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The three press-notes giving a day by day account of the conference circulated on email groups, and the resolutions passed by the HDAS on the last day, raise important questions about the motives and objectives of the group micro-managing this important Hindu body. The writer has good cause to believe that HDAS is either being derailed or led by the nose by a Chennai-based clique and its overseas non-Hindutva Hindu partners, which see in hitching their wagon to the HDAS engine a renewed opportunity to resurrect their moribund public life. The stigma of their role in the arrest of Pujya Kanchi Acharyas, their horrific role in silencing important Hindu organizations and throttling them from acting to put pressure on Jayalalithaa, their failed attempts to forcibly remove the revered Acharyas from the peetham and take over the matham, and the electoral defeat of the BJP in 2004 and again in 2009, perforce sent them into hibernation. But the congenital Hindu disease to forget old humiliations and old sins has enabled this clique to resurface in public life. Only now, the Chennai clique has expanded the national frontiers of its manic ambitions to control power centers and has embarked on a journey with global partners. The HDAS is therefore being brazenly transformed by this clique into a vehicle for misadventures in international religio-diplomatic claptrap. The HDAS came into being in 2003 as a consequence of the great success of the first public meeting of the Hindu Dharma Rakshana Samiti (HDRS) in July 2000, which brought together on a common dais in Chennai around 30 important Hindu religious leaders of different sampradayas from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The writer too was instrumental in the conception and launching of HDRS, and therefore knows the goals and objectives which had been set for the HDRS. The HDRS was launched in the immediate aftermath of Pope John Paul II declaring in November 1999, on Indian soil, his intention to plant the cross in Asia and harvest Hindu, Buddhist, Jaina and Sikh souls for Christ. The HDRS was launched as a beginning of a process to bring together Hindu religious leaders on a public platform as a visible signal of the Hindu community coming together to combat a menacing threat. The HDRS was intended as a high institution speaking in one voice in Hindu interest on Hindu bhumi. It was intended to look inwards. The HDRS was soon taken over by the Chennai clique with the full backing of RSS Chennai; there was no follow-up to the first HDRS convention in 2000, to the bitter disappointment of some of the religious leaders who had entertained great expectations from this momentous gathering. One fine day in December 2003, the Chennai clique removed the veil off the well-hidden HDAS, and a new Hindu body came into being with Swami Dayananda Saraswati as Convener. When the HDAS was created in December 2003, it was assumed that because it now brought into its fold Hindu religious leaders not just from the South, but also mahamandaleswars, mathathipathis and other leaders belonging to mathams and adeenams from across the country that were at least a 150 years old or older, the HDAS was an expanded version of HDRS with the same goals and objectives. The HDAS, it was believed by persons like the writer, would serve Hindu interests on Hindu bhumi and would be inward looking too. <h3>The Grand Heist</h3> This was 2003, a year before the arrest and incarceration of the Kanchi Acharyas. We do not know what lemon this clique, some of whose members flaunted their identity as bhaktas of the Kanchi matham as their USP, sold some of the acharyas to get Swami Dayananda Saraswati, a sanyasi from a non-traditional institution, to be appointed Convener of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha; but the lemon was sold successfully and Swami Dayananda Saraswati was made Convener of the HDAS. Such was the influence of one member of the Chennai clique on a section of the RSS leadership that no questions were asked and no explanations demanded about the purpose or structure of this edifice. Members of the Chennai clique were individuals in their own right and prominent personalities in diverse areas. This group, in 2003, ’04, controlled the resurrected HDRS, the HDAS, the Thinkers’ Meet (a body of persons who the Convener of the HDAS and a former spokesperson of the RSS attested to as being intellectuals worthy of their attention and patronage) and influenced business houses, some mathathipathis, the RSS leadership in Nagpur and Chennai, the BJP leadership in Delhi, at least one declining English daily in the South, and a small but important section of public opinion. Their reach was formidable and their control over Hindu organizations, total. It was but inevitable that this manic desire to influence and eventually control individuals, institutions, and important power centers would soon run amok. This clique was like an intoxicated Bakasura. Its conduct in the wake of Jayalalithaa’s asuric assault on the Kanchi matham and the arrest of the senior Acharya in November 2004 exposed this clique as nothing else could have done. The Convener of the HDAS who enjoys a symbiotic relationship with the Chennai clique and already had his mind made up for him by the clique, brusquely refused the anguished demand to mobilize the HDAS against Jayalalithaa when the writer sought his darshan within three days of Pujya Acharya’s arrest; the RSS leadership and the Chennai RSS in particular was pressured by this clique into silence and complete inaction. Days passed and weeks and months crawled second after excruciating second, as the two Acharyas languished in jail even as all Hindu organizations went unconcerned about their routine chores and simply watched the mind-numbing tragedy that struck the hoary Kanchi matham. The HDAS convened for the second time in Mumbai in October 2005, but without the Kanchi Acharya, one of the moving spirits behind its creation. The Convener of the HDAS, as if to make amends for not mobilizing the HDAS against the Tamil Nadu government, agreed to pass a resolution – After a discussion of the sad episode of arrest and bad treatment of Kanchi Shankaracharya, a revered member of the Acharya Sabha, it is resolved that – - The arrest and the ill treatment of Kanchi Shankaracharya, the Head of the ancient and sacred Kanchi Kamakoti Matha is a matter of great pain to all the members of the Acharya Sabha present in the Conference. It has also deeply hurt millions of Hindu devotees in the country and overseas. The Acharya Sabha prays that the criminal court cases come to an early end with complete vindication of the Kanchi Acharya and his junior Acharya. The Sabha also prays for their good health and wishes them well. - A suitable law to be enacted to ensure that highly respected spiritual and religious Heads receive due respect and protection against any hurtful treatment The Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha through no fault of its own, but because of the decision made by the Convener and the Chennai clique, was thus coerced into reneging on its promise to protect dharma and the dharmi. Hindus must pause to think what Christians and Muslims in the country and around the world would have done to Jayalalithaa had she done the same to a Tamil Nadu Archbishop or a revered Muslim cleric in Tamil Nadu. The Chennai clique must accept a large part of the blame for exposing us as a cowardly and self-absorbed lot, long on words and short in action. While some of the Acharyas in the HDAS, particularly Pujya Swamiji of the Pejawara Matha, insisted on raising the issue in the second conference of the HDAS in Mumbai, and even succeeded in getting a resolution passed, however vacuous and useless, the organizers of the Thinkers’ Meet which included the Convener of the HDAS, refused to allow any mention, leave alone discussion on the issue, either in 2005 or 2006. The Thinkers’ Meet is today a jaw-me-dead forum where a happy time is had by all. The cataclysmic assault on the Kanchi matham halted this clique for a brief while. It could no longer strut around the country with its habitual self-satisfied smirk. But power is addictive, especially if this is power derived from controlling centers of power. The BJP’s electoral defeat in 2004 added to this clique’s woes and as more and more doors within the country began to shut, this clique, including the HDAS, had to go into forced hibernation; or so we believed. Undaunted by the feisty resistance put up against the clique by a small group of determined Hindus, the Chennai clique, like Advani, refused to go away. The RSS leadership did not outlaw the clique but continued to back it to the hilt; the clique continued to enjoy the benevolent patronage of the Convener of the HDAS who also facilitated its efforts to stay on the right side of Advani. As part of the pre-electoral exercise to promote Advani as Prime Minister in the 2009 general elections, the Convener of the HDAS participated as Chief Guest in a garish public meeting organized by the Chennai clique to promote the Tamil translation of Advani’s best-ignored autobiography. While one member of the clique embodying gender equality was happy to be seen beaming on the dais, the mastermind, as is his wont, stayed coyly behind the screens pulling the strings. <h3>HDAS goes global</h3> In retrospect, it would seem that the Chennai clique had begun intensive and prolonged interaction with Americans and overseas Hindus with diverse affiliations – Overseas Friends of the BJP, Indian-American disciples of globe-trotting sanyasis, non-Indian Hindus living abroad, friends of non-Indian Hindus who are becoming increasingly visible and vocal in some Indian ashrams, individuals in the American establishment especially the US State Department and US Congress, and a section calling itself non-Hindutva Hindu intellectuals. Between 2004 and 2007 when the domestic climate was hostile to the Chennai clique, it scripted its come-back plot. In January 2006, summoning all its overseas contacts and reserves, the clique organized a jamboree in Gujarat to push for the creation of a “global” organization which would be the vehicle for its global ambitions. The January 2006 Gujarat jamboree led to the creation of that wondrous creature called Global Foundation for Civilizational Harmony (GFCH); this happened exactly two years later – on 22 January 2008. The forced hibernation of the Chennai clique had ended with a flourish and also ended the hibernation of the HDAS. Within ten days of launching the GFCH, the Convener of the HDAS presided over the third conference of the HDAS in Chunchungiri, Karnataka, between 9 and 11 February 2008. The Convener of the HDAS, as pointed out earlier, shares a symbiotic relationship with the Chennai clique. The Chennai clique pulls several organizations from out of its hat to serve its different ambitions. These forums also serve as parking place and positions for the clique’s sycophants and loyalists. Besides controlling some of the RSS parivar organizations, this clique created the the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha, influenced the creation of the Thinkers’ Meet, has now created the Global Foundation for Civilizational Harmony, and continues to control the more or less moribund Hindu Dharma Rakshana Samiti. Swami Dayananda Saraswati is a patron of the HDRS, Convener of the HDAS, financier of the Thinkers’ Meet, and the Hindu Founder of the GFCH. The problem for the traditional mathathipathis of the HDAS, for the Hindu bhaktas of these religious leaders, and for the Hindus of Hindu bhumi, lies in the Convener’s multiple roles and the global ambitions of the Chennai clique which comes with the Convener as a package deal. The moral authority of our traditional mathathipathis, adeenams and mahamandaleswars lies in their unswerving commitment to the religious tenets and accompanying rituals of their sampradayas; they are the custodians of our religious traditions and heritage and they demand that their bhaktas live their lives as responsible inheritors of this heritage. The only dharma of Hinduism’s traditional religious leaders is to care for and protect their sampradaya and their bhaktas. They have to be and are inward looking. Our traditional leaders from various sampradayas are caste-specific, language-specific or region-specific. They are not global because they have no reason to leave the shores of Hindu bhumi. If the world has reason to seek their darshan, the world has to come to their door-step. This has been the way of our dharma traditionally and there is no reason to change this. Certainly, our traditional religious leaders will not cross the borders of Hindu bhumi to seek darshan of their bhaktas living abroad. Perverting the very nature of the HDAS to make it global is the effort by this clique. The writer was compelled to go on the warpath against this clique to rubbish some of the resolutions that were passed at the end of the fourth conference which concluded on 11 January 2010. One of the resolutions reads – 5. It was brought to the notice of the Acharya Sabha, based on interactions with agencies inside and outside the country, that the Sabha has come to be looked upon as a welcome apex voice on behalf of Hindus all over the world. It was therefore necessary for the Sabha to plan its policies and activities accordingly. Ageing leadership of the Heads of Mathas and Peethas should ensure continuity and smooth succession by young disciples well-rooted in our culture and heritage and also well educated and trained to face the modern world, engage in scholarly debates and to participate in international conferences. Agencies inside and outside the country, Apex voice on behalf of Hindus all over the world, ageing leadership, well educated, trained to face the modern world, international conferences, these ideas must make every Hindu sit up and rub his ears in disbelief. In an earlier column the writer had expressed a fear that there was a move afoot to create a Hindu Papacy and this resolution has proved the fear to be well-founded. The Chennai clique and the Convener of the HDAS not only want young disciples as peethathipathis and mathathipathis (so much easier to manipulate and bend to their will), but claim for the HDAS the status of Apex Voice recognized as such by foreign busybodies. To prove the fear of converting HDAS into a Hindu Papacy with the Chennai clique as Cardinals-in-waiting, is the press-note issued by HDAS prior to the conference. Its opening paragraph inter alia states – - The decisions arrived at by the Acharya Sabha are therefore binding on Hindu Society If the press-note struck an unrealistic note, the resolutions left a bad taste in the mouth. The unmitigated impertinence of diminishing the extraordinary and solemn process of choosing and anointing the next peethathipathi or mathathipathi to some kind of employment advertisement should send ring alarm bells in the ears of every Hindu nationalist. Hindu dharma, its bhaktas and structures, have to be protected first on Hindu bhumi. Ignoring and refusing to deal with the threats at home, but passing resolutions about irritations abroad, is to subvert the purpose for which the HDRS and HDAS were created. Our traditional acharyas do not need to travel abroad to participate in international conferences. Intellectually invigorating discussions and debates on aspects of our religion and dharma have been a part of Hindu religious tradition and our leaders did not have to go abroad to do this. A member of the Secretariat of the HDAS some years ago shook his head despairingly at the inability of our acharyas to hold forth in English. Jawaharlal Nehru is alleged to have shaken his head just as despairingly when Babu Rajendra Prasad was proposed as first President of independent India. “How will he receive international leaders,” Nehru was supposed to have asked. As one indignant Hindu thinker put it, it is the prerogative of free Indians to choose a mongoose to sit in Rashtrapati Bhavan. If the world wants to engage the Indian Rashtrapati, it has to engage with the mongoose. Another friend was not quite so elegant in her anger. “Hindus who know how to protect their dharma don’t need to speak in English”, she said. They only have to know how to throw a shoe unerringly at the enemy’s head. Our acharyas must act now to put the HDAS back on track to serve Hindu interests on Hindu bhumi. <h2>Piece on a global chess-board 2</h2> <h3>International meetings and declarations: What’s in it for Hindus on Hindu bhumi?