IT IS 11.55, JUST FIVE MINUTES TO A DIFFERENT FREEDOM

IT IS 11.55, JUST FIVE MINUTES TO A DIFFERENT FREEDOM 

We, Hindus, are a hypocritical and cowardly lot. When a Hindu is attacked by jihadists, we do not en masse exhibit courage enough to stand by our assaulted sister or brother. Then all our Vedantic vain talk takes to flight and does not come of any use. All day long I see everybody preaching the Atman but these very ones maintain a studied silence when they ought to stand up in defence of the Dharma and the assaulted fellow Hindu who generally loses his or her lone battle against the violent mob that gets at him or her. Where is our soul-force then? Do we suddenly become body-bound then?

I hear monks preaching the nonsense of all religions (including the wicked, totalitarian, violently intolerant ones) being paths to the Divine and that they revere the founders of all religions. May they clarify if scripturally sanctioned sensuality and dastardly violence against infidels which form the core tenets of certain religions also lead to God? And must millions of sheep follow suit these preceptors and bring about the eclipse of the sun of spirituality in this holy motherland of ours?

Well, such seems to be our destiny and it suits us right, for cowards do not deserve to live in this Kurukshetra of life. By the selective process of animal elimination they suffer eventual annihilation. So, wake up while yet there is time. It is 11.55, just five minutes to a different freedom. 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose