Direct and quite often brutal onslaughts on Hinduism or Indian identity had given place, in history, to an indirect and subtle, often diplomatic pursuit of denigration. It is constant as it is aimed at eventual death of a civilisation. As suggested by Justice V R Krishna Iyer, this change took place during the colonial days.
The fact that missionaries have had only the last compartment during the train journey of West to India was a move to hide conversion interests to avoid public gaze.
Yet the last compartment was overcrowded. What the missionaries did in India and abroad to deplore India’s age-old vision and to establish their ‘superior’ religion ‘the only path to Godhead’, is part of the history.
The main target of western religious enthusiasts were Hindu leaders who identified nationalism with native culture, that is Hindu Dharma.
To divide the people was the strategy. But for Gandhiji, there would have emerged a separate nation for scheduled class!
A picture of the concerted attack on Hinduism, and all it stands for, is dramatised in Swami Vivekananda’s experience in his attempt to re-awaken India.
On many occasions, a sanyasi like him with all his will-power, had to seek the help of friends to prove his authenticity, to support him. He wrote to his disciple, “Essential that I get the total support of Hindu society for my work. If this is possible we would perform many a work. You should pull down all treacherous fellows. Children, our success is assured.”
The present challenge is definitely more grave. The armada of westerners got strengthened by a second array of gunners possessed by Islamic interest. This camp is enriched beyond measure with the contribution of ‘progressive’ elements who brought a third fashionable ‘holy book’ — The Communist Manifesto.
They are glad to come in line with anti-Indian stance. Therefore, the present challenge to solidarity of our nation – to Hindu Dharmic vision is all the more wide-spread and multi-faceted, yet acting hideously and in a comparatively subtle way. It explodes occasionally only through Islamic extremists as we have seen at Godhra, Marad etc.
An agent provocateur creating scenes within Hindu sacred precincts calling out a slogan which means ‘Islam the only way’ and dashing towards a Hindu saint, such an incident is the latest demonstration of the anti-Hindu agenda aiming dissolution of unity. Being a true mother, it goes without saying, Mata Amritanandamayi does not favour any confrontation ‘as all are her own children’.
Earlier, Vivekananda directly faced the confrontation, gave fitting reply, and won the affection of his countrymen. He could command ‘Enough of that’. Although the Mother may not call for help from her children, it seems she knows that god will convince them the need of the hour. Let every devotee, that is every Indian, understand Mother’s will and declare that each of them stands behind the Mother, as here is the only positive way to preserve freedom of the nation and prove our identity and unity. It has become their duty to bring to book any criminal anti-social element.
Nay, not for the sake of any religion, not to oppose any religion, but to retain human approach that all religions proclaim in one way or the other. The act of interrupting a peaceful assembly of all Hindu sects seeking unity under the feet of an all-loving mother where every person seeks benediction is a shame to humanity and the perpetrators behind such outrageous act are to be dealt with in the interest of national stability. Peace is bliss, is spiritual. It is sensitive too and no violence against it could be tolerated. Reluctance to act on grounds of political interest will prove detrimental to the very concept of ‘Nation’. – The New Indian Express, 19 September 2012
» P. Narayana Kurup is a renowned Malayalam poet.
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BHARATA BHARATI 
LUNATIC THEOLOGY BECOMING RABID PATHOLOGY by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, The New Indian Express, Kochi, 13th September 2012
The New Indian Express has disclosed alarming news by a well-known commentator S Gurumurthy on Wednesday. What is well-known is that there is a sublime lady Mata Amritanandamayi whose Ashram is near Kollam, lovely and near the backwaters. I had visited the Ashram only once, met Mathaji only once and found a peaceful lady. Very simple and her whole life seems committed to serve society through hospitals, educational colleges and other allied institutions of repute.
Of course, she has such institutions in Kerala which has essentially Hindu ethos but I have not seen a trace of communalism in the hospitals or the medical staff or the nurses who are a militant lot who had recently won a strike for dignity and decent emoluments.
The article raises issues against the government and its police establishment. Certain disturbing questions raised in the article are matters of public importance.
I wonder whether the government is sensitive enough to investigate the points raised and whether any policy decisions have been reached to assure secularism, public peace and elimination of lunatic hostility by Islamic values. If it has, it should be given due publicity because more than Mathaji and the rising trend of infiltration of Islam into public institutions, we must have the preamble to the Constitution and its values like integrity, fraternity, liberty, equality, justice, social and economic as fundamental in the governance of the country.
If the government neglects its duty, chaos, terrorism and corruption can abound and after a time their behavioural barbarities may become beyond khaki control. This is not a matter of concern of Mathaji’s institutions alone but breed foul on the sentiments of Hindus and in turn, of communal rabid trends.
Dear Chief Minister, I regard you as a statesman beyond narrow fanaticism and crass superstition. Dear Prime Minister, I regard you too to be a secular statesman who came to Kerala and made a brief speech on Emerging Kerala.
It is time that the Central and State Governments alert themselves on subversive movement not merely in a Naxal or Maoist violence but also subversive movement propagating communal sentiments.
No temple, no mosque, no church while free to function can be allowed to be agencies of terrorism. A stitch in time saves nine.
Now Dear Chief Minister and Prime Minister, take up a national investigation at the state and the central level and discover what is latent in these bedlam movements.
Have a commission if necessary. What is in time today may be too late tomorrow. Will the media of national stature and vernacular publicity heed my appeal to ensure the culture of secularism? Today diversity of theology has made solidarity, humanity and divinity values on their way out and lunatic theology becoming rabid pathology.
Hasten, arise, awake and stop not till socialism, secularism and democracy become impregnable forces in our polity. Satnam is not alone and is not dead nor is Bismillah eclipsed. Both are dangerously waiting for a fresh opportunity to display barbarity.
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