Any thought on the Hindu tradition or culture is considered medieval by the so-called secularist media. No wonder Shri. Bhagwat's Bharat-India comment drew much of wrath. All that he said was that a society with high moral values and dharma such as Bharat will not witness so many rapes, where as a cosmopolitan society such as India with lesser moral values will attract more rapes. It was an amazingly simple thought. What was even more amazing was how this shameless, news-craving carnivorous media could tweak such a simple comment into an urban-rural divide and run debates for hours. What followed this was nothing but only ruckus.
In olden day bharat, woman was not just treated as peer but was considered superior to man. Birth of a girl child was celebrated as arrival of Lakshmi. There were equal number of female doctors, scientist, ministers in the vedic period. Annapoorni feeds us, Kali saves us, Lakshmi showers us with wealth, Saraswati gives us knowledge. In a society that celebrated feminity with so much zeal, there ought to have been lesser violence against women. Hence I do not have a problem with Shri. Bhagwat's comment on moral values. Nevertheless, Bharat was also not very ideal either. Draupadi was disrobed in Bharat, not in modern day India. Bharat was not blemish-free, neither India is full of blemishes.
Frequent occurrence of such incidents only shows the diminishing moral values in the society. Any society with disintegrating moral values will only fall. History has witnessed this time and again. Sita was kidnapped and Lanka was brought down. Draupadi was disrobed in Kurukshetra (Today's Delhi), the entire clan of Kowravas vanished. May be the insult to this 'Damini' is setting a pretext to something large. As Krishna said, whenever adharma overtakes dharma, a battle will be fought to ascertain dharma. Good will prevail over evil. Let history repeat itself...
In olden day bharat, woman was not just treated as peer but was considered superior to man. Birth of a girl child was celebrated as arrival of Lakshmi. There were equal number of female doctors, scientist, ministers in the vedic period. Annapoorni feeds us, Kali saves us, Lakshmi showers us with wealth, Saraswati gives us knowledge. In a society that celebrated feminity with so much zeal, there ought to have been lesser violence against women. Hence I do not have a problem with Shri. Bhagwat's comment on moral values. Nevertheless, Bharat was also not very ideal either. Draupadi was disrobed in Bharat, not in modern day India. Bharat was not blemish-free, neither India is full of blemishes.
Frequent occurrence of such incidents only shows the diminishing moral values in the society. Any society with disintegrating moral values will only fall. History has witnessed this time and again. Sita was kidnapped and Lanka was brought down. Draupadi was disrobed in Kurukshetra (Today's Delhi), the entire clan of Kowravas vanished. May be the insult to this 'Damini' is setting a pretext to something large. As Krishna said, whenever adharma overtakes dharma, a battle will be fought to ascertain dharma. Good will prevail over evil. Let history repeat itself...
