Such things are bound to happen when we do not heed the advice of the Yogi and the Rishi and Sage

Re: Untold Potentialities: India and the Third World. by Richard Hartz (4)
by RY Deshpande on Thu 23 Aug 2007 03:59 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link

Rich, I would not apply the criteria of the Information Era to matters spiritual and occult. We had the ancient mysteries, and till yesterday the secret of the Veda had remained a secret. And whatever is overt, hardly we understand anything of it, for isntance, of the Gita and the Upanishads. The Mother didn't want the Agenda to be published the way it has now been done. But perhaps the most important thing is, our growing in the spiritual perception--which will assure all that that is needed for that growth.

The deed has been done and there is hardly anything else one can do now about it--except to develop our psychic-spiritual faculties by profitting from all these splendid richnesses.

by RY Deshpande on Thu 23 Aug 2007 04:40 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link

According to Will Durant, the greatest genocide on earth was the killing of 100 million Hindus during the Muslim rule. More than a hundred thousand temples have been destroyed; idol desecration was there throughout, including the recent destruction of Buddha in Afghanistan, right in front of our eyes. Muslims voted for the creation of Pakistan, but a majority preferred to stay back in India. And the loss of life in its aftermath? Who is responsible for all that? Such things are bound to happen when we do not heed the advice of the Yogi and the Rishi and Sage.

Nobody condemns Kashmiri Muslims for the massacre and ethnic cleansing of the Hindus in Kashmir. But to my mind the fundamental question is elsewhere. After all, 99.9% of these Muslims were converts from the Hindus themselves. How did these Hindus then do these things?

The problem perhaps lies with the Hindu society itself. When in the South the Vijayanagar Empire, of Hampi, was defeated by confederacy of the five Sultans, and the head of the king paraded on the streets, what happened? The Brahmins embraced Islam and became its high clerics. How does this happen? Why does this happen?

Jinnah himself was a late convert to Islam and, before that, he had pleaded for Tilak in the Bombay High court. In less than a couple of decades, he created another nation—of the converts from the Hindus. How does this happen? Why does this happen?

This is a volatile subject but calm introspection in the universality of the spirit is what is needed. Let's have it. RYD