IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION RAISED BY SHAON MALIK AS TO WHY MAHAPRABHU MODERATED THE MIGHTY MESSAGE OF SRI KRISHNA, THAT OF DHARMAYUDDHA (RIGHTEOUS WAR), AND PREACHED A PASSIVE FORM OF PEACEFUL FORGIVENESS INSTEAD

IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION RAISED BY SHAON MALIK AS TO WHY MAHAPRABHU MODERATED THE MIGHTY MESSAGE OF SRI KRISHNA, THAT OF DHARMAYUDDHA (RIGHTEOUS WAR), AND PREACHED A PASSIVE FORM OF PEACEFUL FORGIVENESS INSTEAD

Swamiii has called all medieval Hindu sages and saints like Kabir, Guru Nanak Dev and even divine incarnations like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu apologists for Hinduism in an age of terrible Islamic oppression when none dared challenge Islam direct but meekly preached the tenets of the Sanatan Dharma in a manner that was convenient to the tormented times. It was in Guru Gobind Singhji finally that the Hindus (Sikhs being regarded as a sect and a religion thereof springing from the Sanatan Dharma) found a valorous expression in defence of the dharma. Then, of course, it was Swamiji himself who did so again, but even he had to water down the toxic truth somewhat of Islamic ☪️ and Christian ✝️ oppression and preach a more politically correct universal truth that was acceptable to all. Moreover, it is uncertain how much of his works have been edited and expunged by the Ramakrishna Mission to suit political exigencies. This ever is the problem, this tailoring truth to existential requirements and, so, weakening its essential force in practical life.

Hindus 🕉 are now politically free but are yet constrained in their self-expression because of politically imposed conditions by free India's government and because long enslavement under the rule of Islam ☪️ and colonisation by Euro-Christian ✝️ powers have debilitated them as a race, confused conception about their own historical past and generally impaired them into becoming self-haters of sorts, this last attribute being specifically true of the western-oriented literate elite middle class who hold the reins of academic administration of the country. Thus, Krishna's kshatriya principles have long not been practised and have instead been modified to milder terms that somehow allowed Hindus breathing space in suffocating Islamic conditions whose evidence you so rightly find in Mahaprabhu's passive piety in relative terms.

Written by Sugata Bose