</h3> “It was not from the people of India that India was won by Moghul or Briton, but from a small privileged class” – (Aurobindo, Bande Mataram, April 29, 1907). Aurobindo’s perspicacious analysis of how the Hindu nation was enslaved, first by Jihadis and then by the Crusaders who co-opted a section of the privileged class to enslave us, may well apply to the small privileged class manipulating the HDAS, the highest body of Hinduism’s traditional religious leaders. The HDAS is in very real danger of becoming a piece on the global chess-board not because any one or even a few of the mathathipathis have turned their inward-looking eyes to view foreign shores, but because “a small privileged class” has monumental ambitions to be seen by “inside and outside agencies” as being the face and voice of Hindu dharma – “well educated and trained to face the modern world, engage in scholarly debates and to participate in international conferences” (HDAS Resolutions, January 11, 2010) The list of international conferences attended by the Convener of the HDAS in that capacity, and as listed at the very beginning of the resolutions passed in 2010 by the HDAS is self-explanatory - “The members heard a report from the National Coordinator listing the conferences in the country and overseas in which the Acharya Sabha was represented either through the National Coordinator or through one of the Acharya members.” - Participation in a Conference in Jerusalem in February 2008 centering on scholarly exchanges with Jewish scholars for a better understanding of Hindu religious philosophy and practice. This interaction was greatly appreciated by the Jewish scholars. - Participation in an international conference of government and religious leaders in May 2008, called by the President of Israel. - Participation in an UN Conference in December 2008 at the Hague where the UN Declaration on Human Rights was re-visited; on behalf of the Acharya Sabha. Some important changes were made in the final document to describe “Religious Freedom”; this was to reflect the concerns of the Acharya Sabha and Hindu Society on the “right to religious conversion” by Abrahamic religions. - Participation in February 2009 in a Hindu-Buddhist dialog in Cambodia organized under the auspices of Global Peace Initiative of Women. - Attendance in a preliminary meeting in December 2009 with the Russian Orthodox religious leaders in Moscow to explore future clarificatory dialog with a view to substituting spiritual collectives for international political bodies like the UN, in matters of cultural and religious importance. This alone should make every Hindu with an iota of political sense, sit up and take note. These are not ordinary conferences, and imply that the move by the Chennai clique and the HDAS Convener to play international politics of religion at the level of foreign governments and powerful international organizations. The list above does not include an inter-faith conference in Lariano Italy in May 2006, a conference organized jointly by the Vatican Pontifical Council for Inter-faith Dialogue (PCID) and the World Council of Churches. Political-minded Hindu nationalists are troubled by a few questions – - Was anything concrete achieved by the Convener of the HDAS for the Hindus on Hindu bhumi from these foreign inter-faith, multi-faith dialogue ventures? - Did the President of Israel, the UN, The Vatican, the World Council of Churches, the Cambodian NGO and the Russian Orthodox Church invite Swami Dayananda Saraswati or the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha? - If they invited the HDAS, how did they come to know of this body and why did they short-list this body to speak on behalf of Hinduism? - When one of the press notes stated, “The Sabha also expressed its thanks and appreciation for the efforts made by the forum for Religious freedom of US for recognizing the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha and its activities to help Hindus and also promote the message of Hinduism, did it mean that someone from within the HDAS or one of the members of the Chennai clique with their overseas partners had actively campaigned for US State Department recognition of the HDAS as the sole voice of Hindus in the country? - If the invitation was addressed to the HDAS, did the traditional acharyas, mahamandaleswars and mathathipathis constituting the HDAS discuss the invitation and send its Convener to the discussion table with a set of Hindu-centric and specific assertions, demands, and queries, when we sat across the table with Christians, Muslims and Jews? The writer doubts it; and doubts it for simply two reasons. The HDAS resolutions expose the fact that except for cow slaughter, the HDAS has not discussed or passed resolutions on some of the most pressing and dangerous problems confronting Hindus on this soil. If we are not discussing these problems within the country, it follows we are not even raising these issues in international conferences and meetings. Secondly, some of the resolutions and declarations accepted by the Convener or his representatives on behalf of the HDAS, and the aims and objectives of the HDAS are totally at variance with, and even directly contradict, the very purpose for which the HDRS and the HDAS were conceived of in 2000 and then in 2003; whereas the GFCH is eminently capable of accepting and even enthusiastically endorsing such inter-faith and multi-faith declarations. We may safely presume that the HDAS website is maintained by its Secretariat which, not surprisingly, is manned by Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati’s disciples. But what is surprising is that the HDAS website does not inform us about the aims and objectives of this body; information which is sine qua non. One of Swami Dayananda Saraswati’s past refrains was, “All religions do not have the same goal”. Pujya Swamiji will find it very difficult to pronounce this pregnant truth now, considering the fact that he is also one of the Founder-Patrons of GFCH. Now this website has a colourful pyrotechnic representation of rotating-around-the-globe Cross, Crescent, Star of David, and our own Om, among other symbols. In case any of you failed to get the message, the GFCH insists, as a running commentary to the rotating symbols, that “All religions lead to God”, and “We can learn from all civilizations”. The mischief, to minds as suspicious as that of the writer, lies in the use of ‘religions’ in one pronouncement and ‘civilizations’ in the other. The HDAS is a body of traditional mathas, adeenams and akharas, committed to protecting and propagating Hindu sampradayas. It is but natural that they are gathering under the forum of HDAS with the specific objective of collectively combating threats to dharma and dharmi on this soil. As Convener of HDAS, Swami Dayananda Saraswati is mandated to facilitate the fulfillment of this objective even if it is undefined and undeclared. Obviously this objective cannot be met if as Founder-Patron of the GFCH he is forced to declare all religions lead to God and that Hindus can learn from other civilizations. This is conflict of interest at its most telling. The GFCH website takes great pride in the fact that Hindus participated in a Muharram procession; the question is, can HDAS take pride in the same? More importantly, what will be Swami Dayananda Saraswati’s position on Hindus taking pride in participating in rituals associated with Muharram or Good Friday? Will he speak as the Convener of HDAS or as Founder-Patron of GFCH? The May 2006 Vatican and WCC organized inter-faith conference finds mention in the HDAS website. As the writer has observed in an earlier column, unless otherwise denied or explained, we have to assume the HDAS was represented at this conference. What did these resolutions give to the Hindus of Hindu bhumi? If anything, these resolutions have done us great injustice and disservice. The much touted freedom of religion, like secularism, is specific to countries under the rule of kings, caliphs and governments deriving from Judaism, Christianity and Islam. All three Abrahamic religions are monotheist and have a long history of intolerance – Jews controlling not only all finance and trade but bleeding other religionists dry with their money-lending, Muslims persecuting Christians and Jews, Christians persecuting Muslims and Jews, and both Christianity and Islam destroying without any trace entire civilizations, religions and cultures rooted in non-Abrahamic religions. Nazism was an eye-opener to all three Abrahamic religions; deriving from Christianity, it demonstrated to the White Christian and Jewish world in a span of just two decades what the Church and Islam had been doing across the globe spanning centuries and millennia. The concept of ‘freedom’, political freedom, freedom of religion and all other freedoms was pulled out of thin air as a post-Nazi virtue and given international and mandatory universal status and political thrust by Pope John Paul II when he addressed the UNGA in 1997. (http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1283&Itemid=1) It is not in the purview of this column to go into details of twentieth century early history of personal freedom and its progression. The point to emphasize here is that the HDAS is not obliged to accept a principle not native to the religion or culture of this bhumi, particularly when the principle works actively against Hindu interests on Hindu bhumi; even more so when this principle has been crafted by the Church to serve its political objective of bringing the world under its domain. The HDAS is not obliged to be politically correct either, in its aims and objectives or in its articulation of Hindu concerns. The HDAS is not obliged to look outside national borders to aspire to be recognized by the US State Department as being internationally politically correct. The HDAS must therefore resist attempts to force it into some kind of contrived bonhomie with the Vatican, WCC, Deoband and the State of Israel; the bonhomie not having yielded any tangible result for Hindus, it may be added. Every word in these declarations and resolutions has been carefully picked; every word has a reason to be there. It is obvious that the Convener of the HDAS and the Hindus who assisted the Convener, or participated in these conferences, have taken what was given to them and have signed on the dotted line as indicated. Hindus signed the completely one-sided Vatican resolutions in 2006 which declared – - Freedom of religion included the right of Christians and Muslims to propagate their religion to non-Christians and non-Muslims on Hindu bhumi - Freedom of religion included the right of the murderous Abrahamic faiths to convert Hindus and tribals on Hindu bhumi and forget the half-clever words which do not fool Hindu nationalists - There is something called ethical conversion and something called unethical conversion where a person converts out of “his own free choice” - Adherents of all faiths have been guilty of errors and injustice - We also appreciated the “humanitarian work’ undertaken by “faith communities” The Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha has flaunted this sell-out of Hindu interests on its website. The writer re-iterates the point that Hindus who participate in these inter-faith and multi-faith dialogues and discussions are invited only because those inviting them know that these Hindus will sign on the dotted line. A case in point is, “We acknowledge that errors have been perpetrated and injustice committed by the adherents of every faith. Therefore, it is incumbent on every community to conduct honest self-critical examination of its historical conduct as well as its doctrinal/theological precepts. Such self-criticism and repentance should lead to necessary reforms inter alia on the issue of conversion.” Let us take this resolution apart, word for word, phrase for phrase. - “We acknowledge” includes the three Hindus who participated in this conference - “Errors perpetrated and injustices committed” are euphemisms for total and near total annihilation by Islam and Christianity of entire nations, cultures and peoples across continents, which includes Native Americans, natives of Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists. The crimes against humanity which is coyly worded as “errors and injustices” include genocide, Atlantic Slave Trade, invasion and occupation of continents, burning women on the stakes as witches, the Christian Inquisitions including the Goa Inquisition, Nazism and communism. The trail of the bloody sword of Islam is just as well-known. - “Adherents of every faith”, the cleverest and most evil phrase of all implies two things. One, Hindus have accepted to be placed in the same category as Christians and Muslims; Two, we have allowed it to be recorded that these terrible crimes were perpetrated only by the “adherents” of these faiths. This implies that the guilty were only misguided adherents, while the faiths themselves are innocent for the deeds of their adherents. The Vatican and the World Council of Churches (the apex body of Protestants) have thus succeeded in getting Hindus to sign that the Bible and the Koran are not guilty of the crimes perpetrated by the Christians and Muslims against the people of other religions in the name of the Bible and the Koran. By foolishly absolving the Bible and the Koran of all guilt, the Hindus who went to the Vatican and signed this piece of garbage have conceded, like Gandhi conceded to the Bishop of Calcutta, that religious conversion will be permitted in independent India; only they have to be “ethical conversion”. This is only the beginning of Hindu stupidity at inter-faith and multi-faith dialogues industry. The tragedy is that this is being done in the name