Got reminded of the following lines by Sri Sitaram Goel.
"In the eyes of this highly vigilant spirituality (enshrined in Ramayana & MBH) , evil is as much present in human nature as the good, and manifests itself in as many ways as the good. 1/n
"In the eyes of this highly vigilant spirituality (enshrined in Ramayana & MBH) , evil is as much present in human nature as the good, and manifests itself in as many ways as the good. 1/n
In this spirituality, there is no place for suffering evil silently, or for explaining it away, or for facing it with a subjective sanctimoniousness, howsoever elevated the language that sanctimoniousness may employ. 2/n
When Alexander had asked a Brahmin as to what they taught which inspired Hindu warriors to such high heroism, the Brahmin had replied in one sentence – “We teach our people to live with honour.” 3/n
The siddhas and the saints {of Islamic Period} are indifferent not only to varNa and jãti, but also to the rãjã and the rãshtra. None of them tells the princes that the supreme test of their prowess and honour is the protection of their prajã. 4/n
Some of them do bemoan the terror, destruction, desecration, and spoliation perpetrated by the Islamic invaders. But the complaint is addressed to God Almighty who allows such horrible things to happen. 5/n
The voice which a Valmiki or a Vyasa would have raised for resistance to and destruction of the dasyu, marauder, and the ãtatãyî, gangster, is missing. Samartha Ramdas is the only exception. 6/n
It is small wonder, therefore, that Hindu saints of this period failed to see Islam with the eyes of a wholesome spirituality practised in earlier ages. They took at face value the professions of Islam that it was a religion like one of their own. 7/n
Some of them were impressed by Islamic monotheism, and started denouncing the multiplicity of their own Gods and Goddesses. 8/n
Not a single Hindu saint made the effort to see or succeeded in seeing through the professions of Islam or the piety of its sufis, and exposing the sin and the sham masquerading as religion and sainthood. 9/n
The NirguNa saints did question the exclusive claims of Islam. But none of them questioned its claim as an alternate path of salvation. And all of them assailed Brahmanism and polytheism. 10/n
The failure of Hindu spiritual perception had something, perhaps much, to do with the failure of the Hindu cultural vision. 11/n
There was a lapse of historical memory and cultural tradition about the essential unity, integrity, and sanctity of what the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, the Puranas, and the Dharmashastras had clearly defined as Bharatavarsha. 12/n
This vast land which Islam has dismembered in due course into the separate states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Hindustan, and Bangladesh had been a single indivisible whole since times immemorial. 13/n
This failure of Hindu cultural vision had serious consequences. Hindus failed to organise a collective effort to guard the frontiers of Bharatavarsha." 14/n
With this gobbledygook on the name of "logical analysis" @SriSri has continued the tradition of decline in the Hindu spiritual perception abv narrated by Sri Sitaram Goel. 15/15
"जाकें नख अरु जटा बिसाला। सोइ तापस प्रसिद्ध कलिकाला॥"~ गोस्वामी तुलसीदास
"जाकें नख अरु जटा बिसाला। सोइ तापस प्रसिद्ध कलिकाला॥"~ गोस्वामी तुलसीदास
