SARBA DHARMA SAMA BHAVA
Fact or Fiction?
By S.P. Attri (USA)
1. The phrase SARBA DHARMA SAMA
BHAVA means, in a nutshell, that all religions are one & the
same and equal. For quite sometime, this phrase has been paraded
around as a Mantra that is supposed to be the panacea for all the
national integration problems of India. At least the secular crowd
interprets & understands it that way and they have been
beating their drums insisting on expanding the practice of this
idea. So far this principle has failed miserably & there seems
no hope of its ever succeeding in future although the
never-say-die secular liberals must someday wonder as to what went
wrong with their such a wonderful Jantra Mantra that must lie
prostrate before the judgment of history. One cannot but sympathize
with these liberal crowds who through their secular blind-folds
are unable to see the viles & guiles that have been permeating
the adversarial edicts of the theological ideologies disguised as
religions ever since they were born and are being sustained on the
practice & propagation of their imperialistic edicts. There is
no dearth of pseudo-secular liberal intellectuals &
politicians who are intrigued by the principle of SARBA DHARMA
SAMA BHAVA & can produce lectures, big & small, on it at
short notice. What is really needed, however, is intellectual
honesty which this pseudo-secular crowd thoroughly lacks. For them
catchy slogans & vote-getting gimmicks are just another
technique of extracting a rich harvest of political capital. That
is why this phrase receives such a liberal chorus of praise &
propaganda from them.
2. However, there is no mystery about this principle & this
principle is not new at all. It is old wine in a new bottle &
has been given a brand new fancy nomenclature of SARBA DHARMA SAMA
BHAVA to suit the needs of modern times. Here is all of it:
Ever since the Moslem marauders set foot on our sacred soil of
India & started their rampage of harrowing hooliganism, terror
& torture of the Kafir (Infidel) Hindus, most Hindus tried to
avoid having to fight the fanatical barbaric invader. The
ideological affinity of the Hindu to the abomination called the
"Ahimsa" ( which the Hindus picked up from the
Buddhistis during the reign of Buddhist kings in India) was so
great that instead of defending their sacred Hindu faith according
to the teachings of the Vedas, of the Ramayana, and of the
Mahabharata, most Hindus opted for non-military methods such as
wheeling, dealing, bribing, and handing out concessions to the
greedy, lusty lecherous Islamic invaders, parceling out peaceful
themes & slogans such as the Hindu-Moslem Bhai Bhai slogan and
that both Islam & Hinduism are the same religions & equal.
Hindus expended considerable energy trying to figure out ways
regarding "what concessions can we give them ( the Islamic
invaders) so they will give us peace & leave us alone. A few
Hindus did put up a gallant fight against the Islamic invaders but
these braves were few in number & were unable to stem the
approaching gargantuan Islamic onslaught of terror which was
coming to India with ever greater intensity every new year. Hindu
priests & intelligentsia pleaded the concept of Hindu-Moslem
Bhai Bhai & proposed Islam-Hinduism equality with the Moslem
Mullahs suggesting to them that they accept the Hindu spiritual
insight that all paths lead to the same goal. But the Moslem
mullahs would have none of that. They represented an armed
ideology named as Islam which claimed to be a superior religion,
and which swore that Allah & his last prophet had told them
that the whole earth has been mandated by Allah to the Moslem
Millat & it is the sacred right & duty of every Moslem to
overthrow & uproot Kufr & the worship of idols & that
Hindus are the worst enemies of Allah & his prophet according
the edicts of Koran.
History records many many Hindu attempts to forge a compromise
& unity with Islam. The Bhakti movement & the Din-e-Illahi
movement are well-known examples of great attempts towards this
goal & both failed miserably because only Hindus subscribed to
them & Moslems & their Ulema would have none of it. Their
religion ( Islam) teaches them that in the eyes of Allah all human
beings other than Moslems are wretched, filthy, mean, &
worthless, they are to burn, for ever in the fires of hell, then
how can Moslems ever think of becoming friends or think of unity
& brotherhood with the Kafir Hindus.
