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Indian Muslims- Story of Enslavement

Indian Muslims- Story of Enslavement

October 2, 2011 By Satyagni Agni

 

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In the previous article http://satyagni. com/5258/who-are-indian-muslims/ we showed that all the Muslims of Indian subcontinent are descendants of Hindu ancestors. We also discussed how butchers from Arab and Central Asia invaded India, killed and converted Hindu ancestors of today’s Muslims to Islam. In this article we will show from Islamic sources the circumstances in which Hindu forefathers of subcontinent Muslims had to become slaves of Muslims first and then ultimately Muslims at the end.

 

Slavery formed a key component of the Islamic invasions to India. It is one thing for combatants to be killed on the battlefield or being taken as a prisoner of war. But slavery, during Islamic invasions to India, entered the arena of cities, towns and villages that were sacked by the invading Islamic armies. The enslaved men/women/children had to embrace Islam but that was no guarantee for freedom, as, these people ended up in slave markets in Arab lands, where they were purchased for a price and this price was another source to fill the coffers of the Islamic invaders.

 

Here is what is recorded in Farishtah (when Kalinjar was sacked by Aibak in 1202) – “fifty thousand kaniz va ghulam, having suffered slavery, were rewarded with the honour of Islam.”  It is seen in Masalik-ul-Absar about Muhammad Tughlaq – “The Sultan never ceases to show the greatest zeal in making war upon infidels… Everyday thousands of slaves are sold at a very low price, so great is the number of prisoners.”  Similarly Ibn Battutah records – “At (one) time there arrived in Delhi some female infidel captives, ten of whom the Vazir sent to me. I gave one of them to the man who had brought them to me, but he was not satisfied. My companion took three young girls, and I do not know what happened to the rest.”

 

He further writes that during the celebration of Id in the court of Muhammad bin Tughlaq, daughters of Hindu Rajas and those of commoners, captured during the course of the year were distributed among nobles (?), officers and important visitors from Arabia.” On the fourth day men slaves are married and on the fifth slave-girls. On the sixth day men and women slaves are married off.”

 

Slave taking by Islamic kings was a passionate act. And two Islamic invaders stand head and shoulders above the rest in this passion for slave taking. Mulfuzat-i-Timuri records that Timur Lane enslaved almost 100,000 people and of course we all know what happened to these slaves by the time Timur Lane went home. And the other passionate slave taker happens to be Mahmud Ghaznavi.

 

Utbi records that when Mahmoud attacked Punjab in 1014 – “slaves were so plentiful that they became very cheap; and men of respectability in their native land (India) were degraded by becoming slaves of common shop-keepers (in Ghazni).”  Similarly, it is recorded in Farishtah (the year 1015 now) – “the Muhammadan army brought to Ghazni 200,000 captives so that the capital appeared like an Indian city, for every soldier of the army had several slaves and slave girls”  Can you imagine, a normal free Hindu ending up as a slave in a Godforsaken place like Ghazni?

 

Slavery was a systematic enterprise in the Islamic scheme of things. Babur writes in his Memoirs that “there are two trade-marts on the land-route between Hindustan and Khurasan; one is Kabul, the other, Qandhar. (Route to Kabul was from Lahore, to Qandhar from Multan)… Down to Kabul every year …from Hindustan, come every year caravans… bringing slaves (barda)”

 

Now we move to the topic of sex slavery during Islamic invasions to India. The special interest of Muslims in sex slavery was universal and widespread and a plethora of evidence is available in contemporary Persian chronicles. In fact, Muslim historians derive extra delight in narrating anecdotes and stating facts about Muslim indulgence in sex and allied activities. But here is an incident that illuminates the way enslaved women were bounced around in the household of Islamic invaders.

 

Deval Devi was the daughter of Raja Karan Baghela of Gujarat and his queen Kamala Devi. Kamala Devi was captured in the sack of Gujarat (1299), and married by Alauddin Khalji. According to the Islamic law, slave women could be married to Muslims even while their husbands were alive for marriage is annulled by captivity. (This dictum can be seen in Muir, Life of Mahomet & in the book called Dictionary Of Islam).

 

Later on her daughter Deval Devi was also captured in another campaign (1308) and brought to Delhi. There she was married to Alauddin’s son Khizr Khan, against her will. After the assassination of Khizr Khan in the politics of succession, she was taken as a concubine by Qutbuddin Mubarak Khalji (1316-20). With the murder of Qutbuddin at the hands of Khusrau Khan she was taken into the latter’s harem.

 

In short, this princess was treated as nothing more than a transferable property in the Khalji ruling house. If this was the status of a princess belonging to a felled Hindu king, we can imagine the plight of the ordinary Hindu women that were enslaved by Islamic invaders and taken to their harems. It is for this reason that “Jauhar” of Hindu women (usually led by the surviving women folk of the felled Hindu king) started becoming a standard practice.

In Manucci II (336 – 38), we can also see the common Muslim names that enslaved Hindu little girls were given and upon attaining puberty they became concubines of the Islamic king that enslaved them. Here are a few names – Gulab, Champa, Chameli, Nargis, Kesar, Gul-i-Badam, Sosan, Yasmin, Gul-i-Rana, Gul Andam, Gul Anar, Saloni, Sugandhara, Koil, Gulrang, Mehndi, Dil Afroz etc. And I do not even want to touch the topic of enslavement and the treatment meted out to hijras and amrads (beardless boys) by the Islamic invaders.

 

Before someone can jump to a conclusion that Islamic invader of every shade just walked and enslaved people, it is worth to remember that unlike what happened in Spain or North Africa, or Syria or Persia, every wave of Islamic invasion was met with severe resistance from Hindus. We will deal with this topic separately but we are branching off to a slightly different topic.

Did Islam liberate “lower caste” Hindus from the clutches of caste system? Did these people leave Hinduism and accept Islam wishfully?

It is often said by the apologists of these slave takers that but for the Muslim rulers, the peasants would have continued to whither under caste system and that the light of Islam saved the day and many peasants “embraced” Islam. We will see the hollowness of this claim through Islamic sources now.

 

During Islamic invasions, the peasants scared by the prospect of enslavement, and finding the treatment by the government unbearable, sometimes left the fields and fled into the jungles. Often vanquished Rajas and aggrieved Zamindars also retired into the forests and organized resistance from there against Muslim rulers. In this confrontation Zamindars played the role of leaders and the peasants joined under their banner.

 

In the early period some angry rulers like Balban and Muhammad bin Tughlaq hunted down these escapists in the jungles like wild beasts. Muhammad Tughlaq was very keen on enslaving people and converting them to Islam. The flight of peasants sent him into fits of rage. When Hindus organized armed resistance armed peasants provided contingents to Baheliya, Bhadauriya, Bachgoti, Mandahar and Tomar Rajputs in the earlier period of Hindu resistance against Islamic invasions & to Jats, Marathas and Sikhs in the later periods. Thus labeling Islam as liberator of any Hindu group is utter foolishness. Period.

 

What peaceful (?) Sufis had to say about this great Islamic tradition of slavery?

The likes of Amir Khusrau (who is believed to be a peaceful Sufi!) & Ziyauddin Barani opined – “the Muslims dominated the infidels.” But the latter fortify themselves in mountains… (and uneven and rugged places) as well in bamboo groves which serve them as ramparts.”  It is also recorded in Babar Nama (Babar upon arriving in Agra states) – “neither grain for ourselves nor corn for our horse, was to be had. The villagers, out of hostility, and hatred to us had taken to thieving and highway-robbery; there was no moving on the roads… All the inhabitants (khalaiq) had run away.”  Similarly, it can be found in Mulfuzat-i-Timuri –  “The defense of the people, consists of woods and forests and trees, which interweaving with stem and branch, render it very difficult to penetrate the country… (where) landlords and princes… who inhabit fastnesses in those forests… live there like wild beasts.”

 

The forest dwellers that left their villages to escape Islamic slavery suffered untold miseries. Still they had the satisfaction of being able to preserve their freedom. But all victims of aggression were not so lucky. Many groups and individuals could not escape from the clutches of the Muslim invaders and tyranny of their rulers; they used to be captured and enslaved. So that from the days of Muhammad bin Qasim in the seventh century to those of Ahmad Shah Abdali in the eighteenth, enslavement and distribution and sale of captives was systematically carried on by Muslim conquerors and rulers.

 

A Sufi of the stature of Amir Khusrau wrote in the Ashiqa: “Had not the law granted exemption from death by the payment of poll-tax, the very name of Hindu, root and branch, would have been extinguished.”  A few years later he asserted that “the Turks, whenever they please, can seize, buy, or sell any Hindu.”

If this was the mindset of the ruling elite as expressed by the famous Sufi, the slave taking practice of Islamic invaders needs no further ads.

 

The key is that Islamic invaders to India took the practice of slavery to a whole new level that was unmatched before and after. And today many Muslims in India do not know or are willfully glossing over the past, where, someone in their lineage was enslaved by Islamic invasions and they ended up as a Muslim due to that lineage. This should not surprise us as Sultan Sikandar Lodi’s Mother was a Hindu that was enslaved by senior Lodi but he became a Muslim bigot. Sultan Sikandar Lodi’s Mother Zeba was originally a Hindu by the name of Hema a. k. a Amba. Bahlul Lodi was attracted by her beauty while he was governor of Sarhind. He forcefully married her after ascending the throne of Delhi. But she could not stop her son from slaughtering Hindus – like Father, like son.

 

We will discuss in the next article yet another factor that played a vital role in Islamization of India, i. e. Jizya (money that infidels had to pay to Muslim rulers for being infidels).

http://satyagni. com/5274/indian-muslims-story-of-enslavement/

Who are Indian Muslims?

September 30, 2011 By Satyagni Agni 

 

Blueprint for tackling jihad in India

Blueprint for tackling jihad in India

 

 By: Moorthy Muthuswamy PhD
Novermber 20, 2005
Views expressed here are author’s own and not of this website. Full disclaimer is at the bottom

http://www.ivarta.com/columns/OL_051120.htm

Conclusions

Indian intelligence and military shouldn’t lose hope that the Indian Islamic fundamentalist problem has become a Frankenstein no one can tame. I firmly believe that with a right leader India can crush this jihad. In this war like situation all Indian institutions, especially its military, must play a role in help install a decisive and able leader. India now needs to wage war with mini-Pakistans within its territory and the soldiers of these Pakistans are none other than many Indian Muslim civilians! A successful de-islamization of India will automatically lead to unraveling of Pakistan and Bangladesh as their people will realize the futility of jihad and decide not to waste their lives as slaves of Arabs to wage endless jihad on their behalf to extend Islam’s frontiers. This will also create conditions to liberate Pakistan and Bangladesh – finally putting an end to Arab-Nazi expansionism in South Asia and win the war on terror in this part of the world.

Moorthy Muthuswamy PhD

American Hindus support Eagle’s Wings

American Hindus support Eagle’s Wings

 

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzj55Hbi_6I&feature=youtu.be&hd=1  (Video link)

 

http://youtu.be/xzj55Hbi_6I?hd=1

Video by Arish Sahani

DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS:  SHOLOM:

 

In the first instance, let me express my gratitude to the organizers of this Rally for having given me an opportunity to express my views.  I really feel honored.

 

We American Hindus are here today to express our support to Eagle’s Wings; and solidarity with Israel.  We should understand in unambiguous terms that Durban III conference by the UN is being used as a strategy by Islamists to condemn, demonize and vilify Israel.  We will not allow their mean and mendacious desire to be fulfilled.

