Violation of Hindu HR - Need for a Hindu nation - II

V SUNDARAM

I am in full agreement with Sita Ram Goel (1921-2003), a great 'Intellectual Kshatriya,' when he says that Hindu society is the only significant society in the world today which presents a continuity of cultural existence, consciousness and functioning for countless centuries. Most of the other societies known to human history - East and West, North and South - have suffered a sudden extinction or interruption or undergone a traumatic transformation due to the invasion and victory of some latter day monotheistic ideologies like Christianity, Islam and Communism. The pre-Christian, pre-Islamic and pre-Communist cultural creations and artifacts of these societies are now to be seen or met with only in libraries and museums, thanks to the unremitting labours of archaeologists and antiquarian scholars. Hindu culture can meet the same frightful fate if there is going to be no Hindu society to sustain it. This is the point which is not always remembered even by those who take pride in Hindu culture.

There are many Hindus who cherish the great spiritual heritage of Hinduism and also the scriptures like the Bhagawad Gita and the Upanishads in which this glorious tradition lies enshrined. But they do not cherish with an equal conviction, much less enthusiasm, the Hindu society which has honoured and preserved these traditions and scriptures against the onslaughts of external invaders and alien influences down the ages. Again, there are many Hindu who proclaim with great confidence that Sanatana Dharma or Hinduism can never die. In this context the sharp words of Sita Ram Goel are very relevant: 'This is true in a sense. There will always be individuals in 'Non-Hindu Societies' who will recover the mystique of Sanatana Dharma through their efforts at self-discovery. But 'Sanatana Dharma' will surely suffer an eclipse and no more inform mankind at large with its message, if there is no Hindu society to sustain it.'

There are many Hindu who are legitimately proud of Hindu art, architecture, sculpture, music, painting, dance, drama, literature, linguistics, lexicography and so on. But all of them fail to notice the fact that this great wealth of artistic, literary and scientific heritage will die if the Hindu society which created it is no more there to preserve, protect and perpetuate it.

The sudden death of Hindu society is thus no longer a theoretical possibility or eventuality which is either remote or improbable. This great society is now besieged by the same dark and deadly forces which have overwhelmed and obliterated many ancient societies in World History. Suffering from a loss of its 'élan,' Hindu society has become a house divided within itself. Its beneficiaries seem to be impotent in taking necessary steps for ensuring its survival because they themselves have fallen victims to hostile propaganda emanating from the anti-Hindu forces of Islam, Christianity, Nehruvian Secularism, menacing Marxism, and above all Hindu-baiting Macaulayism. Presiding over all these forces with a determined agenda for destroying all things Hindu, we have the Hindu-embracing, Christianity-coveting and Hindu-hating UPA government in New Delhi under the triangular stranglehold of Roman Catholicism, Pan-Islamism and Communism and wedded to the ideology of 'pseudo-secularism' which is just another convenient political word for Anti-Hinduism.

Hindu society which has survived the onslaught of Islamic marauders and Western freebooters for centuries should indeed be regarded as one of the great wonders of world history. In the normal course, Hindus should have come into their own after 1947 and created a new era of social and cultural renaissance in free Hindu. Thanks to the politically motivated policy of Nehruvian Secularism, Hindus have become third class citizens in our own country. They are no longer the honoured citizens of our land. Like leprosy in British India, a permanent stigma seems to have stuck to the terms 'Hindu' and 'Hinduism' in today's India. They have become terms of abuse in the mouth of that very 'elite' which the dumb Hindu millions have raised to the pinnacle of power and prestige with their own blood, toil, sweat and tears.

I cannot help coming to the conclusion that the Hindu and British invasions of India, though defeated and dispersed, have yet managed to 'crystallize' certain 'residues,' psychological and intellectual, which a battered Hindu society is finding it very difficult to digest. It is now well-known that these 'residues' in the monopoly control of the Congress party are now in active collusion with powerful international forces of Christianity, Islam and Marxism and which are being aided and abetted by the government of India on a scale which an impoverished Hindu Society can never hope to match. Although at loggerheads among themselves till 2004, these residues have forged a 'United Front' which is holding Hindu Society under a Pseudo-Secular siege today. This grave mortal danger is as much promoted 'from within' as 'from without.'

It is against this background it has become necessary for all the Hindus of India, whether living in India or abroad, to become firmly resolved in their collective will to declare to the world: 'We Hindus are a nation.' In 1946 when the Muslim League's demand for partition of India and creation of a separate State of Pakistan were being seriously debated, someone asked M A Jinnah: 'You keep talking of Pakistan. Could you explain what is your concept of this Pakistan? What do you really mean by it?' Jinnah replied: 'Of course. In just five words.' Then Jinnah uttered those five famous words: 'We Muslims are a nation' and he went on to elaborate his thesis of unbridgeable cultural difference between Muslims and Hindus, their incompatibility and the impossibility of co-existence of the Muslims with the Hindus, and so on.

An outstanding intellectual and brilliant scholar who paid a heavy price for his unimpeachable integrity in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) to which he belonged, Abhas Chatterjee, wrote a seminal book 'THE CONCEPT OF Hindu NATION' in 1995, a few years before his death.

