With the arrival of Ganesh festival, almost all newspapers in Maharashtra are filled with several blasphemic pictures, images and icons of Lord Ganapati, making a public mockery of the Deity. This mockery is witnessed by Hindus in Maharashtra, with open eyes, with a corpse-like complacency without any protests. This itself is the tragedy of Hindus.Here are a few examples of such mockery.
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1. In the daily Deshonnati of 11.09.2005, cartoonist shri Gajanan Ghongade has shown lord Ganesha conversing with a rat, the rat saying, "My lord, yesterday I had gone to a Poet’s seminar, all were poets, I was the only listener".
2. In the daily "Sakaal", cartoonist Mr. Prabhakar Dighekar, of Dhakani, Yavatmal has drawn the following cartoons on the first page of the daily:
a. Lord Ganesh has been shown thinking, "How will i get modaks? all of them will be eaten by the hungry children of residents of Melghat".
b.Another cartoon shows Lord Ganesh, showing a banner which says, "Petrol prices risen from today". One of the devotees is shown saying to Lord Ganesh, "Lord, if the petrol prices continue increasing in this manner, we too will have to follow your suit by choosing a non-mechanical vehicle".
This is indeed our love for the remover of obstacles. This is our knowledge about deities! We Hindus, make fun of, and reduce the importance of our deities by our own deeds. If we make fun of God, using his gifted art, how will we be eligible for his grace ? We Hindus have become too indifferent to understand this in the current so-called secular un-hindu environment.
Will these same people, dare to mock Jesus Christ, or Islamic Religious icons using cartoons ? This should make all Hindus wonder what gives them the courage to publish openly, the mocking cartoon of a deity or a Religious place and Saints belonging only to Hindus.
We understand that this may be due to the following aspects:
1. Not knowing that such cartoonism constitues mockery of the deity.
2. Not having an understanding of what deities are.
3. We are totally indifferent to our Religion and Deities. The sense of belongingness to our religion and our deities is not there in us. That is why we get angry when someone mocks at our kin, family member but we dont get angry even when we see open mockery of our deities.
4. Not celebrating festivals and religious events for deriving spiritual, Physical and Mental, benefit but with the gross aim of showing off one’s religiousity.
5. Not knowing what benefit one can derive out of spiritually correct celebration of a festival or ritual.
6. We have been taught wrongly that "Hindus are Tolerant". But in this continous brainwashing, done by media, government and betrayers of religion, we have forgotten to react to what is wrong spiritually, socially and Morally.
7. We are not confident because we dont even know what is preached in our religion.
8. We are complacent, so we just ignore the far-off effects of an event.
9. We do not seem to understand that their daring to make such mockery of Hindu deities in a nation with Hindu majority itself is a big defeat for Hindus.
Why should Religion protect those who are indifferent to Religion?
(This mockery was brought to our notice due to alert seeker, Mr. Srikanth Bhatt of Sanatan Sanstha. There was no such reporting from any other places which indicates that even active seekers and Hindus are still complacent to ignore such events, what to say of the common Corpse-like Hindu ?
Hindus, arise for the sake of Religion, for its now or never!!
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