VEDIC TEACHINGS FORGOTTEN UNDER THOUSANDS Years TERROR INVASIONS OF MUGHALS TYRANTS

Manu, the great law-giver or all humanity has also ruled that the aggressor must be slain outright without the least hesitation (vkrrkf;ue~ vk;kUre~ g~U;knso vfopkj;u~)

And yet over the centuries, under the debilitating practices of Jain-ism and Buddhism over-emphasizing asceticism and ahimsa (i.e. non-killing), Hindus in India, long forgetting their Vedic teachings, reeling and bucking under the thousand-year-long terror-invasions of Muslim tyrants, have been reduced to a set of whimpering weaklings and milksops; so much so that even their leaders like M. K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, sliding even-deeper into the morass of appeasement and more appeasement, appeared tailor-made for the general public.

The surprising result of this progressive weakening is highlighted in one historic happening. In 1905-1906 when the British administration in India sought to divide Muslim-majority areas of East Bengal from the Hindu-majority areas of West Bengal a public agitation whipped up by strong-willed Hindu leaders such as Lokamanya B. G. Tilak, compelled the British administration to quickly abandon that plan. But later in 1947 when the earlier staunch Hindu leaders had all died and the political field was left open for M. K. Gandhi and Nehru they presented to the Muslims on a platter not one but two slices of India, one in West Punjab and the other in East Bengal and yet insisted on retaining in India a vast Muslim population to act as a permanent Trojan Horse.

All followers of Vedic culture everywhere must beware of such leaders. The proper place for preachers of ahimsa and asceticism is a temple or a Himalayan peak. One occupying or controlling a mundane throne in Delhi has no talk of ahimsa. He must be prepared to defend every inch of the country’s territory and slay the enemy.

Ever since the end of the Mahabharat era Hindus have progressively weakened. They have developed suicidal tendencies of collectively sponsoring the interest of minority communities against their own, of promoting the prosperity of diabolically hostile neighboring enemy-nations, and of turning the other cheek.

Alarmed at this rot one very respected thinker, Mr. P. N. Sharma of Delhi contributed an article titled The One lesson from History which India Never Learnt – to the December 28, 1982 A. D. issue of the quarterly journal titled Itihas Patrika published from THANE (India)

The article observed “With a view to comprehend the enormity of this aspect of history, a stock-taking in the chart of only important foreign invasions that India suffered is given below :-

1.     First invasion of India by Darius, King of Persia – 519-518 B. C.

2.     Second invasion of India, by Alexander, from Greece, 325 B. C.

3.     Third invasion of India, by the Sakas, from Central Asia, 180 B. C.

4.     Fourth invasion of India, by Kushans, from Asia, 120 B. C.

5.     Fifth invasion of India, by the Huns, from Central Asia, 120 A. D.

6.     Sixth invasion of India, by Mohamad bin Kasim, from Syria, 712 A. D.

7.     Seventh invasion of India, by Subuktagin Ghaznavi from Afghanistan, 987 A. D.

8.     Eighth to the 24^th i.e. 17 invasion of India, by Mohamad Ghaznavi, 1000-1030 A. D.

9.     25^th to 32^nd i.e. eight invasion of India, by Mohamad Ghori, 1175 to 1206 A. D.

10.            33^rd invasion of India, by Tamerlain, from Central Asia, 1398 A. D.

11.            34^th invasion, by Babur, from Central Asia, 1526 A. D.

12.            35^th invasion of India, by Humayun, from Central Asia, 1555 A. D.

13.            36^th invasion of India, by Nadir Shah, from Persia, 1739 A. D.

14.            37^th invasion of India, by Ahmed Shah Abdali, from Persia, 1756 A. D.

15.            38^th invasion (battle of Plassi), by the British, 1757 A. D.

16.            39^th invasion by Pakistan (capturing part of Kashmir), 1947 A. D.

17.            40^th invasion by China (capturing part of India), 1962 A. D.

18.            41^st invasion of Pakistan, 1965A. D.

19.            42^nd invasion of India, by Pakistan, 1971 A. D.

Why was India the victim of so many terrors and plunder raids a stretch of 2,500 years? Because after having amassed immense wealth through its own industry and valour in bygone, and after having administered a worldwide kingdom, India had suddenly lowered its guard and gone ascetic under the debilitating influence of Buddhism and Jainism like the ruling Indian National Congress under M. K. Gandhi. Hindus still afflicted by that fakiri mania are committing the blunder of entrusting all administrative and political powers to persons and parties wedded to non-violence.

Mr. Sharma points out that even a person wanting to steal some chairs from a neighbour’s house would think twice about the resistance he would possibly meet, while in the case of India a host of Muslims marauders continued pouring-in-traversing hundreds of miles and carrying back immerse loot with impunity.

Hundreds of Hindu princely houses ruling in India prided themselves in raiding one another’s kingdom but never did they unite in a combined front against the dangerous Muslim foe.

Confronted with a similar situation, Japanese showed great sagacity and patriotism when in 1868 A. D. Japanese splinter-states surrendered their petty dominions and forged a united front against Western powers threatening to make inroads into Japan.

Mr. Sharma points out that even after the attainment of Independence in 1947, a tiny Muslim Pakistan had the audacity to attack India thrice and China also invaded India once. Each time the aggressor made away with large chunks of Indian Territory. And yet Hindus kept on singing the praises of their leaders who did not plan or organize a single retaliatory hit to reconquer their lost territories. Is this the way to rule a country? Is a person frittering away his inherited assets considered ultra-clever or an idiot?

