China finances restoration of Lord Shiva temple in Angkor wat complex
A US-based Hindu group has applauded
China for reportedly financing the restoration of deteriorating
Ta Keo Hindu
temple in Cambodia's UNESCO World Heritage Site
Angkor temple complex, which
began on November 27. Restoration will take about six million dollars and eight
years to complete.
People's Republic of China also assisted in
the restoration (2000-2008) of 12th century Hindu
temple in Angkor named Chausay Tevada, costing about two million
dollars, reports suggest.
Said to be built entirely of sandstones by Kings
Jayavarman V and Suryavarman I in late 10-early 11th century, Ta Keo
(Preah Keo) is a pyramid of five levels. Fragments of pedestals and lingas
are found in/around its towers. Its primary deity is said to be Shiva. At the
foot of the eastern stairways, there is a statue of
kneeling Nandi, which indicates that Ta Keo was a Shaivite temple.
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) on Monday said: "More
needed to be done to safeguard the Angkor temple complex and its surroundings
and deteriorating bas-reliefs; save it from vandalism and looting; put some
controls on unchecked tourism; check the demand for water table which could
undermine the stability of sandy soils under the temples."
Rajan Zed, who is President of
Universal Society of Hinduism, also urged UNESCO
World Heritage Convention and Cambodia government to provide more funding for
the upkeep of the temple complex and spend more than half the ticket revenue on
the temples.
He commended China for bankrolling the restoration of historic Hindu temples.
Angkor Archaeological Park contains magnificent remains of over 1000 temples
going back to ninth century, spread over about 400 square kilometers, and
receives about three million visitors annually.
(source:
China finances restoration of Lord Shiva temple - newkerala.com).
Refer to chapter on
Sacred
Angkor wat and
The Myth of a New Asian Century: Why it is Western not Asian -
By Janaka Goonetilleke - vijayvaani.com
India to renovate 11th century Lord Shiva Temple in Laos
India
has agreed to renovate the
Vat Phou or Wat
Phou temple complex in southern Laos as part of deepening
cultural and historical ties which have existed between the two countries for
more than 2000 years.
Wat Phou is a ruined Khmer temple complex in southern Laos. It is located at the
base of Mount Phu Kao near the Mekong river in Champasak province. There was a
temple on the site as early as the sixth century.
The summit of Phu Kao is like Linga, the
symbol of Shiva, thus giving it the more popular name, Lingaparvat.
"It is an ongoing restoration project which started in 2009. The work restarts
again after the end of rainy season in Lao. It will take seven years for
completion of the project. It will also help us to understand common cultural
heritage of Lao," Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs, Vijaya
Latha Reddy.
The
inscriptions found in the area suggest that the ancient city itself was founded
around the middle of 5th century. In the 12 century, Wat Phou and
Angkor Vat formed the axis of Khmer Empire which also were linked by a 200 km long ancient
road between the two heritage sites.
The Archaeological survey of India team arrived in June 2009 at Vat Phou and
conducted studies of foundations, drainage problems, super structural elements
as well as did the documentation, recording, survey work etc. for the Northern
Quadrangle of temple complex. By Praful Kumar Singh.
(source:
India to renovate 11th century Shiva Temple in Laos -
haindavakeralam.org).
Refer to chapter on
Suvarnabhumi and
Glimpses XVIII and
Sacred Angkor.
Pandavas' last
stop
Mana is the
sweetest little Himalayan village.
Such is the last
Indian village dotting the border with Tibet. Mana lies 3 kilometres from the
Himalayan dham of Badrinath in Uttarakhand. The legend goes that the Pandavas
passed this very village on their way to Heaven and that it was here too that
Veda Vyasa compiled and wrote the
Mahabharata and organised the Vedas.
Sage Ved Vyasa and the Mahabharata
War.
Mana, the last village on the Indian border with Tibet, where the
Pandava brothers from the Mahabharata are believed to have passed through before
their final ascent to Heaven.
Refer to
chapters on Hindu Scriptures and
Dwaraka.
***
Quaint Village
It is still early in the morning and the sun is just cresting the snow-clad
peaks to my left making each of them brilliantly white, as if they have been
laced with royal icing. I am on a highway that twists and turns; all along it
are signboards announcing that the geographical boundaries of India are ending.
This is what one of them says: 'Mana Gaon, last village in Indian territory.
After
an hour, a large archway appears, signalling the entry to Mana. From here, a
paved pathway runs through the village. A little way down this pathway, I
come to a fork with a signboard that indicates local landmarks, some from the
Mahabharata: Vyasa Gufa 100 yards; Ganesha
Gufa 50 yards; Bhim Pul 100 yards; Vasudhara Falls 4 kilometres.
Epic in a cave
The Pandavas' last
journey through Mana actually starts with the place where the epic was organised
and written. The story goes that thousands of years ago, Vyasa came here having
already worked out the story of the Mahabharata. He needed a way to reveal it to
humanity and appealed to Brahma for help.
Responding to his
request, Brahma sent the divine scribe Lord Ganesha
down; but even before he began his task, Ganesha laid down a condition for the
telling of the story. "You should not stop dictating the story," he told Vyasa:
"If you do, I will return." Vyasa agreed but said, "First you must grasp the
meaning of what I say." Ganesha agreed and thus began the writing of the epic in
the two caves towards which I was now heading.
Responding to Ved Vyas's request, Brahma sent the divine scribe
Lord Ganesha down to the earth.
***
From the signboard,
the pathway rises in sharp hairpins, till it reaches the cave where Vyasa
reportedly stayed many months, putting the great epic together. Inside the cave,
which must be just about 7 feet square, is a statue of the sage. Next to the
statue, a priest sits in darkness, doling out prasadam to pilgrims. The cave is
petrified in layers so thin that it looks like the pages of an open book. These
- as I learn later - supposedly represents the pages of the epic. From here, the
path twists and turns downhill to another small cave called the
Ganesha Gufa, where Ganesha actually sat
while Vyasa recited the epic, stanza by stanza. After a few minutes here, I
return to the fork and now take the path going left.
Down,
down, down goes the path, until it finally reaches the Saraswati river that
falls as a torrent of white foam through the gorge in front. "It's too much for
me," cried Draupadi when she saw the river. "I can't cross this". On hearing
her, Bhima had kicked a rock across. The rock he kicked now fords the river and
is named Bhim Pul. It is an ideal place to linger, and look at the towering
peaks around.
Way to heaven
Swargarohini is a mountain massif in the
Bandarpunch Range in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand. According to
legends, the Swargarohini peak leads up to Heaven. The
Pandavas, Draupadi and their dog took this path to go to heaven.
There have been many attempts to scale the mountain, but it is said that only
those who have not sinned can conquer its peaks. The snow-clad peaks are the
source of the Tons river.
Narasimha Temple
Joshimath lies
between Rishikesh and Badrinath. Adi Shankaracharya
attained enlightenment and established a math called Jyotimath, popularly known
as Joshimath. Among the important temples here are the Narasimha and Durga
temples. When Badrinath closes during the winter, the priests move to Joshimath
to continue with the worship of Lord Narasimha,
installed in the form of a saligram shila. Sankaracharya is believed to have
installed the Narasimha saligram.
(source:
Pandavas' last stop -
Arun Ganapathy
- timesofindia.com).
1200-Year-Old
Sculpture Found
Rohtak,
India: A rare 1200-year-old sandstone sclpture of a Hindu Goddess has been
discovered from an archeological site near Kaleshwar temple in
Kurukhsetra.
According to historians, the sculpture signifies the prevalence of worship of
female Gods during the Pratihar and pre-Pratihar era.
The 66 lb. sandstone sculpture of Goddess Shakti
could be from the Shakti peetha of Savitri or the Bhadrakali of Thanesar
in Kurukshetra. Thanesar is known for Shaktism, worship of the divine in the
form of the Supreme Mother of the universe.
Rajesh Purohit, deputy director and curator of the Shrikrishna Museum, spotted
the sculpture near the banks of Saraswati pond in Kaleshwar temple in Thanesar
recently. Purohit who is also an archaeologist, said: This kind of an Deity has
never been noticed here before in the history. This is one of the finest early-Pratihar
era images found in Haryana.
(source:
1200-Year-Old Sculpture Found -
hinduismtoday).
2000-yr-old link ties Ayodhya, South Korea
Ayodhya has a link, dating more
than 2,000 years back, with South Korea.
Legend goes that Queen Huh, wife of King Suro who was the founder of Karak
kingdom in Korea, was born in Ayodhya. Her father, the then king of Ayodhya, was
advised in a dream by supernatural powers that he should marry off his daughter
to the Korean king. Subsequently, she was sent there in the middle of the first
century AD. In fact, a plaque inscribed at Huh’s monument at the banks of river
Saryu narrates this story.
The legend is part of South Korean history and came out in 2001, when the mayors
of Ayodhya and Kim-Hae town of South Korea signed a “sister city bond” to
commemorate their historical ties. The three-metre-high stone monument weighs
more than 7,500 kg. Stone for the monument was brought in from South Korea and
it was built according to Korean traditions.
(source: 2000-yr-old link ties Ayodhya, Korea - haindavakeralam.com).
Krishna temple
to be built on Moscow outskirts
A new Krishna
temple is being planned on the northern outskirts of
Russia's capital Moscow,
after authorities allocated a plot for it.
Lord Krishna and Rajan Zed
It
was important to pass on Hindu spirituality, concepts and traditions to coming
generations amidst so many distractions in the consumerist society.
***
Reports suggest that construction on this temple in Vereskino village on
Novoskhodnenskoye Highway will begin by December 31, 2012. This is the outcome
of petitioning and efforts by International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
and other Hindu community and India Government which began as far back as 1991
and saw many ups and downs. Architectural design has reportedly been already
approved and the project will be finalized and construction permission obtained
in 2011.
Project will reportedly combine classical Indian temple design with modern
technologies. Besides a spacious sanctuary for worship, this temple complex is
proposed to include an Ayurvedic hospital, center for social programs,
auditorium, accommodation for devotees/pilgrims, etc.
Meanwhile, well known Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA)
today, applauded efforts of ISKCON and other Hindu community and India
Government to realize this wonderful proposed Krishna temple complex. Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, further said that
it was important to pass on Hindu spirituality, concepts and traditions to
coming generations amidst so many distractions in the consumerist society and
hoped that this new temple complex would focus in this direction. He stressed
that instead of running after materialism; we should focus on inner search and
realization of self and work towards achieving moksh (liberation), which was the
goal of Hinduism.
(source:
Krishna temple to be built on Moscow outskirts
- newkeral.com).
Hinduism/ Dharma is the
Vedic Spiritual Library of India
"The real treasures of the East weren't jewels, spices
or exotic perfumes – but the amazing treasure house of sacred and universal
knowledge. This knowledge, increasingly validated by modern science, is now
being embraced by leading edge corporations, professionals and leaders
throughout the world."
***
Jeffrey
Armstrong ( ? )
worked as a sales manager with Apple Computer for six years, is married to Sandy
Gramah, who shares his passion for all things Indian.
The couple, which has
founded an educational institute called the Vedic
Academy of Science and Arts (VASA), is now working on creating a
permanent library of Hindu and Vedic culture in Vancouver.
Jeffrey Armstrong (Kavindra Rishi)
with interview with
the Daily Bell:
It is my opinion
that if one studies most any modern subject with real diligence, they will be
led, as I was, to India. India
has the largest simultaneously scientific and spiritual 'library' known to
exist.
Religion
is the wrong word to use for India's teachings. Religion is a word that is more
accurately applied to the Middle Eastern Abrahamic cultures. Judaism,
Christianity and Islam are religions. The origin of the word religion, from the
Latin, is
re-legare
(a legalistic system of rules given by God) or 'bound
by rules.' Re = tied up or connected by, and
ligion =
legare = ligaments = to tie, bind or bandage. The usual idea is that
the practitioner of a religion is
bound up
in rules or laws. This especially applies to the three Abrahamic religions of
Judaism, Christianity and Islam, whereas the
spiritual practices of India are called a Dharma
Culture. The main difference is religions generally have one book of
rules and stories whereas a Dharma culture has a
library of spiritual and material knowledge aimed at understanding who we really
are and how to properly use everything around us. The phrase Dharma
Culture is a more accurate descriptor for India, as compared to the 'Indian
religion' or 'Hindu religion.'
At the core of
the Abrahamic Religions is a set of rules given by God that we are told we must
follow because a specific vision of God and His prophet said so. That is not the
basis of the Vedic Spiritual Library of India.
India does not have a single book or an authoritarian/disciplinarian God, it
uses an entirely different approach to the question of who we are and it is
certainly more philosophical than a Religion,
but it also contains many other components.
It has a library of self-actualizing sacred knowledge, rather
than just one dogmatic book.
My lifelong
effort has been to try to find things that are universally true rather than
relatively true and I believe that the largest library of that information
exists in India in spite of the fact that India is a very fragmented culture
right now due in large part to 1200 years of violent colonization by outside
invading forces. This library of knowledge stretches back for thousands and
thousands of years and is, as far as I know, the largest repository of the
universal truth that exists on our planet.
What we now call
the West is the outgrowth of a tribal or city/state approach to living on the
planet. This means if you take care of your tribe, you are seen as good. So, to
all those tribes who were fighting against each other for thousands of years in
a series of wars, that essentially meant that as long as the spoils of the wars
were brought back and shared amongst the tribe, they were good.
Alexander the Great was a prime example of
this. He went out to rape, pillage and conquer, and was
a monster to the rest of the world, but was considered great by his people,
hence the name. He was really great at being a warmonger, and a
rapist and a pillager. But he brought his people back the spoils of war.
India, on the other hand, is the only culture of its
size in the world that has never gone out and tried to spread its beliefs by
war. In fact, it has consistently given shelter to anyone from any
culture. So, to compare histories, the west is a
competitive, war-based civilization and India has
been a nurturing, cooperation-based civilization on an epic scale. I
am involved in the process of practicing and transferring that cooperative
culture of India to the war-based culture of the west at a crucial time when it
is needed very much.
***
India has been a nurturing,
cooperation-based civilization on an Epic scale
The rape of Mother India/
Bharat Mata by The Christian Church, The Islamic Jehadis, The Pseudo Secularists
and the Communists.
"Ironically,
that was actually a weakness when Europeans came in and wanted to
conquer India, to rape and pillage her wealth or to religiously convert the
population, as with Islam and Christianity. After all, might does not make right."
Refer to
Bumping off Hindu Leaders:
Conversion mafia behind
attacks on Hindu leaders
- By Rajeev Srinivasan and
Shariah Shock to Mother India from Bombay Stock Exchange--Prof. C. I. Issac
and
Evangelical Intrusions, Tripura: A Case Study
- By Sandhya Jain
and
Burning of Bhagavad Gita – the ‘S O S’ from a sinking ship
- By
Prof. C. I. Issac
and
Distortion of Indian History for Muslim Appeasement - faithfreedom.org
and
PIO Hindus: Gateway to White Imperialism –
By Radha Rajan - vijayvaani.com
Donate to
FACT - India
and
Hinduism Today and
Save Temples
Refer to
Breaking India: Western Inventions and Dalit Faultlines -
By Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan
and
Islamists want to conquer India
and
The Hoax of St. Thomas - By V Sundaram and
NCO's and Foreign Funds - vigilonline.com and
Deadly Gift from Uncle Sam - indianrealist.wordpress.com and
Media Crooks: India's worst Journalist and
Video - Democracy in Crisis –
Congress : A story of suppression & subjugation
***
This is one of
the most striking things about India. Indians of
pre-modern history calculated the age of the universe in trillions of years.
This is also the culture that gave us
zero,
the numerals that we use – so-called Arabic have their roots in India – as do
trigonometry and calculus, astronomical calculation and a view that says the
universe is not only billions, but trillions of years in age and that we are
eternal beings who are simply visiting the material world to have the experience
of being here. So, the point is, India holds a massive
cosmological view of us – and that humans have existed for trillions
of years, in varying stages of existence. And further, over time humans will
continue to populate the many universes again and again.
There is a lot of evidence that ancient Indian
civilization
was global and as I mentioned many were
seafaring and using
extremely accurate astronomical, heliocentric calculations for both Earth and
celestial motions, indicating an understanding that the Sun is at the center of
the solar system and that the Earth is round. Elliptical orbits were also
calculated for all moving celestial bodies. The findings are remarkable.
What India calculated thousands of years ago, for
example the wobble of the Earth's axis, which creates the movement called
precession of the equinoxes – the slowly changing motion that completes one
cycle every 25,920 years – has only recently been validated by modern science.
The
cosmology of India describes
our universe as having
fourteen parallel realities on multiple levels,
all existing and intersecting within the material realm in which we are
currently living.
Was this knowledge given to them by divine beings as they claim? Was there
inter-galactic travel? Did the people in
India have contact with beings or knowledge from other planets? We don't know,
but what is certain is that they had mathematical/astronomical understanding
that is extremely precise and agrees with many of the results of astronomy
today. There is no other way to explain why India and these ancient cultures
would have such precise knowledge other than the fact that they were in a period
of impressive technology and culture beyond our present understanding."
Refer to chapters on
India on Pacific Waves and
Vimanas.
Refer to
The Christian propaganda in Stephen Hawking’s
work
- By C K Raju
and
Multiculturalism has failed in United Kingdom
- By Sandhya Jain
There is at
least one city (Dwaraka)
that was discovered in 2001 in the Bay of Cambay, which is off the west coast of
India. In a routine, environmental scan of the bottom of the sea, a city was
discovered which turns out to have the largest megalithic stones of any city in
ancient times; artifacts were dated to about 10,000 years ago. This find hasn't
yet been recognized in mainstream intellectual and academic circles but is
nonetheless a momentous discovery which I am sure will eventually contribute to
the review of our current theories of the age of human civilization. The city
sits in about 150 feet of water, which indicates it was built before the last
melting of the polar ice caps, which most geologists date conservatively at
about 12,000 years ago. It appears to have had a building format similar to the
cities of Harappa and Mohendro Daro (3000-5000 BCE), which were previously
thought to be the oldest cities of India (and located in what is now called
Pakistan). But this underwater city off the coast of India suggests,
conservatively, 15,000 years of sophisticated human history in India.
Watch Video -
Underwater Worlds 3 Ancient Aliens - Dwaraka
Sixteenth century India has been described as the wealthiest
country in the world, with the best universal educational system – all of which
has obviously become seriously damaged. India of today does not accurately
represent the ancient culture, but what is amazing is that the India of today,
without funding or resources, has spread its knowledge around the world.
Today, there are probably as many as 100 million
people practicing aspects of
yoga – not because India
spent a lot of money trying to spread its culture, but because that knowledge
is, I would say, innately desired and needed by people all over the world.
The Vedas describe infinitely
multiple universes filled with many
Earth-like and other diverse planets and many kinds of intelligent beings living
in these other dimensions, some in contact with this realm. The closest modern
analogs are found in some of the theories of quantum physics, one being string
theory, which suggests there are something like eleven parallel realities that
are running simultaneously with ours.
This idea in physics, of parallel realities crisscrossing, is
undeniably reminiscent of the ancient teachings from India.
Finally, beyond these many material realms, the Vedas state that there is an
eternal Transcendental realm or abode which, though non-material, makes periodic
visits to our physical plane here on Earth.
By a definition
given in the Vedas, everything within matter changes and is in flux, eternally.
Specifically, younger, more physically vital cultures from the cold climates
came in with a new power, technology and energy that was able to, let's say,
exploit the situation of a diverse and cooperative India that had also become
somewhat corrupt and decrepit. Ancient India is probably the poster child for a
diverse, complex, cooperative society that by this definition allowed a lot of
bio-diversity. Ironically, that was actually a weakness
when Europeans came in and wanted to
conquer India, to rape and pillage her wealth or to religiously convert the
population, as with Islam and Christianity. After all,
might does not make right.
Daily Bell:
We believe the West is afflicted by money power – a group of wealthy families
that want to centralize control over the world and are causing misery. How does
your philosophy account for this?
Jeffrey Armstrong:
The philosophy of
India is very clear. We human beings are here with the ability to utilize our
free will and the spectrum is anywhere from enlightened to 'endarkened.' The
enlightened end of the spectrum is where the laws of Nature reside, and is
called the Deva view. The 'endarkened' view is the philosophy of the so-called
Asuras, who are always against the enlightened way of being. We humans can
choose to cooperate for the good of all and align ourselves with the Devic view
or we can choose to be entirely selfish and only concerned for the personal gain
and pleasure of a few. The dark Asuric choice brings fear, destruction, chaos,
exploitation and is always imposed by a small uncaring minority, enslaving the
masses and farming them like animals to steal their life energy. All the Vedic
stories show this human potential for abuse of free will and the problems it can
create.
It is well known
that Greek advancements in knowledge have affected our world for a couple
thousand years. Socrates, the famous Greek philosopher, was the teacher of
Plato. Socrates of course claims to have been enlightened by the teachings of
Pythagoras who preceded him by 200 years. It is also historically known and
should be remembered that Pythagoras studied in India;
he was a vegetarian, virtually unheard of anywhere else, and learned the
philosophy of India and taught it in Greece.
So if we are to accept the well-known saying in academia that
western philosophy is simply footnotes to Plato,
it is then logical to say that the knowledge of India
has been leaking into our culture for thousands of years. That this
is not understood is a shame because it's both extremely exciting and a huge
aspect of our human heritage. The
Abrahamic religions, however, especially Islam and Christianity, have been very
resistant to this idea because of their own institutional agendas.
So knowledge
from India that leaked in to other cultures has often remained either hidden or
was simply incorporated into western thought without credit to India.
Daily Bell:
Why is ancient Hindu knowledge being suppressed, if it is?
In my opinion, the knowledge of India has been and is still being repressed so
that certain interests can continue colonizing both India and the planet, and to
prevent it being a viable alternative to more aggressive religious and political
worldviews.
The deeply spiritual, cooperative message of the Hindu Vedic Dharma Culture
would shine light on the various selfish and harmful activities of the powerful
interests who are harming the world. The rapid spread of
Yoga in recent years shows that previous attitudes of repressing
information are not nearly as effective in our current world of global
communication. Freedom of speech is a crucial right to defend at this dangerous
moment in history.
Daily Bell:
Why does the modern power elite not want the world to
know about ancient Hindu civilization?
Jeffrey Armstrong:
At
the crux of both of the
Avatar
Epics (Ramayana and
Mahabharata) and of the Avatar's descent to Earth
is the message that
anyone who has power has responsibility. This is the one message that those who
are abusing power do not want to hear. The concept of stewardship had its home
in India. Anyone who was a ruler in India had the responsibility of caring for
every living entity. The intentional degradation of human beings for personal
gain is simply wrong – despite its effectiveness as a means of rapidly acquiring
wealth.
Refer to
Media Crooks in India
It is written that many of the greatest kings and queens and dynasties in India
had a rule; that before they ate a meal, they would ring a bell. The bell meant
if you are hungry, we have a kitchen open where you can come and eat. We are
going to eat now, but we will not eat if you are hungry. Why? Not because of
ideology, but because massive wealth and power is generally acquired on the
backs of others. So, I would challenge any leaders of
the world to ring a bell in your country and if no one is hungry, unsafe or
uncared for, then you can have your dinner. You should listen carefully to what
the Avatars and honorable ancient leaders have said is your responsibility as a
so-called leader.
The Hindu Vedic Dharma says that exploring 'Inner
Space' is much more important than exploring 'Outer
Space', while always hoping that all may be fed, protected and find
peace within and in the world. Hari Om! May this knowledge bless all.
Comments posted:
You would suppose the ancient, submerged city of Dwarka would already have
attracted a swarm of scuba-diving archeologists. However, coverage remains
sparse in the mainstream press, as does funding. This is evidently yet another
secret that the power elite families of the Anglo-American axis want to keep
hidden. The current Western model is supposed to be the
culmination of civilization, with all its ruin and increasing tyranny.
Nothing came before and there was no greatness not directly supported by modern
regulatory democracy, which is the best of all possible worlds. The Internet
increasingly shows us it is not.
(source:
Jeffrey Armstrong on the Mysteries of Indian Culture, the Relevance of Hindu
Vedas and the Reality of Ancient Flying Machines - thedailybell.com). Refer to
The theft of yoga - By Dr. Aseem Shukla
and
The Rape of Yoga - By
Aseem Shukla /Sheetal Shah.
Civilizations rise, decay
and die. Time, as ancient Hinduism says is cyclical
***
Desert Bloc
Religions - Arrogance of Faith
The world’s
dominant model today, it has been able to nearly erase competing systems from
the collective minds of the ruling elites in the world.
The Desert Bloc extends from west of India, across Middle East, West Asia,
extending to Central Asia and Eastern Europe – with its core in a region of 1000
miles radius of Palestine. Inventors of religion, world’s
three important religions, (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
were born within 1000 miles radius of Palestine, in the deserts of Middle East.
Each of these religions were, so to say, ‘backward compatible’.
Anti-feminist,
none of the three religions
have female goddesses - unlike Vedic civilizations.
– unlike the
two other civilizations specified below. Western Christian world gave women the
right to vote, mostly between 1920-1950. Low levels of marital success are
institutionalized – and instead prostitution levels are high.
The Desert Bloc depends on extreme competitiveness between its own factions to gain
leadership – extending the analogy of survival of the fittest. Some of its
defining struggles
in the last 1000 years were Islam vs Christianity; Spain vs Portugal; England vs
France; USA vs USSR.
Watch movie:
Capitalism a love story - By
Michael Moore
and
Fall in the
American Empire
- By Judge Napolitano
and
Half of New Testament forged, Bible scholar says
-
By John
Blake, CNN
Such factions spring up around deified leaders
based on a sharp identity
– race, tribe, language, region, religion. Significant leadership struggles have
broken out between even intra-religious sects – like Catholics and Protestants,
Shias
vs
Sunnis.
A significant marker of the Desert Bloc is
concentration of wealth, power and land
in the hands of these
deified leaders and their inner circle. Unlike the two other civilizational
groups, as we will see. This allows Desert Bloc factions to indulge in
extremism. Over 90% of the
world’s bloodiest wars, genocides, massacres, annihilations,
are to the Desert Bloc account.
Refer to
Red Cross and the Vatican 'helped thousands of Nazis escape'
- By Matthew Day and
Nazis On The Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled
Europe - By Gerald Steinacher
and
The Great Scandal: Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis - By
Gregory S. Paul - christianaggression.org
and
Exporting the American Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism - By Steve
Brower, Paul Gifford and Susan D Rose
Save Us, O Lord, from those who want to save us
A Destructive force: The Intolerance of
Monotheism
Spiritual
Imperialism - Ambitions of The
Desert Bloc religions - Christianity and Islam
Converting the world
before the Imaginary Doomsday cometh?
Christian Umma: India - still
remains the Unfinished Agenda for Spiritual Conquest
Social work/Human rights/democracy -
are
a smokescreen for a
religious agenda.
10/40 Window -
Window of Opportunity or
the Resistant Belt
for zealous
Evangelical Christians including The Vatican.
Refer to
Hinduism
Under Threat and
Christianaggression and
Crusadewatch
and
Video: The fraud, the myth, the unsaintly Mother Teresa –
By Christopher Hitchens.
