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

Monday, July 8, 2024

Shocking statements made by Rabbi in public domain


So I’ve already mentioned this extremist Rabbi, who keeps spewing filth on all the “Goyim”... who talks about how mankind is going to suffer for the next 16 years... how hundreds of millions of Indian Hindus deserve the death-penalty for being “idol worshippers”.

I went through another podcast of this man.

He actually repeats this stuff, openly, in public – and nobody on the planet seems to have a problem with it?

The Rabbi goes on to say that it doesn’t matter, if you’re good-hearted, if you’re nice, if you’re polite, if you’re generous – but if you worship anyone or anything that is not “God” – i.e. his Jewish “Ha-Shem” – you’re the most wicked person – and deserve to be executed.

This is the worst part in his entire tirade.

Saith the Rabbi: All cow-worshipping Hindus deserve the death penalty.

Saith the Rabbi: All idol-worshipping Buddhists deserve the death penalty.

Saith the Rabbi: There are no righteous Christians – all Christians, by definition – are wicked – and deserve the death penalty!

(If you hear him, you’d think that Supreme Being of the Hindus is a cow – and only the cow – and Hindus have worshiped nothing but the cow, for thousands of years.

The truth is, there is almost no cow-worship in India.

There is no Cow-Goddess.

There is no Cow-festival.

There is no Cow-temple.

There is no Cow-book.

None that is important, none that anyone cares about.

Our goddesses ride lions and kill buffaloes – they’re not cows.

Cows are donated in Hindu ceremonies: you do not donate God.

If anything, bulls are considered to be sacred, but even they are not “God”.

I don’t think the “gau-pūjā” goes back more than a few centuries, is limited to villages & the lowest agricultural classes, and I actually don’t know any Hindu who does it.

Except Rishi Sunak.

To put it more accurately, the very concept of “worship” in Hinduism is radically different, from anything that any “monotheist” understands.

“Worship” is a form of recognition, of giving respect, of acknowledging a special manifestation of the divine energy that pervades the universe, of thanking & fostering that energy that gives us life & strength.

You “worship” anything that adds great value, or happiness, or knowledge, or wisdom, or fearlessness, to your life, or takes away your pain, your anxiety, your fear, disease or death.

Hindus also “worship” their Guru – the teacher who enlightens them – and also “worship” their parents, who take so many pains in raising children.

The cow is, if at all, one of the several objects of reverence & thanksgiving.

In other words, it is considered something to be loved, respected, and honoured – because of its incredible contribution to human life.

Man would never have moved out of the hunting-gathering stage of life without the bull & the cow.

Hence, their importance.

The rest is basically symbolic.

The cow is neither a god(dess), nor the God of Hindus.

Hindus also worshipped trees & mountains – and this has nothing to do either with the Vedic Gods, or with Brahman/Parabrahm.

Parabrahm – who is not a tribalistic, war-mongering, “jealous” God – cannot be worshipped in any place of worship, or even through prayer or yajña, which use perishable materials & non-eternal means.

Parabrahm is beyond words & thought.

Parabrahm can only be known through yoga or prolonged meditation.

The “pagan” concept is a thousand times more exalted & philosophical.

Brahmā-Viṣṇu-Maheśvara are NOT “God”.

Neither Purua nor Prakti are “God”.

The Rabbi also conveniently forgets how the cow-worshipping Rishi Sunak supported Israel against Palestine.

What ingratitude.)

 

And this fellow airs his demented views stridently & shamelessly – and he’s being allowed to blab like this in public.

How is this man any different from a terrorist?

How is he not a raving religious “fundamentalist”?

How is he different from Kanye West, who wanted to go “death con” on the Jews?

How is this not a preparation for worldwide genocide?

A man is, casually, brazenly, and remorselessly, shrugging his shoulders, wagging his finger contemptuously, and droning on that hundreds of millions of the “Goyim” ought to die, that they do not deserve to live, because they don’t believe in the Jewish God – how is he NOT desensitizing the future generations of Jews towards the immense suffering of the “Goyim”?

