NGO's, Teesta Faked Gujarat Riots

Following is a report which appeared in the Times Of India. Obviously this is a fitting reply to the electronic media which has made Modi-bashing its "Swadharma". Hail the "secular media".

NEW DELHI: The Special Investigation Team responsible for the arrests of those accused in Gujarat riots has severely censured NGOs and social activist Teesta Setalvad who campaigned for the riot victims.

In a significant development, the SIT led by former CBI director R K Raghavan told the Supreme Court on Monday that the celebrated rights activist cooked up macabre tales of wanton killings.

Many incidents of killings and violence were cooked up, false charges were levelled against then police chief P C Pandey and false witnesses were tutored to give evidence about imaginary incidents, the SIT said in a report submitted before a Bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat, P Sathasivam and Aftab Alam.

The SIT said it had been alleged in the Gulbarg Society case that Pandey, instead of taking measures to protect people facing the wrath of rioteers, was helping the mob. The truth was that he was helping with hospitalisation of riot victims and making arrangements for police bandobast, Gujarat counsel, senior advocate Mukul Rohtagi, said quoting from the SIT report.

Rohtagi also said that 22 witnesses, who had submitted identical affidavits before various courts relating to riot incidents, were questioned by the SIT which found that they had been tutored and handed over the affidavits by Setalvad and that they had not actually witnessed the riot incidents.

Rohtagi said: "On a reading of the report, it is clear that horrendous allegations made by the NGOs were false. Stereotyped affidavits were supplied by a social activist and the allegations made in them were found untrue."

Obviously happy with the fresh findings of the SIT which was responsible for the recent arrests of former Gujarat minister Maya Kodanani and VHP leader Jaideep Patel, Rohtagi tried to spruce up the image of the Modi administration, which was castigated in the Best Bakery case by the apex court as "modern day Neros". He was swiftly told by the Bench that but for the SIT, many more accused, who are freshly added, would not have been brought to book.

The SIT also found no truth in the following incidents widely publicised by the NGOs:

* A pregnant Muslim woman Kausar Banu was gangraped by a mob, who then gouged out the foetus with sharp weapons

* Dumping of dead bodies into a well by rioteers at Naroda Patiya

* Police botching up investigation into the killing of British nationals, who were on a visit to Gujarat and unfortunately got caught in the riots

Source: TOI

Rulers Propose, People dispose

This article though appeared a year ago is still worth reading. Team Temple Project wishes all its readers and followers (!!!) a Happy and Prosperous New Year... Let us all strive to to achieve a culturally awakened country this this year. Happy reading.

In political theory, the definition of democracy is : By the people, for the people and of the people. A satirical description of democracy that is often doing rounds is ‘bye the people, far the people and off the people.’

This description of democracy was at display when the Tamilians across the world pooh-poohed the much-boasted Tamilnadu Government Order reducing the Tamil New year’s Day, to the nominal Chithirai Thirunaal. But the celebrations that were on view last Sunday proved beyond doubt that the government’s move to change the Tamil New Year was off the minds of the people, far from the hearts of the people and bidding bye to the scientific tradition followed for centuries will take a lot of doing.

The Tamil New Year (unofficial) this year was similar if not grander than those in the previous years. The major difference being the use of Chithirai Thirunaal in most television and radio programmes instead of Puthandu.

‘Chithirai Thirunaal may be inferred as an important day in Chithirai. What importance does Chithirai hold without it being the first month?’ asks a visibly agitated Tamizhvanan, a school teacher. The TV channels seem partial to Chithirai else why celebrate only Chithirai Thirunaal and not Panguni Thirunaal or Avani thirunaal. Most of the Tamil magazines and dailies published ‘Fortunes’ in tune with the Sarvadhari Tamil New Year that began on Chithirai 1st day.

The corporate world in fact heralded the new year celebrations this year. A popular GSM provider had provided full TT (for those who are new to the mobile lingo TT means Talk Time) and also had advertisement stating ‘Tamil New Year! New happiness and luck coming your way. SMS to ....’. The happiness and luck were quite cheap, priced at Rs 3 per sms. If it was Rs 3 in the previous case, it was Rs 300 at a popular star hotel at T Nagar for happiness through a traditional New Year lunch.

