Subhas Mitra: 04 Sep 2022
*****This is my way of countering
Winston Churchill’s Hindu drabbing, calling us windbags & mean people who can never unite.
Unity in Diversity is like Beauty in the Eyes of the Beholder.
If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder then we are accepting that our life experiences shape our “opinions” of attractiveness/ disliking. But whether the beholder’s opinion is a product of one’s genes or one’s environment has long been a question for scientists.
My question is, doesn’t the OPINIONs of the followers of the religions of Book(s) are the product of the book(s)? One is commanded to “love or hate”. Where is the beholder’s opinion?
Beatrice Webb (founder of “co-operative federalism” and “co-operative individualism”) the British socialists wrote in 1804 “Those who broke ‘commandments’ were unworthy in this universe”.
Unity for them is part of commands.
What is diversity?
It is diversities that are the basic elements of creation. Rig Veda emphasizes ‘The universal law of life, everything on this planet is composed of five basic elements or the “panchamahabhutas पंचमहाभुता).” These are Akash (Sky or Space), Vayu (Air), Jal (Water), Agni (Fire), and Prithvi (Earth).
The unity of these diverse elements is the secret of creation. Similarly, Hindu’s social diversities united from within and not to kill or convert anyone or destroy any civilization.
SD believes each one is unique by birth. Basic instincts too vary from one person to another. Hindu sages identified them based on one’s GUNA & KARMA. Guṇa ( गुण) can be translated as “quality, peculiarity, attribute, property”. ‘Guna’ represents what we desire and ‘karma’ denotes what we deserve reflected in our aptitudes.
Moses felt to salvage slaves by uniting them; Christ wanted to unite a greater society beyond slaves. Prophet wanted to bring together people to oppose the existing way of living by sharing booties with soldiers who joined him. Each one condemned his previous one thereby along with newer forms of unity; new enmity, intolerant, and hatred also emerged.
This is what I call a “refusal of diversity”.
Hindus right from Vedic time to these days accepted many new ways/ changes but never condemned their past. This is the basic difference in sense of unity.
Equality in the eyes of God:
Did all disunity, enmity, and hatred come from the Abrahamic concept of “Equality in the eyes of God”, mentioned in their books as well as their byproduct called Communism? All human of their respective FAITH is the same but others are to be converted or killed to maintain that blessed EQUALITY.
We Hindus never believe in “such” Equality as our forefathers never told us to live in a make-believe world. Our equality is:
Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 5, Verse 18
विद्याविनयसम्पन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि |
शुनि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिता: समदर्शिन: || 18||
BG 5.18: The truly learned, with the eyes of divine knowledge, see with equal vision a Brahmin, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.
Concept of Unity:
I think the concepts of unity in Hindus are different from Abrahamic people’s concept of equality. For us EKTA (oneness) and for them, UNITY (togetherness), and both are not the same. Similarity and equality also are not the same. They ‘tolerate’ while we ‘accept’. When one does not tolerate, they resort to intolerance that ends up in destruction through violence or deception. For unity, there needs to be a “purpose” or a ‘media. We may call the purpose ‘Crusade’ or ‘Jihad’ and to whom they could not destroy becomes Gentiles or Kafir.’ whereas Oneness needs acceptance (as one) and mutual trust With age (time) when such destruction became near impossible they came out of their Books and adapts ways and means of Tolerating (doing business with intolerable) by keeping aside the differences for “purpose” and called it Unity by secular (deception) means. Thus secularism pushed through our throats is Abrahamic deception.
For us Sri Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 7, Verse 21
यो यो यां यां तनुं भक्त: श्रद्धयार्चितुमिच्छति |
तस्य तस्याचलां श्रद्धां तामेव विदधाम्यहम् || 21||
Translate: whichever celestial forms (or religions) a devotee seeks to worship with faith, I steady the faith of such a devotee in that form).
Unity as ऎक्य Togetherness and एक्ता Oneness:
The Unity as ‘oneness’ is with acceptance of diversity. While Unity as ‘togetherness’ may be a rejection of diversity. Christians may have theosophical similarities but never inter-church equality.
Example:
Have there been unity among Christians, UK would have not gone into the hand of Jihadists nor could Jihadists make the USA safe heaven. The only unity prevailed in 1665 AD at the gate of Vienna Christians denied their inter-Church differences to fight Jihadists and then reverted Spain from an Islamic state. But here is another example:
“On St. Bartholomew’s Day, 24 August 1572, Catholics set upon Protestants of Paris, instigated by the mother of the French king, who was angry that her daughter had married a Protestant on 18 August. The massacres continued for many weeks. Estimated 70000 Protestants were killed. Rest fled to England and Switzerland.
When news reached Pope, he was elated, and ordered paintings of scenes of the massacre in a Vatican room, which exists to this day”.
Why Abrahamic projected Hindus in disarray:
We either accept or Reject. For rejecting, one needs not indulge in destructive violence or deceptions. This is why Hindus are not aggressive or oppressive but when retaliate they can be brutal too. Since we are not people of BOOKs we do not behave in the way they do. Without unity how do we think that Hindus ruled Afghan to Myanmar without any traveling restrictions, without passport visas, and without currency exchanges? Is there any reason to believe that the barbarian destroyer of civilizations was checked in India for 800 years without Hindu unity? Christians did more destruction in parts of the Middle East, Europe, America, and Australia than Muslims did. In India, both of them used/uses deception and violence as the main weapon to destroy Hindus. Our constitution is Abrahamic deception, devoid of any Hindu spirit or jurisprudence.
Coming to the question of lack of unity in stopping the foreign invasion, we should not forget that those were the norms of the day anywhere in the world. Native rulers did not understand the motive (and spirit) of the 1491 AD invasion of America by Columbus and canon wielding, Bible showing evangelists in the EU or Australia. We know of the furious fights among kings of Scotland and other kingdoms. Yes, when it was the Ireland – England war of centuries, religious unity did work. The same thing happened in India when Moh’d Ghori attacked. Hindus failed to understand them as civilization destroyers and thought of them as a conqueror. Hindus even joined Muslim’s “holy war at Karbala” ( Hussaini Brahman). Hindus have no reason to be apologetic.
Why do we read our history full of stories that put Hindus as cowards, foolish, disarrays, betraying, and self-inflicting? For me, the answer is – “ideological invasion” through a system of education by distorting philology. We have been made to refuse history in Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Puranas but we have all tall talks on Bible /Kuran. We have historians writing ancient Indian history without knowing Sanskrit. All our scriptures are translated into English / French mostly by evangelists or darbari (court) scholars of our colonial masters whose interest was to infuse inferiority in Hindus to excel with superiority in all fields.
Assessment & Evaluation (AE):
For centuries we are being assessed and evaluated by our Abrahamic invaders who had/have the commandment to destroy idolater pagan (Hindus) without learning or understanding us.
Without proper AE no one can attain efficiency. But let a fashion designer have perfect in AE but if the measuring tape is defective, the output must be defective. If the weight for weighing is defective the trader’s entire packaging will be faulty.
Similarly, the persons assessing and evaluating Hindus are they who are the product of a “social mold” framed by designer historians and Nehruvian /communists authors and pen pushers. We Hindus for generations trying to fit ourselves in the “mold” they make.
Here we are talking about Winston Churchill who’s won AE of his Spy Silver changed because of religion. His assessments:
a. In 1942 Churchill said “The Hindus are windbags. Yes, windbags! Oh, of course, when it comes to fine speeches, skillfully balanced resolutions and legalistic castles in the air, the Hindus are real experts!”
b. Wining World war –II credit goes to Churchill but he gave credit to Indian spy Silver. He writes in his book about Mountstuart Elphinstone, a scholar who reached Afghanistan in 1808.{ Shah Shujah Durrani was ruler and Nand Ram Tikoo was PM}. Eliphinstone preferred the Islamic faith over that of the Hindus. British officials were happy that none of this “brave and warlike Muslim race” wanted to be “civilized” or have anything to do with British education, let alone western values and ideas.
c. British fought “Frontier war” with Pathan & Afridi tribes in 1895-97 for control of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Tirah velley of India (now Pakistan
d. In 1945, 23 Feb he said “The Hindus were a foul race….to be bombed and destroyed”. As he discovered his super Spy Silver was Bhagat Ram Talwar, (1908—1983) the only quintuple spy in World War-II, a Hindu Pathan born in Afghanistan and lived in SWAT valley.
e. Four years after Silver’s birth, Beatrice Webb (founder of “co-operative federalism” and “co-operative individualism”) visited Peshawar and recorded how the British officials saw the uneducated Muslim Pathans as far superior to the Hindus.
It is now globally recognized that Christian evangelists have distorted and falsified global history right from the time they burnt the Books of Mayan and Antic.
Therefore if we come out of the social mold and look around, we will find Hindus are united deep within and Abrahamic unity is limited, purpose-oriented, and exhibitory to reap the benefit. His windbag comment is directly related to his fixation of mind to understand beyond The Bible.
A friend of mine believes – It is true that Western Thought Epitomized by Newtonian Mechanics, the Economics of Adam Smith, and the Protestant Ethics of Max Weber, all led to colonization and eventually its collapse to various flavors of Communism and Socialism. Eventually, communism too collapsed towards the end of the last millennium and there are signs that Western Style Globalism, oligarchies, capitalism, and associated pollution, global warming, and moral decay. It surely is creaking at joints and perhaps a new order may be around the corner. It will not usher in without pain and the world will look for new thoughts and new ideas. If India looks within, it may be able to lend a hand and show the way.
Till the time we see the “new world order,” it is ‘beholders’ who have to train their eyes to see the beauty of India and Hinduism.
References:
- The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Winston Churchill
- The Indian Spy: Silver who fooled the Nazis World War II by Mihir Bose.
- 1492… America before Columbus by Charles C. Mann.
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