RESPONSES OF A PROUD HINDU [READ, SUGATA BOSE] TO A POST AND SUBSEQUENT COMMENTS BY A FACEBOOK FRIEND [NAME LEFT UNDISCLOSED FOR CIVILITY'S SAKE]

RESPONSES OF A PROUD HINDU [READ, SUGATA BOSE] TO A POST AND SUBSEQUENT COMMENTS BY A FACEBOOK FRIEND [NAME LEFT UNDISCLOSED FOR CIVILITY'S SAKE]

The saffron is ever holy and can never be sullied by any. Swamiji enunciated the all-embracing Vedanta before the Chicago Parliament of Religions but elsewhere has been highly critical of Islam, both in terms of its fundamental theological position and in its practical political application deriving directly from its scripture. Hence, Swamiji's views must be presented in their wholeness and not in cherry-picked convenient terms suiting one's own end.

Many Hindu sovereigns have had the saffron as their emblematic colour displayed proudly on their flags. Chhatrapati Shivaji, the founder of Hindu nationalism which was called 'Hindavi Swaraj', was one such. Such instances of national regeneration centring on the saffron raised Bharatvarsha and never lowered it, neither did they sully the saffron. Hence, political association with the saffron has been a sanctified historical event over and over again which lays low your argument posited to the contrary.

[P.S. 1. Swamiji had addressed the Chicago audience on 11 September, 1893 as 'Sisters and brothers of America' and not the other way round. You see, it is always ladies first for the enlightened Hindu as is evident in Radha-Krishna, Sita-Ram and the like.

यत्र नार्यस्तु पुज्यन्ते रमन्ते तत्र देवता ||

2. Please do not interpret my responses amiss but continue in your course irrespective of such in reducing political tensions, highlighting the greats and ushering cultural cohesion, but in truthful terms, honest and sincere, for true it is that overmuch of religious assertion in politics is not productive of eventual good. This was the view of even Swamiji who had warned his countrymen to beware political pitfalls arising out of rude religious references as the masses so ignited would be difficult to control once things went out of hand. Sanity must always prevail and opportunism using religion must be eschewed from the public sphere that is by definition the breathing space for all and must be kept pollution-free.]

But India's future is Hindu nationalism in all its enlightened aspects, and India will rise to her heights once again only when it securely comes to pass. Till then India's security is at stake under the influence of Semitic proselytising influence, Godless secularism, leftism, communism et al. The Vedanta in its philosophical and practical aspects activated in the heart of India, the bloodstream of her public and private life, and the very nerve-current of her body politic can alone ensure India's prophesied rise, the prophecy and the mode of its fulfilment having both been made by Swamiji himself. The Ganga, he had argued, has come down the slopes of the Himalayas for millenia and now must fulfil its course and reach its destination in the ocean which no benevolent Indian ought to hinder. If she is thus thwarted, she will die a natural death, for the soul of a nation stifled, the body cannot survive any longer. Religion or, more expressly, the Dharma cannot in Aryavarta brook such opposition and yet allow the nation's flourishing.

Leftists are not progressive entirely. Their ideological concern for the masses is based on a purely material conception -- which is hardly pure, though -- which like matter must decay inevitably as the history of its twentieth century application the world over has shown. Hence, Vivekananda and the Vedanta must be duly understood and applied and none whose life and thoughts are based on materialism can do so. Such ones are malevolent forces for our holy motherland, remembering that to such even such sanctification of her is anathema. Hence. 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose