Since two days at office in the time I find to talk to my colleagues, the topic of discussion is majorly the religion conversion and terrorism. One of my coworkers wants India to be Hindustan. He claims how Pakistan has mostly Muslims, India should also be only of Hindus and no one else should exist in India. But I would never wish such notion is taken by anybody in my proximity.
He kept the point of the Australian prime minister addressed at the Muslims in their country after the attack in Sydney café and stressed we also should do such declaration in our country to counter terrorism. Before a day he insisted me to vote for Bhagavadgitha as our national book, and I voted for it.This was a point for me to speak further to pull him back.
India has kept till now the harmony among the people despite its peak diversity of religion, caste, language and culture. This is never because of any government who ruled us, but it was because of the forces left over by the great souls such as Buddha, Gandhi, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Gurunanak, Kabirdas, Surdas, Inayat Khan, Basavanna, Shishunal Sharif,Vethathiri Maharishi and many more till today. They are the reason for rich diversity of culture in harmony which you would never get to see anywhere in the world except India.
Since childhood I am conditioned to respect all religion. We had a Muslim neighbor, Fathima aunty, who used to say that she would worship Lord Narasimha which is an Hindu god during Shravana masa (July-August) linking a story of her ancestors living in the Ahobilam of Andhrapradesh. When I was young I would eat rice only with the daal from Sopura Aunty’s house as the gravy prepared in our home seemed to be spicy to me.
When my ajji (Grandma) spilled hot milk over my thigh by mistake, it was Reshma Bhanu akka who took me to her house to console me as no one was there at home except ajji. Firoj anna would take me on his shoulder; throw me up and catch back to make me happy. Sopura aunty would tease my mother asking me whether I agree to marry her son. My Grandpa used to call Ismai lbhayi as “Smail” by which he was kidding in his manners to remove “I” from urdu word as most Urdu speakers add “I” to most of English and Kannada words (Ischool as an example). Ismail bhayi would happily accept the tease and make fun by bantering at each other.
My cousin was taken to learn Arabic along our Muslim friends Muskaan and Salim veiling dupatta over her head. The teacher accepted her to teach Arabic as she would be left alone without her companions who got to attend Urdu class. We are still in contact with few of them. We would visit them when we go our hometown.
If I look at these things, I can say we were very happy living beside to each other. We required no conversion, no force to accept anything as our manner or culture. The real religion was the friendship which holds our families of different religion in happiness.
In school, we all students were loved by our entire teachers regardless of Hindu, Muslim or Christian. Our favorite teachers were Ms. Mary, Ms. Lina, Ms. Elizabeth,Ms.Jacintha, Sister. Dorthy, Sister. Sujatha, Sister Paulin. Especially during my high school I was mentored and loved the most by my two teachers Miss. Johny assempta and Sister. Cynthia saldana with whom I am in consistent connection.
I am Kousalya named after my birth that happened on Ramnavami is now grown up being contributed by all my friends and teachers who are true followers of their respective religions. I had never found a single mark of unsecular incident in my life. But the happenings I listened to in the news these days are frustrating though it physically has no effect on me.
For the atrocities occurred in Peshavara, My friend says,they should be thrown out of India stereotyping terrorism to Muslim. If we do so do they really then follow Hinduism? Do we really deserve to accept Bhagavadgitha as our national book which says God exists in everything? Do we have really understood our Upanishads which says "Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma" (Everything in this universe is God)? Do we really accept to say "Sarve jano Sukhino Bhavanthu" (May everyone be happy), If people are against to these questions, then they can never claim to be a Hindu.
My friend said thorn should be removed from thorn when I was expressing my grief for the Ghar wapsi conversions happened in West Bengal. If the principle of thorn for thorn starts we would never see the flower on earth. To bring positive charge to a negatively charged body, we must add positive charges, but not negative charge. To remove hatred, love is the only solution. To neutralize acidic solution, you need to add basic but not the acid again. This is the rule of nature. Our everyday sufferings and uneasiness are the result of our failure to understand this truth.
The fight should only be at the end of salvation. That is when the battle of Kurukshetra was taken ahead by Krishna until which he was tolerant.
Tolerance is the best lesson taught by Lord Jesus where we see he tolerates all confronts to him throughout his life. Prophet Mohammed says Allah is the forgiving and merciful.
If Raama is to be alive, he would never accept the illogical exploitation on innocent people. If Mohammad were there, he would stay away from such religion which has misunderstood the meaning of Jihad. Jesus would never agree the irrational people wasting the time on unnecessary works.
All our heroes never established any religion, it is we who named it and become crazy over which is not even visible to us. When nobody decides in which religion we take birth!!, who are we to decide others to join particular caste?? If we obey our birth happens naturally, let us learn to live with nature.
Everybody is made of same molecules of DNA, proteins and water. Everything is made of the same atom in which the same neutrons, protons and electrons exist. Why should we segregate among everything which is not accepted for the creation?
