Last week I saw some images of Bajrang Dal activists who blackened the face of a couple on Valentine day. The couple in love were looking very distressed and our moral police activists were standing there proudly as they have saved the India from some nuclear attack. It’s really very disappointing to see such images in India who is looking forward to a prosperous future. I don’t know why our administration falls every time to save the basic human rights of freedom of ours citizens. The bajrang dal activists were disturbed as Valentine day is copy of western culture and they think that western culture is something very dangerous like an epidemic.My question here is if our Indian culture is so week that it could be threatened by an expression of love ( or whatever it is ) of a couple.
My second question if we really know what is the Indian culture. Does it stop us to be a liberal society? According to the Vedas kaam (sex) is one of the most important purusharth ( Spritual duty of a man) which comes only after Dharma (religion) in order. If we go by history, we will find that Indian culture is something which always advocate the basic right of freedom of an individual.
Our history tells that not long but just before thousand years back, we were a very liberal society. Even sex was not a taboo subject like these days for us and we were a very happy and prosperous society. According to the historians, Mughal and British invasion changed our view toward the sex completely and we turned into a most hypocrite society.
Come on , Let’s admit it that we are not honest to ourselves. When we spit our venom against western culture on Valentine day, we forget that our technology, movies, TV entertainment , dressing , Internet all are gifts to us from this culture. Tell me why we should be so proud to be an Indian. Please don’t go to the Vaidic period and start telling me what our great forefathers had done. They were really great and they didn’t had time for petty politics and other time wasting exercise. women were free to dress whatever they want and we definitely were not a sex starved society in the Vaidik period like today. Molestation of a decent woman in Mumbai by dozens of goons on New Year eve is an example of our dual faced society. In fact, in some parts western culture is following the rules which we actully discovered in Vaidik period and see their progress. See the health, welath and lifestyle of people of west. These countries are among the most prosperops countries in the world while we have even forget that we are humans.
Are we able to provide to all our citizens clean water, non polluted air and hygenic food? No.
Are we able to provide every children of India that high standard of education and an environment to grow their personality? No.
Does our society treat our women with respect and diginity and protect their rights ? No. In fact, we need to take some lessons from west when it comes to improve our lifestyle as an educated society.
My point here is why we are wasting our time in these useless activities like Valentine protest and some political rally which is being organized to fulfill the political ambition of a corrupt leader. Instead, we can devote this time to improve ourselves as an individual and as a society. I am sure that this will make Lord Bajrangbali more happy.
As a matter of fact, lord Hanuman ( Bajrang bali) carried the message of love of Lord Ram to Mother Sita and helped her to destroy her sorrow. I think Bajrandal “Anti Valentine” activists can take a lesson from this episode. Obviously they will say that couples celebrating valentine day are not Sita and Ram but Doesn’t Hanuman ji see only Sita and Ram in this whole universe?
If you do not know I would like to tell you that Baba Neeb Karori Maharaj was a great saint of Northern India. Here I would like to end this feature with one of his story from book “ Miracle of Love”, authored by Ramdas.
“A devotte was embarrased when Maharajji came to his room at university and discovered a pinup calender on the wall. Mahrajji asked who she was, and the devotee said no one, going to turn the picture on wall. But Maharajji stopped him, saying, “She’s is Ma. Don’t dihonor her.”
Rahul Katyayan
