Saturday, August 1, 2020

Challenges and Prospects of Hindu Diaspora

Pranam... 
     The last three days will remain to be the most memorable days for me for times to come. It was indeed a treat to meet you all, it was indeed a treat to hear you all, it was indeed a treat to learn the manner in which each one of you is making serious efforts to realize one’s own Self and helping others to realize their own selves in the present country of your residence. The three days mark the three phases of life birth, youth and old age. As the conference ends today we will disperse and again meet again in the next conference, a rebirth. This is Hinduism existing in its most dynamic form. 
    Hinduism is just not a way of life, it is a thought, which is manifestation of Satt (truth), Chitt (consciousness) and Anand (bliss) and, therefore, indestructible. What the Hindu Diaspora is doing for India will certainly become a part of Indian history, to be read with great respect, regard and reverence hundred years from today, like Vivekanand's Chicago address on September 11,1893. 
      I hope someone amongst you is writing the history of the role of Hindu Diaspora in renaissance of Hinduism in its mother land, else after a thousand years, a group of historians working on Indology may find it difficult to understand how USA became a yoga country, which continued to be dominated by powerful feminine energy, where original US inhabitants, Pagans, Mayas, Jews, and several other similar groups, who were at one time considered to have become extinct, were brought together by Hindus from other side of the globe and the concerted action undertaken by them resulted in coming into existence of a new global civilization based on trust, peace, harmony and bliss, for centuries. I am a diehard optimist. 
     A small story will make clear the situation we are in and a way to move forward, the name of the story is 'The ant and the grasshopper'- 
 “The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer, building its house and laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. 
    The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house. Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter. Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticizes the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper. The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance). 
    Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for 'Bharat Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry. CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers. Lalu Prasad Yadav allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath '. Finally, a Judicial Committee drafts and the Parliament enacts the ' Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act' (POTAGA), with effect from the beginning of the winter. Arjun Singh makes ' Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & in Government Services. 
     The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, it's home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV. Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'. Lalu Prased calls it 'Socialistic Justice '. CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden ' Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly . 
    Many years later - The Ant, his family, friends and other similarly situated ants migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley, Chicago and Huston. Thousands of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation, somewhere in India. As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and subsidizing the feed of the Grasshoppers, India continued to be a developing country!!! 
   Many years later - The Ants in the Silicon Valley, Chicago and Huston and around the globe were unable to forget their motherland. They contacted the hard working nationalist Ants in India... A Global Ants Forum for Peace and Equality was formed... seminars and conferences were held… web sites were launched, mill Emails and SMS sent... The Will and the Means were pooled together... Breaking News... Last night all the Grasshoppers in India were eaten away by the Ants... Alive... Incidentally Grasshoppers don't eat ants... ants do eat grasshopper when they get together and the time is ripe. In spite of best efforts Arundhati Roy, Medha Patkar, Lallu Prasad, Barkha Dutt and several other supporters of grasshoppers could not be contacted on their mobile"
    Several issues have been considered and discussed at length by experts and people who have spent and look forward to spend their life for the dream that I have seen in their eyes, and a lot of fire and passion that I have heard in their voice. They are ready and willing to face the challenges with all their, where with all at their command. We will achieve our dreams for the nature will help us in achieving our dreams. We are at war against poverty which came into existence as result of loot, plunder and rape of Bharat for almost 1000 yrs. by both people of Islamic and Christian origin after independence we are war with fundamental terrorism by Islam, premeditated and deliberate conversion and intellectual terrorism by Christian, ignorance and insecurity because of our own inability to understand the Truth, reservation and usurpation of temples because of vote bank politics, corruption in bureaucracy and vested interests and personal political agendas of even those in whom Hindu Diaspora had deposed their total faith and trust and many more similar issues. 
    Devis and Devtas, angles and archangels present in this rooms, in the e-age on this planet earth, which was earlier considered to be flat, till Galileo discovered it to be round and after Friedman has again discovered it to be flat. We are at war against poverty which came into existence as result of loot, plunder and rape of Bharat for almost 1000 yrs. by both people of Islamic and Christian origin after independence we are war with fundamental terrorism by Islam, premeditated and deliberate conversion and intellectual terrorism by Christian, ignorance and insecurity because of our own inability to understand the Truth, reservation and usurpation of temples because of vote bank politics, corruption in bureaucracy and vested interests and personal political agendas of even those in whom GOPIOs had deposed their total faith and trust and many more similar issues. Let's have look at the globe to appreciate the existing conflicts. 
    World consists of 192 member states of United nations with national flags with about 6.5 billion population. These countries are also the countries that participated in the Olympics at Beijing, China in 2008. One state has general international recognition but not UN membership and is governed by the Holy See (a permanent observer) Vatican City. The Holy See is a unique sovereign entity under international law vis a vis Vatican City with the Pope as the head of both, maintaining diplomatic/ official relations with over 170 state/ entities and participating in various international organizations either in its own capacity or on behalf of the Vatican city. Out of these 123 are democratic and the balance are monarchy. Out of these 192 countries, majority in 100 countries and about 2.25 billion of earth population constitute the Christian group, English speaking, church going and they write from left to right, from top to bottom and their Bible talks of love. Love is bringing emotional light to dry, placid and brute life, but they have controlled every country in the world, except Japan. 
     Majority in about 57 countries and about 1.65 billion of the world population speaks Hebrew, Farsi or Urdu and write from right to left, from bottom to top. They constitute the Islamic group which based itself on jihad, which in its true sense would mean bringing light to the dark places, but they would eliminate every other human being who would not accept their dominance and control. 
   The majority in the remaining countries and the minorities in these 157 countries, which constitute about 2.35 billion people are constituted of Pan Chinese, Hindus, Jews, Shintos, Pagans, Taos, Mayas, Maoris, Zartoshtas and other similar known and unknown groups who do not constitute a cohesive group and have their own scripts and languages. They all have a common philosophy which originated on its own through deep meditation and practical life experience from nature, of their ancestors, seekers and spiritual leaders and that is harmonious co-existence and a deep rooted unshakable belief in a powerfully webbed and networked structure supported by a single immutable, omnipresent and all pervasive cosmic energy. This is the group which the Hindus should bring together like beads in a necklace. 
   There is a fourth group which consists of Communists, an economic philosophy. Three of the four groups are in a serious conflict with each other for establishing their control, supremacy on the fourth group, to enable them to exploit it, usurp its produce, as has been done for centuries. They are devising and have devised new methods in the e-age. 
   Five things are important when we go for war and we are at war as most of us feel it here and these are: Will, Team or man power, Strategy, Means or finances and Execution or action. Presence of all of us here shows our strong will. We are wonderful individual players, but poor team players, some of press the gas paddle while other press the break and the result is that the car continues to make noise but does not move. It is time to create a team, which can work in sync for each issue and create a common strategy for each issue.
    All the projects that have to be undertaken will need finances, me thinks finance is a serious issue, not because it is not available, but we have to have a group of people of highest integrity, trust and vision who can manage these funds. Lot of trust has been shaken by the downfall or fall down or BJP government. Finally all the will, team, strategy, and means are about execution, Hinduism and its basic document Gita is all about action. Action with perfection in pure professional manner, without fear and attachment for anyone. Now finally, the steps of action: 
  1. Develop a database of friends and those who are not friend
 2. Reach PIOs and all those who believe in networking and harmonious existence in all the 192 countries in the world  
 3. Create a Hindu Fund. To be managed by people of highest integrity-disassociate politics from corrupt fun
 4. Empower temples so that they become seat of spiritual power, that is where Hinduism lives, associate youth with them to create checks
 5. Bring the entire third group under one umbrella which believes in love, trust, peace and synchronization
 6. Create and execute a practical strategy to bring correct interpretation of the three groups - neo Christians (based on eternal love), neo Islam (based on true enlightenment) and neo communism (based on Votership), don't get into the conflict, continue to empower the self. 
  7. Select 551 CEOs every 5 yrs. on the lead India model, these persons can contest election from 551 constituencies for Parliament in India on the banner of a new Global Political Party for India. Similar Political Parties must be put in place in all the 123 democratic countries to support those who believe in earned rewards and rewarded duties as contradistinguished from control and exploitation and equality in true sense
  Thanks a lot to Swami Vigyanand Ji, to give me this opportunity, Raj, Rajiv and all others who have organized this wonderful convention… 
Thanks a lot... Jai Hind… 
Aruneshwar Gupta 
President, 
Hindu Heritage Pratishthan
Human Empowerment Convention 2008 Oct.31st – Nov.2nd, 2008, Chicago, IL

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