I thought there is some truth to this op ed.
Please read for what it is worth. There are some pointers
we all need to think and consider.
Regards,
Chandu
Please see the original at:
http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/jan/31franc.htm
Where are the poor Hindus?
- Francois Gautier (http://www.francoisgautier.com)
January 31, 2006
The consequences of Sonia Gandhi becoming what the French call the
eminence grise -- one who controls everything from behind the scenes --
for India are not only visible for all those who care to look, but also
have far-reaching -- and maybe irreversible -- consequences.
Occultism, in the ancient sense, was the manipulation of forces which
cannot be seen, but which constantly clash in the world.
One could say politics is the art of controlling these forces, overtly
and covertly. At the top, great leaders create their own occultism.
Their very presence generates certain atmospheres, which make or unmake
revolutions.
At the outset, one should first say the world is not Black and White,
Good and Evil, Superman versus the Bad Guys, as the Americans would
like us to believe.
Hindu groups need not demonise Sonia Gandhi.
She probably was a good wife to Rajiv Gandhi, a good daughter-in-law to
Indira Gandhi. And by all accounts she is a good mother to her
children, judging by the way they dote on her.
One also hears first-hand reports about her concern for smaller people,
her dignity in the suffering that befell her when her husband was blown
to pieces, and her courtesy with visitors.
That said, what is happening in India at the moment makes me profoundly
uneasy.
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I am a Westerner and a born Christian. Yet, I find it absurd that in a
country of one billion people -- one of the most ancient civilisations
of this world -- Indians cannot find an Indian to govern themselves.
There are many good and talented people within the Congress. And one
wonders what is this unconscious, occult urge that makes them look up
to someone, who, however well-meaning, is alien to their culture.
Let us first look at the visible, overt consequences of Sonia Gandhi's
supreme leadership.
There is, of course,the Quattrocchi affair. Did Law Minister Hansraj
Bhardwaj order to defreeze the Italian's British bank accounts only to
please Sonia? Or did Bhardwaj do that on her orders, even though the
Central Bureau of Investigation took the blame?
Then, we have the Iraqi Oil for Food scam.
Could it be that the go ahead for K Natwar Singh and his son's Iraq
trip came from Sonia through her trusted aides?
And what about Kashmir? Is Sonia planning some concessions, which in
effect will deprive India of this most ancient and sacred piece of
earth?
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has just held talks with People's
Conference chief Sajjad Ghani Lone. What is General Musharraf's game,
now that he has dazzled the West, who laid everywhere a red carpet for
him?
Is the man who conceived Kargil sincere?
Pervez Musharraf is a clever magician. Nobody in India has found
anything to confirm that he is actually holding talks with the Hurriyat
leaders, who want Kashmir to separate from India and most likely go to
Pakistan.
There is in India an obsession and a fear of a small country that has
lost the four wars it initiated with India.
Then, most dangerous of all, we have Nepal.
Because of the intense pressure of India's Communists, India is pushing
the king of Nepal into China's arms (Beijing just delivered 25 trucks
of weapons to Nepal) and Pakistan, which is opening consular posts
everywhere.
If Nepal is taken over by the Maoists, India will be surrounded by
three intensely hostile entities: Tibet (under China), Nepal and the
valley of Kashmir, which Pakistan wants by force or guile. All of these
are on a height, which gives tremendous strategic advantage.
Dr Singh keeps praising China, but there is no doubt that Beijing is
New Delhi's deadliest enemy. It does not need to fight a war, as it is
invading India with cheap products, encircling India by making deals
with hostile nations, beating India in the energy sector and quietly
blocking India's entry into the United Nations Security Council.
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Is Sonia aware of all this? If she is, then she does not act in India's
best interests.
Let's come to the covert, occult signs.
I am a little uneasy when I see how much Christianity is taking over
India under the reign of Sonia Gandhi.
According to the 2001 census, there are about 2.34 million Christians
in India; not even 2.5 per cent of the nation, a negligible amount.
Yet, there are today five Christian chief ministers in Nagaland,
Mizoram, Meghalaya, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
I share with Sonia a love for India. Like her, I have lived in this
country for over 30 years. Like her, I have married an Indian.
But nevertheless, since she is at the top, Christian conversions in
India seem to have gone into overdrive.
More than 4,000 foreign Christian missionaries are involved in
conversion activities across different states. In Tripura, there were
no Christians at Independence; there are 120,000 today, a 90 per cent
increase since 1991.
The figures are even more striking in Arunachal Pradesh, where there
were only 1,710 Christians in 1961, but 1.2 million today, as well as
780 churches!
In Andhra Pradesh, churches are coming up every day in far-flung
villages and there was even an attempt to set up one near Tirupati.
Many northeast separatist movements are not only Christian dominated,
but sometimes function with the covert backing of the missionaries.
In Kerala, particularly in the poor coastal districts, you find
'miracle boxes' in local churches. The gullible villager writes out a
paper mentioning his wish: A fishing boat, a loan for a pucca house,
fees for the son's schooling, etc. And a few weeks later, the miracle
happens!
Of course, the whole family converts, making others in the village
follow suit.
During the tsunami, entire Dalit villages in Tamil Nadu were converted
to Christianity with the lure of money.
Then there is this rapid Westernisation of India.
There are good things in the West -- its material consciousness, care
for nature, logical mind -- but it is nevertheless in crisis. Its
Church is in disarray, three marriages out of five end in divorce and
some children need to go to psychiatrists before they start shooting
other children.
Yet, if you have a look at most of the mainstream English-speaking
Indian magazines and newspapers today, you will notice that all their
cover stories deal with Western concepts, that they are looking at
India from a Western point of view, such as talking about 'New Age'
spirituality.
As if spirituality is new to India!
You will notice that there is never any reference to India's great
past, or to India's philosophy, or medicine -- which, by the way, is
becoming fashionable in the West.
Brinda Karat went after Swami Ramdev and Ayurveda, the oldest medical
system still in practice in the world, although she did not get much
support.
Notice also that when the Shankaracharya of Kanchi is arrested, a
section of the Indian intelligentsia applauds, though he has still not
been proven guilty.
And that when a new Pope is elected in Rome, we get in India hours of
live coverage and countless cover stories.
The occult effect of it is that nobody realises that in a country of
850 million Hindus, you have now a Sikh prime minister -- when Sikhs
constitute only 2 per cent of the country's population; a Muslim
President -- when Muslims make up 10 per cent of India; a Communist
Speaker in Parliament -- when Communism is moribund the world over; and
a Western and Christian supreme leader, when Westerners constitute only
0.0001 per cent of India and Christians 3 per cent.
Where are the poor Hindus?
What will happen if India becomes enough Westernised at the social
level, Christianised and Islamised at the religious level and taken
over by the Marxists at the intellectual level?
Not only will India lose its unique soul and just become another
Western clone in the developing world, but the earth will lose
something very precious.
It will lose an ancient knowledge, a irreplaceable way of being, which
makes even the most ordinary farmer or coolie carry something unique in
his or her genes: A tolerance, an acceptance that god can take many
forms, an innate philosophical mind, an understanding that there is
something beyond us, beyond death.
Indian Christians are different from any Christians in the world,
Indian Muslims different from any Muslims in the world. They would also
lose.
Maybe it is thus necessary for Indians to see for themselves the
harmful effects of Sonia being queen.
Only then will they realise that it is important to have an Indian at
the top, someone who is in touch with India's ideals and spirituality.
Francois Gautier
Inauguration: Ugadi-2006
