COURAGE OR COWARDICE, CHOOSE NOW, FOR IT IS 11.58 P.M. ON OUR CIVILISATIONAL CLOCK

COURAGE OR COWARDICE, CHOOSE NOW, FOR IT IS 11.58 P.M. ON OUR CIVILISATIONAL CLOCK

The poor response to my posts reveals the character of a cowardly race that dares not rise up in defence of their very own in deathly peril. Our people are being murdered in Bangladesh by the day, our women's chastity being outraged, our children not being spare either, and yet these pseudodevotees and their spiritual preceptors speak not a word by way of protest because the fire may be consuming our race but has not yet broken out within their immediate residence, self-interest and organisational interest taking precedence over the interests of the race. After all these are universal beings with uniiversal sympathies. Where do these insignificant inflicted individuals (read, fellow Hindus)---quite a lot in number, though,---figure in their universal map of larger love? Let these poor people perish so long as such indifference may pass off as being apolitical, but the moment the fire starts burning even the hem of their own garments, out go the pleas to the Prime Minister, the Home Minister et al to save them. This is being universal indeed and apolitically so. Then there are their spiritual progeny galore of pious pretensions snd poor concern for co-religionists suffering deathly horror hours away from home. Has the descent of the Divine at Dakshineshwar effectively come to this at the end of it? Must cowardice prevail over courage in this abject way, that cowardice to eradicate which from the race Swamiji gave his life for?

Written by Sugata Bose