I wish we learn to love not just human, but broaden our heart to care for everything in this universe.
He kept the point of the Australian prime minister addressed at the Muslims in their country after the attack in Sydney café and stressed we also should do such declaration in our country to counter terrorism. Before a day he insisted me to vote for Bhagavadgitha as our national book, and I voted for it.This was a point for me to speak further to pull him back.
India has kept till now the harmony among the people despite its peak diversity of religion, caste, language and culture. This is never because of any government who ruled us, but it was because of the forces left over by the great souls such as Buddha, Gandhi, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Gurunanak, Kabirdas, Surdas, Inayat Khan, Basavanna, Shishunal Sharif,Vethathiri Maharishi and many more till today. They are the reason for rich diversity of culture in harmony which you would never get to see anywhere in the world except India.
Since childhood I am conditioned to respect all religion. We had a Muslim neighbor, Fathima aunty, who used to say that she would worship Lord Narasimha which is an Hindu god during Shravana masa (July-August) linking a story of her ancestors living in the Ahobilam of Andhrapradesh. When I was young I would eat rice only with the daal from Sopura Aunty’s house as the gravy prepared in our home seemed to be spicy to me.
When my ajji (Grandma) spilled hot milk over my thigh by mistake, it was Reshma Bhanu akka who took me to her house to console me as no one was there at home except ajji. Firoj anna would take me on his shoulder; throw me up and catch back to make me happy. Sopura aunty would tease my mother asking me whether I agree to marry her son. My Grandpa used to call Ismai lbhayi as “Smail” by which he was kidding in his manners to remove “I” from urdu word as most Urdu speakers add “I” to most of English and Kannada words (Ischool as an example). Ismail bhayi would happily accept the tease and make fun by bantering at each other.
My cousin was taken to learn Arabic along our Muslim friends Muskaan and Salim veiling dupatta over her head. The teacher accepted her to teach Arabic as she would be left alone without her companions who got to attend Urdu class. We are still in contact with few of them. We would visit them when we go our hometown.
If I look at these things, I can say we were very happy living beside to each other. We required no conversion, no force to accept anything as our manner or culture. The real religion was the friendship which holds our families of different religion in happiness.
In school, we all students were loved by our entire teachers regardless of Hindu, Muslim or Christian. Our favorite teachers were Ms. Mary, Ms. Lina, Ms. Elizabeth,Ms.Jacintha, Sister. Dorthy, Sister. Sujatha, Sister Paulin. Especially during my high school I was mentored and loved the most by my two teachers Miss. Johny assempta and Sister. Cynthia saldana with whom I am in consistent connection.
I am Kousalya named after my birth that happened on Ramnavami is now grown up being contributed by all my friends and teachers who are true followers of their respective religions. I had never found a single mark of unsecular incident in my life. But the happenings I listened to in the news these days are frustrating though it physically has no effect on me.
For the atrocities occurred in Peshavara, My friend says,they should be thrown out of India stereotyping terrorism to Muslim. If we do so do they really then follow Hinduism? Do we really deserve to accept Bhagavadgitha as our national book which says God exists in everything? Do we have really understood our Upanishads which says "Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma" (Everything in this universe is God)? Do we really accept to say "Sarve jano Sukhino Bhavanthu" (May everyone be happy), If people are against to these questions, then they can never claim to be a Hindu.
My friend said thorn should be removed from thorn when I was expressing my grief for the Ghar wapsi conversions happened in West Bengal. If the principle of thorn for thorn starts we would never see the flower on earth. To bring positive charge to a negatively charged body, we must add positive charges, but not negative charge. To remove hatred, love is the only solution. To neutralize acidic solution, you need to add basic but not the acid again. This is the rule of nature. Our everyday sufferings and uneasiness are the result of our failure to understand this truth.
The fight should only be at the end of salvation. That is when the battle of Kurukshetra was taken ahead by Krishna until which he was tolerant.
Tolerance is the best lesson taught by Lord Jesus where we see he tolerates all confronts to him throughout his life. Prophet Mohammed says Allah is the forgiving and merciful.
If Raama is to be alive, he would never accept the illogical exploitation on innocent people. If Mohammad were there, he would stay away from such religion which has misunderstood the meaning of Jihad. Jesus would never agree the irrational people wasting the time on unnecessary works.
All our heroes never established any religion, it is we who named it and become crazy over which is not even visible to us. When nobody decides in which religion we take birth!!, who are we to decide others to join particular caste?? If we obey our birth happens naturally, let us learn to live with nature.
Everybody is made of same molecules of DNA, proteins and water. Everything is made of the same atom in which the same neutrons, protons and electrons exist. Why should we segregate among everything which is not accepted for the creation?
I wish we learn to love not just human, but broaden our heart to care for everything in this universe.
"Be kind to all creatures, this is the true religion"
