Articles
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By Bharat Desai
1)ONE GOD ONE RELIGION
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What is a religion? It is a belief or a way of life. In other word it is a way to reach very near to God. It does not teach hatred, jealousy, vindictiveness and bitterness.
It is we human being who creates all type of complication to put forward our Agenda.
Therefore it is very much necessary to go deep into various religions of the world in order to find out' What they are preaching to the mankind.'
The 'Hadith' of Islam says 'Paradise will be occupied by those who love one another, those who sit together for God's sake, those who visit one another for God's sake.'These clearly give the message of love and fellowship.
In Christianity Saint 'John' said ' Those who say I love God and hate their brothers or sisters are liar'. "What it is?" It is a message of love and brotherhood.
In' Judaism' Leviticus has said' You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people but shall love your neighbor as yourself.' Here the message goes further that you shall love your neighbor more then yourself.
The great Epic of 'Buddhisalva' in Buddhism gives following Message' our act of pure love in saving life is greater then spending the whole of One's time in religious offering to the Gods'. It means you may be religious but if you do not have love for a life of fellowmen then that ritual have no meaning.
In Hinduism there is Message that you can love a good person very easily but if you love to all including Bad, then only you can claim to be Good person. There is wellknown traditional story. ' One Sadhu who goes on rescuing the scorpion inspite of his bites. When somebody asked the Sadhu' Why do you keep rescuing the scorpion when its gratitude is to bite you? The Sadhu replied 'It is a nature of scorpion to bite and it is a nature of Sadhu to help others when they can.' Here there is clear message to love even bad persons and to help them if necessary.
The greatest philosopher Confucian's says
"If there is a righteous in the heart,
There will be beauty in character.
If there is a beauty in character,
There will be harmony in home.
If there is a harmony in home,
There will be an order in the nation.
If there is a order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world."
What is righteous for human being? It is love for each other. The messages of all religions and saint thereof are very clear. However if there is a terrorism, violence, and wars are going on any where in the world that is due to of loss of finner thing of life i.e. "Love".
Therefore religions are not be blamed for the mess, which is created in this world.
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2)Sardar Patel
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Sardar Patel can be compared with the great German Hiro Bismarck and the great Indian politician Chanakya because Bismarck integrated the divided Germany and Chanakya is considered to be the master politician of 350 BC- 275 BC who assisted to establish the great Indian Empire of Chandragupta Maurya.
Sardar was very Popular, Strong, Intelligent, and foresighted, leader with high character. However very few people knows that he was very human. The some of the historians also believed that he was communal which was reflected in recently published article in India. It has created lot of heart burning among his admirers.
It is better to substantiate with example that he was not communal and had never discriminated between Hindus and Muslims.
In this connection we may recollect the few incidence of Sardar with Muslims. One of his close associates Narendrasinh Mahida who was a Minister in Indian Government, had described few incidents of Sardar with the Muslims.
He said once Begum of Sachin State near Surat was financially in trouble and she requested Sardar for help. Sardar immediately gave her RS 25000/- from his personal fund. His secretary wanted to recover the said amount from Begum when privy purses of the Indian native rulers were signed. Sardar stopped him doing so, telling that it was my help to my sister. It is not fair to take back money given to sister. However Sachin’s Nawab family was very grateful.
The Three Muslim Nawabs of Junagadh, Mangrol and Manvadar in Gujarat wanted to join with Pakistan and they have to leave their states against the popular will. Every one expected that Sardar will not allow them to leave but Sardar issued order to allow them to leave to Pakistan. Incidentally Junagadha Nawab left for Pakistan by private plan leaving his Begum and Daughter due to unavoidable circumstances. Sardar made special arrangement to send them Karachi safely. In view of above it can be seen that he was not communal.
Besides that he was patriotic leader. Once more then 500 members of both the houses of parliament passed resolution to appoint Sardar as primeminister by removing Panadit Nehru. They asked the time of Sardar for the meeting. He gave them time of 5pm in the evening to meet. Meanwhile he went to Nehru. Nehru was surprised. He gave him the letter of MP’s and told him that ‘He will talk to them to retrace their steps.’
Sardar reminded the MP’s the promised, which he had given to Gandhiji that he will always work with Nehru in his lifetime. He further told them if they do not support Nehru then he would also go with Nehru. He torned the letter of support before them and they were all disheartened. However Sardar appeal them to unite in the interest of the country. He took promise from them to take the country at the height. Any one can so a leader who will deny the primeministership when there is support of majority members of parliament?
He was against reservation but he wanted reservation for economically backward communities. Therefore he saw that some of the economically backward communities were also included in the reservation.
He had also foresight like Chanakya and expected 1962 chines attack on India well before and warned Pundit Nehru in advance.
Sardar Patel always thought of national interest leaving the petty things like cast, communalism, and sectarian feelings. He was a leader with analytical mind and quick decision. He was never driven by circumstances but he always droves over them. It proves he was human but strong leader with high character.
(This article was presented in 'Chhajjuka Chaubara' on 14th June 06)
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