According to Abhas Chatterjee, our misconception regarding Hindu Nation, Hindutva and Hindu Rashtra has arisen from the fact that we have not tried to comprehend the definition of a Nation. We normally take a nation to stand for a country, a land mass, a specific portion of the globe. But a nation never means a land as such. A nation indicates a group or community of people which has been traditionally living in a particular land, which has its own distinctive culture, and which has an identity separate from other peoples of the world by virtue of the distinctiveness of its culture. The cultural distinctiveness of a nation may be based on its race, or religion, or language, or a combination of some or all of these factors, but all-in-all there has to be a distinct culture which will mark out that nation from peoples belonging to other lands. In the light of this analysis, Abhas Chatterjee, concludes that: 'Once we start looking at things from this point of view, we immediately see not only that we Hindus are a 'Nation unto ourselves, but also we are the oldest surviving NATION on earth.'

We Hindus are not just a religious community like the Hindus and the Christians, but a NATION unto ourselves. The term 'Hindus' is the name of our nationality. We Hindus are a Nation. This is a basic, simple and indisputable truth. Unfortunately, even this simple cardinal truth, most of the Hindus - more particularly the educated Hindus - are unable to appreciate in letter and spirit and this fatal failure lies at the root of all our misconceptions and miseries.

No one can dispute that the traditional homeland of Hindus is the Bharatavarsha. It is a distinct geographical entity. When I say Bharatavarasha in the sense of the Motherland of the Hindus, I do not refer to the boundaries of the truncated India created by Jinnah, and Nehru in 1947, but to those of our traditional homeland which extends continuously from Gandhara to Kamrup and from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. This basically has been the concept of Hindu Nationhood or what we call Hindutva or Hindu Rashtra from times immemorial.

We remained subjugated for more than 1000 years when foreign rulers ruled over our country. By barbaric persecution or economic inducements, they compelled certain segments of our nation to abandon their ancestral culture and adopt the culture of those foreign invaders. These segments of our population forgot that the culture they had adopted was a foreign culture, a culture that belonged to another nation and had been forced on them.

Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) wrote in Bande Mataram on 7 October, 1907: 'This great and ancient Nation was once the fountain of human light, the apex of civilisation, the exemplar of courage and humanity, the perfection of good government and settled society, the mother of all religions, the teacher of all wisdom and philosophy. It has suffered much at the hands of inferior civilisations and more savage peoples; it has gone down into the shadow of night and tasted often of the bitterness of death. Its pride has been trampled into the dust and its glory has departed.'

But subjugation cannot by itself destroy the nationhood of a nation. Nor can the nature of the nation, the basic characteristics and disposition of the nation, get altered or changed by the fact of enslavement. Nations do not get destroyed. We Hindus are a nation just as the Germans are a nation, the Armenians are a nation, the Kurds are a nation, the Jews are a nation. Germany was divided into two after the II World War. But this did not abate their nationhood. Within 50 years, they achieved reunification of their motherland and the nation has been restored to its original character and complexion. Alas!! Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and their political slaves have destroyed the identity of India as an Ancient Hindu Nation. They have created the lifeless and spiritless carcass of an Anti-Hindu Pseudo-Secular Nation.

(To be contd...)

(The writer is a retired IAS officer)

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State violation of Hindu rights in India-I

V SUNDARAM

On 11 September, 2007, I presented a paper titled ‘Gross Violation of Hindu Human Rights in India’ at a Seminar organized by the Patriots Forum in New Delhi. At that Seminar I had the good fortune of having a detailed discussion with Shri B P Singhal, IPS (Retd), former Director General of Police, UP and former Member of the Rajya Sabha. He gave me a copy of a brilliant monograph written by him under the title 'MINORITIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: PROBLEMS & POLICY OPTIONS'.

Shri Singhal had written the above monograph for being presented at a proposed Workshop at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi, in the backdrop of the raging national level controversy caused by the anti-national directive of the Justice Sachar Commission on Minorities, demanding from the Chiefs of Army, Navy and the Air Force, a complete head count of the number of Muslims employed in their respective Forces. The Chief of the Army Staff, showing great patriotism and character, declined to oblige the Commission. When the Army Chief's principled refusal became public, the entire media and opinion makers of the country went up in arms in support of the tough stand taken by the Army Chief. The public opinion veered round the view that the Sachar Commission had embarked upon a very dangerous and divisive exercise that could infect the country's Defence Forces with the communal virus, being openly sponsored and supported by the UPA Government (Sonia Congress and its allies) in New Delhi. It was during the period of this controversy that ‘The Indian Institute of Public Administration’ (IIPA), perhaps as a damage control exercise, proposed to organize a workshop on the subject of 'Minorities and Social Justice: Problems & Policy Options', in March, 2006.

Without assigning any reasons, the Sachar Commission hurriedly back tracked in the same way in which the Government of India back tracked in the Ram Setu case in the Supreme Court on September 14, 2007, and soon the controversy relating to the head count of the number of Muslims in the Armed Forces of India died down. Along with the Sachar Commission, the IIPA also apparently lost its interest in the whole affair and shelved the idea of holding the planned workshop.

Shri B P Singhal's brilliant monograph deals with the problem of Muslim Minorities against the insidious backdrop of the Sachar Commission exercise promoted by the Government of India as a plank of its petty 'minority vote bank politics'. He has focussed on facts/problems relating to the Muslim community alone under the following heads: i) Minorities; ii) Social Justice; iii) Problems; and iv) Policy Options. I have never seen a more categorical and convincing presentation of the problems relating to the Muslim Community in India. Anyone can see that Shri Singhal's penetrating analysis leading to sensible and balanced policy options stems from his own rich and varied experience in the Indian Police Service and later as a Member of the Rajya Sabha.

Anyone can clearly deduce and derive from the presentation of Shri B P Singhal that there has been a State-sponsored gross violation of human rights of Hindus in India after Independence. What are Human Rights? 'Human Rights' mean 'the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.’ The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, 'All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.'

Hindu Human Rights must commonly include the following Cluster of Rights:

* Security rights that prohibit crimes such as murder/’enforced’ involuntary suicide, massacre, torture and rape

* Liberty rights that protect freedoms in areas such as belief and religion, association, assembling and movement

* Political rights that protect the liberty to participate in politics by expressing themselves, protesting, participating in a republic

* Due process rights that protect against abuses of the legal system such as imprisonment without trial, secret trials and excessive punishments

* Equality rights that guarantee equal citizenship, equality before the law and nondiscrimination

* Welfare rights (also known as economic rights) that require the provision of, eg, education, paid holidays, and protections against severe poverty and starvation

* Group rights

B.P. Singhal I.P.S (Reld)

& Ex MP

We can see from B.P. Singhal's monograph that there is an organized denial of Hindu Security Rights by the Government and the State. Liberty Rights are being abridged by the anti-Hindu Government on the one hand and denied by the pseudo-secular (in effect anti-Hindu) political parties on the other. Political Rights are being denied by the Government, State and all the political parties acting under the ideological umbrella of ‘Perverted Secularism’. Due process rights are being denied by the Judiciary at all levels, acting as self-proclaiming cultural and legal spokesmen for upholding only ‘Minority Rights’. Equality rights are being denied by the Government, the State and the Judiciary, diabolically acting together in concert, apart from all the political parties directly involved in a collective conspiracy against the Hindus of India. Welfare rights and Group rights of only the minorities - The Muslims and the Christians - are the concern of the Government and the State. Those of Hindus are irrelevant, anti-national and anti-social - in short, 'Communal'. Thus the Vicious Circle of Denial of Hindu Human Rights is comprehensive, universal, total and all-pervasive. All these rights are being denied to the Hindus who are in absolute numerical majority in India.

B P Singhal argues that ever since the 9th century AD, when the Muslim invaders expanded their domination over Indian territory and till the advent of the British the MUSLIMS WERE THE RULERS OF THIS COUNTRY. After 1857, the British decided to divide the two major communities and swung their policies in favour of the Muslims. This was done by bringing in the Urdu language in which business was transacted by them in Police Stations, and Courts in addition to English. Against this background Singhal has asked the most pertinent question: “Could, a Community that ruled India for over 900 years and belonged to a privileged class even during British Raj, become socially handicapped?” He says that the answer has to be a categorical 'NO'.

As a proof of his thesis, he has given some historical excerpts in Annexure 'A' to his book. Even a cursory reading of these excerpts gives us an insight into the then Muslim psyche and the bonhomie that existed between the Muslims and the British. I am giving below a few excerpts to illustrate this point:

Our critics regarded the Indian National Congress as Hindu Congress and the opposition papers described it as such. We are straining every nerve to secure the cooperation of our Mohammedan fellow countrymen in this great national work. We sometimes paid the fares of the Mohammedan delegates and offered them other facilities. (Surendranath Bannerjee: A Nation in Making 1857-1905, 1925 p. 108).

Another attraction that was offered to Muslims was the rule that no resolution affecting a particular community, even if they were in a minority, could be passed if that community objected to it. In this way a Resolution urging the prohibition of cow slaughter suggested by a Hindu landlord of Bengal was disallowed at a Congress Session held in Madras in 1887.(Khalid Bin Sayeed: Pakistan-The Formative Phase 1857-1948, OUP, Karachi).

In any event be assured, Gentlemen, that I highly value these remarks of sympathy and approbation which you have been pleased to express in this regard to the general administration of the country. Descended as you are from those who formerly occupied such a commanding position in India, you are exceptionally able to understand the responsibility attaching to those who rule. (Lord Dufferin, the Viceroy of India replying to a farewell address from Mohammedan National Association of Calcutta in 1888).

32 years later, Mahatma Gandhi, whom I call 'The Maulana of Muslim Appeasement', declared most irresponsibly and shamelessly at the time of Khilafat agitation in 1920-21: “I will gladly ask for the postponement of Swaraj Activity, if thereby we would advance the interests of Khilafat. We Hindus should befriend all Muslims and hold them fast as prisoners of our love. It would be a pleasant possibility, if Hindus in their lakhs offered themselves cut to pieces without retaliation or anger in their heart.” (Quoted by M M Kothari in his 'Critique of Gandhi', Critique Publications, Jodhpur p148).

(To be contd...)

(The writer is a retired IAS officer)

Sandhya Jain in Daily Pioneer:

Hindu dharma humiliated

Tulsidas's seminal rendition of the Ram story makes no mention of the Lakshman rekha in the episode dealing with Sita's abduction. The line surfaces only later, in distant Lanka, when Ravan's wife, Mandodri, advises him to give up his obstinacy and refrain from fighting the illustrious Raghus. She points out that Lakshman had drawn a protective line around Sita in the forest, which Ravan couldn't even cross! Sita could be abducted only after she was tricked into breaching it; the Lakshman rekha has since become the ethical standard of Hindu self-restraint, discipline, and sense of limit.