3. Even the Hindu saints of the stature of Guru Nanak & Bhagat
Kabir kept pleading with the Moslem Ulema to give up their Uniplex
& Exclusivity approaches & accept the Universality
approach of the Hindu insight that all religions & their paths
lead to exactly the same goal. Numerous other Hindu saints carried
on the same pleadings with the Moslem Ulema but failed to carry
any conviction with the Moslem Mullahs & the Sultans. Ulema
were convinced of their Uniplex Principle ( i.e. only one true
path...theirs) and the only true path (i.e. Exclusivity). There is
no direct access to God, man cannot know God save through their
intermediatary, the prophet (Hazrat Mohammad). This fundamental
principle of Islam automatically shuts out all alternative paths
to God which are the antithesis of Islam. Kabir had to suffer
persecution from Sultan Sikander Lodi for questioning the Uniplex
& Exclusivity principles of Islam. Guru Arjan Dev & Guru
Teg Bahadur had to lay down their lives. Hundreds of millions of
Hindus were put to the sword of Islam in the enforcement of the
Uniplex & Exclusivity principles of Islam as a uniformity of
conduct, belief, and thought as seen by its enforcers, the Moslem
Ulema & the Sultans. The Uniplex & Exclusivity principles
apply equally well to Christianity. Centuries of its barbaric
brutality & merciless slaughter of millions of non-Christians
across several continents is historical proof of the consequences
of Christianity's Uniplex & Exclusivity principles, just like
Islam's.
4. Though the Hindu saints failed miserably in coming to any terms
of equality & brotherhood with the Moslems but they succeeded
royally in confusing the Hindu society into believing that Islam
was just another religion instead of recognizing it for what it
really is...an ideology of imperialism disguised as religion. The
baton has now been passed onto the latter-day Hindu saints who
have appeared now in more recent times as a class of social
reformers who stand for casteless & classless society and the
founders of the modern-day secularism in India. The confusion has
now become extremely widespread & appears grand style in the
sanctimonious slogan of SARBA DHARMA SAMA BHAVA which was
initially coined by Mahatma Gandhi. The veritable consequence of
this slogan has been an unprecedented appeasement of prophetic
religions ( Islam & Christianity). Hundreds & thousands of
appeasement examples of the last 100 years can be cited. Starting
with the Mahatma's support of the Khilafat movement, the song
Vande Matram, fully adopted as a national anthem by the Congress,
was dropped ( except for two stanzas from it) because of Moslem
opposition to it. Not only that, Gandhi & the Congress adopted
Mohammad Iqbal's "Sare Jahanse Achha Hindustan Hamara"
as the Associate national anthem just to satisfy the Moslems. Next
in series was the National Flag. The most adorned & shining
symbol of the nation, the Saffron Flag, was fully &
unanimously adopted by the Congress but was discarded due to the
opposition of the Moslems. And so on & on with more examples.
Gandhi & the Congress reasoned that if Hindu-Moslem unity,
without which the British would not part with power- was to be
achieved, the Moslems should not, at any cost, be allowed to feel
displeased. Their sentiments should never be injured, for any
reason whatsoever. Again & again Mahatma Gandhi approached the
Moslems & the Moslem League in order to dispel their
"misgivings" & "misunderstandings" and to
convince them of the benign intentions of the Congress & of
the Hindus to meet all the legitimate demands of the Moslems.
5. But the Congress was not the only bidder for the loyalty &
support of the Moslems. Both the British & the Congress
(Gandhi) were each trying to outbid the other in purchasing the
Moslem support & in the process enhancing its price. By means
of their Communal Award, the British had gone far ahead of the
Congress in offering concessions to the Moslems to woo them.
Naturally the Congress felt piqued & left behind in the race.
It soon started negotiating with the Moslem League & resumed
offering more concessions & so on. The gangster style
continued & went on rewarding the Moslem League, reward
disguised as assurances that "the minority rights were not
trampled upon by the brute Hindu majority." The concessions
continued this way until the conversion of "Jinnah-Bhai"
to "Quaid-e-Azam" was complete, the same Quaid-e- Azam
who had unequivocally declared in the Central Legislative Assembly
before that he was a "nationalist first, nationalist second,
and nationalist third", came now to declare unambiguously
& emphatically that "Pakistan" was born the day when
the first Hindu was converted to Islam centuries ago. There goes
the illustrious slogan of Sarba Dharma Sama Bhava... into the
garbage of history or does it? No! Why?