The retail market players had their own slew of offers. A popular shopping mart had announced 50 per cent off for the occasion. Even those selling tiles to textiles and calculators to computers had a discount to offer. If discounts were the trademark for a New Year celebration in some sectors, a hike in others proved the same. The prices of vegetables, fruits and flowers had shot up (forget the inflation, we have got used to it) on the eve itself.

Marimuthu, a vegetable seller says ‘it is the usual scenario of prices rising before every festival being celebrated. It is nothing new’. Coming to temples, many of the famous ones had special poojas and other rituals. The devotees flocking temples from early morning sent a crystal clear message. Muthuvel, a devotee says ‘the New Year is based on scientific facts propounded by our rishis to whom neither the past nor the future hold any secrets. But to our rationalists the past is a mystery and their future itself murky’.

People from all walks of life celebrated the New Year. Prior to the occasion, when asked about the celebration plans, a popular cricketer of yesteryear said that a prayer in the house and going to the temples just like any other New Year.

If all this was the scenario in the Dravida Nadu, it would be worth knowing the status of the Tamil New Year celebrated by our brethren at Sri Lanka for whom most of our politicos have been vociferously campaigning. The Tamil New Year was celebrated with great pomp and fanfare there with special rituals and all the other attendant events. In Singapore, the government’s Hindu Endowment Board played host to the celebrations. Similar was the case in America, Australia, England and Malaysia.

The Canadian Prime Minister had greeted all Tamils in Canada on the occasion. So what ? Our leaders will greet us happily for the English New Year, which they even dare not touch. For us, Anglo-Saxon is Tamilian and the so called Aryan is alien.

Anyway, Tamilnadu is sure to enter into the Guinness Books of World Records for having two Tamil new years, every year ! One for the people (in Chithirai), the other for the Government (in Thai) and of course, both for the advertisement-savvy channels including those owned by the rulers. Three cheers, Tamilians!

Source: Newstoday

Hindu Flags to decorate Chennai on 19th April

Dear Proud Hindus,

Hindu Janjagruti Samiti, an organization started by likeminded Hindus is dedicated to the cause of Protecting the Nation and Dharma is organising the First Dharma Jagruti Sabha in Tamil Nadu at Chennai city on 19th April 2009, 5.30 P.M., at D.G. Vaishnav College, Poonamallee High Road, Arumbakkam, Chennai. The speakers on the occasion include Maharaj Ananda Chaitanya , disciple of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Shri S Gurumurthy from Swadeshi Jagran Manch, Shri V Sundaram, Editor Newstoday, Smt. Sailaja Vittaldev, Sanathan Sanstha and Smt. Uma Ravi chandran, Hindu Janajagruti Samithi.

Objectives of Hindu Janjagruti Samiti include -
1. To create awareness about Hindu issues,
2. To Educate about Hindu Dharma,
3. To unite Hindus globally,
4. To protect the Nation.

With the above objectives Hindu Janjagruti Samiti does many activities like Nationwide campaign against Denigration of deities, M.F.Hussain campaign, Save Temples campaign, Hang terrorist Afzal Guru campaign. The major activity of Hindu Janjagruti Samiti includes organizing Dharma Jagruti Sabhas all over India. Hindu Janjagruti Samiti has organized 116 Dharma Jagruti Sabhas till now in Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. After receiving a tremendous response in these states, Hindu Janjagruti Samiti has now organized a Sabha at Chennai.

This Dharma Jagruti Sabha will be a show of Hindu Unity, hence all likeminded Hindus are to be brought together to this Sabha. All are requested to come along with your friends, relatives & others to this meeting.

Contact details:
Sri. P. Prabhakaran, Co-ordinator, Hindu Janjagruti Samiti
Chennai. Mobile – 9003053054

Nevada Assembly Session Opens With Samskritam Mantras

SAMSKRITAM MANTRAS from ancient Hindu scriptures opened the Nevada State Assembly session in capital Carson City on April 6.