This moral dimension was shaken when a Union Government-approved affidavit claimed before the Supreme Court that there is no 'historic' or 'scientific' evidence of the existence of the maryada purushottam. This contemptuous attitude towards Hindu civilisation's greatest moral exemplar has caused shock all over the Hindu universe, from Jammu & Kashmir to Kanyakumari, to Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, Myanmar, Kampuchea, Indonesia, Bali, Malaysia, Nepal, Java, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand; regions whose national culture has been shaped by the benign presence of Lord Ram.

Originally a dispute over a sand and coral formation uniting the Indian mainland with its island neighbour, Ram Setu has catapulted into a bridge of India's Hindu identity and nationhood, straddling centuries of collective sloth and amnesia. The Tamil Kings of Jaffna (13th to 16th centuries AD) once called themselves "Sethu Kavalar", protectors of Rameshwaram and the surrounding seas; south India principally reveres Lord Ram as Kodanda-Rama, deity with the bow.

The military career of this armed god, born to defeat the forces of darkness and tyranny and uphold dharma, was a saga of successive triumphs. He was invincible before the Rakshas and Asurs who were inimical to Vedic dharma. Even prior to the first century BC, Lord Krishna identified Lord Ram as the highest example of a warrior (Bhagavad Gita, X 31).

Significantly, of the multifarious roles of this divinity - ideal son, ideal brother, ideal husband, ideal human being - post-independence India has most valued the ideal king! This is precisely what is sought to be demeaned by the Archaeological Survey of India's audacious affidavit, duly vetted by the Union Law Ministry, declaring Lord Ram a non-historic figure. For Lord Ram was a king deeply concerned with his subjects' judgement of his way of living, and anxious to measure up to their expectations of him.

The backlash over the Ram Setu affidavit may yet teach modern India's foreign-born and native-secular rulers that in the Hindu civilisational ethos, rajdharma (duty of the king) means embracing and upholding the dharma of the people. There are no exemptions; Ashok's decision to make Buddhism the state religion and propagate it through state-appointed missionaries is perceived as an undesirable aberration. The quest for Ram rajya is the search for an ideal realm where people are happy, prosperous, well-behaved and contented; poverty and social ills are rare. India is thus the only country in the world where a ruler may not impose his dharma upon the people (convert them); he must honour the dharma of the people.

Even if Lord Ram was a figment of the collective Hindu imagination, he cast an enduring spell over subsequent epochs. The Harivamsa, a second-third century AD work on Lord Krishna, lauds Lord Ram's rule as the most righteous age on earth. The Vayu Puran, dated not later than fifth century AD, says Lord Ram had a long reign and in his kingdom the chants of the Rig, Yajur, and Sam Ved were heard ceaselessly and people gave and ate to their hearts content. Kalidas, himself a Shaiva, honed his poetic skills glorifying the Iksvakus and Lord Ram. The Gurjar-Pratihars who worsted the Arabs in the ninth century AD, trace their genealogy to Lakshman, brother of Lord Ram, as revealed by the Gwalior Prasasti of Mihir Bhoj, seventh king of the dynasty. Tukaram extolled Shivaji's reign as Ram rajya in which ruler and subjects were all equal and there was all-round welfare.

Interestingly, the first tsunami of 2004 came soon after the arrest of the Kanchi Shankaracharya on specious grounds of conspiracy to murder. The second warning, when the ocean literally growled and tremors measured eight on the Richter scale, came within hours of the Centre declaring there was no historic evidence of Lord Ram and the Setu was a mere sandbank.

Retreat was equally swift. With mid-term election looming threateningly on the horizon, the official dogma reinvented itself: Certainly there is Lord Ram. Till recently a mythological hero, the god metamorphosed into "an integral part of Hindu faith" whose existence can never be doubted. In the three months reprieve sought to 'study' the feasibility of the canal, there may finally be a Ram Setu as well. Popular belief (astha) is nothing; but popular vote surely counts!

The tsunami warning is not a secular matter of environmental degradation. For Hindus, also at stake is our panch-tatva (debt) to the panch-tatva that make the universe: Earth, water, fire, air, ether, and all creatures within. Contrary to the Western world-view, man alone is not the measure of all things, and we have no right to desecrate nature. The Gulf of Mannar is an indivisible water body which impacts the coasts of India and Sri Lanka. Any dredging here can trigger the fault-lines and the heat-flow zone, causing incalculable damage to the coast and aquatic resources. Yet, tsunami effects and tsunami protection measures were not included in the Sethusamundram Shipping Channel Project report, though this affects coastline security. Hopefully, this lacuna will be addressed in the three month review period.

At stake is a rich and endangered marine life and the sensitive ecosystem in the Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar, including Dugong sea turtles, dolphins and sea horses that thrive in the coral reefs. Under UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Programme, the Gulf of Mannar environs were notified as a Marine Biosphere Reserve by the Government of India. The 10,500 sq km area, with 21 islands with continuous stretches of coral reef, is home to over 3,600 rare species of flora and fauna. Five coastal districts depend upon this marine resource.

The ASI affidavit was a shameful attempt to humiliate Hindu dharma by belittling a defining feature of Hindu tradition. Unsurprisingly, this flagrant violation of the Lakshman rekha roused the languorous Hindu elephant to protest. Let it now trumpet the regime's fall.