of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha. <h2>Piece on the Global Chess-board 3</h2> <h3>Only politics of religion: Spiritualism is a papal con</h3> Global Foundation for Civilizational Harmony is a mind-boggling and foolish beyond belief Hindu creation rooted in papal exhortations. This multi-religious Foundation would have either self-destructed, tearing itself apart by conflict of religious interests, or sooner than later outraged Hindus would have detonated a Sivakasi under its chair in vehement protest; that this has so far not happened is only because the mutually contradictory GFCH and HDAS were shrewdly hitched to the same engine; and when the engine wears the venerable saffron in the form of Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati, then the bravest of Hindu hearts would quake in trepidation even if it is determined to light a Sivakasi under the GFCH chair. The HDAS Convener is one of the multi-religious Founder-Patrons of the GFCH; the Convener HDAS is also the patron-saint of the Chennai clique and their compatriots abroad. All this is impacting upon the functioning of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha; and just as the Chennai clique as All Advani’s Men had earlier blurred the lines between RSS ideology and BJP realpolitik, they are now blurring the lines between HDAS’ objective of protecting Hindu interests on Hindu bhumi and the GFCH objective of inter-faith dialogue and conflict resolution through bonhomie. The last battle for survival by Hindus with their backs to the wall may be closer to the truth than the cliché “conflict resolution”. Islam and the Church are succeeding at a pace and scale even they would not have imagined, to alter the religious demographic composition of the three southern states of Andhra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and altering the character and content of public spaces with churches, Christian prayer houses, mosques, madrasas and other vast pieces of real estate being purchased and flaunted by adherents of these two Abrahamic religions. Talk about intellectual Hindus as useful idiots! Given the astronomical amounts of money coming to these two religions from Christian and Muslim countries, it is either foolish in the extreme on the part of the Chennai clique or something more sinister that they created the GFCH. <a href="http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1073&Itemid=1">http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1073&Itemid=1</a> <a href="http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1027&Itemid=1">http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1027&Itemid=1</a> <a href="http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1026&Itemid=">http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1026&Itemid=</a> The threat posed by such organizations to Hindu interests cannot be overstated because this clique has managed to get the resolutions passed by HDAS 2010 in Hyderabad to make oblique but laudatory references to the GFCH. The Chennai clique and the Convener HDAS are actually fudging the lines between overwhelming, internal threats to Hindu survival and vicarious overseas (primarily American) Hindu NRI (green card) and PIO (American or European citizen) interests. Hindu nationalists must read the trend-setting address by Pope John Paul II in 1995 to the United Nations General Assembly for two reasons. <a href="http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1282&Itemid=1">http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1282&Itemid=1</a> First, secularism and all that drivel notwithstanding, it is the Church, whether the Catholic Vatican or the Protestant World Council of Churches which decides the domestic and foreign agenda of White Christian countries. Secularism means the Church and the State (Christian monarchy or a ruling oligarchy of Christian commoners) share the same goal of hogtieing the whole world as different nations under the Christian God; the armies of Christian states and churches of all denominations may be different with different weapons and different battles in the same war but they all go to the battlefield for Christ with the unstated agreement to share the plunder between them. Second, in pathetic contrast to Jews, Muslims and Christians who sit across each other in multi-religious or inter-religious dialogues, Hindus who participate in these discussions have very poor knowledge - Of the political objectives of the Abrahamic religions, - The determination and total commitment of their adherents to fulfill those objectives and - The power of these religions and their state partners to enforce their agenda towards fulfilling this objective. The 1995 UNGA address by Pope John Paul II is remarkable for two things: the Pope had the unchallenged audacity to speak of a universal longing for freedom, universal moral law flowing from this universal longing, modern totalitarianisms, and a century of violent coercion giving way to a century of persuasion; but the Pope raised all these noble-sounding virtues only in the context of intra-Christian Second World War, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the rise and fall of communism. While the Jewish community and the Romany gypsies were the intended and mercilessly targetted victims of Nazism, the Second World War alone is the beginning of the context of the Pope’s self-righteous anger because White Christians were victims of the war they unleashed against the world. “The quest for freedom in the second half of the 20th century has engaged not only individuals but nations as well. Fifty years after the end of the Second World War, it is important to remember that that war was fought because of violations of the rights of nations”. We have to read the papal address to the UNGA with a willing suspension of disbelief. The Pope’s address makes no reference to the history of the world prior to the Second World War, shaped by the violent expansion of Christianity across continents; no reference to old totalitarianisms, to the most brutal and merciless violation of nations and abuse of what the Pope now labels as universal human rights of peoples persecuted and destroyed by the Church; the longing for freedom of those peoples and nations made extinct or nearly extinct by the wife&body of Jesus Christ; or the innumerable movements for freedom and courageous wars of independence fought by peoples and nations to end their physical, political and economic slavery, all perpetrated in the name of the Pope’s religion. The colonial-White Christian Second World War and anti-capital and anti-Church communism were the only points of reference for the Pope when he audaciously inaugurated, at the UNGA, the new and universal idiom of political discourse with religion, his religion at the core of world affairs. This was in 1995. A year later, in 1996, Samuel Huntington expanded upon his 1993 political monograph on the clash of civilizations into a path-breaking book with the same name; only he placed a conjunction after the original title and added for good measure, “And the remaking of World Order”. Pope John Paul II in 1995 at the UNGA readily picked his cue from Huntington’s 1993 thesis and proclaimed with all the papal arrogance at his disposal that it would be the Church and its ‘secular’ state partners, the White Christian western countries, who would craft this World Pecking-Order. The Pope also stated matter-of-factly that he intended to create new nations from old for Christ in the name of rights of nations, universal longing for freedom, universal human rights which included the inviolable right to change religions and nationality, and of course self-determination!! There can be historical circumstances in which aggregations different from single state sovereignty can even prove advisable, but only on condition that this takes place in a climate of true freedom, guaranteed by the exercise of the self- determination of the peoples concerned”. <h3>Papal Address as statement of intent</h3> The US and the United Nations which provided the Pope with the forum to deliver this political speech masquerading as virtuous indignation, could not have made a more blunt and deliberate collective statement of intent. Let us recollect that the US and the Pope, in 1995, flush with the success of breaking up the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, were in the thick of creating the Christian State of East Timor and actively implementing on the ground “aggregations different from single state sovereignty” (euphemism for threatening the territorial integrity of countries) using the twentieth century Christian political doctrine of self-determination. The new world order would be made with the Church and Christian countries playing Creator and the United Nations playing referee. <a href="http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=890&Itemid=1&limit=1&limitstart=9">http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=890&Itemid=1&limit=1&limitstart=9</a> Hindus creating more and more forums and institutions for inter-faith dialogue must read the Pope’s UNGA address again and again and yet again to internalize the barely concealed ultimate objective of all Christian totalitarianisms – Church or State. The Pope, not once in the course of this detailed exposition on papal intent, makes any reference to other religions as being essential to the diversity to which he is singing odes. Read the address again, the Pope talks of other nations, other cultures and other languages as being important to nurture diversity of existence; but does not once mention that other religions too must exist for true diversity. Diversity, as is implied in the papal address, will be permitted in the New World Order, only as diversity of cultures and languages within the Christian Kingdom of God. When India becomes a Christian nation, the Pope will have diversity within diversity – American Christianity, French Christianity, Norwegian Christianity, African Christianity, South-Korean Christianity, and within Indian Christianity he will permit Mundu-wearing Christianity, Kannada-speaking Christianity, Tamil puttu-eating Christianity, Goa pork-eating Christianity, Bindi-wearing Christianity and jeans-attired Christianity. We Christians, says the Pope unctuously, are a diverse world of cultures and languages; patriotic as Indian Christians, Japanese Christians, Chinese Christians and Brazilian Christians; and our multi-national Church celebrates Christian diversity in the ultimate totalitarianism – the Kingdom of God. In this Kingdom of God of free nations, free by self-determination, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Nagaland, along with East Timor, Poland, Czech, Slovakia and Croatia, will be free nations – free to eat pork or puttu, sport a bindi, lungi, mundu or jeans, free nations which will be permitted to speak Croatian, Danish, English, Spanish or Telugu. But they will all worship only Jesus Christ, his mother on earth, and his Father Who-Art-In-Heaven. This is papal, American and UN diversity. If, as is explicitly but cleverly stated, there is no religion but Christianity, and only a diversity of cultures and languages, then freedom of religion can only mean the freedom to convert non-Christian cultures to Christian religion. Readers must not lose sight of this point to better understand why the writer was compelled to condemn all inter-faith and multi-faith meetings and declarations undertaken by the Chennai clique and Swami Dayananda Saraswati on behalf of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha. By declaring through one of its press-notes that the resolutions passed at the Acharya Sabha are binding upon all Hindus, and when HDAS resolutions harp on international this and United Nations that, it is clear that Swami Dayananda Saraswati and the non-Sanyasi coterie using him as front for their own towering ambitions to be key Track II international players, are making the HDAS wily nily a piece on the global chess-board. Arraigned on the chess board are the Kings and armies of Two kinds of Gods – the monotheist God of the Abrahamic religions on one side, and on the other side, the ancient and non-monotheist worldviews where people can worship any number of gods, stones, trees, rivers, books, animals and even space, as they understand ‘God’. “And yet if we make the effort to look at matters objectively, we can see that, transcending all the differences which distinguish individuals and peoples, there is a fundamental commonality. For different cultures are but different ways of facing the question of the meaning of personal existence. And it is precisely here that we find one source of the respect which is due to every culture and every nation: Every culture is an effort to ponder the mystery of the world and in particular of the human person. It is a way of giving expression to the transcendent dimension of human life. The heart of every culture is its approach to the greatest of all mysteries: the mystery of God. Our respect for the culture of others is therefore rooted in our respect for each community’s attempt to answer the question of human life. And here we can see how important it is to safeguard the fundamental right to freedom of religion and freedom of conscience, as the cornerstones of the structure of human rights and the foundation of every truly free society. No one is permitted to suppress those rights by using coercive power to impose an answer to the mystery of man”. Culture, not religion, said the Pope! When important leaders in the RSS who are expected to have a sound understanding of politics, especially politics of religion, parrot “Hinduism is not a religion, it is a way of life rooted in our culture”, when Advani and All Advani’s Men declare the BJP stands for “cultural nationalism”, they have already given Christianity its intellectual victory in India – removing Hindu religion from the battlefield. A way of life, as the Pope has promised us all, can and will be encouraged; only this way of life will be hitched to only one religion – his religion. Cultural nationalism, which the BJP is at pains to emphasise is not religious or territorial nationalism, can thus mesh painlessly with the territory-grabbing political objective of the Church. When Hindus discard specifics in favour of the general, they have always strengthened only the Abrahamic monotheisms. Close on the heels of the culture/language diversity con, follows the second papal con called “spiritualism sans religion” and the western liberal political con called clash of civilizations, not clash of religions. “Living the freedom sought by individuals and peoples is a great challenge to man’s spiritual growth and to the moral vitality of nations. Freedom is not simply the absence of tyranny or oppression. Nor is freedom a license to do whatever we like. Freedom has an inner “logic” which distinguishes it and ennobles it: Freedom is ordered to the truth, and is fulfilled in man’s quest for truth and in man’s living in the truth”. Let us decode this too. Christianity is a one god, one son and one book religion and does not validate spiritual experiences which by definition