On December 30, last year (2007 AD), the 155th Birth Anniversary of Sri Sri Sarada Devi, the Reverend Mother (wife of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa), was celebrated throughout the country with usual respect and solemnity. Many eminent speakers spoke on life and teachings of the Mother in various functions organized on that occasion. One of those speakers, while speaking on a television channel, to highlight the greatness of the Mother, said that she was so great and broad hearted that she used to say, “Ami sat-er o ma, ami asat-er o ma” (I am the mother of an honest as well as the mother of wicked one). Or in other words, she would equally bless an honest and a dishonest man. It is necessary to elaborate a bit what the Mother wanted to say. Let us imagine that a murderer and a relative of the victim come to her and seek her blessings, then she would bless them equally without making any distinction. Or suppose a rapist and his victim appear before the Mother and seek her blessings, she would equally bless both the rapist and the victim.

        

To some people, such utterances may appear to be extremely noble and at par with the teachings of Advaita Vedanta. But if we delve into the matter a bit, we shall find such an attitude is grossly contrary to the teachings of our scriptures. If such an attitude would have been compatible with the teachings of Hindu Dharma then it would have been proper for the Goddess Kali to say, “I am the mother of both the Devas and the Asuras” and she should not have slain the Asuras with her falchion, smear her body with the blood of the slain Asuras and dance with the slain heads of the Asuras. Had such an attitude been in compliance with the teachings of the Hindu Dharma, Lord Vishnu should have said, “I am the God of both the Devas and the wicked Asuras”, and hence He, instead of killing the Asuras like Hiranyakasipu, and Madhu and Kaitabh etc., would have blessed them and pardoned their wrong doings. Had such an attitude been in conformity with the teachings of the Hindu Dharma, it would have been proper for Lord Krishna to say, “I am the God of both the Pandavas and the Kauravas”, and He would have forgiven the misdeeds of the Kauravas and refrained from going into war against them. Had such an attitude been the tradition of the Hindu Dharma, it would have been proper for Rama to forgive the wicked Ravana and drop the idea of invading Sri Lanka and kill Ravana and to resque Sita.

         

As a matter of fact, Hindu Dharma never said that a wicked and evildoer should be forgiven and, on the contrary, Hindu Dharma has always prescribed proper and adequate punishment for the wrong doers. The verse (3/16) of the Vashistha Samhita, in this regard, says,

 

      Agnido garadoścaiva    

                       śastrapāṇirdhanāpahaḥ I

      Kṣetradārāpahārī

                        ca ṣaḍete hyātatāyinaḥ II (3/16)

 

- six kinds of miscreants, namely the incendiary, one who wants to kill with  poison, the approaching assailant brandishing sharp weapons, forceful dispossessor of one’s tilling land, his spouse and plunderer of wealth, are to be reckoned as ātatāyins (aggressors). How should one deal with such an ātatāyī? In this regard the verse (8/350) of Manu Samhita says,

       Guruṃ vā bālabŗddhauvā

                   brāhmaņaṃ vā bahuśrutam І

        Ātatāyinamāyāntaṃ      

                   hanyādevābicarayam ІІ (8/350)

 

- such an atatyi is to be put instantly to death without giving a second thought, even if he is a teacher, a learned man, a Brahmin, an old man or a child. If Sri Sri Ma says that she is also the Mother of an Ātatāyi, and hence he should be forgiven and his life should be protected, that would be contrary to the teachings of our scriptures.  

          It should be pointed out here that the above instruction is to tackle those aggressors who intend to harm an individual only. But Lord Krishna has instructed us to wipe out the tyrants and evil doers en masse if they try to cause harm to a community of innocent and good people. So in Bhagavadgita He says-

 

          Paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṃ  

                    vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām I

          Dharma saṃsthāpanārthāya 

                    sambhavāmī yuge yuge II (4/8)

 

One should notice that Lord Krishna has said vināśāya, and not simply nāśāya,āśāya stands for killing an individual, but vināśāya stands for killing en masse. Had Emperor Prithviraj Chauhan, following the advice of Lord Krishna, slaughtered Muhammad Ghori and his captured army en masse, India would not have suffered the shameful slavery of the Muslim invaders for thousand years. where n

     

But it is a pity that Hindu Dharma has deviated today by far from its original teachings and it is really doubtful whether it is Hindu Dharma at all that we are following today. According to Swami Vivakananda, the fundamental message of the Upanisads is Abhīḥ or be fearless. But we have forgotten all those valorous and valiant teachings of our scriptures and turned ourselves into a nation of cowards and timid people. We have turned Hindu Dharma into a religion of worshiping idols with flowers and garlands, offering the deities fruits and sweets as prasada and pray before idols asking their help to fulfill our mundane ambitions. Or cry before the deities saying, “Help me to overcome this material world (samsara)” and shedding tears.

      

Those who are devotees of Mother Kali, are erecting tall temples, installing idols of Ma Kali in those temples and worshiping the idol with red china-roses, offering fruits and sweets as prasada and crying before the idol saying “O Mother, please appear before me”, with tears. They are fully convinced that that is the proper way of worshiping Ma Kali and with this kind of worship She will be pleased and fulfill their desires. Sri Ramprasad, Sri Ramkrishna and many other devotees have, as par their belief, obtained salvation with this kind of worship and hence that is the right path. But these blind followers of Bhaktivad  never care to notice what Ma Kali wants to say through her appearance. There is no doubt that Ma is telling, “You behead the tyrants and wrongdoers, like me, with a falchion, smear your bodies with the blood of the slain tyrants and enemies, and dance like me holding the heads of the slain enemies in your hand”. The mother has never said that you cry before me and shed tears. In Sri Sri Chandi, the Mother Goddess has instructed us to sacrifice animals and worship her with the flesh and blood of the sacrificed animals. But we fools are worshiping her with fruits, sweets and vegetarian prasada and there is no doubt that Ma Kali hardly accepts those vegetarian offerings.