After sprinkling Gangajal (holy water brought from river Ganga in India) around the podium, acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed started and ended the prayer with 'Om', the mystical syllable containing the universe, which in Hinduism is used to introduce and conclude religious work.

Zed, President of Universal Society of Hinduism, recited from Rig-Veda, the oldest scripture of the world still in common use, dated from around 1,500 BCE, besides lines from Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita, both ancient Hindu scriptures.

Legislators and others, including many teenagers, who filled the visitors gallery, stood respectfully in prayer mode with heads bowed down during the prayer. Adina and Kurt Karst, who came from Minden to listen to the prayer, described it as 'wonderful'.

After Samskritam delivery, Zed read the English translation of the prayer. Samskritam is considered sacred language in Hinduism and root language of Indo-European languages. Reciting from Brahadaranyakopanishad, Zed said, “Asato ma sad gamaya, Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya, Mrtyor mamrtam gamaya,”, which he then translated as - “Lead us from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, and from death to immortality.”

Reciting from Bhagavad-Gita, he urged legislators to keep the welfare of others always in mind. Concluding lines were 'Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti', which he translated as 'Peace, Peace, Peace be unto all'

Source: Merinews

Doctored CDs and Gita For Gandhi's: The Truth

The mysterious appearance of an allegedly ‘doctored’ CD is being used by our Hindu-bashing media to defame and condemn Varun Gandhi, the bright young B J P aspirant wanting to contest election for the Lok Sabha seat from Pilibhit. In this comical debate the media has conveniently forgotten that a number of similarly doctored CDs are being openly sold in hundreds across Pilibhit and several U.P. towns. According to a news published on March 22, 2009, in Hindustan Times, New Delhi, a CD of the so-called ‘hate’ speech of Varun Gandhi was being sold for Rs. 15,000 and several political parties and mediapersons were lapping up the coveted CDs.

On top of it, the buyers are openly telling the CD seller, one Maqbool, to “delete this scene, it will not serve my purpose”. And such openly ‘doctored’ CDs are being unabashedly purchased by the election campaigners for three well known political parties. Yet not one media analyst has tried to fathom the origin of the ‘dubious’ CD, nor who prepared it and why, nor where is the original CD. All these questions have been left unanswered by the Indian media as well as the Election Commission.

How is it that the Election Commission and our voluble media analysts have not bothered to investigate what made the cyber café owner, Maqbool of Pilibhit, openly doctor and modify CDs of Varun’s speech for selling them like hot cakes to all and sundry ? Most mysterious, however, is the inaction of the somnolent Uttar Pradesh police who have neither caught Maqbool, nor interrogated him.

Varun’s knowledge of Gita is questioned... Frankly, not many media analysts appear to have any sound knowledge of Gita, nor of the bold message of recourse to karmic action it gives to Hindus like Varun. No wonder they fail to realize that in not too distant past the same message had fired the imagination of the renowned stalwarts like Lokmanya Tilak, Aurobindo Ghosh, Ras Behari Bose and hundreds of revolutionaries and freedom fighters, including Chandra Shekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Ram Prasad Bismal and lakhs of foot soldiers of our freedom movement.

After conversion to the hollow western creed called ‘secularism’, most media WOGs (i.e., West Oriented Gentlemen) have lost their civilizational moorings. In their static minds ‘ahimsa parmo dharmo’, a truncated shloka popularized by Mahatma Gandhi, remains etched as the central theme of Gita. They seem to be blissfully unaware that Gita goes far beyond ‘ahimsa parmo dharma’ and gloriously sanctions the use of violence as a sacred duty in the cause of righteousness, especially for protecting ‘Dharma’. As highlighted by Swami Chinmayananda in a soul stirring article, the correct Shloka in Gita is ‘Ahimsa Parmo Dharma, Dharmah Himsa Tathaiva Cha’, meaning thereby that recourse to violence for protecting ‘Dharma’ is an equally important duty enjoined upon all Hindus.2 The learned sage bemoans that frequent misuse of this truncated sacred verse has reduced us Indians (read Hindus) to the status of “poltroons and cowards”.3 By over emphasizing non-violence, says Swamiji, “we have reached the pathetic situation of today when thousands, in cowardly fear take to precipitate flight, leaving their innocent children to be butchered and their unarmed helpless women to be converted or killed”.

