Tomorrow is Savan Purnma and a very auspicious day for all Hindus especially for Kashmir Pandits. It’s the day for the ceremonial Pooja at Shree Amarnath Swami Temple in Kashmir. The holy mace, the sacred symbol of Lord Amreshwar (Lord Shiva) is taken in ceremonial procession accompanied by thousands of Sadhus and other devotees from far and near and worshipped on Sawan Purnima at the sanctum sanctorum of the principal deity of Kashmir. Though the travel up there has to be covered on foot through very hectic and risky hilly terrain still thousands of devotees visit there daily during the months July and August every year to have a glimpse of the Lord embedded in a miraculous hilly cave. The temperature at the holy spot remains always sub zero and the main Darshan is in the form of a huge ice Lingam formed by the dripping water from the ceiling of an open stone cave which takes its huge form on every Purnama round the year corresponding to the waning and waxing of the moon. Strange enough there’s only a little pool of water on every Amavasya at the place. The whole phenomenon baffles all human reason and scientific logic and the only thing that remains is to prostrate in submission before this living divine miracle.
Kashmir is famous not only for her sights and scenes, valleys and pastures, but also for being home to numerous famous seers and sages, poets and scholars since pre-historic times. For thousands of years great Rishis kept absorbed in toughest austerities at numerous places in the valley, most of them hidden from the public view, and with the passage of time the valley was profusely decorated with numerous miraculous sacred spots invested with great divine manifestations in consequence of the deep Sadhna of the greatest of the great souls for thousands of years. Later during the golden Hindu period thousands of magnificent temples were constructed by the Kings and their cohorts again for hundreds of years which gave a great name to Kashmir worldwide and resulted into a magnificent scene of a Hindu Kashmir.
The wholesale conversions and destruction of the Hindu face in Kashmir is a recent development compared to the glorious Hindu past that spanned through thousands of years of prosperity and name with great Kings and scholars, poets and historians who put a permanent stamp of their authority and talent on the psyche of Kashmir. The current scene in Kashmir which's disturbing for all saner elements, when looked from a broader perspective is not as disturbing as it suggests because Kashmir continues to be a Hindu Kashmir in spite of all the disturbing face it presents now. It’s simply covered with the dark veil of a demon otherwise everything is in tact underneath. All the famous installations that have given Kashmir a fabulous Hindu name are there buried under the so-called Muslim fundamentalist attitude but are there ready to crop up its head whenever the occasion comes. It may take another century or so but Kashmir has to rise again to its fullest glory. Men may come and go but the truth has to prevail, the oppressor has to run away for good.
Kashmir is famous not only for her sights and scenes, valleys and pastures, but also for being home to numerous famous seers and sages, poets and scholars since pre-historic times. For thousands of years great Rishis kept absorbed in toughest austerities at numerous places in the valley, most of them hidden from the public view, and with the passage of time the valley was profusely decorated with numerous miraculous sacred spots invested with great divine manifestations in consequence of the deep Sadhna of the greatest of the great souls for thousands of years. Later during the golden Hindu period thousands of magnificent temples were constructed by the Kings and their cohorts again for hundreds of years which gave a great name to Kashmir worldwide and resulted into a magnificent scene of a Hindu Kashmir.
The wholesale conversions and destruction of the Hindu face in Kashmir is a recent development compared to the glorious Hindu past that spanned through thousands of years of prosperity and name with great Kings and scholars, poets and historians who put a permanent stamp of their authority and talent on the psyche of Kashmir. The current scene in Kashmir which's disturbing for all saner elements, when looked from a broader perspective is not as disturbing as it suggests because Kashmir continues to be a Hindu Kashmir in spite of all the disturbing face it presents now. It’s simply covered with the dark veil of a demon otherwise everything is in tact underneath. All the famous installations that have given Kashmir a fabulous Hindu name are there buried under the so-called Muslim fundamentalist attitude but are there ready to crop up its head whenever the occasion comes. It may take another century or so but Kashmir has to rise again to its fullest glory. Men may come and go but the truth has to prevail, the oppressor has to run away for good.
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Last line of your post is really true.
ReplyDelete"the Oppressor has to run away for good"
And the oppressor is India and it has to go, sooner or later. I swear by God, India's time is up in Kashmir and all the talk about the golden hindu past of Kashmir is a farce. Kashmir came out of darkness only after the reversion to Islam by its people enmasse without any force or coercion whatsoever. People converted purely out of conviction and will. Islam transformed the lives of people here. Ignorance and darkness vanished forever. Now, India has to pack up and Kashmir will be clean and pristine again. Civilised world is with us and we will be guided to our Freedom soon.
This is the first time that the motherland which has provided for all your needs and greed is being called a oppressor.......shameful and thankless indeed.
ReplyDeleteWell nobody can stop you from living in a Fool's Paradise.Happy Dreaming......All in the name of being "CIVILISED".
@ Kashmir Centre
ReplyDeleteThere’s no need of clarification to your biased statement regarding the conversions in Kashmir. The recorded history is full of various descriptions of oppressions against Hindus and their forced conversions not only in Kashmir but in whole of India. The Muslim kings and their cohorts have themselves in their recorded accounts extensively boasted of their achievements about killing of numerous Hindus and destroying their religious places as part of their holy convictions. Scores of examples can be given that almost all famous Muslim shrines and mosques in Kashmir are either converted forms of old Hindu shrines or constructed on and with the debris of Hindu religious places.
Who’s told you that there were voluntary conversions in Kashmir? The Hindus were given only three options to choose from -- Tsalun, Galun, ya Ralun, the notorious words true to their spirit even today. The fleeing Hindus of Kashmir were hounded and killed ruthlessly like the animals of prey by the Islamic zealots especially imported from outside. This is a glaring barbarous history of not less than three hundred years and the numerous stone ruins of the past Hindu installations everywhere in Kashmir still bear a living testimony.
You must know that besides highly accomplished saints and sages Kashmir was home to numerous literary scholars of repute who had produced the world’s oldest and choicest literary works in the form of millions of books for thousands of years and these were safely preserved in millions in the richest libraries in the reputed centers of learning. The largest such libraries were in present Vejibror besides Shardi near Muzaffarabad. All these books were burnt in phases one by one and lots of them dumped in the Dal Lake and other deep waters to ensure the end of the glorious Hindu past. It took almost thirty years to demolish the single magnificent temple complex near Vejibror which extended for three miles on both sides of River Jehlum where the main Temple structure was a twelve storey strong stone building. The traces of the ruins of these constructions are still found scattered here and there in Vijebror.
I don't want to take up such controversial issues on this forum and invite unnecessary bickering but I’m compelled to write the above a few facts in response to your biased note based purely on misinformation. I call for your sincerely looking into the facts with an open mind if at all you're interested and not indulge into such mudslinging.