RE: On Akbar (Boycott 'Jodhaa Akbar' | Participate in awareness drive)

March 3, 2008

Dear Narasimha,

!Hare Rama Krsna!

Have you got Akbar's chart? Please can you share some astrological principles on his chart

Furtheremore when is your book on Tithi Pravesh coming out? I have been looking forward to it for some years now!

Best wishes

Kasim

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Namaskaram anna,

I saw this movie and I cannot help responding.

It is true that Hindus and sanatana dharma suffered badly at the hands of Muslim invaders (and other invaders), but it is wrong to take out that anger on Akbar. Some people cannot see beyond a man's name and religion and hence cannot recognize when a great celestial being is born in a different religion.

Swami Vimalananda, the Aghori yogi mentioned in the "Aghora" series books, is somebody who achieved the highest states of consciousness. He received a lot of knowledge directly from Mother Tara. Accordinging to him, Akbar and Jodha were the re-incarnation of Samyukta and Rajput King Prithviraj Chouhan. As Prithviraj, he repelled so many Muslim invaders at the border of India. When Muslims finally conquered India, he was reborn as one of them and put breaks on their aggression and changed their ways.

In that age, Muslim invaders engaged in barbarism, destroyed temples, libraries and other relics of native religion and culture. They beheaded Hindus who refused to convert, they raped Hindu women and they beheaded defeated kings. They just tried to wipe out the native religion and culture and replace with theirs. Akbar slowed down the barbarism and aggression and promoted tolerance and integration. He stopped the forced conversions, rapes and beheadings of Hindus. He stopped the destruction of temples and libraries. He talked about respecting other religions while following one's own religion. He even took on the mighty Muslim clerics when he abolished a special tax on Hindus based on religion. He was a man of great character, conviction and principles and was utterly fearless. He had affinity for Rajputs and was even born in a Rajput family and spent early years there. He displayed the samskaras and instincts of a refined and cultured Rajput more than those a of Mughal king - he was so unlike his grandfather Babar, father Humayun and step-brother Adham.

He used to offer arghyas to Sun in the morning and then participate in a Zoroastrian fire ritual of Farsis (similar to our homam) and then do a namaz with Muslim clerics. Such tolerance was unheard of from any other Muslim ruler in those days (or perhaps even today!). Towards the end of his life, he even started his own religion, which was based on his realization and is quite noble. He was a spiritually elevated soul. Irrespective of the religion one follows, one deserves our respect and admiration if one embodies the spirit of sanatana dharma in one's thoughts and actions.

Akbar was a true hero - a being who came down from a higher loka to fulfil a certain mission with the blessings of rishis. His contribution to the safekeeping of sanatana dharma is not to be judged from what harm his fellow Muslims inflicted on sanatana dharma. His contribution is to be judged from what *more* harm to sanatana dharma he helped *avoid*. If he had not come, I have no doubt that sanatana dharma would have suffered much much more than it did. That was not the wish of rishis and that is why they sent somebody to alter the course and minimize the harm. It is unfortunate that those who see the goodness of emperor Ashoka and king Shivaji cannot see the goodness of Akbar simply because he was a Muslim.

It is unfortunate that some Hindus are equating Akbar with the other cruel and barbaric Muslim kings. Who should be (was) a friend of Hindus is being portrayed as an enemy and being shot down. Instead, we should promote his story and inspire more people to be like him. He was a great inspirational figure then and should be now too.

The epic movie "Jodha Albar" is a very good movie about one of the greatest and most dharmik emperors of India. The director and actor did justice to a man of great character that Akbar was. I am sad about the mud-slinging that some of my fellow Hindus are engaging in. Please do not assassinate the character of Akbar.

If you want, please make movies of the same caliber and cinematic excellence on great Hindu heroes such as Chatrapati Shivaji, Prithviraj Chouhan, Sri Krishnadeva Raya, Vikramarka, Salivahana, Ashoka, Jnaaneshwar, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Shankaracharya, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi etc. But there is no need to denigrate a fine movie made on Akbar.

These are my 2 cents on the fire over Jodha Akbar.

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