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Cry, My Beloved India >Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:06:35 -0800 > >Title: Cry, My

Beloved India >Author: Francois Gautier >Publication: The Pioneer >Date:

January 7, 2003 > > > > > > >But history shows us that the worst enemies of

Hindus are Hindus themselves - not Muslims, Christians, Pakistanis or

Americans, as several Hindu organisations such as the RSS or the VHP claim.

Islam could not break the back of Hindu India in spite of ten centuries of

intermittent rape and pillage of its civilisation during which the invading

hordes plundered and pillaged towns and razed thousands of temples to the

ground. Nor could the British - who, in three centuries of rule via

Macaulayism, started massive conversion drives and made insidious attempts to

break India's social system particularly at the village level - subdue the

Hindu spirit. Nor even globalisation which India has so far resisted fairly

well, contrary to many Third World countries which got swept away in no time. >

>No, the greatest enemy of India is the passivity of the 850 million Hindus, one

billion worldwide, inheritors of the most ancient civilisation on this planet,

holders of the last candle of true spirituality in the world. We can forgive

the writers, intellectuals, academics (all of them Hindus), who continuously

keep belittling India's Hindu and ancient culture and way of life at home and

abroad. After all, most of them sincerely believe that Marxism is the only

answer to India's social injustices. It is thus in the name of Marxism that

generations of Nehruvian intellectuals have trampled on Hindu culture, which

they feel has been responsible for casteism and social inequity. > >The irony

of it all is that these Marxist intellectuals have always been a tiny minority

of India, and that the overwhelming silent Hindu majority allows itself to be

run down, to be despised, to be throttled, all in the name of secularism and

democracy, which should be rather called cowardice. The Gujarat riots, however

horrible, signalled for the first time that Hindus were not going to take

things lying down; they were sending a strong warning to their enemies. And the

Indian English language media and the foreign press, who got the poll

predictions all wrong, should do some serious introspection instead of ranting

about "Nazism and Hindu fanaticism". They ought to realise that Gujaratis are

just ordinary Hindus fed-up with their way of life being made fun of, of their

community being burnt, of their Parliament and temples being attacked. > >Many

people here are also full of complacency and delude themselves. The other day I

was giving a lecture at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Delhi and an elderly

gentleman in front cautioned me against being too pessimistic. "After all," he

said, "the world knows about India and the good things Indians do." Do they?

This is a grand illusion: From France to the US, from Saudi Arabia to Malaysia,

India is not taken seriously politically, to the point that in its fight against

terrorism, the US uses Pakistan, which - whatever its plus points - actually

sponsors Islamic terrorism. They ignore India which - whatever its minus points

- is a democracy, and which has suffered heavily at the hands of jihadis in the

last ten centuries. > >Does anybody in the world have a care about Kashmir,

where there has been an ethnic cleansing without parallel in the world -

300,000 Kashmiri Pandits, refugees in their own country? Name one government in

the world which has sympathised with the plight of Pandits. If India is to

become the spiritual leader of the world, as many of India's modern prophets

such as Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, or Sri Sri Ravi Shankar have

prophesied, then India has to emerge industrially, politically, even

militarily, in the eyes of the world. > >Sri Aurobindo came to announce the

"supramentalisation" of the earth - man after man - but he and the >Mother

found that the brightest of their disciples could not follow them past a

certain point and that the bulk of their ashram did not understand what they

were trying to do. And they both had to leave. People think that bowing in

front of Mother and Sri Aurobindo's photographs, doing some departmental work

and daily reading of a few lines of Sri Aurobindo's extraordinary epic,

Savitri, is equal to doing sadhana. But is that not a delusion? At some point

we have to cast a frank look at ourselves, at the state of our ashrams when our

Masters are gone, and at India and the world. Are we in the way we should be?

Are we how the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, Vivekananda, wanted us to be? >

>Sometimes, in her intimate conversations with Satprem (the Agenda of the

Mother, Mira Aditi Centre), the Mother would despair at the lack of receptivity

in her disciples and of this earth. Why did she go? Did we, her own disciples,

fail her, as every disciple has failed his or her master throughout the ages

and made of their spiritual teachings the rigid and intolerant religions that

we witness today? > >India's curse is the age-old Hindu passivity, this lack of

civic sense, of commitment to others, which Christians and Muslims possess to a

certain degree. Last week, I participated in a workshop in Konark. The purpose

was noble: Make Konark a living temple where puja and aarti are performed

again, so as to attract more tourists and give back to Konark its ancient

vibrancy. But as soon as I entered the conference hall, two groups began

shouting at each other and nearly came to blows. One wanted the conference to

be opened to everybody, the other incommunicado. When some kind of order was

restored, speaker after speaker gave, in true Indian tradition, rhetorical

speeches praising the "glorious past of Konark". Nothing came of the meeting. >

>The same phenomenon can be observed amongst the different Indian organisations

in the US: No unity, no building of a powerful lobby on the lines of the Jewish

one, so that the upward, law-abiding, rich and brilliant Hindu community of the

US can make the voice of India heard. Instead we witness only squabbling: Who

will be the president, the vice president, who will give the vote of thanks,

who will be photographed with the US President. How very, utterly sad. > >This

is also why India's oldest political party, the Congress, is incapable of

finding a worthy leader amongst its own members, many of whom are intelligent

and sincere. And by choosing Ms Sonia Gandhi, they are repeating the same old

story of India's ancient princes and maharajas betraying each other and bowing

down to a foreign ruler. Who betrayed the mighty empire of Vijaynagar, the last

great Hindu kingdom, to the Muslims? Who betrayed India to the British? Who is

betraying India today? Answer the question yourselves. > >Cry, O My beloved

India. Look at what thy children are doing to thee. >

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