Refer to
The Decline of the West - By
Oswald Spengler.
Refer to
The Vatican Billions
and
The Vaticans Colossal Wealth
and
Vatican Wealth 'Truly Astonishing'
and
Vatican Wealth Valued
and
The Vatican wealth
Islamic Jehadis still dream of conquering India
Refer to
Religion will be cause of World War III - By
Dirgha Raj Prasai
and
Jehad Watch
and
Islam watch
Refer to the book -
Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of The Kashmiri Pandits -
By Rahul
Pandita (Random
House India)
***
The Desert Bloc is differentiated by
extensive use of slavery,
rule by elites, conspicuous consumption (show piece buildings, spectacular
technology)
et al.
Driven by
‘at-any-cost’ approach, in the Desert Bloc, everything and everyone
is expendable to attain leadership position. Driven more by accelerated creation
and destruction, Desert Bloc sub-groups have short life
spans (Achaemenid Iran, Greece, Rome, Mongol Empire). Greece, Rome, the
Ummayyads, Abbasids, Mongolian Empire, Colonial Spain and Britain best represent
the Desert Bloc.
Refer to
The Decline of the West - By
Oswald Spengler.
Refer to
The Aboriginal “intervention” in Australia: four years on
Can different factions of the Desert Bloc, like the Christian West and Islam
collaborate? The Islāmic Ottoman Empire and the Christian European powers could
not get around to colluding with each other. Even the collusion between the
Christian European colonizers was difficult. Unless it was over carving the
spoils, dividing areas for exploitation – like Papal Bulls (between Spain and
Portugal) or the Berlin Conference which triggered the ‘scramble for Africa.’
(source:
Desert Bloc Religions - 2ndlook.wordpress.com).
Refer to
Militant Christianity - Evangelical
Christianity: Devils in high places
- christianaggression.org.
Refer to
Sonia Gandhi’s Night of Shame –
By Radha Rajan
Hindu terrorism
fabricated US Church organisations
The accusation of Hindu terrorism has not been fabricated cynically as some have
hastily concluded. It originates with US church organisations, supported by
their European counterparts. I understand the UNHCR
has been consulted.
What they regard as terrorism, defined broadly, is attempts to curb Christian
evangelism and return converts to their previous Hindus faith.
The Communal Violence Bill is being
supported strongly in private by the US embassy because it will be used to
attack the activities of Sangh affiliates when they oppose religious conversion
by church organisations. The critique of alleged caste oppression and legal
measures to ban it abroad (in the UK and the EU) are part of the orchestrated
manoeuvres afoot.
My own observation is that its imperative to bear in mind the
Church and its leftists allies in India
regard the entire historic past of India, including its epics and religious
faith, as the product of Brahmminical caste (racist and class as well)
oppression. This must, in the end, in their view, all be erased to make a new
beginning. Of course it is not a classless society that will emerge since that
has failed everywhere, but one which will be Christian, docile and sensitive to
the interests of the 400 families who own half of all
US wealth. They of course assume, in severe
distress and facing no option, Hindus will choose
Christianity and the tutelage of the West in preference to the other alternative
of Islam.
Refer to
Michael Moore says 400 Americans have more
wealth than half of all Americans combined and
The obscene division of wealth in America
– alternet.org
(source: Hindu terrorism fabricated US Church organisations
- By Gautam Sen). Refer to
The decline and fall of America
- dailypioneer.com and
When will America Collapse? .....answers from Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, Gerald
Celente and others - youtube.com and
Census: US poverty rate rises to 15.1 per cent; number of uninsured hits high of
49.9 million
***
India in the clash of Civilizations
“It
is not that India was never an independent country. The point is that she once
lost the independence she had. Will she lose it a second time? It is this
thought which makes me most anxious for the future. What perturbs me greatly is
the fact that not only India has once before lost her independence, but she lost
it by the infidelity and treachery of some of her
own people…Will
history repeat itself?” …We must be determined to
defend our independence with the last drop of our blood/”
- Dr B R Ambedkar’s concluding speech at the
Constituent Assembly of India, 25 November 1949.
In modern times, three civilization powers are competing for global expansion
and each is invested in co-opting and nurturing the divisive forces of India.
These are: Maoists/Marxists aligned with China,
Christian evangelists aligned with the West and
Jihadis aligned with Islam.
Each of them has built a base of Indian supporters and infrastructure that
embraces a divisive identity and ideology. Within India each of these
three
global nexuses has its distinct presence in politics, finance, media, and
information-gathering. Each funds, sponsors, champions, trains and remotely
manages its own network of individuals and institutions in India. These Indian
resources, in turn, see their foreign headquarter as the source of inspiration,
funding, political support and authority.
(source:
Breaking India: Western Inventions and Dalit Faultlines -
By Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan p.
177 -178).
Refer to
India can't be ruled by NGOs - By
Swapan Dasgupta
Kali Yuga: Shrinking India - Victim of Two Intolerant
and Bloody Ideologies
India is perhaps the oldest victim of religious
terrorism and her
civilizational struggle is the longest one.
***
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Islamic terrorism started with Osama bin
Laden if one were to go by what the US politicians claim and what the media
reports.
But India has had the unwanted attention of
the proselytizing faiths, Islam and
Christianity, for centuries hell bent (to use an expression) on converting the
infidels into their bloody ideologies.
Terrorism is one of the
tactics that people motivated by these ideologies have routinely used — although
that fact does not get too much play since much of the
media (and in many cases the governments of states)
is controlled by the institutions founded on those
monotheistic faiths.
India is perhaps the oldest victim of religious
terrorism and it continues to
bleed copiously from it even today. India’s civilizational struggle is certainly the longest ongoing war the world has ever
suffered — and it goes on only because India is still not totally vanquished. It
survives but the prospects are not very good.
India is shrinking. But what do we mean by “India”?
India is of course a “state” and a “country.” The word also refers to the
“nation” of India. The modern Indian state is a political entity which attained
political independence in 1947 but that does not mean that India did not exist
before that date. European culture and ethnicity, to take a parallel, existed
long before the political states that are European countries of today existed.
A nation is a group of people who share culture, ethnicity, language and/or
territory. . . A nation is not necessarily equated with country in that a
country is akin to a state which is defined as the political entity within
defined borders. Although “nation” is also commonly used in informal discourse
as a synonym for state or country, a nation is not identical to a state.
Countries where the social concept of “nation” coincides with the political
concept of “state” are called nation states. [Wiki,
Nation.]
The Indian nation has been shrinking for centuries. Look at the map. Or I should
say look at a series of maps. Afghanistan, for instance, was a Buddhist nation
and to that extent it was part of the Indic nation. Today it is a wasteland. It
was conquered a few centuries ago. The land that is Pakistan today was part of
that Indic civilization. It was formally chopped off in 1947 but the fate of
that part of the world was sealed with the Islamic invasion of those parts. To
the east, Malaysia and Indonesia are rapidly Islamizing.
Refer to
Sonia Gandhi’s Night of Shame –
By Radha Rajan
If, as has been observed by many that demographics determine borders, then it
should not come as a surprise that India has been shrinking because the most
striking demographic change — conversion of people of Indic faiths to Islam and
Christianity — is occurring for centuries. And once that demographic transition
takes place, the new entity carved out of India becomes a sworn enemy intent on
destroying India. Remember that Pakistanis are the descendants of people of
Indic civilization who were converted to
Islam. Today’s converts will in due course also take up
arms against their former cultural and ethnic relatives. It will not be too long
before some of the eastern Indian states will seek secession because their
demographics — 100 percent Christian — would dictate different borders.
India has been shrinking and will continue to do so. Remembering that change is
a fundamental feature of the universe, it is unreasonable to expect no change.
But not all change is an improvement, and some change imposes immense suffering.
The suffering that Islamization imposes on the population is heartbreaking, of
course. Even worse, in a globalized world, the suffering of Islamic nations is
quickly transmitted — often amplified — to non-Muslims. Islam claims universal
domain and thus imposes suffering universally, whether you live in an Islamic
country or not, whether you are a Muslim or not.
Islam’s older relative, Christianity, also
caused untold suffering around the world for centuries.
The natives of many
countries in the Americas paid with rivers of blood and tears.
Anyone even remotely familiar with the history of
civilization is aware of the bloody history of those two monotheistic faiths.
(source:
Rajiv Malhotra’s book, “Breaking India” – By Atanu Dey
- deesha.org). Refer to chapter on
European Imperialism
and Pacific Waves
Western Imperialism - Destroying
Religious/Cultural diversity of the World
***
From
Divide and Conquer to Divide and Destroy
Destruction of Hinduism in Bali
Do not to others what ye do not wish
Done to yourself; and wish for others too
What ye desire and long for, for yourself — This is the whole of dharma — heed
—it well.
— Veda Vyasa, The
Mahabharata.
“The Christian church
keeps constantly identifying fault lines in every non-christian society and
country and tries to widen it slowly the confusion ripens into conflict and then
anarchy. Ultimately the country is broken. The church is the 4th arm of the
Christian West's Military complex to destroy non-Christian Nations. They do not
like any other country other their own to be powerful and prosperous. They do
not like any other Nation to boast of superior culture. They want all the other
countries to be at their beck and call for ever.”
-
Sridharan. R - comments posted -
The Menace of the Christian Church
***
Church conversions wipe
out Balinese Hinduism in two villages - Blimbingsari & Palasari in West Bali
Hindu
Bali has many interesting cultural quirks and among them are the Christian
communities of
Blimbingsari
and
Palasari in west Bali. The story begins
during the Dutch occupation when they fully took control of Bali in
1908.
Until that time the Dutch operated a policy of cultural non-intervention,
allowing the Balinese Hindus to conduct their own religious and cultural
activities without hinder.
Under this framework Christian
missionaries were banned from Bali, but by
1932
a representative of the
American Christian and Missionary
Alliance,
Tsang To Hang,
has several hundred converts to Christianity. Most of the new Christians were
from the Chinese community, but there were also some ethnic Balinese.
The new
converts were told to destroy Hindu temples
and encourage the Balinese to question the Hindu caste system.
(source:
Church conversions wipe out Balinese Hinduism in two villages - Blimbingsari
& Palasari in West Bali).
Refer to
Church sex scandals:
A worthless and dangerous report
and
Priest Sex-Abuse Case Hits Church of Pope's Adviser - time.com
and
Shock after Dutch priest endorses pedophilia
and
The St Thomas In India History Swindle
***
Religious
Conversion = Cultural Genocide and loss of Identity
India - The
Unfinished Conversion Business
Evangelical Christianity: Devils in high places
Interview with author Iain Buchanan
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and
convert them to Christianity."
"We just
want Jews to be perfected, as they say." -arguing that it would be better if we
were all Christian.
-
Ann Coulter
(1961 - ) American lawyer and Conservative political commentator.
"Our goal is a Christian
nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country.
We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."
-
Spreading Christianity
***
"Cultural genocide
is the systematic
and complete elimination or suppression of the native religion, language, dress,
way of life, customs and/or symbols of one people by another. Even though the
people in question might be given material benefits through humanitarian aid,
education and medical facilities, it is still himsa (Sanskrit meaning harm) if
there is systematic destruction of their identity, sense of history, ideas of
ancestry and relationship with nature. This kind of himsa goes on today under
the name of "development." In the United Nations laws of genocide, the phrase
"cultural genocide" was dropped from the earlier drafts." -
- Rajiv Malhotra
in
Gandhi’s dharma and the West
From the British Imperialism to the
Manifest Destiny of U.S. - Goals remains the same
The Grand mission to Christianize
the heathens of this World
***
"How
odd...that a country as riddled with Christian faith as America has so little
regard for its poor, sick and imprisoned."
-
Mathew Chapman
journalist, screenwriter, and director -
quoted in
Michael Parenti – God and His Demons p. 127.
Watch movie:
Capitalism a love story - By
Michael Moore
"The
American Christian Fundamentalists are the religious arm of an economic,
political, and cultural system."
- Saloman Nahmad
anthropologist, National Indigenist
Institute of Mexico.
(source:
Exporting The American Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism - By Steve
Brouwer p. 11).
***
Evangelical outfits - U.S. Government proxies?
In
his explosive new book
The Armies Of God: A Study In Militant Christianity,
British-born, Malaysia-based academic Iain Buchanan blows the lid off a subject
that most scholars and journalists tend to shy away from: the rise of US
evangelism as a force in global affairs.
His book looks at how some of the powerful evangelical
outfits operate — often as US government proxies — in countries such
as Indonesia, Thailand, and of course, India, and the disastrous effects this
has had on the relationship between the Christian West and non-Christian
cultures, religious communities and nations.
In the West, certainly, there is a reluctance to enquire too deeply into the
affairs of organised Christianity — both at home and overseas. Western culture
is a deeply, subliminally Christian culture, and even committed secularists have
trouble avoiding Christian parameters in their arguments, and recognising the
Christian capacity for wrong-doing. Among other things, this leads to a rather
benign view of the behaviour of our
missionaries overseas — fed partly by ignorance, and partly by a sense that the
Christian mission can be equated with civilisation. And such myopia has
increased dramatically over the past 40 years, as the secular West has managed
to define a global order largely in its own terms, with decisive help from its
Christian missionaries.
There is a need to go beyond the purely religious objection to Christian
missionising, and examine the global forces which define it, and which are
subverting countries like India in a far more comprehensive and profound way
than most people realise.
Refer to
Independent Fundamental Baptist Church report - By
Elizabeth Vargas
- abcnews.com- 20/20
and
Shock after Dutch priest endorses pedophilia -
indianrealist.wordpress.com
and
41% - Jesus Christ's Return to Earth - pewresearch.org
and
The St Thomas In India History Swindle
- apostlethomasindia.wordpress.com
A key contention of my book is that the extremism of Christian evangelicals is
no more benign than the extremism found in non-Christian religious groups.
Indeed, its local impact can be hugely destructive
— precisely because of its ability to draw upon a vast global network of forces
(including powerful secular ones), and its ability to penetrate and shape local
forces, whether they be ethnic, religious, political, or social, according to
alien priorities.
You speak at length of the US’s use of Christianity for it own geopolitical
designs. Is this manifestly part of US strategy worldwide?
Most Western leaders (not just Bush and
Blair) will claim they are inspired by
their Christian beliefs. Sometimes, as with both Reagan and George W Bush, they
quote chapter and verse in support of policy, although usually it is not so
blatant. Certainly, deep in Washington, self-professedly Christian pressure
groups (like the Fellowship Foundation and the Council for National Policy) have
a highly influential membership and a powerful grip on policy.
Of course, one can debate whether US strategy is manifestly Christian in
inspiration — few Americans would say it is not, although most would probably
insist that such strategy is guided primarily by secular concerns.
But there is no doubt at all that US strategy makes deliberate (and somewhat
cynical) use of Christian agencies in pursuit of foreign policy — and that the
distinction between the religious and the secular is deliberately blurred in the
process. There are over 600 US-based evangelical groups, some as big as large
corporations, and between them they constitute a vast and highly organised
network of global influence, purposefully targeting non-Christians, and
connecting and subverting every sector of life in the process.
Most of the major evangelical corporations (like World
Vision, Campus Crusade, Youth with a Mission, and
Samaritan’s Purse) operate in partnership with the US government in
its pursuit of foreign policy goals. World Vision, which is effectively an arm
of the State Department, is perhaps the most notable example of this. There is
also the benefit of a custom-built legislation, with the International Religious
Freedom Act of 1998 providing necessary sanction to bring errant nations into
line.
Refer to
Hindu American Foundation Alleges Bias in Listing of India on USCIRF "Watch
List" - Hindu American Foundation
This means that evangelisation is an intensely secular pursuit, as well as a
religious one. In turn, of course, the secular powers, whether they be
departments of state or corporate businesses, find such evangelicals to be very
effective partners.
These are turbulent times for India as its number of hungry and poor are growing
exponentially even as the wealthy in the cities are becoming billionaires. Does
this make harvesting of souls easy? Do missionaries love turbulence?
It certainly seems, sometimes, that evangelicals thrive on suffering and
disaster. India’s own KP Yohannan, for example, welcomed the tsunami of 2004 as
“one of the greatest opportunities God has given us to share His love with
people” — and he was only one of many expressing such sentiments. There is no
question that many evangelicals exploit the poor and marginalised for reasons
which have a lot to do with narrow theology and political self-interest, and
relatively little to do with long-term practical help.
Refer to
America starves as executive pay rockets:
50MILLION people go hungry while Wall Street fatcats take home millions
- alternet.org and
'American Dream' withers as tent cities mushroom
in promised land
But evangelicals court the wealthy and the powerful of a society
with equal
passion. One of the most telling features of the new evangelism is the way it
has turned Christianity into a force for protecting the rich and powerful. US
Protestantism, in particular, has worked hard to undermine the impulse in the
church towards social justice and reform. A measure of its success has been the
defeat of Liberation Theology and the remarkable expansion of US Pentecostalism
in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. More than a quarter of all Christians now
belong to Pentecostalist and Charismatic churches.
In these, as in most new evangelical churches, great attention is paid to a
‘theology’ of economics which stresses individual profit, corporate obedience,
the sanctity of making money, and the power of “miracles, signs, and
wonders.”This ‘theology’ is a key part of modern imperialism: it offers
something to both rich and poor, it is safely counter-revolutionary, and it ties
tightly into the wider global network of more secular influences (in business,
government, education, the media, the military) which underpins Western
expansion.
So the evangelical church has a key role to play in a society as disparate as
India’s. It is a form of social management: it gives divine sanction to the
rich, it gives hope to the struggling middle class, and it cultivates discipline
(and distraction) amongst the poor — and it does all this with a keen eye to the
West’s self-interest. This is not to suggest that India does not have its own
mechanisms for doing the same things. But such evangelisation, as a concomitant
of Westernisation, is bound to strengthen as India urbanises and looks ever more
Westwards.
A recent issue of the Texas-based magazine,
Gospel For Asia,
says: “The Indian sub-continent with one billion people, is a living example of
what happens when Satan rules the entire culture... India is one vast purgatory
in which millions of people .... are literally living a cosmic lie! Could Satan
have devised a more perfect system for causing misery?” How and why does such
propaganda work in a developed country like the US in the era of the Internet
and the media?
There are two important points here. First, we must not assume that the
‘developed’ West is free from wilful ignorance. Indeed, wilful ignorance is
often a very useful weapon. We need enemies, and, as religious people, we need
demons.
But such attitudes are nothing new, of course. Christians have waged such
‘spiritual warfare’ against their enemies for centuries, and with the same kind
of language. What is new is the vastly increased facility, offered by the
electronic media, for fighting such a war. And this is the second point.
New technology is spreading, and hardening, such bigotry. Since the mid-1960s,
the evangelical movement has systematically computerised its entire global
operation, creating huge databases of information on its non-Christian enemies,
centralising administration, and linking some 500 million ‘Christian computers’
worldwide for the purposes of fighting ‘spiritual warfare’ against non-believers
in strategic places. And ‘spiritual warfare’, for the evangelical Christian
movement, is not just a matter of prayers and metaphor: it is also, very
decisively, a matter of ‘virtuous’ troops, tanks, and drones.
(source:
Evangelical Christianity: Devils in high places - dnaindia.com).
Refer to
Christian Fundamentalism
-
Harold Camping: Rapture, Reloaded fitsnews.com
Western Charity as Christian
Conversion Strategy
***
With its people turning to
Christ in waves, India hosts more believers now than at any time in its
4,000-year history.
(source:
India's Grassroots Revival
- Christianitytoday.com).
How Evangelists
Invented 'Dravidian Christianity' in India
India's Christian Umma
“I am halfway through Genesis, and quite
appalled by the disgraceful behavior of all the characters involved, including
God.”
-
J R Ackerley (1896 - 1967) English author of
My Father and Myself
"I
hold that proselytisation under the cloak of humanitarian work is
unhealthy to say the least. It is most
resented by people here. Religion after all is a deeply personal thing. It
touches the heart. Why should I change my religion because the doctor who
professes Christianity as his religion has cured me of some disease, or why
should the doctor expect me to change whilst I am under his influence?"
-
Mahatma Gandhi
in
Why Should I change my Religion? (Young India: April 23, 1931).
Refer to
The Hoax of St. Thomas - By V Sundaram and
The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple
- By Ishwar Sharan
and
Mother India at the Crossroads - chakranews.com
"Chennai is today considered the fastest-growing hub of Christianity in South
Asia"
- Pardip N Thomas author of
Strong Religion, Zealous Media: Christian Fundamentalism and Communication in
India
Breaking India
Under the guise of Religious freedom - Destroying India's Unique religious
Identity
Social work/human
rights/democracy - are
a smokescreen for a
religious agenda.
***
‘The advent of Christian broadcasting in India, transnational as well as local
channels, offers the space for identification with a ‘Christian Umma” far beyond
the boundaries of the territorialized nation-state.’
-
Pradip Ninan Thomas,
Indian Christian scholar and author of
Strong Religion, Zealous Media: Christian Fundamentalism and Communication in
India
and
Now Kathakali makes Christian debut
- deccanherald.com
***
Most
liberal Americans are simply unaware of the
international political machinations of evangelicals. Funded and supported by
the American Christian right, they promote a literal and extreme version of
Christianity abroad and attempt to further a fundamentalist Christian political
agenda using unscrupulous methods. In India, picking up where the colonialists
left off, they have gone so far as to revive discredited racial theories and
fabricate scholarship in a dangerous game of divide and rule.
In south India,
a new identity called Dravidian Christianity is being constructed. It is an
opportunistic combination of two myths: the "Dravidian race" myth and another
that purports that early Christianity shaped the major Hindu classics!
The
discredited Aryan race theory
was discussed in my previous blog. Its counterpoint is the "Dravidian" race
theory. Both constructs are equally damaging and have been proven false. The
"Dravidians," the theory goes, were the original inhabitants of the Indian
subcontinent and were driven to southern India by the invading, lighter skinned
and racially different "Aryans."
Refer to
Now:
A Kerala model Aryan Invasion is to Set Sail
- By
Prof. C. I. Issac
and
Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science by Stefan Arvidsson
– Book Review by N S Rajaram
Refer to chapter on
Aryan Invasion
theory, First Indologists and
European Imperialism.
Refer to
Marco Polo never made to China and
Marco Polo World Discovery Was Big Con
While there is
no mainstream "Aryan" political party in India, the Dravidianization of
mainstream identity in the southern state of Tamil Nadu keeps the pernicious
pair alive. The Aryan/Dravidian constructs are mutually dependent, and have been
very successfully used to generate conflict, including violence (as in Sri Lanka
in recent years).
The Dravidian
race theory originated in 19th century European scholarship when colonial and
evangelical interests used linguistics and ethnic studies to formulate imaginary
histories and races. While European scholars were busy appropriating the
Sanskrit classics as the heritage of Europeans, British linguists Francis Ellis
and Alexander Campbell worked in India to theorize that the south Indian
languages belong to a different family than the north Indian ones. Meanwhile,
another colonial scholar, Brian Houghton Hodgson, was promoting the term "Tamulian"
as a racial construct, describing the so-called aborigines of India as primitive
and uncivilized compared to the "foreign Aryans."
But it was a
scholar-evangelist from the Anglican Church, Bishop Robert Caldwell (1814-91),
who pioneered what now flourishes as the "Dravidian" identity. In his
Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Race, he argued that the south Indian
mind was structurally different from the Sanskrit mind.
Linguistic speculations
were turned into a race theory. He characterized the Dravidians as "ignorant and
dense," accusing the Brahmins -- the cunning Aryan agents -- for keeping them in
shackles through the imposition of Sanskrit and its religion.
Refer
to the book
Breaking India - By Rajiv Malhotra.
Refer to
The St Thomas In India History Swindle
- apostlethomasindia.wordpress.com and
The Hoax of St. Thomas - By V Sundaram and
Mother
Teresa, John Paul II, and the Fast-Track Saints
- By
Michael Parenti
- author of the book and
God And His Demons
and
Exposing the relayed myth of “Aryan Invasion” and Proselytizing Evangelicals -
Book Review
- By D R Sardesai
His successor,
another prolific missionary scholar, Bishop G.U. Pope, started to glorify the
Tamil classics era, insisting that its underpinnings were Christianity, not
Hinduism. Though subsequently rejected by serious scholars of Tamil culture, the
idea was successfully planted that Hinduism had corrupted the "originally pure"
Tamil culture by adding Sanskrit and pagan ideas.
Meanwhile, an
increasing number of Tamil leaders began to embrace the Dravidian identity. This
evolved into Tamil chauvinism that was initially secular and not religious. It
was fed by the theory that in the Indian Ocean there once existed a lost
continent called Lemuria (similar to the Atlantis myth), the original homeland
of the Dravidians. Accounts glorifying Lemuria were taught as historical fact
under British rule, because this exacerbated the regional faultlines. After
India's independence, Dravidian identity entered politics, and now dominates the
state's power structure.
The Dravidian
identity is now being increasingly Christianized. A new religion called
"Dravidian Christianity" has been invented through a sudden upsurge of writings
designed to "discover" the existence of quasi-Christianity in Tamil history
prior to the coming of the "Aryan" Brahmins. The project is to co-opt Tamil
culture, language and literature and systematically cleanse them of Hinduism.
Christian interpretations and substitutes are being injected into the most
cherished symbols, artifacts and literary works of Tamil Hindu culture.
The
preposterous claim is that Tamil classical literature originated in early
Christianity. The Tamil classical tradition consists of two great components: an
ethical treatise called Thirukural (abbreviated Kural, authored by the great
sage Thiruvalluvar), and a sophisticated Vedanta philosophical system called
Saiva Siddhanta, which traces its origins to the Vedas and was nurtured by many
Tamil savants over the centuries. Dravidian Christianity appropriates both these
foundational works, attributing them to Christian influence. To make this
credible, the pre-Christian date for Kural has been replaced by more recent
dates.
The narrative
used is that St. Thomas, the apostle, visited south India and taught
Christianity to the great sage, Thiruvalluvar, who was inspired by Christianity,
but did not capture St. Thomas' message accurately. This is often portrayed in
recently published paintings showing the sage sitting at the feet of St. Thomas,
taking notes. Sanskrit is downgraded as a language created by St. Thomas to
spread the Christian message to the uncivilized north Indian races.
The Indian
church has periodically announced archeological "discoveries" to back the visit
of St. Thomas to south India, but none of them have been verified by
professional archeologists. Even the famous Jesuit archeologist, Father Heras,
dismissed the so-called discovery of Thomas' tomb in Chennai.
Western
churches send billions of dollars to Tamil Nadu, the epicenter of the project to
harvest Indian souls.
While the sheer scale of intellectual fraud and prejudice
is breathtaking, the church's political clout has enabled it to permeate
university research, education, museums, politics and film. The state government
is even supporting the production of an epic feature film on
St. Thomas that
will popularize this myth.
