'BHARATIYA'---AS THE WORD DOES THE ROUNDS TODAY

'BHARATIYA'---AS THE WORD DOES THE ROUNDS TODAY

You will never hear true 'Bharatiyas' ever criticise Islamic intolerance in clear-cut terms. How will they? To be 'Bharatiya' after all means only attacking Hindutva and they are too busy doing that unless, of course, personal considerations and conveniences impel them to temporarily align themselves with Hindutva parties when hostilities are held in abeyance for the while. After all self-interest overrides national interest and who knows it better than the true 'Bharatiyas'? 

No chemist has been found till date who could, no such chemical method invented that could mix oil and water unto homogeneity. Sri Ramakrishna said famously that Hindus and Muslims have lived side by side for a thousand years and yet have not known each other at all, so watertight have been their respective religious modes as not to allow due diffusion of spirits. He further said that it would take as yet a very long time before they could harmoniously blend in a common national living. [Here I have paraphrased Sri Ramakrishna's words to the effect implicit in them.] Yes, indeed it will be achieved, as Swamiji vouched, in India forging a nation out of her diverse races with 'Vedanta brain and Islam body'. Very significant these words are. 'Vedanta brain' would imply the ideological death of communism in India and the antithetical aspects of theological Islam and Christianity. 'Islam body' would imply the development of a strong, sovereign, unified India free of privilege and inhuman inequality. 'Vedanta brain' further implies that the dominant religiophilosophical discourse in India will be that of the Vedanta or the quintessential Vedic Dharma or the Sanatan Dharma. Q.E.D.

Written by Sugata Bose