UNAPOLOGETIC HINDU - RESETTING THE NARRATIVE - 3

The Christian god, Shri Jesus has been killed and the church later claimed and created myths to control the people and rule over the lands. The doctrines of the Church were one of the reasons for the slavery, as practised by the whites and their pseudo sense of superiority. But these whites have no shame when they come to India and preach Hindus of untouchability. The roots of untouchability in our society is not very clear and since we are ruled by foreign powers, the history we study and the societal changes that we see today might have been engineered. The engineering of the society is done to keep the society divided and rule over smaller fragments of the society.

The Hindus who are converted are called by many names, one such name is rice-bowl Christians. The Christians who claim equality in front of Jesus have several sects and one sect is in clash with the other. Recent the pope has bashed one evangelical group of poaching his faithful ones. The most powerful organized group, the Vatican is fearful of certain evangelical groups, then the unorganized Hindus should study the methods of these groups. The study should not be create differences and keep the flock together, but to understand the spread the truth about the religion that is being propagated. 

The Vatican itself claims that Mr.Thomas has never entered the Indian land, but a few control freaks of India continue the myth and display a dead body of Mr.Thomas. There are certain groups in the Christian community who say that this Mr.Thomas has committed atrocities on the natives of India and resulted in the conversion. These converted Christians are fighting a lonely battle against the powerful church, but the Hindus cleverly and foolishly distance themselves and stay in their own cocoons hoping that their families are safe. There is a myth that Shri Jesus has come back to India and settled in Kashmir in his last days, and there are a group of people in Kashmir who look after the tomb of Jesus.

The Christian religion is full of myths and false stories carefully constructed to wrest control from the natives. The Chruch has been responsible for the annihilation of the native people of several lands including America, Australia, etc. Every tribal group is carefully broken from their roots and then converted into Jesus followers, and this behaviour would shame Shri Jesus to no end. He would have never wanted bloodshed and he sacrificed himself for the greater good of his people. But the church leaders don't think so, and want to ensure that every human has to believe in Jesus so that Jesus will come back and give salvation. Hence in the name of Jesus there were several crusades conducted and people killed, murdered, tortured and human rights have gone into the black hole of religious barbarity.

With increase in immoral behaviour of the preachers, the once faithful westerners are slowly moving away from the church and are accepting some form of Hindu way of life. The Church is trying desperately and even claims that yoga is a path to reach Satan, while Jesus himself might have done yoga to get the enlightenment in the time his presence is not clear. Can Jesus be compared to the Krishna is a highly laughable question and in a desperate effort to get numbers in their fold, the church has been digesting several Hindu practices and giving a Christian flavour.

Hence in order to give a proper reply to the Vatican and its over enthusiastic evangelical, Hindu religious leaders should tell that Shri Jesus can be at best be a religious Guru and he got enlightenment. The story about Jesus travel to India should be spread along with the lack of philosophy in the Christianity. The Hindu religious gurus should dare to tell that there can be several ways to attain salvation and Christianity may also be one such method. It is the duty of the religious heads to bust the myths of Christianity for the greater good of humanity.

UNAPOLOGETIC HINDU - RESETTING THE NARRATIVE - 2

The Hindu in reality is the most prosecuted human in his own land and that too for the longest times on the face of the planet. But in the recent times rarely do we see any violent revolutions that have come out of the Hindu fold unlike the chirslamist groups. This passivity has been drilled into the collective psyche of the Hindus in the last two hundred years due to intervention of Maculay and also due to the continuation of british like governments of India. The successive governments have called upon Gandhi's name time again to pacify the Hindus even when they have suffered the most and the secular groups couldn't never utter a word to calm and pacify the Chrislamist thugs/terrorists.

The reason for the acceptance of this passive attitude to the societal changes and atrocities is due to fact of very huge time scales that we tend to believe in. Hindus typically believe in soul and its relation with the super powerful god or super consciousness in one form or another. The belief in rebirth or unification with God over a period of time for good deeds has been one of the reasons for the passive attitude towards untoward incidents within the society. The belief that time will give the suitable punishment to the wrongful and hence have taken a back seat in implementing the dharma based society that we had once.

The Hindus have happily given up the duty  based society and have embraced the rights based society of the materialistic societies that emerged from all around. These materialistic societies have been destroying the environment and consuming resources at such a speed that our mother earth cannot sustain such lifestyles. Inorder to sustain the lavish and criminal lifestyles, these powers have worked more on external factors than on internal factors. The world believes that Ancient India has been a hub of knowledge of every kind, and there are texts that claim the existence of sophisticated machines. Why have these been not used for the global dominance, because of the pursuit of the inner knowledge by the native vedic people.

Materialistic societies have little philosophical depth to the theories they practice and believe in the zero sum game, that some body has to win and it has to be them. The desire to win and lead the way breeds intolerance, but the desire to learn and do the largest good to the greatest people would breed harmony. First we shall see the criminalities of the Christian Chruch in destroying the life on this planet as we know it and their practises.

The church centred in Vatican has been reduced from a global power to a mere a spiritual fountain head of the Catholic Christians. It gets its superiority based on the a book they hold as the truth without any serious debates and try to understand the truth. The book is a compilation of several letters that have been passed among the first students of Jesus and the religious philosophy and credibility depends on the life of Shri Jesus. But the irony is that the Church doesnot even know the exact date of his birth and there are serious doubts about the existence of the historical Shri Jesus.

But missionary people who want to proselytize Hindus in India compare Krishna with Christ/Jesus. But even before Krishna was born, Kansa knew that the child would lead to his death and he eagerly awaited to kill as soon as he was born. The astami on which Krishna was born is considered a reality and every year the Hindus celebrate the festival. But historically whether this festival was celebrated is a question only the real historians can answer, but in the modern world as we know many of Hindus celebrate the birth of Krishna.

The Church doesn't know the exact date of the birth of Jesus because he has not a important person at his birth. The importance of documentation has to be learnt from the western societies who have a strange fetish to document every deed. Even with such a fetish for documentation, the historians have missed the birthday of Jesus indicating the practice of the calender is not predominant at those times. There is a huge portion of the life of Shri Jesus missing in his youth during which time he is supposed to have been enlightened by the absolute truth.

A sect of Christians of Kerala consider themselves to be the first Christians of the world. But it is still a mystery whether Jesus carried the bible and if not what was his sources of reference. If Jesus got the knowledge from his God, then it acceptable because many ancient rishis of India have obtained enlightenment by meditating or practice other vamachara methods. Hindus donot have a problem in accepting Jesus as a religious teacher or if Christians want to give his the status of God, even then there would have been a clash of civilizations as we are seeing today.

The story goes as, Jesus comes to Kerala and comes to know about the meditation methods and practises it and attains enlightenment. Having attained a higher state of consciousness, he preaches the truth he attained to the local people of Kerala, but his desire to spread the truth to his natives and he went back. The Church fearful of his new ways of teachings prosecuted him by crucifying him. Whether church existed before jesus is again a myth and the people had several gods, but the church found the teachings highly lucrative and hence decided to take-up the purpose of world domination.

With the teachings of Jesus obtained from the letters of his students, it complied and revised the holy book to suit its needs. It took on the help of several warriors in creating genocides of several people across the lands and imposed its belief systems. Many of the native tribes have never seen such a violent humans and have just succumbed to the atrocities and have take-up the beliefs and continue to be subservient to the paedophile infested Church institutes. The knowledge that spread from India has come back to haunt our nation after several hundred years during which time the Church was making grand plans of world domination.

Had Jesus been alive, he would have questioned the huge bank balances of the Vatican and the royal life of the clergy while the poor die of starvation. The Church believes that all the sins of the humans has been paid in kind, then why would the Vatican keep the money and give it back to the needy. Usually the poor remember God and the rich want control and the Church acts as a mediator in between enriching itself. Shri Jesus would have questioned why chruch pays billions of dollars in lawsuits to silence the criticism against its paedophile clergy? Jesus would have felt horrible at the slave trade and the inhuman practises?

But the church with huge money to proselytize and pay lawsuits has the interests of the poor citizens in the back of its thought process. Would the Pope dare to answer?

Understanding Hinduism through Banyan tree

Lord Krishna while explaining Bhagavad-Gita says “Of all trees I am banyan tree, and of the sages among demigods I am Narada. Of the Ghandarvas I am Citraratha, and among perfected beings I am the sage Kapila.” Lord Shiva as Dakshinamurty is always depicted sitting in silence under the banyan with rishis at his feet. It is thought of as perfectly symbolizing eternal life due to its unending expansion. It is also called Kalpavirksha, the tree that provides fulfillment of wishes and material gains. It symbolizes Trimurthy – Lord Vishnu is believed to be the bark, Lord Brahma the roots and Lord Shiva the branches.

