AS a significant step forward towards Bhagwan Ram’s grand temple at His birth place in Ayodhya, a unique initiative is being taken, once again, led by Sadhu-Saints. As part of Ram Temple Movement, all over Bharat ‘Hanumat Shakti Jaagaran Abhiyaan’ started from August 16, 2010. Before we see what this abhiyaan is, how would it be done, by whom and where, it is time that we all understand the crux of the Ram Temple Movement – once again.
For the last 450 years, Hindus have been fighting for the grand temple at Bhagwan Ram’s birthplace in Ayodhya. Despite Babur’s efforts to demolish a beautiful temple and built a vague structure there, which he wanted to be a mosque (which could never be in absence of Minarets!) Hindus never stopped worshipping and praying exactly at the same place where even from pre-Islamic period, Hindus had been praying and worshipping – than in a grand temple and after Babur tried to demolish the temple – in front of that demolished structure! This consistent and persistent faith of Hindus in Ram’s birthplace has not been unfounded. From various Puraans to Vaalmiki Ramayan and from foreign travellers like Hue En Tsang’s documentation, there are clear mentions of a grand temple at Bhagwan Ram’s birthplace in Ayodhya. Not just this temple, but the entire Ayodhya was respected by Hindus as a pious place – Teerth Nagari and it has been one among the seven pious cities for Hindus. Parikrama of Ayodhya was known for ages and is mentioned at many pre-Islamic materials.
The crux of the matter is that Hindus never stopped praying at that exact place, which they traditionally knew as Ram’s birthplace. After Babur tried to demolish it and up until now, in past 450 years Hindus fought for building a grand Ram temple there and around 4,00,000 Hindus gave their precious lives for that temple! At this moment, even after so many struggles and even after Islamic Rule was over in Bharat, there is no grand temple at Ram’s birthplace. Bhagwan Ram is yet sitting in a make-shift temple. In the original book of Bharat’s Constitution there is a mention of 25 great symbols of Bharat’s culture and heritage. Bhagwan Ram is one of them. His painting and name has been given as a national hero of Bharat in Bharat’s Constitution; but as of today this great national hero and Hindu’s Bhagwan does not have a respectful grand temple at His birthplace in Ayodhya! This is truly a national shame. All nations respect their national heroes and so should Bharat. Bharat does respect and pray to Bhagwan Ram and surely wants to build a grand temple at His birthplace!
Now before we see as to why now this abhiyaan for Ram Temple? It is not an issue of only Hindus; it is an important issue of Bharat’s pride and safety too. How? For the past many years Bharat (and entire non-Islamic world!) is being attacked by jihadis again and again. Babur breaking Ram temple in Ayodhya, Gazni breaking Somnath temple in Gujarat, many Islamic invaders breaking Kashi Vishwanath temple, Matura Krishna temples again and again are the acts of the same jihadi mentality with which New York’s World Trade Centre’s twin towers were attacked, in Spain and UK trains were blasted, in Mumbai apart from trains and stations, the landmark Taj and other hotels were attacked.
Jihadi mentality had demolished temples then, now they have been attacking economic centres. Act may change; mentality and ideology is the same – attack, scare, convert or kill! This is how jihad spread all over the world. Now they have been using various political systems like democracy, social systems like judiciary, NGOs, media etc and high tech systems like internet etc to spread jihad. They broke everyone’s faith centres, then they broke economies. Now what we see in Kashmir is also a part of jihad – it is agitation jihad and stone-pelting jihad! Their new game in jihad is ‘Me Victim’ theory. Be it France banning burqa or be it Germany closing down 9/11 fame mosque or be it Bharat insisting that Kashmir is an integral part of India- today’s jihad revolves around Public Relations and emotional blackmailing by ‘Me Victim’ theory. Love jihad in Kerala is another type! Building grand Ram temple at His birthplace in Ayodhya is the befitting and symbolic reply to such jihadi acts. They just have no right to invade nations, societies, faiths and people any more. Enough is enough. Unless we prove it by building the grand Ram temple at the very birth place of Bhagwan Ram, where jihadi Babur had demolished the grand temple, we can not stand up and say-enough is enough. The way destructed Taj Hotel was rebuilt, we must have grand temple at Bhagwan’s Ram’s birthplace in Ayodhya and we must have it now!
In Haridwar Kumbh, sadhu-saints did a huge Sant Sammelan. On April 6, 2010 Sant Uchhaadhikaar Samiti passed resolution: Grand Ram Temple at Ram’s Birthplace in Ayodhya-now; no new mosque in Ayodhya’s Shaastreey limits and no Babur’s mosque anywhere in Bharat. As a part of this movement, Hanumat Shakti Jaagaran Abhiyaan started from August 16, 2010 all over Bharat – on Tulsi Jayanti. It will be on up to November 17, 2010 – Devotthaan Ekaadashi.
In all temples in cities, towns and villages Hindus from surrounding areas will gather at a particular time, do sankalp for grand Ram Temple at Ram’s birthplace and do group recital 11 times of Hanuman Chalisa, Maruti Stotra, Aanjaneya Gaayatri or whatever suits them per their state’s and place’s tradition. Every Hindu doing this recital will write his / her name and signature on a paper supporting Grand Ram Temple. From November 17, 2010 to December 17, 2010 (Geeta Jayanti) there will be Dharam Sammelans and Anushthaans in every tehsil, prakhand, block all over Bharat, where all will take sankalp of grand Ram Temple.
All these programmes are a part of Ram Temple Movement and they will be done under the banner of Hanumat Shakti Jaagaran Samiti which will be led by Sants Uchhaadhikaar Samiti with sadhu-saint’s guidance and decisions. These programmes are not for votes or not for or by any one political party – all Hindus are welcome to participate as Bhagwan Ram is a pious faith of all Hindus and Bhagwan Ram is Bharat’s National Hero per Bharat’s Constitution Book. Therefore, all political parties should respect Hindu faith = Bharat’s faith and together they should pass the resolution in the Parliament the way with a Union Cabinet Act, Somnath Temple was built! This is the appeal of Sants Uchhaadhikaar Samiti as was done in Haridwar Kumbh.
All efforts will be made that in Hanumat Shakti Jaagaran Abhiyaan, Sants, Archaks and all Hind organisations participate. Starting from August 16, 2010, Hanumat Shakti Jaagaran Abhiyaan will cover 3,00,000 places (including cities, towns and villages). It starts with group programmes in head quarters all India at a time in 800 places on August 16, 2010.
As Hindus have always prayed at the very site of Bhagwan Ram’s birthplace in Ayodhya, where there had been a grand temple and as 4,00,000 Hindus have given their precious lives past 450 years for this very temple, it is time that Bharat’s all governments learn to respect majority Hindu’s faith respectfully. Let us all hope that now Bhagwan Hanumanji gives some wisdom to all political parties not to crawl in front of jihadi mentality and they have an opportunity to prove to 90 crore Hindus in Bharat and millions of Hindus all over the world that they do not give in to jihadi tantrums. All they have to do for this is to pass an act in Parliament declaring this place as Birth place of Ram and help Hindus build a grand Sri Ram Temple at Bhagwan Ram’s birthplace in Ayodhya! If they still do not understand Hindu faith then Hindus will be helped by Bhagwan Hanumanji this time, for sure!
(The writer is a renowned Cancer Surgeon & International Secretary General of VHP. Contact: [email protected])
Comments