture which goes back to 5-7000 years
BC.
Ramayana, Mahabharata is questioned everyday because, a Hindu is
considered like a "Doormat" anyone can stamp on it, but he should not
say a word.
Learned People like retired Justice Markandey Katju
can say anything about Ramayana, Mahabhara, and will not think for a
minute, whether what intellectuals like him are right or wrong, true or false.
They don't think also, they need to prove their point of view otherwise.
I am sure a
judge in the court would ask to prove its statement on the grounds of
evidence. Learned Ex judge Mr Katju does not think, that is necessary, nor does
people like Katju think, there are many many historians, foreigners who
are doing research by studying Hindu civilization, Hindu culture,
History about Lord Rama, and Krishna.
My point is well covered and well presented in the following article written by an outsider. And who
is he?
Dr. David Frawley, (American Institute of Vedic Studies, New Mexico)
The Colonial Native Vs The Hindu
Just read his observations about
Indians, Hindus, Indian elite, Indian so call intellectual community,
Indian politics, politicians and so on.
Lot many people of India
who I call Intellectual Mafia, are trying all the time to confuse,
abuse, simple, straightforward, ordinary Hindu, who is so liberal in his
own ways, own thinking, simply because of the freedom he enjoys from his
religious faith that is Hinduism. But unfortunately, others have started taking
him-her for granted.
Its time he speaks for his own past, his identity
which has never threatened other faiths, cultures. And for thousands
and thousands of years.... the only one philosophical thought promoted
by Hinduism is
"Sarva Dharma Sama Bhav".
Hey Vishwa Chi Maze Ghar... meaning, this whole world is my home, my family.
The Author Dr Devid Frawley writes....
A defeatist tendency
Exists in the psyche of modern
Indians perhaps unparalleled in any other country today. An inner
conflict bordering on a civil war rages in the minds of the country’s
elite. The main effort of its cultural leaders appears to be to pull the
country down or remake it in a foreign image, as if little Indian and
certainly nothing Hindu was worthy of preserving or even reforming.
The elite of India
Suffers from a fundamental alienation from the traditions and
culture of the land that would not be less poignant had they been born
and raised in a hostile country. The ruling elite appears to be little
more than a native incarnation of the old colonial rulers who haughtily
lived in their separate cantonments, neither mingling with the people
nor seeking to understand their customs. This new English-speaking
aristocracy prides itself in being disconnected from the very soil and
people that gave it birth.
There is probably no other country where...
It has become a national pastime among its educated class to
denigrate its own culture and history, however great that has been over
the many millennia of its existence. When great archaeological
discoveries of India’s past are found, for example, they are not a
subject for national pride but are ridiculed as an exaggeration, if not
an invention, as if they represent only the imagination of backward
chauvinistic elements within the culture.
There is probably no other country where...
The majority religion, however enlightened, mystical or
spiritual, is ridiculed, while minority religions, however
fundamentalist or even militant, are doted upon. The majority religion
and its institutions are taxed and regulated while minority religions
receive tax benefits and have no regulation or even monitoring. While
the majority religion is carefully monitored and limited as to what it
can teach, minority religions can teach what they want, even if
anti-national or backward in nature. Books are banned that offend
minority religious sentiments but praised if they cast insults on
majority beliefs.
There is probably no other country where...
Regional, caste and family loyalties are more important than
the national interest, even among those who claim to be democratic,
socialist or caste reformers. Political parties exist not to promote a
national agenda but to sustain one region or group of people in the
country at the expense of the whole. Each group wants as big a piece of
the national pie as it can get, not realizing that the advantages it
gains mean deprivation for other groups. Yet when those who were
previously deprived gain power, they too seek the same unequal
advantages that causes further inequality and discontent.
India’s affirmative action code is...
By far the most extreme in the world, trying to raise up
certain segments of the population regardless of merit, and prevent
others from gaining positions however qualified they may be. In the
guise of removing caste, a new castism has arisen where one’s caste is
more important than one’s qualifications either in gaining entrance into
a school or in finding a job when one graduates. Anti-Brahminism has
often become the most virulent form of castist thinking. People view the
government not as their own creation but as a welfare state from they
should take the maximum personal benefit, regardless of the consequences
for the country as a whole.
Outside people need not pull Indians down
Indians are already quite busy keeping any of their people and
the country as a whole from rising up. They would rather see their
neighbors or the nation fail if they are not given the top position. It
is only outside of India that Indians succeed, often remarkably well,
because their native talents are not stifled by the dominant cultural
self-negativity and rabid divisiveness that exists in the country today.
Political parties In India see gaining power as a means of amassing personal
wealth and robbing the nation.