One individual tree, Thimmamma Marrimanu in Andhra Pradesh, covers 19107sq.m. The other big trees are Great Banyan in Howrah, Dodda Alada Mara in Bangalore and another one is present in Uttar Pradesh near Varanasi. The tree is sacred in India and often shelters a little or a large temple underneath and also worshipped on its own. It is one of the most sheltering trees in heat of the land with large and deep shade.  A large banyan tree at the village center was used for any formal or informal gathering also.  The Indian Banyan tree is also the National tree of India.

Banyan usually grows as an epiphytic plant – seeds are dropped by birds on a tree or a crack in a building where it starts germinating. Young saplings develop string roots that continue to grow and then strangle the host. Banyan produces a lot of strong and wide branches that spread far from the trunk and cover a considerably large area. As the tree grows, the trunk gains tremendous width and height. Branches produce aerial roots that reach ground, establish themselves in the ground and ultimately unite with the main trunk.

Indian Banyan tree is scientifically called Ficus benghalensis, is a large and extensive growing tree. The tree produces propagating roots which grows downwards as aerial roots. Once these roots reach the ground, they grow into the woody trunks that can become indistinguishable from the main trunk. The giant banyan trees are the largest in the world as measured by the canopy coverage. Banyan tree produces fruit but does not blossom but that is not true. The flowers are concealed in the fleshy receptacle commonly known as ‘fig’. These figs are grow in pairs in the leaf axils and numerous, tiny blossoms of both sexes and also a host of small insects. These are the ‘fig insects’ that fertilize flowers. The insect enters the fig through a hole in the top and lays eggs which hatch out and mature. When these insects leave their home, they are dusted with pollen from the male flowers. Now they make their way into another fig, thus ensuring fertilization.

Every practiced religion can be explained using the life of a tree. Just like many trees start from a tiny seed, religions start from some very basic principles, beliefs. Hinduism as we know today started with the Vedas. The Vedas are complex texts and not easily understandable to each and everyone. Thus the essence of Vedas are given in Upanishads, further simplification of the texts resulted in Puranas, Brahmanas, vedantas, etc. Each text is in sync with every other text and there is no contradiction for the one who understands the meaning. The Vedas in the text form, and their division into four parts is done by Sage Vedavasya, because of his belief that with passage of time the memory of people will reduce and thus there will be distortion.

The seed of Banyan grows either on soil or in the crevices of other trees, just like Vedas are born in the minds of the sages and then taught to those who are ignorant. When the essence of Vedas is understood the mind is liberated or guided in the path of truth. The seed when germinates it sends roots into the ground, the old tree gets strangled and dies with time. The roots penetrate the ground and the tree grows only stronger. The dead tree is like the ignorant mind which no longer lives due to the enlightenment.

The Banyan tree spreads very far and wide, with branches being tender, send roots to the ground. These ariel roots touch the ground and support the long branches. This process continues and the tree continues to grow. Hinduism spreads in the similar fashion. The first trunk supports the tree and with passage of time the various branches like Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Advaitha etc are born and diverge from the basic Hinduism. The principle of life remains the same, but the methods and practices remain different. The goal of all of them remain is to attain salvation and to get out of the cycle of birth and death.

The different branches of Hinduism are like the branches with aerial roots which support the tree individually. Even though the first trunk is destroyed the tree continues to survive. The tree continues to survive even many of its branches are cut; many of its trunks (aerial roots) are destroyed. For a distant observe the tree may look huge with the only outer aerial roots visible, but as one gets close the huge number of aerial roots, branches makes the religion more complex. Thus for simplifying the study people follow one root and finally can trace the source of the tree.

The various offshoot religions of the original Vedic religion become self supporting with time, but the huge canopy of the Vedas which acted as the guidelines is maintained. The trunks which form out of the aerial roots supply life to various branches without any distinction. Though distinct from another the source remains the same. The fruit may be full of insects, but once the insects are driven out it is only sweet pulp which can be consumed. The complex structure may be difficult to understand, but it enables the tree grow to large areas and give shade to many.

But other religions can only be compared to the coconut tree, where in every part is useful and cannot survive it one trunk is destroyed. The requirement of protection becomes more tremendous for the survival. The fruits are at the top and is available to those who reach the top. Occasionally the fruits fall to the people who stay at the bottom and if unaware can also lead to death. Thus many people want to go close to the source, but there is danger. One set of forces act to protect the trunk from invasion, another set of forces create injury by making the falling of fruits, the leaves etc. But there is no such danger under the Banyan tree or in Hinduism.

References:

http://www.gits4u.com/agri/agri9.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banyan

http://nayna.in/blog/divine-grace/significance-of-banyan-tree-in-hinduism/

http://www.thelovelyplants.com/the-banyan-tree/