Author: Francois Gautier
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: June 9, 2011
URL: http://www.dailypioneer.com/344496/The-battle-of-Kaliyuga-has-begun.html
Previously, the Congress was able to brazen
out scandalous truth through bullying, deceit, lying and political cunning.
Now it hopes that by slandering Ramdev and the RSS, it will be able to put
a lid on mounting allegations of corruption against the party and the Government
The world is a battlefield. All great gurus
and avatars have incarnated themselves throughout the ages to help the forces
of good, which in India are called 'dharmic', against forces which are inimical
to the Evolution of Humanity and which are called 'adharmic', or even asuric.
The concept of the asura in India is very
different from the West. There is no such thing here as the black and white
renderings of American cartoons or the Christian idea of a benevolent god
and a cruel devil. Keen observers of human history may have noticed that very
often asuric forces take on the face of goodness and charity, or use half
truths or semi-lies to appear good. But in the end, the harm they do should
make them recognisable to all.
In this light, we can discard Mr Digvijay
Singh: He incarnates the world of sycophancy, which is a perversion of the
Indian bhakti tradition. Or even Mr Kapil Sibal, a more intelligent man, but
who got so perverted by a lawyer's mind that lying has become a second nature
to him. History will probably judge Mr Manmohan Singh as a weak man, who was
ready to close his eyes on everything just to stay in power.
But what about Ms Sonia Gandhi? What are the
forces which are using her, maybe even in spite of her? Let us discard all
those evil avatars attributed to her, such as her being a KGB or a Vatican
agent, rumours which has been floating around for a long time. We should not
also look at her personality, what she projects, or what people say about
her, not even at her deeds. No, it is the visible consequences of her overt
and covert actions which should tell us a story. What are the consequences
of her being the unelected supreme authority in India since many years, one
whose one word or glance can have innocent people teargassed and beaten up?
Well the first sign is the increase in terrorist
onslaughts since she came to power; the 26/11 terror attacks and the inability
of the Government to respond to them - on the spot, and later - are the best
symbols of her presence at the top. There has also been a tremendous increase
in Christian conversions since she came to power, a radicalisation of Islam
in India and a galloping Westernisation, which is fast eradicating Indian
culture in cities and major towns.
But to my mind, it is the attack on Hindu
gurus, which is the most representative sign of her adharmic reign. For in
Ms Gandhi's India, Hindu gurus are not only mocked at, but they can also be
imprisoned, attacked, killed one day. Nobody would dare touch an imam if he
preaches secession, nor even a Christian bishop, but gurus are fair game today.
Now Swami Ramdev, who incarnates an old tradition
of spirituality in India, of all these gurus who throughout the ages have
come to teach and preserve this ancient knowledge which takes the form of
hatha-yoga, pranayama, meditation or Ayurveda. Is he perfect? How to judge
a guru, who is to grade them? Sri Aurobindo, in one of his aphorisms, said
something like this: "Even if god were to manifest himself in front of
thy very eyes, you would not recognise him." I am not able to judge Ramdev,
but I can say with confidence that what he teaches is good, because it has
benefited thousands of people.
Why then is he run down so much by the Congress
whose leaders have gone as far as calling him a thug? Well it's an old British
tradition which has been taken up by the Congress and part of the media. French
historian Daniélou summed it up well in his History of India: "The
British-controlled Congress utilised to the hilt its English-speaking Press
to present the Hindu Mahashaba, which attempted to counterbalance the Muslim
League's influence, or the even more maligned Ram Rajya Parishad, as barbaric,
fanatical, ridiculous; and the British media in turn, took-up, as parrots,
the cry of their Indian counterparts." (Histoire de l'Inde)
In the case of Swami Ramdev, there are also
accusations of an 'empire' worth hundreds of crores and even an island. Well
a guru has to decide: Either he stays in a cave and looks after his own salvation,
or if he has come to help humanity, he will have first a few disciples, then
a few hundreds, eventually thousands. He has to feed them, organise courses,
satsangs, launch sewa projects. You need money for all that. Donations come,
bigger and bigger, as the good work of this particular guru comes to be known.
The funds have to be managed, more and more money is needed and gurus end
up being like the head of a multinational corporation, with a hundred projects,
all sewa-oriented, to manage. I have seen it at close hand.
The fact that Ramdev got manhandled is nothing
new. Gurus come to save humanity, but men either mock them or even crucify
them. That is also in the nature of things.
So who will win this battle of Kaliyuga? Sri
Aurobindo came to announce the Supramental: He said that as there was man
after the animal, so would there come a superman after man. Not the superman
of the Hollywood series, but a man who is closer to beauty, love, compassion.
One of the main attributes of the supermind, he stated, would be truth.
This is why at the moment in India, the magnifying
glass of truth is put upon men and events and falsehood comes out in the form
of the stupendous scams that have happened in the last few years.
Previously, the Congress was able to brazen
it out, through bullying, deceit, lying and political cunning. Will it be
able to do so this time? We have seen how it hopes that by slandering Ramdev
and his very nice assistant, planting rumors, using the eternal scarecrow
of the RSS (those old fuddy-fuddies, who most of the time could not harm a
fly), it hopes to put a lid on all the suspicions which are hanging over their
head.
For the first beneficiary of the 2G or the
CWG scams, is not the DMK, but the Congress. They are the ones who have institutionalised
political corruption, the bribing of parliamentarians and elections which
cost hundred of crores to elect a single MP.
If truth does triumph, then Ms Gandhi's role
will also come in the open, along with the truth about Italian middleman Ottavio
Quattrocchi and the enormous covert funds the Congress is believed to be controlling.
It may take time, but karma is inevitable. That is also an ancient Indian
truth.
