MARCH-21 BOUDHIK YOJANA

Mar-07-2021 Samachar Sameeksha: Sarve Santu Niramaya !!!

Ø     COVID has been a watershed event globally and for India in particular

Ø     It has consistently proved the doomsday predictors wrong from start of pandemic to vaccine delivery

Ø   As the pandemic started, self-proclaimed nay-sayers started predicting that 30-50% of Indian population will be infected by COVID and the case load will squeeze the crumbling health infrastructure

Ø  The lock-down averted that but then the noise started about the huge extent of lockdown and how it will have a knock-out effect on economy and Indian growth story is dead.

Ø  When Q1-21 showed (-24%) dip in GDP, these people went on a ride citing all kind of sources that how lockdown had failed and crippled the economy

Ø  When Honorable PM asked for citizens to participate in activities to boost up morale of frontline workers, it was mocked that when other countries are doing research on vaccine, we are just making noise

Ø  Now we are in the final leg when India has 2 vaccines being manufactured in India, drug regulator has given the green light to Covishield (the local name for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine developed in the UK) and Covaxin, locally-made by pharma company Bharat Biotech.

Ø  The homegrown government-backed vaccine has been developed by Bharat Biotech, a 24-year-old vaccine maker

Ø  It is an inactivated vaccine which means that it is made up of killed coronaviruses, making it safe to be injected into the body. Bharat Biotech used a sample of the coronavirus, isolated by India's National Institute of Virology.

Ø  Bharat Biotech says it has a stockpile of 20 million doses of Covaxin, and is aiming to make 700 million doses out of its four facilities in two cities by the end of the year.

Ø  The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is being manufactured locally by the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. It says it is producing more than 50 million doses a month.

Ø  The vaccine, which is known as Covishield, is made from a weakened version of a common cold virus (known as an adenovirus) from chimpanzees.

Ø  Only Covishield has been exported so far - some in the form of "gifts" and the rest in line with commercial agreements signed between Serum and these nations.

Ø  Till now vaccine has been supplied to 42 countries across the globe including neighbors like Nepal to African countries like Nigeria, Angola and even developed countries like Canada.

Mar 14-2021 Boudhik: RSS: A Vision in Action

Sangh: Unique and Evergreen

A unique phenomenon in the history of Bharat in the twentieth century is the birth and unceasing growth of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The Sangh’s sphere of influence has been spreading far and wide, not only inside Bharat but also abroad, like the radiance of a many splendored diamond. Sangh-inspired institutions and movements today form a strong presence in social, cultural, educational, labour, developmental, political and other fields of nationalist endeavour. Sangh initiated movements - be they social-reformist or anti-secessionist - evoke ready response and approbation from the common multitudes as well as from vast numbers of elite of different shades. 

There could be only one explanation for the continuing march of the Sangh from strength to strength: The emotive response of the millions to the vision of Bharat’s national glory, based on the noblest values constituting the cultural and spiritual legacy of the land and collectively called ‘Dharma’, comprising faith in the oneness of the human race, the underlying unity of all religious traditions, the basic divinity of the human being, complementarity and inter-relatedness of all forms of creation both animate and inanimate, and the primacy of spiritual experience.

Until Dharma also is recognized as a basis of survival and progress, national integration and such other oft-repeated goals will remain a far cry indeed. Idealism and patriotism are tangible exterior manifestations of Dharma.

Absence of idealism has been at the root of most problems haunting our polity. Amidst such an environment, Sangh is unique in according primacy to inculcation of patriotism in all citizens and in all life’s activities. National reconstruction demands the fostering of a national character, uncompromising devotion to the Motherland, discipline self-restraint, courage and heroism. To create and nurture these noble impulses is the most challenging task before the country - what Swami Vivekananda succinctly called man-making.

It is to this historic mission that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has addressed itself.

 Sangh: A Dynamic Power-House

Great oaks from little acorns grow. What started as a tiny stream in an obscure corner of Nagpur in Maharashtra 95 years ago has now swollen into a mighty river engulfing the remotest villages of the country. That the number of Sangh Shakhas has crossed 57000 is one indicator of the expanding reach of the Sangh.

It redounds to the foresight of Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar (1889-1940) that he anticipated the need for strengthening the foundations of the Hindu society and for preparing it for challenges on social, economic, cultural, religious, philosophical and political planes. A galaxy of savants such as Dayananda and Vivekananda, Aurobindo and Tilak, had sown the seeds of the most recent phase of national renaissance. What was needed was a sufficiently strong instrumentality for carrying that process onward. This instrumentality was created and bequeathed to the nation by Dr. Hedgewar in the form of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh which he, after years of deliberate and patient preparation, founded at Nagpur on 27th September, Vijayadashami Day of 1925.

One of the hazards of organisation-building is allowing one’s vision to be clouded with immediate concerns, resulting in dilution of perception of the ultimate goal. Dr. Hedgewar’s especial strength was that he never allowed demands of the immediate present to veer him away from the ultimate mission he set to himself.

