Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Threats to hinduism

I believe the biggest threat to hinduism (and India) is our chalta hain attitude. Please refer to the latest Jodhpur accident. We have thousands of people in a narrow lane, yet there are no emergency exits any whereAnd go to of our temples, and the scene is the same. I went to Balaji, and trust me, it is another disaster waiting to happen. You have thousands people again without any emergency exit. The priests, or the guards literally push people after they had the darshan. Same trouble exists in Vaishav Devi, Kashi Vishwanath, any other temple. Its a miracle that accidents are not happening.

Even after accident, people are being carried out by hand. No stretchers, nothing. Have we ever thought how many people die after accidents as a result of careless, make it callous, attitude. But we do not complaint because of our chalta hain. We often commend that US had no terrorists activities after 9/11. But did we ever notice that 9/11 had very less people dying via stampede. We don't need terrorists to kill our people. This attitude is doing enough on that front.
Another issue - people often blame Islam, or missionaries over declining hindu ratios in states. But I have another question. But will our shankracharya EVER allow a lower caste to feed him. Have we ever seen any of traditional religious teachers doing anything on untouchability. If you keep on ignoring a huge class of people for generations, why will they not convert. Was this not the reason why we asked British to leave. Why should these peole not leave?

Let us start cleaning ourselves from inside first. If a person is sick then the first priority is to have a strong immune system. Let us work on our immune system first. Let us work on untouchabilty in our lives, our families, our temple, our marriages first. Let us attack on our chaltaa hain attitude first. Let us ensure that our houses have fire enxtenguishers, our offices have them. Let us ensure our cops have bullet proof vests. Once this all is done, we would have won defeated 90% of threats.