Alien elements have continually been mounting attacks on Indian culture for the past few centuries. Any saint who spread the glory of Vedic culture in and out of the country was plotted against and all efforts were made to malign and persecute him, thought the conspirators’ efforts failed to succeed even a wee bit. Their dirty tricks rather glorified the saints concerned.
Indians themselves were pitted against Kabirji kabirji’s detractors hired a prostitute and made her openly accuse Kabirji of debauchery. Not only that, she got Kabirji’s roof burnt through her lover, Sumant. The people coming to listen to Kabiriji’s satsang had to sit in the Sun. This pained Kabirji and a sigh of anguish escaped his heart as he looked towards the sky. It was enough to reduce the prostitute’s beautiful and well-built house to ashes. People told the whore it was the result of persecuting the saint. She went Kabirji. He said, “I have not done anything. Your lover burnt my hut; so my Lover burnt your house.”
Those who torment the saints and slander them certainly face nature’s wrath.
When Swami Vivekananda trumpeted the divine Vedic knowledge all around in the western world, the Christain missionaries were enraged. They started making dirty allegations against Swami Vivekananda. Newspapers like ‘Northampton Daily Herald’, ‘Detroit Tribune’ and ‘Detroit Journal’, etc., who sold out thei9r souls and become puppets in the hands of Christian missionaries, started painting swami Vivekananda as a romantic young man and a debauched sadhu always surrounded by young girls. They published invented stories of his sexual abuse of a minor maid. A poster showing him with a half-naked girl was affixed in front of the place where he was to deliver his lecture. One Shri Pratapchandra Mazumdar, from his own country, felt his selfish interests threatened and ran a vilification campaign against Swami Vivekananda M azumdar, from his own country, felt his selfish interests threatened and ran a vilification campaign against Swami Vivekananda. When he failed in his attempts in America, he came to Kolkata and started maligning Swami Vivekananda. He made allegations of cheating, fraud and promiscuity against Swami Vivekananda. He ridiculed him by saying he represented no school of Indian spiritual thought. In America, on the other side, ‘Outlook’, ‘Boston Daily Advertiser’, and ‘Detroit Free Pass’ etc. portrayed Swami Vivekananda as a womaniser. ‘The interior’ magzine published false vulgar news about him Detractors declared even ruin of Swami Vivekananda.
But Swami Vivekananda was no the least worried by such false propaganda. He didn’t care at all for these happenings. His will was rather strengthened by all this. That is why he didn’t counter these accusations in spite of fervent pleas from his followers and admirers.
Blue Barber, a journalist from ‘Boston Daily Advertiser’ came to interview Swami Vivekananda. Here are some excerpts from the interview:
The questioner (making an accusation): Thanks to your licentious behaviours, Mrs. Bagley, the wife of former Governor of Michigan, had to dispense with the services of her teenaged maid. All this has been published in newspapers. What do you have to say?
Answer: You may better ask Mrs. Bagley in this matter and believe what she says…
And if you have a little bit of discrimination and discretion, if you want to be rational, ask the maid. A little effort is required though.
Question: You have nothing to say (in the matter)?
Answer: No.
Question: Mr. Hale has asked his daughters to keep away from you? Why?
Answer: Both Mr. Hale’s unmarried daughters are here with me… Ask them but not in my presence, separately.
After a pause, Swami Vivekananda said, “You are very fortunate. Mrs. Bagley and her maid, who your newspaper has reported as ‘had to dispense with the services’ are coming.
Blue Barber was embarrassed. He stared sweating in the cold season. But due to abashment, he couldn’t wipe off the perspiration on his face.
Swami Vivekananda said, “Blue Barber! Wipe off the perspiration on your face. I am sorry the character of journalism here is dubious. This is a bad omen for development of this country. I have nothing more to say. And I know what I have said will not be published.” Swami Vivekananda left and the journalist was left wiping off his perspiration. Even if the people, who make allegations against saints, who present their interviews in a distorted manner or attribute false statements to them and thereby cause anguish to devotees’ hearts, may make some money out of it, but history bears witness to the ultimate disastrous consequences they meet with. It is rightly said:
‘If you want to get peace, let others live peacefully.
Harassing others, how can you get tranquility?’
Those, on the other said, who bridge the gap between the saint and the society and try to propagate their religions, culture and elevate their country. Earn name fame along with the saints.