Political leaders include gangsters,
charlatans and buffoons who would stop short at nothing to gain power
for themselves and their coteries. Even so-called modern or liberal
parties resemble more the courts of kings, where personal loyalty is
more important than any democratic participation. Once they gain power
politicians routinely do little but cheat the people for their own
advantage. Even honest politicians find that they cannot function
without some deference to the more numerous corrupt leaders who often
have a stranglehold on the bureaucracy.
Politicians divide the country
Into warring vote banks and place one community against
another. They offer favors to communities like bribes to make sure that
they are elected or stay in power. They campaign on slogans that appeal
to community fears and suspicions rather than create any national
consensus or harmony.They hold power based upon blame and hatred rather
than on any positive programs for social change. They inflame the
uneducated masses with propaganda rather than work to make people aware
of real social problems like overpopulation, poor infrastructure or lack
of education.
Should a decent government come to power
The opposition pursues pulling it down as its main goal, so that
they can gain power for themselves. The idea of a constructive or
supportive opposition is hard to find. The goal is to gain power for
oneself and to not allow anyone else to succeed.
To further their ambitions'...
Indian politicians will manipulate the foreign press to
denigrate their opponents, even if it means spreading lies and rumors
and making the country an anathema in the eyes of the outside world.
Petty conflicts in India are blown out of proportion in the foreign
media, not by foreign journalists but by Indians seeking to use the
media to score points against their own opponents in the country. The
Indians who are responsible for the news of India in the foreign press
spread venom and distortion about their own country, perhaps better than
any foreigner who dislikes the culture ever could.
The killing of one Christian missionary...
Becomes a national media event of anti-Christian attacks while
the murder of hundreds of Hindus is taken casually as without any real
importance, as if only the deaths of white-skinned people mattered, not
the slaughter of the natives.
Missionary aggression is extolled as
social up-liftment, while Hindu efforts at self-defense against the
conversion onslaught are portrayed as rabid fundamentalism. One Indian
journalist even lamented that western armies would not come to India to
chastise the political groups he was opposed to,as if he was still
looking for the colonial powers to save him!
Let us look at the type of leaders
That India has had with its Laloo Prasad Yadav ( ex CM Bihar),
Mulayam Singh Yadav ( ex CM UP) or Jayalalita to mention but a few. Such
individuals are little more than warlords who surround themselves with
sycophants. Modern Indian politicians appear more like colonial rulers
looting their own country, following a divide and rule policy, to keep
the people so weak that their power cannot be challenged.
Corruption exists
Almost everywhere and bribery is the main way to do business in
nearly all fields. India has an entrenched bureaucracy that resists
change and stifles development, just out of sheer obstinacy and not
wanting to give up any control.
The Congress Party
The oldest in this predominantly Hindu nation, has given its leadership
to an Italian Catholic woman simply because as the widow of the last
Gandhi prime minister, she carries the family torch, as if family
loyalty were still the main basis of political credibility in the
country. And such a leader and a party are deemed progressive!
The strange thing is...
That India is not a banana republic of recent vintage but one
of the oldest and most venerable civilizations in the world.
Its culture
is not trumpeting a militant and fundamentalist religion trying to
conquer the world for the one true faith but represents a vaster and
more cosmic vision. India has given birth to the main religions that
have dominated East Asia historically, the Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and
Sikh, which are noted for tolerance and spirituality
It has produced Sanskrit:
Perhaps the world’s greatest language. It has given us the
incredible spiritual systems of Yoga and its great traditions of
meditation and Self-realization.
As the world looks forward to a more
universal model of spirituality and a world view defined by
consciousness rather than by religious dogma these traditions are
perhaps the most important legacy to draw upon for creating a future
enlightened civilization.
The irony:
Is that
rather than embracing its own great traditions, the modern Indian psyche
prefers to slavishly imitate worn out trends in western intellectual
thought like Marxism or even to write apologetic for Christian and
Islamic missionary aggression. Though living in India, in proximity to
temples, yogis and great festivals, most modern Indian intellectuals are
oblivious to the soul of the land. They might as well be living in
England or China for all they know of their own country.
"They are isolated in their own alien ideas as if in a tower of iron. If
they choose to rediscover India, it is more likely to occur by reading
the books of western travelers visiting the country, than by their own
direct experience of the people around them."
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I have not read such an in depth analysis of this sort that almost
covers everything that is happening in Indian politics today.
Many
Indian politicians, intellectuals, thinkers, think, a Hindu can be
treated any ways you want, because he is the most tolerant of all.
Yes, that is very true... He is .... to a limit and he is no exception to the rule.
I remember, once late Sadam Hussain said openly to those who are trying to terrorize India.... He told them...
"The biggest mistake you are making is of awakening that sleeping
giant, that most tolerant Hindu, who can take maximum because of his
peaceful, accommodating disposition, but you will regret for waking him
up,
Leave him alone. It would to be wiser
If you wish to share your views on this, feel free. One needs to be bold to express views without any bias or offense meant.
Ajay Angre Writer, Author, Publisher