The rousing speech of Varun Gandhi has to be understood in the context of the pitiable condition of Hindus of Pilibhit. In recent months there have been innumerable complaints by Hindus of Pilibhit alleging oppression by Muslim gangsters of the area, including scores of instances of cow slaughter which is forbidden by law. But no one listens to Hindus because the District Magistrate and Additional District Magistrate of Pilibhit, being Muslims, are perceived to be ranged against the majority community. In such a dismal scenario, the courage shown by Varun came like a whiff of fresh air for the beseiged Hindus of Pilibhit.

It is time that voluble journos and politicos realized that there is a healthy unanimity of views between what Varun Gandhi told the beleaguered Hindus of Pilibhit and what the learned Swami Chinmayananda upholds as our grand civilizational ideal, enshrined in Bhagvad Gita.

Though Priyanka Gandhi did not say anything about her own understanding of Gita, apparently she does not know much about the bold and valorous message to fight the forces of evil given by Sri Krishna to Arjun on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Gita does not preach passivity or renunciation, nor submission to tyranny. It preaches action, bold and purposeful, for achieving victory against tyranny. Instead of faulting Varun, she would do well to listen to the sagely advice of Swami Chinmayananda when he says that “the only solution for the day’s internal chaos is to bring home to the people the significance of the much neglected teaching of ‘dharma-himsa’. Gita gives the message of victory through valour to every Hindu, loudly and clearly, exhorting them to join the battle when no other option is available.

And that is what Varun Gandhi has been trying to do by relaying the wake up call to oppressed Hindu masses, besieged by jihadi terrorists and enemies of Dharma. It is time that our ignorant media analysts devoted a little bit of their time to re-reading of the Gita, instead of faulting Varun’s knowledge of the sacred Song Divine.

- R. K. Ohri, IPS (Retd)

Villagers seek govt support to maintain 300-year-old temple

CHENNAI: Every first Sunday of the month, villagers of Vengampakkam, belonging to the Agaram Then village panchayat, 40 km south of Chennaiassemble on thepremises of the Vengeeshwar temple. Not to worship the main deity, Shiva, but to mobilise money to pay the salary - Rs 2,500 - of K Srinivasan, the chief priest of the 300-year-old temple.

Located off the Vandalur-Kelambakkam High Road, the Shiva temple is the only ancient temple worshipped by the 200-odd families living nearby. Villagers from neighbouring villages such as Rathnamangalam, Kandigai, Mappadu and Kasapapuram also visit the temple regularly. Nearly 90% are farmers who cultivate crops themselves without employing labourers. For the farmers, the temple is the source of their prosperity, which brings good rainfall every year followed by a bountiful harvest. Paddy is the main crop here.

Jayachandran, E K Damodharan, a petty shop owner, and S Karnan, a lorry driver, were the catalysts in renovating the temple in 2003. The temple was then covered by thick vegetation and there were poisonous snakes, too. The three had a tough time convincing other poor farmers in renovating the temple.

Most farmers here eke out a miserable existence by cultivating small plots of farmland. But that did not stop Jayachandran, Damodharan and Karnan to organise a meeting of villagers near the old Panchayat Primary School on a Sunday in May 2003. Their hope turned to reality after about three hours of arguments between those who supported renovation and others who wanted more time. Soon, contributions began to pour in with everyone doing their bit. While some gave their hard-earned money, others brought bricks for the main temple construction. A few helped build the compound wall. The village carpenter S Chakarapani did not take any money to make the eight-foot wooden door for the sanctum sanctorum. He spent his own money to get wood from Kumbakonam. Almost all the villagers helped in the construction of the temple as well as a store room, taking turns to work.

