Temple & God

 Tagore condemned temple with 'no god' 

120 years back exactly on this day when Rammandir has been christened ... 20 Shrabon, August 5 ... Rabindranath Tagore wrote this lines ... So prophetic ... English translation from Bengali ... (The translation taken from the wall of Banojyotsna Lahiry)

There is no god in that temple”, said the Saint.

The King was enraged;

“No God? Oh Saint, aren’t you speaking like an atheist?

On the throne studded with priceless gems, beams the golden idol,

And yet, you proclaim that’s empty?”

“It’s not empty; It’s rather full of the Royal pride.

You have bestowed yourself, oh King, not the God of this world”,

Remarked the saint.

The King frowned, “2 million golden coins

Were showered on that grand structure that kisses the sky,

I offered it to the Gods after performing all the necessary rituals,

And you dare claim that in such a grand temple,

There is no presence of God”?

The Saint calmly replied, “in the very year in which, twenty million of your subjects were struck by a terrible drought;

The pauperized masses without any food or shelter,

came begging at your door crying for help, only to be turned away,

they were forced to take refuge in forests, caves, camping under roadside foliages, derelict old temples;

and in that very year

when you spent 2 million gold to build that grand temple of your's,

that was the day when God pronounced:

“My eternal home is lit by everlasting lamps,

In the midst of an azure sky,

In my home the foundations are built with the values:

Of Truth, Peace, Compassion and Love.

The poverty stricken puny miser,

Who could not provide shelter to his own homeless subjects,

Does he really fancy of giving me a home?”

That is the day God left that Temple of yours.

And joined the poor beside the roads, under the trees.

Like emptiness of the froth in the vast seas,

Your mundane temple is as hollow.

It’s just a bubble of wealth and pride.’

The enraged King howled,

“oh you sham cretin of a person,

Leave my kingdom this instant’.

The Saint replied calmly,

“The very place where you have exiled the Divine,

Kindly banish the devout too".

----Rabindranath Tagore,

20th of Shravan (that is 6th August).  1307 (as per Bengali Calendar)

Courtesy: Buroshiva Dasgupta

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God! If you believe in the existence of God, who do you think God is? 

One who provide us everything! What would a provide want? Peaceful co-existence right!

Why this dramas, fights, and misunderstanding?

The Ayodhya Ram Mandir campaign has played the most significant part in the RSS's socio-political acceptance in India despite vehement opposition from its critics.

Madhukar Dattatray Deoras, commonly known as Balasaheb Deoras was the third RSS Chief. The Ram Mandir at Janmabhoomi - the birthplace of Lord Ram - was not on the RSS agenda during the tenures of previous RSS chiefs. The RSS in its initial decades considered it a too local issue even for a big state like Uttar Pradesh. Two incidents shifted the RSS's focus on the Ram Mandir construction, which had been a localised campaign of the sadhus belonging to akhadas (religious sects) in Ayodhya.

In the book, titled "RSS: A View to the Inside", authors Walter Andersen and Shridhar Damle have mentioned that Swadeshi - use and promotion of indigenous products - and ban on cow slaughter were the core cultural agendas of the RSS.

The first incident was a mass conversion of Dalits to Islam in the Meenakshipuram village in Tamil Nadu in 1981. The second incident had a Congress hand in it.

In 1983, then senior Congress leader from Uttar Pradesh Dau Dayal Khanna declared from a VHP platform that the mosques in Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi would have to go. The religious places of the Hindus should be reclaimed, he had suggested. Deoras was surprised to know in 1983 that there were locks on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid complex.

The Dharma Sansad decided to work for the unification of Hindu society and reclaiming the three religious sites mentioned by Congress leader Khanna. The same year, the RSS made a show with large banners showing Ram Lalla behind the locks across Uttar Pradesh.

Ram Shila Pujan (worship of bricks with Ram engraved on them) was organised. And, finally at the Palanpur conclave, the RSS formally adopted the construction of Ram Mandir as its resolution in 1989.

The clamour of Ram Mandir had started paying a dividend for the RSS in Hindu society and the BJP in politics. The BJP had emerged in the role of king-maker in 1989 Lok Sabha election.

Three years later, the RSS and its affiliate organisations including the VHP and the BJP had generated enough popular support to that a massive crow of karsevaks could dare to bring down the Babri Masjid despite a promise by the BJP's state government to the Centre under the Congress. Advaniji lead the show. Ashok Singhal was the chief architect of the Ramjanmabhoomi movement. 

On 17th Oct 2015 Ashok Singhal nominated Dr. Subramanian Swamy to lead Ram Mandir Movement. 

Many Ayodhya crusaders were not part of the event, but RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat spoke at the Bhoomi Pooja ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. 

Modi wearing a mukut while offering prayers was it right? But who am I to say? 

The Hagia Sophia was a mosque until 1935, when it became a museum in a new, secular Turkish republic. The change of status was annulled last month, and the building is now a mosque again.

The Hagia Sophia was built as a Christian church in the year 537 by the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I, in what was then Constantinople. The building stood as the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years. When the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453, Mehmed II converted it into a mosque, destroyed its relics, plastered over iconography he considered idolatrous and added Islamic features such as the minarets that encircle its magnificent dome today. The Hagia Sophia remained the principal mosque of the city, renamed Istanbul, for over a century and a half, until the Sultan Ahmed Mosque—colloquially called the Blue Mosque—was completed in 1616.

Will the history repeat?