GIVE UP THIS VAIN DREAM OF CONVERTING THE HINDU BY CRAFTILY INVITING HIM (DAWAH) TO YOUR FOLD

GIVE UP THIS VAIN DREAM OF CONVERTING THE HINDU BY CRAFTILY INVITING HIM (DAWAH) TO YOUR FOLD

If you are convinced God exists, why do you want to go to heaven postmortem to have sensual delight there of an intensified order? Why not realise God here and now and be in perpetual bliss? And why are you so afraid of hellfire? The Hindu 🕉 cares neither for your sensual heaven nor is he fooled by childish fears of your flaming hell. He laughs at your one-life theory of passing a qualifying test for entry into a heaven of sensual delight which he spurns as beneath his spiritual dignity to even conceptually entertain, much less pursue with energy and ardour. Hell he considers a kindergarten concept invented by clerics to control masses of men to suit their exploitative ends. The Hindu conquers fear and foolishness and with it vanishes for him this fictitious hell with all its furnace fire.

What remains now? God? Well, the Hindu soon discovers God to be his inmost being, his very essence, his own transcendental Self that is reachable here and now and is ever-reached each moment, for who could survive a moment, think a moment, cognise his own existence a moment save in and through Him (Antaryamin) who is seated in his very heart controlling the course of things? 

Therefore, my dear friend, reflect on the principles of Hindu philosophy well before you form your proselytising party to convert Hindus to your fold. A PhD scholar is not to be invited to become a student of a Montessori school. Give up this vain dream then of converting the Hindu to your fold. Your dawah, intrinsic to your faith as its political tool of expansion and conquest, has lost its way in the desert-sand of time and will no more bear fair or foul fruition. So, give up.

Written by Sugata Bose