How to wipe out Islamic terror

From: dinesh1234@gmail.com To: dinesh1234@gmail.com Sent: 7/14/2011 10:03:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time Subj: Mumbai Blasts: How to wipe out Islamic terror

*How to wipe out Islamic terror* Dr. Subramaniam Swamy July 14, 2011

The terrorist blast in Mumbai on July 13, 2011 requires a decisive soul searching by Hindus of India. Hindus cannot accept to be killed in this Halal fashion,  continuously bleeding every day, till the nation finally collapses.

Terrorism, I define here as the illegal use of force to overawe the civilian population to make it do or not do an act against their will and well-being.

There are about 40 reported and unreported terrorist attacks per month in the country. That is why the recent US National Counter-Terrorism Centre publication A Chronology of International Terrorism states: ‘India suffered more terrorist acts than any other country’.

While the PM thinks that Maoists’ threat is most serious, I think Islamic terrorism is an even more serious existential threat. If we did not have today the present Union Home Minister, PM, and UPA chairperson, then Maoists can be eliminated in a month, much as I did with the LTTE in Tamil Nadu, as a senior minister in 1991, or MGR did with the Naxalites in the early 1980s. Islamic threat to the nation  is different.

Why is Islamic terrorism our number one problem of national security? About this there will be no doubt in anyone’s mind after 2012. By that year, I expect a Taliban takeover in Pakistan and the Americans to flee Afghanistan. Then, Islam will confront Hinduism to ‘complete unfinished business’. Already the successor to  Osama Bin Laden as the Al Qaeda leader has declared that India is the priority  target for that terrorist organisation and not the USA.

Fanatic Muslims consider Hindu dominated India as “an unfinished chapter of  Islamic conquests”. I may be recalled that all other countries conquered by Islam  became 100% converted to Islam within two decades of the Islamic invasion.  India is the exception. Undivided India in 1947 was 75% Hindu even after 800 years of brutal Islamic rule. That is jarring for the Islamic fanatics.

Let us remember that every Hindu-Muslim riot in India since 1947, has been ignited by Muslim fanatics — if one goes by all the Commissions of Inquiry set up after every riot. Even the Gujarat riots were triggered by the brutal  killing of 56 women and children by setting fire to a rail coach in Godhra.

By today’s definition these riots are all terrorist acts. Muslims, though a minority in India, still have fanatics who dare to lead violent attacks against  Hindus. Other Muslims of India just lump it, sulk or rejoice. That is the history from Babar’s time to Aurangzeb.  There have been exceptions to this apathy of Muslims like Dara Shikoh, in the old days, or like M J Akbar and Salman Haidar today who are not afraid to speak out against Islamic terror, but still they remain exceptions.

*Blame the Hindus* In one sense, I do not blame the Muslim fanatics for targeting Hindus. I blame us Hindus who have taken their individuality permitted in Sanatana Dharma to the extreme. Millions of Hindus can assemble without state patronage for Kumbh Mela completely self-organised, but they all leave for home oblivious of the targeting of Hindus in Kashmir, Mau, Melvisharam and Malappuram and do not lift their little finger to help organise Hindus. For example, if half the Hindus vote together rising above their caste and language, a genuine Hindu party will have a two-thirds majority in Parliament and Assemblies.

The secularists now tout instances of Hindu fanatics committing terrorist attacks against Muslims or other minorities. But these attacks are mostly state sponsored, often by the Congress itself, and not by Hindu ‘non-state actors’. Muslim-led attacks are however all by ‘non-state actors’ unless one includes the ISI and rogue elements in Pakistan’s army which are aiding them, as state sponsoring.

Fanatic Muslim attacks have been carried out to target and demoralise the Hindus, to make Hindus yield that which they should not, with the aim of undermining and ultimately to dismantle the Hindu foundation of India. This is the unfinished war of 1,000 years which Osama bin Laden talks about. In fact, the earliest terror tactics in India were deployed in Bengal 1946 by Suhrawady and Jinnah to terrorise Hindus to give in on the demand for Pakistan. The Congress party claiming to represent the Hindus capitulated, and handed 25 per cent of India on a platter to Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Now they want the remaining 75 per cent.

 *Forces against Hindus* This is not to say that other stooges have not targeted Hindus. During the last six decades since Independence, British imperialist-inspired Dravidian movement led by E V Ramaswamy Naicker, in the name of rationalism tried to debunk as irrational the Hindu religion, and terrorised the Hindu priestly class, i.e., the Brahmins, for propagating the Hindu religion.

The movement’s organisational arm, the Dravida Kazhagam (DK), had venerated Ravana for 50 years to spite the Hindu adoration of Rama and vulgarise the abduction of Sita, till the DK belatedly learnt that Ravana was a Brahmin and a pious bhakta of Lord Shiva too. Abandoning this course of defaming Ramayana, the DK have now become stooges of the anti-Indian LTTE which has specialised in killing the Hindu Tamil leadership in Sri Lanka. Of course the DK has now been orphaned by the decimation of the LTTE.

 *Civil war situation* In the 1960s, the Christian missionaries had inspired the Nagas. The Nagas also wanted to further amputate Bharat Mata by seeking secession of Nagaland from the nation. In the 1980s, the Hindus of Manipur were targeted by  foreign-trained elements. Manipuris were told: give up Hinduism or be killed. In Kashmir, since the beginning of the 1990s, militants in league with the Pakistan-trained terrorists also targeted the Hindus by driving the Hindu Pandits out of the Valley, or killing them or dishonouring their women folk.

Recognising that targeting of Hindus is being widely perceived, and that Muslims of India are largely just passive spectators, the foreign patrons of Islamic terrorists are beginning to engage in terrorist acts that could pit Muslims against Hindus in nation-wide conflagration and possible civil war as in Serbia and Bosnia.

Muslims cannot be divided into ‘moderates’ and ‘extremists’ because the former just capitulate when confronted. Recently, Pakistan civilian government capitulated on ‘kite flying’ and banned it because Taliban considers it as ‘Hindu’. Moderate governments of Malaysia and Kazhakstan are now demolishing Hindu temples.

 *Collective response* Hence, the first lesson to be learnt from recent history of Islamic terrorism against India,  and for tackling terrorism in India is that the Hindu is the target and that Muslims of India are being programmed by a slow reactive process to become radical and thus slide into suicide against Hindus. It is to undermine the Hindu psyche and create fear of civil war that terror attacks are organised.

And hence since the Hindu is the target, Hindus must collectively respond as Hindus against the terrorist and not feel individually isolated or worse, be complacent because he or she is not personally affected. If one Hindu dies merely because he or she was a Hindu, then a bit of every Hindu also dies. This is an essential mental attitude, a necessary part of a virat Hindu (for fuller discussion of the concept of virat Hindu, see my Hindus Under Siege: The Way Out Haranand, 2006).

Therefore we need today a collective mindset as Hindus to stand against the Islamic terrorist. In this response, Muslims of India can join us if they genuinely feel for the Hindu. That they do, I will not believe, unless they acknowledge with pride that though they may be Muslims, their ancestors are Hindus.

It is not easy for them to acknowledge this ancestry because the Muslim mullah would consider it as unacceptable since that realisation would dilute the religious fervour in their faith and also create an option for their possible re-conversion to Hinduism. Hence, these religious leaders preach hatred and violence against the kafir i.e., the Hindu (for example read Chapter 8 verse 12 of the Quran) to keep the faith of their followers. The Islamic terrorist outfits, e.g. the SIMI, has already resolved that India is Darul Harab, and they are committed to make it Darul Islam. That makes them free of any moral compunction whatsoever in dealing with Hindus.

*Brihad Hindu Samaj* But still, if any Muslim does so acknowledge his or her Hindu legacy, then we Hindus can accept him or her as a part of the Brihad Hindu Samaj, which is Hindustan. India that is Bharat that is Hindustan is a nation of Hindus and others whose ancestors are Hindus. Even Parsis and Jews in India have Hindu ancestors. Others, who refuse to so acknowledge or those foreigners who become Indian citizens by registration can remain in India, but should not have voting rights (which means they cannot be elected representatives).

Hence, to begin with, any policy to combat terrorism must begin with requiring each and every Hindu becoming a committed or virat Hindu. To be a virat Hindu one must have a Hindu mindset, a mindset that recognises that there is vyaktigat charitra (personal character) and a rashtriya charitra (national character).

It is not enough if one is pious, honest and educated. That is the personal character only. National character is a mindset actively and vigorously committed to the sanctity and integrity of the nation. For example, Manmohan Singh, our prime minister, has high personal character (vyaktigat charitra), but by being a rubber stamp of a semi-literate Sonia Gandhi, and waffling on all national issues, he has proved that he has no rashtriya charitra.

The second lesson for combating the terrorism we face today is: since demoralising the Hindu and undermining the Hindu foundation of India in order to destroy the Hindu civilisation, is the goal of all terrorists in India we must never capitulate and never concede any demand of the terrorists. The basic policy has to be: never yield to any demand of the terrorists. That necessary resolve has not been shown in our recent history. Instead ever since we conceded Pakistan in 1947 under duress, we have been mostly yielding time and again.

*Bowing to terrorists* In 1989, to obtain the release of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed’s daughter, Rubaiyya who had been kidnapped by terrorists, five terrorists in Indian jails were set free by the V P Singh’s government. This made these criminals in the eyes of Kashmiri separatists and fence sitters heroes, as those who had brought India’s Hindu establishment on its knees. To save Rubaiyya it was not necessary to surrender to terrorist demands.

A worse capitulation to terrorists in our modern history was in the Indian Airlines IC-814 hijack in December 1999 staged in Kandahar. The government released three terrorists even without getting court permission (required since they were in judicial custody). Moreover, they were escorted by a senior minister on the PM’s special Boeing all the way to Kandahar as royal guests instead of being shoved across the Indo-Pakistan border.

Worse still, all the three after being freed, went back to Pakistan and created three separate terrorist organisations to kill Hindus. Mohammed Azhar, whom the National Security Advisor Brijesh Mishra had then described as “a mere harmless cleric”, upon his release led the LeT to savage and repeated terrorist attacks on Hindus all over India from Bangalore to Srinagar. Since mid-2000, Azhar is responsible for the killing of over 2,000 Hindus and the attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001. Omar Sheikh who helped al-Qaeda is in jail in US custody for killing US journalist Daniel Pearl, while the third, Zargar is engaged today in random killings of Hindus in Doda and Jammu after founding Al-Mujahideen Jingaan.

This Kandahar episode proves that we should never negotiate with terrorists, never yield. If you do, then sooner or later you will end up losing more lives than you will ever save by a deal with terrorists.

*Moment of truth* The third lesson to be learnt is that whatever and however small the terrorist incident, the nation must retaliate—not by measured and ‘sober’ responses but by massive retaliation.  Otherwise what is the alternative? Walk meekly to death expecting that our ‘sober’ responses will be rewarded by our neighbours and their patrons? We will be back to 1100 AD fooled into suicidal credulity. We should not be ghouls for punishment from terrorists and their patrons. We should retaliate.

For example, when Ayodhya temple was sought to be attacked,  this was not a big terrorist incident but we should have massively retaliated by re-building the Ram temple at the site.

This is Kaliyug, and hence there is no room for sattvic responses to evil people. Hindu religion has a concept of apat dharma and we should invoke it. This is the moment of truth for us. Either we organise to survive as a civilisation or vanish as the Persian, Babylonian, and Egyptian civilisations did centuries ago before the brutal Islamic onslaught. For that our motto should be Saam, Dhaam, Bheda, Danda.

*Poverty is no factor* What motivates the Islamic terrorists in India? Many are advising us Hindus to deal with the root ‘cause’ of terrorism rather than concentrate on eradicating terrorists by retaliation. And pray what is the root ‘cause’?

According to bleeding heart liberals, terrorists are born or bred because of illiteracy, poverty, oppression, and discrimination. They argue that instead of eliminating them, the root cause of these four disabilities in society should be removed. Only then terrorism will disappear. Before replying to this, let us understand that I have serious doubts about the integrity of these liberals, or more appropriately, these promiscuous intellectuals. They seek to deaden the emotive power of the individual and render him passive (inculcate ‘majboori’ in our psyche). A nation state cannot survive for long with such a capitulationist mentality.

It is rubbish to say that terrorists who mastermind the attacks are poor. Osama bin laden for example is a billionaire. Islamic terrorists are patronised by those states that have grown rich from oil revenues. In Britain, the terrorists arrested so far for the bombings are all well-to-do persons. Nor are terrorists uneducated. Most of terrorist leaders are doctors, chartered accountants, MBAs and teachers. For example, in the failed Times Square New York episode, the Islamic terrorist Shahzad studied and got an MBA from a reputed US university. He was from a highly placed family in Pakistan. He certainly faced no discrimination and oppression in his own country. The gang of nine persons who hijacked four planes on September 11, 2001 and flew them into the World Trade Towers in New York and other targets were certainly not discriminated or oppressed in the United States. Hence it is utter rubbish to say that terror is the outcome of the poverty terrorists face.

If we accept the Left-wing liberals argument, does it mean that in Islamic countries, the non-Islamic religious minority who are discriminated and oppressed can take to terrorism? In the Valley, where Muslims are in majority, not only Article 370 of the Constitution provides privileges to the majority but it is the minority Hindus who have been slaughtered, or raped, and dispossessed. They have become refugees in squalid conditions in their own country.

It is also a ridiculous idea that terrorists cannot be deterred because they are irrational, willing to die, and have no ‘return address’. Terrorist masterminds have political goals and a method in their madness. An effective strategy to deter terrorism is therefore to defeat those political goals and to rubbish them by counter-terrorist action. How is that strategy to be structured? In a brilliant research paper published by Robert Trager and Dessislava Zagorcheva this year (‘Deterring Terrorism’ International Security, vol 30, No 3, Winter 2005/06, pp 87-123) has provided the general principles to structure such a strategy.

*Goal-strategy* Applying these principles, I advocate the following strategy to negate the political goals of Islamic terrorism in India, provided  the Muslim community fail to condemn these goals and call them un-Islamic:

(Islamic terrorism) Goal 1: Overawe India on Kashmir.

(Solution) Strategy: Remove Article 370, and re-settle ex-servicemen in the Valley. Create Panun Kashmir for Hindu Pandit community. Look or create opportunity to take over PoK. If Pakistan continues to back terrorists, assist the Baluchis and Sindhis to struggle for independence.

(Islamic terrorism) Goal 2: Blast our temples and kill Hindu devotees.

(Solution) Strategy: Remove the masjid in Kashi Vishwanath temple complex, and 300 others in other sites as a tit-for-tat.

(Islamic terrorism) Goal 3: Make India into Darul Islam.

(Solution) Strategy: Implement Uniform Civil Code, make Sanskrit learning compulsory and singing of Vande Mataram mandatory, and declare India as Hindu Rashtra in which only those non-Hindus can vote if they proudly acknowledge that their ancestors are Hindus. Re-name India as Hindustan as a nation of Hindus and those whose ancestors are Hindus.

(Islamic terrorism) Goal 4: Change India’s demography by illegal immigration, conversion, and refusal to adopt family planning.

(Solution) Strategy: Enact a national law prohibiting conversion from Hindu religion to any other religion. Re-conversion will not be banned. Declare caste is not birth-based but code of discipline based. Welcome non-Hindus to re-convert to the caste of their choice provided they adhere to the code of discipline. Annex land from Bangladesh in proportion to the illegal migrants from that country staying in India. At present, northern one-third from Sylhet to Khulna can be annexed to re-settle the illegal migrants.

(Islamic terrorism) Goal 5: Denigrate Hinduism through vulgar writings and preaching in mosques, madrassas, and churches to create loss of self-respect amongst Hindus and make them fit for capitulation.

(Solution) Strategy: Propagate the development of a Hindu mindset (see my new book Hindutva and National Renaissance, Haranand, 2010).

India can solve its terrorist problem within five years by such a deterrent strategy, but for that we have to learn the four lessons outlined above, and have a Hindu mindset to take bold, risky, and hard decisions to defend the nation. If the Jews can be transformed from lambs walking meekly to the gas chambers to fiery lions in just 10 years, it is not difficult for Hindus in much better circumstances (after all we are 83 per cent of India), to do so in five years.

Guru Gobind Singh has shown us the way already, how just five fearless persons under spiritual guidance can transform a society. Even if half the Hindu voters are persuaded to collectively vote as Hindus, and for a party sincerely committed to a Hindu agenda, then we can forge an instrument for change. And that ultimately is the bottom line in the strategy to deter terrorism in a democratic Hindustan at this moment of truth.

*About the author: Subramanian Swamy* Janata Party President is a Professor of Economics and a former Union Cabinet Minister*

 

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, now the irritating Blessed Teresa of Calcutta as a result of one of the milestones in the scheme by the late Pope John Paul II to fast-track her to sainthood,  beatification, is destined to become one of the most popular saints in the Catholic Church.  It has emerged that she had to be exorcised of demons on her deathbed.

Thanks to the work of Christopher Hitchens it is possible to see the truth about Mother Teresa who nobody dares criticise.

She aided the evil Duvalier family of Haiti and buttered them up.  She got a million dollars from Charles Keating and kept it ignoring requests to her to return it after she knew he had stolen the money.  She has opposed the human right to divorce, contraception and abortion and the rights of secular people.  She thought she knew it all.  It was okay for her to campaign against these things for she never needed them.  She was an epitome of the reprehensible selfishness that exists in the worst fundamentalist Christians.  She even said that poverty was a gift from God.  She accepted the vicious idea that the purpose of suffering is for the betterment of character.  The atheist refuses to condone suffering this way and so the atheist should have a greater hatred of the  suffering in the world than the religionist.  She refused to use anything in her clinics to relieve pain for she accepted the Catholic doctrine that suffering is a good thing.  She checked into the best hospitals in the world when she was sick herself and anything was good enough for the poor she used to create her grand and glorious image.

Mother stated that dogs were fed on human foetuses.  No evidence for this claim has ever been uncovered.  She approved of a film about her, Mother Teresa and her world, which claimed that there were a quarter of a million lepers in Calcutta while another film she collaborated in said it was 40,000.  She has exaggerated the number of lepers and has helped them in preference to the even more serious plague of malaria.

She lied as well that she knew no poor woman in Calcutta who had had an abortion though Calcuttans regarded abortion as no big deal and all classes used it.

Mother had 50 million dollars in the New York bank alone and yet the order greedily solicited for money.  This was the order that used the same syringe on many sick patients under the pretext of hard times.  The money shouldn’t have been lying in accounts.  Every penny should have been used.

Mother Teresa spoke against Vatican II making any doctrinal or practical changes in the Roman Catholic Church in the sixties.  She supported the old horrific triumphalist and sectarian Church system that existed before Vatican II.  She did not want the Church to become more human.  She has frequently presented Calcutta as being a worse city than it really was to pull in the donations.

Please look up the sites by Christopher Hitchens and Aroup Chatterjee on the Internet and do a search in Google.  Free Inquiry Winter 97-98 Volume 18 and Issue 1 ran an article by a former member of the Order Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity.  She left the Order and exposed the evil and predominant side of Mother Teresa in the article.  The article can be found on page 31.  She testified that |Mother believed that obedience to the Order and to the Church is God’s will and that it is good to choose to suffer for it makes God give more graces out to the Church.  Attachment to people and friendship was forbidden.  This is so that Christ’s command that God alone be loved and other things loved for his sake meaning not for themselves but for him and not for yourself but for him may be observed.  The effect of all this was the nuns telling lies and refusing to commit the sin of thinking independently.  Mother Teresa caused a lot of destruction among the nuns.  Mother Teresa amassed huge donations for the order and made no effort to make sure that the nuns used clean needles when they injected. She wouldn’t supply them.  The Order she ran is so much like an extreme religious cult.

It was reported in the Sunday Tribune of October 20th, 2002, (Vol 22) that Monica Besra, a West Bengali lady, who alleged that she was cured by Mother Teresa was not the recipient of a miracle though the Vatican formally recognised that she was.  She said she was cured of a incurable cancerous tumour of the abdomen in 1998 on the anniversary of Mother Teresa’s death.  She claimed that she was ill and that two nuns prayed with her to Mother Teresa when she felt strangely elated and discovered that she was healed.  Doctors have testified that it was not cancer but a tubercular lump that died away thanks to prescribed drugs.  She went for an ultrasound despite saying that her symptoms had gone and this was in May 1999!  Were they gone at all?  Parts of her story do not add up so her version cannot be trusted and it does seem that she had many of the same symptoms for she was admitted to hospital a year after the miracle with severe pain in the abdomen.  According to a story that broke on 19th of October 2002, Dr Murshed claimed that representatives of the Roman Church and Mother Teresa’s order had come to him and applied pressure for him to declare the cure to be a miracle that can only be explained supernaturally.  Many doctors were claiming that they treated Ms Besra for her illness even after the alleged healing.

In The Freethinker October 2007 it was revealed that doctors claimed that Besra’s recovery was not down to a miracle but down to conventional medical treatment.  Besra was stricken with poverty and the Missionaries of Charity nuns promised her financial help.  It continued only as long as the nuns needed Besra involved in the plot to attribute a miracle to Mother Teresa that never really happened.  They used her and then they dumped her.

According to Hope Endures by a former nun from Mother Teresa’s order, The Missionaries of Charity, Collete Livermore, the order though it had sufficient money donated to it for the purpose of buying books to help with the medical work this was not done (page 115).  As a result, the health of the sisters was at risk.  The book explains how the nuns were not provided with medical advice, the use of mosquito repellents, information about malaria and vaccinations (page 115).  It attributes this to the idea that God would look after the nuns.

The book recounts how Colette, then called Sister Tobit, got into trouble with the order for helping a man with dysentery who was in danger of dying (page 163).  The order cared more about obedience than doing the right thing.  Mother Teresa declared according to page 168, that she recognised 1 Peter 2:18-23 as being correct.  This text ordered slaves to obey their masters even if they were abusive and difficult.  It said that it is great to be beaten for doing wrong when one is innocent and that such patience pleases God.  Peter also says that this has to be the right attitude for Jesus gave us an example to follow.  Mother Teresa used this text to urge her nuns to obey superiors without question (page 168).  Sister Tobit decided to leave the order.  She didn’t like the way she was expected to let the poor suffer rather than disobey orders and she made that clear to Mother Teresa (page 172).   Mother Teresa was “not sympathetic” and told Tobit that her feelings were sourced in temptation and pride (page 172).  In other words, Tobit was bad for seeing sense.  Mother was judging her despite forbidding Tobit to judge those who acted as dictators in the order over her (page 224).

Later Colette recounted the tale of what happened in Manila when she tried to help a sick boy called Alex.  Sister Valerie who was in charge of her forbade her to help him though Colette told her there was no reason why they couldn’t.

Mother Teresa wouldn’t let the nuns have a washing machine (page 194).  This forced the nuns to wash the underwear of the incontinent with brushes.  The order was more concerned about inflicting hardship on the nuns than on helping the sick.  A washing machine would have freed up their time to help people.  Mother was definitely misusing the funds so kindly donated to her from all over the world.  It was the struggle to help not the helping that mattered in her Christian philosophy.

Sister Tobit applied for a dispensation from her vows (page 224) because she was expected to do things like sending dying children away when commanded to do so and because she was not allowed to have a mind of her own.  She wrote that she felt that “the order whose raison detre was to show compassion, chronically failed to do so, both to its own members and to the poor.”  “The Society demanded that I have no mind of my own and censored everything I read, a form of brainwashing that almost turned me into an automaton”.  These quotes can be read on page 224.  On page 213 we read that Mother Teresa held that if an event happened, it was either willed by God or allowed by him to happen.  We read that it led her to conclude that what the religious superior commands is either willed by God or at least allowed by him to be made meaning the commands no matter how silly or harsh they are are from God’s authority.  To disobey them is to disobey God.

When Tobit came Colette again she began to suspect that the gospel commands given by Christ to give to all who ask and thought that attempts to love unconditionally and forgive unconditionally really made one a doormat (page 287).

The book proves that Mother Teresa cannot be called a good woman.  It proves that living the gospels properly is bad for you.  The Missionaries of Charity experienced the damaging power of the gospels and yet they lived their lives as an example to those who they helped and those who knew them – ultimately to see them take on the same torments.  Some charity!

An interview with Christopher Hitchens on Mother Teresa

Defending Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa’s House Of Illusions

The Illusory Vs. The Real Mother Teresa

The Mother of All Myths

THE WWW

The following two sites show just what a liar Mother Teresa was and her callous heart is laid bare.  They show the deceit of Pope John Paul II who was eager to make a saint of her.

OPEN LETTER TO MOTHER TERESA, Aroup Chaterjee

http://website.lineone.net/~bajuu/chatlet.htm

MOTHER TERESA THE FINAL VERDICT Aroup Chaterjee

http://www.meteorbooks.com/index.html

This fascinating book reveals shockers such as that the pope has beatified Archbishop Stepinac of Zagreb who stood idly by as Jews and Communists were hounded to their deaths and the notorious fascist Cardinal Schuster of Milan.

Hope Endures, Colette Livermore, William Heinemann, North Sydney, Australia, 2008

Source: http://www.miraclesceptic.com/motherteresa.html

 

Kill the Mocking Bill!

 

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Kill the Mocking Bill! 

George Augustine 08 Jun 2011

 

The gross violence that unfolded on the night of June 4/5th at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi speaks volumes of the general intent of the UPA government where Hindus are concerned. Obviously, Hindus do not have the right to protest against corruption and black money, or perhaps against anything. They are only permitted to do yoga!

If one were to scroll back archive pages of recent months, one would easily see that Baba Ramdev had initiated a campaign against corruption nationwide, well before Anna Hazare sprang a surprise on the nation along with his colleagues with dubious reputations. Therefore, one actually wouldn’t get any prize for guessing what went behind the façade of the UPA government to unleash such aggression against unarmed and non-violent Hindus, including women and children who were sleeping and dreaming of a better India. The difference here was that Anna Hazare had a pseudo-secularist cloud around him that appealed to the dynasty, while Baba Ramdev was a Hindu who threatened the dynasty’s loot!

Baba Ramdev is not an unknown Indian. He is a dynamic guru who wants to instil something of the spiritual essence of ancient India that has been lost to ordinary Indians. He has lakhs of followers throughout the country who respect him and have benefitted through him and consider him a genuine leader worthy to be considered a guru. However our central government under dynasty rule, which in fact is a continuation of colonial rule, have scant respect for such a figure.

Doesn’t the UPA worry about the Hindu votes that would be lost by this event? The ruling party’s actions show this is the last thing on its mind. For the UPA under Sonia Gandhi, Hindus, even the likes of Baba Ramdev and followers, seem to be the least of their worries. They think they can buy the Hindus, like they always did. Is it really so?

Not exactly, if we bring Narendra Modi into the picture. He is the one leader who can unite not only Hindus, but Muslims as well, as we have seen in Gujarat. And once he is on a roll all over India, as in Gujarat, they know they cannot stop the juggernaut. Modi is today perceived by the anti-Hindu brigade across the nation and the world as their nemesis. With the human rights industry under its armpit, the UPA has shown what it can do to a poor sadhu and his innocent followers. They can swat a hundred Baba Ramdevs with iron fists. But they can’t mess with Modi. Of course, they would if they could, but they can’t yet. And, take it from me, they are biding their time.

In the chronicles of Indian history of the present time written in future, the shadow of Narendra Modi would loom large across the nation, not only for the exemplary trend he set in polity and political ethics in 21st century India. For his enemies, Narendra Modi is an icon of the Hindus who has to be destroyed first, if Hindu civilisation is to be totally destroyed. Modi is an exception among Hindus and stands out for being politically successful and also in repelling from time to time the full-court press employed by his powerful enemies, who have been terribly vanquished each time they tried, but have never taken it lightly or gracefully.

It is a strange syllogism, for the BJP is not all Modi and Modi is not all BJP, but the BJP sans Modi is no BJP, if BJP were to be an opposition. Without Modi’s track record, the BJP is actually nothing but an also-ran. If one didn’t know better, the top leadership could be accused of mimicking the Congress party and bowing down to the dynasty. There is no BJP leader other than Narendra Modi who has proved himself or herself either as a worthy ruler, or as an opposition leader and created a curriculum vitae he could show around proudly. What stands between the total subjugation of Hindus and the anti-Hindu brigade under dynasty rule is Narendra Modi. The enemies know it and so should we all!

Enter The National Advisory Council

After scheming for years, Modi’s enemies, comprising his political opponents, chiefly the Congress and the Marxists, and the mighty anti-Hindu brigade from across the world (including the influential US Commission on International Religious Freedom), have been relentlessly drawing and re-drawing battlelines against Modi, which as I pointed out earlier, are ultimately aimed at the Hindus. When it became obvious that twisting the due processes of Indian law was not working for the annihilation of Modi, special agents were hand-picked and congregated in the so-called National Advisory Council with Sonia Gandhi at the helm.

The sole brief given to the working committee seems to concern only with clipping Hindu aspirations and hence, the subjugation of Modi. It would seem the only advice the current government considers worth having is how to thrash the Hindus best. The machinations of the advisory council under the Grey Eminence is slightly reminiscent of the Catholic power peddling in medieval France that ultimately led to a revolution.

Given the money and political backing of the enemies, it was a foregone conclusion that it was only a matter of time before the next serious charge against Modi and the Hindus appeared on the horizon. The draft of a bill they cooked up after spending vast public money and probably thousands of man-hours and ironically named “The Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2011” is the latest in the series. But the whole enterprise smacks of hate and virulent animosity towards the majority community and envy of their success. Visit http://nac.nic.in/communal/com_bill.htm to read the draft, if you must. Not recommended, however.

Only once the reader realises that all that have been said in the draft exempt the Hindus from its purview, does the real motives of the Advisory Council appear through the dreary haze. According to this bill, victim can be anybody but a Hindu. For the purpose of splitting Hindu votes in parliament, they have also de-Hinduised the so-called scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. The bill aims solely to silence and stifle a government such as Modi’s and to take away the democratic rights of a majority community such as the Hindus. With this bill in force, the Abrahamists (synonym for pseudo-secularists) will figuratively be at the peak of Mount Everest, Narendra Modi’s government will be fired automatically by remote control, and the Hindu majority disempowered absolutely and completely.

For those who don’t want to waste their time reading silly literature in the bill draft, I am quoting Clause 8 of the said bill: “Hate propaganda.– Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, whoever publishes, communicates or disseminates by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representation or otherwise acts inciting hatred causing clear and present danger of violence against a group or persons belonging to that group, in general or specifically, or disseminates or broadcasts any information, or publishes or displays any advertisement or notice, that could reasonably be construed to demonstrate an intention to promote or incite hatred or expose or is likely to expose the group or persons belonging to that group to such hatred, is said to be guilty of hate propaganda.”

The article 153A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, covers this aspect but is deficient for the purpose of the Advisory Council, because it also includes Hindus in its purview. This new bill however is absolutely necessary for the anti-Hindu brigade, so that the right to justice of the Hindu majority is denied, because the “group” specified in this bill is exclusively confined to any group other than Hindu, which excludes all those who have not been converted into Abrahamists or bracketed as scheduled castes or scheduled tribes. It means if the anti-Hindu brigade were to have their way in India, Hindus would be punished for every riot in India, no matter who instigated it.

Who actually engineers riots in India?

According to Ms. Zenab Banu’s “POLITICS OF COMMUNALISM: a politico-historical analysis of communal riots in post-independence India with special reference to the Gujarat and Rajasthan riots” (1989), there had been 74 communal riots between 1953 and 1977, of which 75% were instigated by Muslims. For those who are apologetic about the demolition of the Babri Masjid and blame the act for Muslim aggression, these figures will elucidate and make clear who were in reality responsible for communal riots ever since they were born – the Abrahamists!

If the proposed bill were to include Hindus in its purview, the original hate literature and propaganda which have been instigating and inciting human beings to kill each other for scores of centuries, such as the Bible and the Koran, would be banned and the comically attired perpetrators put behind bars. On the other hand, by excluding Hindus from the purview of the proposed bill, the pseudo-secularists in the Advisory Council are striving to chop off the defending Hindu arms, thus blaming the victims for all the communal riots to come!

This mockery of a bill is the main component of a conspiracy to thwart the “Narendra Modi phenomenon” that would soon engulf the whole of India like a storm, unless the Abrahamists do something soon and something effective to get the conspiracy smoothly implemented. The rational fear of Rahul Gandhi for the Hindus is reflected in a Wikileak report, according to which he confessed to an American diplomat his angst for them, whom he termed as “extremists”.

The dynasty of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi is holding on to power not because they are genuinely democratic rulers (as Ramlila Ground on June 4 would testify) or that they sincerely want to rule for the sake of a nation, but because the loss of power would bring about their certain ruin and destruction, like Gaddafi, like Mubarak, a fate that can only be postponed but not avoided, just like death. When Sonia and Rahul refer to India that is Bharat, they are not talking about the physical land or its civilisation or the billion odd people who inhabit this land, but their loot that has been stashed away in Europe. Moreover there is tacit support (and I suspect even pressure) from the Christian West for the transformed Catholic dynasty to rule Hindu India until the imaginary doomsday.

Seen from another angle, the conspiracy has entered a crucial stage, when several Hindu activists are already languishing in jails for years now on fabricated charges that have never been proved or would ever be resolved or even come to court, at least as long as the UPA is in power. The recent attempts to implicate people belonging to nationalist organisations like the RSS in terror plots should also be seen as part of a bigger game involving those who want to perpetuate the dynasty rule and save private loot deposited illegally in overseas banks.

Most of the names in the advisory council, particularly in the working committee and the bill drafting committee, would bring a sense of déjà vu to those who followed the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat riots, when human vultures flew hither and thither to exploit the bloody tragedy. Scheming behind closed doors of the obnoxious council are the notorious battle-scarred front-line veterans in the war against Modi and the Hindus – Teesta Testalvad, Harsh Mander, Syed Shahabuddin, John Dayal and co. The dynasty has also engaged professional claques led by the inimitable duo Digvijay Singh and Kapil Sibal, who are adept at tackling poor unarmed folks roughly and faithfully cook rice for the thief (old Malayalam saying).

Kill the mocking bill before it is born and a great impediment placed before Hindus by the enemy would be removed and it would mark a new beginning, sounding the death knells for dynasty rule, corruption, adharma, all in one sweep.

 

PAKISTAN ALLIED TO TERROR ONLY

Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 3:49 AM
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AUM

            PAKISTAN ALLIED TO TERROR ONLY

                              By Brigadier Chitranjan Sawant,VSM

Pakistan watchers say that Pakistan is a failed state. Now a new school of international affairs has put forward a theory that Pakistan is a terrorist state. The very concept of having a state for Muslims only where their spiritual, political, financial and residual interests are taken care of the Islamic style, was born in terror, nurtured in terror and flourishes in terror. Never mind the violence but strive to achieve the aim.

It was the Muslim League that conceived of a Muslim Heaven on Earth called Pakistan. To start with, the concept did not have many votaries when the political party of Muslims came into being in 1905. However, when the British govt in India chose to support it to counter-balance the Hindu dominated Indian National Congress that was clamouring for Swaraj or Home Rule, the new political party got a boost. In subsequent developments when the Congress party member and a nationalist leader like Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who was a successful advocate and a brilliant orator, chose to join the Muslim League, the new party came on its own. A nationalist poet like Mohd Iqbal who had written the popular poem, Sare Jahan Se achcha Hindostan Hamara,  nawabs and Muslim rulers of semi-independent states joined the Muslim League in droves, there was no looking back.

TERRORISE THE OPPONENT

Turning over the pages of history of the independence movement of India, a student of history finds that where logic failed to convince the opposite party, the Muslim League chose to use Terror as a weapon. In 1946 the Muslim League failed to achieve its aim of sharing power with the Congress and its British mentors, now in the evening of their rule in India, were of little help, the Muslim League declared a Direct Action Day to wrest power. It indulged in pre-meditated rioting, arson, killings, kidnapping and rape of women in the city of Calcutta. The mayhem continued for days until the metropolis looked like a ghost town. The supremacy of the Muslim League in the undivided Bengal went unchallenged and the Muslim League tasted the fruits of Terrorism of the worst order. Perhaps the Muslim policy makers chose in Calcutta that Terror be adopted as a policy as it paid rich dividends.

Pakistan was born as a Muslim state on 14 August 1947. Although Jinnah, Governor General, professed that the new country belonged to men and women of all faiths but the reality check proved otherwise. The prominent Muslim leaders made a decision, without taking Jinnah in confidence, that there was no place for the Hindus and other minorities in Muslim Pakistan. Terror was let loose, hundred times worse than what was witnessed in Direct Action in Calcutta, and the Muslims of Pakistan treated their Hindu compatriots worse than what marauding armies of Nadir Shah, Ahmed Shah Abdali and others had done centuries before. Pakistani Terror showed its Savage face and mass migration of population was a heart rending scene that may not be recounted. Terror paid dividends to the Pakistani perpetrators of savagery and that became a part of the state policy. Jinnah’s advice and directives were ignored. He was a dying man as the tuberculosis had the better of him and he breathed his last on 11 September 1948. The white strip in the Pakistan’s national flag, a symbol of minorities, was the only contribution he could make to assure the Hindus and other minorities that Pakistan belonged to them too. It was too little and too late. Most of them had migrated to India leaving all belongings behind.

TERROR IN NEW AVATAR

Those who ride a tiger, end up in its stomach – the age-old saying is true in the case of Pakistan too. In the year 2011, a number of Pakistani citizens and even military establishments went up in smoke as a result of acts of terror. Here Pakistani citizens have killed or maimed fellow Pakistani citizens. The moment there is a clash of interests, religious, financial or political, terror tactics is put into operation by one side or the other. The Shia-Sunni clashes are now worse than the Taliban-military gun duel.

It may be recalled that the founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah was a Khoja-Shia Muslim to whom the Hindu law of inheritance applied as is claimed by his daughter, Dina Wadia. And yet he became Father of the Nation of Pakistan, Baba-e Qaum, of a predominantly Sunni Muslim country. This is perhaps one of the many anomalies of the Terrorist State.

A number of senior political and government leaders were a prey to acts of terror. The first one was Nawabzada Liaqat Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, a former prime minister, was a victim of state terror when through machinations of his arch-enemy, General Zia, he was sent to the gallows. General Zia, a sitting President was killed in an air crash that was feared to be an act of terror. Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister was assassinated in a public place under a plan of conspirators that included the then President General Pervez Musharraf who is now a fugitive from law. Osama bin-Laden, the top terrorist was killed in the Pakistan army cantonment of Abbottabad and that proves the point that Terror does not pay even in a terrorist state.

A number of army establishments like armament depot, ammunition depot and the like of them are being attacked by terrorists inimical to the Pakistani establishment. It means a loss of life, limb and armaments that the army needs badly. The military stablishments in Rawalpindi, where Pakistan Army Headquarters is located, were attacked by that section of the Taliban that is inimical to the ISI or the military top echelon.

A SANDWICHED PAKISTAN

The terrorist state called Pakistan is geographically sandwiched between Afghanistan and India. It has a reason to feel unsafe because it has harmed vast segments of population in both the countries. The hostility runs in veins like the life-giving blood. Let us read what the all-important ambassador of the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan posted in Pakistan had said about the host country. Ambassador Abdul Salam Zaeef said about the Pakistani people:

“Pakistan is so notorious for treachery that they can take milk out of a bull.”The Ambassador further said “They have two tongues in one mouth, two faces on one head so that they can speak everybody’s language. They use everybody, deceive everybody.”

The Afghans of the northern part of the country called Tadjiks do not like Pakistan and its people because of the deceit and chicanery. The Afghan Talibans have had a bitter experience of sharing political power with Pakistan after the withdrawal of the Soviet forces from Afghanistan. They fear that history may repeat itself after the Americans and the NATO forces are gone by 2014. In any case, the withdrawal begins now in July 2011 in a minor way. The Afghans would prefer their national army be trained to such a high standard that they manage security affairs of their country independently without the guidance of American officers and sergeants.

India too has been playing a constructive role in helping Afghanistan stand on its own feet. Building roads, hospitals with paraphernalia so that it is fully functional, constructing roads in difficult terrain for better communication etc have been India’s contribution to Afghanistan.

India has had very bitter experience of dealing with Pakistan. India has been a victim of terror acts generated in Pakistan and that too under the guidance of and with the active support of ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence organisation), a govt agency manned by regular army officers. The blood- letting in Mumbai was an act of the Pakistan state players for which no one has been booked in Pakistan, what to say of a trial in a court of law. One wonders if there is a point of talking peace with Pakistan when that country is bent upon fighting a shooting war.

The Pakistan Army is hand in glove with the Islamist terrorists. The terrorist state is advocating brotherhood with other Islamist terrorists. General Pervez Kayani, Army Chief of Pakistan, is on record to say that the Taliban terrorists are brothers of the Pakistani soldiers. How can the army go after own brothers and kill them. The Taliban would protect the flanks of the army when Pakistan goes to war with India.

No wonder the US administration has either cancelled or put on hold military supplies to the Pakistan army worth 800 million US dollars because Pakistan did not have its heart in chasing and killing Islamist terrorists. India too has learnt from its experience of dealing with the terrorist state that Pakistan is a past master of the art of running with the hare and hunting with the hound simultaneously. It is well known that the terrorist state called Pakistan is torn asunder between Islamist Taliban and the green back US dollars.

Going by the Chanakya Neeti India would do well by not befriending a terrorist state, Pakistan.

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Dangerous situations surrounding planet earth

 

culturalbridgesact2002 sent an e-mail:

 

Without Knowledge, you can’t defeat the dangerous situations surrounding our present planet earth – Please read slowly and leave the reading for next day. Do not rush on this valuable wisdom furnished here. Thank You.

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Environmental hazards remain after Joplin tornado

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/environmental-hazards-remain-joplin-tornado-070310621.html

A message from the desk of Professor Joe Martin (Swami Gopal Das): “Remember, we can avert the very dangerous oncoming nature fury if the following knowledge is understood, applied in daily life and everyone makes the total effort to stop the criminals for their mischievous activities against other lives. REMEMBER VEDAS STATE: “LIFE COMES FROM LIFE.” If you can’t bring murdered animals back o life, you decide what are the repercussion and the consequences of one’s actions? One must never use human’s gifted “Free Will” in the negative direction. WAKE UP! WHERE IS YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS? SAVE YOURSELF WITH UNDERSTANDING AND RIGHTEOUS ACTION.” 

 

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THIS IS THE GUARANTEE OF OUR MASTER ACHARYA SRI CHARAN DAS JI MAHARAJ: If you truly digest the entire material as enclosed here, the entire universe will open for you. By practicing and also taking the action simultaneously eventually will lead your life back into the spiritual planets after giving up this material dress. So sit down comfortably, study each word precisely, digest each word’s meaning and realize. Once realized the true understanding as enclosed, by practicing and then applying – all doors of the heavenly planets will remain open for you. This is the assurance of our great master who has seen the absolute truth. Reminder: “Greed” leads to the lives of mice and rats (Please read inside what famous Roman poet Ovid has to say in his poem. Also see movie by Beatle’s Paul McCartney.)

Bhagwan Sri Krishn speaks to Arjun: “Give up all varieties of religion and surrender unto me with understanding; I will protect you from all sinful reactions.”

“Wherever there is Sri Krishn, the Master of all mystics, and wherever there is Arjun, the supreme archer, there will also certainly be victory, opulence, extraordinary power, and morality.”  Bhagavad-Gita Chapter 18:78.

· Read many other topics, such as life after death, How to attain God’s abode in this life,

Cause and Effect, rapists of planet earth resources, Man has created his own destiny…..CONDITIONED SOULS OR LIBERATED SOULS – WHICH DO YOU, TRULY WANT? Read with open mind and courage. If you got problem to understand then definitely seek the help of a great spiritual Hindu Master who has seen the Absolute Truth but do not blow your valuable human life in fury or crawl next in the bodies of mice, rats due to your endless desperate hungry pursuits for accumulation / collection – the mind set with utmost greed attitude – the road to hell. IS YOUR HUMAN BODY LOOKS LIKE A DOG/WOLF? FIND OUT THE ANSWER FOR YOUR NEXT DESTINY – you have created – no interference of the Almighty God – THE NATURELAW.

ALSO READ ANSWER FOR THOSE DOING HALAL!

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 2nd. USA President John Adams wrote to third USA President Thomas Jefferson, the following great wisdom of Soul’s Journey from various physical bodies – EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH SOUL’S TRANSMIGRATION:

 In 1814, former U.S. President John Adams, who had been reading about the Hindu religion, wrote to a President of the U.S.A., “The Sage of Monticello,” Thomas Jefferson, about the doctrine of the Science of Birth and Death (Reincarnation). After revolting against the Supreme Being, some souls were hurled, John Adams wrote, “down to the region of total darkness.” They were then, the statement said, “released from prison, permitted to ascend to earth and migrate into all sorts of animals, reptiles, birds, beasts, and men, according to their rank and character, and if they passed without reproach their several graduation, they were permitted to become cows and men. If as men they behaved well… They were restored to their original rank and bliss in heaven.” Letters to Thomas Jefferson, March 1814, Correspondence of John Adams.

 Let us analyze in detail, the meaning behind Mr. John Adams’ letter to Mr. Thomas Jefferson:

 First understand the evolution is taking place in our daily life (Read further in the end). The evolution is of soul’s consciousness, not of matter. Matter is dead –lifeless. As long as the driver is in the automobile, the automobile can be driven. Once he comes out of the automobile, the automobile is dead. Similarly, human body or animal body is dead, without the presence of driver (soul). Soul is gone, i.e. the person living in that particular body is now gone, left behind 9 gates’ material body. Nature Worshippers have always cremated dead bodies because all elements merge into nature. They are: fire to fire, air to air, water to water, earth to earth, ether to ether. Vedas state that the material body consists of 5 elements: Water, Fire, Air, Ether and Earth. This way, the dead inert material body left behind by the driver (soul) has merged ASHES TO ASHES. Where did Christianity derive the meaning “Ashes to Ashes?” Christianity is known to bury their dead bodies in the ground by decorating them in costly well decorative casket. EXTREMELY MISLEADING: This way, the faithfuls remain within the bodily concept. They are promised and assured by Church Authorities that after death, they will be expecting an “UNKNOWN MESSIAH” appearing anytime to deliver them by raising the dead in whatever shape and fashion they may be inside the ground. Please Note: For the last 2,000 years same false promise has been passed down to fool the people under the thumbs of these mischievous clergy – yet no messiah has arrived to raise the dead bodies from the graves. They truly don’t give importance to the driver (soul) of the automobile in its total understanding. REMEMBER: Examples speak louder than the words. Where are the Ashes to Ashes? So much borrowed, here and there, they lost their own track in keeping up with the right motives and right actions misleading the souls to confusions and neglect.

Some Ignoramuses writing that the evolution is a fraud when in fact they are making the fraudulent statement due to their deep-rooted ignorance in the subject, thereby misleading and confusing Americans and others, big time. If there was simply one life, there could not possible exist inequality under the perfect Almighty God. It is the individual’s action leading to the individual’s destiny causing one to become a fool, another a terrorist. Some US Muslims justify suicide attacks: By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer, and Associated Press.

 

 Some US Muslims justify suicide attacks:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070522/ap_on_re_us/poll_muslim_americans

THE FAMOUS ROMAN POET OVID SEES ONE OF HIS PAST LIFE IN THE BODY OF A DOG:

Over 2,100 years ago, the famous Roman poet Ovid penned these verses describing the fate of an unfortunate person, who, by his actions and desires, slid a few notches down the evolutionary scale –meaning that the soul accepted a dog body in its journey to the next destination:

 

I am ashamed to tell you, but I will tell

 

REMEMBER: By closing the eyes, the sun does not disappear. The sun still is bright and shining, giving heat and light to everyone, regardless of color, belief, nationality, cast, and creed. Beliefs are many. Oh, I believe in father i.e. family to family, father to son, one Church to another Church but the Absolute Truth for all souls remain the same.


Please open your eyes & ears. We see everyday world hunger and starvation, millions dying each year. Are these accidental? These are reminders to souls that they could be trapped into the similar situations in their next destination, if continued with dirty tricks, filled with low life. Nothing is an accidental. It is very serious topic on the matter of Transmigration of Soul.

 

I had bristles sprouting on me.

I could not speak, but only grunting sounds

came out instead of words.

I felt my mouth grow harder.

I had a snout instead of a nose,

And my face bent over to see the ground.

My neck swelled up with great muscles,

And the hand that lifted the cup of my lips

Made footprints on the ground.

……………….METAMORPHOSES

 

British Poet William Wordsworth writes in his famous poem ‘Intimations of mmortality’: “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.” And in another poem, he addressed the following lines to an infant:

Oh, sweet newcomer to the changeful earth

If, as some darkling seers have bodily guessed,

Thou hadst a being and a human birth,

And wert erewhile by human parents blessed,

Long, long before thy present mother pressed

Thee, helpless stranger, to her fostering breast.

                                      

EMERSON: “It is a secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again…. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endures mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.” The selected writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Editor, Brooks Atkinson, New York: Modern Library, 1950, page 445. From the Katha Upanishad, one of the many books of ancient Hindu science in his library, Emerson quoted, “The soul is not born; it does not die; it is not produced from anyone…. Unborn, Eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.” … Emerson’s complete works, Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1886, IV, Page 35.

 Thoreau, the philosopher of Walden Pond, wrote: “As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of previous state of existence.” The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1949, II, Page 306.

 Another sign of Thoreau’s deep interest in the cycle of birth and death is a manuscript, discovered in 1926, entitled “The Transmigration of the seven Brahmanas.” This short work is an English translation of a story about reincarnation from an ancient Sanskrit history. The transmigration episode follows the lives of seven sages through progressive incarnations as hunters, princes, and animals.

 Walt Whitman, in his poem “Song of Myself,” Writes:

I know I am deathless….

We have thus far exhausted

Trillions of winters and summers,

There are trillions ahead, and

Trillions ahead of them.

 

From Walt Whitman’s leaves of Grass, Ist. (1855) Edition, editor, Malcolm Cowley, New York: Viking, 1959

 UNDERSTAND FIRST, life on our planet earth is self-sustaining, without the mercy of other material planets. We cannot have Water Reservoirs stretched from Mars to satisfy the existence of humans and animals on our planet earth. Our planet earth is independently well sustained (self sufficient) and do not require other planets resources. World of fools and be fooled. We have our own ecological system to provide everything necessary for sustaining material lives on this planet earth.

 REMEMBER: There is enough for everyone but never is enough for the greed. Such people due to their utmost greed are contributing to further cause of ecological imbalance. What is this big show $100 million salary or $500 million salary – what are they trying to prove in America? You need decent living but not these outrageous show of money power executives. Western News Media always counting, what is the equivalent of income for natives in other countries? Trying to prove their puffed-up nature, what they have controlled forcefully – by exertion. That is a clear-cut robbery, not decency. If can’t get it, send the war machines to impose the might. But the might is not getting right but have started slapping back America because of their constant HEGEMONY around the globe. Once a great sage of India, the fountain of the Eastern Civilization and consequently the world’s civilization, said: “Live and let live others.”

 Now, they are further confusing the world that China is the East when India was always the east and still is the East.They are trying to shuffle the credit of the Eastern Culture to China for civilization. China is the North East, not the East because India was always considered the Light of knowledge from the East. Even the Buddhist civilization emerged out from the East India to China, Indochina, Japan, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia and the world, over 2300 years ago. Master Tao of China had learned the knowledge from the Buddhist teachings, arranged by King Ashok of India. Lohan and Bodhi Karma of India travelled to China to set-up the very first Buddhist monastery in Mainland China, called Shaolin Temple. They were the pioneer for teaching “Karate – Kung-fu” to the natives through their Shaolin Temple monastery. They also taught to Chinese the ancient old science of Yoga i.e. “Yog.” Later, Damodar of India travelled to China to teach the Buddhist culture and Karate-Kung-fu to Chinese.

Chinese Ambassador to the USA stated that India has ruled over the minds of Chinese over 2,000 years. He was mentioning in reference to the great Buddhist culture of Nirvana i.e. Nirvan. Please don’t confuse that China could be the pioneer for giving civilization to the world. China is cutting their trees to supply the lumbers to ever demanding US consumers for building 5-6 times bigger houses than were normally built 25 years ago for general consumers. People must learn to live within the eco-friendly benefits. Why not to build concrete houses right here in America? This alone will save millions of acres of land from cutting trees.

 It is time that we, “Souls,” must link to the “Ultimate Universal Source,” so we remain totally consistent, within the absolute context in totally perfect order in our total understanding. This way, we can link with the Source Almighty God; otherwise taking some pieces of puzzles from here and there won’t complete the puzzle. It must be from the Real Source, within the context and without loosing consistency and perfection, otherwise souls are confused.

 Please Note: Our Master Acharya Charan Das Ji made the slaughter house movie in the year 1981 that was bought by many famous organizations world wide such as Humane society, Animal Cruelty, Farm Animals, Carnivals where it was shown on big screens and countries: England, France, Australia, Canada, Germany. Our Master had broken the Iron Walls, the pioneer, 28 years before Paul McCartney’s 2009 year work on the same theme. Please see at your own discretion (Our Master movie is not on the YouTube).  You must be an adult to watch these horror scenes or children must be under the presence of guardians. That movie plus distribution of pamphlets as instructed above was the reason for awakening and emergence of Vegan societies and vegetarianism across the USA. A picture is worth million words. Our Acharya’s Master used to say: “We do not know what ghastly things go in the slaughter house!” To fulfill his master’s desires, our Master took this project which took two years to get permission from a certain Slaughter House right here in the USA.

Paul McCartney: Animals are treated / slaughtered

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ydyhpoLrG8

 

Halal Malpractice – Arab Animal Rights Report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSwwkGAXWs&NR=1&feature=fvwp

 

Islamic Halal salma 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt9SMuvplVI&NR=1

 

Nathuram Godse’s Final Address to the Court

From: stop-corruption-worldwide@googlegroups.com [mailto:stop-corruption-worldwide@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Om B Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 9:27 PM To: Stop Corruption Worldwide Subject: [scw] WHY I KILLED GANDHI!!! –

… … Gandhiji Assassin: Nathuram Godse’s Final Address to the Court.

Nathuram Godse was arrested immediately after he assassinated Gandhiji, based on a F. I.. R. filed by Nandlal Mehta at the Tughlak Road Police station at Delhi . The trial, which was held in camera, began on 27th May 1948 and concluded on 10th February 1949. He was sentenced to death. An appeal to the Punjab High Court, then in session at Simla, did not find favorable and the sentence was upheld. The statement that you are about to read is the last made by Godse before the Court on the 5th of May 1949.

Such was the power and eloquence of this statement that one of the judges, G. D. Khosla, later wrote, “I have, however, no doubt that had the audience of that day been constituted into a jury and entrusted with the task of deciding Godse’s appeal, they would have brought a verdict of ‘not Guilty’ by an overwhelming majority”

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WHY I KILLED GANDHI?

Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively came to revere Hindu religion, Hindu history, and Hindu culture. I had, therefore, been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up I developed a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious allegiance to any isms, political or religious. That is why I worked actively for the eradication of untouchables and the caste system based on birth alone. I openly joined RSS wing of anti-caste movements and maintained that all Hindus were of equal status as to rights, social, and religious and should be considered high or low on merit alone and not through the accident of birth in a particular caste or profession.

I used publicly to take part in organized anti-caste dinners in which thousands of Hindus, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Chamars and Bhangis participated. We broke the caste rules and dined in the company of each other. I have read the speeches and writings of Ravana, Chanakiya, Dadabhai Naoroji, Vivekanand, Gokhale, Tilak, along with the books of ancient and modern history of India and some prominent countries like England , France , America , and Russia .Moreover I studied the tenets of Socialism and Marxism. But above all I studied very closely whatever Veer Savarkar and Gandhiji had written and spoken, as to my mind these two ideologies have contributed more to the molding of the thought and action of the Indian people during the last thirty years or so, than any other single factor has done.

All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first duty to serve Hinduism and Hindus both as a patriot and as a world citizen. To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of some thirty crores (300 million) of Hindus would automatically constitute the freedom and the well-being of all India , one fifth of human race. This conviction led me naturally to devote myself to the Hindu Sanghtanist ideology and program, which alone, I came to believe, could win and preserve the national independence of Hindustan , my Motherland, and enable her to render true service to humanity as well.

Since the year 1920, that is, after the demise of Lokamanya Tilak, Gandhiji’s influence in the Congress first increased and then became supreme. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in their intensity and were reinforced by the slogan of truth and non- violence which he paraded ostentatiously before the country. No sensible or enlightened person could object to those slogans. In fact there is nothing new or original in them. They are implicit in every constitutional public movement. But it is nothing but a mere dream if you imagine that the bulk of mankind is, or can ever become, capable of scrupulous adherence to these lofty principles in its normal life from day to day.

In fact, honour, duty, and love of one’s own kith and kin and country might often compel us to disregard non-violence and to use force. I could never conceive that an armed resistance to an aggression is unjust. I would consider it a religious and moral duty to resist and, if possible, to overpower such an enemy by use of force. [In the Ramayana] Rama killed Ravana in a tumultuous fight and relieved Sita.. [In the Mahabharata], Krishna killed Kansa to end his wickedness; and Arjuna had to fight and slay quite a number of his friends and relations including the revered Bhishma because the latter was on the side of the aggressor. It is my firm belief that in dubbing Rama, Krishna , and Arjuna as guilty of violence, the Mahatma betrayed a total ignorance of the springs of human action.

In more recent history, it was the heroic fight put up by Chhatrapati Shivaji that first checked and eventually destroyed the Muslim tyranny in India . It was absolutely essentially for Shivaji to overpower and kill an aggressive Afzal Khan, failing which he would have lost his own life. In condemning history’s towering warriors like Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh as misguided patriots, Gandhiji has merely exposed his self-conceit. He was, paradoxical as it may appear a violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in the name of truth and non-violence, while Rana Pratap, Shivaji, and the Guru will remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen for ever for the freedom they brought to them.

The accumulating provocation of thirty-two years, culminating in his last pro-Muslim fast, at last goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhi should be brought to an end immediately. Gandhi had done very well in South Africa to uphold the rights and well-being of the Indian community there. But when he finally returned to India he developed a subjective mentality under which he alone was to be the final judge of what was right or wrong. If the country wanted his leadership, it had to accept his infallibility; if it did not, he would stand aloof from the Congress and carry on his own way.

Against such an attitude there can be no halfway house. Either Congress had to surrender its will to his and had to be content with playing second fiddle to all his eccentricity, whimsicality, metaphysics and primitive vision, or it had to carry on without him.

He alone was the Judge of everyone and everything; he was the master brain guiding the civil disobedience movement; no other could know the technique of that movement. He alone knew when to begin and when to withdraw it. The movement might succeed or fail, it might bring untold disaster, and political reverses but that could make no difference to the Mahatma’s infallibility. ‘A Satyagrahi can never fail’ was his formula for declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himself knew what a Satyagrahi is. Thus, the Mahatma became the judge and jury in his own cause. These childish insanities and obstinacies, coupled with a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty character made Gandhi formidable and irresistible.

Many people thought that his politics were irrational but they had either to withdraw from the Congress or place their intelligence at his feet to do with as he liked. In a position of such absolute irresponsibility Gandhi was guilty of blunder after blunder, failure after failure, disaster after disaster. Gandhi’s pro-Muslim policy is blatantly in his perverse attitude on the question of the national language of India . It is quite obvious that Hindi has the most prior claim to be accepted as the premier language. In the beginning of his career in India , Gandhi gave a great impetus to Hindi but as he found that the Muslims did not like it, he became a champion of what is called Hindustani.. Everybody in India knows that there is no language called Hindustani; it has no grammar; it has no vocabulary. It is a mere dialect, it is spoken, but not written. It is a bastard tongue and cross-breed between Hindi and Urdu, and not even the Mahatma’s sophistry could make it popular. But in his desire to please the Muslims he insisted that Hindustani alone should be the national language of India . His blind followers, of course, supported him and the so-called hybrid language began to be used. The charm and purity of the Hindi language was to be prostituted to please the Muslims. All his experiments were at the expense of the Hindus.

From August 1946 onwards the private armies of the Muslim League began a massacre of the Hindus. The then Viceroy, Lord Wavell, though distressed at what was happening, would not use his powers under the Government of India Act of 1935 to prevent the rape, murder and arson. The Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi with some retaliation by the Hindus. The Interim Government formed in September was sabotaged by its Muslim League member’s right from its inception, but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to the government of which they were a part, the greater was Gandhi’s infatuation for them. Lord Wavell had to resign as he could not bring about a settlement and he was succeeded by Lord Mountbatten. King Log was followed by King Stork. The Congress which had boasted of its nationalism and socialism secretly accepted Pakistan literally at the point of the bayonet and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. India was vivisected and one-third of the Indian territory became foreign land to us from August 15, 1947.

Lord Mount batten came to be described in Congress circles as the greatest Viceroy and Governor-General this country ever had. The official date for handing over power was fixed for June 30, 1948, but Mount batten with his ruthless surgery gave us a gift of vivisected India ten months in advance. This is what Gandhi had achieved after thirty years of undisputed dictatorship and this is what Congress party calls ‘freedom’ and ‘peaceful transfer of power’. The Hindu- Muslim unity bubble was finally burst and a theocratic state was established with the consent of Nehru and his crowd and they have called ‘freedom won by them with sacrifice’ – whose sacrifice? When top leaders of Congress, with the consent of Gandhi, divided and tore the country – which we consider a deity of worship – my mind was filled with direful anger.

One of the conditions imposed by Gandhi for his breaking of the fast unto death related to the mosques in Delhi occupied by the Hindu refugees. But when Hindus in Pakistan were subjected to violent attacks he did not so much as utter a single word to protest and censure the Pakistan Government or the Muslims concerned. Gandhi was shrewd enough to know that while undertaking a fast unto death, had he imposed for its break some condition on the Muslims in Pakistan , there would have been found hardly any Muslims who could have shown some grief if the fast had ended in his death. It was for this reason that he purposely avoided imposing any condition on the Muslims. He was fully aware of from the experience that Jinnah was not at all perturbed or influenced by his fast and the Muslim League hardly attached any value to the inner voice of Gandhi. Gandhi is being referred to as the Father of the Nation.

But if that is so, he had failed his paternal duty in as much as he has acted very treacherously to the nation by his consenting to the partitioning of it. I stoutly maintain that Gandhi has failed in his duty.

He has proved to be the Father of Pakistan. His inner-voice, his spiritual power and his doctrine of non-violence of which so much is made of, all crumbled before Jinnah’s iron will, and proved to be powerless. Briefly speaking, I thought to myself and foresaw I shall be totally ruined, and the only thing I could expect from the people would be nothing but hatred and that I shall have lost my entire honor, even more valuable than my life, if I were to kill Gandhiji. But at the same time I felt that the Indian politics in the absence of Gandhiji would surely be proved practical, able to retaliate, and would be powerful with armed forces. No doubt, my own future would be totally ruined, but the nation would be saved from the inroads of Pakistan. People may even call me and dub me as devoid of any sense or foolish, but the nation would be free to follow the course founded on the reason which I consider to be necessary for sound nation-building.

After having fully considered the question, I took the final decision in the matter, but I did not speak about it to anyone whatsoever. I took courage in both my hands and I did fire the shots at Gandhiji on 30th January 1948, on the prayer-grounds of Birla House. I do say that my shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had brought rack and ruin and destruction to millions of Hindus. There was no legal machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book and for this reason I fired those fatal shots. I bear no ill will towards anyone individually but I do say that I had no respect for the present government owing to their policy which was unfairly favorable towards the Muslims. But at the same time I could clearly see that the policy was entirely due to the presence of Gandhi.

I have to say with great regret that Primes Minister Nehru quite forgets that his preaching’s and deeds are at times at variances with each other when he talks about India as a secular state in season and out of season, because it is significant to note that Nehru has played a leading role in the establishment of the theocratic state of Pakistan, and his job was made easier by Gandhi’s persistent policy of appeasement towards the Muslims. I now stand before the court to accept the full share of my responsibility for what I have done and the judge would, of course, pass against me such orders of sentence as may be considered proper. But I would like to add that I do not desire any mercy to be shown to me, nor do I wish that anyone else should beg for mercy on my behalf. My confidence about the moral side of my action has not been shaken even by the criticism leveled against it on all sides. I have no doubt that honest writers of history will weighs my act and find the true value thereof some day in future.

JAI HIND !

Qoutes of Great Western Statesmen on Islam

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“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia [rabies] in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. …The fact that in Mohammedan law [sharia] every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities—but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”—-Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Prime Minister

“The precept of the Koran is perpetual war against all who deny that Mohammed is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Muslim creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force”.—-John Quincy Adams, 1829

“Qur’an… an accursed book… So long as there is this book there will be no peace in the world.”—-William Gladstone (1809-1898) Prime Minister of Great Britain 1868 – 1894

‘The riches belong to nobody, certainly not to our family’

The head of a former royal family renounced any personal claim to billions of dollars’ worth of ancient treasure discovered in a temple in Thiruvanantharam, the kingdom his ancestors once ruled. Padma Rao Sundarji speaks to Uthradam Thirunal Marthanda Verma, the former King of Tranvancore.

PRS: What is your family’s connection with the Padmanabhaswamy temple?
Varma: We are the Cheras, one of the four erstwhile royal families of South India and have a long and dynastic family tree. By 1750 Travancore had become rich and big. So my ancestor, the then king, made a unique spiritual and historical contribution. He decided to surrender all his riches to the temple – Padmanabhaswamy is also our family deity. He said our family would look after that wealth, the temple and the kingdom forever. But he did want the ego that comes with possessing it. He was influenced by Emperor Ashoka’s catharsis in the killing fields of Kalinga. So he declared our family to be Padmanabha’s ‘dasas’, devotees. A servant can resign his job, but a dasa can do so only when he dies.

PRS: You are one of the wealthiest families in India and yet, you live in a spartan way, unlike many other ex-royals. Why?
Varma: I have to go back a bit in time, to explain why. Everybody thinks that we Indians first rose against British colonial rule in 1857. Wrong. In 1741, Travancore was the only Asian power to defeat the Dutch when they arrived here. After the battle, all the Dutch soldiers kneeled before my ancestors. One Dutchman, Benedictus Eustachius, even joined our army. We called him the Great Kapitan. Later, I learned that he was [US president] Franklin Roosevelt’s ancestor when the latter’s grandson came to look at our historical records.

Then in 1839, almost two decades before the mutiny, we rose against the British. Our punishment was severe. They disbanded our police and army of 50,000, transferred our capital to Kollam, dumped two British regiments on us, and ordered us to pay for their upkeep. Thomas Munroe named himself Diwan of Travancore. When our spirit still did not flag, they brought in missionaries. But we did not get gobbled up by Western thought. We travel abroad occasionally, but it has not affected or changed our simple way of life. Why am I telling you this? So that you get an idea of how much our life has revolved around our faith, despite so many outside influences and kept us going.

PRS: How do you feel about what is happening around the temple right now – its cellars being opened up, your donations being discussed around the world, the criticism, the furore?
Varma: Sorry, I cannot comment on what is happening there – the matter is sub-judice. But this much I will say. I have no problem with the inventory and additional security being provided by the state to the temple. But please don’t remove those objects from the temple. They belong to nobody, certainly not to our family. They belong to god and our law permits that. All these debates swirling around the riches is unfortunate. That’s all I can say – I have to listen to my doctor, lawyer and auditor. Our family has been donating objects to the temple for centuries. As chief patron of the temple, I go there every day. If I miss a day, I am fined Rs 166.35 – an old Travancore tradition.

PRS: But you cannot deny that such wealth could be put to better use for the poor.
Varma: We Indians are more educated now. But this reaction to donations inside a temple is anything but progressive. We are slowly losing our Indian identity. Money has become everything. But I am not surprised. I would rather be philosophical than disillusioned because I can’t change the world.

PRS: Then there is the rationalist argument that this is blind faith. 
Varma: Please think of England’s Henry VIII in the late 1500s. He had two passions. Wives and money. So he pillaged churches. Finally, he ran into a problem because he wanted a divorce from Catherine of Aragon. The church refused, because she was a zealous Spanish Catholic. His cardinal advised him to invent his own church. So he did that – just to get a divorce. Is that rational?
It is rather difficult to explain our faith to the new world where people have none anymore. When selfishness grows, everything you do seems right, and everything others do seems wrong. It’s all about what do I get, not about what do I do. I like the memory of my trip to a game reserve South Africa. After seeing many wild animals, I asked the guide which was the most rapacious and fearsome. He showed me a mirror.

PRS: What is your source of income? What does your family live off ?
Varma: We have travel and hotel businesses. I am chairman of a former British company that exports various items from Kerala – but no, not pepper to Buckingham Palace, as reported. We also run seven trusts.  We spend R5-8 lakh a year on education, health and housing for the poor. We pay good salaries. And the family itself contributes money every month. No government has acknowledged our work but that is all right. We do it because we want to do it.

PRS: Gold statues studded with rubies and diamonds, saphhires, gold coins of the Napoleonic era and the East India Company. Is all that true?
Varma: I have never been inside those cellars. Our philosophy has always been not to look at such objects and get tempted. But of course I know what is inside them.

PRS: Are the younger members of your family angrier than you about the heated public debate?
Varma: I am the most hot-blooded in this family but on this matter, we all feel the same. I was a soldier – a colonel for 15 years in the Madras Regiment. I would like to ask those criticizing us for donating these objects: why are they bothered about what someone else has done? What are they doing in the name of faith themselves ? Why the hot gossip over a donation to God?

PRS: At 90, you don’t even use a walking stick. What is your daily routine ?
Varma: We have all been brought up very strictly and frugally. My day starts at 4 am with yoga. I only drink milk, I am a vegetarian and a teetotaler. I read the Vedas everyday. I go the temple for a ten-minute private audience with the deity every morning. After that, I indulge in one of my hobbies – “media surgery.” I read the newspapers and clip articles over breakfast. I have a collection of the past 30 years. I will give those to the Trust because my children may not be interested. People come to meet me, they invite me to inaugurate functions. I speak extempore. I go from vertical to horizontal for about 20 minutes in the afternoon. I am in bed by 945. I have always slept well. Since there is nothing on my conscience, sleep comes swiftly.

PRS: Are you now thinking of insuring those treasures, now that the whole world is talking about them, or are they already insured ?
Varma: (laughs) I am least worried that they will be stolen. If that happens, then it was the Lord’s will.

PRS: Among your ancestors were famous Carnatic musician Swati Thirunal and painter Raja Ravi Varma. What are your passions?
Varma: Those two ancestors gave music and art divinity and humanity respectively. That continues. I love art. I once saw a piece of exquisite china in Venice. It was a girl on a swing with the sand looking worn just where her feet touched the ground each time. It cost 100 pounds, I could only afford 40, as foreign exchange was limited those days. So I went away. The dealer called me back and gave it to me. He said he could tell that I was not one of those who ordered 200 pieces of one kind, that I valued minute details.

PRS: Kerala has been a Communist bastion for more than 50 years. Don’t you find it peculiar that people here still flurry around you, they respect you, they still call you Your Highness.
Varma: Yes, that is quite amazing because I am a simple man, I don’t expect it at all. At religious gatherings in Haridwar where one of my two gurus lives, I always sit in the last row and am always dressed like this – mundu and bush-shirt. People who don’t know me come looking for the Raja of the South. When I raise my hand, they don’t believe me.

PRS: How wealthy is your family, compared to the other – and internationally more famous – royals of Rajasthan and elsewhere?
Varma: That is a mere technicality and has never been relevant to me. But I’ll tell you a story which will give you an idea. There used to be a British gun salute for the princely states of India: 21, the highest for the richest ruler, 11 for the poorest. When Tranvancore refused to contribute soldiers to the British Army in World War I, our slipped from 21 to 19.

PRS: Who is your heir?
Varma: We have a matriarchal system of inheritance. I have a daughter and a son but it is my sister’s son who will be king after me. I remember a European lady visiting us. I explained this complicated law of succession to her. When she went back, she told her friends that she had not understood a word, but only knew that whatever it was, it was good for women. Kerala is slowly turning patriarchal again. That is not good. Overall in our country, we treat women as second-class citizens. When you look at a man, you are looking at a human being, when you look at a woman, you are looking at a family.

PRS: What is the feeling you get, when you spend those ten minutes at the Padmanabha shrine ? The daily communion between ruler and master, as you put it ?
Varma: Gooseflesh. Everything is surrendered. It is a great, elating feeling. My hair stands on end with joy. Each and every time.

(Padma Rao Sundarji is South Asia bureau chief of Der Spiegel)

—End —

My comment: Temple treasure is the property of the deity of the temple. It is donated over centuries by the devotees of the temple deity. It is a kind of hedge fund for the devotes or the Vedics that could be used when time is really bad. Else it has no use; then it become worthless only to be looted by adharmies. It can be used to do God’s work, do dharma seva or rashtra seva development projects, upliftment of pooer, etc. – “Skanda”

 

 

Klaus Klostermaier on how Indian history was re-written in colonial period

Klaus Klostermaier on how Indian history was re-written in colonial period, and entirely built on colonial prejudices and made to fit with Biblical chronology. He also examines how a new generation is challenging these versions of history with scientific facts, not rhetoric.

http://content.iskcon.org/icj/6_1/6_1klostermaier.html

Questioning the Aryan Invasion Theory and Revising Ancient Indian History1

NB. The footnotes for this article are linked to a separate footnote page.

Introduction
Tacitus, the classical Roman writer, claimed to have described past events and personalities in his works sine ira et studio, free from hostility and bias. This motto has guided serious historians through the ages, and it became their highest ambition to write history ‘objectively’, distancing themselves from opinions held by interested parties.

The ideal was not always followed, as we know. We have seen twentieth century governments commissioning re-writings of the histories of their countries from the standpoint of their own ideologies. Like the court-chroniclers of former times, some contemporary academic historians wrote unashamedly biased accounts of events and redesigned the past accordingly.

When, in the wake of World War II the nations of Asia and Africa gained independence, their intellectuals became aware of the fact that their histories had been written by representatives of the colonial powers which they had opposed. More often than not they discovered that all traditional accounts of their own past had been brushed aside by the ‘official’ historians as so much myth and fairytale. Often lacking their own academically trained historians-or worse, only possessing native historians who had taken over the views of the colonial masters-the discontent with existing histories of their countries expressed itself often in vernacular works that lacked the academic credentials necessary to make an impact on professional historians.

The situation is slowly changing. A new generation of scholars who grew up in post-colonial times and who do not share the former biases, scholars in command of the tools of the trade-intimacy with the languages involved, familiarity with the culture of their countries, respect for the indigenous traditions-are rewriting the histories of their countries.

Nowhere is this more evident than in India. India had a tradition of learning and scholarship much older and vaster than the European countries that, from the sixteenth century onwards, became its political masters. Indian scholars are rewriting the history of India today.

The Aryan Invasion Theory and the Old Chronology
One of the major points of revision concerns the so called ‘Aryan invasion theory’, often referred to as ‘colonial-missionary’, implying that it was the brainchild of conquerors of foreign colonies who could not but imagine that all higher culture had to come from outside ‘backward’ India, and who likewise assumed that a religion could only spread through a politically supported missionary effort.

While not buying into the more sinister version of this revision, which accuses the inventors of the Aryan invasion theory of malice and cynicism, there is no doubt that early European attempts to explain the presence of Indians in India had much to with the commonly held Biblical belief that humankind originated from one pair of humans- Adam and Eve to be precise (their common birth date was believed to be c.4005 BCE)-and that all peoples on earth descended from one of the sons of Noah, the only human to survive the Great Flood (dated at 2500 BCE). The only problem seemed to be to connect peoples not mentioned in Chapter 10 of Genesis [‘The Peopling of the Earth’] with one of the Biblical genealogical lists.

One such example of a Christian historian attempting to explain the presence of Indians in India is the famous Abbé Dubois (1770-1848), whose long sojourn in India (1792-1823) enabled him to collect a large amount of interesting materials concerning the customs and traditions of the Hindus. His (French) manuscript was bought by the British East India Company and appeared in an English translation under the title Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies in 1897 with a Prefatory Note by the Right Hon. F. Max Müller.2 Abbé Dubois, loath ‘to oppose [his] conjectures to [the Indians’] absurd fables’ categorically stated:

It is practically admitted that India was inhabited very soon after the Deluge, which made a desert of the whole world. The fact that it was so close to the plains of Sennaar, where Noah’s descendants remained stationary so long, as well as its good climate and the fertility of the country, soon led to its settlement.

Rejecting other scholars’ opinions which linked the Indians to Egyptian or Arabic origins, he ventured to suggest them ‘to be descendents not of Shem, as many argue, but of Japhet’. He explains: ‘According to my theory they reached India from the north, and I should place the first abode of their ancestors in the neighbourhood of the Caucasus.’3 The reasons he provides to substantiate his theory are utterly unconvincing-but he goes on to build the rest of his migration theory (not yet an ‘Aryan’ migration theory) on this shaky foundation.

Max Müller (1823-1903), who was largely responsible for the ‘Aryan invasion theory’ and the ‘old chronology’, was too close in spirit and time to this kind of thinking, not to have adopted it fairly unquestioningly. In his Prefatory Note he praises the work of Abbé Dubois as a ‘trustworthy authority. . .which will always retain its value.’

That a great deal of early British Indology was motivated by Christian missionary considerations, is no secret. The famous and important Boden Chair for Sanskrit at the University of Oxford was founded by Colonel Boden in 1811 with the explicit object ‘to promote the translation of the Scriptures into Sanskrit, so as to enable his countrymen to proceed in the conversion of the natives of India to the Christian Religion’.4 Max Müller, in a letter to his wife wrote in 1886: ‘The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3 000 years.’5

When the affinity between many European languages and Sanskrit became a commonly accepted notion, scholars almost automatically concluded that the Sanskrit speaking ancestors of the present day Indians were to be found somewhere halfway between India and the Western borders of Europe-Northern Germany, Scandinavia, Southern Russia, the Pamir-from which they invaded the Punjab. (It is also worth noting that the early armchair scholars who conceived these grandiose migration theories, had no actual knowledge of the terrain their ‘Aryan invaders’ were supposed to have transversed, the passes they were supposed to have crossed, or the various climates they were believed to have been living in). Assuming that the Vedic Indians were semi-nomadic warriors and cattle-breeders, it fitted the picture, when Mohenjo Daro and Harappa were discovered, to also assume that these were the cities the Aryan invaders destroyed under the leadership of their god Indra, the ‘city-destroyer’, and that the dark-skinned indigenous people were the ones on whom they imposed their religion and their caste system.

Western scholars decided to apply their own methodologies and, in the absence of reliable evidence, postulated a timeframe for Indian history on the basis of conjectures. Considering the traditional dates for the life of Gautama, the Buddha, as fairly well established in the sixth century BCE, supposedly pre-Buddhist Indian records were placed in a sequence that seemed plausible to philologists. Accepting on linguistic grounds the traditional claims that the Rigveda was the oldest Indian literary document, Max Müller allowing a time-span of two hundred years each for the formation of every class of Vedic literature, and assuming that the Vedic period had come to an end by the time of the Buddha, established the following sequence that was widely accepted:

Rigveda c. 1200 BCE
Yajurveda,Samaveda,Atharvaveda, c. 1000 BCE
Brahmanas, c. 800 BCE
Aranyakas,Upanishads, c. 600 BCE

Max Müller himself conceded the purely conjectural nature of the Vedic chronology, and in the last work published shortly before his death, The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy, admitted: ‘Whatever may be the date of the Vedic hymns, whether 1500 or 15 000 BCE, they have their own unique place and stand by themselves in the literature of the world’ (p.35). There were, even in Max Müller’s time, Western and Indian scholars, such as Moriz Winternitz and Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who disagreed with his chronology and postulated a much higher age for the Rigveda.

Indian scholars pointed out all along that there was no reference in the Veda of a migration from outside India, that all the geographical features mentioned in the Rigveda are those of north-western India and that there was no archaeological evidence whatsoever for the Aryan invasion theory. On the other side there were references to constellations in Vedic works whose timeframe could be calculated. The dates arrived at, however, 4500 BCE for one observation in the Rigveda, 3200 BCE for a date in the Shatapatha Brahmana, seemed far too remote to be acceptable, especially if one assumed-as many nineteenth century scholars did, that the world was only about 6 000 years old and that the flood had taken place only 4 500 years ago.

Debunking the Aryan Invasion Theory: The New Chronology
Contemporary Indian scholars, admittedly motivated not only by academic interests, vehemently reject what they call the ‘colonial-missionary Aryan invasion theory’. They accuse its originators of superimposing-for a reason-the purpose and process of the colonial conquest of India by the Western powers in modern times onto the beginnings of Indian civilisation: as the Europeans came to India as bearers of a supposedly superior civilisation and a higher religion, so the original Aryans were assumed to have invaded a country on which they imposed their culture and their religion.

A recent major work offers ‘seventeen arguments: why the Aryan invasion never happened’.6 It may be worthwhile summarising and analysing them briefly:

  1. The Aryan invasion model is largely based on linguistic conjectures which are unjustified (and wrong). Languages develop much more slowly than assumed by nineteenth century scholars. According to Renfrew speakers of Indo-European languages may have lived in Anatolia as early as 7000 BCE
  2. The supposed large-scale migrations of Aryan people in the second millennium BCE first into Western Asia and then into northern India (by 1500 BCE) cannot be maintained in view of the fact that the Hittites were in Anatolia already by 2200 BCE and the Kassites and Mitanni had kings and dynasties by 1600 BCE
  3. There is no memory of an invasion or of large-scale migration in the records of Ancient India-neither in the Vedas, Buddhist or Jain writings, nor in Tamil literature. The fauna and flora, the geography and the climate described in the Rigveda are that of Northern India.
  4. There is a striking cultural continuity between the archaeological artefacts of the Indus-Saraswati civilisation and subsequent Indian society and culture: a continuity of religious ideas, arts, crafts, architecture, system of weights and measures.
  5. The archaeological finds of Mehrgarh (copper, cattle, barley) reveal a culture similar to that of the Vedic Indians. Contrary to former interpretations, the Rigveda shows not a nomadic but an urban culture (purusa as derived from pur vasa = town-dweller).
  6. The Aryan invasion theory was based on the assumption that a nomadic people in possession of horses and chariots defeated an urban civilisation that did not know horses, and that horses are depicted only from the middle of the second millennium onwards. Meanwhile archaeological evidence for horses has been found in Harappan and pre-Harappan sites; drawings of horses have been found in paleolithic caves in India; drawings of riders on horses dated c. 4300 BCE have been found in Ukraina. Horsedrawn war chariots are not typical for nomadic breeders but for urban civilisations.
  7. The racial diversity found in skeletons in the cities of the Indus civilisation is the same as in India today; there is no evidence of the coming of a new race.
  8. The Rigveda describes a river system in North India that is pre-1900 BCE in the case of the Saraswati river, and pre-2600 BCE in the case of the Drishadvati river. Vedic literature shows a population shift from the Saraswati (Rigveda) to the Ganges (Brahmanas and Puranas), also evidenced by archaeological finds.
  9. The astronomical references in the Rigveda are based on a Pleiades-Krittika (Taurean) calendar of c. 2500 BCE when Vedic astronomy and mathematics were well-developed sciences (again, not a feature of a nomadic people).
  10. The Indus cities were not destroyed by invaders but deserted by their inhabitants because of desertification of the area. Strabo (Geography XV.1.19) reports that Aristobulos had seen thousands of villages and towns deserted because the Indus had changed its course.
  11. The battles described in the Rigveda were not fought between invaders and natives but between people belonging to the same culture.
  12. Excavations in Dwaraka have lead to the discovery of a site larger than Mohenjodaro, dated c. 1500 BCE with architectural structures, use of iron, a script halfway between Harappan and Brahmi. Dwarka has been associated with Krishna and the end of the Vedic period.
  13. A continuity in the morphology of scripts: Harappan, Brahmi, Devanagari.
  14. Vedic ayas, formerly translated as ‘iron,’ probably meant copper or bronze. Iron was found in India before 1500 BCE in Kashmir and Dwaraka.
  15. The Puranic dynastic lists with over 120 kings in one Vedic dynasty alone, fit well into the ‘new chronology’. They date back to the third millennium BCE Greek accounts tell of Indian royal lists going back to the seventh millennium BCE.
  16. The Rigveda itself shows an advanced and sophisticated culture, the product of a long development, ‘a civilisation that could not have been delivered to India on horseback’ (p.160).
  17. Painted Gray Ware culture in the western Gangetic plains, dated ca 1100 BCE has been found connected to (earlier) Black and Red Ware etc.

Let us consider some of these arguments in some detail. As often remarked, there is no hint in the Veda of a migration of the people that considered it its own sacred tradition. It would be strange indeed if the Vedic Indians had lost all recollection of such a momentous event in supposedly relatively recent times- much more recent, for instance, than the migration of Abraham and his people which is well attested and frequently referred to in the Bible. In addition, as has been established recently through satellite photography and geological investigations, the Saraswati, the mightiest river known to the Rigvedic Indians, along whose banks they established numerous major settlements, had dried out completely by 1900 BCE-four centuries before the Aryans were supposed to have invaded India. One can hardly argue for the establishment of Aryan villages along a dry river bed.

When the first remnants of the ruins of the so-called Indus civilisation came to light in the early part of our century, the proponents of the Aryan invasion theory believed they had found the missing archaeological evidence: here were the ‘mighty forts’ and the ‘great cities’ which the war-like Indra of the Rigveda was said to have conquered and destroyed. Then it emerged that nobody had destroyed these cities and no evidence of wars of conquest came to light: floods and droughts had made it impossible to sustain large populations in the area and the people of Mohenjo Daro, Harappa and other places had migrated to more hospitable areas. Ongoing archaeological research has not only extended the area of the Indus-civilisation but has also shown a transition of its later phases to the Gangetic culture. Archeo-geographers have established that a drought lasting two to three hundred years devastated a wide belt of land from Anatolia through Mesopotamia to Northern India around 2300 BCE to 2000 BCE.

Based on this type of evidence and extrapolating from the Vedic texts, a new story of the origins of Hinduism is emerging that reflects the self-consciousness of Hindus and which attempts to replace the ‘colonial-missionary Aryan invasion theory’ by a vision of ‘India as the Cradle of Civilisation.’ This new theory considers the Indus-civilisation as a late Vedic phenomenon and pushes the (inner-Indian) beginnings of the Vedic age back by several thousands of years. One of the reasons for considering the Indus civilisation ‘Vedic’ is the evidence of town-planning and architectural design that required a fairly advanced algebraic geometry-of the type preserved in the Vedic Shulvasutras. The widely respected historian of mathematics A. Seidenberg came to the conclusion, after studying the geometry used in building the Egyptian pyramids and the Mesopotamian citadels, that it reflected a derivative geometry-a geometry derived from the Vedic Shulva-sutras. If that is so, then the knowledge (‘Veda’) on which the construction of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro is based, cannot be later than that civilisation itself.7

While the Rigveda has always been held to be the oldest literary document of India and was considered to have preserved the oldest form of Sanskrit, Indians have not taken it to be the source for their early history. The Itihasa-Purana served that purpose. The language of these works is more recent than that of the Vedas and the time of their final redaction is much later than the fixation of the Vedic canon. However, they contain detailed information about ancient events and personalities that form part of Indian history. The Ancients, like Herodotus, the father of Greek histo-riography, did not separate story from history. Nor did they question their sources but tended to juxtapose various pieces of evidence without critically sifting it. Thus we cannot read Itihasa-Purana as the equivalent of a modern textbook of Indian history but rather as a storybook containing information with interpretation, facts and fiction. Indians, however, always took genealogies quite seriously and we can presume that the Puranic lists of dynasties, like the lists of paramparas in the Upanishads relate the names of real rulers in the correct sequence. On these assumptions we can tentatively reconstruct Indian history to a time around 4500 BCE.

A key element in the revision of Ancient Indian History was the recent discovery of Mehrgarh, a settlement in the Hindukush area, that was continuously inhabited for several thousand years from c. 7000 BCE onwards. This discovery has extended Indian history for several thousands of years before the fairly well dateable Indus civilisation.8

New Chronologies
Pulling together available archaeological evidence as it is available today, the American anthropologist James G. Schaffer developed the following chronology of early Indian civilisation:

  1. Early food-producing era (c. 6500-5000 BCE): no pottery.
  2. Regionalisation era (5000-2600 BCE): distinct regional styles of pottery and other artefacts.
  3. Integration era (2600-1900 BCE) : cultural homogeneity and emergence of urban centres like Mohenjo daro and Harappa.
  4. Localisation era (1900-1300 BCE ) blending of patterns from the integration era with regional ceramic styles.

The Indian archaeologist S.P. Gupta proposed this cultural sequencing:

  1. Pre-ceramic Neolithic (8000-600 BCE)
  2. Ceramic Neolithic (6000-5000 BCE)
  3. Chalcolithic (5000-3000 BCE )
  4. Early Bronze Age (3000-1900 BCE)
  5. Late Bronze Age ( 1900-1200 BCE)
  6. Early Iron Age (1200-800 BCE)
  7. Late Iron cultures

According to these specialists, there is no break in the cultural development from 8000 BCE onwards, no indication of a major change, as an invasion from outside would certainly be.

A more detailed ‘New Chronology’ of Ancient India, locating names of kings and tribes mentioned in the Vedas and Puranas, according to Rajarama9 looks somewhat like this:

4500 BCE: Mandhatri’s victory over the Drohyus, alluded to in the Puranas.
4000 BCE Rigveda (excepting books 1 and 10)
3700 BCE Battle of Ten Kings (referred to in the Rigveda) Beginning of Puranic dynastic lists: Agastya, the messenger of Vedic religion in the Dravida country. Vasistha, his younger brother, author of Vedic works. Rama and Ramayana.
3600 BCEYajur-, Sama-, Atharvaveda: Completion of Vedic Canon.
3100 BCE Age of Krishna and Vyasa. Mahabharata War. Early Mahabharata.
3000 BCEShatapathabrahmana, Shulvasutras, Yajnavalkyasutra, Panini, author of the Ashtadhyayi, Yaska, author of the Nirukta.
2900 BCE Rise of the civilisations of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Indus-Sarasvati doab.
2200 BCE beginning of large-scale drought: decline of Harappa.
2000 BCE End of Vedic age.
1900 BCE Saraswati completely dried out: end of Harappa.

Texts like the Rigveda, the Shatapathabrahmana and others contain references to eclipses as well as to sidereal markers of the beginning of seasons, which allow us by backward calculation, to determine the time of their composition. Experts assure us that to falsify these dates would have been impossible before the computer age.

Old verses new? Or scientists verses philologists?
We are left, at present, with two widely differing versions of Ancient Indian History, with two radically divergent sets of chronology and with a great deal of polemic from both sides. Those who defend the Aryan invasion theory and the chronology associated with it accuse the proponents of the ‘New Chronology’ of indulging in Hindu chauvinism. The latter suspect the former of entertaining ‘colonial-missionary’ prejudices and denying originality to the indigenous Indians. The new element that has entered the debate is scientific investigations. While the older theory rested on exclusively philological arguments, the new theory includes astronomical, geological, mathematical and archaeological evidence. On the whole, the latter seems to rest on better foundations. Not only were the philological arguments from the very beginning based more on strong assertions and bold guesses, civilisations both ancient and contemporary comprise more than literature alone. In addition, purely philologically trained scholars-namely grammarians-are not able to make sense of technical language and of scientific information contained even in the texts they study.

Consider today’s scientific literature. It abounds with Greek and Latin technical terms, it contains an abundance of formulae composed of Greek and Hebrew letters. If scholars with a background in the classical languages were to read such works, they might be able to come up with some acceptable translations of technical terms into modern English but they would hardly be able to really make sense of most of what they read and they certainly would not extract the information which the authors of these works wished to convey to people trained in their specialities. The situation is not too different with regard to ancient Indian texts. The admission of some of the best scholars (like Geldner, who in his translation of the Rigveda, considered the best so far, declares many passages ‘darker than the darkest oracle’ or Gonda, who considered the Rigveda basically untranslatable) of being unable to make sense of a great many texts-and the refusal of most to go beyond a grammatical and etymological analysis of these-indicates a deeper problem. The Ancients were not only poets and litterateurs, but they also had their sciences and their technical skills, their secrets and their conventions that are not self-evident to someone not sharing their world. Some progress has been made in deciphering medical and astronomical literature of a later age, in reading architectural and arts-related materials. However, much of the technical meaning of the oldest Vedic literature still eludes us.

The Rigveda–a code?
The computer scientist and Indologist Subhash Kak believes he has rediscovered the ‘Vedic Code’ which allows him to extract from the structure, as well as the words and sentences of the Rigveda, and the considerable astronomical information which its authors supposedly embedded in it.10 The assumption of such encoded scientific knowledge would make it understandable why there was such insistence on the preservation of every letter of the text in precisely the sequence the original author had set down. One can take certain liberties with a story, or even a poem, changing words, transposing lines, adding explanatory matter, shortening it, if necessary, and still communicate the intentions and ideas of the author. However, one has to remember and reproduce a scientific formula in precisely the same way it has been set down by the scientist or it would not make sense at all. While the scientific community can arbitrarily adopt certain letter equivalents for physical units or processes, once it has agreed on their use, one must obey the conventions for the sake of meaningful communication.

Even a non-specialist reader of ancient Indian literature will notice the effort to link macrocosm and microcosm, astronomical and physiological processes, to find correspondences between the various realms of beings and to order the universe by establishing broad classifications. Vedic sacrifices-the central act of Vedic culture- were to be offered on precisely built geometrically constructed altars and to be performed at astronomically exactly established times. It sounds plausible to expect a correlation between the numbers of bricks prescribed for a particular altar and the distances between stars observed whose movement determined the time of the offerings to be made. Subhash Kak has advanced a great deal of fascinating detail in that connection in his essays on the ‘Astronomy of the Vedic Altar’. He believes that while the Vedic Indians possessed extensive astronomical knowledge, which they encoded in the text of the Rigveda, the code was lost in later times and the Vedic tradition was interrupted.11

India, the cradle of (world-) civilisation?
Based on the early dating of the Rigveda (c. 4000 BCE) and on the strength of the argument that Vedic astronomy and geometry predates that of the other known Ancient civilisations, some scholars, like N.S. Rajaram, George Feuerstein, Subhash Kak and David Frawley, have made the daring suggestion that India was the ‘cradle of civilisation’. They link the recently discovered early European civilisation (which predates Ancient Sumeria and Ancient Egypt by over a millennium) to waves of populations moving out or driven out from north-west India. Later migrations, caused either by climatic changes or by military events, would have brought the Hittites to Western Asia, the Iranians to Afghanistan and Iran and many others to other parts of Eurasia. Such a scenario would require a complete rewriting of Ancient World History-especially if we add the claims, apparently substantiated by some material evidence, that Vedic Indians had established trade links with Central America and Eastern Africa before 2500 BCE. It is no wonder that the ‘New Chronology’ arouses not only scholarly controversy but emotional excitement as well. Much more hard evidence will be required to fully establish it, and many claims may have to be withdrawn. But there is no doubt that the ‘old chronology’ has been discredited and that much surprise is in store for the students not only of Ancient India, but also of the Ancient World as a whole.

Sorting out the questions:
The ‘Revision of Ancient Indian History’ responds to several separate, but interlocking questions that are often confused.

  1. The (emotionally) most important question is that of the original home of Vedic civilisation, identified with the question: where was the (Rig-)Veda composed? India’s indigenous answer to that question had always been ‘India’, more precisely ‘the Punjab’. The European, ‘colonial missionary’ assumption, was ‘outside India’.
  2. The next question, not often explicitly asked, is: where did the pre-Vedic people, the ‘Aryans’ come from? This is a problem for archeo-anthropologists rather than for historians. The racial history of India shows influences from many quarters.
  3. A related, but separate question concerns the ‘cradle of civilisation’, to which several ancient cultures have laid claim: Sumeria, Egypt, India (possibly also China could be mentioned, which considered itself for a long time the only truly civilised country). Depending on what answer we receive, the major expansion of population/civilisation would be from west to east, or from east to west. The famous lux ex oriente has often been applied to the spread of culture in the ancient world. India was as far as the ‘Orient’ would go.
  4. It is rather strange that the defenders of the ‘Aryan invasion theory’, who have neither archaeological nor literary documents to prove their assumption, demand detailed proof for the non-invasion and refuse to admit the evidence available. Similarly, they feel entitled to declare ‘mythical’ whatever the sources (Rigveda, Puranas) say that does not agree with their preconceived notions of Vedic India.

Some conclusions:
If I were to judge the strength of the arguments for revising Ancient Indian History in the direction of ‘India as Cradle of Civilisation’ I would rate Seidenberg’s findings concerning the Shulvasutra geometry (applied in the Indus civilisation; Babylonian and Egyptian geometry derivative to it) highest. Next would be the archeo-astronomical determination of astronomical data in Vedic and post-Vedic texts. Third is the satellite photography based dating of the drying out of the Saraswati and the archeo-geographical finding of a centuries long drought in the belt reaching from Anatolia through Mesopotamia and Northern India. Geological research has uncovered major tectonic changes in the Punjab and the foothills of the Himalayas. At one point a section rose about sixty metres within the past 2 000 years.

‘Vasishta’s Head’, a bronze head found near Delhi, was dated through radio-carbon testing to around 3700 BCE- the time when, according to Hicks and Anderson, the Battle of the Ten Kings took place (Vasishta, mentioned in the Rigveda, was the advisor to King Sudas). A further factor speaking for the ‘Vedic’ character of the Indus civilisation is the occurrence of (Vedic) altars in many sites. Fairly important is also the absence of a memory of a migration from outside India in all of ancient Indian literature: the Veda, the Brahmanas, the Epics and the Puranas. Granting that the Vedic Samhitas were ritual manuals rather than historic records, further progress in revising Ancient Indian History could be expected from a study of Itihasa-Purana, rather than from an analysis of the Rigveda (by way of parallel, what kind of reconstruction of Ancient Israel’s History could be done on the basis of a study of the Psalms, leaving out Genesis and Kings? Or what reconstruction of European History could be based on a study of the earliest Rituale Romanum?)

An afterword:
Hinduism today is not just a development of Vedic religion and culture but a synthesis of many diverse elements. There is no doubt a Vedic basis. It is evident in the caste-structure of Hindu society, in the rituals which almost every Hindu still undergoes (especially initiation, marriage and last rites), in traditional notions of ritual purity and pollution, and in the respect which the Veda still commands. There is a large area of Hindu worship and religious practice for which the Veda provides little or no basis: temple-building, image worship, pilgrimages, vows and prayers to gods and goddesses not mentioned in the Veda, beliefs like transmigration, world-pictures containing numerous heavens and hells and much more which appear to have been taken over from non-Vedic indigenous cultures. There have been historic developments that led to the developments of numerous schools of thought, sects and communities differing from each other in scriptures, interpretations, customs, beliefs.

Apart from its Vedic origins Hinduism was never one in either administration, doctrine or practice. It does not possess a commonly accepted authority, does not have a single centre and does not have a common history. Unlike the histories of other religions, which rely on one founder and one scripture, the history of Hinduism is a bundle of parallel histories of traditions that were loosely defined from the very beginning, that went through a number of fissions and fusions, and that do not feel any need to seek their identity in conforming to a specific historic realisation. While incredibly conservative in some of its expressions, Hinduism is very open to change and development under the influence of charismatic personalities. From early times great latitude was given to Hindus to interpret their traditional scriptures in a great many different ways. The ease with which Hindus have always identified persons that impressed them with manifestations of God has led to many parallel traditions within Hinduism, making it impossible to chronicle a development of Hinduism along one line. The presentation of a history of Hinduism will be a record of several mainstream Hindu traditions that developed along individual lines; only very rarely do these lines meet in conflict or merge to generate new branches of the still vigorously growing banyan tree to which Hinduism has been often compared.