cannot belong to the realm of monotheisms. Spiritual growth is predicated on unfettered freedom of the mind to think, feel and experience, while the essence of monotheisms is the curtailment of freedom of the mind to know anything beyond the monotheist, intolerant and demanding God and his prophets. The idea of spirituality was gaining coinage in Europe and America where the Church was faced with empty churches signalling Christianity’s failure to appeal to reason and intellect; the Church also failed to appeal to emotions not hitched to their intolerant God. Consequently, there was a corresponding loss of faith in the Church and Christianity. Having condemned even the natural stirrings of spirituality in America and Europe as heresy, and confronted by the spectre of an ascendant Islam, the Pope had to feign acceptance of spirituality if he had to harvest the souls of the “spiritual” cultures in non-Christian countries and nations. So we now have the papal con “spiritual growth” which however he says, cannot attain fullness unless a person is allowed to seek it in Jesus Christ. Hindus participating in inter-faith dialogues have not asked the Church to explain how, if Jesus Christ is the path, the goal and the truth, can the idea of “spiritual growth” of individuals be reconciled to the unverifiable belief of the historicity of Jesus’ life, his crucifixion and his rising from the dead. As for the ‘truth” in the papal address, that’s a Christian, in fact Catholic monopoly. “Freedom is ordered to the truth” said the Pope to the countries of the world in 1995 at the UNGA and also said that that freedom is “fulfilled in man’s quest for truth and in man’s living in the truth”. Hindu nationalists as they wage war against the Church and Islam must never forget that the Second Vatican Council had stated unambiguously that the Vatican while encouraging inter-faith dialogue across “cultures and nations” maintains that while other “cultures” have elements of truth in them, the Catholic Church alone has all the truth; in fact, it is the only repository of truth. So when Pope John Paul II spoke about freedom of religion being a fundamental freedom and about how this freedom is ordered to the truth and this freedom is fulfilled only when men are allowed to embark “freely” in their quest for truth, and after the quest, to “live” in truth he is actually stating the following – - Freedom of religion is actually a privilege accorded to Christians to undertake religious conversion in non-Christian nations; only we will call it freedom of religion and conscience - Anti-conversion laws are a violation of the Christian right to effect religious conversion of non-Christian Hindus and tribal communities; it is in fact a violation of the right of non-Christians’ “quest for truth” - Hindus cannot reconvert Indian Christians to Hindu dharma because this is a violation of our right to “living in truth” “The incumbent Pope exemplifies this White Christian intolerance of non-Christian cultures and its congenital arrogance, as his diatribe against the newly appointed Indian Ambassador to the Vatican proves. Nothing but White Christianity’s core belief that non-White peoples are genetically stupid can explain how the Pope could lecture/hector the Indian Ambassador on the virtues of social justice, tolerance, peace, religious freedom, and India’s spiritual heritage. The Pope even had opinions on the Rajasthan government’s decision to bring in an anti-conversion law, Pakistan-India relations, on Kashmir, on the National Integration Council, on India’s Ministry for Minority Affairs and on “violence linked to political and religious extremism in the region”. The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things; and poor Ambassador Tripathi had no choice but to listen. The disturbing signs of religious intolerance which have troubled some regions of the nation, including the reprehensible attempt to legislate clearly discriminatory restrictions on the fundamental right of religious freedom, must be firmly rejected as not only unconstitutional, but also as contrary to the highest ideals of India’s founding fathers, who believed in a nation of peaceful coexistence and mutual tolerance between different religions and ethnic groups”. Thus spake Pope Benedict XVI nee Joseph Ratzinger to the Indian Ambassador”. (Ratzinger of Hamelin, Vigil Plainspeak, Archives, Plainspeak, www.vigilonline.com) It all boils down then to conquest of new territories and harvesting new souls for Christ. For Hindus, it boils down to religious conversion. Inter-faith dialogue is a Vatican con intended to get the Church’s future victims to let their guard down. Islam has no problems riding piggy-back on this Christian con in Hindu bhumi if it can use it to further Islam’s unchanging politico-religious objective. <h3>The Huntington-GFCH con called civilization</h3> The Church, Islam or the State of Israel couldn’t care less what articles Swami Dayananda Saraswati writes in the New Indian Express or what talks he gives to his captive audience in Chennai or Cincinnati about how all religions do not lead to the same goal. But if Swami Dayananda Saraswati as Convener HDAS, or any other Hindu sanyasi, or the Indian Government - Can be summoned to the Vatican or Jerusalem or New York to sign declarations and resolutions which only strengthen Abrahamic resolve - If Hindu religious leaders can be made to say good and kind things about these religions and their adherents, - If the nation of Hindus can never have a government which will protect Hindu interests only because these bodies have been disabled and disarmed from fighting the Hindu war - If the highest representative of the Government of India can be summoned to papal presence and pacified into quaking silence, That is victory and that is what really counts in maintaining the New World Order. All the song and dance ultimately boils down to religious conversion. As Pope John-Paul II put it in plain words- - “And here we can see how important it is to safeguard the fundamental right to freedom of religion and freedom of conscience, as the cornerstones of the structure of human rights and the foundation of every truly free society. No one is permitted to suppress those rights by using coercive power to impose an answer to the mystery of man. - Jesus Christ is for us God made man, and made a part of the history of humanity. Precisely for this reason, Christian hope for the world and its future extends to every human person. Because of the radiant humanity of Christ, nothing genuinely human fails to touch the hearts of Christians. - Therefore, as we approach the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of Christ, the church asks only to be able to propose respectfully this message of salvation and to be able to promote, in charity and service, the solidarity of the entire human family”. The HDAS, seven years after its creation, has failed comprehensively to deal effectively with the twin menace of Islam and the Church. It has done little, in fact nothing, to check the inroads that Islam and the Church have made in the three southern states. As Pujya Udipi Pejawara Matha Swamiji pointed out to the writer, the threat to Hindu dharma and Hindus from the Church and Islam is as acute in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh as it is in Tamil Nadu. Entire fishing hamlets, coastal villages, more and more districts in Tamil Nadu are now Christian and Muslim strongholds – Thanjavur, Thiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Tirunelvelli, North Arcot, Dindukkal (Dindigul) and Ramnad districts are the bastion of Muslims while Kanyakumari, Tirunelvelli Dindukkal, Chengalpet and Thiruvallur districts are witnessing the menacing presence of churches of all denominations. Chennai, capital of TN, is witnessing the obscene flaunting of Muslim and Christian symbols in public spaces, completely disproportionate to their actual numbers. This flaunting of symbols has been enabled by the astronomical amounts of money pouring into the country from Christian and Muslim countries. The only force that can challenge the State in India is the HDAS; the HDAS was created to be the collective voice of all Hindus reflecting Hindu concerns and to protect Hindu dharma and dharmi. Astronomical amounts of money pouring into the country for “charity and service”, which the Pope said in 1997, would be used to promote the solidarity of the human family. Family, as we all know, is a homogenous entity. So when the Pope said he would use charity and service to promote the solidarity of the entire human family he meant the entire Christian human family. Samuel Huntington’s clash of civilizations prognosis was a well-argued rebuttal of Fukuyama’s self-satisfied end of history proclamation. As early as in 1993, Huntington could feel the beginning of the tremors of resistance to the uni-polar world order which was being seen as a White Christian (sans the Orthodox Church) world order; only he did not have the stomach to articulate the fact that the resistance to White Christian world order would come from other religions. Political observers and thinkers across the world were so afraid of the scenario that Huntington had unveiled, that no one asked him “what civilizations”? We know of the Greek, Roman, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Mayan and Inca, Confucian and Saraswati-Indus (Hindu) civilizations. Except for the Hindu and Confucian civilizations, all other civilizations have been wiped off the face of the earth without trace in living societies. Of the nine blocs which Huntington lists as forces of resistance to the White-Christian uni-polar world order – Western, Latin-American, African, Islamic, Sinic, Hindu, Orthodox, Buddhist and Japanese, except for the Hindu and what Huntington calls Sinic civilizations, all others are religions; lest there is any lingering doubt about whether Hinduism is a religion or civilization, let me emphasize that all civilizations, as the writer understands the word, were the beautiful flowering of non-monotheist, pre-Christian, pre-Islamic religions. Islam and Christianity destroyed all civilizations except the Hindu and Sinic civilizations. The African continent was divided equally between Islam and the Church and although a few vestiges of the ancient and proud tribal religion remain, African societies have been irretrievably Islamised and Christianized and tribal customs can at best survive only as peripheral ‘inculturation’ devices within Christianity and as terrible heresy within Islam. So when the GFCH website flaunts its foolishness with “All religions lead to God” and the priceless “We can learn from all civilizations”, enraged Hindus must ask Swami Dayananda Saraswati to tell us if he really thinks all religions lead to God and if Hindu dharma can really learn anything from Abrahamic religions. After all, to which civilizations is the Chennai clique referring to when they say “we” can learn from all civilizations as their self-identity on the GFCH website. From a passionate declaration in 2003 about how religious conversion is violence against the individual, family and society, the tone and content of the HDAS resolutions on religious conversion become more and more muted until in 2007, and then in 2010 there is just a perfunctory mention of religious conversion which is today the most menacing threat confronting Hindu survival on Hindu bhumi, and no mention at all from 2005 onwards about the threat posed by foreign funds which alone is powering not only religious conversion but also the growing control and ownership by Christians and Muslims of agricultural lands, commercial enterprises, schools, colleges, universities, small trade and commerce, venture capital and finance, inroads into films, small screen, and print and electronic media. From stronghold to stranglehold, Islam and the Church are holding the Hindus of the three southern states in a death grip. The HDAS’ diminishing interest in internal matters coincides with the rise of the Chennai clique in 2006 and their international inter-faith misadventures. Given the nature and extent of the threat faced by Hindus on Hindu bhumi, how can the HDAS explain its preoccupation with American textbooks, books on American academe written by NRIs and PIOs in America, Wendy Doniger, global warming, and human rights, and passing resolutions about thanking some outside and inside agencies for recognizing the HDAS as the apex body of all Hindus? How can it justify and explain the glowing reference to the GFCH in its 2010 resolutions in Hyderabad? Most importantly, how can the HDAS justify or even explain the declarations and resolutions it signed in Italy, at The Hague and in Jerusalem? Piece on the Global Chess Board – 4 Destroy the Asuras The Atlantic Slave Trade, colonization of continents, the Spanish, Portuguese and Goa Inquisitions, and Nazism, demonstrated the Church’s capacity to use the secular Christian State for its political objective to win territories for the father-who-art-in-heaven. Slave trade, colonialism, Inquisition and Nazism rampaged across the world leaving behind in their wake, organized and targeted genocide of non-Christians, the worst human rights abuses, the worst crimes against women in particular and humanity at large, and the worst possible war crimes by the Church and its partner the Christian State on a never-before-scale seen in history. The only parallel to this sustained and continuing till the present day, typically Abrahamic Christian violence and brutality against peoples of the world, is the Abrahamic Muslim invasion of Hindu India lasting over 800 years and still going strong. The League of Nations came into being in 1920 in the immediate aftermath of the intra-Christian First World War, while its offspring the United Nations was created in 1946 in the aftermath of the intra-Christian Second World War, with the express but unstated intent to punish the perpetrators of Nazism and as collective Christian expiation, give to the traumatized and dispersed Jewish people in 1948, the State of Israel as their homeland. For some inexplicable reason, the Jews have failed to articulate the fact that Nazism, like slavery and colonialism, was also a Christian derivative and a continuation of the abomination called Inquisition. Taking refuge behind the shield provided to them by the Jews to hide their sins against humanity and Creation, White Christian countries set in motion the process of creating a world body of countries with a charter of virtues they had no moral right to draft, much less enforce or implement. As colonialism ended and the former colonies struggled to restore the roots of their nationhood and re-assert their nationalism, the United Nations, as was intended with foresight, became an instrument of American foreign policy and evolved into a tool of harassment of countries and leaders standing up to the White Christian poles of post-colonial world order. The role of the United Nations as perceived by political observers, from the time when the UN handed the fledgling republic of Indonesia back to its colonial oppressors in 1946 (as the first good deed in the service of its masters), and until its condemnable role in enforcing America’s genocidal 13 year long economic sanctions against the people of Iraq, only substantiates the writer’s charge that the UN is an instrument of White Christian foreign policy. 