Respect is reciprocal
Change is nature. Change helps us learn lessons and understand the principles of life from an earthly and spiritual perspective. Without this lesson, humanity would not have reached this critical point of transition, which may take us to the next level of consciousness, if we so desire. Change gives us lesson to revise, rectify, modify and then to act to justify our meaningful existence. This is not an excerpt of any religious discourse… this is message of nature, feel it. A stubborn attitude not to accept revision, rectification and action accordingly, force nature to change in its own way. So, individuals, society, group, political party, nation, or religion, which stubbornly or fanatically rejects the need of reformation, push themselves to face the consequences. Then things may seem to become uglier on the surface, but remember that all of this is only happening because of the necessary cleansing process that needs to take place in order for the existence to reach its next level, on a higher frequency band. It is our responsibility to reach a balanced and harmonious state of well-being. We must see our life from this perspective, particularly or generally. See two things which happened in and around us: the incident of beheading a Sikh youth by the Taliban in Pakistan and the 'humane' voices that rose to call Maqbool Fida Hussain back to India. The Pakistan incident occurred when Sikh youths were abducted by the Taliban militia. The Taliban told them to embrace Islam or face death. When the Sikh youth refused, his head was chopped off and sent to the Bhai Joga Singh Gurudwara in Peshawar. A sizeable number of Hindus and Sikhs live in Pakistan, but the community, facing increasing pressure from the Taliban to convert to Islam, have since fled to other cities across Pakistan. Days before he was taken captive by the Pakistani Taliban, Jaspal Singh, whose beheading near Peshawar shocked and outraged Sikhs on both sides of the border, had been issued a visa to India. He was excited and had been drawing up plans because he had promised his mother that he would take her to the Golden Temple in Amritsar. On the other hand, the painter, who disrespected the Hindus by his nefarious paintings of Goddesses, escaped their wrath by his self-styled exile. He fired the salvo and then disappeared into the lanes of Qatar… really it was typical. And the hypocrites are demanding the government for his respectful return. There must be one moral law. If a cartoon published in a magazine is taken as disrespect to the Paigambar Mohammed, and a worldwide fatwa was issued to kill the Danish cartoonist, why this was not issued against Maqbool Fida Hussain for his un-religious act? The same moralist Islamist Maulanas of India, who initiated and inflamed a nationwide agitation against the thing which happened in other country, should have come forward to condemn Hussain, but they maintained a stoic silence on his misdeeds. Any individual, or society, or religion, that maintains a double standard, loses its respect, both earthly and spiritually. The act of disrespect to religious faith of any community is to be condemned. But to bark on their own matter and to wear a sarcastic smile on that of others! No religion teaches us to act like this... and if any religion turns so self-centered and narrow visioned, it must be reformed entirely. It is our pious duty and if we don't perform it on time, nature will bring about the renaissance…. It should be clear to self-styled godman, Shrishri Ravishankar, who has also started chirping for the honoured repatriation of Maqbool Fida Hussain. He can come to India, but he must beg apology from the Indian masses, whose hearts he broke. If what the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard did was wrong, then the so-called art of Hussain is also a sin. If Westergaard is to live in fear since he drew his notorious cartoon… so Hussain also should be… The feeling of respect and honour is reciprocal not unilateral. I refer to a quote of Buddhist scholar Dr Dhammananda. He says, 'If someone in Afghanistan is destroying statues of Buddha…why should I get angry? It's their problem as they are stupid enough to destroy a stone made out to look somewhat beautiful, if not respecting history or whatever. I am a believer in dhamma (natural laws), not statue. Similarly, just by drawing Goddess Saraswati's or Bharatmata's nude picture, M F Hussain can't embarrass Hindu culture.' But this logic is difficult to understand and put to practice when it's your own mother or sister..! As Hussain said, "It's just modern art." Will he draw his mother's or wife's pictures in the nude and showcase them to the world? He may say, 'yes', but it seems cheap and loathsome to me. If we respect our self, we are duty-bound to respect each and every creature of nature. Otherwise, nature itself creates an atmosphere in such a way that establishes respect of the disrespected. (Published in By-Line National News Weekly (Hindi and English) March 20, 2010 Issue under – Editorial)
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