 

This same ploy is also being used by Islamists to pressurize the United Nations to declare caste system in India which was originally based on profession, as a racist system.

 

I am the survivor of the Partition of India in which more than one million Hindus and Sikhs were killed by Radical Islamists and more than 10 million Hindu and Sikh people were forcibly converted to Islam, driven out of Pakistan, and finally ethnically cleansed.  I have seen with my own eyes the reign of repression let loose by Radical Islamists.  I have seen with my own eyes our women being raped and people being murdered in the broad day light in connivance with Islamic government.  Dear brothers and sisters, I have seen the true face of Radical Islam.  Believe me, terrorism is the greatest threat to the humanity.

 

Islamists have already slaughtered tens of thousands of Hindus, Sikhs, Jews, Christians, Sudanese, Buddhists, Baha’i, Ahmadias, Balochis, and even their own Muslims.

 

They are funded by Saudi Arabia and militarily trained by Pakistan’s spy agency ISI.  After training in terrorist camps, they are sent all over the world to kill infidels – those who do not believe in Prophet Mohammed, Allah and Kuran.  The situation is indeed fraught with dangerous consequences.

 

Global onslaught by Radical Islam, with Israel being only one of the canaries in the mine, is going on all over the world.  Bali, Madrid, Mumbai, Thailand, Philippine, New York, Beslan in Russia and New Delhi are the victims of terrorism.  Terrorists are killing our soldiers in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.  The sinister aim of the Radical Islam is to isolate Israel, India and America.   Hence, we have to be careful so that we do not fall into their trap.

 

In addition to that Hindus in Kashmir and Bangladesh, Coptic Christians in Egypt, Christians in  Bethlehem and Iraq,  Maronites in Lebanon, Kurds in Turkey and Syria, and Southern Sudanese are being slaughtered by Radical Islamists.

 

We support this Rally and join with you in sending our clear message to the United Nations that we will never accept the policies of capitulation and appeasement that undermine the fight against Radical Islam.

 

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND YOU!

 

Narain Kataria

President

Indian American Intellectuals Forum, and

Co-Founder Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam

(718) 478-5735

Katarian@aol.com

Narainkataria.blogspot.com

 

Universality of the Vedic dharma

Namaste,

 

In this volume we will include another little chapter from the VFA produced book, “Vedic Culture: The Difference it can Make in Your Life.” This will help to show that no matter what a person’s background may be, there is something there in the Vedic path for everyone.

All the best, and Hari Om,

 

Stephen Knapp, srinandan@aol.com

 

 

The Main Vedic Spiritual Paths:
Something for Everyone
By Stephen Knapp

 
In the Vedic system it is described that the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Reality, manifests in three forms; namely the impersonal and all-pervading Brahman, the localized expansion of the Supreme known as the Paramatma or Supersoul or Lord in the Heart, and then Bhagavan, the Supreme Person. These different traits of God are also presented in other religions as well, but the information they provide are only hints compared to the depth of understanding that we find in the Vedic knowledge. The Vedic information gives a full elaboration on the nature of the impersonal Brahman, as well as the localized expansion of the Paramatma, and Bhagavan, the Supreme Being.
There is not enough room to fully explain each aspect in this article, but the Vedic system provides the means and methods so that any individual can realize any one or each of these aspects of the Supreme. In fact, it is said that until one realizes all three of these aspects of God, his or her understanding of the Supreme remains incomplete. The uniqueness of the Vedic system is that it expects that everyone should have their own realizations of the Absolute Truth. It is not enough merely to have blind faith in a dogma or whatever is propounded by a religion without the means to have one’s own perception of the Highest Truth. To keep one bound by Faith alone without the means for furthering one’s spiritual development is to keep people stifled, limited, undeveloped, or more easily controlled.
The Vedic system provides the means for the individual to decide how much spiritual progress he or she wishes to make, and thus gives the methodologies that a person can use to progress. It also provides the system that will allow a person to more completely understand and realize any of the three particular aspects of God, as mentioned above. So let us get a glimpse into the four main types of spiritual paths that are offered by Vedic culture. Let us not forget that other spiritual avenues are also offered and contained within the Vedic system.
 

THE PURPOSE OF RELIGION

 

Obviously, the purpose of religion is to raise our consciousness, to preserve our moral standards, and to further develop our devotion to God. This is, essentially, the way of piety. However, it does not necessarily provide one with the means of being truly spiritual. Being spiritual means to recognize one’s spiritual identity and practically see the spiritual essence of all others. It also means to see that we are all parts and parcels of God and to respect each other in that light. But how can we be convinced that there even is a God?
We need to understand that all things that are spiritual function on a higher plane of existence, one that is hardly perceptible by our mind, intelligence or senses. The spiritual dimension can only be detected when our consciousness reaches a higher level of awareness. It is similar to radio and television waves. These are not perceptible by our mind or senses. They remain invisible, yet they are all around us. In our base level of awareness, or unawareness, we may think that such things as radio waves and television frequencies are not real. Of course, we may be viewed as quite retarded by those who are familiar with their existence. So the thing is, even if you cannot perceive them, if you have a receiver that can detect or even utilize such subtle waves or frequencies, then you will know that radio and television waves are not only a fact, but can be used for many practical purposes.
The same thing goes for religion, or a genuine spiritual path. They are meant to bring our consciousness up to a higher level of awareness, to fine tune it so that we can receive or perceive the higher vibrations of the spiritual strata. As we practice a genuine spiritual tradition, then our consciousness can become refined and focused enough so we can receive the subtle frequencies and perceive the reality of the spiritual domain. Then we can have our own spiritual experiences. The point is that the more spiritual we become, the more we can perceive that which is spiritual. As we develop and grow in this way, the questions about spiritual life are no longer a mystery to solve, but become a reality to experience. It becomes a practical part of our lives. And how to reach that level of perception is supplied in the methodologies that have been preserved and handed to us by the previous sages who have also used them for their own development and spiritual experience. And that is what the Vedic system has been giving to humanity for thousands of years.
The Vedic system is practically non-denominational. It is not for any one culture or ethnic group. It is for all of humanity and is called Sanatana-dharma and yoga. Sanatana-dharma is both a path and a state of being. It means, essentially, the eternal nature of the soul. We are all spiritual beings within material bodies, so the goal is to regain that spiritual identity. This comes by a reawakening of our spiritual identity and consciousness. It is through the process of yoga and the path of Sanatana-dharma that we can reach this higher awareness and percieve exactly who we are.
We mentioned in a previous chapter about the Yoga-sutras of Patanjali that comprise the essence of yoga practice. However, yoga itself is a deep and serious process, and there are a variety of forms of yoga that can be performed. There is the path of intellect (jnana-yoga), the path of action (karma-yoga), the path of inward meditation (astanga or raja-yoga) and the path of devotion (bhakti-yoga). However, in the preliminary stages, Yoga is, essentially, for controlling the flickering nature of the mind, and for developing one’s finer qualities and expanding one’s consciousness from material to spiritual awareness. When you progress in yoga you can feel the unwanted burdens of the mind fall away, such as anxiety, anger, greed, envy, hate, discontent, etc. Then other qualities like peacefulness, tranquility, contentment, and blissfulness will be felt. These are qualities everyone is trying to find and are some of the many things that can be accomplished with yoga, at least on the elementary level. As you make further progress, you may enter into the deeper levels of understanding and transcending the mind and gradually go so far as to attain realizations as to what your own spiritual identity is and what your relationship is with the Absolute. Becoming free from material life and regaining one’s spiritual identity is the goal of all yoga. The Sanskrit root of the word yoga is yuj, which means to link or unite with the Supreme. And the word religion, which comes from the Latin word religio, means to bring back or bind to God. Thus, there is no difference between the goal of yoga and the goal of religion. So let us take a look at some of these forms of yoga.

 
HATHA-YOGA

 

There are thousands of people who practice hatha-yoga, some say more in California than in all of India. However, hatha-yoga is not a separate system of yoga as many people seem to think, but was developed as one of the eight steps of raja-yoga. It is described in such early texts as the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Gheranda Samhita and the Shiva Samhita. Lord Shiva is said to be the originator of the system found in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. This is highly regarded by the Nath tradition founded by Gorakshnath and his teacher Matyendranath, who was accepted to be a disciple of Lord Shiva.
In any case, hatha-yoga is one of the most popular forms of yoga, which can be done by anybody, regardless of how serious he or she may be about attaining higher levels of spiritual development. Although it is a part of a spiritual process, when taken as an isolated exercise technique it can be completely secular as well. It can be used strictly for physical and mental development, if that is all one wishes to do with it. It involves maneuvering the body through different asanas or exercises, along with breathing techniques for controlling the life airs within the body. This is the prana, the universal energy that comes through the body. Prana is divided into certain bodily airs that function in different ways. Prana is the incoming and outgoing breath; apana, is the air which expels bodily waste; vyana assists in the power of physical movement; samana distributes nutrition through the body; and udana is the air in the sushumna channel. Hatha-yoga is basically for helping keep the body in shape and free from disease, the mind peaceful and steady for spiritual pursuits, and the inner energy balanced and flowing. This, however, is very useful in whatever spiritual process we pursue because if our body is too diseased, and if our mind is too restless and unsteady, they become a hindrance in our quest for spiritual awareness or perfection. Thus, with the practice of hatha-yoga, the body and mind become healthier and our spiritual practice can continue with fewer impediments. Thus, it is beneficial regardless of what is one’s spiritual discipline or even when there is no spiritual interest at all.

 
KARMA-YOGA

 

Karma-yoga is another system that many westerners often talk about. This is for attaining perfection through right action, which is something that this world could use more of. This sort of action is based on religious texts for one’s purification and future happiness, such as entering heaven after death. These activities may include ritualistic worship of the demigods, as well as a variety of other things, such as avoiding the causing of any harm to all other living beings, and doing activities for the good of others who may be less fortunate, or digging public water wells, or doing other humanitarian work. The main interest of practicing karma-yoga is for oneself and in achieving good future results rather than transcendence. In other words, this path is for one who is still attached to materialistic fruitive activities. A karma-yogi works for acquiring good karma for himself so that he can get a better future, such as a birth in heaven or a higher status. But in the more elevated forms of karma-yoga, the results of whatever a person does are meant to be offered to God as regulated by the rules in the Vedic literature. When one gives the fruits of his work to God, the work becomes yoga or linked to the Supreme, which makes such actions free of all karma. Without dovetailing one’s work for God in this way, all activities that are performed for one’s own interest or development simply cause one to accumulate more karma, not to be free of it. So karma-yoga is meant to be a means to work in the world but in a way that can rid oneself of all karma and establish a strong connection with God. Then work becomes yoga. By giving the results to God, one becomes freed from the reactions of such work and also begins to make advancement on the path of yoga. Thus, as a person becomes free from all karma, he becomes free from taking any more births in the material world. So karma-yoga is considered to be the transitional stage between material and spiritual life. Nonetheless, one’s karma (as I have explained in my book The Secret Teachings of the Vedas) should be a concern for everyone.