The whole world knows and respects Swami Vivekananda but his detractors, who committed the grave sin of misleading people and gave a bad name to their family line, were destroyed.
The famous saint, Narsinh Mehta too was maligned by his detractors with all vigour. Certain elements that were opposed to the message of Indian culture being spread far and wide set his own kinsmen against him who slandered and ostracized him. Even then, with God’s grace, he had no problem whatsoever. Finally, the wicked people who hated him, sent a prostitute named Chanchala to deprave him but the saint’s benevolent glance and his pious teachings transformed her very life. She abstained from prostitution and took to the path of devotion to the Lord. On the other hand, sharrangdhar, who had hatched the conspiracy, was bitten by a poisonous snake. No treatment helped him. Somebody suggested, ‘Narsinh Mehta. Narsinh Mehta gave him the charanamrita and he was completed cured of snakebite. The benevolent saint is known far and wide but the wretched slanderers will be left alone to suffer in the darkest hells.
Guru Nanak propagated Hindu culture A malicious campaign was launched against him using his won kinsmen as stooges. He was accused of misguiding people. All out efforts were made to harass him, but even today, Guru Nanak’s is the most hallowed name for Sikhs and one of the most hallowed for Hindus. The Gurubaani says about detractors:
‘The slanderer of the Saint is a brutal butcher. The slanderer of the Saint is cursed by the Transcendent Lord. The hopes of the slanderer of the Saint are not fulfilled.
The slanderer of the Saint departs disappointed.’ ….etc.
So this is the fate of detractors. God! May the wretched people engaged in maligning Pujya Bapuji learn some lesson from such episodes and desist from such heinous sins! Rajesh Solanki is in jail. Amrit Vaidya too is in a miserable state. He too has tasted the fun of being behind the bars. If others take a lesson from their plight and come on the right path, it will be good for them. Our appeal to them is – Don't play into the hands of forces bent on breaking the nation. Some of those, who did so are in jail, some are in misery and some are awaited by misery. We humbly request the people of this country that they should live with mutual love and fraternity, shouldn’t fall prey to the conspiracy hatched by those spreading venom and strife. Nobody should inflict atrocities on the people. Breaking somebody’s faith is a grave atrocity. OM Prakash Mishra.
Indians themselves were pitted against Kabirji kabirji’s detractors hired a prostitute and made her openly accuse Kabirji of debauchery. Not only that, she got Kabirji’s roof burnt through her lover, Sumant. The people coming to listen to Kabiriji’s satsang had to sit in the Sun. This pained Kabirji and a sigh of anguish escaped his heart as he looked towards the sky. It was enough to reduce the prostitute’s beautiful and well-built house to ashes. People told the whore it was the result of persecuting the saint. She went Kabirji. He said, “I have not done anything. Your lover burnt my hut; so my Lover burnt your house.”
Those who torment the saints and slander them certainly face nature’s wrath.
When Swami Vivekananda trumpeted the divine Vedic knowledge all around in the western world, the Christain missionaries were enraged. They started making dirty allegations against Swami Vivekananda. Newspapers like ‘Northampton Daily Herald’, ‘Detroit Tribune’ and ‘Detroit Journal’, etc., who sold out thei9r souls and become puppets in the hands of Christian missionaries, started painting swami Vivekananda as a romantic young man and a debauched sadhu always surrounded by young girls. They published invented stories of his sexual abuse of a minor maid. A poster showing him with a half-naked girl was affixed in front of the place where he was to deliver his lecture. One Shri Pratapchandra Mazumdar, from his own country, felt his selfish interests threatened and ran a vilification campaign against Swami Vivekananda M azumdar, from his own country, felt his selfish interests threatened and ran a vilification campaign against Swami Vivekananda. When he failed in his attempts in America, he came to Kolkata and started maligning Swami Vivekananda. He made allegations of cheating, fraud and promiscuity against Swami Vivekananda. He ridiculed him by saying he represented no school of Indian spiritual thought. In America, on the other side, ‘Outlook’, ‘Boston Daily Advertiser’, and ‘Detroit Free Pass’ etc. portrayed Swami Vivekananda as a womaniser. ‘The interior’ magzine published false vulgar news about him Detractors declared even ruin of Swami Vivekananda.