6. Because the modern social reformer, the pseudo-secular group is
determined not to learn from the lessons of history, of remote or
recent past, of why the Moslems have been up in arms for centuries
against the Hindus. Why the Moslems forced the partition of the
country? Why they continue discrediting & demolishing the
Hindu places of worship? Why they continue to insult, degrade, and
slaughter the Hindus? The proponents of Hindu-Moslem Bhai Bhai
unity & Sarba Dharma Sama Bhava slogan continue to ignore
these hard truths & parcel out lies. They have no
understanding of the Moslem psyche, the laws of Islam, or the
history of Islam. They do not realize that laws of Islam are not
at the discretion of individual Moslems but have been finally laid
down, for all time to come in the Koran. Moslems have not been
given any option in the matter of these laws. All the Moslems can
do to the non-Moslems is to conquer, convert, or kill them. There
is no other choice for the Moslems. What makes the pseudo- secular
crowd arrogantly conceive that they can succeed where Guru Nanak
& Bhagat Kabir failed.
7. It is worth noting here that the Moslem spokesmen of today
continue to level the same old accusations at the Hindus...that
the Moslems are a "poor minority entirely at the mercy of a
brute Hindu majority", the same accusations that they used
during the days of Gandhi. The response pattern of the
pseudo-secular Indian government is also the same, after the
passing of Gandhi i.e. appeasement of the Moslem minority at all
costs. 8. Another group of Hindu intellectuals imitates the
monotheism claims of Christianity & Islam & tries to
convince the monopolists of monotheism that the earliest Hindu
scripture, the Rig Veda sanctions & supports the monotheistic
backbone of Christianity & Islam through the Rig Vedic verse
"Ekam Sat Vipra Bahuda Vadanti ( God is one, wise ones speak
in diverse ways about Him)." They almost extend a pathetic
appeal to the monopolists of monotheism that because of this
phrase they should not be appalled by the multiplicity of gods
& goddesses of the post-Vedic period but judge Hinduism on the
basis of the "Original Intention" that Hinduism is a
different way of saying the same monotheistic truth that was
revealed to the religions of Christianity & Islam.
This approach of Imitative Hindu scholars is one of apology, of
shamefacedness, & defensiveness; it concedes the criticism of
Hindu methods & mores by the monotheistic religions (Islam
& Christianity) as a valid criticism of Hinduism. It is an
approach of abject surrender & slavish imitation. The Hindu
slogan of Sarba Dharma Sama Bhava extended indiscriminately to
Christianity & Islam is a perfect example of this Hindu
psychology of cowardice, imitation, & sordid surrender. Some
Hindus even go beyond that & stress the identity of Brahma
with Abraham, Manu with Noah, Rama with Rahim, Krishna with Karim,
& Kashi with Kaaba, and so on. But these energetic exercises
of imitation & apology do not impress the monopolists of
monotheism & they dismiss with contempt the Hindu claim of
sharing monotheism with them. Instead & in fact, they invite
Hindus to renounce their nebulous & counterfeit monotheism
& accept the one & only one true monotheism of their
faiths.
9. The Hindu society is caught up in this quagmire of passivity,
apology, & defensiveness & because of this attitude is
surrounded by enemies on all sides. What is needed for Hindu
society is to give itself a shock treatment & shed its slavish
defensive mentality of the last 1200 years & become an
awakened guard of its noble Hindu faith & stand steadfast.
Hindu society needs to take a good close look at the blood-soaked
bigotries of the monopolists of monotheistic religions &
examine the scriptures of these clay-footed creeds & their
prophets, saints & so-called saviors. The day the Hindu
society does that, these clay-footed creeds will not know how to
defend their unenviable dismal doctrines. Hindu society has yet to
raise the curtain on the creeds of "brotherhood" &
"social services" & reveal the record of the
erstwhile traffickers in slavery on a vast scale. Hindu society
has yet to remove the veil hiding the vast slave-empires
maintained by mass-slaughter & unmitigated terror for
centuries by the monopolistic monotheistic creeds. The day the
Hindu society goes on this kind of 'Expose' of the real nature of
the brotherhood & socialist swearology of the monotheistic
religions of Christianity & Islam, the minions of the
mercenary murderous culture of monotheistic creeds will lose their
brotherhood bark & not know where to hide their malignant mein
& stinking record of centuries. Hindus need to completely
& consummately expose what is hidden behind the pretentious
verbiage of these monopolistic monotheistic creeds & their
self-righteousness.
10. Finally and above all, Hindus should never forget that SARBA
DHARMA SAMA BHAVA never ever worked in the past, it would never
work today, tomorrow, or ever. The reason why SARBA DHARMA SAMA
BHAVA never works is because it is a total travesty of truth. Therefore:
My Hindu Brothers & Sisters: Arise & awake & stand
upto the religions of exclusivity as a Dharam Yudh against evil.
Arise Hindus!
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