The Beauty of the Asymmetric Mask

IN THE WOKE WORLD, THE STATEMENT – “I RESPECT YOU EXACTLY AS MUCH AS YOU RESPECT ME” – IS A STATEMENT OF HATE.

A few years ago, a video featuring the legendary Shehnai player, Bismillah Khan, went viral on Indian social media. His statement in the video – “I used to take a dip in the Ganges, pray at the Mosque and then come to the temple and practice my Shehnai” melted the hearts of all those swear by the “pseudo-idea of India” as a tribute to the “secular” nature of India and the particular city, Varanasi, which is regarded as Shiva’s abode on Earth.

Secular nature of Shiva’s abode of Earth? Well, that’s for another day’s discussion.

I responded to a post featuring this video with – “Would a statement by Chhannu Lal Mishra (another noted Shehnai player from the same city of Shiva) – “I used to take a dip in the Ganges, pray in the Temple and then come to the Mosque and practice my Shehnai” be considered equally secular and display the greatness of the City of Shiva?“

Apparently, it doesn’t. Large-heartedness is the prerogative, obligation and responsibility of only a few. These “few” are not only expected to, but demanded to show a large-heart, even to those who – in every prayer they call out – which is several times a day – pray to their God to annihilate and eliminate us.

Yes, that is the greatness expected out of us. Ain’t you proud of it?

I come across a number of Hindu friends who tell me, “we should not be like them, we should be us regardless of what others do“, and I ask them a simple question – “why should we be not like them? Are you publicly declaring that they are so so so so so so so superlatively filthy that we should not be like them? I feel they are great people and we should be like them“.

Probably, they are not. At least that’s what “THEY” and those who stand by and for “THEM” seem to propagate. If they are truly at least as great as we are, we should feel proud in emulating them. To treat them exactly as they treat us, as a matter of pride and their religious obligation.

The wokes are a relentless lot. To this, they have a simple and obvious answer – “You cannot blame people for practicing what their religion teaches them“. 

So, it’s not them. It’s the religion that’s so so so so so so superlatively bad?

“Hey, you cannot blame entire religions for what few people do!!“

There is no dearth of cheap wisdom flowing in the world, especially in the age of social media. The beauty of parables and stories is that anyone can memorize them and play them back without meaning a word of it, or understanding the true context, releavance and significance of it.

Remember the story of that Saint who was carrying a scorpion in his hands to help it get past a river? The scorpion stung the Saint’s palms. The palms shook and the scorpion fell in the river. The Saint picked it up and began carrying it again. The scorpion stung, and fell in the river again. The Pick -> Carry -> Sting -> Fall cycle kept happening over and over again.

The onlookers started feeling sorry for the Saint and asked him – “Why are you trying to save this Scorpion if it keeps stinging you all the time?”

I would have admired the Saint a lot, if he were honest enough to say – “Because I am an idiot“.

Well, you probably already know, or can easily guess, what the Saint replied.

Can you spot the conspiracy how we, normal human beings, trying to survive our normal ordinary lives, are brainwashed into treating others the way great sages and renouncers of the world are expected to behave, when they are hurt or disrespected or others? “When somebody hurts you, this is what you should do, because the person who left his home and family and all his belongings 50 years ago, and survives on one handful of grains per day did that in a fictitious story“. 

This is not an ordinary conspiracy and it would be fallacious to brush it aside.

A few years ago, one of these compassionate light-workers present all over the social media as mutated viruses, shared a meme, which showed a Native American warrior with a quote that went on the lines of “real warriorship is not about fighting the enemy outside, but to fight the enemy within”.

I responded to this illuminated soul – “probably that’s the reason 55 million Native Americans got murdered in cold-blood by the invading Europeans. Their warriors, who were supposed to protect them were busy fighting the enemies within, while the enemies outside kept butchering millions of them without blinking an eye”.

Every form and level of life has to be lived by its own rules. It is very easy, and perceptibly noble, to pass off one’s irresponsibility, laziness, fears, cowardice and apathy as “sainthood”. That’s the reason, in ancient India, when somebody renounced the world, he had to do it formally and without having a back-door exit at convenience, and the life of the renunciates were far more difficult than a regular citizen. One didn’t have the luxury to abdicate their responsiblities in the name of sainthood on odd days, and fight for their petty self-interest on even days.

Kings and warriors were not supposed to show unwarranted compassion if it resulted in making their subjects vulnerable to threats. Every form of existence had it’s own rules, with no rules of one form of existence was in any way superior or inferior to the rules of other forms of existence. One found fulfilment and “moksha” only by following the rules applicable to their form of existence, no matter how gross it looked to others.

A soldier showing undue compassion to a brutal, murderous enemy was as much of a sinner as a saint slapping someone for stealing from them.

As I described in Thou Shalt Not Question My Mask, the most effective way of manipulating a person is to give him an image to live by, and the person would feel forever chained and obligated to upkeep this image. Nobody exemplifies this more than a regular Hindu, who is insulted, harmed, injured at the civilizational and ideological level on a daily basis, but doesn’t cease carrying the scorpions in their hands and getting them across the river.

