Those Who Insult Saints are the Ones Who are Insulted

It is none but the Guru who protects us from troubles, who saves us from treading the wrong path, who teaches us how to tread the right path. If anybody, anywhere, tries to insult such a Guru by any means; if a finger is pointed at a saint, then be sure that the finger is pointed at our culture, at us.

Pujya Bapuji has given love to all. With Bapuji’s grace, Indian culture is undoubtedly, continuing. As Bapu claims, no one can stop India from becoming World Guru in 2011AD, but we have to be alert and cautious. People are ready to attack us stealthily. Our Gurukuls are censured. Therefore, certainly now let us become alert.

Whether Bapu believes Himself as God or not, we people believe him as a personification of God because he has taught us how to live, how to die, how to follow the duty of a house holder. Prostrations to such a Bapu, prostrations to such a civilization! In all the gurukuls that are inspired by Bapu, children are taught about and inspired to follow Indian civilization.

What we are supposed to do is to translate His teachings in our life and imbibe His grace to experience the same everywhere gradually. Just as God has said: “We don’t have to be meek or scared, we don’t have to ask for anything, and we don’t have to become escapists.”

Today, though it may seem that the sun, the light is hidden, covered behind the dark clouds of defamation but mind well, the sun never gets clouded; a saint is never insulted. Those who insult saints are the ones who are insulted. This is an undisputed truth.

- Acharya Shri Ramgopal Shukla, Upadhyaksha, Shraddha TV Channel

Don’t Become a Vehicle for Exerting “Mass Pressure”…

- Chief justice of India Shri K.G. Balakrishnan

The tendency of newspaper and news channels to carry unverified reports poses a danger to a free and fair constitutional judicial process.

The manner in which the modern media and telecommunications intruded into a person’s life and caused embarrassing and damaging publicity, if left unchecked, would become “alarming”.

Chief justice of the Supreme Court Shri K.G. Balakrishnan was delivering the fourth K.S. Rajamony Memorial Public Law Lecture on “Constitution, media and courts” in Kochi.

The “media trial”, conveying public opinion in favor of one side or the other, particularly in criminal matters, and become increasingly frequent in recent times. Even before the court trial began, the accused was being shown as guilty. This questioned the very premise on which the judicial system was based – the right of every party involved in a court proceeding to have his case adjudicated in a free, fair and unbiased manner.

The media are a sentinel of democratic freedom. It is the responsibility of every person associated with the media to act responsibly with a sense of duty towards society and the nation. In fact, journalists used to be “vigilant watchdogs of civil liberties.” The right of the media also has the duty to report fairly, objectively and accurately. He said the media should be wary of allowing itself to become a vehicle for exerting “mass pressure” as opposed to a “mere expression of mass opinion.”

Many cases exist in India where the media has conducted elaborate interviews and discussions regarding the guilt of the accused in a manner that created public pressure, rather than public opinion. Publicity is necessary, but that which is responsible and unbiased.

Where is the sword that can kill me? Where is the weapon that can wound me? Where is the calamity that can vitiate my cheerfulness? Where is the sorrow that can destroy my happiness? Now all fears have disappeared. All doubts have vanished. My day of triumph has arrived. No worldly even can disturb the tranquil state of my mind. I do not lose or gain anything on account of these worldly ups and downs. I have neither hatred for enemies nor love for friends. I am not afraid of death, nor scared of destruction. I have no passion for life, no desire for pleasures, no fear of pain, because all this is in the mind and mind itself is but an illusion.