THE SPIRITUAL HINDU, THE GULLIBLE HINDU AND THE DELIBERATE HINDU BENT UPON INDUCING HINDU GULLIBILITY
When you feel a spontaneous sense of oneness with all, at that moment you are spiritual. The task is to perpetuate that sense of oneness.
However, here there is a pitfall that you must avoid. It arises from a lack of conceptual clarity and this is what prompts shallow thinkers to venture into improper quotations from the utterances of Thakur-Ma-Swamiji to establish their fantastic notions about inclusive Hinduism. I will explain.
The sense of oneness spoken of here is entirely a spiritual experience that has no bearing with superficial shows of social togetherness or apparent harmony attempted in the form of Hindus in Kolkata keeping the midnight vigil on Christmas Eve at St. Peter's Cathedral or joining fellow Muslims in the Iftar Party on a Friday dusk in the month of Ramzan. These surface exhibitions of affected oneness cannot undo the damaging differences that intolerant scriptural tenets continue to drive through societies, fragmenting them in a manner no cross-cultural Christmas cake consumption or Iftar Party celebration can undo. These are differences inbuilt into these proselytising Semitic religious systems that are politically motivated with the desire for global domination over all by a single ideology. If liberals are so bent upon dissolving differences, let them go to the root of the problem that lies at the very foundation of these pernicious proselytising cults. Let them in real earnest study these dogmatic scriptures in totality and not cherry-picked sections to arrive at their own conclusions. How 21st century so-called liberal people, preaching superficial and assumed enlightenment and harmony to us who exhort people to delve deep into Semitic theological sources, can themselves not be vocal about monstrous medieval practices and theological adherence to monstrous tenets is not only worth wondering about but is a sure pointer to their boundless shallowness despite education and compounded hypocrisy to boot.
This stupendous ignorance about the scriptural content of Semitic religions prompts pseudo-liberals to bat for them, thereby causing untold harm to humanity by perpetuating these doctrines in the collective consciousness of suffering humanity for aeons to come. Superficial hypocritical liberalism thus in effect strikes its own death-knell by unthinkingly pandering to the vanities of the violently intolerant ideologies.
The problem with pseudo-liberals is that they love to live in ignorance amidst their make-believe world of fanciful dreams and desires. These people never are serious about the study of cross-cultural complexities that abound in the world and are content to harbour false notions of existent social harmony and ignore the real issues of inter-community clashes that so often surfaces on account of intolerant scriptural tenets being dogmatically adhered to. A sincere solution of this problem must lie in taking an academic approach to it and then mustering support enough to sideline the use of intolerant passages of the scriptures in the day-to-day living of its adherents. But such a thing will not be allowed in Islam which holds the words of the Quran as coming direct from God and, so, as sacrosanct and inviolable. Now, who will alter this positional stance of a 1.8 billion Muslims across the world? And, if not, how will peace and harmony among religious communities ever in earnest be when both Islam and Christianity are yet intent on converting the rest of humanity to its fold? Do you now see the problem in depth? It is a toxic situation bearing a noxious political problem masquerading as religion. Yes, that is what has unleashed savage violence in the name of God over the ages and that is what will continue to do so in the centuries ahead unless corrective measures are adopted, overcoming seemingly impossible barriers, to salvage the situation. Upon the will of sincere humanity and not seasoned hypocrites, practising their fine art of deflection and duping, rests the fate of our peace and our harmony and all our tall talks of civilisation and culture and all of its ilk.
When you feel a spontaneous sense of oneness with all, at that moment you are spiritual. The task is to perpetuate that sense of oneness.
However, here there is a pitfall that you must avoid. It arises from a lack of conceptual clarity and this is what prompts shallow thinkers to venture into improper quotations from the utterances of Thakur-Ma-Swamiji to establish their fantastic notions about inclusive Hinduism. I will explain.
The sense of oneness spoken of here is entirely a spiritual experience that has no bearing with superficial shows of social togetherness or apparent harmony attempted in the form of Hindus in Kolkata keeping the midnight vigil on Christmas Eve at St. Peter's Cathedral or joining fellow Muslims in the Iftar Party on a Friday dusk in the month of Ramzan. These surface exhibitions of affected oneness cannot undo the damaging differences that intolerant scriptural tenets continue to drive through societies, fragmenting them in a manner no cross-cultural Christmas cake consumption or Iftar Party celebration can undo. These are differences inbuilt into these proselytising Semitic religious systems that are politically motivated with the desire for global domination over all by a single ideology. If liberals are so bent upon dissolving differences, let them go to the root of the problem that lies at the very foundation of these pernicious proselytising cults. Let them in real earnest study these dogmatic scriptures in totality and not cherry-picked sections to arrive at their own conclusions. How 21st century so-called liberal people, preaching superficial and assumed enlightenment and harmony to us who exhort people to delve deep into Semitic theological sources, can themselves not be vocal about monstrous medieval practices and theological adherence to monstrous tenets is not only worth wondering about but is a sure pointer to their boundless shallowness despite education and compounded hypocrisy to boot.
This stupendous ignorance about the scriptural content of Semitic religions prompts pseudo-liberals to bat for them, thereby causing untold harm to humanity by perpetuating these doctrines in the collective consciousness of suffering humanity for aeons to come. Superficial hypocritical liberalism thus in effect strikes its own death-knell by unthinkingly pandering to the vanities of the violently intolerant ideologies.
The problem with pseudo-liberals is that they love to live in ignorance amidst their make-believe world of fanciful dreams and desires. These people never are serious about the study of cross-cultural complexities that abound in the world and are content to harbour false notions of existent social harmony and ignore the real issues of inter-community clashes that so often surfaces on account of intolerant scriptural tenets being dogmatically adhered to. A sincere solution of this problem must lie in taking an academic approach to it and then mustering support enough to sideline the use of intolerant passages of the scriptures in the day-to-day living of its adherents. But such a thing will not be allowed in Islam which holds the words of the Quran as coming direct from God and, so, as sacrosanct and inviolable. Now, who will alter this positional stance of a 1.8 billion Muslims across the world? And, if not, how will peace and harmony among religious communities ever in earnest be when both Islam and Christianity are yet intent on converting the rest of humanity to its fold? Do you now see the problem in depth? It is a toxic situation bearing a noxious political problem masquerading as religion. Yes, that is what has unleashed savage violence in the name of God over the ages and that is what will continue to do so in the centuries ahead unless corrective measures are adopted, overcoming seemingly impossible barriers, to salvage the situation. Upon the will of sincere humanity and not seasoned hypocrites, practising their fine art of deflection and duping, rests the fate of our peace and our harmony and all our tall talks of civilisation and culture and all of its ilk.
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Written by Sugata Bose
Written by Sugata Bose
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