Hindus, Eat Beef and Atone For Your Sins: the New Call of the Parivar

 

Hindus, Eat Beef and Atone For Your Sins: the New Call of the Parivar

Shrikant G. Talageri

 

The BJP Parivar − as I have pointed out so many times before, it is the BJP with its political-power agenda which calls the shots in what people erroneously refer to as the Sangh Parivar − has issued its latest fatwa to its bhakts through the mouth of the person who calls the shots and plays the tune to which millions of swayamsevaks dance: "learn to eat beef and be treated like animals for two hundred years: you deserve it".

https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/rss-chief-mohan-bhagwat-quotas-8928819/

At a point of time when Udhayanidhi Stalin of the DMK has called for the uprooting of "Sanatana Dharma"  (another more Sanskritish and scripture-oriented name for mainstream Hinduism) during a Seminar of Breaking India Forces which called for the dismantling of "Sanatana Dharma" (on the lines of the earlier international seminar in the USA on dismantling Hindutva) − in which, incidentally a speaker described Hindu idols in temples (comparing Hindu temples unfavorably with churches and mosques) as "dirty dolls" − and a wave of resentment is sweeping certain wide-awake (as opposed to "woke") sections of Hindus, this fatwa comes as a shot in the arm for these Breaking India Forces. All the facts, data and logic − which shows that all the evils in Hinduism are but a molehill in comparison with the mountain of evils in Christianity and Islam − are swept away by this fatwa. People like J. Sai Deepak who are struggling against the tide of anti-Hindu propaganda and trying to point out the truth, are branded as fools:

https://youtu.be/Eg9M1Oz9NJw?si=O_saUY8GtEHHdITk

Hindutva certainly does not mean ignoring, justifying or glorifying the less savory aspects of Hinduism. I myself have always been an advocate of looking with open and honest eyes at all the scriptures and books (and histories) of all religions, including Hinduism − see my various books and articles like "Karṇa and Yudhiṣṭhira in the Mahabharata" or on Dr. Ambedkar or on tribals (including isolated tribes like the Andamanese). But these attacks from within by the Trojan-Horse Parivar are based on nothing else but greed for more and more votes from new vote-banks (knowing that nothing can shake the foundations of the permanent Bhakt vote banks among Hindus, which will continue to vote for the Parivar even if the Parivar were to open up concentration camps and gas-chambers to torture and gas Hindu activists to death) and for approval-certificates from sections of the breaking-India Forces. In the process, all those fighting for Hinduism on any issue are left looking like idiots!

I had decided not to write anything more on political issues, but it is difficult to remain silent when such blatant attempts are made to destroy the morale of those fighting for Hindu issues at the risk of their lives. I can only hope that the government (after the 2024 elections, of course) does not pass a bill to make it compulsory to serve beef in all government-sponsored midday-meal-schemes for school children, and to make it compulsory for Hindus to make beef a compulsory ingredient in the Prasad offered in all Hindu temples!