|
Dear
Friends,
The following is my message on the auspicious occasion of Deepawali. It is
a long message but I hope you will read it and provide your comments to me.
Hindus have been celebrating Deepawali ritualistically for centuries by
mostly praying, going to temples, decorating their houses, wearing new
clothes, playing with fire-crackers, and generally maintaining the
traditional ways in celebrating the biggest Hindu festival. I wish all my
friends a happy Deepawali and a healthy and prosperous new year.
I wish on this occasion, we are able to remove doubts, jealousy, and
numerous other negative and energy-draining emotions from our heart and lit
it with the true meaning and the spirit thatDeepawali represents. In order
to achieve victory of good over evil, we need to work towards destroying
evil as Lord Ram did. Mere slogans will not do the job and if we can't call
a spade a spade, then we are simply not sincere towards our great
traditions. Lord Ram will not be happy with merely
chanting his name unless the examples he set are also followed.
There is a psychological warfare going on against Hindus. Our limit is Being
tested by dilly-dallying in hanging Afzal, by creating Vande Matram
controversy, by arresting Shankracharya, by changing our childrenTs history
textbooks, by demeaning our Gods, by not letting Ram temple to be built in
Ayodhya, and by not affording Hindus their due rights in their own country.
The evil forces know that Bharat can't be captured by attacking it
militarily, so the Hindu psyche is being attacked by slowly destroying our
culture. On many occasions our fellow Hindus, who have sold their souls to
foreigners, are employed in this task. Most of the Hindus today are confused
and are standing at the crossroad, not knowing where to go and which action
to undertake because they are conveniently being fooled by our enemy who has
properly studied our history, twisted it, and then fed it to us. They are
hoping we continue to sleep like Kumbhakarna.
Our temple going crowd is merely content with chanting, doing puja,
fasting, and following rituals. They feel that by just circling murtis 25
times all of their sins will be washed away and God will bestow His blessing
on them. These activities are the initial components of our spiritual life,
but by no means a complete prescription to the ailments that we suffer
collectively. Our enemy wants us to continue to engage in rituals and
believe in â sarva dharm sambhaavâ so that we remain confused and become
easy target for conversion and destruction. If our prayers were powerful,
the Somnath mandir would not have been plundered 18 times. The social
reformers and patriots like Bhagat Singh, Rana Pratap, Shiva Ji, Veer
Savarkar, Lok Manya Tilak, Goghale, etc. have either received low profile or
a tag of terrorists from our secular and convent educated abuse who always
hail Gandhi and Nehru as the architects of Bharat, as Bharat is only a few
decades old!
In spite of all the destructive activities conducted by missionaries and
muslims, most Hindus believe that our dharma has strength to survive their
onslaught. They reason that we have survived muslim and British rule in the
past and once again will come out of the current mess. Hindus fail to
recognize that our culture has already been weakened to the extent that a
continued assault on it will render it unable to rise again. Our ancestors
have fought with the British and muslim rule to the best of their ability,
but we are not able to fight the current enemy the same way because our
strength (culture) is slowly sapping away from us and our next generation
will not have any heroes to emulate and hence will be unable to offer any
resistance to the inimical forces. Things don't continue to survive unless
we work towards protecting them.
So, the need of today is to create a spirit of volunteerism to help save our
language and culture, the essential components of our dharma. To become a
volunteer is the toughest job in the world simply because one does not
receive any monetary reward for his/her work except a sense of pride and
cultural accomplishment that the coming generations might appreciate. Hindus
have overburdened themselves with unnecessary tasks that occupy them most of
their waking hours. People who excuse about a lack of time should cut down
on their TV viewing time, party, and other nonessential activities. Try
utilizing your energy for the broader and good social causes and more will
be given to you.
People who are engaged in managing businesses should donate to the Worthy
causes. What is the use of having money? Anything in excess, be it money or
extra weight causes disease and mental tension.
The other thing I see Hindus lacking in is engaging in regular
exercise. If we are not exercising regularly by going to gym, by walking, by
doing yoga, and by other aerobic and weight bearing activity, then we are
wasting the youthful years of our lives. The people who do regular exercise
will attest to what I am saying. If we can't take out 1 hour out of 24 for
our mental and physical development, then we are on a wrong path.
Our culture has mainly been sustained by our women and I salute them
For their farsightedness. At the end, I would like to ask for a few strong
and self-motivated men and women to join our team and work towards promoting
our Hindu culture. There are two main reasons for our society to suffer from
the cultural bankruptcy: (1) Good people remain inactive while destructive
forces work overtime to achieve their agenda, and (2) We have attached our
bhakti at the wrong place. We must attach ourselves faithfully to a cause
rather than to a throne or a post. Somnath mandir was looted so many times
because devotees did not understand what it represented. So, let us join
together for a cause and build a healthy cultural portfolio that will remain
unaffected from societal upheaval and destructive elements. There cannot be
a better resolution than this on aspisious occasion of Deepawali.
Thanks
Narendranath
|
|