Refer to
Church sex scandals:
A worthless and dangerous report
and
Priest Sex-Abuse Case Hits Church of Pope's Adviser - time.com
and
Shock after Dutch priest endorses pedophilia
and
The St Thomas In India History Swindle
and
The Decline of the West - By
Oswald Spengler
The Dravidian
Christianity movement has organized an entire series of international
conferences over the past decade, where its scholars make outlandish revisions
to Indian religious history. They claim that the Bhagavad Gita, Tamil classics
and even Sanskrit originated after Christ and under the influence of
Christianity. The crackpot Lemurian theory pops up as well. A 2005 conference in
New York had the theme, "International Conference on the History of Early
Christianity in India." Senator Hillary Clinton greeted it with the message:
"I am confident
that the breadth of resources presented during the conference will shed light on
the impact of Christianity on medieval and classical India and its effects on
the cultural and political climate of India..."
Refer to
The Vatican Billions
and
The Vaticans Colossal Wealth
and
Vatican Wealth 'Truly Astonishing'
and
Vatican Wealth Valued
and
The Vatican wealth
Dravidian
Christianity has penetrated high places. For instance,
Marvin Olasky, an advisor
to President George W. Bush, declared that "the two major denominations of
Hinduism - Vishnu-followers and Shiva-followers -- arose not from early
Hinduism but from early Christian churches probably planted by the apostle
Thomas in India from AD 52 to 68." He goes on to explain to his American readers
how Christianity brought many key notions into Hinduism.
Watch movie:
Capitalism a love story - By
Michael Moore
In
Breaking India,
I demonstrate how an influential nexus of Christian funded institutions and
scholars, often supported by western governments, are indulging in large-scale
manipulations similar to those in colonial times. Meanwhile, in one of Chennai's
most prominent public places stands a magnificent statue of Bishop Robert
Caldwell, the icon who gave the Tamil people their "true history."
(source:
How Evangelists Invented 'Dravidian Christianity' in India - By Rajiv
Malhotra - huffingtonpost.com).
The St Thomas In India History Swindle
- apostlethomasindia.wordpress.com
and
Indian history as a negotiation - 2ndlook.wordpress.com
Refer to
Hindu American Foundation Alleges Bias in Listing of India on USCIRF "Watch
List" - Hindu American Foundation
Breaking India
book -
Breaking India’ has touched a raw nerve of the
Sepoy Brigade of India.
Due to the colonized
minds of many Indian elites, there is a deep inferiority complex. Hence there is
the implicit assumption prevalent that even a Western non-specialist is a better
authority than an Indian specialist on the subject.
For more on the book - Refer
to
Interview with Rajiv Malhotra - By Sandeep
America
cannot teach India what Religious Freedom is all about
"The
USCIRF is not bothered about the torture and the brutalities
inflicted on the Sri Lankan Tamils. It had nothing to say on the Yagoon Junta,
it is silent on the massacre of the Hindu pundits in
Kashmir, the persecution of minorities in Pakistan and Bangle Desh.
These and more anti human and anti people violations the USCIRF silently watches
or is not even aware of. Its business is only a single agenda--that is
dislodging Modi--punishing him for the Gujarat riots. This without even giving a
thought and mention to the agony and the brutality in which
59 Hindus who were roasted and burned. It
had no hind sight understanding of the Congress which
had engineered a genocide against the Sikhs in which 30,000 Sikhs across the
country were butchered. The USCIRF does not know perhaps that Gujarat
riots is not the first of its kind.
The US Commission on
International Religious Freedom is being discriminatory--and is
anti-religious and anti-India. It is a Christian organization and seems to be
against Hindus. Thus it has no credentials and credibility to be fair and it has
no legal status to violate India’s sovereignty and integrity. Let it stop this
sort of religious terrorism in the name of International Religious Freedom. It
cannot teach India what Religious Freedom is all about."
-
Dr. Mrs. Hilda Raja - Refer to
The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple
- By Ishwar Sharan
Religious conversions more harmful to ecology
“Our thoughts turn first of all to
the blessed Apostle Thomas who is rightly called the founder of preaching the
Gospel to the Hindus. Then, there is Francis Xavier, who long afterwards
dedicated himself zealously to the same praiseworthy calling. Through his
extraordinary perseverance, he converted hundreds of thousands of Hindus from
the myths and vile superstitions of the Brahmans to the true religion.”
- Ad Extremas, Encyclical of
Pope Leo
XIII, 1893 -
Things They
Don't Tell You About Christianity.
“Chennai is today considered the fastest-growing hub of Christianity in South
Asia" - Pradip Ninan Thomas, author of
Strong Religion, Zealous Media
***
Missionaries are actually in essence Soul terrorists.
Refer to
Leave Us alone
– A letter from Papuan Tribesman eco-action.org
Religious
conversions are one of the main reasons for the degradation of the country’s
fragile biodiversity, according to noted environmental scientist,
Dr Nanditha Krishna.
“The team of scientists from
C.P. Ramaswami Iyer Environmental Research Centre
(CPR ERC) has found from a five-year-old research that religious conversions are
harmful to the ecology than any other factor.
The proselytisers, in their
anxiety to wipe out the last remains of the traditions and rituals of the new
converts, make them destroy the sacred groves, the main landmark of the
countryside,” she said here on Friday.
Watch
this
moving Video
America's native prisoners of war -
By Aaron Huey - ted.com
Refer to
No place for Conversion in a ‘secular’ nation -
Wadhwa Commission - vijayvaani.com
and
Donations to Missionaries in India
and
People for Profit - Funding India NGOs
and
The 6 Moral Dealbreakers of Christianity and
Conversion Congress & Bloody Indians
- By Arindam Banerjee
Dr Krishna, the honorary director of
CPR ERC, was addressing the delegates of the 98th edition of the Indian Science
Congress. She said the
samathuvapurams
of Tamil Nadu have also led to the deterioration of the sacred groves because
most of the sites selected as government vacant lands were nothing but groves.
Though there were more than 150,000
sacred groves at the time of Independence, their numbers have come down to
13,670.
“They are mini-biosphere reserves”
and they are destroyed as “mere superstition”, she said. These patches of
forests play a major role in sustaining the local climate and livelihood.
The team found that almost all
traditions and rituals practised by tribals and villagers were indirectly
helpful in preserving the groves.
The study conducted by Amrithalingam of
CPR ERC
found that vast stretches of sacred groves have been destroyed in the
North-East, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. They are now documenting
the last remains of sacred groves in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
(source:
Religious conversions more harmful to the ecology than any other factor - By
Dr. Nanditha Krishna
- deccanchronicle).
Refer to
Christian Terrorism in India
- Wikipedia.com and
The Hoax of St. Thomas - By V Sundaram
Missionary Zeal in Asia
- Japan - Earthquake and Tsunami
"DO
NOT send money to Christian charities for Japan earthquake. We need blankets and
food, not boxes of bibles & Fundamentalist propaganda." -
posted on Twitter
Why do Evangelical Christians
get excited for "earthquakes, tsunamis, droughts, famines, pestilences, diseases
wars and rumors of wars.
Once again
religious groups are exploiting tragedy for “spiritual” gains. This time, they
are using the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Groups like
The American Bible Society
are going to Japan to provide aid… and to hand out Bibles and preach about
Jesus.
Soon after the surrender of Japan was accomplished and the U.S. occupation
commenced, MacArthur reached out to U.S. churches and Bible publishing companies
for assistance.
He requested thousands of Christian missionaries and millions of Bibles for
Japan. "To a visiting group of evangelicals, Gen. MacArthur said: 'Japan is a
spiritual vacuum. If you do not fill it with Christianity, it will be filled
with Communism. Send me 1,000 missionaries.' He asked U.S. missionary societies
to send 'Bibles, Bibles and more Bibles.'
(source:
The Effects of Japan's Earthquake). Refer to
Irony alert -English
Catholics claim 900 Anglican converts and
Dwindling Church going in UK
Stealing children for overseas adoption in Asia
With the promise of providing their
children an education, a Catholic priest from the neighboring district of
Nagaland reportedly charged parents 10,000
rupees per child. ... [The parents] were shocked to discover that the children
were not enrolled at St. Emmanuel's. In fact, they were not in any school at
all--they had been placed in an orphanage.
Both Rome and its Protestant competitors have been particularly aggressive in
efforts to convert the tribals. ... induce tribal
mothers to relinquish baby girls shortly after birth. Often the
mothers are promised that rich Westerners will adopt their daughters and they
will live a "much better life." - Sins
of the missionaries, by Stephen Welch
Globalization
is another option evangelicals and their organisations have pounced on. It is
also endorsed by the Pope and the Greek archbishop who hope it will become -
"a globalisation of brotherhood in
Christ".
(source:
Things they
Don't Tell you about Christianity).
Kali Yuga:
Religious conversions a
fraud on humanity
Hindus fighting
back Christian Conversion
यदा
यदा
हि
धर्मस्य
ग्लानिर्भवति
भारत
।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य
तदात्मानं
सृजाम्यहम्
॥॥
- श्रीकृष्ण
-
The
Bhagavad Gita
***
According to
Jean-Louis Pierre
Cardinal Tauran
(1943 -) a French Cardinal
with the Roman Catholic Church says that
"Conversion to Christianity would cure all diseases
afflicting Indian 'caste-based discriminations".
Watch
this
moving Video
America's native prisoners of war -
By Aaron Huey - ted.com and
Video: The fraud, the myth, the unsaintly Mother Teresa –
By Christopher Hitchens
and
Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children
-
By Annie Laurie Gaylor
Pope Benedict says Child abuse is normal
-
If
child abuse in the Church is normal then why should caste be a problem at all?
Refer to
Pope on Pedophilia & Caste in India
and
Kerala Christian priest held for sexual abuse of minor
- indianrealist.com
and
From Pope Alexander VI to Pope John XXIII, the history of the papacy is a
succession of scoundrels and saints
and
Casteim in Christianity
and
Dalit Christians threaten to reconvert - newkerala.com
and
Bishop, mend
thyself! - On Dalit Christians
and
The Native
blood. Refer to
Christianity, Apartheid and Racialism
and
Bible, Race & Slavery
and
Dalit
Christians - Still they face Discrimination in Christianity and
Discriminated Dalits should sue church - By Sandhya Jain. Refer
to
Church Scandals around the World - time.com and
The Survivors Network of
those Abused by Priests and
Pope Benedict and
The Vatican's
Holocaust
- By Avro Manhattan and
Sexual depravity in God’s own church –
Media Reports.
Refer to
Red Cross and the Vatican 'helped thousands of Nazis escape'
- By Matthew Day and
Nazis On The Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled
Europe - By Gerald Steinacher
Christian Caste wall: Discrimination even after Death?
Blatant
Inequality and discrimination in the Christian graveyard?
Lower caste Dalit Christian converts buried to the right of the wall and upper
caste Christian converts buried the the left of the wall, in a village in
Tamilnadu - South India.
Conversion hasn't helped none. Their life was better being a Hindu.
Refer to
Strong Religion, Zealous Media - By
Pradip Ninan Thomas
and o
Critique of Hindu American Foundation's Report on 'Caste'
– By Rajiv Malhotra - vigilonline.com
Refer to
Breaking India: Western Inventions and Dalit Faultlines -
By Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan
***
Refer to
The theft of yoga - By Dr. Aseem Shukla
and
The Rape of Yoga - By
Aseem Shukla /Sheetal Shah.
Refer to
Caste matters to Christianity - By Manu Gupta.
Refer to
Avalanche of Christian aid to
India
and
Pope’s child porn 'normal' claim sparks outrage among victims -
belfasttelegraph.com
and
Take
your soul back
A
religious conversions a
fraud on humanity
Mahatma Gandhi called
religious conversions a
fraud on humanity. He wrote:
"If I had power and could legislate, I
should certainly stop all proselytizing". "I resent the overtures made to
Harijans." "Stop all conversion, it is the deadliest poison that ever sapped the
fountain of truth."
Poverty doesn't justify conversion.
(source:
The
Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Volume
46. p.110 and Volume 61, p. 46-47 volume 64, p. 37 and 400 New Delhi 1968).
For
more refer to Mahatma
Gandhi on
The Christian Missionary Menace
- Compiled by Swami Aksharananda).
Refer to
Tamil Eelam: A Christian outfit - By BR
Haran and
Denigration of Buddhism & conversion of the vulnerable: Christianity’s latest
ploy
- By J Goonetilleke
Refer to
USG-Vatican axis to promote conversions -
Wikileaks.
Refer to chapters
on
Conversion and
European
Imperialism. Refer to
Things They Don't Tell
You About Christianity. Also refer to Crusadewatch.org and
Christianaggression.com
and
Predatory Proselytization and Pluralism - Hindu American Foundation.
Refer to
The St Thomas In India History Swindle
- apostlethomasindia.wordpress.com
and
Mother
Teresa, John Paul II, and the Fast-Track Saints
- By
Michael Parenti
- author of the book
God And His Demons
Destruction of
Native Cultures and Wisdom by Christians in South America
Timely Lessons
for Hindus
The
Christian motto of the Second Crusade in 1147: "He who will not be baptised,
shall die".
Might does not
make it right
***
"There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as The Dark Ages”
– Ruth Hurmence Green, author,
The Born Again Skeptic’s guide to the Bible.
John Paul
II
hoped that the coming millennium will see the cross firmly planted in Asia, just
as it was in the Americas in previous millennia.
Refer to
Christian Terrorism in India
- Wikipedia.com and
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
– By Philip Pullman
and
The Vatican's
Holocaust - By Avro Manhattan
“Exiled in their own land, condemned to an external exodus,
Latin America ’s native peoples
were pushed into the poorest areas – arid mountains, the middle of deserts – as
the dominant civilization extended its frontiers. The Indians have suffered, and
continue to suffer, the curse of their own wealth; that is the drama of Latin
America .”
-
Eduardo Galeano,
(1940 -
) Open Veins of Latin America
“Wherever the European had trod, death seems to pursue
the aboriginal."
-
Charles Darwin
in
The
Voyage of the Beagle
“The
Catholic faith and Christian religion, especially in our times shall be exalted,
broadened, and spread in every part of the world, salvation shall be sought for
all souls, barbarian nations shall be subdued and led back to the faith.”
- Papal edict at the time
Pope Alexander
the 6th was dividing the world between the Spanish and Portuguese.
“Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight as no age can
parallel…they [the Spanish conquistadores] have done nothing but torture,
murder, harass, afflict torment and destroy them [the native population] with
extraordinary, incredible, innovative and previously unheard cruelty...”
-
Bartolome de
las Casas,
(1484 -1566) in
A Short History of the Destruction of the Indies.
Refer to
The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You To Read - By Tim C Leedom.
“When the occupation is as long and irreversible as it has been in the Americas
, resistance passes through many phases before it is either crushed conclusively
or manages to achieve a partial solution to the dilemma of conquest and
survival.”
–
Ronald Wright,
(1948 - ) in
Stolen Continents
“The rape of accumulated treasure was followed by the systematic exploitation of
the forced labour of Indians and abducted Africans in the mines.”
-
Eduardo Galeano,
in
Open Viens
“… true purpose was to capture Indians: to draw from their veins the red gold
which has always been the mine of that province.”
-António
Vieira, S.J.,
(1608 - 1697) 1656 on the expeditions
to enslave natives).
(source:
Latin America and Caribbean: Landscapes of Inequality).
Refer to
Bumping off Hindu Leaders:
Conversion mafia behind
attacks on Hindu leaders
- By Rajeev Srinivasan
and
Pope calls Christians the most persecuted -
democraticunderground.com.
Refer to
US Govt funded Christian missionaries to Haiti
and
Onward
Christian Soldiers . . . To Hypocrisy -
By William Rivers Pitt
and
The Destruction of the Bagdad Museum and
Christianity and War and
Christian Missionaries Go Home - By Jon - stickmanbangkok.com
and
Christian Fanaticism in Sri Lanka - crusadewatch.org
and
Christians 'should stop evangelising in India'
***
Celebrate and Respect global religious diversity,
stupid
***
Gore
Vidal
(1925 - ) well known American writer,
the eminent historian, and a public figure for over fifty years, in his Lowell
Lecture at Harvard University given April 20, 1996 observed:
“When
the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago,… inspired by a raging
sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to
bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler
religions. .
(source:
Monotheism and its discontent - By Gore Vidal). Refer to chapter
on
European
Imperialism.
You (Jews) shall not merely be deported. You shall be killed. And this will be
your punishment for your killing of our saviour.”
– Slovakian
Catholic
Archbishop Karol Kmetko, responding to Jewish plea for
assistance from Nazi persecution (March of 1942)
***
Hindus Fighting back Conversion in India
"I found Christianity very stifling" -
Brad Pitt - Hollywood star
For long, Bharat has been the
special target of church worldwide. To
church, the Hindus represent the greatest stumbling block in grand design to
establish Christ’s kingdom on earth. The poor, illiterate and mild Vanvasi
Hindus are an obvious target in this nefarious design. For years,
under the garb of social service, the church has been spreading its tentacles in
far-flung, Vanvasi regions of the country. The converted Vanvasis become
alienated from their customs and traditions. They also get uprooted from their
cultural milieu. Conversion to Christianity is invariably associated with
separatism and terrorism as is evident in North-East Bharat. There are several
areas in our country which have become hotbeds of Christian missionary
activities. The Dangs district in Gujarat is one such area.
The word Dang is a corruption of
Dandakaranya,
the legendary forest where Sri Ram and
Lakshman spent some time while in exile.
It is in this region that Shabari Mata, the immortal devotee of Sri Ram met her
Lord and lovingly offered Him sweet berries which she had tasted herself.
Lord Ram and
Pampa Sarovar
The word Dang is a corruption of Dandakaranya, the legendary
forest where Sri Ram and Lakshman spent some time while in exile. It is in this
region that Shabari Mata, the immortal devotee of Sri Ram met her Lord and
lovingly offered Him sweet berries which she had tasted herself.
Watch
Mangal Bhavan Amangal Haari
and
What is wrong with India? - By D A Joseph and
Where is India in the Encounter of Civilizations? - By Rajiv Malhotra
and
The question of St. Thomas origin of Indian Christianity
- By Prof. C. I. Issac.
Watch
this
moving Video
America's native prisoners of war -
By Aaron Huey - ted.com.
Refer to
The Unholy Mission is On - By
Rina Mukherji
and
The Hoax of St. Thomas - By V Sundaram
***
The spot where this meeting took place is located on Chamak hill in this region.
There is a temple of Shabari Mata at this
site. The picturesque Pampa Sarovar (lake) is located in this region. Situated
on the border of Gujarat and Maharashtra, this district is pre-dominantly
inhabited by Vanvasi Hindus. The district has 352 villages; the district
headquarter is Ahwa. The town of Navapur in Maharashtra is close to the Dangs
district of Gujarat.
It is pertinent to note that the first church was established in Dangs district
in 1904. Since then, conversions to Christianity had been progressing at an
alarming rate. In the period 1991-2001, the Christian population grew by a
massive 400 per cent! The process of self-alienation and separatism which
inevitably accompanies conversion had become visible in Dangs.
Makeshift, illegal churches had mushroomed in cowsheds
and residential areas. These churches were unregistered and illegal.
Such was the terrorism of Christian activists that it had become unsafe for
Hindus to move out of their houses after dusk. It was in the midst of such
hostile conditions that a Hindu swami descended upon Dangs.
Arrival of Swami Aseemanand
A Bengali by birth, Swami Aseemanand has
spent several years in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. His innovative and bold
methods in arousing the latent feeling of Hindutva amongst the Vanvasis made him
a byword in the field of Hindu awakening. Little wonder than that Christian
zealots made many murderous attempts on his life. Deeply concerned by the
Christianisation of Dangs, Swamiji resolved
to stay in Dangs and foil the designs of Christian missionaries. It was in
August 1997 that this saffron-clad sannyasi set foot in Dangs. All that he
carried with him in this unfamiliar and hostile terrain were around 500 lockets
of Hanuman and an unshakeable resolve! He would knock the door of each house and
would ask the inmates one question, "Are you Hindu or Christian?" At the house
of one such Hindu, Swamiji asked him, "May I spend the night in your house?" The
Hindu gladly welcomed Swamiji. Swamiji kept his luggage, distributed the Hanuman
lockets to the children and asked them to bring their Hindu friends in the
evening for a Ram katha. That night, Dang witnessed the first ever Dharma Sabha.
Sensing danger, Christian missionaries asked Swamiji, "What brings you here?"
The Swami posed them the same question. We have come here to serve the people
replied the Christian missionaries. "I have come here to drive away those who
have come here to serve," retorted the Swami. That was the beginning of the
Hindu awakening in the Dangs.
Hindu awakening in the Dangs
In
1998, 25000 Christians embraced the religion of their forefathers in just two
months. The submissive Hindu who had been hitherto terrorised by the Christian
missionaries began to assert himself. Hindu jaage, Christi bhaage became a
popular slogan of the Vanvasis of Dangs. From 1998-2004, a total of 55 Vishal
Hindu Sammelans were organised. These were attended by a total of four lakh
Hindus. As Hindus objected to conversion activities of Christian missionaries,
clashes broke out.
The so-called mainstream media used this pretext to tarnish the Hindus. In
December 2004, press reporters from 40 countries descended upon the Dangs and
spread a misinformation campaign. As a result, the court restrained the Hindus
from conducting any public ceremony around Christmas in future. Meanwhile, the
tide of Hindu awakening only swelled. Today, Christian conversion activities
have come to a halt not only in Dangs but also in the surrounding twelve
districts.
In 2002, Hindu activists approached the famed Ramayana kathakar Sri Morari Bapu
and requested him, "You mesmerise thousands with Ram Katha. We request you to
organise Ram Katha in Dangs wher Sri Ram Himself spent some time". Sri Morari
Bapu readily agreed. The tremendous response overwhelmed Sri Morari Bapu. In the
course of his speech, he spontaneously expressed the desire that a formal kumbh
be organised at the spot where Shabari Mata had met Sri Ram. Sri Morari Bapu’s
desire was taken up as an order to be implemented. Thus was born the idea of
Shabari Kumbh.
Scale of the Shabari Kumbh
Organising a kumbh in a remote, heavily forested area was a nightmare as far as
logistics was concerned. It required steely resolve, meticulous planning and
precision to make the programme a grand success. The 352 villages in Dangs
district had no electricity, or roads; the town of Ahwa is a good 35 km from the
proposed site of the kumbh. There are no medical facilities or eateries in the
vicinity. But the famed organisational might of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,
Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and other like-minded organisations
was in full gear. Realising the importance of such a venture to the state of
Gujarat, the state government of Shri Narendra Modi extended full co-operation.
Planning started atleast one and a half years ago. A 250-200 hectare site was
chosen for the kumbh. The state government undertook construction of roads on a
war footing. All the 352 villages of Dangs got electrification. A total of 22
check dams were built on the river that feeds the Pampa Sarovar where the holy
bath was to take place. A total of 20 lakh Vanvasis resided in an area of 80 km
around Dangs. A survey of 5000 villages in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh
was completed in the initial phase. Around 30-35 lakh Vanvasis were contacted in
this massive exercise. An estimated six lakh Hindus attended the kumbh; of
these, around two lakh stayed for all three days. To arrange for their lodging,
40 townships each with a capacity of 5000 people, were erected. Each township
had 100 workers to look after various arrangements such as security, food,
medical aid etc. Thus a total of 4000 workers were required to look after the
arrangements in the townships; an additional 2000 workers were involved in other
arrangemets.
About
388 Vanvasi janajatis and 137 urban jatis which were currently facing missionary
onslaughts were represented at the kumbh. Further, dharmacharyas from all over
the country including 800 Vanvasi saints attended the kumbh and took part in the
deliberations.
Each participant was given a locket of his ishtadevata. Around 20 lakh lockets,
5 lakh Hanuman Chalisa and 5 lakh bhagwa dhwaj were distributed. The success of
this campaign like the one led by Swami Laxmanananda
in Kandhamal enraged the anti-Hindu forces. The UPA is in the
forefront of this conspiracy. Now the saintly person is falsely charged with
terror links. An attempt to discredit him and destroy his work.
(source:
Hindus fighting back Christian conversion - haindavakeralam.com).
Refer to
History of Ancient India: Distorted and Mutilated and
Wikileaks.
Refer to
Scandals in the Catholic Church - politicsdaily.com.
Refer to
Christian missionary behind Nithyananda sex
scandal: Ranjitha - dnaindia.com
and
Christian mafia in Indian media - indianrealist.com
and
Another “Dalit” turns out to be a Christian
- indianrealist.com
and
End of Days in May? Christian group spreads word
- yahoonews.com
and
Family Radio Worldwide
Bumping off
Hindu leaders in India
Is there
a powerful mafia working tirelessly to convert Hindus?
***
"We must get rid of that Christ, we must get rid of that Christ!" - So spake one
of the wisest, one of the most lovable of men,
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"If I had my way the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ." -
said
Thomas Carlyle
(quote source -Refer to
The Book Your Church Doesn't want You to Read - By Tim C Leedom
"There
is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless,
money-grabbing and predatory as it is -- in our country particularly, and in all
other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree -- it is still a hundred
times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime --
the invention of Hell. Measured by our Christianity of to-day, bad as it is,
hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the Deity nor His Son
is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible
religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent
blood it has spilt."
- Mark Twain
-
Reflections on Religion in 1906.
Watch
this
moving Video
America's native prisoners of war -
By Aaron Huey - ted.com
"If
Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian." -
Mark Twain
in Notebook.
"The Bible is one of the most
genocidal books in history." -
Noam Chomsky
"But
since the 12th century, starting with the Islamic invasions and colonizing
European missionaries to today, India faces a different kind of religious
visitor -- one that seeks not to sweeten the milk, but curdle it." -
Suhag A Shukla - The Question of Evangelism in India - huffingtonpost.com
Note:
The United States
Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
and other human rights groups have long decried these laws against fraudulent
conversion that have emerged throughout the 10-40 Window, or as is more
affectionately referred to by some missionaries, "The Resistance Belt."
Human rights violation
or denial of religious freedom
are the frequently recited mantras in these "watch-dog" circles. But as
adherents and advocates of a non-proselytizing, non-exclusivist, pluralistic
tradition, we at the Hindu American Foundation have always asked --
the religious freedom of whom?
The freedom of foreign missionaries to proselytize and
prey upon vulnerable, generally poor people to convert them to a myopic
religious worldview that denigrates or denies the legitimacy of all other
traditions, or that of adherents of mostly non-exclusivist and pluralistic
traditions, to be treated medically, educated, or employed without having to
sell their souls?
(source:
The Question of Evangelism in India - By Suhag A Shukla - huffingtonpost.com).
Refer to
Uncle Sam’s world is collapsing - By Dr Ramesh Rao - dailypioneer.com
***
What do Aseemanand, Lakshmananda and the Kanchi Swami have in common? They were
all making things difficult for
Christian missionaries
to meet their conversion targets, and they paid for that ‘sin’. There is a
sinister pattern – if you stand in the way of the conversion mafia, they will
liquidate you.
Aseemanand’s social and educational work for
decades in the tribal Dangs district of Gujarat has been highly appreciated by
the tribals themselves. But he has been jailed on flimsy charges, likely
tortured, and what sounds suspiciously like a ‘confession-at-the-point-of-a-gun’
has been wrung out of him.