         

Those who are the devotees of Lord Rama are also building big temples, installing the idols of Rama, Sita and Lakshmana in those temples,they have turned Rama, a meat eating Kshatriya, into a vegetarian deity. The people, who can sing bhajans, are being treated as great devotees of Lord Rama. But these blind devotees never care to look at the idols and see that both Rama and Lakshmana carry bows in their hands and quivers full of arrows on their back. Who are the true devotees of Lord Rama? The people who can sing bhajans? No, a true follower of Rama is one who is an excellent archer and fit to kill enemies efficiently with bows and arrows during a conflict. Rama was a Kshatriya Prince and those, who can save the nation from any kind of injury (kshata) is a Kshatriya. In those days these warrior Kshatriyas were permitted to eat and drink whatever the liked. and performing bhajans and kirtans before the idols, worshiping the idols with garlands and flower and offering fruits and sweets to the idols as prasada. Most importantly,

 

There are so many instances in the Valmiki Ranayana that conclusively prove that Rama, Lakshana and Sita were meat eaters. They used to eat meat, especially while they were traveling in the forests during 14 years of exile. (Vide this author’s article Ram was a Meat Eater, says Valmiki Ramayana). The Valmiki Ramayana provides vivid descriptions of incidents where Rama and Lakshmana are seen to hunt various kinds of deer, wild boars, iguanas etc. and eating the flesh of those animals after dressing them in fire. So it is really doubtful whether Rama accepts the vegetarian offerings of today’s Ram-bhaktas. There is no doubt that, had Rama been a vegetarian, he would have dropped the idea of going into military confrontation with Ravana and invading Sri Lanka with the army of Kiskindhya. In that case, he would better have sent a peace mission to Sri Lanka and started negotiation with Ravana so that Sita could be brought back to him peacefully. And had the peace mission failed to convince Ravana, Rama, as a true vegetarian, would have forgone Sita.

         

Those who are devotees of Lord Krishna, or in other words, who are Vaishnavas, have gone still a step further. They are also building big temples, installing idols of Radha and Krishna in those temples and worshipping those idols, as usual, with flowers, garlands and offering sweets as prasada. But Radha, whose idol they are placing beside Krishna, is entirely mythical and had no physical existence. But the madness they are exhibiting by fabricating spicy love stories between Krishna and the said mythical Radha is not only fantastic but horrible. The Bhagvat Purana contains the most authentic biography of Lord Krishna, but there is no mentioning of Radha in that book. But that does not make any difference. Every day they are fabricating new love stories, writing dramas, kirtans and bhajans on the said mythical love affair between Radha and Krishna. To make these stories spicier, they have invented many other mythical characters like Ayan Ghosh, the husband of Radha, Jatila the mother of Ayan, Kutila the Ayan’s sister and so on. The description of this fictitious love affair including sexual intercourse between Radha and Krishna as provided in the Brahmavaivarta Purana is worse than pornography.

 

But the most unfortunate part of this episode is that the real Krishna, more particularly the Sudarshan wielding Sri Krishna, has been shrouded by these nonsensical stories of love making. The real Krishna of thrashing tyrants like Kansa and Jarasandha, and subduing the unruly Kauravas has been lost in the turbid water of love making. On the contrary, we see an innocent KrishnaKrishna in this way and dancing before the idol shouting “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna”, are fully convinced that this is the proper way of worshiping Lord Krishna and with this kind of worship they will obtain the blessings of Krishna which will lead them towards Moksha. But these fools don’t have any lesson in their doctrine telling them how to save themselves from the sword of an aggressor. So it is evident that, if more and more people become Vaishnavas, it would be easier for their enemies, like the Muslims, to slaughter them en masse. Regarding the cult of Bhakti, Lord Krishna in Gita has said, “Tasmāt sarveṣu kālesu māmanusmara yudhya ca” - “Then remember my name always and go to war”. But we fools have retained the first part of his advice and remembering His name but ignoring the second part of His lesson who is playing a flute, flirting with the housewives of the Jadavas in Vrindavan and making love with the mythical Radha. that advises us to prepare ourselves for a war. The people, who are worshiping the idols of Radha and

      

 Above all, there is vegetarianism. A Vaishnava should invariably be a vegetarian. Or in a nut-shell, no stone has been left unturned to make Hindus a community of unmanly cowards devoid of masculinity. But the reality is that, if Krishna appears on earth now, he would break all those unscriptural idols of Radha and Krishna and put an end to this kind of worship, that deprives a man of his manliness and turns him into an eunuch. In the present context, it should be mentioned that, the Vaishnava cult propagated by Sri Shankar Dev in Assam, does not include Radha. There the Vaishnavas worship Sudarshan wielding Sri Krishna alone. In this context, it should also be noticed that these Vaishnavas have already turned Hindus of this country into eunuchs and at present they have turned towards the West and started to convert the meat eating Westerners into vegetarian cowards.