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The three press-notes giving a day by day account of the conference circulated on email groups, and the resolutions passed by the HDAS on the last day, raise important questions about the motives and objectives of the group micro-managing this important Hindu body. The writer has good cause to believe that HDAS is either being derailed or led by the nose by a Chennai-based clique and its overseas non-Hindutva Hindu partners, which see in hitching their wagon to the HDAS engine a renewed opportunity to resurrect their moribund public life. The stigma of their role in the arrest of Pujya Kanchi Acharyas, their horrific role in silencing important Hindu organizations and throttling them from acting to put pressure on Jayalalithaa, their failed attempts to forcibly remove the revered Acharyas from the peetham and take over the matham, and the electoral defeat of the BJP in 2004 and again in 2009, perforce sent them into hibernation. But the congenital Hindu disease to forget old humiliations and old sins has enabled this clique to resurface in public life. Only now, the Chennai clique has expanded the national frontiers of its manic ambitions to control power centers and has embarked on a journey with global partners. The HDAS is therefore being brazenly transformed by this clique into a vehicle for misadventures in international religio-diplomatic claptrap. The HDAS came into being in 2003 as a consequence of the great success of the first public meeting of the Hindu Dharma Rakshana Samiti (HDRS) in July 2000, which brought together on a common dais in Chennai around 30 important Hindu religious leaders of different sampradayas from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The writer too was instrumental in the conception and launching of HDRS, and therefore knows the goals and objectives which had been set for the HDRS. The HDRS was launched in the immediate aftermath of Pope John Paul II declaring in November 1999, on Indian soil, his intention to plant the cross in Asia and harvest Hindu, Buddhist, Jaina and Sikh souls for Christ. The HDRS was launched as a beginning of a process to bring together Hindu religious leaders on a public platform as a visible signal of the Hindu community coming together to combat a menacing threat. The HDRS was intended as a high institution speaking in one voice in Hindu interest on Hindu bhumi. It was intended to look inwards. The HDRS was soon taken over by the Chennai clique with the full backing of RSS Chennai; there was no follow-up to the first HDRS convention in 2000, to the bitter disappointment of some of the religious leaders who had entertained great expectations from this momentous gathering. One fine day in December 2003, the Chennai clique removed the veil off the well-hidden HDAS, and a new Hindu body came into being with Swami Dayananda Saraswati as Convener. When the HDAS was created in December 2003, it was assumed that because it now brought into its fold Hindu religious leaders not just from the South, but also mahamandaleswars, mathathipathis and other leaders belonging to mathams and adeenams from across the country that were at least a 150 years old or older, the HDAS was an expanded version of HDRS with the same goals and objectives. The HDAS, it was believed by persons like the writer, would serve Hindu interests on Hindu bhumi and would be inward looking too. The Grand Heist This was 2003, a year before the arrest and incarceration of the Kanchi Acharyas. We do not know what lemon this clique, some of whose members flaunted their identity as bhaktas of the Kanchi matham as their USP, sold some of the acharyas to get Swami Dayananda Saraswati, a sanyasi from a non-traditional institution, to be appointed Convener of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha; but the lemon was sold successfully and Swami Dayananda Saraswati was made Convener of the HDAS. Such was the influence of one member of the Chennai clique on a section of the RSS leadership that no questions were asked and no explanations demanded about the purpose or structure of this edifice. Members of the Chennai clique were individuals in their own right and prominent personalities in diverse areas. This group, in 2003, ’04, controlled the resurrected HDRS, the HDAS, the Thinkers’ Meet (a body of persons who the Convener of the HDAS and a former spokesperson of the RSS attested to as being intellectuals worthy of their attention and patronage) and influenced business houses, some mathathipathis, the RSS leadership in Nagpur and Chennai, the BJP leadership in Delhi, at least one declining English daily in the South, and a small but important section of public opinion. Their reach was formidable and their control over Hindu organizations, total. It was but inevitable that this manic desire to influence and eventually control individuals, institutions, and important power centers would soon run amok. This clique was like an intoxicated Bakasura. Its conduct in the wake of Jayalalithaa’s asuric assault on the Kanchi matham and the arrest of the senior Acharya in November 2004 exposed this clique as nothing else could have done. The Convener of the HDAS who enjoys a symbiotic relationship with the Chennai clique and already had his mind made up for him by the clique, brusquely refused the anguished demand to mobilize the HDAS against Jayalalithaa when the writer sought his darshan within three days of Pujya Acharya’s arrest; the RSS leadership and the Chennai RSS in particular was pressured by this clique into silence and complete inaction. Days passed and weeks and months crawled second after excruciating second, as the two Acharyas languished in jail even as all Hindu organizations went unconcerned about their routine chores and simply watched the mind-numbing tragedy that struck the hoary Kanchi matham. The HDAS convened for the second time in Mumbai in October 2005, but without the Kanchi Acharya, one of the moving spirits behind its creation. The Convener of the HDAS, as if to make amends for not mobilizing the HDAS against the Tamil Nadu government, agreed to pass a resolution – After a discussion of the sad episode of arrest and bad treatment of Kanchi Shankaracharya, a revered member of the Acharya Sabha, it is resolved that – - The arrest and the ill treatment of Kanchi Shankaracharya, the Head of the ancient and sacred Kanchi Kamakoti Matha is a matter of great pain to all the members of the Acharya Sabha present in the Conference. It has also deeply hurt millions of Hindu devotees in the country and overseas. The Acharya Sabha prays that the criminal court cases come to an early end with complete vindication of the Kanchi Acharya and his junior Acharya. The Sabha also prays for their good health and wishes them well. - A suitable law to be enacted to ensure that highly respected spiritual and religious Heads receive due respect and protection against any hurtful treatment The Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha through no fault of its own, but because of the decision made by the Convener and the Chennai clique, was thus coerced into reneging on its promise to protect dharma and the dharmi. Hindus must pause to think what Christians and Muslims in the country and around the world would have done to Jayalalithaa had she done the same to a Tamil Nadu Archbishop or a revered Muslim cleric in Tamil Nadu. The Chennai clique must accept a large part of the blame for exposing us as a cowardly and self-absorbed lot, long on words and short in action. While some of the Acharyas in the HDAS, particularly Pujya Swamiji of the Pejawara Matha, insisted on raising the issue in the second conference of the HDAS in Mumbai, and even succeeded in getting a resolution passed, however vacuous and useless, the organizers of the Thinkers’ Meet which included the Convener of the HDAS, refused to allow any mention, leave alone discussion on the issue, either in 2005 or 2006. The Thinkers’ Meet is today a jaw-me-dead forum where a happy time is had by all. The cataclysmic assault on the Kanchi matham halted this clique for a brief while. It could no longer strut around the country with its habitual self-satisfied smirk. But power is addictive, especially if this is power derived from controlling centers of power. The BJP’s electoral defeat in 2004 added to this clique’s woes and as more and more doors within the country began to shut, this clique, including the HDAS, had to go into forced hibernation; or so we believed. Undaunted by the feisty resistance put up against the clique by a small group of determined Hindus, the Chennai clique, like Advani, refused to go away. The RSS leadership did not outlaw the clique but continued to back it to the hilt; the clique continued to enjoy the benevolent patronage of the Convener of the HDAS who also facilitated its efforts to stay on the right side of Advani. As part of the pre-electoral exercise to promote Advani as Prime Minister in the 2009 general elections, the Convener of the HDAS participated as Chief Guest in a garish public meeting organized by the Chennai clique to promote the Tamil translation of Advani’s best-ignored autobiography. While one member of the clique embodying gender equality was happy to be seen beaming on the dais, the mastermind, as is his wont, stayed coyly behind the screens pulling the strings. HDAS goes global In retrospect, it would seem that the Chennai clique had begun intensive and prolonged interaction with Americans and overseas Hindus with diverse affiliations – Overseas Friends of the BJP, Indian-American disciples of globe-trotting sanyasis, non-Indian Hindus living abroad, friends of non-Indian Hindus who are becoming increasingly visible and vocal in some Indian ashrams, individuals in the American establishment especially the US State Department and US Congress, and a section calling itself non-Hindutva Hindu intellectuals. Between 2004 and 2007 when the domestic climate was hostile to the Chennai clique, it scripted its come-back plot. In January 2006, summoning all its overseas contacts and reserves, the clique organized a jamboree in Gujarat to push for the creation of a “global” organization which would be the vehicle for its global ambitions. The January 2006 Gujarat jamboree led to the creation of that wondrous creature called Global Foundation for Civilizational Harmony (GFCH); this happened exactly two years later – on 22 January 2008. The forced hibernation of the Chennai clique had ended with a flourish and also ended the hibernation of the HDAS. Within ten days of launching the GFCH, the Convener of the HDAS presided over the third conference of the HDAS in Chunchungiri, Karnataka, between 9 and 11 February 2008. The Convener of the HDAS, as pointed out earlier, shares a symbiotic relationship with the Chennai clique. The Chennai clique pulls several organizations from out of its hat to serve its different ambitions. These forums also serve as parking place and positions for the clique’s sycophants and loyalists. Besides controlling some of the RSS parivar organizations, this clique created the the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha, influenced the creation of the Thinkers’ Meet, has now created the Global Foundation for Civilizational Harmony, and continues to control the more or less moribund Hindu Dharma Rakshana Samiti. Swami Dayananda Saraswati is a patron of the HDRS, Convener of the HDAS, financier of the Thinkers’ Meet, and the Hindu Founder of the GFCH. The problem for the traditional mathathipathis of the HDAS, for the Hindu bhaktas of these religious leaders, and for the Hindus of Hindu bhumi, lies in the Convener’s multiple roles and the global ambitions of the Chennai clique which comes with the Convener as a package deal. The moral authority of our traditional mathathipathis, adeenams and mahamandaleswars lies in their unswerving commitment to the religious tenets and accompanying rituals of their sampradayas; they are the custodians of our religious traditions and heritage and they demand that their bhaktas live their lives as responsible inheritors of this heritage. The only dharma of Hinduism’s traditional religious leaders is to care for and protect their sampradaya and their bhaktas. They have to be and are inward looking. Our traditional leaders from various sampradayas are caste-specific, language-specific or region-specific. They are not global because they have no reason to leave the shores of Hindu bhumi. If the world has reason to seek their darshan, the world has to come to their door-step. This has been the way of our dharma traditionally and there is no reason to change this. Certainly, our traditional religious leaders will not cross the borders of Hindu bhumi to seek darshan of their bhaktas living abroad. Perverting the very nature of the HDAS to make it global is the effort by this clique. The writer was compelled to go on the warpath against this clique to rubbish some of the resolutions that were passed at the end of the fourth conference which concluded on 11 January 2010. One of the resolutions reads – 5. It was brought to the notice of the Acharya Sabha, based on interactions with agencies inside and outside the country, that the Sabha has come to be looked upon as a welcome apex voice on behalf of Hindus all over the world. It was therefore necessary for the Sabha to plan its policies and activities accordingly. Ageing leadership of the Heads of Mathas and Peethas should ensure continuity and smooth succession by young disciples well-rooted in our culture and heritage and also well educated and trained to face the modern world, engage in scholarly debates and to participate in international conferences. Agencies inside and outside the country, Apex voice on behalf of Hindus all over the world, ageing leadership, well educated, trained to face the modern world, international conferences, these ideas must make every Hindu sit up and rub his ears in disbelief. In an earlier column the writer had expressed a fear that there was a move afoot to create a Hindu Papacy and this resolution has proved the fear to be well-founded. The Chennai clique and the Convener of the HDAS not only want young disciples as peethathipathis and mathathipathis (so much easier to manipulate and bend to their will), but claim for the HDAS the status of Apex Voice recognized as such by foreign busybodies. To prove the fear of converting HDAS into a Hindu Papacy with the Chennai clique as Cardinals-in-waiting, is the press-note issued by HDAS prior to the conference. Its opening paragraph inter alia states – - The decisions arrived at by the Acharya Sabha are therefore binding on Hindu Society If the press-note struck an unrealistic note, the resolutions left a bad taste in the mouth. The unmitigated impertinence of diminishing the extraordinary and solemn process of choosing and anointing the next peethathipathi or mathathipathi to some kind of employment advertisement should send ring alarm bells in the ears of every Hindu nationalist. Hindu dharma, its bhaktas and structures, have to be protected first on Hindu bhumi. Ignoring and refusing to deal with the threats at home, but passing resolutions about irritations abroad, is to subvert the purpose for which the HDRS and HDAS were created. Our traditional acharyas do not need to travel abroad to participate in international conferences. Intellectually invigorating discussions and debates on aspects of our religion and dharma have been a part of Hindu religious tradition and our leaders did not have to go abroad to do this. A member of the Secretariat of the HDAS some years ago shook his head despairingly at the inability of our acharyas to hold forth in English. Jawaharlal Nehru is alleged to have shaken his head just as despairingly when Babu Rajendra Prasad was proposed as first President of independent India. “How will he receive international leaders,” Nehru was supposed to have asked. As one indignant Hindu thinker put it, it is the prerogative of free Indians to choose a mongoose to sit in Rashtrapati Bhavan. If the world wants to engage the Indian Rashtrapati, it has to engage with the mongoose. Another friend was not quite so elegant in her anger. “Hindus who know how to protect their dharma don’t need to speak in English”, she said. They only have to know how to throw a shoe unerringly at the enemy’s head. Our acharyas must act now to put the HDAS back on track to serve Hindu interests on Hindu bhumi. <h2>Piece on a global chess-board 2</h2> <h3>International meetings and declarations: What’s in it for Hindus on Hindu bhumi?