🕉 IN PATRIOTIC PERTINENCE WITH RESPECT TO PROLIFERATING PERVERSION OF THE TIMES

🕉 IN PATRIOTIC PERTINENCE WITH RESPECT TO PROLIFERATING PERVERSION OF THE TIMES

Today is a fighter's birthday, that of the premier patriot of our motherland who took up arms against the British. Are we capable of paying due homage to his memory, to 'our dear motherland' [Netaji's emotionally charged expression] by taking up the defence of the Dharma in a like manner, in the spirit of the kshatriya? Or are we going to appease our patriotic appetite by offering flimsy tributes only, verbal adulation of no consequence to the averting of impending national danger from internal and external enemy? Beware! There are sinister forces at work that are slowly but surely subverting the democratic fabric of our country and attempting through time-tested methods to transform it into an alien theocratic state of 'divine' dictatorship, a dark perversion of deserted times. [pun intended]

When Swamiji was once interviewed by the Press and asked about his objective, he had promptly replied, ''To make Hinduism aggressive." Are we willing to aggressively defend our culture, our civilisation, our religion, the threefold composite of which is called the Dharma, or are we going to passively allow the takeover of our truncated motherland yet again by seventh century desert forces now operating with legal immunity within the heart of India? Where lies our devotion, our national and civilisational duty -- in passive piety and in futile fraternity with fissiparous forces or in aggressive defence of all that we for over ten millenia have held close to our bosom as dear and integral to our very existence? 

This is pertinent today as we engage in infertile emotional effusion by way of offering copious birthday tribute yet again while our civilisational imperatives lie in tatters at the hands of proselytising political cults that are singularly focused on age-old India's utter destruction.

Vande Mataram! Alas, even that had to be replaced with 'Jai Hind' at the insistence of invidious forces! 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose