When Napolean lay on his deathbed, he said: ‘May my son study history, for it is the only true philosophy.’ History is indeed philosophy teaching by example, and also by warning; its four eyes are geography and chronology, culture and civilization.
The History of India constitutes the Philosophy of RSS said the Vedic seer Dr Hedgewar, the epoch-maker and founder of the RSS in 1925. ‘This land is the mother and I am her son.’ The Puranas say: ‘That land is called Bharat that lies north of the seas and south of the snowy mountains and those are Bharatiyas who consider this land as their motherland and live in it as the sons of the soil.’
Whether Sonia Gandhi and her divided Congress party like it or not, the Hindu culture is the life-breath of Hindustan. It should therefore be clear that if Hindustan is to be protected, we should nourish the Hindu culture. If the Hindu culture perishes in Hindustan itself, and if the Hindu society ceases to exist, it would hardly be appropriate to refer to the merely inert geographical entity that would remain as Hindustan. Mere geographical lumps wedded to the perniciously divisive Congress/ Communist/ all other political parties’ gimmick and shibboleth of paralyzing pseudo secularism will never make a nation. These were also the views of Anne Besant.
These sacred thoughts, passions and emotions are totally irrelevant to a Roman Catholic individual like Sonia Gandhi even as the lives and sayings of great Catholic Saints of Italy are not part of my inherited consciousness. Sonia Gandhi, rooted in her Roman Catholicism, would dismiss the following observations of Swami Vivekananda with contempt: ‘True human feelings, passions and emotions are indeed the gastric juices of the soul’.
I am amused by Sonia Gandhi’s infantile letter to President Abdul Kalam in which she has urged the President to reverse the Madhya Predesh Government’s decision to lift the ban on government employees for participating in RSS shakhas and its other activities.
As a petty politician steeped in self-chosen Himalayan pseudo-secular ignorance, she has described the decision as ‘illegal’ and a ‘dangerous move’. She has described the RSS as a rightist organization with a long track record of ‘stoking the religious prejudices, inflaming religious passions and polarizing the Indian society’. As President of the disgraceful Congress Party today, she has mislead the President by stating that the State Governor was kept completely in the dark by the State Government while it took this policy decision that has ‘far reaching implications and repercussions. I am drawing this inference from the reported statement in the press of Madhya Pradesh Governor Balram Jakhar on 21 September, 2006 when he took a dig at imposition of ban on State government employees in participating in RSS activities and its subsequent withdrawal saying ‘it resembled the game of kabaddi wherein one government imposes the ban and the other lifts it’.
Digvijay Singh (former Chief Minister of Congress) imposed the ban and Shivraj Singh Chouhan (current Chief Minister of BJP) lifted it. When another Chief Minister will take over charge, he will take his own decision’. He was dishing out these well-known and worn-out words of distilled Congress wisdom founded on hypocrisy and expediency at a meeting of Vice Chancellors where Congress Party politics was given precedence by the politically anti-Hindu Governor over crucial issues of higher education.
Raj Nath Singh, BJP President, has not let down the silent Hindus in numerical majority in India by giving a rejoinder to Sonia Gandhi: ‘The Madhya Pradesh government has carried out this move after a careful thought. There can be a ban on government employees from becoming members of political parties but so far as RSS is concerned, it is the world’s largest socio-cultural organisation and there should be no ban on participating in its activities’. These comments of Raj Nath Singh came in the wake of Sonia Gandhi’s petition to Kalam seeking his intervention to restore the bar on the State government employees on participating in Sangh activities.
Sonia Gandhi and her degenerate Congress party have contempt for the following ruling given by the Supreme Court and all the High Courts in India on the nature, mission and ideology of the RSS in innumerable cases during the last sixty years: ‘The RSS is a purely socio-cultural organization. It has never claimed to be political party and never declared by the government or any competent authority to be political party. Its constitution was submitted by Guruji Golwalkar, the second Sarsangchalak of the RSS to the Government of India (to Sardar Vallabai Patel!!) in 1949 which was duly accepted’. Sonia Gandhi, as a petty party politician interested only in the loaves and spoils of known and hidden power, is mischievously endeavouring to use the exalted office of the President of India to unsettle this settled fact with evangelical fervour duly backed by the Pope in Rome. We should not forget that when he came to India some years ago, in a shameless way he declared that Asia and more particularly India is going to be the golden land for maximising ‘the rich harvest of faith’.
