Proud to be an Indian 2
inininc No.12
- Extract from S Gurumurthy
India is a great civilization pretending to be a nation. Something like this is inconceivable by the intellectuals we are turning out of our universities today. This civilization is now facing the might of a nation state which has evolved in the west is basically aggressive, violent, conquering, invasive, dominating, imperialistic. A concept which the Indian mind cannot internalize, cannot understand and cannot exhibit in its attitudes. It is basically a civilization which is committed to harmoniously fostering our civilization. That is why it grew far beyond its boundaries known as India, without a single soldier moving out of the country.You find temples and can hear Vedas in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand even today.
The American in the US today or rather his forefathers, had systematically and ruthlessly wiped out the nation, the society, the civilization that existed 500 years ago. A 110 million people were wiped out in a planned genocide lasting 3 centuries!The entire Mayan civilization was wiped out in this campaign of hatred and intolerance. So something new had to be brought about in the place of what had been destroyed.
So I would like to relate myself to the American situation. We are a far more evolved society. This society, this nation, this country, this civilization is not run, controlled or administered by the Police, President or Prime Minister.
I am amazed at the conclusion which I have now internalized, the understanding is, this society is an enormous harmonious society. It knows how to live with others, Seven and a half lakh villages but only 12400 police stations only. American society cannot live like this. Their insecurity is so internalized in the system of relationship between the state and the society, and there is nothing called society, and inter personal relationships, that depend on the police and any the law for security and protection.
The Jewish people published a book in 1965. This book was printed in America and distributed all over the world but not in India, I don't know why. And in this book the Jewish government had said that in a 108 countries the Jews had to beg for survival. In 107 countries they were butchered, maimed and raped. but in one country India they were received and treated like their own, even better than their own(Athithi Devo Bhavva). There was no constitution of India at that time . There was no article 29,30,25,26 calling for protection of minorities. So can we say that the constitution protects the minorities here?
Our constitution , if it provides for the protection of minorities, is the product of this civilization. It has evolved out of our working, our method, our language, our life and when we wish to discuss the issues of foreigners holding high offices in this country we are told, look at the constitution, you are communal, you are promoting hatred.
The civilization was so noble but it was hardly a competitor to the exclusive civilizations, exclusive states, powerful states, destructive states, which could easily conquer the state of India but not the nation. The nation in India has always been free. The state in India never symbolized the nation in India. The state was never the protector of the nation. The state was only the residual mechanism in which was vested only residuary powers.
But in western societies, the state, the king, the administration, the building, the army and the police symbolize everything hence if you take over a capital, the country is gone, the civilization is gone.This was the Marx and Maculay theory, who expounded rules for destruction of civilizations and India posed a challenge to this very theory.
The Indian civilization is ideas rooted to the lowest levels of our social and political structures. It could have therefore have been destroyed only by ideas, other ideas, distortive ideas and destructive ideas. Nothing else could have made a negative impact on the Indian civilization. Invading armies could not do it, foriegn rule could not do it, coercive and violent relegious conversions could not do it.
But we can see the many intertwined biased totally misunderstood path history has taken us in a later inininc Hoaxes through the Journey of The Nation.
inininc No.12
- Extract from S Gurumurthy
India is a great civilization pretending to be a nation. Something like this is inconceivable by the intellectuals we are turning out of our universities today. This civilization is now facing the might of a nation state which has evolved in the west is basically aggressive, violent, conquering, invasive, dominating, imperialistic. A concept which the Indian mind cannot internalize, cannot understand and cannot exhibit in its attitudes. It is basically a civilization which is committed to harmoniously fostering our civilization. That is why it grew far beyond its boundaries known as India, without a single soldier moving out of the country.You find temples and can hear Vedas in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand even today.
The American in the US today or rather his forefathers, had systematically and ruthlessly wiped out the nation, the society, the civilization that existed 500 years ago. A 110 million people were wiped out in a planned genocide lasting 3 centuries!The entire Mayan civilization was wiped out in this campaign of hatred and intolerance. So something new had to be brought about in the place of what had been destroyed.
So I would like to relate myself to the American situation. We are a far more evolved society. This society, this nation, this country, this civilization is not run, controlled or administered by the Police, President or Prime Minister.
I am amazed at the conclusion which I have now internalized, the understanding is, this society is an enormous harmonious society. It knows how to live with others, Seven and a half lakh villages but only 12400 police stations only. American society cannot live like this. Their insecurity is so internalized in the system of relationship between the state and the society, and there is nothing called society, and inter personal relationships, that depend on the police and any the law for security and protection.
The Jewish people published a book in 1965. This book was printed in America and distributed all over the world but not in India, I don't know why. And in this book the Jewish government had said that in a 108 countries the Jews had to beg for survival. In 107 countries they were butchered, maimed and raped. but in one country India they were received and treated like their own, even better than their own(Athithi Devo Bhavva). There was no constitution of India at that time . There was no article 29,30,25,26 calling for protection of minorities. So can we say that the constitution protects the minorities here?
Our constitution , if it provides for the protection of minorities, is the product of this civilization. It has evolved out of our working, our method, our language, our life and when we wish to discuss the issues of foreigners holding high offices in this country we are told, look at the constitution, you are communal, you are promoting hatred.
The civilization was so noble but it was hardly a competitor to the exclusive civilizations, exclusive states, powerful states, destructive states, which could easily conquer the state of India but not the nation. The nation in India has always been free. The state in India never symbolized the nation in India. The state was never the protector of the nation. The state was only the residual mechanism in which was vested only residuary powers.
But in western societies, the state, the king, the administration, the building, the army and the police symbolize everything hence if you take over a capital, the country is gone, the civilization is gone.This was the Marx and Maculay theory, who expounded rules for destruction of civilizations and India posed a challenge to this very theory.
The Indian civilization is ideas rooted to the lowest levels of our social and political structures. It could have therefore have been destroyed only by ideas, other ideas, distortive ideas and destructive ideas. Nothing else could have made a negative impact on the Indian civilization. Invading armies could not do it, foriegn rule could not do it, coercive and violent relegious conversions could not do it.
But we can see the many intertwined biased totally misunderstood path history has taken us in a later inininc Hoaxes through the Journey of The Nation.
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