RAMA SETU AND RAMA'S HISTORICITY

by

Dr. N.S. Rajaram and Shree Vinekar, M.D.

In its now withdrawn affidavit the Indian Government has claimed that Rama Setu is a naturally formed coral reef and not a man-made structure. Further, it was also claimed that Rama was not a historical figure though it is unclear what Rama's historicity has to do with the proposed project of cutting a channel through the Rama Setu. The latter pronouncement is both uninformed and gratuitous that smacks of an ulterior political motive.

The experts who helped the Government in preparing the affidavit have been hasty in both their 'conclusions' of Rama Setu being entirely natural and Rama's dubious historicity. More than just questioning these conclusions we must recognize the ulterior political implications of such pronouncements and their impact on the morale of the majority of the Indian citizenry. In a 'secular' country like India it has become a fashion to be Hindu bashing intellectuals who would like to present the Hindus as irrational and ignorant rascals while the other sections receive protections for their irrationalities, disregard for uniform Civil Code, and imposing mythologies with undaunted trampling on the sacred monuments of Bharat and its sacred land.

A coral reef can grow around a long submerged man-made structure just as an anthill or even a geologic structure like a mound can form over an old man-made structure due to the action of elements. Sea levels thousands of years ago were much lower than they are today. What is now a submerged in the shallow waters like the Palk Strait could have been above water or only partially under water in ancient times.

As a result, very detailed marine archaeological work has to be done to determine whether or not Rama Setu has any man-made structures. Neither the Archaeological Survey of India nor any other organization has done any such work. All we have are satellite photos and some geophysical studies. These are inconclusive and subject to varying interpretations. Without undertaking an expensive underwater archeological exploration and survey conclusions regarding absence of man-made structure in the Rama Setu are premature to say the least.

It is a similar story with Rama's historicity: without thorough historical research one cannot say that no such person existed simply because there are no physical remains like bones or access to DNA evidence. By applying the same distorted logic we should be able to say that Moses, Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammed also never existed and are indeed mythological figures. Making conclusive statements like that referring to Moses, Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammed by the Government of India will not only be considered foolish and foolhardy but will cause enormous uproar. It is clear that the Government of India is not afraid to engage in blatant Hindu bashing under the defense of 'Secularism,' and like the self-proclaimed atheist E. V. Ramasamy Peryar, is cowardly in not confronting the Christians and Muslims regarding their sacred myths but is 'gloriously' impulsive in attacking the sacred among the Hindus. When working on my book Search for the Historical Krishna, I (NSR) found that archaeology is of limited use in dealing with such ancient figures. I (NSR) found it necessary to correlate data from a wide range of sources including literature, ancient ecology, archaeo-astronomy, and others. Prehistoric figures in all cultures present major challenge to historians in arriving at any concrete evidence or proof for their existence or the veracity of the mythological stories attached to them.

We must in all humility recognize that a great deal of work needs to be done before we can even begin to answer these questions.


Fortunately I (NSR) was able to build on a century of previous research going back to Bankimchandra Chatterji and his Sri Krishna Charitra. No comparable research has been done on the Historical Rama. This being the situation, we should refrain from accepting hasty statements made by the Government of India and the Indian Supreme Court like what we have been seeing in the past few days. These are not 'gospel' truths besides being statements that are highly offensive to the Hindu majority of India. The psychological and culturally held truths have the same force as the geophysical and historically researched truths for all sections of the populations. Basic respect for these sentimental values held dear by a large section of the Indian population needs to be evident in the Government of India and its affiliated judiciary. It is not even quite clear whether the government elected by the people, for the people and its appointed judiciary have constitutional rights to make such offensive pronouncements based on insufficient or absent evidence and have jurisdiction over such matters. If Indian Government pledges to be neutral in the matter of religion and religious beliefs and to adopt an atheistic socialism or communism as its political philosophy, it needs to be equitable in not permitting proselytization, allocating crores of rupees to a small section of the citizenry to undertake religious pilgrimage, and in permissiveness of building their places of worship or planting their religious symbols over the land and monuments that are considered sacred by the Hindus.

Above all we need to remember: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Ranakpur and Dilwara temple pictures, wonders of this world

Both these temples are true wonders of the world that should make every Indian proud that their ancestors made these great pieces of art.

1. Ranakpur temples: Rana Kumbha (ruler of Mewar) ka Prime Minister Sanghvi Dharnashah Porwal had a dream of Nalini Gulmohar viman in which he saw trilokhi deepak viman ke aakar ka temples. The foundation for this temple was laid in Vikram Samvat (VS) 1433, A.D.1490 and completed in VS 1496, A.D. 1553. It cost Rs 15 crs then. Temple area is 90,000 sq feet, has 350 icons, 1,444 pillars and 24 Mandaps. Of these 20 mandaps are small and 4 are big called Megh Mandaps in four directions ie north, south, east & west.
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2. Dilwara Temples: The first of the two imposing temples were built in the year 1031 a.d. by Vimal Vasahi commander in chief of Bhurinder Solankhi, ruler of Gujarat. It was built at a cost of Rs 185.3 million and is dedicated to Adhinath the first Tirthankara. 1500 masons & 1200 laborers worked on this temple for 14 years.
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Hindu organizations heading for Crisis:

Remedies and Survival mechanism

The Pathology of transition: In India, the traditional religious institutions and organizations have been functioning mainly as temples, maths / mutts, Chatrams / choultries, Gurukulas-schools-colleges. Later the concept of endowment has embraced such institutions and organizations. The endowments have been public and private. Though during monarchy, Kings used to have control over temples and mutts, still they were independent and absolute. The Mohammedan iconoclasm, heinous destruction and continuous interference have affected their nature adversely leading to different consequences. Before rejuvenated to get re-established, the European forces turning to ruling class impinged on them politically and controlling brutally. Thus, the endowments were started to be brought under the control of the British Governance with an eye for revenue. However, even after independence, the Indian rulers in spite of their trumpeting of non-interference with religious affairs and secular principles thereafter, their prowling upon endowment properties directly or indirectly have been going on unabated. Now, the Hindu religious institutions and organizations have been facing crisis for survival in spite of movable and immovable properties. Therefore, the governance and management come under scrutiny.

Categorization of Hindu religious Institutions and Organizations: At present, the Hindu organizations come under the following categories:

1. Traditional / orthodox mutts: These are the well-established and recognized religious institutions mainly interested in the theological, spiritual and then mundane affairs of the believers. They have been in existence for more than 2000 years tracing back to their founding Acharyas. May or may not be opened to other groups.

2. Mutts established on theological variance: They are also of the above category, but either they have been break-away group or tried to establish their own identity by way of expounding new, changed or modified theological variance, liturgical differences and ritualized procedure. Different Saiva-Vaishnava and other Hindu faiths come under the category.

3. Mutts / associations established on caste affiliation: These have been the phenomenon of 18^th-19^th centuries, because of the ruling British attempt to identify the Hindu-believing groups on the basis of caste. Starting with 1909 Census, now, such division of Hindu-society into many castes, sub-castes etc., could be noted. They have dual role of religious and political entities jointly or severally depending upon the exigency.

4. Mutts / associations / societies established with political affiliation: The mutts reduced to associations and then societies because of the modern compulsions of officially authorized status acceptable to Government Act and Rules. As they become more and more commercial-type governing body, with holding lands and properties etc., very often, they are at the mercy of changing Governmental policies. Thus for survival, they slowly depend upon political affiliation.

5. Religio-political organizations: A religious organization or institution having open or explicit political affiliation, support and relationship.

6. Socio-political organizations with religious affiliation: The social, political or socio-political organizations slowly concerting into or having affiliation with the religious institutions. Though, they are not exactly the opposite of the above, many times they may pose as secular organizations with hidden religious agenda.

The examples for 3 to 6 categories are not mentioned, as they could be understood in the present context.

From Endowment Act to Company's Act: The Hindu Religious and Endowment Act has been the starting point of Government controlling Hindu religious institutions and organizations. The Articles 25 to 28 of the Indian Constitution dealing with "Rights to Freedom of Religion" have bearing on the Hindu religious Institutions, establishments and organizations in governance and management. Therefore, the owners, managers, trustees and others have to understand and act accordingly.

Now, the trend is to start Companies under Section 25 of the Company's Act in the name of God. Even Christians have such Companies in the name of Hindu Gods of course duly with Hindu share! So whether Hindus sell their God or not like Christians or Muslims, they have to learn the process. When the question of legality comes, even God has to be proved for existence, as if the Judge does not know! Whether one judge sits or three sit or nine sit, they know very well that they are human-beings, but still, they have the audacity of challenging the existence of God and so on! So God-protectors, as managers have to defend their God legally. Unfortunately, in India, there is no MRTP Act for Christians and Muslims, however, they always exploit the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act! Poor Hindus do not know either!

Amendments of the Constitution makes Hindus vulnerable: In spite of secular nature of Indian Constitution, the 42^nd Amendment has made India "capitalist and communal" instead of proclaimed "socialist and secular". Thus, the above institutions started diluting their principles aligning with one or the other political party for getting Governmental sanctions etc., in day to day management of their affairs. After the 44^th Amendment Act, 1978, which has omitted Art. 31 (2) and inserted Cl. (1A) in Art. 30, a religious denomination has no fundamental right to compensation, if it belongs to majority community - Hindu, but such right is guaranteed to it as a fundamental right, if it belongs to an educational institution established and administered by a minority - Muslim or Christian religious denomination (Art., 30 and 31). It has given a death-blow to Indian institutions. Whenever, any Hindu educational property is taken over by any pretext, no compensation needs to be given.

Taxation has been discriminative against Hindus: According to Art. 27, "no person shall be compelled to pay taxes, the proceeds of which are specifically appropriated in payment of expenses for the promotion of or maintenance of any particular religion or religious denomination", but we know what has been going on in India (to be read with Art. 265). Though, the majority of tax payers have been Hindus, the revenue collected has been spent for promotion or maintenance Christian and Muslim religions and denominations. The present Central Excise Act, Service Tax Act, Sales Tax Act and other Acts have been blatantly anti-Hindus, as they have been targeted against the traditional Indian system, services and institutions. In fact, by no stretch of imagination, they could be brought under such Acts and Rules. But, the Indian political rulers, who have been aiding and abetting the foreign forces, have been taxing Hindus unnecessarily. And where the tax collection is going? To help the majority tax-payers – Hindus? No. This is just like Jaziya. Therefore, here, tactful Hindu CAs / ICWAIs / Cs should work for the benefit of the Hindu organizations.

