Aronite Thinking

The Ganges the Sadhu discovers during his Visit to the Kumbh Mela, - The Mother
and Cradle of the Post-Harrapan aeonic Hindu Civilisation is a spectacle of
desecration and rot reflective of the Hindu Psyche, that needs a cleanup.

The editorial of Tatva Darsana – the philosophical Quarterly journal from the
Bharath Mata Ashram Bangalore, by Prof.Rangarajan a Direct Sadhu-
Disciple of Yogi Ram Surat Kumar of Thiruvannamalai gives another
Wakeup call to the Hindus.

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SAVE THE GANGA OF HINDUISM

FROM SCOUNDRELS AND SCUM

The Kumbha Mela at Hardwar in the

beginning of this year was a massive
congregation of seven million devotees from
all over the country and
abroad who travelled long distances and
undertook tedious journeys to reach the banks
of River Ganga to have a Holy Dip. The entire
pilgrim town of Hardwar, especially the banks
of the river, looked dotted with thousands of
tents and temporary sheds in which the
pilgrims
stayed days and nights with meager facilities
and comforts. The devotion of the poor,
gullible and pious pilgrims was incomparable
and made one look with amazement pondering
over the fact that even in the twenty first
century, faith in God made the believers make
all out sacrifice to seek the blessings of the
Divine. When millions took dip in the River
Ganga with “Jai Ganga Mata, Jai Gange”,
jostling with each other to get their bodies wet
with the cool and sacred water of Mother
Ganga, even the hardcore atheist would have
been impelled to sprinkle a few drops of the
water on his head so that his blind rationalism
could be kept out for the moment. Sadhus and
Sannyasins of all sects and Sampradayas
poured in from every nook and
corner of the country and many institutions,
Ashrams and Maths had put up massive camps
with hundreds of canvas tents to accommodate
the visitors from far and wide. The rich and
well-to-do poured out their money into the
kitchens run in these big camps to feed
thousands of hungry and needy pilgrims.
Temples in the pilgrim towns of Hardwar,
Rishikesh and other parts of Uttarakhand were
crowded with thousands of devotees. All this
has gone to prove that the faith, traditions and
customs of the Hindus which have come down
through ages could never be wiped out by
onslaughts of hoards after hoards of alien
forces, aggression and subjugation of the
country by foreigners for a long period, the
imposition of the Semitic religions and their
proselytization activities and by the thrust of
atheistic ideologies from outside on our
people. Hindu Dharma and Samskriti have the
eternal strength and vitality to overcome and
digest all these external forces.

A unique event in the Kumbha Mela at

Hardwar this year was the meeting of
thousands of
Sadhus, Sants, Mahatmas and
Peethadheeshwars under the auspices of
Vishwa Hindu Parishad to
pass three important resolutions on behalf of
the entire Hindu society—the construction of
Ramajanmabhoomi temple at Ayodhya, total
ban on cow slaughter throughout the country
and the prevention of all activities that tend to
stop the free flow of River Ganga and pollute
it. The Sadhus and Sants also resolved to
spread throughout the length and breadth of
the country to carry the message of these three
important resolutions and create an awakening
among the masses. However, these three great
resolves could be translated into action only if
the Ganga of Hinduism is cleansed and all the
scoundrels and scum polluting it are removed
once for all.

Mahakavi C. Subramanya Bharati, the great

poet-patriot and freedom fighter of Tamilnadu,
addressing a parrot, sang a song, Pseudo-
Swadeshis, at the peak of the freedom
struggle,
a hundred years ago, exposing the hypocrites
who had penetrated into the freedom
movement:

“Without courage of conviction in the heart,

without the ideal of honesty, they will
perpetrate treachery, O Parrot, and they are
chivalrous in blabbering!…..

“They will say ‘Salt’ and ‘Sugar’, and wander

talking about Swadeshi cloth, O Parrot, but
they do not know what they are doing!

“They will talk about chastity of women and

devotion to God, as a lip service, O Parrot, but
do not have faith in them!

“When aliens outraged the modesty and

committed atrocities on our women, O Parrot,
these cowards fled to save their own lives!
“When aliens ransacked the temple of our
Goddess, these people hid themselves, O
Parrot, thinking that their own lives were more
precious!

“Fear and eunuch-nature, slavishness and

cheap mindedness—all these are high in them,
O Parrot, and they are dumb!...

“Like chanting ‘Siva, Siva’ after pouring

liquor into thoughts, they will utter ‘Vande
Mataram’, O Parrot, but they don’t cherish it
in their mind….”

The majority of politicians of the present day

are glaring examples of the cheats whom
Bharati has exposed in his song. Perhaps they
excel the Pseudo-Swadeshis in all aspects. The
statistics of criminals, smugglers, kidnappers,
corrupt and characterless people who have
gained entry into the legislatures and
parliament of the country
show the immense deterioration that the
country has seen in this regard. And this class
of politicians have succeeded in making the
common run also corrupt, because today the
votes of people in the present democratic set
up in our country are easily available for a
price—either in cash, or in the form of Colour
TV, clothes and vessels. The votes of an entire
village could also be purchased in auction!

Leave alone these politicians and the corrupt

people of the country. What is the condition of
the so called spiritual leaders in the society? In
the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna proclaims:

“Yadyadaacharati shreshthah
tattathevetaro janaah
Sayat pramaanam kurute
lokastatanuvartate”

—“Whatever action is performed by a

person considered to be noble, the same is
 followed by common run; whatever
standards he sets by exemplary acts, the
whole world pursues.”

The Acharyas—those who are expected to set

examples through their conduct—are the
Sadhus, Sannyasins, Mathadhipatis and heads
of religious institutions. In Hardwar, thousands
of them had gathered, but not all of them for a
holy dip. Many where there to fish in the sea
of humanity and enrich their coffers. Every
inch of land on the sides of the main roads and
streets, especially in the Kumbha Mela Nagar,
was occupied by large hoardings, cut outs and
wall posters of the so called servants of God—
Sadhus and Sannyasins, Peethaadhipatis and
Mahamandaleshwars of various institutions,
Kathakars and Yoga teachers—in various hues
and colours—advertising their merchandise.
They excelled the cut outs and hoardings of

superstars of the film world exhibited in big

cites like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkatta and
Chennai. If these savants of Hindu culture and
spirituality spend even one per cent of the
money that they have spent on these publicity
materials in the service of the poor and
downtrodden in their respective villages,
towns and cities, conversion by alien religious
organizations could be stopped.

Not all the hundreds of thousands of Sadhus

and Sannyasins who had gathered in the
Kumbha Mela were spurious. A large number
of humble and simple mendicants from
various villages, towns and hill areas in the
country and even from the mountainous
Himalayan region, those who live in remote
caves eating the fruits and drinking the water
of placid lakes, like the stark naked Naga
Sadhus, and many holy men did evoke the
respect and reverence of the Hindu laity.
Hindu society is a vast lake in which

hundreds and thousands of beautiful lotuses do

blossom. However, there are also a number of
crocodiles who drag and swallow the poor and
innocent people who come to drink the
spiritual nectar of the lake.

In the recent period, the entire Hindu society,

especially the educated and thinking youth, are
shell shocked by reading the stories of men in
ochre robes taken into police custody for rape,
murder, kidnap, financial embezzlement,
encroachment of Government lands and many
immoral deeds. They have all big Ashrams
and institutions and crores of rupees in bank
deposits and also followers in countries
outside Bharat. The media, not merely the
newspapers, but even the TV Channels and
websites highlight stories of such Sannyasins
in different parts of the country, who have
cheated the society and perpetrated several
criminal acts. Some have been caught and
convicted and are cooling their

heels in the jails while some others are

awaiting the sentences of the courts of law.
Many others are still outside not trapped by
the hands of law. This has shattered the faith
of the youth in religion and god and some
prefer to be atheists while others feel that a life
of sensual pleasures and indulgence of worldly
happiness is much better than the so called
religious life.

It may be argued that one in a thousand

Sadhus or Sannyasins may be corrupt, criminal
or immoral, but the entire spiritual community
could not be blamed for that. It may also be
pointed out that other religious societies also
have immoral and corrupt elements as priests
and preachers, mullahs and moulvis, and even
the head of a world church has openly
apologized for the immoral acts of
parishioners belonging to his religious order.
This sort of excuse will not hold good. Our
great forefathers wanted the spiritual masters
of Bharatavarsha to live a life of purity and
dedication with the ideals of simple living and
high thinking and

integrate the whole world under the Aryan

umbrella—Krinwanto vishwam Aryam
—“Make the entire world ‘Noble’—cultured
and civilized, seeing oneself in every being
and every being in oneself”. They wanted the
land of Bharatavarsha to become the Loka
guru—the preceptor of the entire world. The
first and foremost qualification of a spiritual
leader is that he has to be a first rate patriot.
The Vedic Rishis laid great stress on the spirit
of patriotism and the Vedas contained hymns
in praise and adoration of the Rashtra or
nation. Even in the historic period we had
great preceptors like Vishnugupta Chanakya,
Samarth Ramdas, Guru Gobind and
Vidyaranya who infused the spirit of
patriotism in the common masses through their
preaching. And they all lived a very humble
and simple life in remote forests. The modern
period also saw patriotic saints like Swami
Dayananda, Swami Vivekananda, Swami
Rama Tirtha, Sister Nivedita and Sri
Aurobindo who all strove to unite the entire
nation in the adoration of

Bharatamata and proclaimed patriotism as

their creed. How many of such Sadhus and
Sannyasins do we find today in our midst?
During the Islamic invasions, Hindu temples
and Mutts were ransacked and Hindu spiritual
leaders had to flee for their lives. Hindus were
forcibly converted to Islam at the point of
sword. Things were not much different during
the rule of the European colonialists. The
glaring example is the Goa Inquisition in
which lakhs of Gauda Saraswat Brahmins
were butchered and put on stakes for refusing
to get converted to Christianity. After the
Sannyasi Rebellion of 1773, and the First War
of Indian Independence in 1857, the British
kept a close watch on the Sadhus and
Sannyasins as many revolutionaries were
wandering in the garb of Sannyasins. Many
spiritual institutions were afraid to chant the
Mantra of Vande Mataram in their
congregations or to promote the worship of
Bharatamata openly. Sister Nivedita had the

courage to make the children of her school

sing Vande Mataram every day in the prayer
meeting and prepare a National Flag in Ochre
colour with the symbol of Vajrayudha
surrounded by the slogans ‘Vande Mataram’
and ‘Yato dharma sthato jayah’ on it and
present it in Swadeshi Exhibition of the
Calcutta Congress Session in 1906. She also
patronized the revolutionary movement and
her abode became a meeting place of freedom
fighters. However, immediately after the
passing away of the patriot-monk Swami
Vivekananda who wanted her ‘to mould a
mighty weapon out of the bones of the Bengali
youth’ to throw out the British yoke, she was
forced to leave the Ramakrishna Mission so as
to save the institution from the wrath of the
British Government. Though there were lakhs
of Sadhus, Sannyasins, Mutt Heads and other
religious leaders in the Hindu society, very
few evinced interest in politics and to fight
against the alien rule.

The Independence of India came along with

the vivisection of the Holy Motherland. How
many of the Hindu religious leaders came
forward to fight against this atrocious act of
dividing the Motherland? The very definition
of the word Hindu is, Aasindhu
sindhuparyetaa, yasya Bhaarata bhoomikaa,
pitrubhoo punyabhooschaiva, sa vai Hinduriti
smritah—“All those who adore and worship
the Holy Land of Bharatavarsha stretching
from River Sindh in the North to the Indus
Ocean in the South are Hindus”. Only a few
genuine Hindu spiritual leaders had the guts to
stand against the decision of the Congress
leaders who out of greed for power, agreed to
appease the Muslims and partition the sacred
Motherland.

How many Hindus in our country chant the

mantra, “Samudra vasane devi, parvata
sthana mandale, Vishnupatni namastubhyam,
paadasparsham kshamaswa me”—O
Bhoodevi, who has the seas as Your robe, who
has the

mountains as Your breasts, the divine Consort

of
Vishnu, I salute you, please forgive me for the
blasphemous act of putting my feet on you”
and touch the Mother Earth with all devotion
when they get up from the bed in the early
morning? Even many of the Sadhus and
Sannyasins do not know that. How many of
our temples, Maths and Missions have the
picture or the idol of Bharatamata in their
sanctum sanctorum, though they all display
idols of many deities and Gurus carved out of
the very stone cut from the bosom of Mother
Bharat? They worship all Gods, Goddesses,
deities and saints who are born out of the
womb of Mother Bharat, but they do not
worship the Mother. They have created
hundreds of sects and Sampradayas and
divided the Hindu society into fragments each
keeping a distance from the other and they do
not encourage any effort to bring the entire
Hindu society under one banner, because the
sectarian and Sampradaya leaders are afraid
that their individual identity and prominence
will be lost if

they along with their followers merge into the

mainstream of the Hindu society. Some have
even claimed a non-Hindu status in the courts
of law to keep their identity separate and to
enjoy the patronage of rich non-Hindus inside
the country and abroad apart from privileges
that the minorities get from the present
Government. One can never hear the singing
of the patriotic national song of Bharat, Vande
Mataram written by Rishi Bankim Chandra
Cahtterjee, in any of the congregations of
these sectarian and institutional groups,
because they do not want to displease their
secular and non-Hindu patrons. They consider
‘Vande Mataram’ a communal slogan and the
song displeases the Muslims and other
minorities. The urge for domination on the
part of these sectarian leaders has kept the
Hindu society divided and disunited resulting
in the large scale conversion of the poor and
gullible Hindus in the lower strata of Hindu
society to alien religions through force and
inducements.

When Hindu society is losing large chunks of

its population, especially the poor and
downtrodden living in the tribal areas and in
slums and remote villages through mass
conversions, the so called Hindu religious
leaders enjoy a life of luxury and comfort in
their castles which they call Ashrams. They
have time only to cater to the needs of big
industrialists, businessmen, corrupt politicians
and the rich who could empty their black
money into the hundis of these Ashrams and
temples. Even the Yoga and spiritual classes
that they conduct could be attended by only
those who could shell out hundreds or
thousands of rupees and not by the poor. They
travel in luxury cars with glowing lights on the
top and escorted by bodyguards in similar
vehicles and when the vehicles with their loud
siren noise move through the crowds of people
on the roads and streets, they feel as though
they are VIPs like the President, Prime
Minister and Chief Ministers. The Sadhus who
speak about worship

of the cow—Go mata—in their congregations

are silent when even the temple committees
like that in Pandarpur auction the aged cattle
and send them to butcheries. Thousands of
devout Hindus pour millions of rupees every
day into coffers of temples like Tirupati
Tirumala, but the money goes into the hands
of secular politicians who give liberal subsidy
to Haj Yatris, to the University run by the
Devasthanam, headed by Christian Vice
Chancellor and Christians employed in various
offices of the temple administration to the
extent that Christian conversion activities
became rampant in the temple city of
Tirumalai Tirupati. The so called spiritual
leaders of the Hindu society have no time to
ponder over these grave threats facing the
Hindu society and they are busy building their
own Ashrams, missions and sects.