Lakshmananda, the octogenarian monk who
worked for thirty years in Orissa’s tribal areas, was the subject of many death
threats; he was physically assaulted; and finally he and others in his ashram
were gunned down with AK-47s.
Sinister plan to liquidate or
Humiliate Hindu Leaders
A relentless push of predatory proselytizers?
Red carpet for Islamic
Terrorists but violence for Hindus of India?
Swami
Aseemanand, Swami Lakshmananda, Swami Nityananda
Kanchi
Shankaracharya
These Hindu leaders were all making things difficult for missionaries to meet
their conversion targets, and they paid for that ‘sin’. There is a sinister
pattern – if you stand in the way of the conversion mafia, they will liquidate
you.
Refer to
The question of St. Thomas origin of Indian Christianity
- By Prof. C. I. Issac
and
Christian Terrorism in India
- Wikipedia.com.
Refer to
The violence of conversion - By Dr Aseem Shukla
and
The Agenda of the Church in Sri Lanka and India
- By
Thamizhchelvan
-
vijayvaani.com
and
Why this war on Hinduism?
- By
George Thundiparambil
and
Using “Hindu terror” to grab headlines
- By Swapan Dasgupta and
The St Thomas In India History Swindle
- apostlethomasindia.wordpress.com
Refer to
Breaking India: Western Inventions and Dalit Faultlines -
By Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan
and
No place for Conversion in a ‘secular’ nation -
Wadhwa Commission - vijayvaani.com and
Media Crooks: India's worst Journalist
Refer to
Kill
the Mocking Bill!
- By
George Augustine
and
Ramlila Maidan: Sonia Maino Gandhi’s GESTAPO project
- By
Sandhya Jain
and
Violence for peaceful citizens at Ramlila Grounds, red carpet for terrorists
- By
Nancy Kaul
Refer to
Hands off the treasures that belong to Lord
Vishnu -
By R Vaidyanathan
and
Temple looting in Kerala: Yesterday and today
– By Leela Tampi and
Padmanabha Temple treasure and British loot
- By Senthil
***
The Kanchi Swami was humiliated –
tejovadham – on
trumped-up charges; he was jailed like a common criminal (as
though house arrest were unknown in India), in a deliberate effort to damage the
prestige of the Kanchi Sankara Matham. The Kanchi Swami’s ‘crime’?
He has been
active among the scheduled castes in Tamil Nadu, ensuring their inclusion in
what had long been criticized as an upper-caste institution.
The list is
endless: there is the Bangalore monk Nityananda
– wasn’t it quite amazing that minutes after his allegedly compromising videos
were flashed on TV, there was a self-organizing ‘irate mob’ available to burn
down his ashram? After all the righteous indignation, when the alleged woman in
the video – actress
Ranjitha – said that the
whole thing was fabricated by a missionary,
who is also issuing death threats against her, that was blanked out by the
pliant media.
Refer to
India’s secular media is the most corrupt
in the world
and
Corrupt journalist of India.
Refer to
Sonia Gandhi’s Night of Shame –
By Radha Rajan
Possible reason
for the wrath against Nityananda: the charismatic, lower-caste monk was seen as
a role model, and was attracting large numbers of young followers from the lower
castes. Then there were the persistent allegations against the Sai Baba of
Puttaparthi regarding pedophilia – it turned out that when challenged in court,
the accusers simply had no leg to stand on.
If
you put two and two together, it can be seen that there is a Vietnam, or a South
Korea, developing in India. These
Buddhist-dominated nations were rapidly Christianized
in the post-war period; Buddhist monks were seen
self-immolating in South Vietnam, in self-sacrificing protest against religious
oppression at the hands of Catholic tyrants like Madame Nhu.
Similarly, South Korea,
for long a Buddhist-majority nation, was turned in five decades into a
Bible-thumping country. In India’s northeast, of course, converted Nagas now
demand a separate Christian Naga nation. Violent Christian terrorist groups
massacre Hindus – Shanti Tripura,
a Hindu monk, was shot dead (ah, the signature
AK-47 again) in his temple. The same with Bineshwar
Brahma, Hindu Bodo leader and litterateur. Then there are the Hindu
Reang tribals, 45,000 of whom
were ethnically cleansed from Tripura
for refusing to convert.
This pattern of abuse suggests that there is indeed a systematic, sinister plan
in action.
(source:
Conversion mafia behind attacks on Hindu leaders
- By Rajeev Srinivasan).
Refer to
Things They Don't Tell
You About Christianity and Crusadewatch.org and
Christianaggression.com.
Refer to
'De-baptism' in Belgium in wake of child abuse scandal - yahoonews.com -
The child abuse scandals rocking Belgium's powerful Catholic Church are also
shaking the faith of followers, with more and more people asking to be struck
off baptism registers -- a global movement known as "de-baptism". "When you
don't agree with an organisation that you never chose to join in the first
place, the healthiest thing to do is to leave," Damien Spleeters. In this
mainly Catholic country of 10 million people, the 24-year-old is among a growing
crowd exasperated by church policy on issues such as AIDS, and angered by
revelations last year of massive child abuse by priests and lay workers.
Telangana
for Christ:
Indian Government funds for building
Churches?
While participating in the Christmas celebrations at the Methodist church in
Hyderabad, K Chandrasekhara Rao said that Christians will get their due rights
only in the new state. “I have alloted 25 lakhs for building a church in
Mahboobnagar, and will be spending similarly every year,” he said. “When the
Telangana state is formed, I undertake to build churches with government money.
There will always be one slot reserved for Christians in the state cabinet.”
(source:
Telangana for Christ -
indianrealist.com).
Refer to chapter
on
Conversion and
European
Imperialism and
Things They Don't Tell
You About Christianity. Also refer to Crusadewatch.org and
Christianaggression.com and
Self-Contradictions of the Bible - By William Henry Burr and
Biblical Nonsense: A Review of the Bible for Doubting Christians - By Jason
Long and
Christian Fundamentalism and Science
***
Christians Burning The Bhagavad
Gita in India
Monotheism, through its simple insistence on one god, alone, paved the way for
religious intolerance.
“More
people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ
than any other name in the history of the world.” -
Gore Vidal
***
Lords Salvation Army of India
plan to burn
The Bhagavad Gita and Mahabharata in Hyderabad, India on Jan 2nd
2011
(source:
Churchists plan burning copies of Gita in Hyderabad - indianrealist.com).
Refer to
Koran burning in Ganiesville, Florida by Pastor Terry Jones - nytimes.com
and
Victims of Christian Faith.
Refer to
Hindujagruti.com and
How Does the Vatican Decide What's a Miracle?
- foreignpolicy.com
Intolerance of Monotheism?
"If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ,
let him be accursed!"
– 1 Corinthians 16.22.
Ernest Renan
(1823 - 1892) French write had written in similar terms:
"The intolerance of the
Semitic peoples is the inevitable consequence of their monotheism. The
Indo-European peoples, before they converted to Semitic ideas, had never
considered their religion an absolute truth. Rather, they conceived of it as a
heritage of the family, or the caste, and in this way they remained foreign to
intolerance and proselytism. This is why we find among these peoples the liberty
of thought, the spirit of inquiry and individual research."
(source:
Monotheism vs. Polytheism - By Alain de Benoist). Refer to the
Intolerance of Monotheism
"No ancient religion,
except that of the Hebrew people has known such a degree of intolerance"
-
says
Emile Gillabert in
Moise et le phénomène judéo-chrétien (1976).
Pitrim
Sorokin
(1889-1968) Russian-American sociologist of Harvard University has said:
"During the past few centuries the most belligerent, the most aggressive, the
most rapacious, the most power-drunk section of humanity has been precisely, the
Christian Western world.
During these centuries western Christendom had invaded all other continents; its
armies followed by priests and merchants have subjugated, robbed or pillaged
most of the non-Christians.
Native Americans, African, Australian, Asiatic populations have been subjugated
to this peculiar brand of
Christian "love"
which has generally manifested itself in pitiless destruction, enslavement,
coercion, destruction of the cultural values, institutions, the way of life of
the victims and the spread of alcoholism, venereal disease, commercial cynicism
and the like."
Watch
this
moving Video
America's native prisoners of war -
By Aaron Huey - ted.com
(source:
History of Hindu-Christian Encounters - By Sita Ram Goel
South Asia Books July 1990 ISBN 9990049173 p. 370).
Refer
to
The Bible Unmasked -
by Joseph Lewis.
Refer to
Christianity’s criminal history – By Karlheinz Deschner.
Refer to
The Unspoken Bible
and
Malabar, 1811: The long road to freedom from slavery
- By
N P Chekkutty
Robert
Taylor
(1784 - 1844) in
his book
Syntagma of
the Evidences of the Christian Religion p. 32 (1828) wrote:
“If eleven hundred years are justly called the
Dark Ages — how can mankind be said to have been
enlightened by the Gospel?”
(Note:
The Catholic Church is responsible for the
Dark Ages. The Church systematically
burned all books of knowledge, including the
burning of entire libraries, and forbad people from teaching anything other than
Church doctrine, burning at the stake anyone who taught anything else. Within a
generation all knowledge had been wiped out. Refer to
The Inquisition).
***
Burning of Bhagavad Gita – the ‘S O S’ from a sinking ship
"Santiago" was the
battle cry, (in conquest of America) and the name would often be shouted out by
the soldiers in their massacre of the Native Indians." -
Stephen Knapp,
author of the book,
The Universal Path to Enlightenment
The cry
"Santiago" became a call for the heavenly power to purge the Earth of all
non-Christians infidels,
no matter if they were Muslims or Jews in Europe, Hindus or Natives of the
Americas.
“Thank God I am
black. White people will have a lot to answer for at the last judgment.”
-
Desmond Tutu (1931- ) Archbishop of Capetown,
South Africa. Refer to
Christianity, Apartheid and Racialism
***
The reason for burning of Gita by the poor evangelists is that “Gita promoting
violence’. Let us examine the reason and cause of hither to all the violence was
taken place in the world. The responsibility straightly goes to the shoulders of
Abrahamic religions.
Abrahamic religions’ intolerance
was the main reason behind
all wars hither to. The entire period until the First World War of the CE is the
story of religious wars. All further wars are the outcome of greed and
imperialistic designs; an extension of Holy Roman Empire in modern times.
It is
not a new challenge to Hinduism. From the dawn of second millennium Hindus
successfully responded to the challenges of burning of holy texts. Muslims,
Ghazni, Ghore, Sultans of Deccan, Aurangzeb, Nadir Sha, Ahammed Sha Abdali,
Mongols, Huns, Missionaries, etc all burned the Hindu holy texts and its
Universities on several occasions. Further the British attempted to wipe out the
message of Hindu holy texts from the minds of the Hindus through their
educational experiments. Still it survives in every minds of Hindustan. The
idiotic Christians are in fool’s paradise. That why they are thinking about
burning the Sruti texts of India. The Church in the
third millennium is a sinking ship and their call for burning Gita is only an “S
OS” from the same.
(Refer to
chapters on Islamic
Onslaught and
European Imperialism.
Refer to chapter on
Yoga and Hindu Philosophy
and Hindu
Scriptures
The
reason for burning of Gita by the poor evangelists is that “Gita promoting
violence’. Let us examine the reason and cause of
hither to all the violence was taken place in the world. The responsibility
straightly goes to the shoulders of Abrahamic religions. Abrahamic religions’
intolerance was the main reason behind all wars hither to. The entire period
until the First World War of the CE is the story of religious wars. All further
wars are the outcome of greed and imperialistic designs; an extension of Holy
Roman Empire in modern times.
The bible itself is not a text of peace. The
message of bible is either
destruction of heathens
or the conversion of them. Court of Inquisition functioned for more than 1600
years to the popularization of Christ and his tenets. On the other hand Hindu
texts including Gita are standing for Dharma and Karma. That is why India has to
tell the story of peaceful co-existence of mankind in this holy [punya-bhoomi]
land through generations. Its ancient text Rig Veda
notifies that “eakam sat vipra bahuta vatanti”;
that is, truth is one and the same only difference is in the path to attain the
Ultimate Truth. But the bible commands “worship no god but me”. [See: Exodus,
Chapter XX, Verse 3]. That is why Francis Xavier uttered: “When I have finished
baptizing the people, I order them to destroy the huts in which they keep their
idols; and I have them break the statues of their idols into tiny pieces, since
they are now Christians. I could never come to an end describing to you the
great consolation which fills my soul when I see idols being destroyed by the
hands of those who had been idolaters,” [From the Letters and Instructions of
Francis Xavier, 1993, pp117-8]. One who peeps in to the history of ten thousand
years of Hindu Rashtra it is difficult to trace any parallels to Francis Xavier.
It is the general Christian belief that bible is the
Words of God almighty. But its message is barbaric and primitive and sounds like
satanic verses. For instance: “If brethren dwell together, and one of
them die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a
stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to
wife and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her”. [Deuteronomy,
Chapter XXV, Verse 5]. The New Testament is not only propagating antagonism but
also violence. For instance look at the words of Jesus: “Do not think that I
have come to bring peace to the world. No, I did not come to bring peace, but a
sword. I came to set sons against their fathers, daughters against their
mothers, daughters-in-law against their mothers-in law”. [Mathew, Chapter X,
Verses 34 & 35]. The disciples of Jesus accompanied him with weapons. Is it for
non-violence? “One of those who were with Jesus drew his sword and struck at
High Priest’s slave, cutting off his ear”. [Mathew Chapter XXVI, Verse 51].
Then how you can criticize Gita?
Thus
bible and its tenets together with Missionaries had wiped out hundreds of
marvelous civilizations from the face of world permanently and irrecoverably.
St. Paul notes that: “For I walked through your city and looked at the places
where you worship, I found an altar on which is written, ‘To an Unknown God’.
That, which you worship, then, even though you do not know it, is what I now
proclaim to you”. [Chapter XVII, Aphorism: 22]. Paul thus destroyed the highest
philosophical tradition of Greeks that implied in the “To an Unknown God”.
For
missionary end of conversion burning of Hindu texts may be an essential
condition. But think that Hinduism survived several
such ordeals and now it survives as ‘nectar of
immortality’ to the modern West. O, book
burners, before you burn it please read your bible well and then decide whether
Gita or bible is to be burned first. “You lock the door to the Kingdom of heaven
in people’s faces, and you yourselves don’t go in, nor do you allow those who
are trying to enter”. [Mathew, Ch: XXIII, verse 13]. Before concluding it, I
advice you that: “Why, then, do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, and
pay no attention to the log in your own eye?” [Mathew, Ch: VII, verse 3].
(source:
Burning of Bhagavad Gita – the ‘S O S’ from a sinking ship
- By
Prof. C. I. Issac).
Refer to
The question of St. Thomas origin of Indian Christianity
- By Prof. C. I. Issac
and
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests and
The Agenda of the Church in Sri Lanka and India
- By
Thamizhchelvan
-
vijayvaani.com
and
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
– By Philip Pullman
and
The Dark Side of Christian History
-
By Helen Ellerbe
Refer to chapter on
Yoga and Hindu Philosophy
and Hindu
Scriptures. Refer
to
Why this war on Hinduism?
- By
George Thundiparambil
and
Hinduism under Threat. Refer to
Mother
Teresa, John Paul II, and the Fast-Track Saints
- By
Michael Parenti
- author of the book
God And His Demons
State Sponsored Christian Atrocities On Hindus of Meghalaya (North-East India)
At least 4
Hindus were killed by Christian Garos in East Garo Hills district of Meghalaya.
Meghalaya Police actively took part in arson, looting and rioting with Christian
Garo youth. More than 25 thousand Hindus (belonging to Rabha tribe) has been
forced to leave their villages and took shelter in Assam where Sewa Bharati Purbanchal,
a non-governmental group is running relief operation along with Assam
government. This is the Hindu Persecution agenda by Christian radicals, which
needs to be dealt firmly.
(source:
State Sponsored Christian terrorism in Meghalaya leave 4 dead and 25,000
refugees).
Vedic Culture: The Last Bastion of Deep Spiritual Truth
"In the
family of religions, Hinduism is the wise old all-knowing mother. Its sacred
books, the Vedas, claim, 'Truth is one, but sages call it by different names.'
If only Islam, and all the rest of the monotheistic 'book' religions, had
learned that lesson, all the horror of history's religious wars could have been
avoided. Which other religion has its God say, as Krishna does in the Bhagavad
Gita, 'All paths lead to me.'
-
Robert R. C. Zaehner (1913-1974) British historian of religion.
"These books were seen by
our Christian clergy, and even I saw part of those that were burned by the
monks, apparently because they thought [they] might harm the Indians in matters
concerning religion, since at that time they were at the beginning of their
conversion." -
Fr. Bartolomé de las Casas. (Fray
Diego de Landa, second bishop of the Yucatán ordered a mass
destruction of Mayan books in 1562).
***
Stephen
Knapp (Sri Nandanandana Dasa) ( ? )
American born author of several books
including
The Secret Teachings of the Vedas : The Eastern Answers to the Mysteries of
Life and
Proof of Vedic Culture's Global Existence. He has written
most eloquently about the need to preserve the Vedic heritage thus:
"So, why would I call Vedic culture the last bastion of deep
spiritual truth? It does not take much to understand, at least after a little
investigation, that the Vedic process of spiritual advancement promotes
individual freedom of thought, complete liberty of inquiry, and the privilege of
independent and personal development through one’s own spiritual experiences.
This degree of latitude for self-discovery is found in few other cultures or
spiritual processes.
The fact is that the Vedic literature consists of the
oldest and most complete spiritual scriptures available. It contains more
in-depth knowledge of the identity of the spiritual being and its connection
with the universe and God than most anything else. It provides more information
about the spiritual domain, the characteristics of God and our relationship with
the Supreme.
Furthermore, the spiritual principles in the Vedic
system are universal truths, meaning they can be applied in any time or place in
the universe, and for any culture. In fact, even a Christian, a Muslim, a Jew,
or anyone can understand his or her own religion more deeply by investigating
the Vedic spiritual knowledge.
The Vedic system expects the individual to make his or her own progress and not
merely stay on the level of blind faith. The Vedic path does not rely on faith
or beliefs alone, but offers the methodologies that a person can use to refine
one’s consciousness. Then he or she can personally perceive the higher levels of
reality and spiritual truths of which the Vedic instructions speak. In fact, the
many Vedic holy men are often those who have had various levels of success in
experiencing aspects of spiritual reality, and then can relay that information
and directions to others. This is also why portions of Vedic philosophy are
expressions of one’s spiritual experience, followed by instructions enabling
others to reach that same experience in perceiving the Absolute Truth.
Vedic Culture: The Last Bastion of Deep Spiritual Truth
Lord Shiva
Vedic literature consists of the oldest and most complete
spiritual scriptures available.
(image source:
webmaster's own collection of photos
- Sackler Musuem).
***
The Vedic process allows full freedom
to investigate spiritual matters and for one to ask all the questions that may
come to mind, without restrictions or the possibility of being called a doubting
person or a blasphemer. The Vedic approach knows that
the Absolute can be perceived in different ways, thus the Vedic system
accommodates this and allows for the individual to pursue the level of Truth
that he or she wants to perceive. The Vedic path also makes no
restrictions on our right to use whatever resources we can to help ourselves
understand our spiritual nature. This it is why Vedic followers can look at any
religion and find truth in it.
The Vedic system also acknowledges that we all have a
unique relationship with God, and that this does not depend on the approval of a
church, an institution, or a cleric or priest. It is eternal. The Vedic process
merely provides the means or methodologies by which we can awaken that
relationship and the awareness of our spiritual identity. By this approach, we
stimulate our own perception of spiritual reality rather than merely being
forced to accept a dogma presented by some religious institution.
On the other hand, we see the conventional religions of the West. They are often
monotheistic constructs that are based
primarily on faith, beliefs, and fear. Their
faith is often directed toward the idea that if you follow what your church
authorities tell you, or what you read in your scripture, you will go to heaven
and be “saved”. Belief usually amounts to accepting something that is still
beyond your experience. And fear in most religions is based on the idea that if
you do not follow the tenants of your faith or church, or if you question it,
you may find yourself being excommunicated and outcaste from your religion, or
even told that you will go to hell.
Thus, you will have no relationship or connection with God.
Fear in this regard is also displayed as a
fanatical defense of one’s ideas, that everyone else but you and your clan are
going to hell, and that you are the only ones who really know the truth. In this
way, they allow for little freedom of thought or inquiry, or for the individual
to seek out answers to questions that are not described in its scripture.
Anything that is not included is labeled as either demonic or something that
will lead one to hell.
One problem with the religions that primarily are based on belief and faith is
that they can become an effective means of manipulating the masses who follow
it. If you can convince people to believe that by doing something they can go to
heaven, then you can get them to do almost anything. For example,
Pope Urban II implied to the soldiers who
were going out on the first crusade that if they died in the name of Christ,
they would ascend to heaven and live in the association of God. Thus, they rode
out to fearlessly and mercilessly conquer the “heathens” or non-believers, and
were willing to die to reach heaven.
This is the same effect we see with the suicide bombers amongst
the Palestinian youth or the insurgents in Iraq, that if they die in the name of
Islam they will immediately go to the seventh level of heaven and take pleasure
in wondrous gardens in the company of beautiful virgins. It is found that the
more fantastic the heaven, the more hope and conviction will be seen in the
followers. Nowadays you can imagine heaven to be whatever you need it to be.
This gives impetus for you to do whatever you feel you should do for your
beliefs, and have it justified by your religion. However, in actuality, in the
Bible, the Koran, or Torah, there is little in the way of specific information
of where or what is heaven. And this leaves much for the imagination. Nowadays
you can imagine heaven to be whatever you need it to be. This gives impetus for
you to do whatever you feel you should do for your beliefs, and have it
justified by your religion. However, in actuality, in the Bible, the Koran, or
Torah, there is little in the way of specific information of where or what is
heaven. And this leaves much for the imagination.
In fact, some people of particular religions may feel it is their God-given
mandate that when someone is a so-called non-believer, he should be converted
and “saved” at whatever cost, and then deprived of any freedom to follow an
alternative view. A person in another religion may brand “nonbelievers” as
infidels, and thus feel it is his duty to convert, destroy or even kill such a
person, and that doing so may even be a favor to God. In either case, they may
use coercion, manipulation, or simply take advantage of poor and vulnerable
people to bring them over to their faith. And in such cases, the people of these
religions feel they are doing God’s work, and that they are justified in what
they do.
However, it is refreshing to see that you usually do
not have this kind of divisiveness or criticism in the Vedic system. It is much
more open and provides the individual the freedom to pursue the level of
experience that he or she needs in this lifetime for his or her own development
and still be a part of the Vedic process.
Religion, when used improperly or without the real essence of spiritual truth,
can also be a way of confining and restricting people of a wider understanding
of the universe and themselves. This is done through the use of fear, guilt,
violence, and the oppression of anything that shows a different view than what
is being indoctrinated into society. It has been the most militant of religions
that has suppressed the ancient avenues of reaching higher levels of
understanding our multidimensional or spiritual nature. Thus, by mere blind
faith in whatever the church or priests are giving us, or allowing us to know,
we are kept in a lower consciousness than what is really possible. In this way,
higher realms of thought, wisdom, love, and knowledge are kept away from the
masses. After all, knowledge is power, and your
ignorance is my strength. To keep power over others, the church and monotheistic
religions in general have systematically abolished a wide range of spiritual and
esoteric knowledge that would, otherwise, give mankind the ultimate freedom. And
because people who understand their true spiritual nature and the power that
lies within themselves become impossible to manipulate, it is necessary to keep
this knowledge hidden.
In this regard, reports have been given about how huge libraries and collections
of ancient and esoteric books have been destroyed or were kept out of
circulation from the public. This indicates the methodical removal of various
levels of spiritual and metaphysical knowledge from society, while claiming that
anything other than the established doctrine of the church is satanic, evil, and
hell bound.
The Christian Inquisition, for example, was a wonderful method of
producing this effect. Even today we can see how some people are so influenced
by this tyrannical tendency that they still are afraid of looking at anything
other than what the Church condones. However, most of these people are totally
unaware of the “pagan” heritage found in
Christianity or Judaism, which makes it very similar to pre-Christian ways, but
with a different name. It is practically the same medicine in a different
bottle. To remove this understanding from public
knowledge, it became necessary that whenever Christianity or other militant
religions conquered a country or culture, the first thing that was done was to
capture or
destroy all of the ancient sacred texts.
However, any organization that
destroys the ancient
knowledge and historical records of a civilization is never going to present the
true history of the world, or the spiritual wisdom of any previous culture.
Thus, the view of history is controlled and the population is kept in ignorance
and under subtle restraint. And the people who are allowed to understand any of
the truth are those of the elite or who are already in power.
By taking a look at the history of the conventional or western religions, for
example, a person can see to what extent such an institution will go to maintain
power and control, especially when it feels threatened by what it does not
understand. Furthermore, the dark history of
Christianity represents the fanatically
narrow-minded side of it that has continued to the present day in the
form of fundamentalists thinking that if a religion or culture is not Christian,
then it must be of the devil. Or at least its followers will not go to heaven.
Such people are often ready to dismiss or criticize other spiritual paths and
cultures without understanding them. They may see a ceremony or ritual of
another religion and immediately say it is heathen or devil worship, without
realizing that it is the worship of the same Supreme Being that they worship.
The straightjacket of Western
theological dogma keeps a person from looking at additional resources
that could supply answers for questions not considered in western thought, or at
possibilities that are elementary in Eastern traditions. What’s wrong with
learning newer ways of connecting with our higher selves, and with each other
and with God? What’s wrong with allowing our hearts and minds to expand with new
vibrancy, new insights and confidence? Why not allow ourselves new hope and
understanding in regard to the purpose of the universe and the nature of God,
even if we look to different sources of knowledge? Who knows what additional
information we can add to what we already know, or newer ways to incorporate and
develop ourselves into people who are better and more aware and spiritually
developed. This is natural for those who participate in the Vedic system.
For these reasons, India must remain
the homeland of a living and dynamic Vedic culture.
This will
allow the world to retain some of the deepest knowledge and methods of attaining
the most profound spiritual insights that have been known to mankind. India
should defend itself from the risk of further partition or divisions. If India
is divided up any further, Vedic culture could dwindle or even be lost over the
long-term, except for small colonies of Vedic practitioners here and there. This
may indeed be what many people would like to see. Yet,
if Vedic culture is lost, the world will not even realize the treasure of human
development that will disappear. Then such deep spiritual knowledge and insights
will begin to permanently fade away from society.
Once India and Vedic culture is diluted or even
gradually stamped out, along with other decreasing numbers of indigenous
traditions, then the whole world will be fitted with the straightjacket of
Western thought and monotheistic religion. Thus, it will be more
easily controlled by the establishment that is connected with or promotes a
single way of viewing human spiritual progress. Then individual freedom for the
pursuit of higher understanding and spiritual happiness will be limited to the
constraints as dictated by whatever regional monotheistic views reign in that
area.
For this reason Vedic culture is
the last bastion of deep and genuine spiritual truth and freedom. This is also
why it should be clearly understood and preserved.
(source:
Vedic Culture: The Last Bastion of Deep Spiritual Truth - By Stephen Knapp).