</h3> “It was not from the people of India that India was won by Moghul or Briton, but from a small privileged class” – (Aurobindo, Bande Mataram, April 29, 1907). Aurobindo’s perspicacious analysis of how the Hindu nation was enslaved, first by Jihadis and then by the Crusaders who co-opted a section of the privileged class to enslave us, may well apply to the small privileged class manipulating the HDAS, the highest body of Hinduism’s traditional religious leaders. The HDAS is in very real danger of becoming a piece on the global chess-board not because any one or even a few of the mathathipathis have turned their inward-looking eyes to view foreign shores, but because “a small privileged class” has monumental ambitions to be seen by “inside and outside agencies” as being the face and voice of Hindu dharma – “well educated and trained to face the modern world, engage in scholarly debates and to participate in international conferences” (HDAS Resolutions, January 11, 2010) The list of international conferences attended by the Convener of the HDAS in that capacity, and as listed at the very beginning of the resolutions passed in 2010 by the HDAS is self-explanatory - “The members heard a report from the National Coordinator listing the conferences in the country and overseas in which the Acharya Sabha was represented either through the National Coordinator or through one of the Acharya members.” - Participation in a Conference in Jerusalem in February 2008 centering on scholarly exchanges with Jewish scholars for a better understanding of Hindu religious philosophy and practice. This interaction was greatly appreciated by the Jewish scholars. - Participation in an international conference of government and religious leaders in May 2008, called by the President of Israel. - Participation in an UN Conference in December 2008 at the Hague where the UN Declaration on Human Rights was re-visited; on behalf of the Acharya Sabha. Some important changes were made in the final document to describe “Religious Freedom”; this was to reflect the concerns of the Acharya Sabha and Hindu Society on the “right to religious conversion” by Abrahamic religions. - Participation in February 2009 in a Hindu-Buddhist dialog in Cambodia organized under the auspices of Global Peace Initiative of Women. - Attendance in a preliminary meeting in December 2009 with the Russian Orthodox religious leaders in Moscow to explore future clarificatory dialog with a view to substituting spiritual collectives for international political bodies like the UN, in matters of cultural and religious importance. This alone should make every Hindu with an iota of political sense, sit up and take note. These are not ordinary conferences, and imply that the move by the Chennai clique and the HDAS Convener to play international politics of religion at the level of foreign governments and powerful international organizations. The list above does not include an inter-faith conference in Lariano Italy in May 2006, a conference organized jointly by the Vatican Pontifical Council for Inter-faith Dialogue (PCID) and the World Council of Churches. Political-minded Hindu nationalists are troubled by a few questions – - Was anything concrete achieved by the Convener of the HDAS for the Hindus on Hindu bhumi from these foreign inter-faith, multi-faith dialogue ventures? - Did the President of Israel, the UN, The Vatican, the World Council of Churches, the Cambodian NGO and the Russian Orthodox Church invite Swami Dayananda Saraswati or the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha? - If they invited the HDAS, how did they come to know of this body and why did they short-list this body to speak on behalf of Hinduism? - When one of the press notes stated, “The Sabha also expressed its thanks and appreciation for the efforts made by the forum for Religious freedom of US for recognizing the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha and its activities to help Hindus and also promote the message of Hinduism, did it mean that someone from within the HDAS or one of the members of the Chennai clique with their overseas partners had actively campaigned for US State Department recognition of the HDAS as the sole voice of Hindus in the country? - If the invitation was addressed to the HDAS, did the traditional acharyas, mahamandaleswars and mathathipathis constituting the HDAS discuss the invitation and send its Convener to the discussion table with a set of Hindu-centric and specific assertions, demands, and queries, when we sat across the table with Christians, Muslims and Jews? The writer doubts it; and doubts it for simply two reasons. The HDAS resolutions expose the fact that except for cow slaughter, the HDAS has not discussed or passed resolutions on some of the most pressing and dangerous problems confronting Hindus on this soil. If we are not discussing these problems within the country, it follows we are not even raising these issues in international conferences and meetings. Secondly, some of the resolutions and declarations accepted by the Convener or his representatives on behalf of the HDAS, and the aims and objectives of the HDAS are totally at variance with, and even directly contradict, the very purpose for which the HDRS and the HDAS were conceived of in 2000 and then in 2003; whereas the GFCH is eminently capable of accepting and even enthusiastically endorsing such inter-faith and multi-faith declarations. We may safely presume that the HDAS website is maintained by its Secretariat which, not surprisingly, is manned by Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati’s disciples. But what is surprising is that the HDAS website does not inform us about the aims and objectives of this body; information which is sine qua non. One of Swami Dayananda Saraswati’s past refrains was, “All religions do not have the same goal”. Pujya Swamiji will find it very difficult to pronounce this pregnant truth now, considering the fact that he is also one of the Founder-Patrons of GFCH. Now this website has a colourful pyrotechnic representation of rotating-around-the-globe Cross, Crescent, Star of David, and our own Om, among other symbols. In case any of you failed to get the message, the GFCH insists, as a running commentary to the rotating symbols, that “All religions lead to God”, and “We can learn from all civilizations”. The mischief, to minds as suspicious as that of the writer, lies in the use of ‘religions’ in one pronouncement and ‘civilizations’ in the other. The HDAS is a body of traditional mathas, adeenams and akharas, committed to protecting and propagating Hindu sampradayas. It is but natural that they are gathering under the forum of HDAS with the specific objective of collectively combating threats to dharma and dharmi on this soil. As Convener of HDAS, Swami Dayananda Saraswati is mandated to facilitate the fulfillment of this objective even if it is undefined and undeclared. Obviously this objective cannot be met if as Founder-Patron of the GFCH he is forced to declare all religions lead to God and that Hindus can learn from other civilizations. This is conflict of interest at its most telling. The GFCH website takes great pride in the fact that Hindus participated in a Muharram procession; the question is, can HDAS take pride in the same? More importantly, what will be Swami Dayananda Saraswati’s position on Hindus taking pride in participating in rituals associated with Muharram or Good Friday? Will he speak as the Convener of HDAS or as Founder-Patron of GFCH? The May 2006 Vatican and WCC organized inter-faith conference finds mention in the HDAS website. As the writer has observed in an earlier column, unless otherwise denied or explained, we have to assume the HDAS was represented at this conference. What did these resolutions give to the Hindus of Hindu bhumi? If anything, these resolutions have done us great injustice and disservice. The much touted freedom of religion, like secularism, is specific to countries under the rule of kings, caliphs and governments deriving from Judaism, Christianity and Islam. All three Abrahamic religions are monotheist and have a long history of intolerance – Jews controlling not only all finance and trade but bleeding other religionists dry with their money-lending, Muslims persecuting Christians and Jews, Christians persecuting Muslims and Jews, and both Christianity and Islam destroying without any trace entire civilizations, religions and cultures rooted in non-Abrahamic religions. Nazism was an eye-opener to all three Abrahamic religions; deriving from Christianity, it demonstrated to the White Christian and Jewish world in a span of just two decades what the Church and Islam had been doing across the globe spanning centuries and millennia. The concept of ‘freedom’, political freedom, freedom of religion and all other freedoms was pulled out of thin air as a post-Nazi virtue and given international and mandatory universal status and political thrust by Pope John Paul II when he addressed the UNGA in 1997. (<a href="http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1283&Itemid=1">http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1283&Itemid=1</a>) It is not in the purview of this column to go into details of twentieth century early history of personal freedom and its progression. The point to emphasize here is that the HDAS is not obliged to accept a principle not native to the religion or culture of this bhumi, particularly when the principle works actively against Hindu interests on Hindu bhumi; even more so when this principle has been crafted by the Church to serve its political objective of bringing the world under its domain. The HDAS is not obliged to be politically correct either, in its aims and objectives or in its articulation of Hindu concerns. The HDAS is not obliged to look outside national borders to aspire to be recognized by the US State Department as being internationally politically correct. The HDAS must therefore resist attempts to force it into some kind of contrived bonhomie with the Vatican, WCC, Deoband and the State of Israel; the bonhomie not having yielded any tangible result for Hindus, it may be added. Every word in these declarations and resolutions has been carefully picked; every word has a reason to be there. It is obvious that the Convener of the HDAS and the Hindus who assisted the Convener, or participated in these conferences, have taken what was given to them and have signed on the dotted line as indicated. Hindus signed the completely one-sided Vatican resolutions in 2006 which declared – - Freedom of religion included the right of Christians and Muslims to propagate their religion to non-Christians and non-Muslims on Hindu bhumi - Freedom of religion included the right of the murderous Abrahamic faiths to convert Hindus and tribals on Hindu bhumi and forget the half-clever words which do not fool Hindu nationalists - There is something called ethical conversion and something called unethical conversion where a person converts out of “his own free choice” - Adherents of all faiths have been guilty of errors and injustice - We also appreciated the “humanitarian work’ undertaken by “faith communities” The Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha has flaunted this sell-out of Hindu interests on its website. The writer re-iterates the point that Hindus who participate in these inter-faith and multi-faith dialogues and discussions are invited only because those inviting them know that these Hindus will sign on the dotted line. A case in point is, “We acknowledge that errors have been perpetrated and injustice committed by the adherents of every faith. Therefore, it is incumbent on every community to conduct honest self-critical examination of its historical conduct as well as its doctrinal/theological precepts. Such self-criticism and repentance should lead to necessary reforms inter alia on the issue of conversion.” Let us take this resolution apart, word for word, phrase for phrase. - “We acknowledge” includes the three Hindus who participated in this conference - “Errors perpetrated and injustices committed” are euphemisms for total and near total annihilation by Islam and Christianity of entire nations, cultures and peoples across continents, which includes Native Americans, natives of Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists. The crimes against humanity which is coyly worded as “errors and injustices” include genocide, Atlantic Slave Trade, invasion and occupation of continents, burning women on the stakes as witches, the Christian Inquisitions including the Goa Inquisition, Nazism and communism. The trail of the bloody sword of Islam is just as well-known. - “Adherents of every faith”, the cleverest and most evil phrase of all implies two things. One, Hindus have accepted to be placed in the same category as Christians and Muslims; Two, we have allowed it to be recorded that these terrible crimes were perpetrated only by the “adherents” of these faiths. This implies that the guilty were only misguided adherents, while the faiths themselves are innocent for the deeds of their adherents. The Vatican and the World Council of Churches (the apex body of Protestants) have thus succeeded in getting Hindus to sign that the Bible and the Koran are not guilty of the crimes perpetrated by the Christians and Muslims against the people of other religions in the name of the Bible and the Koran. By foolishly absolving the Bible and the Koran of all guilt, the Hindus who went to the Vatican and signed this piece of garbage have conceded, like Gandhi conceded to