 
JNANA-YOGA

 

Jnana-yoga is the path to enlightenment through the process of mental speculation and the study and acquirement of empirical knowledge. On a deeper level, jnana (pronounced gyana) or jnana-yoga is the process of discriminating between truth and non-truth, or reality and non-reality, maya, and understanding what is the Divine. This is the knowledge of the soul and God, and the relationship between them. Therefore, the acquirement of jnana or spiritual knowledge is one of the first steps in spiritual development.
The aspirant of jnana-yoga engages in long hours of study and discussion in the attempt to understand the highest truth. One following this path must also accept the authority of the great sages and study in their association. Without proper guidance along this path one can easily become confused about what is actually the Absolute Truth. By merely involving the cognitive intellect, which is the main activity of the jnana-yogi, one simply remains on the mental or intellectual platform. Therefore, it can be very difficult for the jnana-yogi to rise above material existence and enter the spiritual realm. The reason for this is that knowledge alone does not purify the consciousness, although it can help one understand the proper path to take. One should not forever remain a seeker of truth, but should reach a stage of following the path that will give one realization of what the Absolute Truth is and enable him to reach the spiritual strata. This is the level of vijnana or practical and realized knowledge. The spiritual strata should not always be a mystery to solve or a quest to reach, but through the proper perceptions become a reality to experience. Vijnana is this realize knowledge.
However, in jnana-yoga much of what we find today is advaita-jnana, the knowledge of the non-dual impersonal aspect of God wherein the idea is presented that the individual soul and God are the same, and that God is the impersonal Brahman.
The preliminary levels of jnana may be acquired from books, but it is generally accepted that a person must receive the deeper avenues of this knowledge from a genuine jnani, a realized teacher. When a student has attained the means of accessing this knowledge, he must continuously absorb his mind in the concepts that are presented until his mind and consciousness completely adopts it. This is a long process and in earlier ages would generally take many lifetimes. Even if a student tries to do this with utmost sincerity, the conception of the Brahman for the advaita-jnani is inconceivable and unimaginable. So it can be difficult to actually get a grasp as to what the soul’s identity is in connection with the Brahman.
After following this path perfectly, the mind is expected to become purified until it can perceive the reflection of the soul, which is beyond all mayic or illusory forms of experience, and thus beyond all external limitations. This level of perception is the stage of pure goodness or the pure sattvic level. Such a perception of the soul is when the jnani is said to have attained the stage of Self-realization. This level of enlightenment is as far as this process can take one. Though it is a major accomplishment, it still has not taken one all the way to God or to understanding one’s relationship with God. Knowledge and the perception of the soul removes the attachments of materialism and ignorance from the mind, however this is in preparation for what must come next to continue the process, if a practitioner gets this far. So, although he may be considered Self-realized in his perception of the soul, he is not yet thoroughly liberated from material existence, which means this path is not complete in itself. There is another level of yoga which must be added to it. Therefore, jnana-yoga is often combined with other forms of yoga, such as raja-yoga or bhakti-yoga.

 
YOGA

 

From this stage of jnana, or jnana-yoga, many practitioners add or continue with yoga, if they have not already started it. This type of yoga may be in the forms of astanga-yoga, raja-yoga, kriya-yoga, or something of this sort. Yoga is the process to calm the mind and, ultimately, to become free of all sensual input and dictates from the mind. In that state lays the doorway to the spiritual dimension, higher ideals, inspiration and lofty states of being. In other words, it is the process of obtaining a perfectly thoughtless level of awareness in the state of pure sattva-guna, or mode of goodness, in which one can enter nirvikalpa samadhi–the thought-free form of meditation. In this state, the door opens to allow our consciousness to enter or at least have glimpses into the spiritual energy and the perception of it.
In this way, it is said that jnana is the theory or knowledge while yoga is the practice. By performing this perfectly, one can enter what is called kaivalya, the understanding of the Brahman, the impersonal form of God. The ancient Vedic texts, such as the Yoga Darshana, the Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad-gita, and others, mention that in order to be successful in this path, it normally takes years of continued practice without falling down from the proper standard, along with following all the rules correctly, such as the yamas and niyamas, which are the essential regulations of things to do and not to do. Only then can one gradually reach the kaivalya position, the perception of becoming one with the Brahman, which is the final stage of advaita or the impersonalist form of yoga. So the difficulty to reach the highest stage of this path in this age should be obvious, which also makes it suitable only for the most serious, yet anyone can gain insights from the practice of it.

 
RAJA-YOGA

 

To explain it more completely, raja-yoga, sometimes called astanga-yoga, is the eightfold path leading to liberation. It is also called the royal (raja) way. It is one of the most popular systems of yoga today. The process involves calming all mental agitation, which gradually helps the meditator to fuse with the objects of meditation by supraconscious concentration. The process is divided into eight basic steps.
The first step is yama, the essential moral commandments. This means to avoid violence, lying, stealing, greed, possessiveness, and a lack of celibacy.
The second step is niyama or preparation and discipline for self-realization. This involves austerity or undergoing physical hardships for a higher result, along with study of scriptural texts, purity of mind and body, contentment, and devoting all one’s activities to God. Yama means the things to avoid and niyama means the practice one must do. Together they help keep the yogi’s passions quiet and stilled and keep him in harmony with nature.
The third step is asana, or posture for meditation, often used in hatha-yoga. Asanas help steady the mind and promote health. Asanas are exercises, some simple and some quite advanced, that can be performed alone with minimal equipment, like a blanket or mat, fresh air, and room to move around, preferably outdoors. Different asanas develop and affect different nerves, muscles, and organs of the body and keep the system strong, limber, and free from disease. Thus, the body becomes a fit instrument for spiritual development. Learning asanas can also help in other systems of yoga, too, and helps keep the body in a good, healthy condition. We will not elaborate on the different kinds of asanas one can learn since there are many books available that explain these.
The fourth step is pranayama, breath control for fixing the mind in concentration. Prana means life or energy, and also can mean spirit. Ayama indicates the length and retention of breath between inhalation and exhalation, and control of the prana within the body. Since it is considered that a person is born with a certain number of allotted breaths in a lifetime, the yogi learns breath control to strengthen the respiratory system, soothe the nerves and steady the mind for meditation, and prolong one’s life. Simply by controlling one’s breathing a person can steady the beating of his heart. When one’s breathing is not smooth, the mind is also usually unsteady and easily agitated. So as one learns pranayama, the mind becomes equipoised and free from the pulling of the senses. It can also clean the nadis (subtle pranic channels) and open the pranic currents, as well as decrease the unwanted inner mental activity.
The fifth step is pratyahara, control of the senses and checking the mind’s attraction to external objects. It is necessary to control the senses to advance in yoga, and in pratyahara the yogi analyzes the mind’s attraction for external objects. By the use of his study and cultivated knowledge, he recognizes that sensual delights lead to one’s destruction, and the path of sense control leads to his salvation. By intelligently adjusting his consciousness, the yogi gives up sensual desires in order to achieve the proper frame of mind and freedom from the modes of nature to pursue successfully the goal of yoga.
The sixth step is dharana, concentrating on the object of meditation. However, it is more than mere concentration. It is becoming so absorbed in one’s focus on something that a person becomes oblivious to everything else. When the mind has been completely stilled by the previous steps, the yogi can totally concentrate on a single object of meditation. The seventh step is dhyana, when the mind is in a state of undisturbed flowing meditation. In this stage the mind takes on the likeness of the object being meditated on, and in his contemplation of the Supreme Brahman the yogi remains in that state of supreme bliss.
The eighth and final step is samadhi, in which, according to the eightfold path, the yogi becomes one with the Supreme. Samadhi means the absorption in the balanced, eternal awareness or knowledge. This is the state of Self-realization for the individual. It is when a person becomes free of ego, bodily identification, sense perception, mental activity, and all time and space. This allows for one’s consciousness to achieve its natural state of nonduality. This is in reference to the way the mind interferes with our perception of things around us and, thus, rather than seeing everything as parts of the Divine energy of God, we see the world of names, forms, images, desires, goals, and temporary illusions. In this state of being, we become absorbed in the finite and unaware or forgetful of the Infinite. In reaching the state of samadhi, we attain the Infinite. In Kundalini-yoga, the state of samadhi is considered the union of the kundalini or shakti, the female energy, with Shiva, the universal male energy. This union takes place in the top chakra, the Sahasrara Chakra.
So in the state of samadhi, the knower and the known, the seer and the seen, the soul and the Supersoul, become one. Thus, the yogi loses all individuality and merges into the Supreme or in thoughts of the Supreme. This is the result of reaching perfection on this particular path of yoga.
We should point out, however, that the path to samadhi through this eightfold system is arduous. Each of the eight steps calls for its own rigorous discipline. As in any science, if you do not follow the procedure properly, you do not get the results. Furthermore, such practices of mechanically trying to completely subdue or control the mind and senses by long, difficult exercises in sitting, breathing, sense control, etc., are nearly impossible for anyone to perfect in this age in which there are so many sensual and mental distractions. Nonetheless, through such attempts the mind may indeed become tamer, quieter, and various minor insights are possible. And the practice of this form of yoga with the use of pranayama can still provide a variety of benefits, depending on how deeply a person can enter into it. It can still show how best to still the mind so that real meditation can take place. The point is that in this sort of yoga, as established in the Yoga-sutras of Patanjali, the real goal is to become free from the dictations and disturbances of the mind. This can help us distance ourselves from the external drama in which we always find ourselves and the constant conversation that goes on in our mind. And once you are free of the mind, real concentration and meditation can begin. It can also bring some peacefulness into our lives and insights into our real identity. It can even lead to experiences in which we can perceive a higher state of consciousness. In that state of mind, whatever system we use to meditate on God can be more effective.
Once the mind has been brought to a suitable condition for meditation by performing this type of yoga, still the goal of yogis may differ. Some yogis meditate on God with the intent of merging into the body of God, or to become God or equal to God, as explained in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Others meditate on God as a form of service or devotion to God, which brings us to bhakti-yoga.

 
BHAKTI-YOGA

 

Bhakti-yoga, the process of simply developing devotional service to the Lord, is highly recommended in the Srimad-Bhagavatam as the ultimate end of understanding Vedanta. Bhakti is the unifying principle of all yoga systems, but in such texts as the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam it is the prime avenue for developing one’s loving relationship with the Lord. This is what especially paves the way for freeing oneself from the attractions and attachments to the temporary material world, and, thus, provides the means for genuine liberation from the repeated cycle of birth and death in this cosmic manifestation. Bhakti-yoga is a system that is highly recommended for this age of Kali-yuga and is generally practiced by the followers of Vedanta called Vaishnavas, or worshipers of Vishnu or Krishna. It is by far the easiest of all the yoga processes and has fewer requirements for the practitioners than any other process. Bhakti is the yoga that begins, continues, and ends with love and devotion to the Supreme. There is no stronger binding mechanism than love, and spiritual love is the natural sentiment that emanates from God and connects the living beings to God. Thus, it is said that attaining this sentiment of devotion to God holds the sum and substance of all other yoga processes and religions. This path is so powerful that even married people may practice it successfully, while in other systems of yoga it is expected that one should be celibate. There are no extreme austerities to undergo; yet, the results are sublime. It is a scientific method of expanding one’s consciousness to perceptions of unlimited joy and inner peace. Bhakti-yoga brings complete fulfillment to those who seriously practice it, and gives realizations and a perception of one’s real identity as a spiritual being, and what one’s relationship is with the Absolute. It also can be practiced anywhere at anytime.
In bhakti-yoga there is not much concern about the chakras and the practice for raising the life energy up the Sushumna nadi or freeing oneself of the subtle body, as we find in some yoga processes. The reason for this is explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.25.33), which states that bhakti, devotional service, dissolves the subtle body of the living entity without separate effort, just as fire in the stomach digests all that we eat. In other words, being fixed in devotional service, which itself is a direct way of engaging in eternal spiritual activities, the yogi burns up the five coverings of the gross and subtle body, which includes the mind, as he or she becomes more and more spiritualized. Thus, there is no need to struggle in the separate endeavor of trying to open the various chakras within the subtle body or becoming free of it if the subtle body is automatically dissolved.
In this way, the bhakti-yogi naturally becomes free from ignorance, attachment to the body, false egotism, and material consciousness, and can rapidly reach the spiritual platform. In the deeper levels of bhakti-yoga, when the subtle body begins to dissolve, there is a decreasing amount of interference from the mind until there is unity between the spiritual dimension, in which the soul exists, and the loving devotional service to God that is performed by the body and consciousness. Thus, the physical and subtle bodies become spiritually surcharged as a vessel in which the soul serves God. Therein, whatever anarthas or faults and unnecessary attractions and distractions we have, or samskaras such as mental impressions or memories of both pleasant times and heartache that we may have experienced from previous relationships, all become dissolved by the overbearing ecstasy of our reawakened loving relationship with Krishna. It is like a slate wiped clean from all previous markings. In this way, a person becomes absorbed in pure consciousness and, thus, is said to become a pure devotee. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (14.26) where it states that one who engages in full devotional service and does not fall down transcends the material modes and reaches Brahman, the spiritual strata.
So, this process merely uncovers and releases the true loving potential of the soul. This inherent potential for full and unconditional love lies deep within all of us and is our ultimate motivation for all that we do. Motivated by our need to love and be loved, when that need is interpreted through the body it becomes perverted and mistaken for the need of bodily affection or sensual desire, lust. When freed from this bodily and mental influence, the true needs of the soul stand revealed. This is an impetus for spiritual love, beyond all bodily desires, a pure love for God and all that is His.
The way this works is that within our material body and senses are our spiritual senses, which are lying dormant. They have no spiritual engagement while covered by matter. Devotional service, and the ultimate goal of any other yoga or religious system, involves freeing our real senses from the confines of matter and material consciousness, and engaging them in direct spiritual activities to the Supreme. When the contamination of materialistic consciousness has been removed and the senses act in purified God consciousness, we then have reached our eternal sensory activities which are spiritual and in relation with our real identity as an eternal spiritual servant of the Supreme Spirit. Eternal spiritual activities means to engage in serving the Supreme, our natural occupation, while temporary material activities means to engage in the attempt to satisfy our dull mind and senses, which keeps us a prisoner within matter.
While the yogis of other processes are struggling hard to control artificially their mind and senses, the senses of the bhakti-yogi are automatically controlled and purified by engagement in devotional service. When the mind and consciousness are attracted to the Supreme Being through the attraction of love and service, it becomes easy to remain in such concentration without any other regulations, austerities, or mechanical processes.
One example of this from the Vedic literature is of Visvamitra. He was a great yogi, seriously practicing and performing many austerities. However, even though in deep meditation, simply by hearing the tinkling ankle bells of a beautiful woman walking nearby, named Menaka, he fell from his yogic trance and had sex with her. After many years of living with Menaka he realized the futility of his position. He angrily gave up married life and again took to his yogic practices. However, when Haridasa Thakura was tempted by a prostitute while engaged in bhakti-yoga and chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, he did not fall down. In fact, while the woman waited for hours in hopes of having sex with Haridasa, she became purified by hearing his chanting. She then gave up her interest in sex and also took up bhakti-yoga. Therefore, by experiencing a higher taste, Haridasa Thakura was successful. This is the advantage of engaging in bhakti-yoga. This is confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.25.43-44), which states that those yogis who have spiritual knowledge and have renounced material interests engage in devotional service to the lotus feet of the Supreme Being for their eternal happiness. With their minds fixed in such devotional love and service, they are easily able to enter the spiritual kingdom. This, as it says, is the only means for one to attain the final perfection of life.
Therefore, those yogis or mystics who engage in devotional yoga are considered first-class because, while living in this material universe, they engage in the same devotional activities that are going on within the Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual sky. Thus, they have already attained their natural transcendental position. There is no higher perfection than this.
Presently, in bhakti-yoga the Vaishnava sect is one of the three major divisions of Hinduism, the others being Shaivism and Shakta. Vaishnavas have four major sects: the Ramanujas founded by Ramanujacharya; the Madhvas founded by Madhvacharya; the Vallabhas founded by Vallabhacharya; and the Gaudiya sampradaya, founded by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is regarded as an incarnation of Krishna Himself. This is the path that is most clearly enunciated by Srila Vyasadeva within the teachings of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, and is the process for the complete form of God-realization and liberation that is indicated in all the essential Vedic texts.

 
MANTRA-YOGA

 

To explain briefly, mantra-yoga is one of the oldest forms of yoga and is an easy system for enlightenment. It is recommended as the best means for focusing the mind on the Supreme in this age of Kali, so it is easily used in other forms of yoga and spiritual processes, such as in bhakti-yoga. The word mantra literally means to deliver the mind. The instrument used to accomplish this is the secret power of vibrations arranged in a particular formula, called a mantra. Different mantras have different purposes. Some bring happiness, some fulfill material desires, some are used in the worship of various demigods, some simply focus and steady the mind, some help raise the life energy up through the chakras, while others are incantations for casting spells and so on. But mantras used for spiritual enlightenment release vital energy, strengthen the mind, and prepare the consciousness for perceiving higher realms of existence.
Since it is especially difficult to void the mind of all sensual input in this day and age, and with so many distractions that invade our mind, the best way to concentrate on the higher vibrations and spiritual energy, making way for contact with God, is to fill the mind with the spiritual vibrations. This is the purpose and the advantage of mantra-yoga. By concentrating on the mantra, the mind associates with the energy within it and takes on the characteristics found within the sound vibration. The more powerful a mantra is, the more it can invoke the higher energies in the mind and consciousness. In this way, the mind can be purified by the spiritual vibrations within the mantra. One who chants a mantra generally repeats it a particular number of times each day while using a string of beads like a rosary. Mantra-yoga is a deep science and much more study can be given to it. It is especially useful in the practice of bhakti-yoga, and one of the most recommended mantras for this age is the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.

 
CONCLUSION

 

So with this brief introduction to the main spiritual paths that are offered in Vedic culture, not to mention many other types of yoga and philosophical outlooks found within the Vedic system, we can see that there is something for everyone. And this is regardless of a person’s area of interest, type of consciousness, mental makeup, or what level of the Absoulte Truth or aspects of the Supreme Being a person wants to realize. In any one of these paths, a person is still considered part of the Vedic process or a follower of Sanatana-dharma. Furthermore, this also has nothing to do with the background, ethnicity, race, or country in which one lives. These are based on the universal truths that are applicable to anyone. The Vedic system respects that. Thus, this is practically non-denominational. Anyone can pick up whatever part of this path that fits one the best and move forward to become as progressed as he or she can be. This is the unique nature of the Vedic culture and its spiritual knowledge.

 

The hoax of Aryan-Dravidian divide

From: agniveer@gmail.com

Adapted from http://agniveer.com/5379/aryan-invasion/

Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT), which today having been rechristened as Indo – Aryan Migration (IAM) theory (given that the original position is no longer tenable) is the largest myth that was ever propagated by historians with vested interests that still retain vestiges to their Western paymasters. In this post the scope is restricted to visiting Veda samhitas and Tamil literary works from the Sangam period that render the AIT / IAM theories redundant. This post will also show the integrated, continuous nature of the deities that were worshipped from the now parched Saraswati river basin and the Vaigai river basin in Madura, Tamilnadu. We are taking Tamil as representative of Dravidian languages because, unlike the other 3 Southern states, it is in Tamil Nadu that the political and societal idea of Aryan / Dravidian divide is more vocally and visibly pronounced.

Note: We are merely exploring historical and literary traditions here and do not attempt to analyze any method of worship.

The hoax of Aryan-Dravidian divide

Rig Veda does not give even a shred of evidence of any invasion or migration to have taken place from outside or the Rishis of Vedas having been part of expeditions into India from somewhere else. But Indologists and apologists of AIT / IAM use Rig Veda to try to establish their standpoint.

They use the invocation of Indra by Angiras family of Rishis to slay the likes of Dasyus and Panis as evidences that an invading Aryan army slaughtered the aborigines of India that were Dravidians.

Before we move ahead let us establish what Dravida means.

In Sanskrit, it loosely means liquid like or watery. The root word for this is Drava in Sanskrit.

And importantly, in Tamil, the word Dravidian or Dravida hardly gets mentioned in the Sangam literature of Tamils.

The corpus of Sangam literature is the most authentic chronicling of the life, times, theology, events, wars, business, natural calamities, Tamil grammar etc of the Tamils starting from 600 BC to 200 AD. To put it in another way, if hypothetically the invading Aryans pushed the Dravidians South of Vindyas and killed many Dravidians (based on Rig Veda), the earliest Tamil literary works obviously ought to have mentioned the mayhem in the so called Dravidian literary works of the Sangam age.

The Tamil literary works started using the word “Dravida” only in the 9th century AD but that too only in the context of linguistics. And a Tamil lexicon of the 9th century AD called “Senthan Divakaram” uses Dravidam to denote Tamil.

This itself is sufficient to realize that the whole Dravida story is a modern hoax without any historical basis. In fact it was only in late 19th century that Robert Caldwell, a proclaimed evangelist who came to India for sole purpose of proselytization and spreading Christianity, first used the word ‘Dravidian’ to further his agenda. And then the term took political colors. And once politicized, it is always in benefit of all political forces to keep the myth alive so that they can cook their rotis.

The hoax of evidence from Rig Veda

Now, let us move to understanding how the AIT / IAM apologists use Dasyus to claim that invading Aryans slaughtered the so called native Dasyus and let us also explore a few questions. The apologists point to Rig Veda 10/48, where, Indra is seen to have destroyed Dasyus, Vrtras and Panis with his might, captured wealth and also mentions that those in his company will not be felled.

But what the apologists do not delve into is to understand the characterization of the likes of Dasyus , Vrtras and Panis (the last 2 being a kind of Dasyu) in Rig Veda. Who are the Dasyus?

When we look up Rig Veda 1/33/1 – 10, it becomes obvious that the wealth that Indra captures is actually knowledge.

RV/1/33/1 ends with “gavam ketam param avarjate nah”. It means supreme knowledge of the luminous cows. And the whole verse means – come let us go seeking the cows to Indra, it is he that increases the thought in us, for us, he releases supreme knowledge of the luminous cows.

Let us first understand, in Vedas, those that do the Soma pressing or other Vedic sacrifices for divinities are called yajyu. The divinities to whom these sacrifices are offered are called yajata. The yaju by virtue of his goodwill is sukratu. Sukratus by virtue of their works find the “divine word” and having found the divine word, a sukratu becomes the singer of the word.

But Dasyu is the opposite principle of both Sukratu and Yajyu. Dasyu is also called “A”yajyu (opposite of Yajyu).And interestingly an Ayajyu is a hater of the singer of the divine word (this quality is Ayajyu called brahmadvisa) and IMPORTANTLY an Ayajyu is ANASA (has no mouth to speak) and has no mental faculties (Amanyamana). And across the Vedas the Dasyus like Panis and Vritras withhold the kine (the kine are not physical cows and sheep but they point to knowledge) and this kine has to be forcefully extracted with Indra’s help by man. And in another place in RV, it is stated that Panis (a type of Dasyu), plunders and steals the cows and hides them in his cave. With the help of Indra the knowledge, the luminous cows are secured by man. RV/6/51/14 calls Indra to destroy the Panis and equates Panis to wolf.

And let us also look at a few more items that Indra won by destroying Dasyus, as per western indologists.

RV/3/34/7-10:

7 Lord of the brave, Indra who rules the people gave freedom to the Gods by might and battle. Wise singers glorify with chanted praises these his achievements in Vivasvan’s dwelling.

8 Excellent, Conqueror, the victory-giver, the winner of the light and Godlike Waters,He who hath won this broad earth and this heaven, -in Indra they rejoice who love devotions.

9 He gained possession of the Sun and Horses, Indra obtained the Cow who feedeth many.Treasure of gold he won; he smote the Dasyus, and gave protection to the Aryan colour.

10 He took the plants and days for his possession; he gained the forest trees and air’s mid-region.Vala he cleft, and chased away opponents: thus was he tamer of the overweening.

Indra secures forest trees, mid air, plants and days.

Now, if Dasyus were HUMAN non-Aryan tribes, how come Indra secures the DAYS and MID-AIR from mortals?

The allegory of Dasyus continues in the Rig Veda, where, Indra then actually chases Dasyus out of heaven and earth by the power of his thunderbolt. Indra’s greatness keeps increasing and the luminosity of Indra leaves Dayus with nowhere to hide. Indra recovers the lost Sun and as this Sun rises, it illuminates the caves where Vala (a type of Dasyus) has hidden the luminous cows.

So we clearly have a scenario that completely contradicts the possibility of Dasyus ever being Dravidian tribes that Indra destroyed.

The Rig Veda based attempts to prop up the non-existent AIT/IAM falls flat. Rest assured Dravidians (of AIT/IAM) do have noses and are able to speak and are intelligent people unlike the Dasyus of Rig Veda.

For more on Vedas and Dasyu, please refer http://agniveer.com/839/vedas-dasyu-hinduism/

Evidence from Sangam Literature

Now let us travel to Tamil / Dravidian land to see if Tamils were really people that were completely different from the so called Aryans and if they showed signs of being brutalized by invading Aryans.

While there are extensive works that fall under the Sangam literature, let us pick some of the most important works to see what the Dravidians worshipped as their deities.

It is important to note that Sangam literature categorizes land into Mullai (forests), Kurinchi (hills), Marudam (Farm lands), Neidal (Sea Coast) and Palai (Barren).

Tolkappaiyam mentions the following as the presiding deities of these lands – Mullai: Tirumal (Vishnu), Kurinchi: Seyon (or Kumara / Murugua/Kartikeya), Marudam: Vendan (Indra), Neidal: Varunan (Varuna) and Palai: Korravai (Shakti).

Another key Sangam literary work called Purananuru talks about the legend of Lord Shiva destroying the three cities (Tripura Samhara). Shiva is said to have taken the lofty Meru mountain in his hand as bow and with the terrific serpent as bow string and a single arrow destroyed the cities sending them into into flames. And the deity of Seyon (Kumara / Kartikeya), is repeatedly seen across Purananuru and Ahananuru as being the progeny of Shiva.

This ties us back to Agni,the Kumara, template of the Puranic  Kartikeya, being an aspect of Rudra.

Some AIT / IAM apologists try to make Shiva to be an exclusive Dravidian deity to keep the theory running.

Shiva of Puranas is derived from aspects of Rudra of Vedas.

In Vedas, if you delve deeper into attributes of Rudra, across Rig Veda or the Rudram / Chamakam sections of Yajur Veda, a common set of attributes is easy to be seen.

And Shiva is all but one aspect of Rudra that is mentioned in Rudram / Chamakam. While the usage of Rudra has been replaced at large by Shiva, the attributes of Vedic Shiva / Rudra and those described in works like Periya Puranam of Tamil literature are the same.

In places like Tiruvannamalai or Chaidmabaram, in addition to Thevaram, Rudram / Chamakam is also recited, if Shiva of Tamils and Shiva or Puranas / Vedas are different.

If anything, the Taittriya Samhita of Yajur Veda (where Rudram / Chamakam occurs) is a tradition that is living primarily in Tamil Nadu, AP and Karataka, today.

Conclusion

From this small attempt to put things in perspective, it is very easy to understand that the AIT/IAM, based on Rig Veda and the premier Tamil Sangam literary works is a farce. If anything, it is easy to see that this great land has been inhabited by people that belong to the same Vedic family.

Differences based on linguistics, skin color, local culture, cuisines etc are being played up by vested interests today, as it were done 150 years ago.

To repeat it, this land was inhabited by followers of the same Vedic Dharma until the early part of last millennium.

P.S: We have not even touched the theological works of Alwars (Vaishnavites) and Nayanmars (Shaivites) to establish the oneness of the Vedic dharma of this land. If one reviews the entire hoax of AIT and Dravida-Arya divide would fall flat as creative fantasies of a drowsy mind after an extra peg!

 

The Enemy Within

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Rabinder Koul <arrk00@ameritech.net> wrote:

The Enemy Within

 The struggle for the survival of the Bhartiya Sanskruti is not an ordinary struggle, by all symptoms it is a war. In which one side of the combatants are those who love and adore their Sanskritee like their very Mother. They want to nurture it and step in to future with this sanskritee as its anchor. The other side, the one in opposition is composed of four groups, even though in actuality they only three in number. The only commonality among these three is their hate for the BhAratiya sanskritee and their dream of destroying it. They have nothing else in common; in fact they will struggle to destroy each other once they succeed in their first goal. These three are Christists, Islamists, and the Indian Communists, not necessarily in that order.

Indian communists think they can survive and progress with out KEEPING PAST AS ITS ANCHOR effectively starting from a clean slate and developing a communist state. Even with out starting from a clean slate, the communists have failed everywhere. They will definitely fail if the nation has no roots, no identity, no heroes from past no ethos of its own, no pride and strength from its past. A nation, who has been struggling by trying to negate its past and trying to borrow a new identity, is Pakistan and Bangladesh. Both are failed states, they have no national pride rooted in the achievements of its long past. For everything a Pakistani could be proud of, they want to throw away is of Hindu (I include Buddhists, Jains, etc) in origins, and the rest which they want to own, falls in the domain of foreign countries. Hence their constant struggles to borrow that foreign identity from Arabia/Turkey etc. Communist India, with a clean slate will be even worse. The national character can not be built from the ruins with a negative self-image.

This group, in their personal arrogance, is burdened under the shame of recent history. They feel no sense of association with the past and want to destroy that past so that their colonial masters give them a dog-biscuit as a reward.  They form a core group of the opposition and are formidable and dangerous opponents, as they use and are used in turn, by foreign Hindu haters in pushing their agenda. That these groups have been systematically looking towards their foreign masters for their orders was made amply clear by the recent declassification of secret files from Soviet Union, the Mitrokhin Archives, and the moneys they receive from China. It is also evident from their role during the (physical) independence struggle from the colonial rule. (We still need mental independence from the colonial and Islamic period).

The other two groups in opposition, for the obvious reasons of converting the Hindu Nation, are Islamists and the Christists. They are clearly on the path of subversion of the Hindu sanskritee, as these are dictates of their faith. In the process they also gain suzerainty over the civilizational colonies.

Of these three the Indian communists are the most dangerous as they form constitutes an enemy who is not only living among us but may be living in the same homes as us. This enemy becomes doubly difficult to tackle effectively; as it will involve our own households.

If we have to win this war, it has to be won on many fronts, intellectual, Political, economic, ideological and public relations. It will require Kama, Krodha, Bhedha, Dandha and use of every other means to win this war. The least every one of us who loves our civilization is to be aware of these communists and do not give them a safe ground to stand on. I think they must be shunned, boycotted, condemned, and exposed at each and every level. There can be compromises made only at the cost of our own peril. They must feel to be on the defensive, so that people like Nilotpal Basu can not expect to get away with out paying the price of subverting the Bhartiya Sanskritee. It is one thing to have an opinion, but yet another thing to act adversely to impact the very idea of a civilization.

Here are the two examples, which has deeper consequences of the sense of Nations hood.

http://dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=oped&file_name=opd1%2Etxt&counter_img=1

http://dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=oped&file_name=opd3%2Etxt&counter_img=3

http://dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=oped&file_name=opd2%2Etxt&counter_img=2

 

Who Discovered Americas?
Who Discovered Americas?

Written by Vrndavan Parker
The Hindus were mighty navigators and pioneers of culture centuries before Columbus was born. They established their cultural empires in Java, Bali, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, Cambodia, Champa, Annam and Siam and ruled there until after the 14th century.

WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA?
Writer : Chaman Lal

As the seeds of herbs and trees are carried to distant places by wind and birds, so in ancient times mankind and culture spread over the world through the tides of great Indian and Pacific oceans. The Hindus were mighty navigators and pioneers of culture centuries before Columbus was born. They established their cultural empires in Java, Bali, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, Cambodia, Champa, Annam and Siam and ruled there until after the 14th century. Evan today Cambodia’s King bears the title of the great Varman rulers of India, and Bali has a Hindu Raja. Hindu migration to America was vigorous from the first to the twelfth century A.D.

Cambodia, the ancient Kamboja, was one of the earliest to receive the culture of India. The name of its river Me Kong was derived from Ma Ganga (mother Ganges). In the first century A.D. a Brahman called Kaundinya came to Kamboja from Kanchi, the capital of Pallava kings in South India, married the Kamboja Princess Soma and was elected king of the country. Champa, at present Vietnam, figures prominently in the story of India’s cultural expansion. Vietnam was the footboard for the pilgrims to America. A prince of Kalinga (Orissa) founded the Hindu State of Java in the first century A. D. Java is the ancient Yava Dveepa mentioned in the Ramayana and other Sanskrit texts. Bali Dveepa is still a stronghold of Hinduism. Borneo is the ancient Suvarna Dveepa or Sri Vijaya. On the Indonesian national flag still flutters our Garuda. From Angkor Vat to America Hinduism and its gods and temples have left their imprint. Siam was the centre of Hindu culture for centuries and boasts of rulers with names such as Rama, Praja Deepak and Dharmaraja. The same pioneers of culture who ruled such large areas in the Pacific for fourteen centuries also went to far off Mexico and Peru and established cultural empires.
Ship-building

Indian ship-building had developed at least 2000 years ago and according to Dr. Ekholm, Director of the Museum of Natural History in New York, and Dr. Robert Heine Geldern, there appears to be little doubt that ship-building and navigation were sufficiently advanced in southern and eastern Asia at the period in question to have made trans-Pacific voyages possible. As early as the time of Ptolemy in the second century A. D., Indian ships sailed to the Malayan Peninsula and Indonesia not eastwise but across the Bay of Bengal. In the third century horses were exported from India to the Malayan Peninsula and Indo-China on indication that there must have been ship of of considerable size.When the Chinese Buddhist scholar Fattein return from India around A.D. 400 he embarked on a ships which carried more than 200 sailors and merchants and which therefore must have been larger than the ships of Columbus and early Spanish explorers.””Ships of that size able to cross the Indian Ocean and the China Sea with their dangerous cyclones could certainly cross the Pacific as well.””According to French and British historians the Hindus excelled in the art of constructing ships and for centuries the British and the French borrowed from the Hindus many improvements in the naval architecture.
Only two authorities will suffice:

“”In ancient times the Indians excelled in the art of constructing vessels, and the present Hindus can, in this respect, still offer models to Europe, so much so that the English, attentive to everything which relates to naval architecture, have borrowed from the Hindus many improvements which they have adopted with success to their own shipping. The Indian vessels unite elegance and utility, and are models of patience and fine workmanship.”” (Les Hindus- P. 181).