Refer to
The Agenda of the Church in Sri Lanka and India
- By
Thamizhchelvan
-
vijayvaani.com.
Refer to
The Christian propaganda in Stephen Hawking’s
work
- By C K Raju
and
Indian history as a negotiation - 2ndlook.wordpress.com
In this Kali Yuga:
Transforming of
a Hindu Civilization
Religious
Apartheid in Modern India
***
Sir
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
(1888-1975) was one of the most profound
philosophers of this century, author and
educationalist. In 1926, he
was deputed by Calcutta University as the university delegate to the Congress of
the Universities of the British Empire. He was elected Fellow of the British
Academy in 1940, first Indian to be thus honored. After Independence, when
Nehru decided to send Radhakrishnan to the Soviet Union as ambassador, many
wondered how a scholar would deal with a dictator like Stalin. He was
also a professor of
Eastern Religions at Oxford and later became the second President of free India.
“Unfortunately Christian religion inherited the
Semitic creed of the ‘jealous god’ in the view of Christ as ‘the
only begotten son of God’, and so could
not brook any rival near the throne.
When Europe accepted the Christian religion, in
spite of its own broad humanism, it accepted the fierce intolerance which is the
natural result of belief in ‘the truth once for all delivered to the saints’.
Finality of conviction easily degenerates into the spirit of fanaticism,
autocratic, over-positive, and bloodthirsty. It is terribly nervous of free
thinking and puts down by force all deviations from orthodoxy. Whatever is in
conflict with the closed dogma is said to be unscriptural and therefore false.
Evolution is an error and witch-burning a duty. Ancient ignorance is sanctified
as revealed truth. “
(source:
Eastern Religions & Western Thought - By. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
p. 325). Refer to
Sannyasis or snake oil salesman?and
Inculturation: Fooling the Hindu Masses
- By Nithin Sridhar
Hans Koning (1921- 2007) author of 40 books
including
The conquest of America: How the Indian nations lost their continent
and
Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth
wrote:
"From the
beginning, the Spaniards saw the native Americans as natural slaves, beasts of
burden, part of the loot. When working them to death was more economical than
treating them somewhat humanely, they worked them to death. The English, on the
other hand, had no use for the native peoples. They saw them as devil
worshippers, savages who were beyond salvation by the church, and exterminating
them increasingly became accepted policy."
(source:
Hans Koning - nytimes.com).
Nicol
Macnicol (1870 - 1952) Professor
and author of Is
Christianity Unique has observed:
“If other faiths are able to develop spiritual qualities ‘which strike us
Christians dumb’, is there any need for ousting them?
(source:
The Gospel, Christianity and other faiths -
By Nicol Macnicol p.
52).
Evangelical Intrusions, Tripura: A Case Study
- By Sandhya Jain
and
Gold,
Greed and Genocide in the Americas
and
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the
Present - By Ward Churchil
***
Dr.
Moorthy Muthuswamy
(?) was born and brought up in India where he was exposed to political Islam
and jihad. His journey as a scientist began in 1979 when he enrolled in Birla
Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (India) to pursue a graduate degree
in physics. He is the
author of the book
Defeating Political Islam has written about the religious
apartheid that is taking place in Modern India thus:
"At long last India has arrived -- it has finally emerged after a thousand year
alien rule first under the
invaders from
West Asia, and later under the
British
colonisers.
Soon after India's independence in 1947, thanks to the
foresighted ventures of establishing new educational institutions in
engineering, technology and management, and infrastructure development, wealth
creation and the accompanying socio-economic development became feasible.
The constitution of India prepared in the 1940s reflects the
land where literacy rate stood at 12 percent - and the one ruled by an alien
power, the British colonisers. A constitution created under these circumstances
-- although much influenced by the British counterpart -- was going to have
certain quirks or flaws. One such a flaw, as explained here, has since led to
egregious religious apartheid practices, and more.
For any
emergent or modern nation, it would indeed be downright shameful, and even
outright inconceivable to blatantly discriminate against its citizens,
especially its majority community. This reminds one of the
white apartheid-rule in South Africa.
One may be surprised to learn that in India, of all nations,
similar practices are taking place.
Refer to
Foreign hand: Christian bodies top donors, receivers -
By J Gopalkrishnan - indianrealist.com.
Refer to
Breaking India: Western Inventions and Dalit Faultlines -
By Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan
and
Media Crooks: India's worst Journalist
Religious Discriminations in
Education and Employment
Recently,
St. Stephen's College, an
elite Christian missionary-controlled higher education
institution located in New Delhi shocked many by declaring that it
was setting up a quota system that allots 50 percent of its student enrolment
for the Christians.
For a nation used to coveting college education in elite
institutions, the news was devastating:
"Even as getting into this [St. Stephen's] college is so
difficult and now if they cut down the seats for general category, where will we
go? This is really unfair."
So said a young Delhi college hopeful named
Arya Pakriti, presumed to be a member of the
majority Hindu community.
A stunning
fact: About 95 percent of the college's expenses are paid by the taxpayers, with
the majority community contributing most of it. Interestingly, according to the
2001 census figures, Christian population in New Delhi constitutes just one
percent. Indeed, Indian taxpayers appear to
be subsidising the selective empowerment of Christians in St. Stephen's College
at the expense of deserving non-Christians.
A Supreme Court
ruling based on Article 30 of the Indian Constitution was used by the St.
Stephen's management to justify these religious discriminations.
Refer to
Crusadewatch.org
and
ChristianAggression.com.
Refer to
Wikileaks is good for the Third World - by Atanu Dey - deesha.org
and
Bumping off Hindu Leaders:
Conversion mafia behind
attacks on Hindu leaders
- By Rajeev Srinivasan
In 1993, the
Government of India notified that the Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and
Zoroastrians (Parsis) are considered "minority."[7] Article 30 of the Indian
constitution allows religious minority communities regardless of their
socio-economic status to allot up to 50 percent of student enrolment and
employment for members of their own communities in educational institutions
administered by them even if the institutions are getting aid from the
government.[8] The definition of minority applies at the national level --
meaning that in the Indian states of Mizoram and Punjab where Christians and
Sikhs are majorities respectively, and the Hindus are a minority, Article 30
still applies to the Christians and Sikhs in these states as minorities, and the
Hindus there as majority.
Refer to
Wikipedia says, Sonia Gandhi has $18.66 billion in Swiss Bank accounts
Christian minorities are also, not surprisingly, getting
preferential employment in missionary-controlled educational institutions, again
justified on the basis of Article 30. For example, the percentages of teaching
staff belonging to the Christian faith in missionary-controlled, but
taxpayer-funded American College, Union Christian
College and St. Xavier's College are 66, 83 and 42 respectively. But
the percentages of Christians in the state of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and
Maharashtra, where these colleges are located are just 7, 19 and 1
respectively,[10] clearly suggesting the role of religious discriminations in
hiring. It appears that these lawful discriminatory practices encompass just
about all Christian denominations and cut across the nation. The temptation to
discriminate is driven by the highly beneficial manner of the reservations as
well as by their lawful nature.
If the percentage of missionary-controlled educational
institutions is proportional to the Christian minority population percentage,
these discriminations, while hardly justifiable for a nation that calls itself
"secular," are unlikely to have an adverse impact. However, here's the gist of
the problem: the 2.3 percent (2001 census figures) Christian minorities control
over 22 percent (almost ten times their population percentage) of all
educational institutions in India (i.e., over 40,000 of them).
World over,
people began to raise their voices against the cruelty and immorality of the
apartheid practices in South Africa. But in India, the larger-than-life
implications of similar practices have yet to be realised -- and, let alone be
addressed.
Indeed, best-selling author Ramachandra Guha
himself an alumni of St. Stephen's gets it only half right when he calls the
reservation policies of his former college,
"unethical."
The
discriminatory policies induced by Article 30 of the Indian constitution,
arguably, violate Articles 23 and 26 of The Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (UN Charter) to which India is a signatory.[22] Specifically, "the right
to work, to free choice of employment," mentioned in Article 23 and, "higher
education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit," mentioned
in Article 26 appear to be violated. Therefore, Article 30-induced
discriminations constitute human rights violations as well.
The Hindu majority has become under-privileged in part due to centuries of alien
rule in which they were shut out of power and were discriminated against.
By their own accounts, the Christian minorities are
easily among the most empowered in India. The other sizable minority,
the Sikhs, are also better off compared to the majority community, as most of
them live in the fertile state of Punjab. In this context, Article 30 is not
only hard to justify, but it can be seen to extend hardships the majority
community underwent for centuries, albeit this time by successive governments it
helped to elect.
Education and employment is a necessary path to
empowerment and a ticket out of poverty. India's own constitution-induced
discriminations, that allow religious preferences to dictate over merit, deny
unfairly a path out of poverty for millions of innocent children and youths.
These discriminations show the sheer absurdity of the
Right to Education Act[28]
passed recently by the Indian parliament, as many of the best schools and
colleges in the nation are controlled by the missionaries who discriminate
against the nearly 95 percent of the nation's population as a matter of policy.
Significant funds continue to flow from abroad for
missionary work in India.
One may wonder why the majority Hindu community, like the missionaries, couldn't
establish more education institutions and run them. The missionaries, unlike the
largely impoverished majority community, have been a fortunate recipient of
largesse worth hundreds of millions of dollars every year from abroad, and other
benefits such as government-allotted free land for establishing educational
institutions (provided only to the minorities).
In the long
run, what is at stake is more than India's retarded development or egregious
human rights violations.
Transforming of a Civilisation through Apartheid Policies.
In
white-ruled South Africa,
the blacks couldn't escape the racial apartheid, as they couldn't possibly alter
their physical attributes. However, in India, education-deprived Hindu majority
could escape the religious apartheid, by converting to a minority religion.
This conversion "version" of segregation may have already happened in certain
regions of India. The northeast Indian states of
Nagaland and Mizoram had less
than a 1 percent Christian population percentage at the beginning of the past
century. However, by the 1991 census year, the Christian populations in these
two states had increased to almost 90 percent. Unlike in most of the rest of
India, the missionaries were pioneers in bringing education and other civic
amenities to these under-developed regions. Adding this to the missionaries'
overwhelming control of educational institutions there probably led to the rapid
conversion of the natives.
Operation World
which tracks the growth of Christianity around the globe lists up-to-date
figures for India in its website. According to the website the annual Christian
population growth rate in India at the present time shows a big jump at 3.7
percent compared to the overall annual population growth rate of 1.44 percent.
So, why has the Christian population percentage in India increased so
dramatically during the past decade?
A graph shown in Operation World's website reveals the reason
that the dramatic growth in Christian population percentage is mostly
due to
conversion from Hinduism, as reflected by a drop in Hindu population percentage
(note that the Muslim population percentage increased during this period,
suggesting that the Muslims are not converting to Christianity in large
numbers).
As predicted by Dr. Schelling's theory, the stage has been set for a sustained
and escalating conversion of Hindu majority to Christianity.
One could justifiably argue that India doesn't deserve to be called a modern
democracy unless it takes steps to stop the constitution-based egregious
discriminatory practices and unfair denial of empowerment of one eighth of
entire humanity.[56] The country, which spearheaded the opposition to the
apartheid regime in South Africa, now finds itself in an unfortunate position of
practicing a form of apartheid on its majority population.
(source:
Religious Apartheid in Modern India:
Transforming of a Civilisation - By Moorthy Muthuswamy).
The
West has the most brutalized indigenous populations in the world
Concerns for missionary aggression are not
unique to India, but are universally experienced by native communities
struggling to withstand assault from organized evangelism. In 2001, the
World Congress for the Preservation of Religious
Diversity met in New Delhi and discussed the problems of indigenous
faiths, especially in the light of the inadequacy of protection afforded by the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations (UN) General
Assembly in 1948.
Proselystization
destroyed innumerable cultures and depleted the
Wisdom of the Human race.
(source:
Evangelical Intrusions - By Sandhya Jain
Rupa Publications p. 1 - 11). Refer to
Mistakes of the Raj have returned to haunt Britain in the form of Islamic
extremism - By Sandhya Jain
The Theft of Yoga
Delinking Yoga from
its Hindu Cultural Roots
Yoga is Hinduism's gift to humanity to follow, practice and experience.
"Without the
practice of yoga, How could knowledge Set the atman (soul) free? - asks the
Yogatatva Upanishad.
***
Apart from
distorting it beyond recognition, the proponents of America's $ 6 billion Yoga
industry deny Yoga's inseparability with the Hindu way of life.
Nearly 20 million people in the United States gather together
routinely, fold their hands and utter the Hindu greeting of Namaste -- the
Divine in me bows to the same Divine in you. Then they close their eyes and
focus their minds with chants of "Om," the Hindu representation of the first and
eternal vibration of creation. Arrayed in linear patterns, they stretch, bend,
contort and control their respirations as a mentor calls out names of Hindu
divinity linked to various postures: Natarajaasana
(Lord Shiva) or Hanumanasana (Lord Hanuman)
among many others. They chant their assigned "mantra of the month," taken as
they are from lines directly from the
Vedas, Hinduism's holiest scripture.
Christians, Jews,
Muslims, Pagans, agnostics and atheists they may be, but they partake in the
spiritual heritage of a faith tradition with a vigor often unmatched by even
among the two-and-a half-million Hindu Americans here. The Yoga Journal found
that the industry generates more than $6 billion each year and continues on an
incredible trajectory of popularity. It would seem that yoga's mother tradition,
Hinduism, would be shining in the brilliant glow of dedicated disciples seeking
more from the very font of their passion.
Yet the reality is
very different. Hinduism in common parlance is identified more with holy cows
than Gomukhasana, the notoriously arduous twisting posture; with millions of
warring gods rather than the unity of divinity of Hindu tradition--that God may
manifest and be worshiped in infinite ways; as a tradition of colorful and
harrowing wandering ascetics more than the spiritual inspiration of
Patanjali, the second century BCE
commentator and composer of the Yoga Sutras,
that form the philosophical basis of Yoga practice today.
Why is yoga
severed in America's collective consciousness from Hinduism?
Yoga, meditation,
ayurvedic natural healing, self-realization--they are today's syntax for New
Age, Eastern, mystical, even Buddhist, but nary an appreciation of their Hindu
origins. It is not surprising, then, that Hindu schoolchildren complain that
Hinduism is conflated only with caste, cows, exoticism and polytheism--the
salutary contributions and philosophical underpinnings lost and ignored. The
severance of yoga from Hinduism disenfranchises millions of Hindu Americans from
their spiritual heritage and a legacy in which they can take pride.
Western World's Churlish
and petty
behavior in not recognizing Yoga's Hindu Roots?
“There is no physical yoga and spiritual yoga. If it is
exclusively physical, it won’t be yoga. Yoga is dealing
with the entirety; it is a union.”
–
Prashant Iyengar, son of B.K.S Iyengar
Yoga is an integral part of
the Hindu religion. There is a saying: “There is no Yoga without Hinduism and no
Hinduism without Yoga."
Refer to
Al Jazeera reports on Hijacking
of Yoga
and chapter on
Yoga and Hindu
Philosophy and
The Pagan
origins of Christmas
Donate to
FACT - India
and
Hinduism Today and
Save Temples
***
Once yoga was no longer intertwined with its Hindu roots, it
became up for grabs and easy to sell.
These journals abundantly refer to yoga as
"ancient Indian," "Eastern" or "Sanskritic," but seem to assiduously avoid the
term "Hindu" out of fear, we can only assume, that ascribing honestly the
origins of their passion would spell disaster for what has become a lucrative
commercial enterprise
Refer to
Plunder of Hindu Heritage:
Now Kathakali makes Christian debut
- deccanherald.com
The American Yoga Association,
on its Web site,
completes
this
delinking of yoga from Hinduism thusly:
"The common belief
that Yoga derives from Hinduism is a misconception. Yoga actually predates
Hinduism by many centuries...The techniques of Yoga have been adopted by
Hinduism as well as by other world religions."
So Hinduism, the religion that has no known origins or
beginnings is now younger than yoga?
What a
ludicrous contention when the
Yoga Sutras weren't even composed
until the 2nd Century BCE. These deniers seem to posit that Hinduism
appropriated yoga so other religions may as well too! Hindus can only sadly
shake their heads, as by this measure, soon we will read as to how karma, dharma
and reincarnation--the very foundations of Hindu philosophy--are only ancient
precepts that early Hindus of some era made their own.
Hindus must
take back yoga and reclaim the intellectual property of their spiritual
heritage--not sell out for the expediency of winning more clients for the yoga
studio down the street.
(source:
The theft of yoga - By Dr. Aseem Shukla
and
The Rape of Yoga - By
Aseem Shukla /Sheetal Shah).
Refer to
Yoga Asanas, the Ancient Hindu Legacy
Allergic to the H-word? Hinduism
***
(Note:
It was as if the
Yoga Journal, as well as
much of the $6 billion yoga industry, had agreed to some sort of
unwritten
covenant to use code words rather than what they deemed the unmarketable
"H-word." Vedic, yogic,
Sanskritic, ancient Indian and Eastern were the pseudonyms of choice to source
key elements of Hindu teachings: bhakti, karma and moksha, even the Bhagavad
Gita, one of Hinduism's most revered scriptures. After writing a letter to the editor, HAF's suspicions were confirmed when,
during a follow up phone call, the young woman answering said, "Yeah,
they [the editors] probably avoid it [Hinduism]. Hinduism does, like, you know, have a lot of baggage."
Really?
Hinduism has baggage and
the world's other religions don't? - Try thinking
of
Dark Ages, Crusades, The Inquisition, Witch Hunt, Slavery,
Colonization of Africa, Asia, America and Australia, Imperialism, World Wars,
Holocaust, Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, destruction and conversion of
Native cultures to Christianity, Drugs, School shootings in American schools,
Gun violence, Racism, Clergy sex Abuse, Jehad and terrorism...
).
Honor Thy
Heritage - Dr. Deepak Chopra
Chopra
claims that
anyone who says that
Yoga is a part of Hinduism is a Hindu fundamentalist and Yoga did not originate
from Hinduism but “pure consciousness.”
Chopra is
perhaps the most prominent exponent of the art of "How to Deconstruct, Repackage
and Sell Hindu Philosophy Without Calling it Hindu!"
To Larry King, he has described himself as an "Advaita Vedantin"--one of the
major philosophical schools of Hinduism. Yet none of the plethora of his book
titles, that include several devoted to Jesus and one entire book devoted to the
Buddha, even skirt the word "Hindu."
The rishis did
not call themselves Hindu. The moniker "Hinduism" is of relatively recent
origin, but it is accepted today as a handy substitute for the perhaps more
accurate but difficult to pronounce name, Sanatana Dharma, the eternal religion.
(source:
Honor Thy Heritage - Dr. Deepak Chopra - By Dr Aseem Shukla -
hinduismtoday.com
and
Snake-oil salesman Deepak Chopra - indianrealist.com
and
Deepak Chopra does it again - sandeepweb.com
Christian Yoga
is an Oxymoron
***
Rajiv
Malhotra (
) Founder of The Infinity Foundation in
Princeton, NJ and author of the book
Breaking India has remarked that:
Yoga is sweeping America, but a lot of Americans are persuaded by religious
dogma to distort Yoga principles and fit them into a “Christian” framework by
denying Yoga’s cosmology. In the process, Yogic liberation becomes a mirage
Yoga’s metaphysics centre around the quest to attain liberation from one’s
conditioning caused by past karma. Karma includes the baggage from prior lives,
underscoring the importance of reincarnation. While it is fashionable for many
Westerners to say they believe in karma and reincarnation, they have seldom
worked out the contradictions with core Biblical
doctrines. For instance, according to Karma theory, Adam and Eve’s
deeds would produce effects only on their individual future lives, but not on
all their progeny ad infinitum. Karma is not a sexually transmitted problem
flowing from ancestors. This view obviates the doctrine of original sin and
eternal damnation. An individual’s karmic debts accrue by personal action alone,
in a separate and self-contained account. The view of an individual having
multiple births also contradicts Christian ideas of eternal heaven and hell seen
as a system of rewards and punishments in an afterlife. Yogic liberation is here
and now, in the bodily state referred to and celebrated as jivanmukti, a concept
unavailable in Christianity and in an afterlife somewhere else. "
Most of the 20 million American yoga practitioners encounter these issues and
find them troubling. Some have responded by distorting yogic principles in order
to domesticate it into a Christian framework, i.e. the
oxymoron, ‘Christian Yoga.’ Others simply avoid the issues or deny
the differences. Likewise, many Hindu gurus obscure
differences, characterising Jesus as a great yogi and/or as one of
several incarnations of God. These views belie the principles stated in the
Nicene Creed, to which members of mainstream Christian denominations must
adhere. They don’t address the above underlying contradictions that might
undermine their popularity with Judeo-Christian Americans.
This is reductionist
and unhelpful both to Yoga and Christianity."
(source:
Christian Yoga an oxymoron - By Rajiv Malhotra - dailypioneer.com).
Refer to
Taxing Yoga – CT governor wants to tax yoga
and
Yoga and Hinduism – By Mahendra Joshi.
Refer to
Marco Polo never made to China and
Marco Polo World Discovery Was Big Con
Yogi Baba Prem
( ) an American who is now a Hindu Yogi, a Vedavisharada trained in the traditional
Gurukural system.
He has spiritedly defended
Yoga's Hindu
roots and has expressed his views thus:
"there is no Christian Yoga. "Yoga is not a Judeo/Christian word!
It is not a part of the Roman Catholic teachings and certainly
not a part of protestant teachings. It is not found within the King James
Version of the bible."
"It is a Hindu word, or more correctly a
Sanskrit word
from the Vedic civilization."
So how did we get 'Christian Yoga'? From this I could conclude that “Christian
Yoga” could only indicate one of two possibilities:
1) Christianity is threatened by yoga and is attempting to take over this
system that “invaded their turf” pertaining to spiritual teachings and
techniques.
2) Christianity is subconsciously attempting to return to the spiritual roots
of civilization—the Vedic civilization.
I
thought to myself, “why would they want to take over yoga?”
Could it be due to the decline of members within the
Christian church
within the
last 60 years? Is this an extensive marketing plan cooked up in some New York
marketing guru’s head? Is it an attempt to water down the teachings of yoga and
import their own teaching. I think the best reason might be that yoga, and
eastern spirituality, offered answers to the spiritual questions that the
spiritually hungry masses had. It offered a practical, rational, logical, and
truthful approach to spirituality.
It did not contain any form of self-righteous condemnation, but offered love
and acceptance to all. It did not prey upon victims with terms such as “Sin”
and “eternal damnation”.
But most importantly, it had answers! It offered a practical approach to
cultivating a relationship with divinity. It offered a systematic approach and
an abstract approach to meet the varying temperaments of the spirituality
hungry.
Refer to
Plunder of Hindu Heritage:
Now Kathakali makes Christian debut
- deccanherald.com.
Watch movie:
Capitalism a love story - By
Michael Moore
The second possibility was that Christianity was itself looking for answers.
A small book filled with judgment, inflexibility, and condemnation was no longer
fulfilling the needs of the masses or the leaders of the
church.
Offering yoga classes allowed the Christian to secretly practice
Hinduism
without having to renounce their Christian tradition. Possibly by embracing the
technology of yoga and meditation, the Christian church could finally return to
the idea of love and acceptance that it believed it was founded upon. It is
ironic that one religion would need to look to another religion to teach them
about love, peace, harmony, and forgiveness. If successful, it could embrace
these ancient teachings and save itself from the fate it planted over the last
few thousand years.
But possibly in their wisdom, the current fathers of the church realized that
their time was coming to a close. So within America they must absorb yoga
before they are absorbed by it. This is a common religious view that has
appeared numerous times within world history. Then they would immediately move
their resources to India. Taking over the country would allow them to own all
the spirituality, and then ‘pick and chose’ which tasty spiritual treats they
would share. After
all they have
2000 years
practice with this. Indians
being a loving, peaceful people, openly embraced their brothers from the west. They looked the other way as their temples were torn down. They accepted it as
karma as their families were torn apart over differing religious beliefs. The
Indians thought it was thoughtful of the missionaries to dress up just like
swami’s, to be “just like them” and to share in their kindred spirit.
Modern day scholars from India frequently present the attitude of “let them have
yoga, I am interested in protecting Hinduism.” I have heard this sentiment on
numerous occasions,
but the
reality is that yoga is a part of Hinduism.
Allowing one part to be taken from Hinduism opens a door for the distortion of
the teachings.
We must remember that the roots to modern day yoga comes from Vedic Yoga.
The same Vedic
Yoga that is the authority of Hinduism.
Allowing one branch to be severed from the tree of knowledge will not
necessarily kill that tree, but it can produce strain and have an unbalancing
effect upon the tree.
Hinduism should reclaim its full heritage and not allow other groups to rename
its sacred teachings under their banner, especially when they have no history of
those teaching within their own system. If they wish to ‘borrow’ and say this
comes from our brothers and sisters in Hinduism, then that is another thing.
But frequently groups attempt to privatize the information and present
themselves as the original authority. Hinduism should guard against its sacred
traditions becoming distorted and taken away.
Scholars at universities should take the stand that yoga is part of Hinduism,
though one is one required to be a Hindu to practice yoga. It is important to
acknowledge the roots of the tradition; after all we are expected to give credit
to the orginial sources within books and research papers, but yet Hindu scholars
have ignored this fundamental western view when it comes to their own heritage.
(source:
A Hindu Yogi Speaks: "There is no Christian Yoga").
Refer to
Pope lumps 'secularism' with 'religious fundamentalism'
Refer to
Al Jazeera reports on Hijacking
of Yoga.
Refer to
Another Indian “intellectual” (Meera Nanda) prostituting herself in White Man’s
flesh market - indianrealist.com
and
Meera Nanda’s Ignorance Revisited -
sandeepweb.com
The Audacity of
Ignorance?
***
What is Take Back Yoga?
Nanda concedes
that American yogis say “Namaste,” quote from the Gita and play Kirtan music.
Why then is she so bothered by TBY? TBY makes three key contentions:
1. Yoga is more
than just asana
2. Yoga is rooted
in Hinduism
3. The asana-based
practice of yoga found in many Western yoga studios is inspired by the Hindu
Hatha yoga tradition
Meera
Nanda's (of
the Jawaharlal Nehru University - JNU) Open
story alleging that Hindu texts have few asanas and that the yoga master
Krishnamacharya borrowed most from European gymnastics is the latest salvo
against
HAF’s
position, and mimics a similar rebuttal by Wendy
Doniger. Nanda’s criticism of HAF’s ‘Take Back Yoga’ (TBY) campaign
as being based on a false, non-existent history misrepresents TBY and maligns
HAF as a casteist, sleazy political operation (Indo-American Lobby? HAF is
neither Indian nor a political lobby). Perhaps, as William Dalrymple said, Nanda
is “overtly hostile to many expressions of religiosity.”
Whatever her agenda, her audacious
and flippant claims are both stunning and flawed.
Obfuscate, Confuse and
Create a Strawman
Nanda
repeatedly fails to acknowledge that “Take Back Yoga” (TBY) is all about the
willful blindness in the West to the Hindu roots of Yoga, even the spiritual
side of it.
