Will Ram Mandir constructed in 2019? Will the politicians free us from the circle of polarisation?

  • 6 years ago
Those who have knowledge of dharma say that truth is the highest dharma writes Valmiki in the Ramayana. Raghupati Raghav Raja ram, Pati Paavan Seeta ram. Hail the master of the Raghu family, lord ram and Seeta who can make even the fallen pure. That was tune often associated with the man who imbibed truth as dharma in the Indian psyche, Mohandas Gandhi. Ram of Ayodhya did not found a religion, he never claimed to be a prophet. His was a story of good versus evil. An Indian epic, not a Hindu epic. But for Hindus, who's homeland happens to be here, his life and birth is a core philosophy. Mohammedans have mecca and medina, Christians have the Vatican. Hindus have been wanting to reclaim the ram janmabhoomi. Today, the supreme court declines to send to a 5 judge bench a petition asking it relook at rulings on whether a mosque is crucial to Islam. This means the court can now get down to the business of actually hearing the Ayodhya title suit. The Babri Masjid was built in 1528, just 3 years after Babur won the battle of Panipat. Were Hindu temples destroyed and replaced as part of Mughal and Afghan invasions, we know they were. Was there a temple on the spot of the masjid? That's hotly disputed. These 493 years later, honestly that point doesn't matter. What matters is what we are today as a nation. We're not a sultanate, we're beyond the British divide and rule and we're beyond Jinnah's 2 nationists. 500 million Indians were not even born when the masjid was demolished, they want to see the future a new India, as should all of us. The court in the end can look at a property dispute. It's up to us to end decades of communication and polarisation embedded from Ayodhya. We can do it if we think big. Imagine a grand gesture from the Babri petitioners to end their claims, let a temple be built on a spot that Hindus consider important. Ensuring that this is not a precedent to rake up issues of other masjids and the cases against those that criminally demolished the masjid continue. What a statement that would make in the history of the world. If you're a John Lennon fan, you know how to imagine. Not everyone does, how do we now move on? What will it take? Why have settlements never worked? Will the politicians free us from the circle of polarisation? Will we free ourselves?

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