“”Indian vessels are so admirably adapted to the purpose for which they are required that, notwithstanding their superior science, Europeans were unable, during an intercourse with India for two centuries , to suggest or to bring into successful practice one improvement.”” (Sir John Malcolm, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 1)
Astec Calendar

The fact that the Hindus were capable of sailing to far off countries like Mexico and Peru is proved by the official historien of Mexico, who in his book published by the Mexican Foreign Office.

“”Those who first arrived on the continent later to be known as America were groups of men driven by that mighty current that set out from India towards the east.””

The U. S. Ambassador Miles Poindexter states in his book The Ayar-Incas that primitive Aryan words and people came to America especially from Indo-Arya by the island chains of Polynesia. The very name of the boat in Mexico is a South Indian (Tamil) word: Catamaran.

After 17 years of research I can now claim to have proved my theory of Hindu colonisation of America. The stones in every corner of America speak of Hindu influences.

Let us begin with the Astec calendar known as the Astec Chakra of the Hindu Astronomers. It is the foundation stone of Hindu culture in America. The ancient Americans believe in the four Hindu ages (Yugas or cycles). This Astec calendar (of Hindu origin) depicts the Hindu ages of the world. Mackenzie, author of Myths of Pre-Columbian America, says, “”The doctrine of the world’s ages (Hindu Yugas) was imported into pre-Columbian America. The Mexican sequence is identical with the Hindus. It would be ridiculous to assert that such a strange doctrine was of spontaneous origin in different parts of old and new worlds.”” The very sculpture of the Sun in this calendar bears the imprint of India.
Game of Pachisi

Witness the complicated game of Pachisi as it is played in India and Mexico. Seventy years ago Edward Taylor pointed out that the ancient Mexican game of Patolli was similar in its details to the game of Pachisi played in India and the whole region of Southern Asia. “”It seems clear,”” he wrote, “”that the Mexican game must have come from Asia.”” Subsequently Stewart Culin showed that even the cosmic meaning of the Mexican game, its relation to the four quarters of the world and to the calendars ascribed to them was essentially the same as in Pachisi. Dr. Kroeber, leading anthroplogist of California, observes that “”the mathematical probability of two games invented separately, agreeing by chance in so many specific features, is very low. The close correspondence between the rules of the two games indicates a real connection.”” Dr. Kroeber however could not find more evidence to link India with America and decided to leave the issue unsolved expressing the hope that fuller and more accurate knowledge would some day solve the dilemma. Dr. Robert Heine Geldern, the famous anthropologist of Vienna, and Dr. Gordon F. Ekholm have now presented enough evidence to support the thesis that Americans had definite cultural links with the people of South-East Asia at least 2000 years ago.

The Lotus Motif

Their researches in the last three years support the theses. I presented 26 years ago in my book Hindu America. They begin with the lotus in India and Mexico. (Lotus is one of the most sacred symbols of India. Hinduism is essentially embodied in the lotus. One of the most frequent motifs of early Indian art is the lotus plant.) The same kind of lotus motif occurs in America at Chichen Itza (Mexico) as a border in the reliefs of the lower room of the Temple of the Tigers. “”It is certainly remarkable that in India as well as in Middle America, the rhizome, a part of the plant not normally visible because it is submerged and deeply buried in mud should have been the basic element of a whole motif and, moreover, be stylized in the same unrealistic manner as an undulating creeper.”” The two learned anthroplogists are definitely of the view that “” such a combination of highly specific details cannot be accidental. It suggests the existence of some kind of relationship between Maya art and not only Buddhist art in general but the school of Amravati of the second century A. D. in particular.””

The most obtrusive factor in the customs and beliefs of the Maya civilization according to experts is unquestionably Indian. Maya architecture bears unmistakable seal of Hindu architecture as you can see from the picture of Maya palaces and temples.

Atlantean figures appear in India in the second century B. C. They played an important role in Indian art and are found even on very recent Siamese temple. In America they can be seen at Thula in Central Mexico and Chichen Itza. Gods and ceremonial figures standing on crouched human figures are found in India from the second century B. C. onwards. In Central America they occurred in many Maya sculptures, especially at Palenque. From Sanchi to Central America the pattern is similar.

Those anthropologists who until yesterday completely denied any contact between ancient America and Asia are much perturbed today to find that their so-called ‘cross’ of Palenque (Mexico) is no longer a cross but an exact copy of the Hindu Tree of Life on Mount Meru (Sumeru), the mythological centre of the world. A representation of the Hindu Tree of Life is presented in a shadow play from Java. This depicts the Hindu celestial tree on Mount Meru. This Javanese specimen and the so-called Mexican cross have the same demonic figure in the centre and branches of the tree are clearly visible even to a layman. Javanese specimens are of course recent but the fact that the motif appears in an already highly conventionalised among the reliefs of Angkor Vat in Cambodia about the middle of the 12th century indicates that it must be of considerable antiquity. We find stairways flanked by serpent-balustrades in South-East Asia and Middle America. The use of half columns flanking the doors and of groups of small columns set in panels in characteristic of Cambodian architecture. Highly similar combinations appear in certain Maya buildings.

Common Ceremonial

Most of you in India are familiar with the Charak Puja ceremonial observed in Bengal and several States in South India. This Hindu Ceremonial also observed in Mexico historian call it the mexicon and peru. The Spanish Valador ritual. A relief of Bayon central temple of Angkor Thom in Cambodia represents a rite similar to the Mexico Valador. The use of parasol (Chhatra) is an age-old sign of royalty and rank in India, Burma, China and Japan. The Maya Astec and the Incas also used it as a sign of royalty. Frescoes of Chak Multum in Yucatan show two types of parasols both of which correspond to types still in use in South-East Asia.

In reading descriptions of the palace and court of the Astec emperors of Mexico, any one familiar with South-East Asia cannot fail to be reminded of the courts of Burma, Siam and Cambodia. The same applied to the form of government. Thus the institution of four chief officials in Mexico and Peru corresponds to the four ministers of state and Governors of the four quarters of the Kingdom in Hindu Buddist empires of South-East Asia. In both cases this institution is based on cosmological principles. This indicates similar pictorial story of the Hindu Buddist origins in the field of art, religious architecture, government, kingship, cosmology and mythology proves close cultural contacts between ancient India and countries of South-East Asia with the countries of Central and South America. Dr. Robert Gelern and Dr. Ekholm have come to the following conclusion:

“”The large number of highly specific correspondences in so many fields precludes any reponsibility of mere accidental coincidence nor would it help us to take refuge in any kind of explanation based on some alleged psychological laws. There is no psychologial law which could have caused the peoples on both sides of the Pacific to stylize the lotus plant in the same manner and to make it surge from the mouth of a jawless demon’s head, to invent the parasol and use it as a sign of rank and to invent the same complicated game (Pachisi). There is no explanation other than the assumption of cultural relationship. We must bow to the evidence of facts even tough this may mean a completely new start in our appraisal of the origin and development of the American Indian higher civilizations.””

The Ayar Rulers

The use of throne, the litre and of fans mounted standard like on long poles as insignia of rank and royalty in the countries of Central and South America bears the strong imprint of India. It may be observed here that the last Ayar ruler of Peru was carried in his palanquin on the day the Spaniards invaded Peru. His turban with the plume and his Mudra of the hand are unmistakable proofs of his Hindu origin. His four Ranis performed Sati after he was murdered by the Spaniards. A hundred Ayar rulers ruled Peru.

The Mexican national throne preserved in the National Museum of Mexico bears the typical Hindu Buddist disc of the Sun. The Mexicans also had the Hindu Simhasan (Lion throne). A scene of Buddha-Sangh as preserved in a relief temple in Java has its parallel in the famous pyramid temple in Piedras Negras, Guatemala. This is the finest piece of Maya sculpture in America. Is has no real incidence in Maya Arts history but it does have a remarkable similarity to a number of “”Life of Buddha reliefs”” of the Boro Budur in Java. There is no way of knowing what the subject matter of the American relief might be but the composition with the placing of the figures on several levels is very similar to the one in Java.

Images of Gods

India has the reputation to be the land of gods but Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia and Honduras had more gods and richer temples than we had in India at any time. Shiva, Ganesha, Indra, the Sun, Hanuman, Vishnu and his tortoise incarnation (Kurma Avatar) were some of the Hindu gods worshipped in central and South America. I present to you the galaxy of our Gods preserved in the museums of America. Here you can see Shiva, Ganesha and even his rat from the Inca mythology in Peru, Ganesha from the temple of Diego Riviera in Mexico City, various images of Hanuman and Shiva from the Guatemala Museum, Shiva Linga from Vera Cruz in Mexico City. The Mexican Vishnu in spite of his Mexican features can be easily recognised from the mace (Gada) and Chakra that he holds in his two hands. The image of Vishnu’s tortoise incarnation preserved by the United Fruit Line in the museum at Quiragua, Guatemala, is the greatest puzzle for anthropologists. They have named this image as the Turtle Stone although any one familiar with Hindu mythology can see that it is Vishnu’s Kurma Avatar (Tortoise incarnation). Indra is preserved in the Mexican National Museum as well as Vaman Avatar called the Diving God. There are two images of this Hindu God, one from Bali and the other from Mexico.

Hindu Rituals

The largest temple in Mexico City was the temple of Lord Shiva, the War God of the Mexican whom the Spanish invaders found entwined by golden snakes. This temple was built in the 15th century and had 3000 Deva-Dasis to perform religious ceremonials. The Mexican temple had the Gopuram style. Here you see a reconstruction of the same after it was destroyed by the Spaniards. The temples at Tikal in Mexico also bore the imprint of our famous temple at Madura. No wonder E. G. Squire in his American archaeological researches in 1851 wrote:

“”It is believed a proper examination of these monuments would disclose the fact that in their interior structure as well as in their exterior form and obvious purposes these buildings correspond with great exactness to those of Hindustan and the Indian Archipelago.

“”Sir Stamford Raflles wrote, “”The great temple of Borobudur might readily be mistaken for a Central American Temple.

“”From child-birth to cremation and Sati the Astecs observed almost all Hindu rituals including the Gurukula system of education followed in India. The Incas of Peru with Ayar Brahman ancestry observed the sacred thread ceremony, the ear-piercing ceremony all other Hindu rituals and rigidly observed the caste systems of India. It is not without reason that the Spanish author Lopez says in his book Le Races Aryans de Peru : “”Every page of peruvian poetry bears the imprint of Ramayana and Mahabharata.””

Sanskrit was the sacred language of the rulers and quichua the language of Peruvians. The Aryo-Quichua vocabulary prepared by Lopez proves it.

Original Source : Hindu America

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Blueprint for tackling jihad in India

Blueprint for tackling jihad in India

http://www.ivarta.com/columns/OL_051120.htm

Its conclusion:

Indian intelligence and military shouldn’t lose hope that the Indian Islamic fundamentalist problem has become a Frankenstein no one can tame. I firmly believe that with a right leader India can crush this jihad. In this war like situation all Indian institutions, especially its military, must play a role in help install a decisive and able leader. India now needs to wage war with mini-Pakistans within its territory and the soldiers of these Pakistans are none other than many Indian Muslim civilians! A successful de-islamization of India will automatically lead to unraveling of Pakistan and Bangladesh as their people will realize the futility of jihad and decide not to waste their lives as slaves of Arabs to wage endless jihad on their behalf to extend Islam’s frontiers. This will also create conditions to liberate Pakistan and Bangladesh – finally putting an end to Arab-Nazi expansionism in South Asia and win the war on terror in this part of the world.