Educational institutions are discriminated: Again Art.28 proclaims that, "no religious instruction shall be provided in any educational institution wholly maintained out of State funds. However, nothing shall apply to an educational institution which is administered by the State but has been established under any endowment or trust which requires that religious instruction shall be imparted in such institution". It is well known that the endowments made to temples with Gurukulas / Vidhyapeeths / Mutts are meant for the religious instruction, but in such schools and colleges run by them, Hindu religion is derided and denigrated. In spite of the Supreme Court judgements, they do not impart such instruction.

\ What is prohibited is religious, not moral education disassociated from ay denominational doctrines (Nampudripad vs State of Madras, AIR 1954 Mad.335).

\ It has also been clarified that the academic study of teaching and philosophy of any great saint of India (e.g, Guru Nanak or Mahabir and its impact on the Indian and world civilizations cannot be considered as `religious' institution [DAV College vs State of Punjab (II), AIR 1971 SC 1737 (paras. 24-26), Suresh vs UOI, AIR 1975 Delhi 168 (para.11)].

But to prove the secular credentials of Hindu institutions, they have to praise Allah and Jesus Christ! We know the way Sri Ramakrishna Mission went!

Hindus are discriminated by cultural factors also: The Art. 29 has been very significant in the present context as it asserts that, "any section of the citizens residing in the territory of India or any part thereof having a distinct language, script or culture of its own shall have right to conserve the same. No citizen shall be denied admission into any educational institution maintained by the State or receiving aid out of State funds on grounds only of religion, race, caste, language or any of them". But, whether all people get such rights or their rights protected? When one particular language is assaulted, denigrated and blasphemed by the very rulers of present democratic India, who take oath under the Constitution and occupy power, how is that everybody keeps quite? How the minority institutions employ only their religious members and virtually ban Hindus? The tactics now followed is that either the existing Hindu member is retired or resigned by force or harassment, so that his / her post is occupied by a non-Hindu, thus, the Government funded institution totally becoming Muslim or Christian! However, the Sankara University at Kalady has a Muslim Vice-chancellor! Can a Hindu become VC of AMU or at least any minority institution?

Minorityism working against Majorityism: The Art. 30 has still been worst in implementation in India. It declares that, "All minorities, whether based on religion or language, shall have right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice" adding that, "The State shall no, in granting aid to educational institutions, discriminate against any educational institution on the ground that it is under the management of a minority, whether based on religion or language". Whether, such principle is followed in the States of Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala and north-eastern States? How and why Sanskrit is treated differently?

Politicians can threaten Hindu Institutions easily: These are the provisions of the secular Constitution which have been used against the Hindu institutions and organizations and thus the Religious leaders, Mutt heads and others are compelled to compromise with the political rulers. When Government donated land where Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated to the Rajiv Gandhi Memorial, the land owner, the Sri Perumpudur temple represented by the Jeer filed a case in the Madras High Court for usurpation, as the Government had no right to do so. Legally, he would have own the case, but he was evidently threatened, so he withdrew the case filed and generously donated the temple land to the Rajiv Gandhi memorial! This is how the Hindu religious institutions are handled and controlled by the secular government. Now, there has been a suggestion by the Communists that the temple lands should be donated to the people! Why they cannot suggest that Mosque and Church properties also could be donated?

Traditional way of management of Institutions and Organizations do not help: The management of Hindu religious institutions and organizations has been to escape from the Governmental clutches of controls, which are obviously meant for controlling, containing and closing them instead of preserving and promoting. So the managers have to be legally sound, besides their religiosity and belief in God. Perhaps, they have to be archaeologists, numismatists, epigraphists, historians and scholars of all sorts to defend his belief, institution and organization. The moment a Hindu religious institution or organization is registered as a society, trust or association, it is reduced to a legal entity and thus it can easily be attacked by the ruling politicians and others. That is how in Tamilnadu, the "Dravidian rulers", in spite of their proven anti-Hindu atheism could always control and enjoy temple properties. They talk ill of everything that is Hindu, but without any shame, such spineless creatures consume the produce and profits by way of lease, rental and sale of God-properties.

The so-called Hindu-denominations siding with them and opposing Vedas and Agamas too coolly forget what Tirumular said but follow what Aurangazeb did and EVR said! So again, here, we have to tell them or make them remember. "Sivan sottu kulam nasam" = The misappropriation of property of Siva would doom to destruction of one's clan – yeah, but who cares, when one has decided already that there is no Shiva! Tirumular categorically declared what would happen in a land where even a brick of compound wall of temple is disturbed:

N The consecrated Lingam should not be disturbed at any cost. If disturbed, the government would fall and disappear. The Ruler dies and he would get great disease before death (Tirumanthiram.515).

N The builders of temples should take care that even a single brick of the compound wall is not disturbed. If a brick falls, the Ruler will ruin, the Vedic seers will also ruin (516).

N If the established Pujas are not performed, in time or otherwise, or stopped totally, the rains will stop. Many diseases would appear and epidemics spread. The Rulers would loose their power. They may loose their manliness to get defeated (517).

N If the Pujas are stopped intentionally, not only the Rulers ruin with failure of rains, but defrauding and looting increase (518).

