BIGGEST THREAT TO HINDUISM OR INDIA IS NOT FROM SETU SAMUDRAM PROJECT
The perception that Hinduism faces a threat from Setu Samudram Project is panicky. The real danger will be from Mr. Sheldon G. Adelson, CEO, Vegas Sands Corp.
Gambling King. Third Richest American. Sixth richest human on Earth.
He is on a business visit to India. Though he says that it is difficult to do business in India, within himself he knows that it is not so difficult. If he succeeds in convincing the Indian bureaucrats and politicians to permit him set up Casinos, in the name of hospitality and tourism the entire civilisation and culture in India will undergo a sweeping change.
As per his own words he can recover his Capital in nine months. He is very plain. He wants profits. And the profits are not in hospitality. They are in gambling.
In future, the "VEGA" will be the guiding star for India. The "Vega Sands" will be the Rameswaram for Indian citizens.
This is as if we do not have enough matka brackets, single number lotteries, playing card clubs, horse races, amusement parks and what not! at home.
Hence we should be ready for robberies which will be worse than the treasure hunting raids of Ghazni Mohammed, Taimur, Nadir Shah, Robert Clive and Warren Hastings.
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Cow Dung worship
I assure you read that title right, this is exactly what the ladies of the house in DH’s community do the morning after Diwali to ensure wealth and prosperity in the household for the year to come.
Since I had no idea how things worked I let my sister in law do the preparation, which actually meant using fresh cow dung to draw a symbolic representation of a village complete with 3D little cow dung people (all this made with bare hands and on the ground in the court yard). I myself took the less smelly job of putting various types of lentils and grains in designated area on the pattern to mimic granaries and mangers. We then went back to the kitchen to make little birds out of rice floor dough for the female only ritual. Once MIL was ready we headed back outside, lit oil lamps in the dung village, and had our feet painted with some magenta tainted water and proceed to bless the village with the usual water sprinkling, grain throwing and red powder applying all the various elements and then conclude by eating one of the rice flour birds each before call it quit and head to the kitchen for breakfast.
While the whole ritual may sound gross (after all this is cow dung we are talking about). What fascinates me is how Hinduism has remained an earthy religion close to its people and the farming roots of India, with all the rural symbols and wish of prosperity linked to grain, food and by default wealth. And somehow it is not so odd that the Goddess of wealth is a woman, and that the rituals closely associated to fertile matters are conducted by the women of the household using earth symbols, which are by default symbols of life and fertility as well (the men have another ritual the next day involving fire). The rest of the day is generally spent lazing around as everything is anyway closed. That part was actually tougher on me than being around smelly dung and a swarm of fli
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