SHAKARACHARYA’S REVELATION
The wave of mass insanity unleashed by the rabid forces of Hindutva sees no sign of abating. Not even when this madness has been Lruught into public ridicule. The limit, surely, to the madness of the Manute monks, was at the April 4 BJP-RSS-VHP Boat Club rally at New Delhi, addressing which the Shankaracharya of Badri ashram Jyotishpeethadiswar, Swami Vasu Devananda Saraswati, had this to say: –
“The foreign powers want to turn the Hindus into idiots in order to eliminate the race. This is the reason why they want us to stop drinking cow’s milk. And these Jersey cows being sent to India are a cross-breed of cow and pig.” (Quoted in “Shri Ram to Aid BJP” by Praful Lahiri, New Age, Vol. XXXIX No. 15, April 14, 1991).
Now, we all know full well how the Hindutva humbugs never tire of trumpeting the concocted story that Hinduism is fully compatible with science. But the Shankaracharya’s rabble-rousing speech only exposed the utter hollowness of this ridiculous claim. Jersey cows being produced from sexual unions of cows and pigs may only be perhaps conceivable in Hinduism, which has stories of children being produced from the sexual union of two males, of an animal who was half lion, half man etc. But unfortunately, such curious things never happen in reality. One can well imagine the miserable fate of the Science and Technology Dept. if and when the Hindutva forces, led by people like this Shankaracharya, come to power.
And what is more, by condemning the Jersey cow – (which yields much more and better milk than the Indian cow), the Shankaracharya perhaps seeks 10 imply that he does not want the millions of India’s downtrodden milkmen (Yadavas, Hairs, Gujjars etc.) to improve their miserable lot. After all, according to Manu, menials like the milkmen must always remain slaves of their “upper caste” Aryan masters. Further, the Shankaracharya had this message to give for the millions of India’s farmers the bulk of whom come from the BC/SC races: “
“The tractors and threshers should be banned. They have taken the country backwards. No longer do the farmers have Ox for ploughing, this is a very bad omen.”
The Shankaracharya, being a Brahmin, of course, is prohibited to even touch a plough. And, therefore, he does not have even the faintest idea of the misery, poverty and drudgery that plough cultivation means, in contrast to modern agricultural technology. By condemning India’s oppressed farmers to the plough, and by denying them modern technology, the Shankaracharya perhaps wanes the millions of India’s “Cow-caste” (non-Aryan) farmers, milkmen and agricultural laborers to remain poor, as Manu had commanded in his Manu Smriti. The Hindu Raj being forcefully championed today by the brahminical forces would prove disastrous for the Indian farmers and peasants, too. The Shankaracharya’s statements point in this direction.
