I saw this video on a Pakistan girl given the Indian heart. Humanity wins that’s all. I come down heavily on Islamic terrorism and on Christian conversion mafia but my peeves are for real causes. So far as basic me is concerned, humanity counts over racial, linguistic, geographical and religious divides. I have to thank my foreign residence chiefly for crossing that bridge that not many of my friends can and not even extraordinarily religious and god people who I have known in my life can. If anything is good about me, I would say, this ability to be able to look at human as just a human without any kind of identity tag. So when I see this Dr Balakrishnan who says he treated the teen from Pakistan from his pocket because she was like a daughter to him, I can completely agree with him. Really brought tears to my eyes. Plus, I have friends who boast constantly that they treat everyone equal and that they gave food to their maid in their home or gifted her nicely. What I don’t tell them is that, respect or equality lies in not giving lunch to your maid or inviting her to Navrathri golu. Respect is really return-respect: that these friends have to brace themselves and eat at their maid’s home if it comes to that. You must NOT have that mental block in you that can prevent you from treating someone as equal or worthy of your respect. To me this is what humanity is really. Respect and equality are NOT one way street. You cannot think about God all the time and actually think some people of to be unworthy of your respect. My perception of faith and spirituality happens to be vastly different from others in my circle. Nowadays I confine sharing of my beliefs to selected couple of friends who have the maturity to assimilate how I view things and why. Over years so I see drifting from everyone – although I am not sure whether its good or bad. Sometimes I feel you are lucky if you can get along with the herd than have some out-of-box thinking. Invite people home ONLY if you ready to eat at their dining table.
This is a beautiful video. One of the positives after a long time. Yesterday I was watching a video on love jehad in which a young muslim man repeatedly stabs to death a Hindu college girl for turning down his love proposal. Happened very recently in Karnataka. I felt such a surge of rage and intense hatred. But today this comes like a balm to our heart. Kudos to fellow Hindus who remind us that, whoever others are, let us be us. Just us. There can be no Shiva where the elephant corridor is stolen or destroyed leading to a quicker extinction of the species.
Extinction is sometimes good and preferable though. It means you don’t become the broiler chicken species or the cattle species impregnated within a month after delivering the calf by IVF and milked litres with painful injections. Any race or religion that multiplies mindlessly will meet with this kind of fate at one point of time when million men have to jostle for space and billion hands may be reaching out for every single morsel of food. Is that what we Hindus want to be? One of those weary pair of hands by the turn of the century? Go extinct instead, with honour and having lived well in your prime. Let history record us for our quality not quantity.
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