Is A Uniform Civil Code Essential for True Secularism? It is!

No multi religious nation can progress significantly if its government has to accommodate the personal rules of every faith absolutely. Particularly if some of the religions namely Muslims have customs that threaten the population balance and demography like Polygamy and Opposition to Birth Control by Family Planning. Opposition to Birth Control on religious grounds is met with in Catholic Christians also.

Some of the Indian religious groups are given to large gatherings for Communal rituals like Mass bathing (Shahi Snan) in rivers or ‘Jamaats’, as well as for immersion of idols in ponds, rivers and seas after some religious occasions like Ganeshotsav and Durga Pooja among Hindus. Muslims practice the ritual of Immersion of Tajiyas or swords in water reservoirs in Moharram in commemoration and honour of the sacrifice of two sons to God by a father mentioned in the Quran. This leads to pollution of our waters.

Customs like these as also continuous firing of crackers during some festivals like Dussehra and Diwali By Hindus as also by Christians on Christmas and International New Year and Muslims at Ramzan time, lead to Air Pollution and wastage of oil and electricity, if indulged in immoderately.

Hence there needs to be control over such customs of all religions without discrimination. The Indian Constitution has adopted the Principle of Secularism, that is, “exclusion of religion and religious consideration” in governance.

Jawaharlal Nehru, The First Prime Minister of India and Gandhiji did include Secularism in the Indian Constitution. However it was not Absolute Secularism in that it gave freedom to minority communities to follow the laws of their own religion such as the Sharia Law of Islam that served to exempt Minorities, especially Muslims, from adherence to the general policies adopted by the Indian government to control population explosion, such as ban on polygamy, thus excusing them from giving up Polygamy and in turn from observing Family Planning and Birth Control, that has been enforced on Hindus vide the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, which is defeating India’s goal of Population Control as also progressively upsetting the economy and demographic structure of Indian Society.

On the other hand, the present pro-Hindu BJP Government has swung to the other extreme by adopting a highly defensive and distrustful attitude towards Muslims on account of the terrorist and converting activities of some Muslims, besides the breaking of temples for building Masjilds.This hostility based on fear is exaggerated by some people as Muslim hatred or Islamophobia! The current Sanatani Hindu dominated government is also suspicious of Christians , especially Missionaries because of their proselytising activities and eye on temples.

This has to stop if there are to be heslthy relations between the Hindus and the other communities.

It is read that Vladimir Putin, Russian President, told Muslim Religious Heads that if they wanted to live according to their Sharia Laws, in exemption from the Nation’s Constitutional Laws, they should go and settle in a nation where the Sharia Law is the Law of the land. India should have emulated Russia in enforcing a Uniform Civil Code for all her citizens. See how Russians have prospered.

This does not mean that a government should go soft in imposing its rules on the majoritarian community. Habits or customs of all communities that are environmental hazards inviting diseases, and any other factors hindering national progress should be curbed strictly for all without favour to any community.

Of course, there are General reasons not pertaining specifically to any community which contribute to Environmental Pollution and Disease such as Industrial waste collecting in nooks and corners and released into water bodies and Stubble burning in farms. However there is no opposition by any community to restraints imposed on the citizens on that account. Therefore, there is no question related to Secularism in that reference.

The Point is that there should not be any favouritism or discrimination against any religious group, whether of the Majority or any Minority group in a Secular nation . Hence the need for a Uniform Civil Code in India.

Have Politicians the World over botched up the Control of the Corona Pandemic by conducting ill timed political rallies and being soft on religious gatherings?

It looks like the last phase of Kaliyug before Lord Vishnu’s Last Coming as Kalki has arrived, thanks to the Politicians’ election rallies and assembling in crowds by various religious groups for celebration of religious occasions, despite the Health authorities’ warnings to maintain sufficient distance from one another.

It is better not to go into the naming of the individual culprit nations or religious groups at this stage as there is already a lot of mud slinging between people over the spreading of the Pandemic.

But their brazen flouting of the health guidelines is encouraging the Public to ignore the health guidelines for arresting the flaring of the Pandemic which broke out in December 2019 from Wuhan in China.

As a result, the Pandemic which had shown encouraging signs of abating by the end of 2020, has taken a turn for the worse to such an extent that it has rebounded with a vengeance with new , more virulent strains of the CoVid19 virus and is disseminating like Wild Fire despite all the curative steps including medicines like Remdesivir and controlling measures like Absolute isolation, Oxygen masks and ventilators. For the availability of the same is falling far short of the demand at this crucial stage, leading to a flood of mortalities all over the World.

Still, some Politicians are reluctant to stop their campaigning rallies for their respective state elections and religious leaders are equally adamant to continue their programs till the last, No Matter What!

With such paucity of awareness among the Public and Administrators, coupled with wrong priorities overruling science and good sense at this critical hour, the Prognosis of the Corona Pandemic is truly Grim!

Probably the Corona Virus is the Maut ka Farishta which has come to rid this earth all unconsciencious politicians and fake religious leaders, to make it a more dutiful and less superstitious world.

Is Yahweh,the God of Judaism and Christianity a prototype of the Divine Duo of Brahma the Creator God and Vishnu the Preserver God of Hinduism?

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There is a belief of some Hindus that Yahweh or Jehovah, the God of the Jews and Christians, and Brahma the God of Creation in Hinduism are the same. It is difficult to vouch however for their being identical deities but there is enough similarity between them to think that they maybe related as prototypes of each other.