Disguised Hinduphobia
'Scholars' of Nanda’s ilk have always disliked Swami Vivekananda. Being
profoundly alienated from their heritage and considering anything traditional as
mere superstition, they are no doubt discomfited that a Sanyasi who proudly
called himself Hindu was able to convey Vedanta in a manner that the West loved,
and in immaculate English to boot.
Nanda gratuitously
advises Hindu Americans to, “take a deep breath and get over it.” So, in the
same spirit, here is mine: Nanda should learn to get her facts about the Hindu
tradition straight, and from original sources. And learn to accord the same
respect to Hinduism as to other religions. The days of
the Hindu community cowering before self-appointed pseudo-scholars are over.
(source:
Rebuttals to Take Back Yoga Attacks
- Hindu American Foundation).
Refer to
Another Indian “intellectual” (Meera Nanda) prostituting herself in White Man’s
flesh market - indianrealist.com
and
Meera Nanda’s Ignorance Revisited -
sandeepweb.com
(Note:
Herbet J Muller, (1905 - 1980) author of
The Loom of History and an
authority on religious history, says Christianity had borrowed extensively from
other faiths and other regions. Thus, the concept of God came from Babylon, the
idea of the conflict between God and Satan came from Persia, the idea of
resurrection came from Syria, from Egypt came the idea of Last Judgment, from
Rome came the idea of Universal Law, and the idea of Baptism came from India. In
short, Christianity has borrowed heavily from other faiths.
Prof Federich Heiler (1892 - 1967) writes:
"There is not a single central doctrine of Christianity which does not have an
array of parallels in non-Christian faiths". Can these similarities be
accidental? No, says Northcote Parkinson
(1909 - 1993). They were used to magnify the attraction).
Why is Archbishop of Goa
quoting from Pagan Hindu Scriptures ?
Come
Carpentier
de Gourdon ( ) is currently the Convener of the
Editorial Board of the World Affairs Journal
“It is almost a tradition for Christian missionaries in many
lands to use and appropriate native symbols, texts and stories to facilitate
conversion by arguing that the native religions were anticipating the coming of
the Saviour and were hence approximations of Christianity. Thus many "pagan"
temples were turned into churches on almost all continents. It is interesting
that De Nobili's work was eventually rejected by the Papacy which condemned the
Jesuits for "going native" and diluting the character of Christianity by
blending it with local faiths.”
(source:
Anticipating the coming of the Saviour and approximations of Christianity).
The St Thomas In India History Swindle
- apostlethomasindia.wordpress.com
Goa
archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao has quoted extensively from the
Sama Veda, an ancient Hindu scripture, in
his pre-New Year address to underline the importance of 'unity of mankind'
"The Maha Upanishad states in chapter 6,
verse 72, that the entire world is but one big family: Vasudhaiva kutumbakam.
And the Church has consistently proclaimed and defended this universal value of
unity of humankind throughout her history," Ferrao said.
Refer to
Plunder of Hindu Heritage:
Now Kathakali makes Christian debut
- deccanherald.com
The Maha Upanishad is a segment of the Sama Veda, considered to be one of the
four most sacred texts of the Hinduism, along with the Rig Veda, Atharva Veda
and the Yajur Veda.
(source:
Goa archbishop quotes from Vedas - newkerala.com).
Evangelical Intrusions, Tripura: A Case Study
- By Sandhya Jain.
Refer to
The question of St. Thomas origin of Indian Christianity
- By Prof. C. I. Issac
Yogi Astounds
Indian Scientists
Gujarat,
India: An 83-year-old Indian holy man who says he has spent seven decades
without food or water has astounded a team of military doctors who studied him
during a two-week observation period. Prahlad Jani spent a fortnight in a
hospital in the western India state of Gujarat under constant surveillance from
a team of 30 medics equipped with cameras and closed circuit television. During
the period, he neither ate nor drank and did not go to the toilet.
The long-haired and bearded yogi was sealed in a hospital in the city of
Ahmedabad in a study initiated by India’s Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO), the state defense and military research institute. The DRDO
hopes that the findings, set to be released in greater detail in several months,
could help soldiers survive without food and drink, assist astronauts or even
save the lives of people trapped in natural disasters.
“We still do not know how he survives,” neurologist Sudhir Shah told reporters
after the end of the experiment. “It is still a mystery what kind of phenomenon
this is.” “If Jani does not derive energy from food and water, he must be doing
that from energy sources around him, sunlight being one,” said Shah. “As medical
practitioners we cannot shut our eyes to possibilities, to a source of energy
other than calories.”
Jani has since returned to his village near Ambaji in northern Gujarat where he
will resume his routine of yoga and meditation. He says that he was blessed by a
goddess at a young age, which gave him special powers.
(source:
Yogi Astounds Indian Scientists -
hinduismtoday.com).
Christian bodies top donors, receivers
Swami
Vivekananda
(1863-1902) was the foremost disciple of Ramakrishna and a
world spokesperson for Vedanta. India's first spiritual and cultural ambassador
to the West, came to represent the religions of India at the World Parliament of
Religions, held at Chicago in connection with the World's Fair (Columbian
Exposition) of 1893. He has observed that:
“This is the ancient
land where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country, the same
India whose influx of spirituality is represented, as it were, on the material
plane, by rolling rivers like oceans, where the eternal Himalayas, rising tier
above tier with their snowcaps, look as it were into the very mysteries of
heaven. Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the
greatest sages that ever lived. Here first sprang up inquiries into the nature
of man and into the internal world. Here first arose the doctrines of the
immortality of the soul, the existence of a supervising God, an immanent God in
nature and in man, and here the highest ideals of religion and philosophy have
attained their culminating points.
This is the land from
whence, like the tidal waves, spirituality and philosophy have again and again
rushed out and deluged the world, and this is the land from whence once more
such tides must proceed in order to bring life and vigour into the decaying
races of mankind. It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of
centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners
and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world,
with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as
the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children
of such a country.”
(source:
Swami Vivekananda speaks).
Refer to
Where Have all the Giants Gone? - By Atanu Dey - deesha.org.
Refer to
Islamists want to conquer India
***
"Monotheism is easily the
greatest disaster to befall the human race."
"The great unmentionable evil at the center of
our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old
Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved--Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal--God is the
Omnipotent Father--hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those
countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates. The sky-god
is a jealous god, of course. He requires total obedience from everyone on earth,
as he is not just in place for one tribe, but for all creation. Those who would
reject him must be converted or killed for their own good.
Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve
the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority
and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in
the factory, one father-leader in the family at home."
-
Gore Vidal -
Monotheism and its Discontents,
from
The Nation
Magazine.
Christianization of
Hindus and Buddhists
Colonialism has now
been overtaken by Neo-Colonialism, but the part played by the Church has not
changed.
***
Christian bodies top donors, receivers
NGOs
in India received almost Rs 10,000 crore as contributions from foreign donors in
2007-08. And if Christian organisations continued to dominate both the lists of
top donors and receivers, Delhi-based organisations emerged as the biggest
beneficiaries. The United States, the UK
and Germany
bagged the top three ranks respectively in terms of being the biggest donor
countries.
According
to Home Ministry’s figures, out of 34,803 NGOs, registered under the Foreign
Contribution Regulation Act, as many as 18,796 organisations received Rs
9,663.46 crore during the period 2007-08.
Refer to
The Axis of Neocolonialism - By Rajiv Malhotra and
Christian conversion in Buddhist Sri Lanka - By
Kamalika Pieris -
christianaggression.org and
Denigration of Buddhism & conversion of the vulnerable: Christianity’s latest
ploy
- By J Goonetilleke
“Among the States and Union Territories, the highest receipt of foreign
contributions was reported by Delhi (Rs 1,716.57 crore), followed by Tamil Nadu
(Rs 1,670.93 crore) and Andhra Pradesh (Rs 1,167.21 crore). Among the districts,
the highest receipt of foreign contributions was reported by Chennai (Rs 731.22
crore), followed by Bangalore (Rs 669.76 crore) and Mumbai (Rs 469.90 crore),”
says the report.
The top three receivers of foreign funds are Christian
missionaries-supported organisations. “Among the associations which
reported receipt of foreign contribution, the highest amount of foreign
contribution was received by World Vision of India,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu (Rs 211.62 crore), followed by Rural Development Trust,
Ananthapur in Andhra Pradesh ( Rs 124.79 crore) and Believers Church India,
Pathanamthitta, Kerala ( Rs 101.68 crore),” the report said.
USA tops the list of donor countries with Rs 2,928.30
crore, followed by the UK with Rs 1,268.59 crore. Germany is placed third. It
provided donations worth Rs 971.02 crore to Indian NGOs. Italy (Rs 514.89 crore)
and the Netherlands (Rs 414.12 crore) follow the top three respectively.
It is interesting to note the top three individual donor organisations are
evangelical institutions. Noted Christian organisation World Vision
International of USA with Rs 578.49 crore is the biggest single donor. Another
organisation from USA, the Gospel For Asia Inc
pumped in Rs 365.37 crore into India in 2007-08. The third biggest donor is also
an evangelical organisation from Spain. The
Barcelona-headquartered Fundacion Vicente Ferrer
donated Rs 248.28 crore to its Indian associates.
(source:
Foreign hand: Christian bodies top donors, receivers
-
By J Gopalkrishnan - indianrealist.com).
Refer to
The Decline of the West - By Oswald Spengler and
American Empire on the verge of collapse? -
By Mahendra Joshi - indiacause.com
and
American Empire Before the Fall - By Bruce Fein.
Refer to
Crusadewatch.org
and
ChristianAggression.com
and
Things They Don't Tell
You About Christianity
The hate Hindu
brigade are the hate India brigade
Why have they suddenly become so active in
Kashmir?
***
“The way the Communists are
functioning in India is a mere adventurism - no constructive ability, no reality
of purpose. “
- Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru
***
The French have a saying: Cherchez la femme, meaning, if there is a scandal,
always look for the woman.
In India, invariably look for the
foreign hand. Whether it is Kashmir or Naxalites, terrorists or secularists,
rest assured that the foreign hand is at work.
Right now, India is not only under siege, but is actually under attack. We don’t
actually see we are being attacked, because such things are always invisible to
begin with. Who would have thought that Kashmir would become such a big
nuisance, attracting not only Pakistan but China and even America. Despite all
that we have done - and not done - Kashmir is now a certified international
cause célébre with every major international power
trying to meddle in what is simply a domestic problem, or should have
been a domestic affair, before Nehru made it international, just to please his
lady friend, Lady Mountbatten.
Even
some
Booker women, one-book wonders, and
some secular journalists and busy bodies who call themselves interlocutors and
who have otherwise nothing to do with Kashmir, are getting involved in it, and
using the dispute to get some publicity in order to boost their flagging
careers.
Why have they suddenly become so active in
Kashmir?
It is obvious the Government is behind it. One suspects
that the government, which means the Congress,
has decided to get rid of Kashmir and hand it over to Pakistan, but doesn’t have
the guts to do it.
Is the United States always involved in other countries’ affairs, also involved
in the conspiracy? And what is China up to - watching the show from behind the
Himalayas?
Refer to
Islamists want to conquer India
and Watch Video -
Ghazwa-e-Hind -
"The Conquest of India..InshAllah we know its destined for us Muslims...."
and
Ghazwa e hind-demise of India – Rise of Islamic
Republic of Pakistan
Refer to
Kashmir Hindus: Forsaken, forgotten for 21 years
- By Lalit Koul and
Ethnic Cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits: The
Nastiest Fascia Of Islamic Terrorism -
By Dipin Damodharan
The people who are shouting the loudest are basically
Hindu-baiters, though they call themselves secularists. Scratch a
secularist and you will see him seething against every thing Hindu. Immediately
after the judgment on Ayodhya by the Allahabad High
Court, these people went to town and came very close to denouncing
the judgment, because they wanted the land to be handed over to Muslims - but
the main aim was to snatch it from the Hindus.
These men - and women - the Bookerites as well as the interlocutors - are
so full of hatred of Hindus that they do not
mind India going down, if it will drag Hindus with it.
Unfortunately, they cannot do much about the Hindus, because there are too many
of them. A billion Hindus is not a joke. Even Hitler,
with an entire nation at his beck and call, had difficulty in destroying a few
million Jews, a
fraction of the total number of Hindus. So these Johnnies believe that if you
destroy India, you will automatically destroy Hindus. The easiest way,
therefore, is to destroy India, by hacking one part after another, just as
America destroyed the Soviet Union. What is at stake, therefore, is not Kashmir
or Arunachal or even the Maos, but the very future of Hindus, for without
Hindus, there can be no India.
Refer to
Jihad has come to India - By
Richared L
Benkin - americanthinker.com
and
Plight of
Hindu Temples in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir - thekashmir.wordpres.com
Watch video -
Secret Pakistan - informationclearinghouse.info
and
Killings in Kashmir: The
Real Figures and
Pakistan schools teach Hindu hatred: US commission
All the people involved in this genocide are people with foreign
connections. Whether you get a Booker - and the cash that goes with it - or a
scholarship to Paris and a title to go with it, ultimately you fall into the
foreign net and do their bidding. This is how the foreign hand operates - the
Soviet hand also operated the same way - and some of our people become its
willing partners. Some of these victims are the same as Soviet poodles not so
long ago. It used to be fashionable to be fellow-travellers then; now it is
fashionable to be secularists. They are the same people who have substituted
secularism for Marxism, without batting an eyelid.
You become so attached to these foreign hand-outs, you
become a foreigner yourself. When you write, you write for your foreign patrons,
and for foreign audiences, for that is where you earn your dollars. You run down
your country - for that pleases your foreign masters. This is what most Indian
writers and journalists writing in English have been doing.
The more you abuse your own people, your own heroes and your own country, the
more you endear yourself to your foreign patrons and the acclaim - from
New York
Times and Washington Post and favourable reviews in
The Economist - makes you
walk a foot above the ground and you become a hero in India, for that is what
you seek all the time, a pat on the back from
Westerners.
So you run down everything that is Indian, which, in the ultimate analysis,
means Hindus. You run down Hindu Gods, Hindu temples, Hindu way of life,
Hinduism itself. You start saying that Hinduism is only a way of life, not a
religion. Actually, it is Islam that is not a religion, only a philosophy or
ideology, like Marxism and Nazism, with which it has much in common. You run
down Hindus and Hinduism in the name of secularism, because the West is secular
and you can sell anything in its name.
But
that is not the only reason; the main reason is that the West hates India. It
has never reconciled to the fact that India broke away from the West and became
free, and the people who did it were Hindus. It was the Hindus who fought for
freedom, while the Muslims fought for Pakistan.
The
West has never forgiven the Hindus for snatching such a big prize like India
from its clutches. This is the reason British leaders like
Winston Churchill hated
Indians like Gandhiji - not Nehru though, because Nehru was an
Englishman in all but the name - and ultimately came to hate India herself.
This is also true of our secularists. They hate Hindus,
but actually it is not the Hindus they hate, but India.
They thought India would copy the West - as they themselves are a copy of the
West - and become its carbon copy, aping its philosophy, its manners, its way of
life etc. and ultimately become a part of the West. This is what Nehru also
tried to do. I shall give a small example. Nehru used
to wear dhoti, as long as Gandhiji was alive. The day Gandhi died, Nehru dropped
his dhoti, literally, and was never seen in a dhoti again. Nehru himself said he
was the last Englishman and he hoped that Indians would follow him.
They did not.
India is now more Hindu than ever, and this is
precisely what the secularists detest about India.
(source:
The hate Hindu brigade are the hate India brigade -
By Dr Jay Dubashi - organiser.org).
Refer to
Sonia Gandhi’s Night of Shame –
By Radha Rajan
Kashmir and Hinduism are an integral part of our history
Intellectuals
of ancient India - Kalidasa, Kalhana, Bilhana, Ananda Vardhana, Abhinav Gupta
hailed from Kashmir.
***
“Of late, even sedition has become fashionable, thanks to the mobile, one-woman,
republic of Arundhati Roy. She does not perhaps know that the original Booker
was a slave trader in Guyana. So her hands are stained by cash from the
slave trade. But she is weak
in history and wants to alter geography. If her audience protests against her
seditious remarks, they are at fault, not she….. ”
-
Prof R Vaidyanathan
"She is one of those
self-styled activists who seem to think that receiving an award, any award from
a Western, white country makes them morally superior to others. She was
virtually unknown to the public until she received the Booker Prize for
virtually unreadable book: God of Small Things.
Arundhati Roy is hardly an
isolated case. Girish Karnad, another Karnataka based ‘humanist’ mouthing
Leftist causes was a Rhodes Scholar. Why should one be flattered by being given
a scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes, a racist who made a fortune in diamond
mining in South Africa exploiting slave labour? (Until fairly recently
non-whites were forbidden from applying for the Rhodes scholarship.)" -
U Mahesh Prabhu
(Note on Booker prize:
“Booker had a long history of exploitation of sugar workers through the
indentured labour system during the 19th and 20th centuries. At its peak it
controlled 75% of the sugar industry in British Guiana and was so powerful that
a common joke was to refer to the country as ‘Booker’s Guiana’. In 1952 Jock
Campbell took over the Chairmanship of the company and his Fabian social
politics transformed it dramatically into a benevolent force providing major
benefits for sugar workers. Jock Campbell (1912 -
1994) was also instrumental in the setting up of the Bookers Author
Division, which sponsored the Man Booker Prize
for Fiction, now sponsored by the Man Group plc.”
From malevolent origins to benevolent washing away of sins a la Booker.
(source:
Wikipedia.org). Refer to
How Britain Kept Kashmir out of India - By
Ramtanu Maitra
Refer to
Islam: Arab Imperialism - By Anwar
Sheikh and
Mumbai Case Offers Rare Picture of Ties Between
Pakistan’s Intelligence Service, Militants
- propublica.org.
Refer to the book -
Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of The Kashmiri Pandits -
By Rahul
Pandita (Random
House India)
***
The Hindu
broke the dawn of 28 November 2010 with the new gospel of Arundhati Roy, one of
the opportunist-cum-popularity
hunters of contemporary India.
Arundhati
Roy’s gospel contained 14 points. It recalls to memory the painful days of the
14 points of Mohammad Ali Jinnah. The purpose of Jinnah’s document was to
shatter even the last hope of nationalists to resurrect Mother India from the
ashes of seven centuries of bondage and disdain. Jinnah’s designs were clear.
But Arundhati’s are masqueraded in bogus arguments of secularism and democracy.
She justifies the cause of Pakistan-sponsored Kashmiri terrorists who are
employed in the valley by Pan-Islamic organizations for a daily wage of Rs.
475/-. The messiah of human rights, Arundhati conveniently circumvents the
rights of natural-born Hindu Kashmiris who seem destined to be refugees in their
motherland. She ignores the civil rights of major sections of the Valley who
constitute the core of the corpus of peace-loving civil society. No doubt her
endeavour is to destabilize the nation which is rising in the international
comity. She likes to see an India with begging bowl in one hand and walking
stick in the other.
Arundhati or Susanna was born and raised as a
Christian. Thus her rationality usually
operates in a Christian way.
In the recent past,
the Papacy acquitted several innocents’ souls including
Galileo, posthumously, who stood for truth and lost their lives to
fabricated charges of heresy by the Church [Court
of Inquisition]. Thus her lame excuse of the posthumous trial of
Nehru is un-Hindu and unethical. Following Nehru's idiocy, she is trying
to mislead the hypocritical Indian intelligentsia and international community in
an age in which the international community has realized the truth that the
Kashmir drama has been staged by anti-Indian elements since the days of our
freedom.
The present day
Indian Union is the outcome of the determination of its patriotic citizens.
People from more than 500 princely states of India came together in one mind and
Sardar Vallabhai Patel became instrumental
in the cause of this vibrant Hindutva aspiration.
***
Kashmir
was the centre of Hindu religion and education; it is not a mere geographical
appendix but an integral part of the nation
Sardar Vallabhai Patel (1875 - 1950).
Sardar Vallabhai Patel became instrumental in the cause of this
vibrant Hindutva aspiration.
The present day Indian Union is the outcome of the determination
of its patriotic citizens.
Refer to
Kerala’s biggest challenge – the fastest breeding Talibanization -
By
C. I. Issac and
Islam: Religion of
Peace
and
Jihadwatch
and
History of Kashmir.
Refer to
Kashmir Hindus: Forsaken, forgotten for 21 years
- By Lalit Koul and
Ethnic Cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits: The
Nastiest Fascia Of Islamic Terrorism -
By Dipin Damodharan
Refer to
Breaking India: Western Inventions and Dalit Faultlines -
By Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan
and
Refer to
Islamists want to conquer India
and Watch Video -
Ghazwa-e-Hind -
"The Conquest of India..InshAllah we know its destined for us Muslims...."
and
Ghazwa e hind-demise of India – Rise of Islamic
Republic of Pakistan
Watch
Video - Democracy in Crisis –
Congress : A story of suppression & subjugation
***
Amidst her ‘sermon
on mount’ Roy conveniently ignores the still extant
Hindu influences and Hindu population of Kashmir. Until 1339 CE,
Kashmir was a Hindu kingdom, till it fell in the hands of Muslims through
usurpation.
After
480 years, Maharaja Ranjit Singh recaptured Kashmir in 1819. French traveller
Victor Jacquemont, (1801 - 1832) who visited
his court, describes him as “Bonaparte in miniature”. But before this political
change, the civil society was subjected to massive conversion, though most
converts retained their Hindu clan names.
Between Kashmir and
the rest of India one can see an emotional and cultural attachment from time
immemorial.
The name Kashmir is associated with the celebrated
Manu and the flood,
and means dried-out land. Several place names are associated with Hindu legends.
For instance, Baramulla derives from
Varaha-mula.
Kashmir has been an
integral part of major Indian dynasties. It has deep-rooted connections to the
Vedas, Mahabharata, Mauryan rulers; the Mahabharata
hero Arjun’s descendants settled in the region.
Panini, the Sanskrit grammarian, hailed from Kashmir. So did major
classical poets and intellectuals of ancient India -
Kalidasa, Kalhana, Bilhana, Ananda Vardhana, Abhinav Gupta.
Thus Kashmir and Hinduism are an integral part of
our history.
The first
historically viable book on history in Sanskrit is the
Rajatarangini of Kalhana. The Kashmiri language is a form of the
Vedic language. Kashmir was the centre of Hindu
religion and education; it is not a mere geographical appendix but an integral
part of the nation. Hindu influence waned
under Muslim oppression from the 12th century CE.
Massive killings and forced conversions brought
Kashmir’s Hindu population down to 11 families in 200 years after the first
Muslim invasion. When Pakistan occupied a portion of Kashmir, this area’s Hindu
population was 10 percent. Now it is zero.
Strategically, the
importance of Kashmir has risen after partition. Arundhati doubtless understands
nothing of this. Nehru was a self-promoter, a man of
straw. He advertised himself as a “philosopher king” but showed only
diplomatic and administrative inefficiency from prime-minister-ship to his
demise. His response to the Chinese occupation of Aksai Chin in October 1962 was
that “Aksai Chin is a place where not a blade of grass grows”.
His ghost still haunts the nation. The price we paid
for his idiocy Nehru was heavy. Really Nehru is the only person responsible for
the present day Kashmir impediment. His
perverted domestic and foreign polices dragged India into
padmaviewham [present difficult situation]. Yet Arundhati deliberately
caught hold of Nehru to save face.
Let us see the
remarks of Hu Shih,
former Ambassador of China to USA: “India conquered and
dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single
soldier across her border”. This is our tradition.
But Arundhati
subscribes to an Hindu-phobic stance while
making contentious statements over Kashmir, ignoring the above quoted
well-attested character of this nation. She conveniently ignores the cause of
Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, in Kashmir,
who are doomed to live as refugees in their motherland.
The accession of
Kashmir to the Indian Union was on the basis of the Instrument of Accession
resolved by the people’s representative institution of then Kashmir. The state
merely followed the path other princely states of India. The only exceptions
were Hyderabad and Goa. Why she is not barking
for Hyderabad and Goa? Answer is simple - no terrorist money is available for
Hyderabad and Goa now. The accession of all the princely states including
Hyderabad and Kashmir was the realization of the people’s longstanding and
vibrant national aspiration. The present day Kashmiri militancy is the outcome
of Islam’s intolerance
towards democracy and modernity.
Arundhati Roy’s greed for money and fame is
behind her treasonable intervention in the Kashmir issue. She has thus mislaid
her eligibility to live as an Indian citizen. "
(source:
The New Gospel of Suzanna Arundhati Roy -By C I Issac).
Refer to the book -
Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of The Kashmiri Pandits -
By Rahul
Pandita (Random
House India)
Refer to
Arundhati Roy is a Damn Nuisance - By
Atanu Dey - deesha.org
and
Arrest Arundhati Roy says Indian American Intellectuals Forum
How Sir Winston Churchill Starved 4 Million Indians
"Blessed are
the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."? -
Matthew 5:5 (Holy Bible)
"As
India must be bled
the
lancet should be directed to the parts where the blood is congested or at least
sufficient, not to those (the agricultural people) which are already feeble from
the want of it."
-
Lord Robert Arthur Salisbury
(1830-1903) as Secretary of
State for India, in a Minute said:
***
Madhusree Mukerjee’s
book
Churchill’s
Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II,
New York, Basic Books, 2010] is not a denunciation of British rule
of India, but a meticulous chronicling of the role of the British Raj in
furthering a famine in Bengal, and suppressing the fact that this
deliberate
holocaust took 4 million lives.
British historians, including
Sir Winston Churchill in his five-volume
memoir, glossed over this rather ‘irrelevant incident.’ Historians around the
world have made little effort either to find out how many lost their lives in
the 1943 famine, or what role the British colonialists played to cause this
man-made famine.
However, in 1999, Dr. Gideon Polya, a
professor at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, made the following
observation in an interview: “The wartime Bengal Famine has become a ‘forgotten
holocaust’ and has been effectively deleted from our history books,
from school and university curricula and from general public perception. To the
best of my knowledge, Churchill only wrote of it once, in a secret letter to
Roosevelt dated April 29th 1944 in which he made the following remarkable plea
for help in shipping Australian grain to India: ‘I am no longer justified in not
asking for your help.’ Churchill’s six-volume
History of
the Second World War fails to mention the
cataclysm that was
responsible for about 90% of total British Empire casualties in that conflict,
but makes the extraordinary obverse claim: ‘No great portion of the world
population was so effectively protected from the horrors and perils of the World
War as were the people of Hindustan. They were carried through the struggle on
the shoulders of our small island.’”
A brutal rapaciousness was the
very soul of the British Raj.
‘The Last imperialist’?
Sir Winston Churchill
an avowed racist and his
major domo
Lord Cherwell was also allergic to people with dark skin colour.
