Something Wrong Going on in India

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Something Wrong Going on in India, a great article by

Francois Gautier

 

 

Something Wrong Going on in India

Francois Gautier

 

Something terribly wrong is going on in India. On the one hand,

there

is the Shankaracharya, one of the most venerated Hindu leaders,

arrested like an ordinary criminal on one of the most sacred days of

the Hindus. On the other, politicians such as Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav,

who have more corruption cases against them than anybody else - and

certain others who may even have some blood on their hands - are

made

ministers and are strutting around with security guards in tow. The

tarnishing of the image of the Kancheepuram mutt is nearly complete.

Will it ever be able to recover its sanctity, even if the

Shankaracharya is found not guilty?

 

On the other hand, there is a quack like American evangelist Benny

Hinn, who even in the United States has no standing, but can come to

India, a country with an overwhelming Hindu majority, to deride idol

worship and paganism and convert the poor and the gullible. We see

former ministers and ex-prime ministers - many of them Hindus -

coming to Benny Hinn live on TV, with bowed heads and folded hands

like beggars asking for the White Man's grace. We see the entire

state machinery of Karnataka put to the service of the evangelist

while all the laws are subverted so that he can conduct his fake

show.

 

We see how, when 58 innocent men, women and children were burnt

alive

in the most horrible manner in Godhra, for no other reason than

being

Hindus, that there is not even respect for their memory, for the

truth is now twisted for political purposes with the help of India's

Marxists who want the death of Hinduism. Hindus are always accused

of

all the ills and intolerance, but where else in the world will you

find a Christian supreme leader in a country with only three per

cent

Christians, a Sikh Prime Minister when there are only two per cent

Sikhs, and a Muslim President with only 10 per cent Muslims?

 

I am a Westerner and a born Christian, but I am ashamed of what has

been happening in the country ever since Ms Sonia Gandhi, also a

Westerner and a Christian, has become the de facto ruler of this

ancient and extraordinary country of 850 million Hindus and 125

million Muslims. For, what is happening is an insult to India's

culture, greatness and intelligence. Even more saddening is the

passivity of Indians in the face of the developments. For only a few

voices have been raised in these moments of insanity. India's curse

is the disunity amongst its Hindus, and their infighting. One is

even

surprised at the lack of reaction from the top Hindu spiritual

leaders of India: Satya Sai Baba, Amrita Anandamayi and Sri Sri Ravi

Shankar. Together they hold sway on at least 400 million Hindus. Why

don't they form a Supreme Spiritual Conclave along with the Shankara-

charya? They have only to say one word and it will be followed. But

even amongst them there is disunity.

 

Who will save India, then? Certainly not the Congress, which was

incapable of finding a worthy Indian leader amongst its own members,

many of whom are intelligent and sincere. By stooping down to Ms

Sonia Gandhi, they have repeated the same old story of India's

ancient princes and maharajas betraying each other and bowing down

to

a foreign ruler, be it Aurangzeb, or His Majesty's Viceroy. Who

betrayed the mighty empire of Vijaynagar, the last great Hindu

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

betraying India today? But at least the Congress is true to its

ideals. The biggest culprit must be the party which, in five years

of

power, did nothing except project a Gandhian image of itself, rather

than having India's interests at heart.

 

Not have to say or do anything. She does not have to instruct the

Tamil Nadu Police to arrest the Shankaracharya, or tell the Chief

Minister of Karnataka, Mr Dharam Singh, to attend Benny Hinn's show.

By just being where she is, at the top of India's political

hierarchy, she is able to ensure that her silent wishes are

fulfilled. Everybody is bending over backwards to please her, even

anticipating her wishes!

 

I have nothing personally against Ms Sonia Gandhi. She was a good

wife to her husband, a good daughter to her mother-in-law, and is

doubtless a good mother to her children. Many accounts have come of

her dignity, grace and concern for others. But what does Ms Gandhi

really stand for, as the Eminence Grise of this country, the person

who is drawing all the strings behind the scene? The Benny Hinn show

points to not only a renewed effort at Christianisation of India

(something which even the British and the Portuguese could not do),

and a targeting of Hindus and Hindu spiritual leaders, but also at

the Westernisation of the subcontinent. India will then become just

another nation cloning the West. Even Muslims and Christians in

India, who are like no other Christians and Muslims in the world,

would lose something.

 

How sad that this is happening at a time when the West is looking

for

other spiritual answers to its problems and the Church is in decline

there. The only silver lining in the whole story is that these

events - whether the arrest of the Shankaracharya, the Benny Hinn

show, or the rewriting of Godhra - may open the eyes of Indians. It

may be that India needs to go through this painful process, to see

the forces that have been unleashed when Indians chose someone who

is

basically hostile to the majority culture of this country as their

leader. Maybe they need to be faced with a Government which is

pulling India down, just to please the minorities, the Vatican and

the Western powers who do not want India to emerge as a strong and

vibrant nation.

 

Nobody seems to understand that India's unique identity, its Sanatan

dharma, which survived so many onslaughts in its long history, is

today under mortal threat.

 

Cry my Beloved India, Look what Thy children have done to Thee.