The Image of Brahma shows Him to have four heads in all the four directions which the picture of Jehova doesn’t. The four heads of Brahma are to be understood as the symbol of His Omnipresence and Omniscience. Actually, since the Lord of the Israelites is not only the Creator but also believed to be The Shepherd or guardian of His People, as well as the One Who Chastises, Yahweh combines the powers of Brahma as well as of Vishnu The Omnipotent.

It is read that Yahweh or Jehovah does not have a form but is only Firelight and a voice or sound ; in that He is comparable to Hinduism’s “Om”, namely, The Formless Supreme Spirit. However, some authors have given Him an imaginary form with wings as a Falcon, besides a Wheel. This image has semblance to Vishnu, the God of Protection or Preservation, who is represented by an Eagle, which is also a hunting bird of the Skies like the Falcon, while the Wheel in Jehovah’s image is relatable to the Wheel of the Chariot or ‘Rath’ of Garuda, namely the Eagle, that is the mythological vehicle of Vishnu, “Lord of the Magnificent Skies.”

It is mentioned in the Bible that the ‘Lord of Egypt‘ gave his message to Moses. The Lord of Egypt is Horus that is also a Sun God.

The Pregnant Woman with Male Child and clothed with the Sun and a crown of 12 stars on her head and Moon below is akin to the Hindu goddess Aditi, the Mother of the Sun God whom the Dragon ‘Rahu-Ketu wants to devourf (which is the Solar Eclipse in Worldly terms),and of the Adityas, which are the 12 aspects of the Sun.

It is said in the Book of Revelation that the Male child of the Woman would rule all the nations with an iron rod, which seems like Jesus. Thus Jesus is probably an aspect of the Sun God. In fact, some authors believe that there is a great similarity between the story of the birth of Jesus and Mitra(Mithra of the early pre-Zoroastrian Persians) who is the friendly (Mitra) aspect of the Sun.

It is interesting that the Oldest Edition(1928) of the Oxford English Dictionary has mentioned an (now obsolete) exclamatory phrase “Scythian’s Death!”, which was taken as almost tantamount to “God’s Death”. Incidentally, Scythians were known as ‘Devas’, meaning ‘Gods/Lords’ in Hindu Theology. They were the Priests of the ancient pre-Zoroastrian Persians(Iranians) and practiced Mithraism, namely, the worship of the solar god Mithra, who is called Mitra(=Friend,a friendly aspect of the Sun God) in Hindu/Sanskrit terminology. They were also known as The Magi (as they were believed to have Magical powers) and are linked biblically to the land named Magog (that was the historical Sogdiana/Sakasthana in Ancient Asia).

It is not known if Yahweh of the Jews and Christians is also thought to be a Power having a third component in addition to the Creative and Protective powers, corresponding to the Hindu Lord SHIVA, that leads Cyclically to the Dissolution of One Universe after a span of time, to give way to the Creation of a New Universe from time to time, when the previous one becomes decadent, since there is no concept of a Cycle of Life and Death in the Abrahamic religions as in Hindu theology.

As such, SHIVA was initially a Mesopotamian god of the Asuras who were Arabs and Babylonians (Dravidians of Indian History), and a later addition to the Vedic gods Brahma and Vishnu.

SHIVA, the Third God with the Power or Shakti of Dissolution of the Universe, among the Hindu Divine Trinity, who is the God of the Lunar races, appears to be related to the First Beast’ mentioned in the Chapter of Revelation in the New Testament of the Bible, described as having a mouth or face like a lion with a mane, body like a leopard, and feet like a Bear, and whose Mark all people have to put on their foreheads and right hand on the command of the Second Beast (Lucifer, equivalent to Shukra(=Venus)acharya, the Fire Priest of the Demons of Hindu Theology). The Dragon represents the Demonic pair of Rahu and Ketu, that are the Shadow Planets of Saturn and Mars. So Saturn seems to be the Satan of the Bible, and Mars is His Devilish Disciple.

Kartikeya or Shivkumar is the personification of ‘Fire’ emitted by Shiva which is the Ahura Mazda of the Zoroastrian Persians/Iranians, who worship him in his actual form as Fire. He is worshipped in personified form as Murugan in Tamilnad.

So interestingly, all the SATANIC OR DEMONIC CHARACTERS of the Book of Revelation of the BIBLE, namely, the Dragon, the First Beast, the Second Beast and Fire, correspond, in the same order, to the Hindu Demonic Pair of Rahu-Ketu, Shiva, Shukracharya and Kartikeya or Shivkumar, who RELATE TO the Hindu sect of SHAIVISM. And interestingly, Shiva in Hinduism too is primarily the God of the Asuras or Demons.

The difference is that neither the Asuras nor Saturn, of whom Rahu, called Dragon’s Head in Hinduism, is the Shadow Planet, thus being equivalent to the Biblical Satan, are Absolutely or Eternally Evil or Black characters in Hindu theology but amenable to redemption through repentance, atonement and surrender of their Ego, the Original Sin, to Lord Shiva.

Shiva’s early Rudra or fiery form has also been suggested to be an ancient prototype of Allah, the God of Muslims, looking at certain similarities between His image as ‘Chandrashekhar’, that is, the God with the Moon over His head, and the important significance of the Moon in Islamic theology as seen from the symbol of the Crescent Moon and Star on the Islamic flag and other religious places.

However Islam has no conceived or published image of Allah, because worship of God through any conjectured image or idols is against the precepts a mane, of Islam. The reason is that God or The Supreme and Eternal Power is Omnipresent and boundless. So Islamists consider it a sacrilege to bind or limit Him within an imaginary picture or an idol for worship.

Therefore it is more in order to compare Allah with “Om”, the Primordial Nirguna Nirakar Parabrahma, that is, The Eternal Unmanifest Universe.