Moorthy Muthuswamy PhD

We should not worship to the traitor, anti nationalists and pro Islamic and Anti Vedic opportunists

 

Whether the BHARTIYA CULTURE has been abrogated and subjugated by the bargaining powers?.

1.Whether the Creation Of Indian National Congress Party Was done as Play Boy Club by A.O.Hume?.

2. Whether Khilafat Movement started by Mahatma Gandhi along with Maulana Saukat Ali and Maulana Muhhamad Ali, as Symbolic Hindus Participation To Save Caliphate ( Prophet Mohammad Successors) was Anti Hindus?.

3. Whether Mahatma Gandhi had been working as an agents of Muslims forces by inducting him as British Agent to suppress the Voice of Nationalists Forces of Mahanmaya Madan Mohan Malviya, Great Bal Ganga Dhar Tilak , Laj pat Roy and Bipin Chandra Pal ?.

4. Whether the Clean chit given to Moplah Massacre’s Criminal Maulana Hasrat Mohani By Mahatma Gandhi Was not the beginning of genocides upon Hindus?.

5. Whether Mahatma Gandhi Support To Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad and Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan Was Crystallizing the division outlined a religious Separatists identity?

6. Whether Asif Ali Tribute To Abdul Rashid Killing Swami Sharddhanand Ji during Ailment and support of Mahatma Gandhi was not a Betrayal with Hindus?

7. Whether the Support of Mahatma Gandhi Inducting to Maulana Nehru as Prime Minister is not Constitutional Sin of creation of Article 29 and 30 on the edge of communal-ism Anti Nationalism?

8. Whether dissatisfaction of Mahatma Gandhi on the Victory of Neta ji Subhash Chandra Bose As President of Congress Party did not make him anti democratic?.

9. Why we should worship to the traitor, anti nationalists and pro Islamic and Anti Hindus opportunists, now exposed as sex oriented identity as MAHATMA GANDHI?.

Sri  Subhash Chandra Bose declared As war prisioner during his life time and his mysterious death by Nehru coordinations in siberian imprisonment by KGB,  Shyama Prasad Mukharjee tragic death in Kashmir,Lajl bahadur Shastri Murder at Tashkand by KGB, Smt. Indira Gandh nee Mamuna Begum W/o Firoj Jahangir Khan and Mohhamad Yunus  coordination with Smt.  Sonia Gandhi acceptance of her as Daughter in laws, Sri Deen dayal upadhaya murder at Mughal Sarai and Mr. Atal Bihari Bajpai relectance to conduct his post Mortum, Mr. Sanjay Gandhi Murder by Indira Gandhi as he started Black mailing her on account of her illicit relation with Dhirendra Brahmchari, Dropping of the Chargesheet for steealing the 34 antiques with help of Prabhakaran Firm, Smt. Sonia gandhi alleged involvement in the murder of Prasad, Rajesh piolat Madho Raj Sindhia Mysterious Assissnations. Strangely there after inducting both sons of Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri namely Anil Shashtri and Sunil shashtri in Indira Sonia Congress, Sons of Prasad , Shindhiya and Piolat ( converted to Muslim after marriage with Farhukh abdullah Daughter, all this shows that still if Gandhi continued to be MAHATMA, title given by Ravindra Nath Tegore , but withdrawn title  after Jalia Wala Kand Massacres, than Singapore diplomat Rightly Said. INDIANS ARE BASTARDS, HALF HIDDEN ; HALF PROJECTED BASTARDS

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Enough is enough. Without any perjured with any one, nor imposing any stigma upon any individual except to present system, the institutional and constitutional corruption orientation despotic anarchy, leading to Gandhi- Nehru Dynastical Monarchy, My heart is filled up with profound Bleeding. . From the attack on Parliament to the shocking fidayeen strike on Mumbai last year, scores of innocent men, women and children have fallen victim to terrorism. These attacks have also created a sense of insecurity among the people which also needs to be overturned and confidence restored. The soft policy of the Indian state has allowed terrorist cells to proliferate in the country and has enabled them to widen their ambit of operations by gathering funds, setting up training camps, and recruiting fresh foot-soldiers to their heinous cause Indian National Congress, headed by Sonia Gandhi,The people like Mr. Narain Dutt Tiwari, Involved in Sex Scandal’s were exercising the power of Section 197, 321 Cr. P.C.and the forfeiture of expression U/95 Cr. P. C., Justice Vijay Bahuguna Submitting Resignation as Judge of Bombay High Court On corruption charges, Mohammad Azhuuruddin in Cricket Match Fixing case,   Whether we can get the rid of the problem prevalent without getting independence of our Nation as the Dominion of British India,. Without being taken up our present parliamentarian so called democracy, Anglo Saxon jurisprudence making the litigants as specimen, Licensing, Quota System based upon monarchy. Whether  President of India Madame Pratibha Patil, who happened to be Cook inside the Kitchen of Indira Gandhi alias Mamuna Begum W/o Firoz Jahangir khan nee Gandhi  and Mohammad Yunus May be called as the true representative of people of India. Whether Mr. Man Mohan Singh is not the blot upon the identity of India, when he represent himself to be Prime Minister of INDIA.

 

Corruption in the name of Mahatma Gandhi is a justifiable excuse?.The constitution of India provides that the Comptroller and Auditor General of India shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal who shall not be removed from Office, except in the like manner and on the like grounds as a Judge of Supreme Court. The scheme of separation of accounts from audit was to be implemented in selective ministries e.g. communication, civil aviation, tourism, industries and civil supplies w.e.f April 1976, where the expansion regarding the expenditures and its audit was felt to be providing certain constraint and thereby resulting into the delay in implementation of the schemes at the relevant time. However by the gradual increase of the power with these ministries, the similar laxity in relation to the procedural safeguard was further provided the other ministries resulting into the defeat of the very purposes for which the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General was given the power through checks and balances. The effect of the aforesaid process has resulted in the departmentalization of union accounts enacted in 1976 and the transfer of personnel was given effect by the enforcement of the Act no 59 of 1976 from Indian Audit and Accounts departments which was earlier under the control of C.& AG to the newly formed department of Civil Accounts under the Controller General of Accounts under department of Expenditure ministry of Finance. In this manner the office of C& AG which was constituted under the scheme of the constitution of India to provide the restraint to the expenditure disproportionate from its own discretion by the relevant ministries was brought under the ministry of Finance and thereby giving the unbridle powers to the ministers and thereby overthrowing the constitutional mandate securing the safeguard over the whimsical expenditure. According to the legal opinion of the constitutional experts, the diversification of the financial powers to be utilised by the sole discretion of the bureaucrats without taking into consideration the Audit objections, which could have been made under the original constitutional scheme, was directly resulting into the notion of conferring the absolute power to the respective ministry. This was against the democratic, federal and republic set-up of our Constitution. The aforesaid concept of the parliamentarian democracy, providing the fraternity to an individual in preamble of the constitution, was an attack on its basic structure. This has led to an inadequate financial control which would have been benefited to the nation if such power were remained with C&AG in India That after coming over the constitution of India the Auditor General was designated as Comptroller Audit General of India under chapter V of the constitution. Now Quattro chi’s Red corner Notice was about to expire and proposed to come to an end without any action , or say due to inaction of Central bureau of investigation, the opinion was sought from Attorney General of India, his opinion was that it is not sustainable , as there is no warrant against this fugitive leaving behind the crime of Kickbacks in Bofors bribery case. His name was figured as middleman and his case was longest and Costliest in Indian Legal History. The charge against him was of 200 Carore Kickback in finalizing the Bofors Deal Between Indian Govt. and Sweden Gun Company. This was two decade old Bofors Scandal. Now another kickback of Misuse of C.B.I. and office of The Attorney General Of India. Every one know that if you are a relative of the super lady Sonia Gandhi, nothing can be done against, Quattrochi’s, as the ghost of Mahatma Gandhi is still providing her the shelter and support from the back side and Gandhi is synonymous to India for Indian people. If a rascal chooses the name of Mahatma, he is safe , but he chooses the name of Gandhi , he can rule this nation in emocratic process, as the people are still slave due to their hippocracy and superstition.  Every Politician in Congress is upgraded after adhering Christianity and Corruption as these requirement of Corrupt ITALIAN LADY SUSPECTED TO BE INVOLVED with Prabhakaran, the conspirator in killing of Rajiv Gandhi and delay in providing Medical Assistance in bullet ridden body of Indira Gandhi for 49 minutes Has become a Money Grudger   Our British law promulgated on the policy of Divide and Rule may not be able to erode the very foundation of democratic foundations and rule of Law In Society, as the vpeace transquality and fraternity of common citizen be   abrogated. Six Chief Justice of India, who were chosen in the system were designated as corrupt Judges. What happened to PF Scam Accused judges, when Asthana, the manipulator of Scam died in mysterious circumstances in Mr. Dashna Jail, Mr. Dinakaran case, Mr. Nirmala Yadav Case , which were exceptions cases are now being seen by an outsiders inside Supreme Court and in different High Courts, as Children of Judges, after becoming the Standing Counsels of Many Organizations after being patronage by other sitting Judges  are earning the exorbitant amounts and paying the taxes in Rs. 70-80 Lacks Return Per Years. Intolerant Opportunist fanatics via judicial pseudo secularism/terrorism are the cause of defeat to idealistic Hindu

Combating terrorism, now being discredited by intolerant fanatics and opportunists politician, under whom ,the elite citizen, responsible for the executive functioning and the Investigating agencies responsible to protect the sovereign power of the State are knee down in anticipation of their posting for greasing their palm. This is the greatest problem of the world. It has become the threat to the Nations, who encouraged it during the process of the struggle of cold war, with fellow nation. The god of hated filled cult having its mandate to get the rid of the world of proclaimed “infidels” and “heretics”, are themselves struggling against their own weaknesses Dr. Satish Chandra being Appointed as High Court Judge Was not Possessing the essential qualification for being elevated as High Court Judge Our Present Chief Justice has given him the clean Chit   . The provision for    We have become a country of lost intellectuals with inability to see the wicked from the honest, crooked from the straight. These institutions, where relevant, will also be established at the State level. In addition there will be a common selection process to staff these institutions. We feel that all these measures need to be brought in simultaneously to effectively tackle corruption at all levels and provide a mechanism to redress grievances of citizens. you see, in a broad-based movement there will always be all kinds of people who come and support that movement. There will always be some people with whom one is not comfortable. But, in any large movement, so long as its core leadership is very clear about its methodology, about its ideology,   Whether  Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, Co-chair Mr.Shanti Bhushan deliberations and consultations who formed the IAC and the NCPRI discussions remained suspended the demand for the setting up of a Joint Drafting Committee for a Lokpal bill. We write to you, to present this alternative, to elicit your responses, and to invite you to be part of the discourse. Please do let us know whether you are interested in being part of the discourse and in receiving periodic updates. However the assurance that all solutions to the entire gamut of corrupt practices could be worked out through a strong Lokpal has left us with a great sense of disquiet. In common usage and understanding of corruption an unrealistic promise to rising expectations that it is an  alleviation of all ills through one bill, the term casually refers to a range of corrupt practices. The political/governance spectrum is indeed more culpable than others. For it is mandated to maintain integrity in public life, to keep the country on keel with constitutional and other guarantees. This country needs different set of people in power to bring about any change. Converted to Christianity and Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy,the launch of Akhilandra Kamma Samakhya in Hyderabad on 25 December 2006 a number of speakers especially the politically- minded, characterized the present government of Andhra Pradesh as Reddy -Raj. This is unfortunate and apparently untrue. The truth is otherwise.  Sri B.Gopala Reddy, N.Sanjeeva Reddy, K.Brahmananda Reddy, Dr N. Chenna Reddy, Sri N Janardhan Reddy, T.Anjaiah Reddy and Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy – seven of these Chief Ministers belonged to Reddy caste. During their tenure as Chief Ministers, Kammas had received due representation in the Cabinets as well as in all important government & semi-government offices.