Of course, the same Hindu would fight back tooth and nail when an insult, harm or injury comes to them in their personal lives, either to them or their loved ones. It’s not their innate sainthood, but the lack of responsibility, laziness, fear, cowardice and apathy to their civilizational responsibilites that they try to pass off as sainthood.

Yes, according to these Hindus, we are obliged to respect THEM even if they break our idols, disrespect our scriptures and ejaculate semen on the idol of our Goddesses. The one who does this cannot be blamed because he did so probably because he dreamt of his God ordering him to do so.

So, are the religion and the God to be blamed?

No!!! You cannot blame the religion and God for what one person did.

There are many things in this world, and especially in India, that you are not allowed to question even on facts and objectivety, while others are fully authorized to insult your cultural and religious identities because their religion believes that your God is not the right one and hence it’s their religious duty to free the world of this sin.

You cannot blame them for practicing what their religion requires them to do.

So, is the religion that bad?

No!!! You cannot blame an entire religion for what a few people decide to do. 

In the 1920s, during the times when a group of people following their God’s commandments unleashed a reign of terror, massacre and rapes over Hindus in the Malabar region of Kerala, the then wannabe, aspiring, upcoming star of India, M. K. Gandhi, was questioned about this state of affairs, to which he replied – “they cannot be blamed for following their religion the way their religion prescribes them to be followed”.

So, is the religion that bad?

No!!! One more time – You cannot blame an entire religion for what a few people decide to do.

If you want to find the most stupid people of the world, don’t search for them among the masses. Search for Hindus in top universities, corporates, publications, glamour-world, and all highly recognized places places, search for the Hindu celebrities – people who do not have one second in their life beyond managing their jet-paced lifestyle, but want to be respected for their opinion on things they do not know, and would not be able to comprehend in lifetimes to come. 

These are specifically the “Useful Idiots” that Lenin spoke about.

As I further discussed in Thou Shalt Not Question My Mask, people would do whatever they can get away with. However, that’s only one half of the story. People often feel obliged to do the maximum they can get away with. This is what gives them the thrill and the consummation of being what they are.

The popular concept of the “Grazing Cow Theory” states that if you look at a herd of grazing cows in a very large grass field, you would rarely see many cows at the centre of the field. Most of the cows would be seen near to the fence of the grassland.

It is a basic instinct for humans to push the limits of their propriety. It is a basic instinct for humans to try their luck to the maximum extent that they can get away with. It is only natural for religions that evolved in places that manned the meanest and the basest people on the planet in those times, with very limited and almost non-existent sense of morality, ethics or propriety, to appeal to the basest and meanest instincts of human beings, and that’s what the followers frequently demonstrate. 

It is much less likely and probable to find those following an Indian spiritual tradition trying out their luck in disrespecting, hurting, injuring and insulting others for no reason or without provocation. On the other hand, you will find even notable celebrities who follow imported trashy ideologies either being vile to other religions, batting for the vileness of their co-viles in the modern times, or defending the vileness of vile historical figures.

Just today, a predominant poet and writer from India, who is an “atheist” on odd days, spoke up on how those invaders who were born in India were as much Indians as we are, and lambasted those Indians who think otherwise. He equated it with President Obama, a Kenyan, was accepted by Americans as their president for having born in the USA. And the Indians refuse to accept the India-born invaders as Indians!!!

To this, I strongly opine that not all cockroaches, leeches, flies, mosquitoes, earthworms born in my house are my family members. 

Did that sound disrespectful? 

I respect your culture, heritage, beliefs and God EXACTLY to the degree that you respect my culture, heritage, beliefs and God. 

In the 21st century, it would be a great start for people to leave their stone-age baggage aside and learn to respect others’ beliefs. 

Asymmetry is a form of double-speak. Yes, it may resonate well with the “global citizens” aspiring to be accepted by their western masters, but for a normal, average, Indian, asymmetry is passe.

Nobody buys into the planted stories of Saints and Scorpions any more. That’s what prompted one of the leading representatives of one of these imported cults to declare after the 2019 General Elections of India – “the elections were not rigged, the Hindu mind of this country has been rigged forever”.

How would you feel if one day you, as you come out of your washroom singing and whistling happily as all other days, and just as you are about to wipe your feet, and your doormat just got up and said – “Don’t!!!” ?

Nobody likes a bad doormat. Nobody likes their doormats going rogue. Ask the Americans why they call Geronimo, the valiant Native American fighter as “the worst Indian ever”, because his valiance made capturing him so difficult that it led them to a level of vileness and treachery that was vile and treacherous by even the standards of European invaders.

Everyone who has a control over the process of the writing of the History loves good doggies and good doormats.

You can’t blame them for thinking this way. They are just following their religion which grants them this privilege of being superior and supreme over everybody else. They are just following their religion that makes them feel beyond reproach, reprimand, accountability, and responsibility.

So, is the religion that bad?

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!! For the last time – You can’t blame entire religions for what a few people choose to do!!!

Here is a simple Message for anybody who wants respect – “Please drop the “Ass” out of “Asssymmetry” and try again”.

May be, it will work.