Symbol Of Ayodhya by Francois Gautier

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by Francois Gautier @ Sword of Truth

How many of those who have lambasted so many times the ?Hindu fundamentalists? and
lamented the destruction of the Babri Masjid mosque as the ?death of secularism in
India?, have been to Ayodhya? (not Faizabad, mind you, which is Ayodhya?s twin
Muslim city).
When one arrived in Ayodhya before the destruction of the mosque, one was struck by
the fact that it was a Hindu town ?par excellence?. More than Benares even, it is dotted
everywhere with innumerable temples; it has all these old Hindus houses and this lovely
river with its ghats which runs through the lower town. And then, forlorn on the top, there
was this lone mosque with its two ugly domes, which looked so out of place and unused,
that any one with a right sense -and that includes the Muslims- should see that it was not
worth making an issue of.
The destruction of the Babri Masjid still evokes such fiery reactions, that the importance
of Ayodhya has been totally overlooked: Ayodhya is a symbol, through which two India?
s are facing each other. And the outcome of their confrontation will shape the future of
this country for generations to come. The first India wants to be secular and unite
together through an egalitarian, democratic spirit all the minorities, ethnic groups,
religions and people of the country. But the question is: What would be the binding
element of this kind of India? Secularism, says the first side. But secularism has a
different meaning for each one. For the British, it was a convenient way to divide and
rule, by treating each Indian community on par, although some were in minority and
others in majority, thereby planting the seeds of separatisms.
For the Congress Party, it has always meant giving in to the Muslims? demands, because
its leaders never could really make out if the allegiance of Indian Muslims first want to
India and then to Islam - or vice-versa.
And for India?s intelligentsia, its writers, journalists, top bureaucrats, the majority of
whom are Hindus, it means, apart from belittling its own religion and brothers, an India
which would be a faithful copy of the West: liberal, modern, atheist, industrialized,
intellectual and western- oriented.
Moreover, what makes India unique? Certainly not its small elite which apes the West;
there are millions of these western clones in the developing world who wear a tie, read
the New York Times and swear by liberalism and secularism to save their countries from
doom. Nor its modern youth, whom you meet in Delhi?s swank parties, who are full of
the MTV culture, wear the latest Klein jeans and Lacoste T Shirts, and who in general are
useless, fat, rich parasites, in a country which has so many talented youngsters who live
in poverty. Not even its political, bureaucratic and judicial system; it?s a copy of the
British set up, which is not fully adapted to India?s unique character and conditions.
What then? The second India which is confronting the other through the Ayodhya issue
is, of course, the India of the Hindus.
When Imam Bhukari states that ?we (the Mughals) gave everything to this country, its
culture, its manners, its arts, and the Hindus by destroying the Babri Masjid showed how
little gratitude they have?, apart from making a pompous declaration, he proclaims
exactly the opposite of the reality.Because the truth is that not only Hinduism is what
makes India unique, so different from all the other nations of the world, but it is the
single most important influence in Indian history.
In the words of Sri Aurobindo, India?s Great Sage and Modern Age Avatar: ?The inner
principle of Hinduism, the most tolerant and receptive of all religious systems, is not
sharply exclusive like the religious spirit of Christianity or Islam...it is the fulfilment of
the highest tendencies of human civilisation and it will include in its sweep the most vital
impulses of modern life..? And indeed, if you look at India today, you find that Hinduism
has permeated, influenced, shaped, every part of this country, every religion, every
culture.
Be it the Christians who are like no other Catholics of the world, or Indian Muslims, who
whatever they may say, are utterly different from their brothers in Saudi Arabia. But
Hinduism is too narrow a word, it?s a corruption of the original word ?Indu?, for true
Hinduism is Dharma, India?s infinite and eternal spiritual knowledge, which took shape
into so many varied expressions throughout the ages, be it the Vedantas, Buddhism, or
the Arya Samaj and which is today still very much alive in India, particularly in its rural
masses, which after all constitute 80% of its population. And the words of the great Sage
still echo in our ears: ?Each nation is a shakti or power of the evolving spirit in humanity
and lives by the principle it embodies.
India is the Bharata Shakti, the living energy of a great spiritual conception- and fidelity
to it is the very principle of her existence...But we must have a firm faith that India must
rise and be great and that everything that happened, every difficulty, every reverse must
help and further the end...? What one has to grasp is that the issue of Ayodhya only
makes sense when the immense harm the Muslims did to India is not negated, as indeed it
has been and still is today in the official History books in the West - and sadly in India
also.
The Muslim jehad against Hindus, alas, continues even today, whether in Kashmir, where
the last Hindus were made to flee in terror, or in Bangladesh and Pakistan, where the
crowds still regularly go on rampage against Hindus and their temples (as told by a
Bangladeshi Muslim herself,Talisma Nasreen). It is in this light, that it becomes
extraordinary for an impartial observer to see today that when for once, the Hindus
wanted to displace, not even to destroy, One mosque and rebuild the ?temple?, which
they believe was built in this particular place, for one of their most cherished Gods, the
one which is loved universally by all, men, women, children, They were treated as rabid
fundamentalists.
The great Mughals must be laughing all the way down their graves! What a reversal of
situation! What a turnabout of history! And when the mosque was destroyed, it evoked
such fiery reactions, such pompous, overblown, sanctimonious, holier-than-thou,
atrocious, ridiculous, sly and totally undeserved outrage, both within India and in the
Western world (who should be the last one to give lessons to India), that the importance
of Ayodhya as a symbol has been totally overlooked.
The obvious trap is to think that the demolition of the mosque in Ayodhya is something
to gloat about and that it is the duty of all good Hindus to see that other important
mosques at Mathura, Vanarasi, or elsewhere, be also razed to the ground; or that all cities
with a Muslim name be renamed with a Hindu one.
This is not true Hinduism, which has always shown its tolerance and accepted in its fold
other creeds and faiths. Indeed a true ?Indu? India will be secular in the correct sense of
the term: it will give freedom to each religion, each culture, so that it develops itself in
the bosom of a Greater India, of which dharma, true spirituality, will be the cementing
factor.
Nevertheless, the destruction of the Babri Masjid, however unfortunate, hasmade its
point: the occult Mughal hold over Hindu India has been broken and centuries of Hindu
submission erased. Hindus have proved that they too can fight.

Francois Gautier
User comments to Symbol Of Ayodhya Article.
Very enlightening and motivating article, thanks for posting it up. It?s time to take back
our nation from the clutches of pseudo-secularists and ungrateful minorities. The first
step should be to rename Hinustan as a Hindu Rashtra, not a secular country. Research
should be conducted on every Hindu temple or building that was destroyed by the
musselmans and the christians and the reports should be made public. Then, according to
the wishes of the Hindu majority, wherever there have been mosques or churches built on
the demolished remains of temples, the present structures should be demolished and a
Hindu temple built in its place.
For a 1000 years, the musselmans and christians destroyed our most valued religious
places, and they have not once apologized for their acts. Not the Pope, not the mullahs,
have ever expressed any remorse for their wrong- doings. And then they have the
audacity to criticize and demean our religion in public day-in and day-out. This should
not be happening. It?s time to take back what?s ours, it?s time to teach them lesson about
respect and tolerance, with violence, the only language they understand.

Hari Om Namah Shivay

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