There must be NO compromise with evil
One of the core principles that Vedas propound is that there must be NO compromise with evil. It becomes our utmost responsibility to fight till the end to eliminate the evil to the best of your efforts. It is completely opposite to the Semitic religion like Christianity which preaches surrender to the Satan, showing the other cheek when smitten on the other and the concept of “Love thy enemy”, etc. Most of the Vedic gods like Indra and Varuna are heroic in nature and demonstrate clearly how they fight evil without the slightest hint of compromise.
So, if this is the case, then it becomes important for us to understand how Indians allowed themselves to be ruled for close to 1000 years and let them continue to do so. We need to understand what swayed us away from the daring individuals we are supposed to be. Once the Islamic invaders quoted that ‘While Hindus were conducting “extra-curricular activities”, we invaded Hindustan using the right military wit’. There is no doubt that the rich cultural heritage that we have is the result of our great exponents of those ages. But, what these Islamic invaders said also makes sense and clearly proves that our military was really not ready to defend our territory in addition to the separatism among the various princely states.
I am a believer that the three most important factors that can drive us further in the coming centuries is a strong Economic stability, secondly advancements on the technological forefronts and finally a very strong military power. We are currently weak in all the 3 areas but we are seeing a good directional move in the economic front, but we are far behind Japan in technological front and at least 30 years behind United States on the Military front.
For me all of these can be achieved or expedited only if we have absolute political power in this democratically oriented nation of ours. We must have absolute power to make long sustaining policy changes, and according to me this can only be achieved over a period of 20 years. With absolute political power, there is nothing that we cannot achieve or there is nothing that cannot be “suppressed”.
So, if this is the case, then it becomes important for us to understand how Indians allowed themselves to be ruled for close to 1000 years and let them continue to do so. We need to understand what swayed us away from the daring individuals we are supposed to be. Once the Islamic invaders quoted that ‘While Hindus were conducting “extra-curricular activities”, we invaded Hindustan using the right military wit’. There is no doubt that the rich cultural heritage that we have is the result of our great exponents of those ages. But, what these Islamic invaders said also makes sense and clearly proves that our military was really not ready to defend our territory in addition to the separatism among the various princely states.
I am a believer that the three most important factors that can drive us further in the coming centuries is a strong Economic stability, secondly advancements on the technological forefronts and finally a very strong military power. We are currently weak in all the 3 areas but we are seeing a good directional move in the economic front, but we are far behind Japan in technological front and at least 30 years behind United States on the Military front.
For me all of these can be achieved or expedited only if we have absolute political power in this democratically oriented nation of ours. We must have absolute power to make long sustaining policy changes, and according to me this can only be achieved over a period of 20 years. With absolute political power, there is nothing that we cannot achieve or there is nothing that cannot be “suppressed”.
posted by Aditya Rao at 9:15 AM
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