Introduction
The Concept of an Indian Identity and Mindset continues.....


That this atrocity could not have been heaped on the Mutt without the aid and abetment, or even the instigation of the power behind the throne in Delhi, a devout foreign-born Catholic, has not even evoked any anger amongst the Hindus.

Instead the majority of Hindus have been just passive or at most satisfied with discussing gossip i.e., whether there was some land dispute of the Mutt with the government that triggered it or a money angle row with a politician in power to motivate the misuse of state machinery, to frame a Shankaracharya on a murder charge! It is incredible that in a nation of more than 80 per cent Hindus, the democratically elected state government dared to foist a bogus case on a Shankaracharya, and without a spontaneous uproar and mass protest by Hindus. That this atrocity could be the beginning of further assault on the foundation of the Hindu religion to defame and discredit it, should have jolted the Hindus into a fierce protest.

Otherwise, the current Hindu apathy will encourage further assault on Hindu institutions. It is already happening and there is no time to lose. In July 2005, an uncouth official of the Tamil Nadu Government’s HR&CE Ministry blocked the Kanchi Shankaracharyas from entering the holy Shiva temple in Rameshwaram because, the official said, the acharyas had criminal cases pending against them. Leave aside the fact that anyone is presumed to be innocent until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, or that Ms. Jayalalithaa, the CM herself then is clothed from head to foot in criminal cases, what is significant is the audacity of an official in a 80% plus Hindu populated country to block a Shankaracharya from performing his God-ordained puja duties. His HR&CE counterpart in Andhra, at Tirumala, has pontificated recently that the Tirumala hills, except a small portion, do not belong to Lord Venkateswara, making a mockery of agama shastras. Obviously, no penalty attaches to sneering at Hindu beliefs.


to be continued....

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