EVER SLEEPING BEAR

EVER SLEEPING BEAR

Dr K Prabhakar Rao

RSS is underground and playing safe too.Media channel is rarely seen by common man and is limited to only a limited educated section. In case of Muslims, they have weekly congregations at mosques throughout India on Friday and it is compulsory for Muslims to attend the Namaz at mosques on fridays and prayer is led by a Maulvi.On other days, they can even pray at homes too.In case of Hindus, there is no compulsion laid down in scriptures and is left to individuals to pray or not to pray.Hindus visit temples in all types of dresses ( Except in Guravayur) while Muslims compulsorily sport their typical attire and skull caps while going to mosques. Hindus are free birds.In fact Hindus feel shy of going to temples and many do not show pride in it.We hardly find a Hindu putting Tilak on his fore head except few. There are no organised congregations at temples. Some Babas and Swamis do give discourses herea and there some times and these are purely philosphical in nature and they teach what is good and what is bad in life.It is well known that prayer meetings at mosques have been used to stoke passions in past and such things do not happen in Hindu temples. Of late, Ramdev baba has taken up cudgels against the govt on issues of corruption and swiss money. How RSS plans to stimulate Hindu masses to get united on various issues? Religion is not a binding factor for Hindus as seen by us.In fact it was never so.Muslim generals betrayed Aliya RamaRaya of Vijay nagar in Tallikota Battle in 1646 while Hindu army was about to win. Rest is history. In history, there is no evidence of Hindu troops betraying any sultan in battle.Hemu led forces of Afghans at battle of Panipat II against Akbar and laid down his life.Hindu armies laid down lives for Tippu sultan against East India Company.Kakateeyas and Yadavas in South India fought each other constantly and Yadavas of Devagiri helped Mohd Bin Tughlaq and Khilji to defeat Kakateeyas ( 13 century). They too perished later. Hindus although were in majority in India could not prevent partition in 1947.When cases were slapped against Kanchi swamy and was arrested in midnight and flown to Chennai from AP, RSS reaction was rather absent.There was lukeworm ( If not earthworm) response. When a Maulvi Nasiruddin was arrested at Hyderabad by Gujrat police some time ago in the murder case of minister of Gujrat, Muslim reaction was intense at Hyderabad and there was criminal intimidation against Gujrat and AP police near DGP office and Gujrat police Inspector opened fire and killed a guy.There was a trouble again during funeral in the evening. Such are the reactions and all these things are brushed under carpet.I agree that Ramdev Baba episode became a controversy and even the highest court blamed Delhi police apart from blaming Babaji.RSS has been a fence sitter in all these episodes. How people get faith in such organization? They must show concrete evidence for their commitment towards Hinduism. At Present, their meetings are arranged in some big function halls displaying big paintings of Chatrapathi Shivaji Maharaj and usual rituals are followed there, apart from some stereo type lectures by chosen leaders. Some books are kept for sale at the gate and finally people vanish and action repeats at some other place. There is no crowd participation.Probably RSS would take very very long time still in uniting Hindus and by the time probably we would run out of time and India could turn into an Islamic state or into Mughalistan if present situation is not countered very strongly.RSS has do something concrete if they have to prove their existence.It is not to belittle RSS, but present trend is not inspiring in the country and is a matter of great concern and RSS today displays its helpless position with naked truths staring at its face.