The only solution to the malaise afflicting the

Hindu society today is that the Hindu spiritual

and religious leaders must give up their

attachment to their own sects, Sampradayas,
Missions, Maths and Ashrams and identify
themselves with the mainstream of the Hindu
society and stand shoulder to shoulder with
other Hindu leaders. They must project
patriotism as the highest creed and adoration
and worship of the Motherland as greater than
the worship of the thirty three crores of Gods
in the Hindu pantheon. A militant, dynamic
and youthful Hindu society led by self-less
leaders under the guidance of true and self-
sacrificing spiritual heads can alone save this
great nation of Bharatavarsha from the perils
that it is facing today from inside the country
and across the border.

When Sadhus and Sants move from village to

village spreading the message of construction
of Rama Janma Bhoomi, ban on Cow
slaughter and protection of Mother Ganga,
they must also call upon the youth to come out
of all the narrow

confines of sectarianism and bondage to

institutionalized religion and become patriots
adoring the Motherland and serving the poor
and downtrodden as the real worship of God.
This is possible if and only if, the Sadhus and
Sannyasins of the present time transform
themselves into patriotic Sannyasins like the
ones depicted in the Ananda Math of Rishi
Bankim Chandra. They must emulate Samarth
Ramdas and Vidyaranya who created powerful
warriors to protect the country. They must
follow the example set by Swami
Vivekananda who proclaimed at the top of his
voice, “India is the cradle of my infancy, the
pleasure garden of my youth and the Holy
Varanasi of my old Age” and cry out like
Swami Rama Tirtha, “Let me feel I am India,
--the whole of India. The land of India is my
own body. The Comorin is my feet, the
Himalayas my head. From my hair flows the
Ganges, from my head come the Brahmaputra
and the Indus. The Vindhyachalas are girt
round

my loins. The Coromandel is my right and

Malabar my left leg. I am the whole of India,
and its East and West are my arms; and I
spread them out to embrace Humanity. I am
universal in my love. Ah! Such is the posture
of my body. It is standing and gazing at
infinite space; but my inner spirit is the soul of
all. When I walk, I feel it is India walking.
When I breathe, I feel it is India breathing.
When I speak, it is India speaking. I am
India .... This is the highest realization of
patriotism, and this is Practical Vedanta.”
Even in the recent period we have seen such
saintly personalities in Sri Guruji Golwalkar
who renounced renunciation to offer his whole
life in the service of Motherland and Swami
Chinmayananda who rose above the interests
of his organization and stood for the unity and
integrity of the entire Hindu society.

The crying need of the nation is to produce

true spiritual leaders like Swami Vivekananda,
Swami Rama Tirtha and Sri Aurobindo.

We do not want the so called spiritual leaders

who market Hinduism’s Vedanta and Yoga
and export them abroad for minting money. It
is time that we endeavour to save the Ganga of
Hinduism from
scoundrels and scum
polluting it and destroying its sanctity. This is
the first step to build a powerful and strong
Akhand Bharat and to elevate Mother Bharat
to the pedestal of Loka Guru as envisaged by
our great forefathers. The youth of the country
are waking up and they are conscious of the
need to rise above all distinctions of caste and
creed and stand for a united and strong Hindu
Rashtra. The very sight of lakhs of
Swayamsevaks in uniform gathering in every
important town and city of the country to
welcome the Chief of Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh, Paramapoojaneeya Sri Mohan
Bhagavat, during his recent all India tour after
becoming the Sarsanghchalak of the
organization and singing in unison the Rashtra
Praarthana, “Namaste sadaa vatsale
Maatrubhoome…” gives hope that the scum
and rubbish in the Hindu society will certainly
be

cleared and anti-national and treacherous

forces in the country will be totally wiped out
in the near future and Mother Bharat will once
again emerge with all glory as Jagat Janani,
the Mother of the entire world!
Vande Mataram!
April-June 2010 Editor:
Vol.27, No.2
Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan

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