Kalicharan abuses Gandhi : Blaspheming Hinduism
'Sant' Kalicharan's vituperative salvo against Gandhi in a 'Dharma Sansad' brought to my mind this repartee of a German artist.
As she was addressing the press prior to a scheduled cultural event, her German colleague kept prompting her to touch upon the 'German-ness' of her works. She ignored him, still he persisted. Finally, she took him on and quipped,
" George, had I been a bird would you have called me a German bird ? "
Is the India of today so blinded by hate that it names its birds differently depending on whether they sport a saffron tinge in their plumage or not ? What could be more odious, and to cap it ,more heinous, for 'dharmic' participants of the sansad to applaud RashtraPita Gandhi being slandered as 'H.....' Gandhi ? I shuddered to spell the invective, so I bowdlerized it.
Did the learned 'sant' experience spiritual elevation to the rupa of a Kali when hurling the opprobrium ? I felt otherwise. My faith, not Gandhiji's, I felt was being bastardized with impunity and, ironically, in a Hindu Dharma Sansad.
Hinduism is a sublime faith, pandering to the spiritual needs of its adherents, not political Hinduism. And it never was, nor is ,an instrument of hate evangelism. Leave that to the politicians ; sadhus and sants have more profound spheres of life to nurture.
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