the Bishop of Calcutta, that religious conversion will be permitted in independent India; only they have to be “ethical conversion”. This is only the beginning of Hindu stupidity at inter-faith and multi-faith dialogues industry. The tragedy is that this is being done in the name of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha. <h2 style="text-align:center;">Piece on the Global Chess-board 3</h2> <h3>Only politics of religion: Spiritualism is a papal con</h3> Global Foundation for Civilizational Harmony is a mind-boggling and foolish beyond belief Hindu creation rooted in papal exhortations. This multi-religious Foundation would have either self-destructed, tearing itself apart by conflict of religious interests, or sooner than later outraged Hindus would have detonated a Sivakasi under its chair in vehement protest; that this has so far not happened is only because the mutually contradictory GFCH and HDAS were shrewdly hitched to the same engine; and when the engine wears the venerable saffron in the form of Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati, then the bravest of Hindu hearts would quake in trepidation even if it is determined to light a Sivakasi under the GFCH chair. The HDAS Convener is one of the multi-religious Founder-Patrons of the GFCH; the Convener HDAS is also the patron-saint of the Chennai clique and their compatriots abroad. All this is impacting upon the functioning of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha; and just as the Chennai clique as All Advani’s Men had earlier blurred the lines between RSS ideology and BJP realpolitik, they are now blurring the lines between HDAS’ objective of protecting Hindu interests on Hindu bhumi and the GFCH objective of inter-faith dialogue and conflict resolution through bonhomie. The last battle for survival by Hindus with their backs to the wall may be closer to the truth than the cliché “conflict resolution”. Islam and the Church are succeeding at a pace and scale even they would not have imagined, to alter the religious demographic composition of the three southern states of Andhra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and altering the character and content of public spaces with churches, Christian prayer houses, mosques, madrasas and other vast pieces of real estate being purchased and flaunted by adherents of these two Abrahamic religions. Talk about intellectual Hindus as useful idiots! Given the astronomical amounts of money coming to these two religions from Christian and Muslim countries, it is either foolish in the extreme on the part of the Chennai clique or something more sinister that they created the GFCH. <a href="http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1073&Itemid=1">http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1073&Itemid=1</a> <a href="http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1027&Itemid=1">http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1027&Itemid=1</a> http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1026&Itemid= The threat posed by such organizations to Hindu interests cannot be overstated because this clique has managed to get the resolutions passed by HDAS 2010 in Hyderabad to make oblique but laudatory references to the GFCH. The Chennai clique and the Convener HDAS are actually fudging the lines between overwhelming, internal threats to Hindu survival and vicarious overseas (primarily American) Hindu NRI (green card) and PIO (American or European citizen) interests. Hindu nationalists must read the trend-setting address by Pope John Paul II in 1995 to the United Nations General Assembly for two reasons. http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1282&Itemid=1 First, secularism and all that drivel notwithstanding, it is the Church, whether the Catholic Vatican or the Protestant World Council of Churches which decides the domestic and foreign agenda of White Christian countries. Secularism means the Church and the State (Christian monarchy or a ruling oligarchy of Christian commoners) share the same goal of hogtieing the whole world as different nations under the Christian God; the armies of Christian states and churches of all denominations may be different with different weapons and different battles in the same war but they all go to the battlefield for Christ with the unstated agreement to share the plunder between them. Second, in pathetic contrast to Jews, Muslims and Christians who sit across each other in multi-religious or inter-religious dialogues, Hindus who participate in these discussions have very poor knowledge - Of the political objectives of the Abrahamic religions, - The determination and total commitment of their adherents to fulfill those objectives and - The power of these religions and their state partners to enforce their agenda towards fulfilling this objective. The 1995 UNGA address by Pope John Paul II is remarkable for two things: the Pope had the unchallenged audacity to speak of a universal longing for freedom, universal moral law flowing from this universal longing, modern totalitarianisms, and a century of violent coercion giving way to a century of persuasion; but the Pope raised all these noble-sounding virtues only in the context of intra-Christian Second World War, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the rise and fall of communism. While the Jewish community and the Romany gypsies were the intended and mercilessly targetted victims of Nazism, the Second World War alone is the beginning of the context of the Pope’s self-righteous anger because White Christians were victims of the war they unleashed against the world. “The quest for freedom in the second half of the 20th century has engaged not only individuals but nations as well. Fifty years after the end of the Second World War, it is important to remember that that war was fought because of violations of the rights of nations”. We have to read the papal address to the UNGA with a willing suspension of disbelief. The Pope’s address makes no reference to the history of the world prior to the Second World War, shaped by the violent expansion of Christianity across continents; no reference to old totalitarianisms, to the most brutal and merciless violation of nations and abuse of what the Pope now labels as universal human rights of peoples persecuted and destroyed by the Church; the longing for freedom of those peoples and nations made extinct or nearly extinct by the wife&body of Jesus Christ; or the innumerable movements for freedom and courageous wars of independence fought by peoples and nations to end their physical, political and economic slavery, all perpetrated in the name of the Pope’s religion. The colonial-White Christian Second World War and anti-capital and anti-Church communism were the only points of reference for the Pope when he audaciously inaugurated, at the UNGA, the new and universal idiom of political discourse with religion, his religion at the core of world affairs. This was in 1995. A year later, in 1996, Samuel Huntington expanded upon his 1993 political monograph on the clash of civilizations into a path-breaking book with the same name; only he placed a conjunction after the original title and added for good measure, “And the remaking of World Order”. Pope John Paul II in 1995 at the UNGA readily picked his cue from Huntington’s 1993 thesis and proclaimed with all the papal arrogance at his disposal that it would be the Church and its ‘secular’ state partners, the White Christian western countries, who would craft this World Pecking-Order. The Pope also stated matter-of-factly that he intended to create new nations from old for Christ in the name of rights of nations, universal longing for freedom, universal human rights which included the inviolable right to change religions and nationality, and of course self-determination!! There can be historical circumstances in which aggregations different from single state sovereignty can even prove advisable, but only on condition that this takes place in a climate of true freedom, guaranteed by the exercise of the self- determination of the peoples concerned”. Papal Address as statement of intent The US and the United Nations which provided the Pope with the forum to deliver this political speech masquerading as virtuous indignation, could not have made a more blunt and deliberate collective statement of intent. Let us recollect that the US and the Pope, in 1995, flush with the success of breaking up the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, were in the thick of creating the Christian State of East Timor and actively implementing on the ground “aggregations different from single state sovereignty” (euphemism for threatening the territorial integrity of countries) using the twentieth century Christian political doctrine of self-determination. The new world order would be made with the Church and Christian countries playing Creator and the United Nations playing referee. <a href="http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=890&Itemid=1&limit=1&limitstart=9">http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=890&Itemid=1&limit=1&limitstart=9</a> Hindus creating more and more forums and institutions for inter-faith dialogue must read the Pope’s UNGA address again and again and yet again to internalize the barely concealed ultimate objective of all Christian totalitarianisms – Church or State. The Pope, not once in the course of this detailed exposition on papal intent, makes any reference to other religions as being essential to the diversity to which he is singing odes. Read the address again, the Pope talks of other nations, other cultures and other languages as being important to nurture diversity of existence; but does not once mention that other religions too must exist for true diversity. Diversity, as is implied in the papal address, will be permitted in the New World Order, only as diversity of cultures and languages within the Christian Kingdom of God. When India becomes a Christian nation, the Pope will have diversity within diversity – American Christianity, French Christianity, Norwegian Christianity, African Christianity, South-Korean Christianity, and within Indian Christianity he will permit Mundu-wearing Christianity, Kannada-speaking Christianity, Tamil puttu-eating Christianity, Goa pork-eating Christianity, Bindi-wearing Christianity and jeans-attired Christianity. We Christians, says the Pope unctuously, are a diverse world of cultures and languages; patriotic as Indian Christians, Japanese Christians, Chinese Christians and Brazilian Christians; and our multi-national Church celebrates Christian diversity in the ultimate totalitarianism – the Kingdom of God. In this Kingdom of God of free nations, free by self-determination, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Nagaland, along with East Timor, Poland, Czech, Slovakia and Croatia, will be free nations – free to eat pork or puttu, sport a bindi, lungi, mundu or jeans, free nations which will be permitted to speak Croatian, Danish, English, Spanish or Telugu. But they will all worship only Jesus Christ, his mother on earth, and his Father Who-Art-In-Heaven. This is papal, American and UN diversity. If, as is explicitly but cleverly stated, there is no religion but Christianity, and only a diversity of cultures and languages, then freedom of religion can only mean the freedom to convert non-Christian cultures to Christian religion. Readers must not lose sight of this point to better understand why the writer was compelled to condemn all inter-faith and multi-faith meetings and declarations undertaken by the Chennai clique and Swami Dayananda Saraswati on behalf of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha. By declaring through one of its press-notes that the resolutions passed at the Acharya Sabha are binding upon all Hindus, and when HDAS resolutions harp on international this and United Nations that, it is clear that Swami Dayananda Saraswati and the non-Sanyasi coterie using him as front for their own towering ambitions to be key Track II international players, are making the HDAS wily nily a piece on the global chess-board. Arraigned on the chess board are the Kings and armies of Two kinds of Gods – the monotheist God of the Abrahamic religions on one side, and on the other side, the ancient and non-monotheist worldviews where people can worship any number of gods, stones, trees, rivers, books, animals and even space, as they understand ‘God’. “And yet if we make the effort to look at matters objectively, we can see that, transcending all the differences which distinguish individuals and peoples, there is a fundamental commonality. For different cultures are but different ways of facing the question of the meaning of personal existence. And it is precisely here that we find one source of the respect which is due to every culture and every nation: Every culture is an effort to ponder the mystery of the world and in particular of the human person. It is a way of giving expression to the transcendent dimension of human life. The heart of every culture is its approach to the greatest of all mysteries: the mystery of God. Our respect for the culture of others is therefore rooted in our respect for each community’s attempt to answer the question of human life. And here we can see how important it is to safeguard the fundamental right to freedom of religion and freedom of conscience, as the cornerstones of the structure of human rights and the foundation of every truly free society. No one is permitted to suppress those rights by using coercive power to impose an answer to the mystery of man”. Culture, not religion, said the Pope! When important leaders in the RSS who are expected to have a sound understanding of politics, especially politics of religion, parrot “Hinduism is not a religion, it is a way of life rooted in our culture”, when Advani and All Advani’s Men declare the BJP stands for “cultural nationalism”, they have already given Christianity its intellectual victory in India – removing Hindu religion from the battlefield. A way of life, as the Pope has promised us all, can and will be encouraged; only this way of life will be hitched to only one religion – his religion. Cultural nationalism, which the BJP is at pains to emphasise is not religious or territorial nationalism, can thus mesh painlessly with the territory-grabbing political objective of the Church. When Hindus discard specifics in favour of the general, they have always strengthened only the Abrahamic monotheisms. Close on the heels of the culture/language diversity con, follows the second papal con called “spiritualism sans religion” and the western liberal political con called clash of civilizations, not clash of religions. “Living the freedom sought by individuals and peoples is a great challenge to man’s spiritual growth and to the moral vitality of nations. Freedom is not simply the absence of tyranny or oppression. Nor is freedom a license to do whatever we like. Freedom has an inner “logic” which distinguishes it and ennobles it: Freedom is ordered to the truth, and is fulfilled in man’s quest for truth and in man’s living in the truth”. Let us decode