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Sri Sri Ravishankar and Jayalalithaa – unusual Lankan pas de deux

 

 

In his carefully chosen Christ-like white robes, with his artfully

artless locks billowing fetchingly around his face, Sri Sri Ravishankar,

the religion-neutral new age guru is dabbling in high politics. This

political dilettante, this wannabe Hindu pope, traveled to J & K and posed

for photographs hugging Yasin Malik; he traveled to Seattle and from

American soil, he advised Indian Members of Parliament to pass the

nuclear deal; he gave a public interview reprimanding Hindu votaries of

armed resistance to jihad and the cancerous Church; dripping spurious

honey from his lips, Ravishankar like the other more famous crypto

Christ before him, advised Hindu nationalists to come to him for lessons

in love and peace and tread the path of ahimsa; he traveled to Sri Lanka

on war-tourism in the last week of April 2009 and like any tourist came

back with pictures to show Jayalalithaa. Not bad for a man born in quiet

and humble Papanasam, in Tamil Nadu.

 

 

 

More than fifteen years ago when my political sense was still evolving,

a group of bright young things came home to speak to me about their

`gurudev'. They gave me a book, written by Ravishankar himself

or a biography, I do not quite recollect, in which Sri Sri was compared

to both Jesus Christ and Krishna. Sitting on the cusp of two religions

was an opportunistic statement of intent, I remember thinking; you can

lean this way or that, as the situation demands. Fifteen years down the

line, Sri Sri Ravishankar has perfected his swing. On the one hand there

are idiots in the Hindu fold who are enthusiastically promoting Sri

Sri's French disciple's idea of Ravishankar as the new Hindu

pope wielding both `spiritual' and political power while on the

other, a bunch of his fundraisers abroad are promoting him as a

non-religious `spiritual guru' whatever that may mean. In fact,

his American fundraisers insist that Art of Living is not Hindu; this

notwithstanding the fact that with great business acumen Ravishankar has

patented some mumbo jumbo called `Sudarshan Kriya' and made it a

commercial spiritual enterprise.

 

 

 

Jayalalithaa found herself in political wilderness after her rout in the

last assembly elections following her asuric assault on the revered

Kanchi matham and its mathathipathis. Hindus of Tamil Nadu with great

determination and with no fanfare quietly voted the DMK to power and

Jayalalithaa lost the elections she was touted by a clueless media to

sweep her way into Fort St. George. A watchful Church with centuries of

experience in fishing in troubled waters, rightly assessing

Jayalalithaa's brooding anger against the Hindus, stepped into her

life and her home.

 

 

 

Jayalalithaa's political agenda underwent a radical change. The man

Jayalalithaa as Chief Minister incarcerated under the NSA for openly

espousing the cause of proclaimed Tamil Christian terrorist Prabakaran,

the verbose Vaiko, was now her devoted Walter Raleigh; the LTTE anthem

which Jayalalithaa was crooning in her bathroom, she now began to sing

with great gusto on the streets of Tamil Nadu; in December 2008 the

Church-effected metamorphoses of Jayalalithaa was complete when on the

25th of December the lady, like other `secular' politicians did

not simply celebrate Christmas at her party office Jingle Bells, Plum

cake and all, but celebrated the day as a devout Christian faithful by

inviting five Christian priests, one of them a Bishop no less, to her

home in Poes Gardens for Christmas day prayers.

 

 

 

Jayalalithaa is now either a Christian or a crypto-Christian. Her

party's manifesto for the 2009 Lok Sabha elections is a veritable

cornucopia for Christians, openly wooing that community with promises

galore of what she will do for the Christians of Tamil Nadu.

Jayalalithaa has followed closely on the heels of Andhra Pradesh Chief

Minister Samuel Rajashekhar Reddy and his arch-rival, the

crypto-Christian Chandrababu Naidu.

 

 

 

The Church's Machiavellian strategy of playing both ends of the

game, planting and/or buying agents in both warring groups had finally

paid handsome dividends. The dravidian DMK had always been the sum of

its various anti-Hindu parts – irreligious, non-Hindu and virulently

anti-Hindu, fed on the colonial Christian missionary staple diet of

being a separate nationality and not a part of Hindu civilization or the

Hindu nation; one of the core tenets of the DMK was the creation of the

Promised Land – the Church-backed secessionist Tamil state to be

carved out from both sides of the Palk Strait – from the southern

territory of the Indian Union and from the North-eastern territory of

Sri Lanka.

 

 

 

If the Church planted Vaiko in Jayalalithaa's camp, Reverend Father

Jegath Gaspar Raj was planted in the DMK camp; Father Jegath Gaspar Raj

is a close friend of Kanimozhi, Tamil Nadu MP to the Rajya Sabha and

daughter of Chief Minister Karunanidhi. The oleaginous reverend is an

unapologetic and defiant public votary of the LTTE and by extension, the

separatist/secessionist Christian state of Tamil Eelam. Both Kanimozhi

and Jegath Gaspar Raj run with state munificence a profitable NGO

industry in the performing arts interchangeably called Chennai Sangamam

or Tamil Mayyam (Tamil as core). The Church has thus succeeded in

penetrating the Tamil Nadu government (irrespective of the party in

power) to realize its political agenda step by measured step.

 

 

 

While dravidian MGR's AIADMK was little different from the DMK, the

AIADMK under the upper-caste usurper Jayalalithaa made a pretence at

being notionally Hindu and nationalist. The aberration did not last long

and Jayalalithaa, after being lured by an obscure human rights award,

returned like the Prodigal Daughter to the Christian-dravidian fold by

letting loose a reign of terror on the Hindus of Tamil Nadu with her

demoniac attack against the Kanchi Acharyas. The wannabe Hindu pope

remained conspicuously silent and inactive in the wake of the arrest.

Sri Sri Ravishankar did not travel to Vellore to meet the incarcerated

Pujya Kanchi Acharya; neither did he dare to visit Jayalalithaa at Poes

Gardens to put sense into her.

 

 

 

In fact, he did not even come to Chennai, nor did he go to Kanchipuram

to console heartbroken devotees of the matham; of course, this may not

have had anything to do with the fact that Jayalalithaa was running a

police state where dissent and opposition to her monstrous attack

against the Kanchi matham invited instant retribution. A toothless

jihadi like Yasin Malik was more in line with Ravishankar's

political activism.

 

 

 

Jayalalithaa's hubris will not allow her to stand in line behind the

DMK, PMK and other secessionist dravidian political parties to shout

slogans in support of Prabakaran and the LTTE. She wanted a dramatic

context to flip around in a u-turn and bellow her threat and the amateur

Ravishankar gave it to her on a platter. Jayalalithaa is now demanding

Tamil Eelam for Sri Lankan Tamils because, she says, Sri Sri

Ravishankar's horror stories about their plight and his horror movie

have caused her turnaround.

 

 

 

The following questions just leap to my mind –

 

* What `spiritual' fiction did Ravishankar tell the Sri

Lankan government to get himself a visa to travel to the war-torn

country?

* Who accompanied him on the trip and who shot the video?

* Was Ravishankar playing investigative war correspondent or

Christ-like ministering angel?

* Why did Ravishankar not shoot a similar video in Iraq anytime

during the 13 years long US/UN-enforced economic sanctions against

ordinary men, women and children of Iraq when hundreds of thousands of

Iraqis died of hunger and disease caused by deprivation?

* If the situation in Sri Lanka for the Tamils was indeed so

terrible, then shouldn't Ravishankar have handed the video to the

Prime Minister of India and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu?

* Why did he give it to Jayalalithaa when she has no political clout

now in India or in Sri Lanka to do anything meaningful?

* And why did he go personally to her lair with the video unmindful

of the consequences which were bound to follow?

 

 

 

Sri Sri Ravishankar went to Iraq only in 2007, years after American

invasion and occupation had reduced the ancient civilization to rubbles

and after America and the White Christian west had broken the spirit of

a proud people; like Gandhi went to Bengal at the end of October 1946,

three months after riots broke out following the Muslim League's

Direct Action in August 1946 and when jihad against the Hindus was

irreversible. In similar vein, Ravishankar's visit to Sri Lanka

coincided in time with all the White Christian world's diplomats

milling around in Colombo to put pressure on the Sri Lankan government

to call off its offensive against the LTTE in its last decisive phase.

Ravishankar shot his horror video and came haring back to Jayalalithaa.

 

 

 

This unusual pas de deux is not quite as unusual as it seems;

Jayalalithaa and Sri Sri Ravishankar are two individuals fired by a

monumental drive to play politics and their nexus had been forged and

cemented years ago by other monumental egos playing at national and

international politics, which includes international politico-religious

Track II diplomacy. Needless to say, this clique disgraced itself when

Jayalalithaa launched her attack against the Hindus of Tamil Nadu. For

some of us with long memories, every individual who aspires for power in

public life will be tested on the crucible of their conduct when Pujya

Kanchi Acharyas were arrested and Sri Sri Ravishankar fails roundly in

this test.

 

 

 

From the very next moment after Sri Sri walked out of Poes Gardens

Jayalalithaa thumped the table repeatedly at election meetings and media

briefings and made the following surprising comical declarations –

 

* I have decided that only the secessionist Tamil State of Eelam can

protect the rights of the Tamils of Sri Lanka.

* I have come to this conclusion only after watching the video and

seeing the pictures that were shown to me by Sri Sri Ravishankar.

* These pictures and Sri Sri Ravishankar's accounts of his visit

prove that the Sinhala people treat the Tamil people like slaves.

* Vote for the AIADMK in large numbers and I promise you all that the

next government in Delhi will be a government which will act only upon

my orders.

* I will compel the central government (dancing to my tunes) to send

in the Indian Army to carve out (the Christian state of) Tamil Eelam by

force.

 

 

 

Sri Sri Ravishankar obviously did not expect the promising pas de deux

to rapidly descend into a megalomaniac solo. His Sri Lankan Tamil video,

in all probability shot by his foreign disciple who makes a living

narrating genocide stories to the impotent, however had the desired

consequence for Jayalalithaa's AIADMK. While all her thunderous

secessionist and seditious declarations, attributed by her to Sri Sri

Ravishankar's video get great media attention, Ravishankar's

nervous fundraisers at home and abroad have been compelled to issue a

`clarification' distancing him and his Art of Living from

Jayalalithaa's public acknowledgment of his role in her

transformation. Sri Sri should not aspire to be something for which he

does not have the skills.

 

 

 

Somewhere there are faces wearing a smug smile of mission accomplished.

 

 

 

Radha Rajan,

 

30th April, 2009.