Chief Minister is only a nominal Reddy. His father converted to Christianity and Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy is a practising Christian who very demonstratively celebrated his birthday by a pilgrimage to Bethlehem in Palestine / Rome , the seat of the Pope. No Congress Chief Minister has lasted so long as Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy since the exit of Brahmananda Reddy in the 1960s. This is entirely due to the total support he receives from the Italian -born, Roman Catholic leader of the Congress Party. Every Congress Chief Minister since the 1960 had been felled, down within an year or two by people within the Congress. But Dr. Y.S.Rajasekhar Reddy continues only because he is a Christian blessed by Dr. Sonia Maino Gandhi.

Many Christians including Bishops and Pastors are official and unofficial Advisors and conspicuously present in his office and elsewhere. Crypto -Christians that is, SC persons who had converted to Christianity but in the government records are SCs are appointed as Advisors after retirement. Crypto Christians are also the chair -persons of State organs like the SC Finance Corporation. Most sensitive police and IAS posts are also filled up by Christians with a few crumbs thrown to Muslims.  Aurangzeb’s forman to provinces to destroy all Hindu temples and schools. As many as 5,000 temples were destroyed under him—a minimum of 200 in 1679 alone. On the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition (December 6, 1992), it is important for Hindus (and Muslims) to understand the importance of the event in the context of Hindustan’s history, past and recent, present and the future. Savages at a very low level of civilisation and no culture worth the name, from Arabia and west Asia, began entering India from the early century onwards. Islamic invaders demolished countless Hindu temples, shattered uncountable sculpture and idols, plundered innumerable palaces and forts of Hindu kings, killed vast numbers of Hindu men and carried off Hindu women. We cannot expect the thieves in power to bring about change.   As someone said, perhaps only way to pass the bill now is to bribe them . Indian concerned and harassed with corruption that has seeped into the fabric of our country and has almost become a ‘Way of Life’. As supporters of Anna Hazare and his fight against corruption, we  know that Anna and  his version of the Jan Lokpal Bill are our only hope. Many of us were at the protest rallies and many of us wished we could be there. Work and life held us back from coming out and showing our support for Anna. Yet, we all want to do our bit in support of a Corruption Free India. Vesting jurisdiction over the length and breadth of the government machinery in one institution will concentrate too much power in the institution, while the volume of work will make it difficult to carry out its tasks.   Unanimous endorsement of the need for accountability of all public servants, including the contentious issue of inclusion of the PM, with a few caveats. ( No one is above the law, enforcing the rule of law).  An independent system for judicial scrutiny and standards.  An independent and strong institution to scrutinize corruption of public servants and issues, which require different administrative processes and organizational set-up. A mechanism to redress grievances of the common citizen. Whistle Blowers protection. An institution to tackle corruption of all elected representatives, including the Prime Minister (with some safeguards), Ministers and Members of Parliament and senior bureaucrats (Group ‘A’ officers) and all other co-accused including those in the private and social sector. The Lokpal will be financially and administratively independent from the government and will have both investigative and prosecution powers. Amending the Central Vigilance Commission Act to remove the single directive and empower the CVC to investigate corruption and take appropriate action against mid-level bureaucracy. To strengthen the existing Judicial Accountability and Standards Bill, that is currently before the Parliament, to ensure that the judiciary is also made effectively and appropriately accountable, without compromising its independence from the executive or the integrity of its functions. To set up an effective time-bound system for grievance redress for common citizens to make the government answerable in terms of its functions, duties, commitments and obligations towards citizens. The grievance redress structure would have decentralized institutional mechanisms going right down to each ward/block level, and would ensure a bottom-up, people centric approach so that complaints and grievances can be dealt with speedily and in a decentralized, participatory and transparent manner. It will integrate public vigilance processes like vigilance committees and social audits, and provide for facilitation for the filing of all grievances/complaints through the setting up of block information and facilitation centres in every Block (rural) and ward(urban) in the country.The grievance redress mechanism will be a three-tier structure consisting of grievance redress officers at the local level within the department, independent district level grievance redressal authorities and central/State level grievance redress commission. It will include and rationalize existing structures. To strengthen the existing Public interest Disclosure and Protection to Persons Making the Disclosure Bill, that is currently before the Parliament, to ensure appropriate protection of whistleblowers.  This includes preventing the arbitrary use of power and corrupt practices. The Lokpal was too simplistically ordained by the campaign as a solution to all varieties of corrupt practices in our lives. Corruption orientations by corrupt politicians Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, co-chair Mr.Shanti Bhushan gestures and symbolic assent – two  man took on the corrupt machinery of the government who are themselves corrupt in public life with deliberations and consultations With a vow to make India Corruption Free, Anna Hazare and his team of civil society activists have garnered support from all sections of society.  has  prepared an approach paper in consultations and discussion the logical end of a large middle class mobilization on corruption on NCPRI’s (National Campaign for People’s Right to Information) involvement with legislation to deal with corruption and arbitrary use of power, began with the demand for an RTI law in 1996. The Lokpal an interesting trajectory was flagged as a law that needed to be taken up along with the Whistle Blowers Bill to address the killing of RTI activists and establish accountability. After all this deliberations and discussions,  country will not be any farther than where we are.    If there is an iota of willingness to address corruption they would not engage in such a drama?  NAC, which is an extra constitutional body.  What has it done all these days on the political corruption, with so many serious charges on the ones in the Government itself.    it is the Government.  The Govt is using every tool to malign those who are contributing it will all sincerity?   Should not Ms. Sonia Gandhi  resign from the body before she gets involved in helping to bring change? 

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Yogesh Kumar Saxena Advocate Supreme Court

Politics is a noble endeavour to serve

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                    भारत में व्यवस्था परिवर्तन की आवश्यकता
Never hate politics!!! Hate the way politics is run in this country!!! — Dr.JP , Lok Satta Party
“Politics is a noble endeavour to serve – People, Society, Village, Area, Taluka, Ward, District, Citi, State and the Nation” – Lok Satta Party …………….Take first step …………!!!!!!!!!!!
In the Name of the Poor – Review of NREGA by Surjit Bhalla
Marie Antoinette, the liberal and concerned queen of France, on seeing the poor and hungry masses demanding bread, said in a fit of charity — “let them eat cake”.
Member of the prestigious National Advisory Council (NAC) Jean Dreze surveyed the performance of the existing National Food For Work Programme (NFFWP) in July 2005 and concluded that the performance was “alarming”. The work guidelines were not being enforced, and the workers were not getting the minimum wage (only Rs 25 to Rs 30 a day). The major problem was with “muster rolls”. There was a lot of corruption, Dreze concluded.
To help provide cake to the needy, the UPA government introduced a replacement for the NFFWP in the form of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). This act would right the wrongs of existing NFFWP programmes. Why would it right the wrongs? Because it would be implemented by committed experts rather than by corrupt government officials.
Given the lessons learnt from the failure of food-for-work programmes, the NREGA is seemingly a booming success. In April 2008, Phase 3 of the programme was introduced across 285 additional districts. With this addition, all the districts of India have been covered, and the government claims that 130 crore workdays were provided in 2007-08 at an average wage of Rs 75 per person, per day. Buoyed by this success, the NAC recommended, and obtained, an expansion of the NREGA programme to more than triple the 2007-08 allocation, to Rs 39,000 crore in 2010-11. Interestingly, the programme continues to be non-corrupt and as evidence, there is the fact that all the money allocated for 2010-11 has not been spent.
However, the government, and the NAC, are asking for more money to be spent on the NREGA. Is it the case that the poor are actually getting bread under the scheme? And how likely is it that after decades of poor implementation and corruption (recall that food-for-work programmes first started in 1973), Indian administrators have suddenly become efficient and non-corrupt?
As agreed by all, corruption is the number one issue facing the country. The biggest scam that the country has encountered, ever, is the telecom 2G scam, where rough estimates suggest that Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 crore were “lost”, disappeared into thin air, did not accrue to the government, etc. Thankfully, such scams come once a decade or less.
But the scams pertaining to national welfare schemes like the NREGA and the public distribution system of food (PDS) may annually be about the size of the 2G scam, if not more. I repeat — the flow of corruption money via operation of NREGA, PDS, fertiliser subsidy, kerosene subsidy, etc, may well be substantially in excess of Rs 40,000 crore a year, and well in excess of 1 per cent of GDP each year. This conclusion is not new — the late PM Rajiv Gandhi reached the same conclusion in 1985 when he claimed that only 15 per cent of the money meant for the poor reached the poor.
Future articles will look into the possible “leakages” in the PDS and other subsidy schemes. For the moment, the NREGA deserves a closer scrutiny. To date, all expert analyses of the NREGA programme have regurgitated the official ministry of rural development (MRD) data on the administration of the programme — presumably the same statistics that the NAC, Dreze and others use to conclude that the people, via the NREGA, are eating both bread and cake. Using these statistics may be akin to asking the accused to be the judge! Fortunately, there is data from outside of the MRD that can be used to test not only the veracity of the MRD claims, but also the efficacy of the old, much maligned (and rightly so) food-for-work programmes.
All of this is possible through use of the National Sample Survey for 2007-08 (July 2007 to June 2008). The following question was asked of all individuals in households covered by the survey: How many days in the preceding week did you work as a casual worker in a public works programme? The respondent days will be an upper-bound to the NREGA programme since there can be public works programmes that are not NREGA.
The results are the following. The government claims of 130 crore person days of work seem to be wildly exaggerated (interestingly, not dissimilar to the CAG claim that Rs 1.76 lakh crore were lost in the 2G scam, rather than the more realistic figure of Rs 40,000 crore). The NSS figure is 46 crore person days total and 38 crore in districts where the NREGA was operational. The NSS data can identify whether a household was poor or not according to the Tendulkar poverty line; the result — only 8.8 crore person days of the NREGA programme were availed by the poor.
One final statistic — for 285 Phase 3 districts, there was no NREGA between June 2007 and March 2008. Yet these districts had provided as much as 86 per cent of the workdays in non-NREGA programmes as was provided by NREGA after its implementation in April 2008.
A conservative estimate of the disappearance into thin air of money meant for the poor NREGA recipients in 2007-08 is about two-thirds of the money spent on the programme. Disappearance means money not accounted for by receipt, by the poor or the rich. It is unlikely that corruption in the NREGA has decreased in the last three years while having increased in all sectors of the economy. Which means that scam money in the NREGA, in just one year, 2010-11, is upwards of Rs 25,000 crore.
The writer is chairman of Oxus Investments, an emerging market advisory and fund management firm
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

Take the first step………………………………………!!!!! 
Only way to Improve the Political Culture (i.e. dismantle – Money/Muscle Power, Vote Bank and Dynastic Politics) is that the best and the brightest will have to enter politics as they did prior to independence and during first two decade thereafter.

If not now ? If not you and I ?? Who?? But remember politics is a very hard and sustained work but is an opportunity, as a noble endeavour, to serve the people, society and the Nation