Why would a bonafide, benevolent person ever say something like this?

And if he’s NOT mainstream, how is it that the allegedly more sober & civilized “mainstream” Jews don’t ask him to shut up?

Would a Buddhist priest be allowed to say anything like this?

That all those who don’t worship Buddha should be executed?

How is a Jewish Rabbi allowed to say, in public, that all Hindus, Buddhists and Christians deserve to be killed?

 

And then his co-religionists keep crying: “Why do you hate us?”

Well, NOBODY “hates” you – 90% Indians don’t know you exist – it is YOU who hates others!

At least your Rabbi does, if he thinks all “idolaters” deserve to be executed – according to the Jewish rules!

There isn’t the slightest unease or concern, on his part, of the effect of his horrible words on anybody.

 

This is turning into an extremely painful task.

I have had Jewish friends in my life and we cared deeply for each other.

I still do.

I’ve had Muslim, Christian and Sikh friends – and Jewish friends – and they have all been very good to me.

They have all been a great strength to me, in life.

I shall always be thankful to them for it.

It’s very disturbing, that I have to write something like this.

What’s wrong with these people?

This is so very vicious & hostile!

Imagine the reaction if a Christian priest or a Hindu Brāhmaa said that all those who did not worship “JC” (as he addresses Jesus) or “Kṛṣṇa”deserve death simply for not believing in them – and to add insult to injury, irrespective of how loving & kind they are!

But the Rabbi is SAYING it, right now, in public, without any fear of retaliation, without slightest concern for any repercussion, before the entire world!

It is shocking that neither the Liberal nor Conservative hypocrites who believe in “equality” & “universal brotherhood” & “compassion” & “one global family” seem to want to stop him.

 

And this guy is not some random little non-entity – he’s known to billionaires.

He actually had a podcast with a member of a famous billionaire Jewish family.

That means he’s expounding views which are perfectly accepted amongst his elite – or at least amongst some very powerful & influential people of his creed.

The fact that everyone is quiet and allowing him to brainwash young Jews into thinking that all Hindus, Christians and Buddhists deserve to die, means that at least a chunk of them do hold this opinion, this is what they all believe in, and they want these beliefs to be articulated in public.

It is a seriously disturbing way of demeaning the value of “Goyim” life – nonchalantly chatting about whether they deserve to live or not – dispensing off “Goyim” lives as if they’re mosquitoes & flies – with the self-righteous Rabbi doling out 7 billion death-sentences in a jiffy, with a wave of his hand.

Nobody can breathe a word against Israel, but Jewish Rabbis are most welcome to blare before the entire world that all Hindus and Christians deserve to be executed for worshipping “idols” according to Jewish Rules!

 

Typically, we’ll be told: they’re just fooling around – nobody takes them seriously!!

First of all, it doesn’t seem like fooling around at all.

The man speaks in dead earnest, without a hint of compunction or hesitation, without the slightest remorse or pang of conscience.

He is loud, coarse, impudent, and cocksure that he’s going to get away with his declamations.

He actually smiles, as he merrily pontificates about Hindus and Buddhists deserving to be executed simply for being Hindu or Buddhist.

As I said, he’s not some irrelevant non-entity; he’s not a construction worker or brick-layer: this is an educated, erudite grown-up man, a Rabbi, an established spokesman of his creed, in his 50s or 60s, who hobnobs with multimillionaires and billionaires.

One is bound to take him seriously.

And second, even if it is a joke, it’s an absolutely disgusting, evil joke – the kind which should never be tolerated.

Nobody has the moral authority to talk about whether millions of people deserve to live or not.

 

And all the whole Hindutva bandwagon won’t dare whimper or whisper a word about or against this!

Nor demagogues & charlatans like Rahul Gandhi or the general Anti-Hindu riffraff of this country.

 

Deeply, deeply shocked that something like this is acceptable and allowed in the 21st century.