Childrens’ Day and Jawaharlal Nehru - is it appropriate?
Read more on the real side of the much-adulated icon and a false hero of India in the web site of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti.
God needs devil for its existence!
Is devil the sine qua non of God’s existence?
You can’t make a hero without a villain. It is the villain who makes a hero. There will be nothing called good if there is nothing bad. It is like saying if everyone is vaccinated, you don’t need one.
This kind of dichotomy is the fundamental cornerstone of the universe. There is no white if there is no black, no light if no darkness, no heaven if no hell, no virtue if no vice, no “punya” (= good deed - “Mitzvah”) without sin. So in effect, both are complementary to each other. Each depends on the other for its very existence, rather symbiotic. That is the reason why the evil is portrayed to be as powerful, if not more, as the God(s) in all mythologies and religions, ancient or new!
In Christianity, God and the Devil (aka Satan, aka Lucifer) are usually depicted to be perennially fighting to exercise control over the souls of humans, with the Devil seeking to lure people away from God and into Sheol. The Devil commands a force of lesser evil spirits, commonly known as demons.
In Islam the Devil is referred to as Iblis or “Shaitan”. According to the Qur’an, God (called “Allah” in Arabic) created the Satan out of “smokeless fire”, while He created man out of clay. The primary characteristic of the Devil, besides hubris, is that he has no power other than the power to cast evil suggestions into the heart of men and women. Fundamentally Islam holds its believers in a tight leash by constantly harping on the threat of Shaitan’s influence on their lives (as well as afterlife), if you do not conform strictly to the tenets. That way, and through other blandishments like 72 of the choicest and full-breasted virgins soaked in copious flow of wine in heaven, Islam turns even doctors of medicine into human bombs (”Fidayeen” terrorists), ready to sacrifice their precious lives to annihilate “kafirs” meaning non-Muslims!
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Narendra Modi, the nationalist!
Narendra Modi is the leader nonpareil of India, who is a growth-oriented, no-nonsense, down to earth realist and a true patriot. If only we have more of his genre!
Visit Modi’s Personal Website!
Vedic Maths
Watch a video on simple mental mathematics to add big numbers without paper or calculator:
Metacafé - Watch - Vedic Maths
Read more on Vedic Maths from here.
Dr. Koenraad Elst - an appeal
An appeal for help for Dr. Koenraad Elst
Dr. Koenraad Elst, born in 1957, is a well-known Belgian scholar. His initial fields of research included Iran and China, and very soon India, to which he devoted his PhD thesis. He has visited India frequently over the years, and has studied many of the issues concerning Hindus and Hindu society in India. He has articulately defended Hindu causes through about 20 well-researched books and numerous articles.
A few of them are:
- Ram Janmabhoomi Vs. Babri Masjid (1990)
- Ayodhya and After: Issues before Hindu Society (1991)
- Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam (1992)
- Indigenous Indians–Agastya to Ambedkar (1993)
- Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate (1999)
- Decolonizing the Hindu Mind: Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism (2001)
- Gandhi and Godse: a Review and a Critique (2001)
- The Saffron Swastika: the Notion of “Hindu Fascism” (2001)
- Who is a Hindu (2002)
- Ayodhya: the Case against the Temple (2002)
- Return of the Swastika: Hate and Hysteria Versus Hindu Sanity (2007)
Dr. Koenraad Elst has often lectured in the U.S.A. and also in India. In 2004 for instance, at the invitation of a few of us, he visited Coimbatore, where he gave three lectures on current issues.
Because of the support he extended to Hindu causes — although based on reasoned arguments and massive research — Dr. Koenraad Elst’s academic career, which should normally have been very bright, was thwarted, and his finances were always precarious or worse.
In recent years, his health has suffered too, and he was diagnosed with a case of degenerating heart muscles that would sooner or later require a heart transplant. With the practice of yoga and an Ayurvedic treatment, Dr. Koenraad Elst was able to stabilize his condition for some time. However, earlier this month, his condition deteriorated and he had to be admitted to the ICU of the University hospital in Antwerp (Belgium), where he still is, as his heart can no longer function on its own. He is now on an international waiting list for the graft of a new heart.
A few friends of Dr. Koenraad Elst in India and abroad have spontaneously offered to contribute to the medical expenses. Contributions will be taken from India to Europe later this month by a friend of Dr. Koenraad Elst.
Anyone who wishes to contribute should send by post a DD in the name of “Dr. Gautam Sen” to the following address:
Mr. Ashok Malik,
C 383 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110 024
Please add a covering note to specify that the amount is a contribution for Dr. Koenraad Elst. Contributions should preferably reach before June 25.
Dr. Koenraad Elst, the crusader of truth!
Dr. Koenraad Elst was born in Leuven, Belgium, on 7 August 1959, into a Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking Belgian) Catholic family. He graduated in Philosophy, Chinese Studies and Indo-Iranian Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven. During a stay at the Benares Hindu University, he discovered India’s communal problem and wrote his first book about the budding Ayodhya conflict. While establishing himself as a columnist for a number of Belgian and Indian papers, he frequently returned to India to study various aspects of its ethno-religio-political configuration and interview Hindu and other leaders and thinkers. His research on the ideological development of Hindu revivalism earned him his Ph.D. in Leuven in 1998. He has also published about multiculturalism, language policy issues, ancient Chinese history and philosophy, comparative religion, and the Aryan invasion debate.
He has also done extensive research on Islam and has written many articles and books unraveling the mysteries of that enigmatic religion.
You may obtain more details about his life and work from his web site.
His health is in bad shape presently. He is fighting for his life in a hospital at Antwerp, Belgium. He needs a heart transplant very badly. If you like to lend a hand, please send an email to his brother or sister at Jeroen.Elst at clt.kuleuven.be or kristien.elst at skynet.be.
Please do your bit to the cause of Hinduism by helping him!
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