Mr. Sharma agonizingly poses the question of how on earth we alone proved to be an easy prey for such attacks, in which our armies have been badly mauled, our women were compelled to seek immolation en masse, our youngmen and women were marched off to be sold as slaves for rape and sodomy in distant lands, and our forts, places, temples, towers mansions and bridges were lustily declared as Muslim construction.

All this misery, progressive impoverishment and tyranny to which India has been subject for the last 2500 years must arouse the Hindus to be once again militarily strong and aggressive. Let our Defence Ministers hereafter to termed Offence Ministers. Rama and Krishna need to be resurrected from their fetish status to be installed on high pedestals as military leaders so that Hinduism may once again govern the world. Hinduism alias Vedic culture is the only creed which known how to live and let live. All other religions have strife and intolerance built-in within them which destine them to annihilate others and then finish themselves with internecine warfare. The United Nations Organization and its education organ, the UNESCO would find their task of uniting the world under a world government easier if they propagate Vedic culture.

Regulated Warfare

Under the Vedic tradition even warring parties have to abide by certain strict rules. These enjoin, for instance, that as far as possible, disputes should be settled by individual combat. In such combats the mutual might of the contending parties should be of an equal footing at the start. The fight, whether of individual or armies is to be conducted in the open away from inhabitation so as not to disturb civilian life. A fallen or defeated foe is not to be harmed or humiliated. Terror and torture are totally ruled out. A total war and scorched-earth policy is never to be indulged in, and the foe is not to be compelled to make common cause with the rival. This is known as Dharma Yaddha.

Because of its long Vedic training and discipline the Hindu warrior class was sworn to such warfare.

Therefore when the rapacious Muslim invasions came spreading torture and terror in their wake, poisoning public water reservoirs, burning standings crops, taping women, slaughtering children, maiming adults, selling presoners as slaves, and compelling everybody to become a Muslim and fight to decimate their own kith and kin and culture and fill the coffers of West Asian Muslim countries the Hindus were aghast with disgust and disbelief. In the face of such atrocious total war the Hindu reeled back in horror. His heart revolted at that sight than rather than be a party to such mass agony and misery the Hindu preferred to buy peace for the populace at any cost. That is the Hindu mentality built-up pacifist training over generations.

It has persisted down to our own era. Despite a thousand years of fierce struggle against an unscrupulous Islam, Hinduism is still throwing up leaders like Gandhi and Nehru who still pursue a policy of appeasement and buying peace at any cost.

Thinkers like P. N. Sharma whom I have quoted above, are justifiably worried that the inherent softness, gentility and refinement of the Hindu mind might ultimately enable a rampant Islam and a subtle Christianity to sabotage and wipe out Vedic culture from the face of the earth.

If such a development ever takes place cannibalism will supreme. Vedic culture is the only hope of mankind. Without Vedic culture the virtue of every women and the liberty of every man will be in constant jeopardy. History tells us that under Christianity and Islam men, women and children were sold in the bazaar like chattel and chicken.

Perhaps such a tragedy will never recur. Lord Krishna has asserted that Vedic culture is eternal. And this cosmos is certainty governed by mighty divine miracle-forces. Yet let us not thinks for granted. So far as is within our power let Hindus adjust themselves to this new situation of a total war. Hindus must steel their to fight tooth for tooth and eye for eye. So long as a war is on, let not a Hindu talk of his Vedic and Upanishads. Their ideals can be preached only after the war so that there may not be another war. But even expecting that is too much because wars seem to be a recurring phenomenon. Therefore, Vedic culture does indeed provide for a permanent professional warrior class, namely, the Kshatriya class.

The only change now is that if Adharma Yuddha is the rule of the day, Hindus must be prepared to fight the enemy in this new manner until Hinduism is once again able to inculcate the sense and discipline of Dharma Yuddha in the whole world.

History is replete with instances that for the unscrupulous, monstrous Muslim invades from West Asia no trick was too mean and no treachery too base. Hindu generals and rulers were often put off their guard by a show of submission, invited for honourable parleys with solemn oaths sworn on the Koran, only to be hacked to death treacherously, unawares. There are also instances of mediaeval Muslim generals and rulers begging for temporary shelter for Muslim women and children in Hindu forts but sending instead soldiers in the guise of burqa-clad woman and then treacherously murdering the Hindu king and defeating his army.

Hindus :

Hindus have thus proved too gullible and too soft. Horrified by the enemy’s atrocities Hindus invariably often sued for dishonorable peace, this progressively losing men and territory. Hindus must learn to convert and reconvert people to their own faith as the enemy does. Tit for tat should be the rule. And this is exactly what the Ramayan, Mahabharat, Bhagavad Geeta and Manu Smriti teach. Yet Hindu preachers have failed the public. They have totally distorted the heroic message of our scripture namely to fight to the bitter end with all one’s might for a righteous cause, unmindful of all other considerations and teach the enemy a deterrent lesson.

What is Real Surrender?

Hindu rulers warriors labour under the false notion that an enemy who begs to be let alive is to be released. That is not at all the import of Vedic scriptures. An enemy must be deemed to have properly surrendered only if he agrees to help spread Vedic culture. If he doesn’t he deserves no mercy. Merely begging for life is no ground for mercy. Even a common criminal will plead for his life when cornered and arrested. But is that any ground for clemency? In fact the arrest of a person is pre-requisite for punishment and not a step towards release.

As a result of the misleading precept of their priests and preceptors Hindu leaders failed not only in not reconverting captured Muslim to Hindu-dome but they failed even in reclaiming their own temples and mansions converted into mosques and mausoleums by the enemy. Thus is the height of folly. It is such suicidal traits which must quickly abandon and learn to be strict, stern and fierce with faithless enemies.