Whether Sonia Gandhi and her Congress Party like it or not, our Nation is celebrating the birth centenary of Sri Golwalkar Guruji on a grand scale in all parts of India. Thousands of Hindus in England, America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia are also celebrating this event to pay their tribute to a man of God who had no axe to grind, a man who in the pursuit of his timeless ideals had no languor in his heart, no weakness in his word and no weariness on his brow. He was clear and categorical in his declaration of India as a Hindu Nation. This will be clear from his inspiring exhortation in 1951: ‘Today we find everywhere attempts to recast our life pattern in the mould of American, English or Russian way of life. How can we call it Swathantra (freedom), which has no Swa (our genius) in it? Then it is only Para-thantra. If Lenin is kept as the ideal, it becomes Lenin-thantra and not Swathantra. In fact, preservation and propagation of our national life-values i.e, our Dharma and Sanskriti, have always been held in our historical tradition as the raison d’etre of Swathantra’. Does not Sonia’s letter to our President clearly bring out the fact that she is interested only in converting India into Sonia-thantra to serve the long range commercial interest of the Private Limited Company called the Congress Party today?
When the Chief Minister of the central provinces, E Gordon, issued an order on December 15,1932 in which he said, ‘the RSS in the opinion of the Government is undoubtedly of a communal nature and its participation in political movements is increasing, participation of the Government servants in such an organization is likely to become a hindrance to imperial discharge of their duties etc’.
Dr. Hedgewar confronted him in these words: ‘I challenge you to prove it. Will you care to reply to these questions? In which political movement has the RSS taken part? Against which non-Hindu community has the Sagh taken up cudgels? If ‘European Association’, ‘European Chamber of Commerce’ and such other bodies are not ‘communal’, and if Government officers are allowed to participate in their activities, how could this organization established for organizing the Hindu society be viewed as ‘communal’? And how could Government servants be prevented from participating in it? If any community acts against another, then its actions could be called ‘communal’. But if there is an organization or a group of people who hate none and are interested in working for the welfare of their own society, how would it be justifiable to call it ‘communal’? May be the Government is worried about the activities of the RSS, and would like to suppress it. I should like to submit in all humility, that it would not be possible for the govt. to do so. We have undertaken this task trusting in God in utmost sincerity. Whatever the obstacles in our way, we shall resolutely overcome them and achieve our goal.
E. Gordon, is dead and forgotten and the RSS has grown from strength to strength, even making the BBC acknowledge the fact that the RSS is the largest Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) which is not Leftist. Following the lead of Dr.Hegdewar, I would like to ask Sonia Gandhi whether she would raise the same objections to the Muslim and Christian Government Servants being members of several Islamic and Church groups functioning as cultural organizations throughout the country.
Pope Benedict XVI, on 17 September, 2006, sought to extinguish days of anger and protest among Muslims by issuing an extraordinary personal apology for having caused offense with a speech last week that cited a reference to Islam as ‘evil and inhuman.’ By her continued recent political pronouncements in favour of only minorities at all costs to our sacred nation, Sonia Gandhi has clearly wounded the feelings, susceptibilities, hopes, urges and aspirations of the Hindus in numerical majority in India. On behalf of the Hindus of India, I would appeal to her to apologize to them in the same manner in which non-safforinized, non-communal, secular, cosmopolitan and international Pope Benedict XVI has apologized to the Muslims.
Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave, Achyut Parwardan, Dr. Zakir Hussyan, General Cariappa and Jayaprakash Narayan, who have served our nation with as much dedication as our global leader Sonia Gandhi, have paid their unreserved tributes to the RSS as a non-communal, non-political and patriotic organization. Sonia Gandhi can afford to ignore them only at her own peril and that of her Private Limited Company. Bharat Mata Ki Jai! Vande Mataram!
(The writer is a retired IAS officer)
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