this too. Christianity is a one god, one son and one book religion and does not validate spiritual experiences which by definition cannot belong to the realm of monotheisms. Spiritual growth is predicated on unfettered freedom of the mind to think, feel and experience, while the essence of monotheisms is the curtailment of freedom of the mind to know anything beyond the monotheist, intolerant and demanding God and his prophets. The idea of spirituality was gaining coinage in Europe and America where the Church was faced with empty churches signalling Christianity’s failure to appeal to reason and intellect; the Church also failed to appeal to emotions not hitched to their intolerant God. Consequently, there was a corresponding loss of faith in the Church and Christianity. Having condemned even the natural stirrings of spirituality in America and Europe as heresy, and confronted by the spectre of an ascendant Islam, the Pope had to feign acceptance of spirituality if he had to harvest the souls of the “spiritual” cultures in non-Christian countries and nations. So we now have the papal con “spiritual growth” which however he says, cannot attain fullness unless a person is allowed to seek it in Jesus Christ. Hindus participating in inter-faith dialogues have not asked the Church to explain how, if Jesus Christ is the path, the goal and the truth, can the idea of “spiritual growth” of individuals be reconciled to the unverifiable belief of the historicity of Jesus’ life, his crucifixion and his rising from the dead. As for the ‘truth” in the papal address, that’s a Christian, in fact Catholic monopoly. “Freedom is ordered to the truth” said the Pope to the countries of the world in 1995 at the UNGA and also said that that freedom is “fulfilled in man’s quest for truth and in man’s living in the truth”. Hindu nationalists as they wage war against the Church and Islam must never forget that the Second Vatican Council had stated unambiguously that the Vatican while encouraging inter-faith dialogue across “cultures and nations” maintains that while other “cultures” have elements of truth in them, the Catholic Church alone has all the truth; in fact, it is the only repository of truth. So when Pope John Paul II spoke about freedom of religion being a fundamental freedom and about how this freedom is ordered to the truth and this freedom is fulfilled only when men are allowed to embark “freely” in their quest for truth, and after the quest, to “live” in truth he is actually stating the following – - Freedom of religion is actually a privilege accorded to Christians to undertake religious conversion in non-Christian nations; only we will call it freedom of religion and conscience - Anti-conversion laws are a violation of the Christian right to effect religious conversion of non-Christian Hindus and tribal communities; it is in fact a violation of the right of non-Christians’ “quest for truth” - Hindus cannot reconvert Indian Christians to Hindu dharma because this is a violation of our right to “living in truth” “The incumbent Pope exemplifies this White Christian intolerance of non-Christian cultures and its congenital arrogance, as his diatribe against the newly appointed Indian Ambassador to the Vatican proves. Nothing but White Christianity’s core belief that non-White peoples are genetically stupid can explain how the Pope could lecture/hector the Indian Ambassador on the virtues of social justice, tolerance, peace, religious freedom, and India’s spiritual heritage. The Pope even had opinions on the Rajasthan government’s decision to bring in an anti-conversion law, Pakistan-India relations, on Kashmir, on the National Integration Council, on India’s Ministry for Minority Affairs and on “violence linked to political and religious extremism in the region”. The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things; and poor Ambassador Tripathi had no choice but to listen. The disturbing signs of religious intolerance which have troubled some regions of the nation, including the reprehensible attempt to legislate clearly discriminatory restrictions on the fundamental right of religious freedom, must be firmly rejected as not only unconstitutional, but also as contrary to the highest ideals of India’s founding fathers, who believed in a nation of peaceful coexistence and mutual tolerance between different religions and ethnic groups”. Thus spake Pope Benedict XVI nee Joseph Ratzinger to the Indian Ambassador”. (Ratzinger of Hamelin, Vigil Plainspeak, Archives, Plainspeak, <a href="www.vigilonline.com">www.vigilonline.com</a>) It all boils down then to conquest of new territories and harvesting new souls for Christ. For Hindus, it boils down to religious conversion. Inter-faith dialogue is a Vatican con intended to get the Church’s future victims to let their guard down. Islam has no problems riding piggy-back on this Christian con in Hindu bhumi if it can use it to further Islam’s unchanging politico-religious objective. The Huntington-GFCH con called civilization The Church, Islam or the State of Israel couldn’t care less what articles Swami Dayananda Saraswati writes in the New Indian Express or what talks he gives to his captive audience in Chennai or Cincinnati about how all religions do not lead to the same goal. But if Swami Dayananda Saraswati as Convener HDAS, or any other Hindu sanyasi, or the Indian Government - Can be summoned to the Vatican or Jerusalem or New York to sign declarations and resolutions which only strengthen Abrahamic resolve - If Hindu religious leaders can be made to say good and kind things about these religions and their adherents, - If the nation of Hindus can never have a government which will protect Hindu interests only because these bodies have been disabled and disarmed from fighting the Hindu war - If the highest representative of the Government of India can be summoned to papal presence and pacified into quaking silence, That is victory and that is what really counts in maintaining the New World Order. All the song and dance ultimately boils down to religious conversion. As Pope John-Paul II put it in plain words- - “And here we can see how important it is to safeguard the fundamental right to freedom of religion and freedom of conscience, as the cornerstones of the structure of human rights and the foundation of every truly free society. No one is permitted to suppress those rights by using coercive power to impose an answer to the mystery of man. - Jesus Christ is for us God made man, and made a part of the history of humanity. Precisely for this reason, Christian hope for the world and its future extends to every human person. Because of the radiant humanity of Christ, nothing genuinely human fails to touch the hearts of Christians. - Therefore, as we approach the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of Christ, the church asks only to be able to propose respectfully this message of salvation and to be able to promote, in charity and service, the solidarity of the entire human family”. The HDAS, seven years after its creation, has failed comprehensively to deal effectively with the twin menace of Islam and the Church. It has done little, in fact nothing, to check the inroads that Islam and the Church have made in the three southern states. As Pujya Udipi Pejawara Matha Swamiji pointed out to the writer, the threat to Hindu dharma and Hindus from the Church and Islam is as acute in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh as it is in Tamil Nadu. Entire fishing hamlets, coastal villages, more and more districts in Tamil Nadu are now Christian and Muslim strongholds – Thanjavur, Thiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Tirunelvelli, North Arcot, Dindukkal (Dindigul) and Ramnad districts are the bastion of Muslims while Kanyakumari, Tirunelvelli Dindukkal, Chengalpet and Thiruvallur districts are witnessing the menacing presence of churches of all denominations. Chennai, capital of TN, is witnessing the obscene flaunting of Muslim and Christian symbols in public spaces, completely disproportionate to their actual numbers. This flaunting of symbols has been enabled by the astronomical amounts of money pouring into the country from Christian and Muslim countries. The only force that can challenge the State in India is the HDAS; the HDAS was created to be the collective voice of all Hindus reflecting Hindu concerns and to protect Hindu dharma and dharmi. Astronomical amounts of money pouring into the country for “charity and service”, which the Pope said in 1997, would be used to promote the solidarity of the human family. Family, as we all know, is a homogenous entity. So when the Pope said he would use charity and service to promote the solidarity of the entire human family he meant the entire Christian human family. Samuel Huntington’s clash of civilizations prognosis was a well-argued rebuttal of Fukuyama’s self-satisfied end of history proclamation. As early as in 1993, Huntington could feel the beginning of the tremors of resistance to the uni-polar world order which was being seen as a White Christian (sans the Orthodox Church) world order; only he did not have the stomach to articulate the fact that the resistance to White Christian world order would come from other religions. Political observers and thinkers across the world were so afraid of the scenario that Huntington had unveiled, that no one asked him “what civilizations”? We know of the Greek, Roman, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Mayan and Inca, Confucian and Saraswati-Indus (Hindu) civilizations. Except for the Hindu and Confucian civilizations, all other civilizations have been wiped off the face of the earth without trace in living societies. Of the nine blocs which Huntington lists as forces of resistance to the White-Christian uni-polar world order – Western, Latin-American, African, Islamic, Sinic, Hindu, Orthodox, Buddhist and Japanese, except for the Hindu and what Huntington calls Sinic civilizations, all others are religions; lest there is any lingering doubt about whether Hinduism is a religion or civilization, let me emphasize that all civilizations, as the writer understands the word, were the beautiful flowering of non-monotheist, pre-Christian, pre-Islamic religions. Islam and Christianity destroyed all civilizations except the Hindu and Sinic civilizations. The African continent was divided equally between Islam and the Church and although a few vestiges of the ancient and proud tribal religion remain, African societies have been irretrievably Islamised and Christianized and tribal customs can at best survive only as peripheral ‘inculturation’ devices within Christianity and as terrible heresy within Islam. So when the GFCH website flaunts its foolishness with “All religions lead to God” and the priceless “We can learn from all civilizations”, enraged Hindus must ask Swami Dayananda Saraswati to tell us if he really thinks all religions lead to God and if Hindu dharma can really learn anything from Abrahamic religions. After all, to which civilizations is the Chennai clique referring to when they say “we” can learn from all civilizations as their self-identity on the GFCH website. From a passionate declaration in 2003 about how religious conversion is violence against the individual, family and society, the tone and content of the HDAS resolutions on religious conversion become more and more muted until in 2007, and then in 2010 there is just a perfunctory mention of religious conversion which is today the most menacing threat confronting Hindu survival on Hindu bhumi, and no mention at all from 2005 onwards about the threat posed by foreign funds which alone is powering not only religious conversion but also the growing control and ownership by Christians and Muslims of agricultural lands, commercial enterprises, schools, colleges, universities, small trade and commerce, venture capital and finance, inroads into films, small screen, and print and electronic media. From stronghold to stranglehold, Islam and the Church are holding the Hindus of the three southern states in a death grip. The HDAS’ diminishing interest in internal matters coincides with the rise of the Chennai clique in 2006 and their international inter-faith misadventures. Given the nature and extent of the threat faced by Hindus on Hindu bhumi, how can the HDAS explain its preoccupation with American textbooks, books on American academe written by NRIs and PIOs in America, Wendy Doniger, global warming, and human rights, and passing resolutions about thanking some outside and inside agencies for recognizing the HDAS as the apex body of all Hindus? How can it justify and explain the glowing reference to the GFCH in its 2010 resolutions in Hyderabad? Most importantly, how can the HDAS justify or even explain the declarations and resolutions it signed in Italy, at The Hague and in Jerusalem? <h2 style="text-align:center;">Piece on the Global Chess Board – 4</h2> Destroy the Asuras The Atlantic Slave Trade, colonization of continents, the Spanish, Portuguese and Goa Inquisitions, and Nazism, demonstrated the Church’s capacity to use the secular Christian State for its political objective to win territories for the father-who-art-in-heaven. Slave trade, colonialism, Inquisition and Nazism rampaged across the world leaving behind in their wake, organized and targeted genocide of non-Christians, the worst human rights abuses, the worst crimes against women in particular and humanity at large, and the worst possible war crimes by the Church and its partner the Christian State on a never-before-scale seen in history. The only parallel to this sustained and continuing till the present day, typically Abrahamic Christian violence and brutality against peoples of the world, is the Abrahamic Muslim invasion of Hindu India lasting over 800 years and still going strong. The League of Nations came into being in 1920 in the immediate aftermath of the intra-Christian First World War, while its offspring the United Nations was created in 1946 in the aftermath of the intra-Christian Second World War, with the express but unstated intent to punish the perpetrators of Nazism and as collective Christian expiation, give to the traumatized and dispersed Jewish people in 1948, the State of Israel as their homeland. For some inexplicable reason, the Jews have failed to articulate the fact that Nazism, like slavery and colonialism, was also a Christian derivative and a continuation of the abomination called Inquisition. Taking refuge behind the shield provided to them by the Jews to hide their sins against humanity and Creation, White Christian countries set in motion the process of creating a world body of countries with a charter of virtues they had no moral right to draft, much less enforce or implement. As colonialism ended and the former colonies struggled to restore the roots of their nationhood and re-assert their nationalism, the United Nations, as was intended with foresight, became an instrument of American foreign policy and evolved into a tool of harassment of countries and leaders standing up to the White Christian poles of post-colonial world order. 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