Hearken, O Mādhava, what more can I say?
Nought can I find to compare with love:

Though the sun of the East should rise in the West,
Yet would not love be far from the worthy,

Or if I should write the stars of heaven on earth,
Or if I could pour from my hands the water of all the sea.

-- Vidyapati

I feel my body vanishing into the dust whereon my beloved walks.

I feel one with the water of the lake where he bathes.

Oh friend, my love crosses death's boundary when I meet him.

My heart melts in the light and merges in the mirror whereby he views his
face.

I move with the air to kiss him when he waves his fan, and wherever he
wanders I enclose him like the sky.

Govindadas says, “You are the gold-setting, fair maiden, he is the
emerald”

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows – then let your heart say in silence, “God rests in reason.”
And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, – then let your heart say in awe, “God moves in passion.”
And since you are a breath in God’s sphere, and a leaf in God’s forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion
.

-- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Open your eyes ...

Open your eyes ...

Mirror-pond of stars …

Suddenly a summer

shower

Dimples the water.

-- Sesshi

He who has been instructed thus far in the things of love, and who has learned to see the beautiful in due order and succession, when he comes toward the end will suddenly perceive a nature of wondrous beauty(and this, Socrates, is the final cause of all our former toils)—a nature which in the first place is everlasting, not growing and decaying, or waxing and waning; secondly, not fair in one point of view and foul in another, or at one time or in one relation or at one place fair, at another time or in another relation or at another place foul, as if fair to some and foul to others, or in the likeness of a face or hands or any other part of the bodily frame, or in any form of speech or knowledge, or existing in any other being, as for example, in an animal, or in heaven, or in earth, or in any other place; but beauty absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting, which without diminution and without increase, or any change, is imparted to the ever-growing and perishing beauties of all other things. He who from these ascending under the influence of true love, begins to perceive that beauty, is not far from the end. And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these as steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

“This, my dear Socrates”, said the stranger of Mantineia, “is that life above all others which man should live, in the contemplation of beauty absolute.... But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty—the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life—thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine? Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.Would that be an ignoble life?”

-- Plato, Symposium

Thursday, June 6, 2024

I STAND WITH PALESTINE

 

As I see it, Islam is the only hope of mankind against the deluge of depravity and filth that has inundated the world almost everywhere.

Hindutva has proven itself INCAPABLE of upholding any moral values whatsoever.

Hindus cannot fight for ANY ethical system whatsoever.

As much as it pains me to say this, India is gone.

India is a hopeless case.

If there is one faith which its own adherents take seriously, that is Islam.

Hindus don’t take their own faith seriously, because they neither know nor understand what that faith is, or what any faith is, for that matter.

They are Hindu only in name: there is no substance, no essence, no reality to their Hindu identity.

And for those who are sincere, and who are trying, I have to say that Hindus are so deeply confused, that they cannot figure out what is right & what is wrong – what should be done & what should not be done.

Hindus will not be able to resolve the inner conflict which is tearing apart the fabric of their society.

There are way too many contradictions.

And our society has been almost entirely destroyed by infiltration, & treachery by the elite.

The deed has been done

It is being done, right now, in the Middle East, to Islamic societies: the process is not complete.

What is being broken today, by the incessant stomping of indecent, vicious Liberals, is the shell – not the actual life-force – of Hinduism.

Hinduism is being torn apart by multiple, contradictory influences, ideas, & propaganda, all actually mutually exclusive.

As far as I know, Islam is comparatively simpler & more straightforward.

All may not be lost, for Islam.


And while I can’t claim to know much about Islam, there are 4 points which I do admire in Islam, which I do not find in Hindus:

 

1.     A very clearcut and sharp difference between Man & the rest of creation, and hence, the utmost respect for human life, vis-a-vis that of other forms of life.

Hindus, at least for the past 200 years, have no sense of the value of human life: humans are clubbed along with cows, monkeys, elephants, dogs ... cockroaches.

Their fundamental psychology has not changed, though the ideology might have.

Earlier, Hindus would kill a human for a cow – now they will kill a human for a dog.

Same body, different clothes.

The ones who will threaten to kill you for the sake of a stray dog, have the exact same soul, the exact same psyche, as the fanatical cow-worshipper, but somehow think themselves superior.

They are not: if anything, they are worse, because most fanatical cow-worshippers are rude, half-educated bumpkins.

 

2.     The hatred for alcohol – which is the root of all perverted & shallow, short-sighted thinking, in human society.

Muslim men typically don’t drink at all – and this itself evokes my highest admiration.

What is most remarkable is that the MEN don’t drink.

It’s not like with Hindus ... the men want to drink – indeed, get drunk – and scream & jump around like lunatic apes – but don’t want to women to drink!

And now, both Conservative Hindu men and women think getting drunk is something great!

If Hindus criticized consumption of alcohol as much as they criticize meat-eating, Hindu society would be 1,000 times more decent than it is.

If Hindus were as particular about not drinking alcohol as they are about not having onion & garlic – they’d probably have a surer moral compass.

 

3.     The contempt for dogs: let me not even get into this one.

This perversion has eaten into almost every human brain on the planet.

The Bible and Indians also hated dogs.

But Dogs are the Gods of the Modern Liberal world of Science & Equality.

 

4.     Modesty in women: Here I must add that Muslim MEN are also quite modest.

It’s not as if the women are clad in Burkhas, and the Men are strutting around in their undies.

Typically, the Muslim man is covered from head to toe in a proper, modest garment.

Arabian Muslim men often show little more than their face, to the world.

However that may be, Islamic culture is the only culture left, where the women are modest.

Hindus have, by now, gone down the Liberal drain in this respect.

 

But it must be understood that Islam is under attack – BOTH by the religious fundamentalists of other creeds/Racists etc. as well as the Liberals who claim to love Muslims no end.


Liberals who fight for Muslims want to penetrate & infiltrate Islam – and overcome its inner resistance to their filthy, obscene values – turn them over to their own (i.e. the Liberal) side.

The Conservatives and Liberals are acting in tandem, to push Islam towards either total liberalization, or total inner dissolution.

It is just that Liberalization is the softer, sweeter form of corruption & destruction.

The Liberal, “Secular” Muslims are, in my view, traitors to their faith.

They are corrupting the purity & simplicity of traditional Islamic life without criticizing it – but they’re corrupting it nevertheless.

More & more Muslim men have started drinking.

They are getting into drugs.

They are getting hooked on to the lewd, licentious Liberal lifestyle.

Don’t think the Liberals are such fools, to stand up for a creed which is the exact opposite of Liberalism.

They’re doing it so that traditional, conservative Muslims can’t hate them, can’t reject them, can’t fight them – and will sooner or later be influenced by them, and turn Liberal.

I’ll come to this point later.

 

Given the recent incidents in the world, I am re-visiting the “Jewish Question” so to speak.

I’ll come to that issue, also, sometime later.

As of now, my heart goes out to all the innocent, vulnerable, and helpless, brutally murdered in Gaza.


PALESTINE HAS A RIGHT TO EXIST.


May God Protect the Innocent!