But Swami Vivekananda was no the least worried by such false propaganda. He didn’t care at all for these happenings. His will was rather strengthened by all this. That is why he didn’t counter these accusations in spite of fervent pleas from his followers and admirers.
Blue Barber, a journalist from ‘Boston Daily Advertiser’ came to interview Swami Vivekananda. Here are some excerpts from the interview:
The questioner (making an accusation): Thanks to your licentious behaviours, Mrs. Bagley, the wife of former Governor of Michigan, had to dispense with the services of her teenaged maid. All this has been published in newspapers. What do you have to say?
Answer: You may better ask Mrs. Bagley in this matter and believe what she says…
And if you have a little bit of discrimination and discretion, if you want to be rational, ask the maid. A little effort is required though.
Question: You have nothing to say (in the matter)?
Answer: No.
Question: Mr. Hale has asked his daughters to keep away from you? Why?
Answer: Both Mr. Hale’s unmarried daughters are here with me… Ask them but not in my presence, separately.
After a pause, Swami Vivekananda said, “You are very fortunate. Mrs. Bagley and her maid, who your newspaper has reported as ‘had to dispense with the services’ are coming.
Blue Barber was embarrassed. He stared sweating in the cold season. But due to abashment, he couldn’t wipe off the perspiration on his face.
Swami Vivekananda said, “Blue Barber! Wipe off the perspiration on your face. I am sorry the character of journalism here is dubious. This is a bad omen for development of this country. I have nothing more to say. And I know what I have said will not be published.” Swami Vivekananda left and the journalist was left wiping off his perspiration. Even if the people, who make allegations against saints, who present their interviews in a distorted manner or attribute false statements to them and thereby cause anguish to devotees’ hearts, may make some money out of it, but history bears witness to the ultimate disastrous consequences they meet with. It is rightly said:
‘If you want to get peace, let others live peacefully.
Harassing others, how can you get tranquility?’
Those, on the other said, who bridge the gap between the saint and the society and try to propagate their religions, culture and elevate their country. Earn name fame along with the saints.
The whole world knows and respects Swami Vivekananda but his detractors, who committed the grave sin of misleading people and gave a bad name to their family line, were destroyed.
The famous saint, Narsinh Mehta too was maligned by his detractors with all vigour. Certain elements that were opposed to the message of Indian culture being spread far and wide set his own kinsmen against him who slandered and ostracized him. Even then, with God’s grace, he had no problem whatsoever. Finally, the wicked people who hated him, sent a prostitute named Chanchala to deprave him but the saint’s benevolent glance and his pious teachings transformed her very life. She abstained from prostitution and took to the path of devotion to the Lord. On the other hand, sharrangdhar, who had hatched the conspiracy, was bitten by a poisonous snake. No treatment helped him. Somebody suggested, ‘Narsinh Mehta. Narsinh Mehta gave him the charanamrita and he was completed cured of snakebite. The benevolent saint is known far and wide but the wretched slanderers will be left alone to suffer in the darkest hells.
Guru Nanak propagated Hindu culture A malicious campaign was launched against him using his won kinsmen as stooges. He was accused of misguiding people. All out efforts were made to harass him, but even today, Guru Nanak’s is the most hallowed name for Sikhs and one of the most hallowed for Hindus. The Gurubaani says about detractors:
‘The slanderer of the Saint is a brutal butcher. The slanderer of the Saint is cursed by the Transcendent Lord. The hopes of the slanderer of the Saint are not fulfilled.
The slanderer of the Saint departs disappointed.’ ….etc.
So this is the fate of detractors. God! May the wretched people engaged in maligning Pujya Bapuji learn some lesson from such episodes and desist from such heinous sins! Rajesh Solanki is in jail. Amrit Vaidya too is in a miserable state. He too has tasted the fun of being behind the bars. If others take a lesson from their plight and come on the right path, it will be good for them. Our appeal to them is – Don't play into the hands of forces bent on breaking the nation. Some of those, who did so are in jail, some are in misery and some are awaited by misery. We humbly request the people of this country that they should live with mutual love and fraternity, shouldn’t fall prey to the conspiracy hatched by those spreading venom and strife. Nobody should inflict atrocities on the people. Breaking somebody’s faith is a grave atrocity. OM Prakash Mishra.
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