Dear Editor,
First of all a verse from the Yajura Veda ‘Na Thashay Pratima Asthi’ which means God has no idol form, in the Bhagvat Gita Lord Krishna said, ‘God is formless’. But the Hindu religion is the oldest religion of the world and it has developed the worshipping of idols of God with great faith and respect. Nobody has right to harm their faith. It is not the PK movie did that job it is happening all around us-pictures of Hindu Gods are being used by the Hindus to prevent urination by people near their houses, a Shiv Lingam shaped stone erected in two feet by two feet place outside their house to prevent parking of vehicles. Everybody can see in which way the Jagrata parties handling and making the exhibition of idol of Gods to meet their commercial hunger. Hundreds of products in the market carrying pictures of Hindu Gods on them and after the use, the wrappers are lying here and there in heap of rubbish. Many disguises in form of Hindu Gods wandering on roads-begging, smoking and do all type of human activities. The management of Hindu temples, Ganga Ghats and others are earning bad names for the religion. The religious groups can use their physical strength to burn,break, stone throwing, shed blood but cannot use it to clean temples, Ghats, The Ganga, The Yaumna or stop missuse of idols or pictures of Hindu Gods in the society.
Disrespect towards Hindu religious leaders- Swami Vivakananda said, ‘if somebody is great, don’t follow him blindly’. A religious leader shown in the PK movie is the born idea of our so called religious leaders spending their days in jail. A great religious leader can produce chainof gold from air by his miraculous power on the spot but is unable to cure a cancer patient in the same way. That religious leaders can perform their selective miracles not yours.
If it is our great religious duty to stand against such movies then it should be our greater duty to clean up such elements within our religion. Everybody is looking for a soft target either movie makers or religious leaders.
Those days have gone when person performing the character of Hindu Gods on a stage or somewhere else kept fast, sleeping on ground and celibacy for the complete period until the show ended.
Wazir R.S Athmia
Old Satwari, Jammu Cantt.