Refer to chapter
on
European
Imperialism and
First Indologist and
Unlimited
imperialism
- By Hans Morgenthau
in
Politics Among Nations
and
Malabar, 1811: The long road to freedom from slavery
- By
N P Chekkutty
Refer to
Late Victorian Holocausts - By Mike Davis
and
How Britain Kept Kashmir out of India - By
Ramtanu Maitra
and
Indian history as a negotiation - 2ndlook.wordpress.com
***
Mukerjee, a Bengali herself, has conducted extensive research to document what
she writes, and also interacted with those who survived the holocaust and lost
their parents, children, and other relatives. In Bengal, millions were dying
because of food shortages caused by British looting to feed the troops engaged
in World War II, and partly due to nature’s fury in the midst of a
well-developed independence movement, which led to the end of the British rule
in 1947. She documents the British War Cabinet’s role, Churchill’s, in
particular, in exacerbating the food shortages, stonewalling attempts to send
food from other countries to alleviate the crisis, and, in fact,
justifying the necessity
to cull those who are not only ‘inferior,’ but who breed like rabbits.
Churchill, explaining why he defended the stockpiling of food within Britain,
while millions died of starvation in Bengal, told his private secretary that
‘the Hindus were a foul race, protected by their mere pullulation from the doom
that is their due.’
Pullulation, Mukerjee notes, means rapid breeding.
The books
documents the looting of Bengal by the rapacious British East India Company,
which began in the mid-1750s to form the backbone of what became the mighty
British Empire, and which made Bengal, once a much more prosperous province than
the entire British Isles, so vulnerable later.
The book does not deal, however, with the devastation of the region’s farmlands,
Bengal and Bihar, in particular. These farmlands had been wrecked by opium
cultivation and indigo plantation by the British. To learn about that barbaric
role of the British, one must read Amitav Ghosh’s
Sea of Poppy,
and Dinabandhu Mitra’s
Nil Darpan
(Mirror to Indigo Cultivation), written in Bengali in the
mid-19th century.
However, Mukerjee does provide some figures of the
looting by the East India Company that
filled the coffers in London. Bengal fell under East India Company
control in 1757, and ‘within five years,’ the author reports, ‘Bengal became
India’s poorest province.’ The Company directors were looting freely and paying
His Majesty’s Government £400,000 annually. For centuries, gold and silver had
poured into Bengal, but, by 1769, all that was gone. Between 1766 and 1768, the
author notes, Bengal imported £624,375 worth of goods and exported £6,311,250:
The amount going out was ten times that which was coming in.
Churchill, or Hitler: Take Your Pick
One of the interesting aspects in this book is the author’s observation that
when it came to India, there was hardly any difference between Hitler and
Churchill. Both were avowed racists and killers; both loved wars and had a
particular hatred for the Indian people; and both were eager to see Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, or Gandhiji, killed. The author
notes that Hitler was a great admirer of Britain and the British Raj. Indeed,
the British bankers did a yeoman’s job to get Hitler to seize power and build
his Third Reich.
Hitler’s and Churchill’s common view on how to deal with the growing demand of
the Indian leaders, Gandhi in particular, is most revealing. In November 1937,
Hitler, during his meeting with the Viscount of Halifax (formerly Lord Irwin,
Viceroy of India), advised him to ‘shoot Gandhi, and if this doesn’t suffice to
reduce them to submission, shoot a dozen leading members of Congress; and if
that doesn’t suffice, shoot 200 and so on until order is established… You will
see how quickly they will collapse as soon you make it clear that you mean
business.’
Churchill said: ‘It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a
seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir [selfless person] of a
type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal
palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil
disobedience to parley in equal terms with the representative of the
King-Emperor.’ In 1944, British historian Penderel Moon recorded Churchill
saying: ‘He [Gandhi] is a thoroughly evil force, hostile to us in every fiber,
largely in the hands of native vested interests.’ On another occasion, Churchill
sent a note to then-Viceroy Archibald Wavell, asking why Gandhi was not dead
yet.
Churchill’s major domo was
Lord Cherwell who was
so allergic to people with dark skin colour that after his
retirement he wanted to settle in a warm country such as Jamaica, but the
thought of spending his days with black people was too much, so he stayed
shivering at Oxford.
Famine That Killed 4 Million
The 1943 famine was not only man-made, but the outcome of the British Empire’s
looting of India, using free trade as one of its vicious weapons.
The
whitewashing of Indian famines extends to two centuries of famine in British
India. How many Indians died in these famines has not been fully established,
but one figure indicates that at least 28 million died in the 19th-century
famines. A 1933 survey revealed that 41% of India’s inhabitants were ‘poorly
nourished,’ and another 20% ‘very badly nourished,’ with the statistics for
Bengal being worst of all: 47% and 31%, respectively. By the time World War II
hit, India was importing between 1 and 2 million tons of rice a year from Burma
and Thailand.
The next time Prime Minister David Cameron and his ilk come prancing to India
seeking a bailout of Britain’s dwindled, technologically obsolete industrial
sector, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, or the future powers-that-be, and the
Indian people, must demand, not only the return of the crown jewels looted from
India, but an admission and apology for the 4 million Indians they starved to
death in 1943-45. No compensation would suffice.
This book should be read by those in the West, as well as elsewhere, who have
been brought up with the anglophile version of the British Empire. The book
documents that those who served the British Empire were not just perfidious;
they were killers, just as the Nazis were.
(source:
How Sir Winston Churchill Starved 4 Million Indians -
By Ramtanu
Maitra - vijayvaani.org).
All roads in India lead to Rome
India's New rulers?
"The UPA government instead of cracking down on crooks, hawala operators, and
illegal foreign bank account holders, has instead swooped on an unarmed Swamiji
and world renowned Yoga teacher who had wanted effective action against the
corruption, making India look like a tin pot
dictatorship in a Banana Republic."
– Dr Subramanian Swami -
Sonia Maino Gandhi’s GESTAPO project
- By
Sandhya Jain
Refer to
Wikipedia says, Sonia Gandhi has $18.66 billion in Swiss Bank accounts.
Refer to
Sonia Gandhi’s Night of Shame –
By Radha Rajan and watch
Video - Democracy in Crisis –
Congress : A story of suppression & subjugation
***
Rome,
the mighty city was once the seat of autocratic power for the famous Gaius
Julius Caesar. Caesar, an able statesman and General led Rome from strength to
strength during his halcyon era. Caesar was a pivotal force of the Roman Empire,
in control of several legions, was at the helm of many military adventures and
amassed wealth of staggering proportions. All roads led to Rome under the great
Roman Empire in the metaphorical sense and in the literal sense. There was no
hyperbole. The vast area that was under the Roman rule was staggering.
Refer to
Kill
the Mocking Bill!
- By
George Augustine
and
Violence for peaceful citizens at Ramlila Grounds, red carpet for terrorists
- By
Nancy Kaul
Refer to
Sonia Gandhi and Puppet Anna Hazare - BY V Sundaram and
Anna Hazare: Sonia Gandhi's civilian coup d’état? - By
Sandhya Jain and
Anna Hazare: NGOs for Governance? - By
Sandhya Jain
In today’s day and age, here in India, ironically all
roads still lead to Rome. Not much has changed from 49BC. We are
still hailing the Roman Empire and we have firmly placed the laurel wreath on
the head of Roman. All roads within India circumnavigate or lead straight to
this seat of absolute power. Democracy is but a sham in our country, the powers
have been snatched from the people and it now resides
with the Caesar of our times, the new age
Caesar living at 10, Janpath. This
Caesar commands legions that have looted and plundered its own people
mercilessly. There is however a logical fallacy in the style of governance with
this Caesar. Unlike the Caesar of 49 BC who invaded foreign territories and kept
external invasions at bay, this Caesar is the de facto
commander of legions that are highly specialized in internal
invasions. Somewhere from 7, Racecourse road, a tired, old soldier watches every
proceeding motionlessly. It appears like he is not directly participating in the
invasions but he is naturally expected to bear the moral responsibility of his
troops. There is a well-lit, cobbled path from Racecourse to Janpath and this
lonely, tired, veteran soldier limps back and forth on it slowly, unsure of his
steps, trying to find his way in the dark. Like the enchanting Grimm’s fairy
tale of Hansel and Gretel, the soldier tries to leave some breadcrumbs on the
cobbled path. Alas, the scavengers loot the crumbs too.
Refer to
Red Cross and the Vatican 'helped thousands of Nazis escape'
- By Matthew Day and
Nazis On The Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled
Europe - By Gerald Steinacher
and
World's #9 Most Powerful Person Now Accused of
Corruption -- Will She Fall? - By
Cleo Paskal -
huffingtonpost.com
Refer to
The Great Scandal:
Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis - Gregory S. Paul -
christianaggression.org
and
and
'Unholy Crusaders: The Role of
Evangelicals in US Imperialism' – By Iain Buchanan
And like the Gauls, there is an opposition that tries to curb the Roman
incursion. It is trying in vain to retire the old soldier and the legions. And
as of now, to no avail. The legions and the Commander have no moral conscience.
The only thing that matters to them is to fill up the treasure chest at the
expense of the people and at the expense of progress of this civilization. A
bearded Bootstrap Bill from the buccaneer brigade has siphoned off the
commonwealth of the people that was meant to organize gladiatorial contests at
the colosseum. Another of seemingly docile and gentle character from the south
of the Vindhyas, dressed in a pristine white toga rode over a dual spectrum and
created a revenue loss of staggering proportions. Domus meant for the widows of
war have been seized by the Roman Generals. Each member of the legion shouting
to the other, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears, when in Rome, do
as we Romans do – Loot”.
Refer to
Aaj ka
Mahabharat - youtube.com
and
June 25, 1975 — The Day Mrs G showed her true colors - By Atanu Dey
and
The Imperialist Suicide Epidemic in India -
by Larry Everest
And the people of this civilization wait for that gallant and a figment of the
imagination “Ben-Hur” to appear on a Quadriga and save them from the clutches of
this tyrannical empire. I cannot hear the sound of hooves and neither do I see
any dust rising in the distance. What is the option that we the people have? Do
we blame ourselves for electing a set of un-scrupulous legions to control us?
Even if we choose to exercise our vote carefully, is the only option we have is
but a group of infighting Gauls to rule us? In a
country of a billion plus Indians, we are still searching for an able, true
blooded, healthy Indian. At this stage of our civilization, does the
one who is least infected by the common plague called “corruption” preferred? It
is almost impossible to find anyone who is uninfected by this disease. For now,
the Prefect of the morals seems to have this country in its clutches and
releases a new coin after every successful internal conquest. The Prefect is
finely handling the Brutus’s and the Cassius’s with remarkable elegance and
there is no conspiracy in sight to oust the Prefect from power. We need no
soothsayer to say that it is but the ides of March everyday for the good people
of this civilization, and we continue to be stabbed.
(source:
All roads in India lead to Rome - By
Sharmila Ravinder
- blogstimesofindia.com). Refer to
The St Thomas In India History Swindle
- apostlethomasindia.wordpress.com
Sonia Gandhi: An Italian empress of India in new clothes
The Great Renouncer?
***
Like
Sonia Gandhi, I am a Westerner and a
brought-up Christian. Like Sonia Gandhi, I have lived in India many years and I
have adopted this country as my own.
But the comparison ends there. I did land in India with a certain amount of
prejudices, clichés and false ideas, and I did think in the enthusiasm of my
youth to become a missionary to bring back Indian ‘pagans’
to the ‘true god’. But the moment I stepped in India I felt that there was
nothing much that I could give to India, rather it was India which was bestowing
me. In fact in all my years here India
has given me so much — professionally, spiritually, sentimentally.
Most Westerners, who come here, still think they are
here to ‘give’ something to a country, which, unconsciously of course, they
think is lesser than theirs. It was true of the British, it was true of
Mother Teresa,
it is true of Sonia Gandhi.
***
Sonia Gandhi: A leadership without the
accountability
The moribund and leaderless Congress party has latched on to Sonia Gandhi who
is Italian by birth and Roman Catholic by baptism.
-
John Maclithon, Australian Radio Journalist.
Refer to
Where Have all the Giants Gone? - By Atanu Dey - deesha.org
and
Wikipedia says, Sonia Gandhi has $18.66 billion in Swiss Bank accounts
***
The tragedy of India is that it was colonised for too long. And
unlike China, it always looks to the West for a solution to its problems. Sonia
Gandhi, whatever her qualities, is just an incarnation of that hangover, an
empress of India in new clothes.
Sonia's Billions:
A stunning exposure on Sonia Gandhi’s secret billions in Swiss banks came,
surprisingly, from Switzerland itself, where the world’s corrupt stash away
their booty. In its issue of November 19, 1991,
Schweizer
Illustrierte, the most popular magazine of Switzerland, did an exposé of
over a dozen politicians of the third world, including Rajiv Gandhi, who had
stashed away their bribe monies in Swiss banks.
Not Mere Corruption but National
Plunder of India
Sonia Gandhi in an ad showcasing the deep and pervasive
corruption in India -
Mama Maino Brand Corruption Pickle?
Are Indians aware that their country has entered a state of semi-autocracy where
every important decision comes from a single individual residing in her fortress
of 10 Janpath surrounded by dozens of security men, an empress of India?
Why Can't a billion Indians find one of their own, who will understand the
complexity and subtlety of India, to govern themselves? One does not understand this craze to
Westernise India at all costs, while
discarding its ancient values.
Refer to chapter
on
European
Imperialism,
First Indologist
and
Conversion.
Watch
Baba Ramdev Bharat Swabhiman rally at Ramilila ground in Delhi - youtube.com
and
Save India from
Corruption. Also refer to
Avalanche of Christian aid to India.
Refer to
Zero tolerance, secret billions -
By S Gurumurthy
and
Is India sliding into a hereditary monarchy?
and
The dangerous Black Widow from Italy - By V Sundaram
and
Soniaji! Please tell us who you are – really! – By T.S.V. Hari
and
Does the prime minister matter? -
By Ashok Mitra
and
Sonia's Shady family - indianrealist.com
and
Dr. Subramaniam Swamy on Sonia's family
smugglilng - youtube.com and
Telecom Scandal Plunges India Into Political Crisis - nytimes.com
and
Perils of becoming a republic of scandals - By
Brahma Chellaney
and
Evangelical Intrusions, Tripura: A Case Study
- By Sandhya Jain
and
The Myth of a New Asian Century: Why it is Western not Asian -
By Janaka Goonetilleke - vijayvaani.com
Refer to
Breaking India: Western Inventions and Dalit Faultlines -
By Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan
and
India's mood darkens as corruption undermines nation's self-confidence - By
Simon Denyer and
BBC Report on India illegal Capital Flow.
For more on corruption refer to
Robert Vadra: Proxy Tycoon?
- By
Sandhya Jain
and
Rahul Gandhi (India), Saif Gaddafi (Libya), Gamal Mubarak (Egypt): Any
difference b/n these Looters? - youtube.com and
Conversion Congress & Bloody Indians - By Arindam Banerjee and
Indian PM Manmohan Singh denies bribing MPs for votes - bbc.co.uk
and
India too is ripe for a revolution -
By Dr Jay
Dubashi
and
Congress party 'bought India votes' - bbc.co.uk and
How the autocracy of Sonia Gandhi operate?
and
World's #9 Most Powerful Person Now Accused of
Corruption -- Will She Fall? - By
Cleo Paskal -
huffingtonpost.com and
Video - Democracy in Crisis –
Congress : A story of suppression & subjugation
***
All the
television channels report without a blink that
Maharashtra CM
Chavan rushes
to Delhi to meet Sonia Gandhi to plead for his life.
But should not Chavan have
gone to the prime minister first?
Are Indians aware that their country has entered a state of semi-autocracy where
every important decision comes from a single individual residing in her fortress
of 10 Janpath surrounded by dozens of security men, an empress of India?
Nobody seems to notice what is happening under the reign
of Sonia Gandhi.
That an Arundhati Roy
is allowed to preach
secession
in India, whereas on the other hand the Congress
government has been going after the army, the last body in India to uphold the
time-honoured values of the Kshatriyas
— courage, honour, devotion to the Motherland.
They alone today practise true secularism, never differentiating between a
Muslim or Hindu soldier and who for a pittance daily give their lives to their
country. First it was the attempt of a caste census, a
divide-and-rule ploy if there is one; then there are the first signs
that the government is thinking about thinning down the presence of the Indian
army in the Kashmir valley, which will suit Pakistan perfectly. And now there is
the Adarsh housing society scam in which the army officers, at the worst, were
innocently dragged into it. We know now that it was the politicians of the
Congress who benefited the most out of it.
Refer to
Arundhati Roy is a Damn Nuisance - By
Atanu Dey - deesha.org
and
Arrest Arundhati Roy says Indian American Intellectuals Forum
and
The New Gospel of Suzanna Arundhati Roy -By C I Issac
Why Can't a billion Indians find one of their own, who will understand the
complexity and subtlety of India, to govern themselves?
One does not understand this craze to
Westernise India at all costs, while
discarding its ancient values.
Sonia Gandhi should do well to remember that
there still are 850 million Hindus in India, a billion worldwide and that
whatever good inputs were brought by different invasions, it is the ancient
values of spirituality behind Hinduism which have made India so special..
The tragedy of India is that it was
colonised
for too long. And unlike China, it always looks to the West for a solution to
its problems. Sonia Gandhi, whatever her qualities, is just an incarnation of
that hangover,
an empress of India in new clothes.
(source: Sonia Gandhi: An empress of India in new clothes -
By John MacLithon).
Refer to
The 2 Gs - By Dr. Hilda Raja and
Sonia’s certificate, PM’s ultimate humiliation – By S Gurumurthy
and
On “An empress of India in new clothes”
-
By Dr. Hilda Raja
and
As more skeltons keep tumbling out of the cupboard…
and
A Little Nostalgia: Foreign Fourth Estate and
India -
By Jay Bhattacharjee
and
Sonia Gandhi and Puppet Anna Hazare - BY V Sundaram
Sonia Gandhi and the hidden trail
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we first practice to deceive…
***
The Indian media
has begun even doubting
Manmohan Singh’s
integrity — mental, at least — as he must have been knowing for nearly two
years that the Indian exchequer was defrauded of `1.76 lakh crores. But so far,
Sonia Gandhi has been spared.
Yet, if you are an observer of Indian politics, as I have been,
since I landed back in India in the early ’Sixties, you have to come to the
conclusion that most of the funds of scams end up in the coffers of political
parties, particularly of the Congress.
Today the DMK is taking the brunt of the blame, but actually political parties
have been forced to follow suit after the grand old party of India’s
independence, began using percentages allotted by foreign companies on mega
deals, military and otherwise, to secretly fund its election campaigns and give
freebies to poor villagers. Of course,
Bofors
was the first one of the big scams to be uncovered.
...all
roads seem to lead to Sonia Gandhi: she is the first Lady of India,
although she is a simple MP like hundreds of others, the
ultimate arbiter, and nothing of importance is decided without her caveat. The
immense power she wields within the Congress cannot be only due to her charisma,
of her having the Gandhi name or having brought cohesion in the Congress.
It is also, and perhaps mainly, because she holds the purse
strings of tremendous amounts of money. These party funds are overt: all the
foundations, Rajiv, Indira, Nehru, etc, which store thousands of crores; and
covert, starting with the Bofors scam. Where are the secret bank accounts where
the scam money is stored? Under whose names are they operated? How is the money
brought back to India? Who will answer all these questions?
Will Raja talk, if he is arrested, as it is rumoured? Surely he knows a lot of
secrets, as some of the 2G, Adarsh CWG money, and other unknown scams, must
also have gone into the Congress coffers.
That is the question that the Congress leadership should
debate instead of going after
‘Hindu terror’, a
misnomer if there is one.
Refer to
Media Crooks: India's worst Journalist
If you look at statistics for the last 1,000 years, it is Hindus
who have been at the receiving end of terror — millions of them have died,
including in Kashmir in the late ’Eighties, when Benazir Bhutto launched her
‘Azad Kashmir’ movement (I was there).
Sonia Gandhi -
is
“the moribund and leaderless Congress party has latched on to Sonia Gandhi who
is Italian by birth and Roman Catholic by baptism”.
(Note: Sonia
Gandhi's parents opposed her
marriage to Rajiv Gandhi - in an interview with Maria
Shriver - Refer to
Wikileaks).
(source:
Sonia Gandhi and the hidden trail - By
John Maclithon). Refer to
Government of
India - Rotten to the core - economist.com.
Refer to
Using “Hindu terror” to grab headlines
- By Swapan Dasgupta
Does the prime minister matter?
The individual who is the prime minister, (Manmohan
Singh) for example, should know that he serves a very specific
purpose, he — a nobody — is needed to fill nominally the slot the
Great Renouncer (Sonia
Gandhi) decided to vacate, even before occupying it, in order that
she could be hailed as the Great Renouncer and accorded the same quality of
reverence as was once bestowed upon that other cognizable renouncer in the
nation’s history — what was his name, ah, yes, Mahatma Gandhi.
Refer to
Conversion Congress & Bloody Indians
- By Arindam Banerjee
and
Indian PM Manmohan Singh denies bribing MPs for votes - bbc.co.uk
and
Manmohan Singh is really and truly a despicably dishonest man – By Atanu Dey
– deesha.org and
The
Ventriloquist’s Dummy Will Address a Press Conference – By Atanu Dey –
deeshaa.org
The individual who is the prime minister, for example, should know that he
serves a very specific purpose, he — a nobody — is needed to fill nominally the
slot the Great Renouncer decided to vacate, even before occupying it, in order
that she could be hailed as the Great Renouncer and accorded the same quality of
reverence as was once bestowed upon that other cognizable renouncer in the
nation’s history — what was his name, ah, yes, Mahatma Gandhi.
Refer to
Singh and his many clowns - By Dr Jay Dubashi
Is it not egregiously irrelevant in such a situation to wax eloquent over the
prime minister’s integrity? For consider the goings-on during the
2G spectrum
episode. Were nothing known of the prime minister’s correspondence with his
minister as well as of the Radia tapes, two alternative assumptions are still
possible: either that the prime minister was aware of the irregularities that
were being plotted but was unable to do anything about it, or that he was
totally ignorant of what was happening. If the prime minister is feeling
humiliated by the snide comments swirling at this moment around his person, he
can only lay the blame at the door of the decision he took in 2004 to be a cog
in the dynasty’s wheel. It is for him to ruminate whether tending his private
garden would not have been a superior choice.
(source:
Does the prime minister matter? -
By Ashok Mitra). Refer to
Dr Manmohan Singh is Pitiable - By Atanu dey - deeshaa.org.
Islamists bombed Hinduism's holiest city
December 2010: A two-year-old girl named Swastika
Sharma was killed and about 30-40 people, including four foreigners,
were injured in a bomb blast at the Dashashwamedh Ghat on the banks of Ganga
river in Varanasi at around 6.30 pm on Tuesday.
Hindu Tolerance
- India is the only country in the world that subsidies the Haj Pilgrimage - 57
Islamic countries do not.
Are Hindus safe in
Mother India?
Yet another Islamic
terrorist attack on a Hindu city - this time at Varanasi.
Refer to
Jihad has come to India - By
Richared L
Benkin - americanthinker.com
Refer to the
Islam’s Indian slave trade - Islam’s genocidal slavery
- islammonitor.org
and
Islam: Arab Imperialism - By Anwar
Sheikh and
Mumbai Case Offers Rare Picture of Ties Between Pakistan’s
Intelligence Service, Militants - propublica.org
and
Islam: Religion of
Peace
and
Jihadwatch
and
History of Kashmir.
Refer to
Kashmir Hindus: Forsaken, forgotten for 21 years
- By Lalit Koul and
Ethnic Cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits: The
Nastiest Fascia Of Islamic Terrorism -
By Dipin Damodharan
Refer to
Britain's Islamic Republic - Channel 4
***
Terrorist group Indian Mujahideen has
claimed responsibility for the blast saying that it is a response to the recent
Ayodhya verdict. A bomb hidden in a metal canister exploded during the
Ganga Aarti (a daily lamp ritual) between
Shitlamata Ghat and
Dashashwamedh Ghat.
Additional
Director General of Police (ADG)-- Law and Order, Brijlal said: "The state has
been put on high alert. And anti-terrorist sqauds and a bomb disposal squad have
been rushed to the site." Though it has been reported that the bomb was
possibly kept in a milk container. Quoting IG Varansai the ADG said that the
bomb was placed in some cavity. All top Varanasi district and police officers
are on the spot. ADG said that there was no laxity as the state was already on
alert due to Babri Masjid demolition anniversary.
The blast took place when thousands of devotees and the foreign tourists had
assembled at the ghat for having darshan of the Ganga Arti, police sources said.
(source:
Explosion
rocks one of India's holiest cities - hindustantimes.com).
Refer to
Multiculturalism has failed in United Kingdom
- By Sandhya Jain
Christian Terrorism in Hindu India
The
National Liberation Front of Tripura, a
rebel group operating in Tripura, North-East
India classified by the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of
Terrorism as one of the ten most active terrorist groups in the world, has been
accused of forcefully converting people to Christianity.
The state government reports that the Baptist Church of Tripura supplies
arms and gives financial support to the NLFT. The Church is also reported to
encourage the NLFT to murder Hindus, particularly infants. NLFT has also
declared a ban against Hindus celebrating Durga Puja and other Hindu festivals.
Refer to
Breaking India: Western Inventions and Dalit Faultlines -
By Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan
The insurgency in Nagaland was led by the
National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN)
and continues today with its faction NSCN - Isaac Muivah which explicitly calls
for a "Nagalim for Christ."
In Assam, an extremest group named Manmasi
National Christian Army (MNCA) with around 15 members from the
Hmar ethnic group, have placed bloodstained crosses
in Hindu temples and forced Hindus to convert at gunpoint.
(source:
Christian Terrorism in India
- Wikipedia.com).
A Bizarre and
Scary Prince of
India?
***
"..We
Hindus are facing a veritable military-style onslaught, with the
Catholic heir apparent to virtual kingship in India
suggesting that Hindus are a greater danger to their own motherland than Islamic
terrorists emanating from Pakistan and his factotum, Digvijay Singh, opining
that Hindus may have killed a senior ATS Mumbai police officer..."
-
Dr.
Gautam Sen director of
Gandhi-Einstein Foundation
"By
demonising the RSS as a terrorist and Nazi-like organisation, the Congress under
the leadership of Sonia Gandhi seeks to insult millions of Hindus in this
country"
- B
Raman Additional
Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat. Govt. of India.
***
Raul Vinci
Gandhi complains about Hindu terrorism (an oxymoron ?) to American ambassador
Hypocrisy is the first victim of the power of truth.
***
WikiLeaks says -
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi
believes Hindu extremists pose a greater threat to India than Muslim militants,
fresh WikiLeaks cables released have revealed as reported in ‘The Guardian’.
Gandhi said this to US ambassador to
India Timothy Roemer in a luncheon meeting
recently.
He warned Timothy Roemer that
although “there was evidence of some support for [Islamic terrorist group
Laskar-e-Taiba] among certain elements in
India’s indigenous Muslim community, the bigger threat may be the growth of
radicalised Hindu groups, which create religious tensions and political
confrontations with the Muslim community”.
