Ms.Sagrika Ghose advises Hindus to "Look beyond Politics"(The
Hindustan Times August 13, 2013) and she has serious objection to the term
Hindu Nationalists.
Visit following link to read her editorial
As per her (secular?) standards, a “Nationalist” can only
be:
(a) Who is a self acclaimed atheist
and engaged in making mockery of Hindu thoughts by claiming himself as civil
and progressive?
(b) Who is five times Namazi trying to enforce shariat in a democratic
country with its duly drafted constitution and judiciary system?
(c) Who is devout Christian busy in converting poor Hindus by hook or crook?
(d) but a Hindu does not fall into
the category of a nationalist - who tries to defend his belief without any
support from the government chosen majorly by his own votes, without any
subsidies in his pilgrimage yatras, without any support of foreign funds,
without any support from the so called progressive or Civil society.
I just want to ask Ms. Ghose that as to why she never writes in support of
Hindus of Kashmir who are refuges in their own Homeland, Hindus of Pakistan and
Bangladesh facing large scale radical Islam, Hindus of almost all Indian states
who are victims of rising Muslim fundamentalism leading to spurt of riots?
Most interesting, it seems Ms.Ghose is disturbed by those Hindus who try to
defend Hinduism and expose the offenders as intolerant and political.
We know that it is democratic right of any Indian citizen to propagate his
or her belief or views. Likewise, Indian constitution also provides a citizen
of his democratic right to defend his or her religious beliefs.
Now we will explain why Hindus have to defend and call them as Hindu
Nationalists in order to counter the terrorism of the so called intellectuals.
Wendy Doniger wrote books on Hinduism in order to frame Hinduism as a
collection of archaic thoughts full of superstitions and ignorance. Her hidden
motive seems to have been to shatter the confidence of vulnerable Hindu masses
in order to make them atheists or to hate their own religion and indirectly
tempting them to non Hindu ideas.
Ms. Ghose cleverly compared resistance to such ill intended attempts as
opposition to reformist ideas in Hinduism but I will like to say that this is
not opposition to reformism but its support to reformism as reformism is
acceptance of truth and rejection of untruth and Hindu nationalist are exactly
doing the same.
Ms Ghose questioned on Pilgrimage by Hindus. She never commented on subsidy
given on Hajj pilgrimage of Muslims. Hundreds of crores of rupees granted by
Indian Government on Hajj could have been used in improvement of health
facilities, education, roads and other infrastructure of poor villages of this
country.
A foolish question has been asked by Ms. Ghose that does festivals centred
exclusively on male relatives? We would like to know from Ms Ghose as to why
she never questioned Islamic practices of polygamy, status of women in Islam
who have been turned into baby producing machines. Vedas hold women in very high esteem and I can challenge Ms.Sagrika if
she can show me any other religious text of the whole world which bestows such
a high status and profound position to woman as provided in the Vedas. Ms Ghose
should also feel proud of such high level of thinking and intellect in The
Vedas.
Ms. Ghose questions about Purush Sukta of Vedas are baseless and
irrelevant. It seems she has no idea about the symbolic and meaning of meaning
of Purush Sukta.
The Yajurveda 31/11 hymn of the Purush Sukta relating to
Purusha (supreme reality) is not to be literally translated to mean that the
Brahmin originated from the mouth of the Purusha, the Kshatriyas from the arms,
and the Vaishyas from the abdomen and the Shudras from the feet.
Purusha Sukta is an analogy between four limbs of the
body (head, arms, thighs & feet identified symbolically with society) and
the four Varnas, i.e., Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishyas and Shudra who as providers
of knowledge, protection, wealth and service are respectively required to
eliminate ignorance, injustice, inadequacy and indolence, the four social ills
of the society and serve mankind as per their functional values and natural
propensities. These four Varnas are based on qualities not on basis of Birth.
And most important is that they are practically being used in society. Son of a
MBBS doctor is called Doctor only after graduating from medical college not
merely on basis of being son to a medical doctor. Practical side effects of non
implementation of varn vyastha is clearly visible in cases of new generation
politicians who have earned tag of MP/MLA being sons/daughters of politicians
not by hard and laborious work.
Ms Ghose asked good question on meaning of Castism. She
will be thrilled to know that whole mankind has only one caste and that is
human or Manav in Hindi. We all differ not by caste but by qualities and that
have decided our Varnas. An intellectual person who is fit to guide the society
is called as learned or Brahman, a strong person fit to protect our country and
has leadership capabilities is called as Kshatriya, a person fit to support
society by trade/business is called as Vaishyas and a person unfit for all
these jobs but is fit to provide physical support to above three categories in
their respective tasks is called as Shudra. These are not birth based but
quality based divisions. So long as Varna Vyavastha (Right job to Right Person)
was followed in our society, our country was progressive and great. It is only
after hereditary caste system (presently practiced) has replaced or overtaken
the Vedic Varn Vyastha, degeneration started in this great land and downfall of
society began. Reservation driven by politics is also a form of Castism which
makes way for unfit persons, devoid of merit to run the Govt.machinery.