The villagers then engaged a priest to conduct poojas. They now want a shelter for the Nandhi statue made up of stone, which stands before the main deity, and also a shelter for devottees. The temple does not have an electricity connection. An external wire has been tapped for power. "We want the government agencies or other donars to help us maintain the temple," says B Saravanan, a farmer and the local DMK functionary.

Sources in the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments department told TOI that it would be difficult for them to take over the maintainance of the temple as they were cash-strapped. "It is better the villagers try to mobilise local funds to maintain the temple. We have our own limitations," they said.

Source: TOI

Sesame And Water: Where Do They Go?

An explanation of tarpanam by Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati swamigal of Kanchi Kamakoti matham.

All human beings must express their gratitude to their fathers (pitrs) and to the gods- they have a debt to pay their fathers, rites to perform for the gods. We must serve our fellow creatures to the best of our ability and extend hospitality at least to one guest a day. This is atithya or what Thiruvalluvar calls "virundu", also known as manusyayajna. Thiruvalluvar has said more or less the same thing as the Vedas say:

Tenpulattar, deivam, virundu, okkal, tan enru angu aimbulattaru ombal talai.

Tenpulattar are the pitrs, the fathers. All are duty-bound to pay their debt to them. Mother Veda says: "Matr-devo bhava, pitr-devo bhava. " (Be one to whom the mother is a deity. Be one to whom the father is a deity. ) Auvvai, who brings us the essence of the Vedas, observes: Annayum pitavum munnari deivam" [Mother and Father are the deities first known. ]

We must treat our parents with respect and do all we can to keep them in comfort. We cannot make sufficient recompense for all the sacrifices they make on our behalf. After they depart from this world we must without fail offer libations to them and perform the sraddha ceremony, all in the sastric manner. Though they ridicule the idea of performing sraddha, even reformers have agreed that we must care for our parents.

"The sesame you offer, the water, the balls of rice, the plantains and other items of food remain here," point out the reformists. "Or we see someone removing them before our own eyes, or eating them. You say that the departed parents are born again in this world. If that is true, is it not madness to claim that what is offered here will reach them?" Some of you must be harbouring similar doubts.

Let me tell you a story.

A certain man had sent his son to college in a distant town. One day the boy woke up to the fact that he had to pay his examination fee in a few days. So he wrote to his father: "Please send such and such a sum by telegraphic money order. " The father was a little perplexed. All the same he went to the telegraph office and handed the clerk at the counter the money that had to be sent to his son. "Please send it by telegraphic money order," he told the clerk. He had thought that the clerk would make holes in the notes, put a length of wire through them and send the whole thing to his son. Moments later the clerk said to the man: "Your son will get your money. It has already been sent. " The villager was again puzzled. He saw the money still in the cash box without the notes strung together. He told the clerk:"My money is still here. You haven't made holes in the notes yet." The clerk assured him: "It will reach your son." Now he turned to his work of sending messages: "Ka-tu-katu-katu." The poor village was still not satisfied.

But the money of course reached his son.

Offering libations to one's fathers is similar. If this rite is performed according to the sastras, the deities concerned will convey them to those for whom they are meant. If the fathers are reborn as cows the offering made to them will be taken to them in the form of grass or hay. The deities in charge carry out the orders of the Paramatman. So the father of the mother whose sraddha is performed need not personally come to receive the offering.

Does not the telegraphic money order reach the addressee? If the addressee resides in a foreign country our currency will not be valid there. If rupees are paid here arrangements are made to pay the money in dollars, pounds of whatever. The things offered to the fathers according to the sastras are conveyed in a form suitable to them.

What is important is a sense of gratitude to our fathers and faith in the sastras. At parties a toast is proposed to somebody and all the guests drink or eat to his health. They do so in the belief that by virtue of the mental power the man toasted will become healthy. Sraddha means that which is done in faith. Faith is of the utmost importance. If we do something we must do it according to the rules laid down for it. When you write a letter how do you make sure that it reaches the addressee? "I will write the address as I like. Why should I drop the letter in that letterbox over there? I have a better box at home." would you speak thus?

Source: kamakoti.org