"Live and let live" is an age old dictum that has become even more topical and relevant with the passage of time as a significant majority of human beings have all but forgotten the very existence and essence of this eternal diktat.......
In the latest reported instance of religious intolerance; obscurantism and near barbarism; a plethora of self styled; anointed and appointed Dharam Guru's have gone on the rampage in an effort to stymie and stump the organisers of a proposed conference on "atheism and it's relevance in today's troubled and strife laden times"........
According to sources close to the above mentioned so called Dharam Guru's; some seven odd heads of all religious denominations have lodged a formal complaint against one Swami Balendu; a fraud; charlatan; goonda; misogynist and prankster (their words not mine) and implored the Mathura police sleuths to immediately take the organisers of this proposed two day long conference (beginning from this morning) into custody as they fear that the holding of the same would only serve to inflame communal passions and vitiate the peaceful and congenial communal climate pervading this centuries old temple town.........
Taking strong exception to Swami Balendu's reported remarks dubbing all religions; scriptures and religious practices as "fake; false; misogynistic; reprehensible; repugnant; medieval; obscurantist; irrelevant and misleading"; these so called "wise and learned men" have questioned his very standing and utterances wondering aloud how this gentleman who was the one of the most respected and revered propounders and propagators of Hinduism and Hindu rituals till some five odd years ago had abruptly turned turtle and begun questioning the relevance and continued existence of Hindu religion; it's practices; scriptures and totally avoidable yagnas and the like.......
One Dharam Guru who heads a religious shrine belonging to a minority community even went to the extent of imploring his followers to publicly flog and deface Swami Balendu and his supporters/devotees as they are causing untold harm to age old religious practices and conventions by terming or referring to them as a "Business that thrives by creating fear; confusion and bewildering the souls of it's followers" and hence should be socially ostracised and cast aside........
Well; all I can say in conclusion is that the Constitution of India bestows unto each one of us the right to profess; practice and propagate our very own religious beliefs and practices as long as we do so within the boundaries/confines of the laid down laws in this regard and without endangering or inciting communal tensions and passions and hope that the supposedly wise and sagacious Dharam Guru's and Swami Balendu honour the letter and spirit of the Indian Constitution.......
In the latest reported instance of religious intolerance; obscurantism and near barbarism; a plethora of self styled; anointed and appointed Dharam Guru's have gone on the rampage in an effort to stymie and stump the organisers of a proposed conference on "atheism and it's relevance in today's troubled and strife laden times"........
According to sources close to the above mentioned so called Dharam Guru's; some seven odd heads of all religious denominations have lodged a formal complaint against one Swami Balendu; a fraud; charlatan; goonda; misogynist and prankster (their words not mine) and implored the Mathura police sleuths to immediately take the organisers of this proposed two day long conference (beginning from this morning) into custody as they fear that the holding of the same would only serve to inflame communal passions and vitiate the peaceful and congenial communal climate pervading this centuries old temple town.........
Taking strong exception to Swami Balendu's reported remarks dubbing all religions; scriptures and religious practices as "fake; false; misogynistic; reprehensible; repugnant; medieval; obscurantist; irrelevant and misleading"; these so called "wise and learned men" have questioned his very standing and utterances wondering aloud how this gentleman who was the one of the most respected and revered propounders and propagators of Hinduism and Hindu rituals till some five odd years ago had abruptly turned turtle and begun questioning the relevance and continued existence of Hindu religion; it's practices; scriptures and totally avoidable yagnas and the like.......
One Dharam Guru who heads a religious shrine belonging to a minority community even went to the extent of imploring his followers to publicly flog and deface Swami Balendu and his supporters/devotees as they are causing untold harm to age old religious practices and conventions by terming or referring to them as a "Business that thrives by creating fear; confusion and bewildering the souls of it's followers" and hence should be socially ostracised and cast aside........
Well; all I can say in conclusion is that the Constitution of India bestows unto each one of us the right to profess; practice and propagate our very own religious beliefs and practices as long as we do so within the boundaries/confines of the laid down laws in this regard and without endangering or inciting communal tensions and passions and hope that the supposedly wise and sagacious Dharam Guru's and Swami Balendu honour the letter and spirit of the Indian Constitution.......
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