The points raised by Ms Ghose relating to rituals,
temples, mantras and God are absurd.
I would like to ask her, has she ever seriously tried to
learn in life the multi-dimension Vedic language and the true meanings of the
Vedic mantras? I won't be wrong in my guess that even if she has read some of
the mantras here and there, it must have been based on the distorted
commentaries of Vedas by Western Indologists who had meager knowledge of Vedic
Sanskrit who his favorite historian Ramchandra Guha describes as
Macaulayputras. Vedas and rituals are not poems of shepherds as presented and
projected by many of the imperialist scholars of the last two centuries. Vedas
are repositories of knowledge which needs to be learnt, analyzed and practiced
in daily life.
To know about the existence of God, Ms.Sagrika, pl. mark
the words of eminent scientist -Albert Einstein, who said that there does
exist, some unknown super power which is controlling this vast power and which
still requires to be probed.
We calls that unknown super power as God because it’s not
unknown for us. We are familiar with the God since ages and he was known by our
sages whom your class of atheists describes as uncivilized and primitive.
Ms.Ghose points out about a dialogue between Yajnavalakya
and Gargi. Is it not a perfect example of level of scholarship among females in
the remote past of India? Ms.Ghose please ponder over it and tell others that
our Vedic Rishikas were so learned that they could challenge the scholarship of
distinguished scholars of their times.
Ms. Ghose has questioned the relevance of Shri Ram and
Ramayan in the present age. In this context, I would say that had she read
Ramayan properly in her life, she would not have asked this question. I can say
with confidence that the Vedic message of Ramayan and life history of Lord Ram
give such important messages that guide anyone in facing different challenges
and in creating harmony in the life of an individual, family and community. All
those persons who send their parents to old age homes should learn from Lord
Ram who was an obedient son. Rejection of thrown of king, first by Ram than by
Bharat gives message to all those who fight over property matters in courts for
decades.
Rejection of proposal of Shurpnakha by Ram as well as by
Lakshman speaks volumes about their high character as well as that of other
sages of the epic age.
Killing of Rawan who was abductor of Sita has a great
lesson that all those who try to molests women, insult women, physically harm
women, abduct women or even plays with the chastity of women deserve severest
punishment.
Crowning of Vibhishan - Rawan’s own brother, on the
throne of Lanka, depicts Ram was neither an imperialist nor a dictator but a
true well wisher of mankind.
Many Similar examples can be given to understand the
distinguishing features of the pious and challenging life history of Lord Ram
as given in the Ramayana. His life can inspire youth in leading a purposeful
life with a noble cause. It is only a person with objective outlook who can
find the gems of Vedic truth and pearls of our rich cultural heritage.
Why Ms.Ghose cannot comprehend such a simple and easily
understandable messages from Ramayan? It indicates her lack of seriousness in
the study of Hindu texts? I don’t know why she has never questioned all those
who are glorifying Rawan (a women kidnapper) as Learned and Powerful king of
Dravids killed and showing his own brother Vibhishan in poor light. It seems
that after rejection of Aryan invasion/migration theory Macaulayputras are in
search of new faces like Rawan as their role model.
Ms. Ghose considers the opposition of Ramanujam essay
'three hundred Ramayana' a scholarly work as denial to freedom to reinterpret
and interrogate religion. I strongly feel that her views with regard to the
book 'three hundred Ramayana' are based on her superficial reading of the above
book which condemns the noble character of Lakshman accusing him of having a
bad eye on his elder brother's wife Sita.
Hollowness of arguments of author of the above book is
quite evident. In Kishkindha kand when Lakshman was asked by Rama to identify
ornaments of Sita used by her on face, neck, etc., he replied he could only
identify her ornaments which she wore around her ankle. Lakshman said that he
had never seen the face of his Sita but only her feet while touching them every
morning as a mark of respect for his sister-in-law. Ms.Sagrika, where do you
find such high level of morality? Don't you think that the great story of
Ramayana can be a great inspirational message to train today's youths of our
country most of which is going astray, is driven by materialistic approach of
western world in the name of progress. It is indeed unfortunate that
elimination of evils of the society and eradication of the obnoxious practices
not sanctioned by the ancient Vedic tradition are being hindered by the so
called modern and progressive custodians of the society. Opposition of such
dirt is considered as an attack on freedom of speech by the pretenders of the
civilized society. This is nothing more than a cunning conspiracy of haters of
our profound culture.
This article of mine exposes the so called sickular
politics being played at different levels, different sections of our society
with only and only one motive, i.e., to oppose and decry all sorts of
practices, beliefs and question the intellectual wisdom of Hindus. Hinduism is
denigrated, discredited and defamed so as to develop inferiority complex
amongst Hindus. I want to clearly all such people that the Hindu mind is
harbinger of rich Vedic knowledge which has no parallel throughout the World.
Dr Vivek Arya
By Profession- New Born and Child Specialist, Delhi
By Inspiration- Follower of Great scholar Maharishi
Dayanand Saraswati
By Hobby- Student of Vedas
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
ReplyDelete