N Fearing such consequences, if anybody appoints "Parppar" for namesake and the Pujas are performed, battles and wars occur; incurable diseases appear, there would droughts and scarcity (519).

Here, Tirumular is quoted because, he is considered as a pucca / Pachai "Dravidian", a Brahmin / Parppar-baiter and so on. But the real intention of Tirumular has been profound and he comes out with much disgust perhaps during the period what was happening in his land. Here, we have to appreciate on the contrary how such situation should not repeat or recur by proper management. So if we believe that Shiva would take care of and so on, it would not happen. It is not the period of "Triuvilaiyadal" we are living, but under the Rulers of "opposite qualities". Therefore, the defenders have to deal with the problem accordingly.

Modern management principles have to be applied for good governance of Hindu Institutions and organizations: It is right time that the Hindu religious institutions and organizations are managed by young and energetic experts with background of modern management techniques, accounting and financial proficiency, and above all legal expertise. Now even God has to be proven in the Court of law and that too exempting other Gods. There have been Gods, who declare that there is no God other than him above or below the earth etc. So that God knows that there is another God, because, if he is the only God, how he / she can think about another one? Anyway, as the God's property has to be managed, the God has to be protected legally! An Idol is a legal entity and it can have property. So the Idols have to be protected. Remember, how the Markandeya embraced Linga, when Yama came to take away his life. But now, we have to embrace the modern techniques strongly and hold tight to fight the modern Yamas coming in Fords and BMWs.

Multi-Billion Institutions mismanaged, misappropriated and defrauded by the Secular and anti-Hindu mafia: The management and governance of Hindu religious institutions is not a joke, but a task involving in INR 120,000 crores affair in India. According to Kishor Kunal, Religious Trust Administrator, the estimated loss of temple properties in Bihar has been worth of Rs. 2000 crore per annum, then what would be the income? Take the Tamilnadu figures:

The Religious Institutions have been classified into two categories viz., Non – Listed and Listed Institutions on the basis of their annual income as below:

Sl.No	Classification	Number of Institutions
I.	Non-Listed Institutions Institutions with an annual income of less than Rs.10,000/-	34,420
II.	Listed Institutions : (i) with annual income of more than Rs.10,000/- but less than Rs.2.00 lakhs (ii) with annual income of more than Rs.2.00 lakhs but less than Rs. 10.00 lakhs. (iii) with annual income of the more than Rs. 10.00 lakhs.	3,398 438 153
	Total	38,409

The figures are mind-boggling coming to INR 5000 crores per annum, even if we take one lakh for each institution. Then for India it could be INR 120,000 crores per annum approximately (here I have a feeling that I may be wrong, as I do not have exact figures, but the figures would be more only).

Hindu-experts, therefore should come out immediately, for managing and governing the institutions. The politicians, the political-appointees, Dharmakartas etc., cannot do any justice to the temples, mutts and other Hindu institutions. What would happen if the pimps are given governance of ladies hostel etc? (I am sorry to give such similes, but the point has to be driven out). There is no meaning in blaming DK-DMK-PMK and other anti-Hindu elements of Tamilnadu, Communists of Kerala and West Bengal or Yadav-Mulayams of Bihar and Orissa. Even if Hindus come, they have to be watched for good governance. Therefore, slowly, Hindus should act moving towards such target.

Narrowing down the Differences: The mentioning of the above six categories clearly prove as to how the Hindu religious institutions and organizations have been affected by the theology, liturgy, denomination, caste and politics. So experts have to narrow down the differences and reduce the categorization. Here, the egoism, egotism, pride etc., have to be set aside for the common cause. When modern law makes them to come within a specified ambit, they may have to be come within a domain to be controlled efficiently and managed effectively. Infighting, backbiting, power struggle etc., would only weaken the organization. As a family has to be run at any cost, an organization has to be managed successfully for the benefit of the Hindu society.

Crisis management: Now reality of the situation has to be realized, instead of talking philosophy or karma. God cannot take care of when things which are to be tackled by ourselves.

1. Avoid bickering, loose talk, criticism etc.
2. Keep quite instead of backbiting, telling-tales, gossiping.
3. Follow the rules, instead of breaking and making new rules.
4. Obey the rules, instead of opposing. Do not be rabble-rouser and rebel creating nuisance.
5. Narrow down the differences.
6. Come together at meeting points.
7. Strengthen the consensus.
8. Identify the enemies, as they have already completed the above processes and readied for attack.
9. Call a spade a spade.
10. Fight all sorts of terrorism – verbal, ideological, propagandist, psychological etc.

Survival mechanism: That Hindus have survived all onslaughts does not mean that they are now at comfortable position. Whatever is identified as strength, the Hindu-baiters to Hindu-traitors have tried to tarnish and propagate mischievously. This has to be tackled under changed situation. The strength of the enemy has to be assessed and understood instead of boasting of our endurance or proverbial silence of indifference. When grass-root attack has already been launched, there is no meaning in vain argument, apologetic excise and superficial defense. We should carefully analyze and check that the pathos does not change to carcinogenic. As it has to be tipped in the bud, such poisonous elements have to be subjected to detoxification. For continued existence no doubt endurance is required, but offensive posture is also required, if not for actual assault. Survival of the fittest has to be established, as rightful persons, we have to be the rightest with just.

VEDAPRAKASH

18-09-2007.