National News Service (Kolkata): Anthropologists from all over the world have called a meeting to give a name to a new species. The Hindus. They walk upright, they have a vertebrae and yet they are spineless. This has baffled all the Anthologists they are homo erectus yet the total lack of spine to stand up to anything.
The arrest of the Kanchi Sankaracharya, the manner it was carried out and the subsequent treatment shows the sorry plight of the Hindus. When politicians corrupt to the boot are arrested they are treated divinely. When Laloo Jadav a new definition of corruption is arrested he is firstly not lodged in Jail and only was sent to a real prison with the prodding of the Supreme Court. Where the entire Jail Administration went out of the way to make his stay comfortable.
Papu Yadav a common criminal is sent to prison he has the audacity with the complicity of the Jail staff to hold a party.
The Jharkand leader Shibu Soren is arrested on murder charges is sent to prison is kept in a college compound with all amenities.
When Laloo Yadav arrested L. K. Advani for one his Politico/Tourist Yatras he was kept in utmost comfort in a tourist lodge.
Yet when the Sankaracharya is unceremoniously arrested in the middle of the night and sent to prison and denied all privileges like special food etc. the Hindus are mute in their reaction. More than the person it is what the Sankaracharya represents to the Hindus that matter.
Would the Italian police arrest any cardinal, would the Jewish or as a matter of fact any state authorities arrest a Head Rabbi, the Americans had to shy away from arresting Muqtada Al Sadr despite all the violence he caused. There have been many murmurs of financial frauds in the Vatican with Bankers mysteriously disappearing and then found dead, but has any Vatican official been arrested no. The Catholic Church has been accused of child molestation in the USA, and senior church officials accused of cover ups but no senior church leader has been arrested. The Imam of the Jama Masjid, in Delhi has preached anti nationalist feelings and incited violence but the authorities have never dared to arrest him.
The reason for all this is very simple. The authorities are fearful of the backlash from the public. The parishioners of all the other religions know how to stand up and fight back. The Hindus are so corrupt that they are busy praying to Ganesh and Lakshmi so that they can retain there ill gotten wealth that they do not have time to stand up to their religion.
All the religions have their armed factions the Jesuits and Knight Templars of the past for the Christians, every Jew is a potential war criminal with their behavior in Palestine, the Muslims have the Mujaheedin. What do the Hindus have the RSS. A bunch of middle aged pot belied buffoons playing with their sticks, busy playing little political games and running around in Khaki shorts more designed for ventilation than anything else. They are more worried about petty economic policies than protecting or projecting the Hindu religion.
The Christians now days have an army to back them up, George Bush and his poodle Tony Blair all invoke their Christian gods to justify their illegal acts by their armies. Every Jew is armed with an Uzi sub machine guns and the settlers do not hesitate to kill Palestinians like flies in the name of their Religion. No good holy warrior of the Muslims would be seen without an AK47/57. What do the Hindus have a bunch of middle aged buffoons running around with sticks.
The VHP and its offshoots generate a lot of hot air for the wrong causes and symbols, but due to the laws of thermodynamics the cool air around them cools their hot air. Singhal and Praveen Togadia had potential to do some thing good but their efforts are misguided and hampered by the Hindu apathy.
It is no use to mention the BJP is lost in the wilderness and has succumbed to the politics of mondal and begging to the Muslim community which has shunned them. Toady to them the only Hindu gods are Ganesh and Lakshmi.
Now let us look at the persons who arrested the Sankaracharya. Jayalalitha a person who is accused of all sorts of frauds, financial irregularity, and whose morality is questionable. Kurananidhi and his sons, accused of bleeding Tamil Nadu through scams a classical case of the worshippers of Ganesh and Lakshmi. The same person who was so upset because he was arrested in the middle of the night on corruption charges, applauds the way the Sankaracharya was arrested. The leftists the murders of members of a Religious sect and unable to arrest any one for it, and the Congress party led by an Italian and a Sardarji, and pagan worshippers of a family.
The Hindus can still fight back, not by violence but buy going back to their roots. The Hindu religion held sway over much of Asia not through Conquistadors or Inquisitors, they did not need Mujaheedins. Their philosophy was enough.
Let the Hindus set up Gurukuls where they would impart modern education to the children and at the same time let them know that the Hindu religion is more than worshipping Ganesh and Lakshmi. If Madrassa education can be recognized so can these.
The Christians go to church at least once a week and listen to their priest . Encourage the Hindus to go the temple at least once a week and imbue them with the teachings and philosophy of the Hindu religion. The Hindus go to the temple now days not to pray for prayers sake but to ask for favors.
Hindu festivals have been turned into crass commercial events.
The world loves Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and their likes they allowed and preached to their followers to forgive the crimes that had been committed against their people. They are eulogized, but people like Nasser, Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat are reviled because they had the guts to stand up and cry foul.
Violence is the last resort but if you are under attack you have to fight back, this is what is preached by the Christians, the Jews, the Muslims and even the Sinhalese monks. It is time for the Hindus to awaken they are under attack defend yourself, but before that purify yourself and you will be defended.
