BRING BACK THE BUDDHA

BRING BACK THE BUDDHA

We have to bring back the Buddha amidst us. We must seek the pardon of the great one and install him afresh in our hearts.

He, the finest manifestation of manhood, the supreme son of India, God incarnate, embodiment of the sublimest principles of humanity, the finest exponent of the Vedas in practical terms despite his apparent repudiation of it to overcome tyrannical Brahmanical privilege, the uplifter of the masses grovelling under the heels of the elite classes, the one that laid wide open the gateway to spiritual and social freedom for all and sundry, he who offered his own self as sacrifice to save a goat at a royal sacrificial ceremony, he who democratised the land and ushered in a grand outflow of culture in the diverse disciplines of art and architecture, sculpture and painting, literature and religion, morality and governance, he whose emissaries preached the dharma in alien lands in Asia and even in some parts of the then known Europe, who thus civilised lands and peoples whose rolling influence runs to this day, he who even in expulsion of his dharma in decadence from Aryavarta lived on as the soul and substance of Vaishnavism, such a one, banished and forgotten from the heartland and the heart of the children of Bharatvarsha, must be brought back and freshly enthroned where he belongs, Vedpurush, Vedmurty in real that he is.

His followers misunderstood his teachings and created the rift, the schism in the polity that separated their path from the adherents of the Sanatan Dharma, converted two-thirds of the population to their dharma that now stood opposed to Vedic traditions in many ways and deluged the Punyabhumi Bharatvarsha with horrible debauchery in the guise of Buddhist Tantra till Shankaracharya arose in the South to arrest the trend and reverse the current to the pristine direction of the Vedas. But those are now history and, for the sake of strengthening the hand of the Indian dharma traditions, we have to unite all of the distributaries of the Sanatan Dharma and work unitedly against the perverse proselytising religions to keep them from destroying human hopes in the name of religious imposition.

Hence, and for all the legion reasons cited above, I say, bring back the Buddha. He will lend character to the nation, spine to the world and, above all, a universal heart and sympathy which alone can now save humanity.

Written by

Sugata Bose

33Susanta Mullick, Sharmistha Chatterjee and 31 others

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