Refer to
Bogus Hindu Terror - By Dr. Subramanium Swamy and
Rahul Gandhi as India’s prime minister – Those idiots did it again
Rahul’s comments have come under sharp attack
from the BJP. Speaking to CNN-IBN, BJP spokesperson Tarun Vijay lashed out at
Rahul saying that he was dividing the country on communal lines. “I think Rahul is dividing India on communal
lines. He thinks if he speaks against Hindus, Muslims will vote for him in Uttar
Pradesh. This is most unfortunate for the country’s future,” he said. A livid BJP also said that the Gandhi scion is
helping Pakistan’s cause. The BJP attacked Rahul. “At one stroke he gave
legitimacy to the propaganda of Pakistani terror groups — which have been saying
the same thing — against India,” chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
(source: Clown Prince a traitor? - Indianrealist.com).
Refer to
Wikileaks is good for the Third World - by Atanu Dey - deesha.org
and
Is India sliding into a hereditary monarchy?
- bbc.co.uk. Watch video
Unseen footage of 26/11 attack
The Clown Prince?
Diverting
attention from Islamic Terrorism?
Rahul Gandhi and
US
Ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer
Refer to
Wikipedia says, Sonia Gandhi has $18.66 billion in Swiss Bank account
and
Jihad has come to India - By
Richared L
Benkin - americanthinker.com
and
Stop Vilification Campaign Against Hindus
and
Islam’s Indian slave trade - Islam’s genocidal slavery
- islammonitor.org
and
Northeast terror not Delhi's priority: WikiLeaks
and
In Pakistan, Christianity Earns a Death Sentence - time.com.
Refer to
Kashmir Hindus: Forsaken, forgotten for 21 years
- By Lalit Koul and
Ethnic Cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits: The
Nastiest Fascia Of Islamic Terrorism -
By Dipin Damodharan
Refer to
Mumbai: The Grapes of Wrath of Western Complacency - jihadwatch.org
and
Islam: Religion of
Peace and
Islam: Arab Imperialism - By Anwar
Sheikh and
Mumbai Case Offers Rare Picture of Ties Between
Pakistan’s Intelligence Service, Militants
- propublica.org and
Mumbai-style terror attack foiled
in Denmark
and
'Church backing Tripura rebels' and
Islam: Religion of
Peace
and
Jihadwatch
and
History of Kashmir and
Breaking India: Western Inventions and Dalit Faultlines -
By Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan
and Watch video
Unseen footage of 26/11 attack
***
Uncle Sam would love this nephew
"Rather
than a gradual sapping of influence, the US's military misadventures and
technological and economic decline could see its "empire" fall as quickly and
spectacularly as the Soviet Union, Great Britain or the Ottomans. To avert this,
the Pentagon plans a deadly canopy of space drones by 2020 that will have lethal
reach from stratosphere to exosphere."
-
Alfred W
McCoy in
Taking down America.
Contrary to media reports and popular perception, the ‘secret’ cable despatched
from the US Embassy in New Delhi on August 3, 2009 was not only about Mr Rahul
Gandhi’s views on Hindu terror. A close reading of the cable, marked for the
State Department and signed by US Ambassador to India
Timothy J Roemer, would show that it was a report on efforts by the
American mission aimed at “reaching out to Rahul Gandhi and other young
parliamentarians”. The cable’s summary says: “In a review of the career and
potential of Rahul Gandhi, 40-year-old heir apparent
to the leadership of India’s ruling Congress party, the US Ambassador reports
conversations with the young politician, speaking appreciatively of recent
statements and potential for the future.” The key words, lest you miss them, are
“reaching out”, “career and potential”, “heir apparent”,
“appreciatively” and “future”. The man who represents
American interests in India was keen on establishing ‘contact’ with
the second most important person in the current, US-friendly dispensation in New
Delhi; and it’s a hurrah! note to headquarters from him after having established
that contact. As Mr Roemer highlights in his cable, “(Rahul) Gandhi… could
become a key interlocutor… as we pursue a
strategic dialogue with India.” Diplomats know who matters how much in which
regime and which ‘key interlocutor’ can help push their country’s agenda. In
this case, the agenda of the US, as it would like to see implemented in its
newly discovered outpost in South Asia.
Mr Roemer asked Mr Gandhi about the “Lashkar-e-Tayyeba’s
activities in the region and immediate threat to India”. It would be
in order to mention here that another US Embassy cable that the LeT’s threat to
India is real, has not diminished since 26/11 and the Pakistan-based group is
planning high profile strikes, including a plot to assassinate Mr Narendra Modi.
It
would be absurd to believe that the American Ambassador was unaware of
hostilities between the Congress Dynasty and
the Congress Destroyer in Gujarat. Be that as it may, Mr Gandhi’s response
provides a glimpse into the intellectual abilities of
the Prince who would be King one day.
“(Rahul) Gandhi said there was evidence of some support for the group among
certain elements in India’s indigenous Muslim community. However, Gandhi warned,
the bigger threat may be the growth of radicalised Hindu groups, which create
religious tensions and political confrontations with the Muslim community… The
risk of a ‘home-grown’ extremist front, reacting to terror attacks coming from
Pakistan or from Islamist groups in India, was a growing concern and one that
demanded constant attention.”
It’s natural that there should be some amount of concern in
Washington, DC about policy after the Regent vacates the
masnad of Delhi for the Prince. If there’s one thing the American
establishment is mindful of, it is that continuity is of the essence to promote
and push national interest in foreign lands; regime
change can have disastrous consequences.
What is of greater import is the ease with which the proverbial ‘Quiet American’
can co-opt those who desire to rule India through “a thoughtful, politically
sensitive and strategic approach”. Somewhere out there,
Mrs Indira Gandhi’s soul would be most distressed following the
disclosure of this particular cable, but then, when alive she carried the
“baggage of older Congress candidates” as her grandson disparagingly describes
those who have served the party (and presumably the country) for decades.
(source:
Uncle Sam would love this nephew - By Kanchan Gupta - dailypioneer.com).
Refer to
American Empire on the verge of collapse? -
By Mahendra Joshi - indiacause.com
Rahul Gandhi: A Brain of a Ten
year old child?
Punjab Local Government and Industries Minister Manoranjan Kalia
here today appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to refrain Congress General
Secretary Rahul Gandhi from meeting foreign dignitaries so as to save the
country from embarrassment.
Reacting
to WikiLeaks quoting Mr Gandhi as having told US Ambassador to India Timothy
Roemer that the growth of ''radicalised Hindu groups'' could be a bigger threat
to India, Mr Kalia said, ''Mr Gandhi is a 40-year-old youth leader with a
brain of ten-year-old child.''
It is
pertinent to mention here that the US Ambassador's query was in relation to
Lashkar-e-Toiba's activities in the region and immediate threat to India, he
said. Mr Kalia said Mr Gandhi instead of reacting to the query of the US
Ambassador oozed out ''filth'' with the pre-conceived mind against the RSS,
which is purely a nationalistic and cultural organisation which inculcates
spirit of patriotism in the youth.''Mr Gandhi's attempt to malign Mr Narendra
Modi, who is an icon of development in India and whose achievements have been
recognised by various reports of the Central Government, was most condemnable.
(source:
Mr. Rahul Gandhi a 40 year old youth leader).
Rahul on terrorism - bizarre
but scary
You cannot
be a political columnist in India today and ignore the man who could be our
prime minister tomorrow if he wants. But, for those of us obliged to pay careful
attention to Rahul Gandhi’s political career, one big problem is that he seems
never to have any views on anything. He spends long nights in remote villages
but returns with no insights on improving rural living conditions. He befriends
farmers’ widows in Vidarbha but has no views on what can be done to stop
farmers’ suicides. He tells the adivasis in Niyamgiri that he will be their
‘sipahi’ in Delhi but does not tell us if by this he means he would like them to
continue being primitive, marginal communities. He tells us that he thinks that
SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) is just as bad as the RSS but does not
explain why. So it makes it that much more curious that he should have made his
first serious policy statement to the American ambassador.
He
was lunching in the American Embassy, we hear from WikiLeaks, and when the
subject of India’s security concerns came up, he said that he believed
‘radicalised Hindu groups’ were more of a threat to India than the
Lashkar-e-Toiba. As someone who has always laughed indulgentlyat Rahul’s rural
field trips and other foibles, my first reaction was to laugh. And, then I
stopped myself. Rahul’s comment is too serious to laugh at. Not when we know of
the Lashkar-e-Toiba’s role as the organiser of 26/11.
Perhaps, nobody told Rahul Gandhi about the
origins of the Lashkar and the reasons why it is such a powerful terrorist
organisation. Perhaps, nobody told him that it was created by the Pakistani Army
and that its founder, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, was seen last week in the company of
high officials at some event in Islamabad. Can Rahul name one Hindu radical
group that has the backing of the Indian Army? Can he name one Hindu radical
group that has the protection of the Indian state? So, for the man who could be
our future prime minister, to believe that radical Hindu groups are more of a
threat than the Lashkar-e-Toiba
is not just bizarre, but very scary.
There are those who dismissed Rahul’s comments as
stupidity but to do this is to absolve him
of responsibility for what he said. Besides, there seems to be more to what
Rahul Gandhi told the American ambassador if you keep in mind what another
Congress general secretary, Digvijay Singh.
Is it because Rahul is so unnerved
about reducing (despite his best efforts) the Congress Party’s seats in the
Bihar legislature to four that he is
listening to old type advisors? The kind who believe the only way for the
Congress to revive itself in northern India is by exploiting those ancient
divisions of caste and creed?
If this is so, Rahul Gandhi’s future looks very bleak. If there is a lesson he
can learn from Bihar it is that even in our poorest, most backward state, it is
no longer possible to fool voters (either Hindu or Muslim) into being misled by
false divisions of caste and creed.
If at the highest levels of the Congress Party
there are people who believe that the Lashkar-e-Toiba is less dangerous for
India than homegrown Hindu radical groups, then Pakistan has won not just on the
terrorist front but on the propaganda front as well. Let’s stop sending
Islamabad those dossiers and lists of jihadi terrorists. They are meaningless
now. Meanwhile, let the Congress Party try persuading the people of India that
Hindu terrorists are the biggest threat to national security and see how many
seats they win in the next election.
(source:
Rahul on terrorism - By Tavleen Singh
- indianexpress.com).
Refer to
Kashmir Hindus: Forsaken, forgotten for 21 years
- By Lalit Koul and
Ethnic Cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits: The
Nastiest Fascia Of Islamic Terrorism -
By Dipin Damodharan
Diverting
attention from Islamic Terrorism?
Distorting our
fight against jihadi terrorism
Congress (I) and some agenda
journalists to exploit the confession of the Swami to divert attention from the
serious threat of jihadi terrorism that we still face and to whitewash the
horrendous crimes of the jihadi terrorists, including the July 2006 explosions
in some suburban trains of Mumbai and even the 26/11 terrorist strikes.
(source:
Agenda Journalism - By B Raman). Watch
Video - Democracy in Crisis –
Congress : A story of suppression & subjugation
Hindu/Saffron Terror - A Misnomer?
Israel protests
comparison of RSS with Nazis
Israel
has taken grave exception to
Congress leader Digvijay Singh's
comparison of
RSS
with the Nazis.
Responding to questions, an Israel embassy spokesperson said, "Without entering
the political debate, no comparison can be made with the
Nazi
Holocaust in which six million Jews were massacred solely because they were
Jewish."
Singh courted controversy on Sunday by training guns on the RSS yet again. He
was echoing Rahul Gandhi's comments to the US ambassador which was made
available by Wikileaks.
(source:
Israel protests comparison of RSS with Nazis
-
timesofindia.com).
Hindu terrorism phrase coined by vested interests
Congress leader Digvijay Singh
Hindu or saffron terrorism was a 'figment of
imagination' and a phrase coined by vested interests who were working
against the nation, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) said
'The whole idea of saffron terrorism is a figment of imagination which has been
phrased to indulge in votebank politics.
These type of accusations are made by vested interests and it is not done in the
interests of the nation. There is unjustified propaganda against Hindu
organisations by vested and so-called secular interests,' Chowgule said.
He added that the media and 'so-called' secular
intellectuals were silent spectators to the nefarious efforts of
'anti-national elements who were carrying out a sustained campaign to paint
Hindu organisations and saints as terrorists'.
(source:
Hindu terrorism phrase coined by vested interests - sify.com).
Refer to
The Myth of a New Asian Century: Why it is Western not Asian -
By Janaka Goonetilleke - vijayvaani.com
Corruption in
India
Tycoons with friends in high places. Public tenders conducted by irregular
rules. Tens of billions of dollars in potential losses for the national
treasury. Allegations of government ministers on the take, and of a respected
prime minister too aloof to notice.
The scandal also has revealed an incestuous world of journalists, corporate
lobbyists and politicians and has reinforced the perception of an Indian economy
dominated by a small, tightly connected elite.
(source:
Telecom Scandal Plunges India Into Political Crisis - nytimes.com).
Refer to
The Unbearably Sickening Indian Pseudo-secular
Press - By Atanu Dey - deeshaa.org and
Barkhagate - Radia
Tapes & The Indian Media
EVM
flaw-finders not welcome in India?
Two researchers - Alex Halderman and Rop Gonggrijp - who had carried out a study
demonstrating the flaws in India’s electronic voting machines (EVMs), were
denied entry into the country, despite holding valid visas, when they arrived at
New Delhi. Alex Halderman, a professor of computer science at the University of
Michigan, and Rop Gonggrijp, a Dutch activist and technical expert, had
co-authored a study — Security Analysis of India’s Voting Machines — with
Hyderabad-based researcher Hari Prasad in July this year, demonstrating two
different ways of “manipulating” the EVMs.
Comments by Rajeev Srinivasan: "The ruling Congress Party is looking for new
ways to conduct vote-rigging to keep themselves in power. After having failed in
their bid to rule through The Emergency the last time, they know that they have
to come up with a cleverer and more refined approach this time. Any activists,
ideologues or intellectuals who try to rock the boat, or rock the vote, by
exposing corruption in ruling institutions will silenced through the growing
police state of the Congress. What would Gandhi say about all this?"
(source:
EVM
flaw-finders not welcome in India?-
zeenews).
***
Nataraja Statue
Worth $1 Million Seized
A
600-year-old statue of
Lord Nataraja, estimated to
be worth around US$1 million in the international market, was seized by the
police in south district from two persons who were allegedly trying to sell it.
The accused were arrested near Vikas Sadan in Kotla Mubarakpur on Sunday.
“We have seized the antique statue of Lord Nataraja and a car in which the
accused were moving around, hoping to find a customer,” said DCP Dhaliwal.
Police said the 19-inches long murti weighs 34 lbs and is made of
“ashtadhatu” (eight metals). Experts at
Archaeological Survey of India have valued it at approximately US$1 million.
(source:
Nataraja Statue Worth $1 Million Seized - hinduismtoday.com).
Refer to
Sonia's Shady family - indianrealist.com
and
Dr. Subramaniam Swamy on Sonia's family
smugglilng - youtube.com
Sonia Raj and Corruption Raj and
National Plunder
A fish rots from the head
down
The Hindu India’s situation is best explained by an ancient proverb,
“A fish rots from the head
down.” When the head is putrid, the body politic
cannot be healthy. And when those at the helm remain wedded to grand
corruption..
With
corruption, nepotism and cronyism now endemic, Indian politics has become the
safe, fast track to wealth. India freed itself from British colonialism only to
come in the grip of an indigenous political class ruling the country on
colonial-style principles and still functioning from colonial-era structures. It
may take a second war of independence for India to gain true freedom from
exploitation and pillage.
Indian politics has become the safe, fast track to wealth.
Make no mistake: The spiriting away of billions of dollars to international
financial safe havens constitutes more than criminal wrongdoing. When economic
contracts are signed or policy decisions taken so as to net handsome kickbacks,
it constitutes a flagrant assault on the national interest.
India ranks among the top countries whose stolen
national wealth is stashed away in Swiss bank accounts. Yet no Indian
politician has ever been convicted and hanged for waging such war on the state.
The cancer of corruption in India has alarmingly spread to elements within the
two institutions that are central to the country’s future - the judiciary and
the armed forces. Recent revelations have highlighted the deep corporate
penetration of the major political parties and the manner big business
influences policymaking and media coverage.
The rot in the media -
the nation’s supposed watchdog - stands
exposed. In fact, even the integrity of the national
Padma Shree awards has been badly vitiated.
(source:
Perils of becoming a republic of scandals
– By Brahma Chellaney).
Refer to
Sonia's Shady family - indianrealist.com
and
Dr. Subramaniam Swamy on Sonia's family
smugglilng - youtube.com
No archaeological evidence to prove western invasion in the subcontinent:
Experts
NEW DELHI:
Having set the tone for a discussion on the roots of Indian civilization, the
seminar, “How deep are the roots of Indian civilization? An archaeological and
historical perspective”, brought up some pertinent questions related to the
subcontinent's past on Friday.
Day two of the
seminar organised by Draupadi Trust in
collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, the Indian
Council for Cultural Relations and the
Archaeological Survey of India was marked by inputs from renowned
archaeologists and scholars.
In
the first session,
Omilos Meleton Cultural Institute
(Greece) director Prof. N. Kazanas spoke
about the “Collapse of the Aryan invasion theory”
based on linguistic evidence in the Rigveda
supporting the indigenous nature of Indian civilization
and genetic evidence that there was “no influx of new genes after 10000 B. C. in
India”.
Prof. Kazanas'
presentation was followed by Case Western Reserve University Anthropology
professor Jim G. Shaffer, who spoke about the “Harappan diaspora”, explaining
how the increase in population density of Haryana and eastern Punjab and
decrease in population in Cholistan in the late Harappan period suggest a
“displacement from Harappan civilization towards the east”.
He also said there was no archaeological evidence to prove western invasion in
the subcontinent.
Vedic scholar Dr. Bhagwan Singh spoke about
“Rigvedic Harappans: Their roots and legacy”, calling it “incorrect…to hold
Aryan-speaking branch to be the sole author of Indus-Sarasvati civilization”.
According to him, there were three major cultural strains- Aryan, Dravidian and
Mandari -- that cannot be classified into any one familial scheme.
Shah Abdul
Latif University (Pakistan) Vice-Chancellor Nilofar Shaikh presented recent
evidence found by the excavation of Lakahn-Jo- Daro site in Pakistan. The
architectural evidence at the site suggests a strong linkage to the “mature
Indus” civilization, in addition to some unique features like “I- shaped
bricks”.
Ms. Shaikh's
presentation was followed by Maharaja Sayajirao
University of Baroda's professor of Archaeology V.H. Sonawane's paper
on “The Harappan scenario in Gujarat”; Department of Archaeology and Museums
(Raipur) advisor Dr. A.K. Sharma's paper on “The Harappan Horse - A study in
comparative occurrence during Harappan & post Harappan times” and ASI (Nagpur)'s
Dr. Nadini Sahu's presentation on “Excavations at the Early Harappan site of
Bhirrana”.
The last
session included presentations by ASI secretary general K.N. Dikshit on “The
decline and legacy of Harappan civilization” and ASI joint director-general Dr.
B.R. Mani titled “From Janas to Janapadas”. The day concluded with BHU professor
Purushottam Singh who raised some important questions at the end of his
presentation on “Early archaeology in the Gangetic Plains”.
Prof. Singh
pointed out that the Ganga Valley civilization had no evidence of religion
except burial grounds found in some places. He also questioned the absence of a
“label” like the Aryans or Harappans for the people of this civilization, who
had contributed significantly to the history of the subcontinent.
(source:
No archaeological evidence to prove western
invasion in the subcontinent: Experts - hindu.com).
Refer to
Aryan Invasion Theory - By P D Joseph
Foreign
Correspondents abuse Indian hospitality
There is
there is no right of religious conversion in Indian law
The
Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) is
located next to the Supreme Court and cheek by jowl with the houses of some of
the Capital's top mandarins. The building belongs to the Central Government
and has almost certainly been rented out to the FCC at the ridiculously low rate
that the President of India is pleased to charge from his most privileged and
affluent citizens. In other words, the hapless Indian
tax payer heavily subsidises a coterie of foreign scribes, whose
purported mandate is to report objectively on this country's affairs for their
global readers, but who do precisely the opposite.
On the few occasions when I have visited the FCC in the last few
years, I have always found the experience interesting. Invariably,
the members of the international rat pack stunned me with their devastating
ignorance of this country, its history and its people - worse was their
mind-set and disposition.
If the
condescension and prejudices of the goras of
the FCC are bad, the fawning servitude and
more-royal-than-the king zeal of the Indian correspondents of overseas
publications are worse. Now, this is understandable and one should not be too
harsh on the factotums - after all, with the greenback at more than 42 to the
humble rupee, they have to shout from the rooftops when the big white chiefs
are within hearing distance.
The visit to the
FCC a few days back was even more illuminating. The occasion was a
question-and-answer session with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, in the aftermath of
the Gujarat incidents. If ever there was proof of an innate desire to rush to
judgement, one found it in abundance on that wintry afternoon.
Leading the charge was an Anglo-German duo. The Brit looked a caricature of
the Raj figure dressing down recalcitrant natives,
while the latter appeared to have come straight out of the Prussian swamps, with
only the monocle missing.
The
refrain of the sahibs was simple - why
were the Hindoos misbehaving
with the Christians and not being their usual meek selves?
Refer to chapter
on
Conversion and
European
Imperialism. Refer to
Multiculturalism has failed in United Kingdom
- By Sandhya Jain.
Refer to
Video: The fraud, the myth, the unsaintly Mother Teresa –
By Christopher Hitchens
All explanation on the part of the VHP team was brushed aside with the casual
air of the master of the manor dealing with uppity peasants in the estate. The
arrogance of the white pen-pushers and mikewallahs (more on them later) is
astonishing.
If violence on
Christians continued, asked mein herr, would it not be proper for Germans
to stop contributing to Church charity funds
that are earmarked for work in India? If this mind-boggling impertinence
was not enough, we also had a couple of strident females (one of them a Canadian
who strings for a British daily) who harangued the guests and refused to allow
them to complete their answers. Bringing up the rear was a pimply and vacuous Anglo-Saxon
who pronounced that the entire response of the VHP team was woolly as far as
the
conversion
issue was concerned, since Religious Freedom was a fundamental right under the
Indian Constitution.
This was after it
had been explained to him that (a) there is no right of
conversion in Indian law, (b) the freedom to
propagate one's religion, guaranteed in the Constitution, does not
extend to converting a person of another faith, and (c) the
Supreme Court had said so in a judgement 12 years ago, with all five judges on
the Bench concurring with the verdict.
The behaviour of the international electronic media is equally dismal.
The cacophony of criticism of India and so-called
Hindu fundamentalism in the foreign channels has risen to a crescendo, with the
BBC and STAR leading the storm troopers. The Indian acolytes of the
foreign masters of these two channels have outdone their mentors and
pay-masters.
In
the midst of this self-flagellation by the country's elite and the calculated
disinformation campaign by the European-North American media, there is a
welcome breath of fresh air.
French correspondent
François Gautier wrote an incisive and hard-hitting piece in one
of our contemporaries, exposing the hideous facade
behind the postures adopted by the English-language Press in the
country (which is trying to outdo the former colonial masters) and the
dishonest role of the foreign Press. Gautier should know - the Third Republic in
France in the 1930s saw the same phenomenon of the enemy within and outside
(across the Rhine). Merci, my friend.
But you are a loner
in the FCC and our country's elite would rather listen to drivel from the rat
packs than your perceptive thoughts.
(source:
A Little Nostalgia: Foreign Fourth Estate and
India -
By Jay
Bhattacharjee - vijayvaani.org and
Foreign
Correspondents abuse Indian hospitality, host
Mirwaiz’
- By Sandhya Jain - vijayavaani.org).
Watch
this
moving Video
America's native prisoners of war -
By Aaron Huey - ted.com
Hinduism has
some valuable lessons for our divisive world
Arvind Khetia, an engineer and a Hindu: The Hindu view of life is
influenced by the spiritual vision of the Upanishads
and the Bhagavad-Gita. The sages of the
Upanishads meditated on the nature of reality and realized that at a deeper
spiritual level of consciousness, there is a divine presence within all beings
and in all of existence. Thus, they recognized the underlying unity and
consequently eliminated the distinction between life and religion, the secular
and spiritual, and work and worship. Also, they saw the
spiritual unity between all faiths as infinite reality (Brahman) that can be
worshipped by different names.
The Gita explains that a unified vision of life is attained when
"one perceives the equality everywhere and beholds
oneself in all beings and all beings in oneself." Therefore, the
secret of social harmony and the true meaning of religion, according to the Gita,
are in "consistently performing the right social action
(dharma), and practicing inward contemplation to manifest one's divine nature
-Atman."
Thus, the Hindu vision of life aims at integrating human personality and
character to see harmony through unity in diversity and achieving fulfillment by
doing one's given duty (dharma). Paul Veliyathil, in Newsweek magazine, has
observed that,
"Hinduism ... does not proselytize or
polarize, dominate or conquer, but it just encourages its members to follow
their dharma or duty. Hinduism has some valuable lessons for our divisive
world."
(source:
Hinduism has some valuable lessons for our
divisive world - vivekjyotiblogspot.com).
Angelina Jolie
and Brad opt for traditional Hindu wedding
Until earlier it was Julia Roberts
who was making news for embracing Hinduism, but now we hear that the most
popular couple of Hollywood, Brad and Angelina have strengthened their so called
relationship with the help of yoga that they are all set to go for a Hindu
wedding.
This yoga-practicing couple has decided to welcome the New Year with the new
beginning of marriage. It’s reported that the couple’s marriage will be
performed by Guru Ram Lalji Siyag of Bikaner from Rajasthan, India.
Hearing the news, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed released in a statement in Nevada
for US Today, how he was pleased with Jolie and Pitt willing to exchange
marriage vows by embracing Hinduism.
Angelina, Brad practice yoga everyday
After having found
harmony and peace by practicing yoga everyday, Brad and Angelina are supposedly
happy that yoga has transformed their relationship in every sphere and are keen
to have a traditional Hindu wedding.
The couple has been practicing Siddha yoga through the help of Indian spiritual
guru Ram Lalji, and has now cut down on their alcohol consumption and has also
stopped fighting.
(source:
Angelina Jolie and Brad opt for traditional Hindu wedding
Did You Know
Art show
inspired by Rig-Veda opens in Berlin
Titled 'Soma'
after the Soma (ambrosial drink of the gods) of
ancient Hindu scripture
Rig-Veda, Carsten Höller's art exhibition has opened in
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
fur Gegenwart in Berlin (Germany) and will continue till February six next.
The artist was said to be inspired by a verse from Rig-Veda, which reads: "We
have drunk of the soma; we have become immortal, we have seen the light; we have
found the Gods."
This complex and elaborate installation reportedly features 12 reindeer, eight
mice, two flies and 24 canaries and offers an overnight stay in a bed perched on
a mushroom-shaped platform and suspended above animals in the middle of the
laboratory set-up at 1,000 Euros, giving guests the opportunity to spend the
night in the museum and to dive into the world of soma. Almost all of the
available nights have reportedly been sold.
Lauding Höller for Hinduism exploration, eminent Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a
statement in Nevada (USA) today, urged academicians and intellectuals of the
world to unlock the treasures hidden in ancient Hindu texts.
(source:
Art show inspired by Rig-Veda opens in Berlin - newkerala.com).