Keeping aflame the spirit of freedom and endeavouring simultaneously to strengthen the cultural roots of the nation marked the twin features of the character of the Sangh from the beginning; and that has to this day remained its main plank. Erosion of the nation’s integrity in the name of secularism, economic and moral bankruptcy, incessant conversions from the Hindu fold through money-power, ever-increasing trends of secession, thought-patterns and education dissonant with the native character of the people, and State-sponsored denigration of anything that goes by the name of Hindu or Hindutwa: these pervasive tendencies provide ample proof of the soundness of the philosophical foundation of the Sangh as conceived by Dr. Hedgewar and its continued relevance for the survival and health of the Hindu society and of the nation as a whole. It is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh alone which has consistently been sounding the alarm against all these wrong tendencies in the body-politic of Bharat.

Dr. Hedgewar said often, "Even if the British leave, unless the Hindus are organised as a powerful nation, where is the guarantee that we shall be able to protect our freedom?”

Sangh’s alone has been the voice of genuine patriotic concern amidst the cacophonous, politically inspired shibboleths of undefined secularism, etc.

Even at the inception, the Sangh was viewed by its founder not as a sectoral activity or movement, but as a dynamic power-house energizing every field of national activity.

 

Antidote to Self-Oblivion

The idea of founding the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was conceived at a time when self-oblivion had overtaken the society. The struggle for political independence occupied the minds of people; this was but natural. However, what was askew was the tacit assumption that the advent of freedom would automatically usher in a revival of genuine nationalist values which had perforce receded during foreign rule. Looking to the West as the pinnacle of civilization, irrationally perpetuating the Britishers’ self-serving theories of the ‘White Man’s burden’; that the Hindus were ‘a nation-in-the-making’, that the Hindus had achieved nothing of significance in the past, that Westernisation was the only hope for ‘the dying race’ that were the Hindus; unquestioning acceptance of myths floated by Westerners even in the name of history (e.g., that the Aryans came from outside), that life in Bharat was and had always been at a near primitive state; - acceptance of such numerous myths had virtually become mandatory for anyone with the slightest pretensions to education or intellectuality.

 The Sangh Methodology

Expressed in the simplest terms, the ideal of the Sangh is to carry the nation to the pinnacle of glory, through organising the entire society and ensuring protection of Hindu Dharma.

Having identified this goal, the Sangh created a method of work in consonance with that ideal. Decades of functioning has confirmed that this is the most effective way of organising the society.

The Sangh’s method of working is of the simplest kind, and there is hardly anything esoteric about it. Coming together every day for an hour is the heart of the technique, and the Sangh has always grown only by personal contact. This is a self-contained mechanism; hence its success.

The daily Shakha is undoubtedly the most visible symbol of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. The Shakha is as simple in its structure as it is grand in conception. No better example can be given to prove the truth of the adage that it takes a genius to simplify a mechanical tool, while even a third-rate engineer can complicate a simple mechanism! After nearly nine decades since the inception of the Sangh, people continue to express puzzlement as to how such a simple tool as the daily Shakha can produce idealists and patriots of such sterling worth, willing to dedicate all their energies and talents to the cause of the Motherland, willing even to shed their lives if need be to protect the honour of the Motherland. Herein lies the extraordinary vision, skill and foresight of Dr. Hedgewar, the founder of the Sangh.

Sangh - Inspired Organisations

In 1948, after the assassination of Gandhiji, when the Sangh was unjustly banned, the exuberant student and youth force, which until then was active in the Shakha work only, was mobilised to contact the public with issues of national interest. This movement, the Akhil Bharateeya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), in course of time has grown into a massive nation-wide student organization.

In 1952, the first "Saraswati Shishu Mandir" (nursery school) was founded in Ghorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, as an attempt towards inculcating, along with mandatory academic knowledge, discipline, patriotic outlook, love for mother tongue, high moral values and Hindu principles.

It is to counter this twin menace of lack of development and conversion, that the Bharateeya Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram (BKVA) was founded in early fifties. The BKVA, now spread over a hundred districts in 21 States, has been striving for the all-round development of the vanavasis, in their own natural surroundings.

The trade union movement guided by the alien socialist and Marxist philosophy, started in thirties, was gaining ground by the time and British left the country. Bharateeya Majdoor Sangh, a totally new labour movement, apolitical in character, based on Hindu tenets, was started in 1955.

The need for Vishwa Hindu Parishad began to be felt in the sixties, for augmenting certain grey areas of the activities of the RSS.  There was need to organize Hindus spread across 150 countries and bring all sadhus sannyasins and orthodox mathadhipatis on a common platform, so that their combined influence could be channelized for the common good of the entire Hindu society.

Other inspired organizations are BJP, Rashtra Sevika Samiti, Arogya Bharati, Vigyan Bharati, Itihas Sankalan Samiti and many more.

Reference: 1) RSS: A Vision in Action by H.V.Seshadri 2) https://www.rss.org/Encyc/2012/10/22/rss-vision-and-mission.html

 

Mar 21-2021 Charcha: Fourth Generation Warfare

The arrest of Disha Ravi can be seen as a one-off event or dismiss as a lunatic youngster falling prey to anti-national designs. But just note these names Gurmehar Kaur, Swara Bhaskar, Gauri Lankesh and now come to Disha Ravi. These are not just names or women and can be brushed off, but all are Hindu (except a few) and upper or middle class. The same class which is so called well educated and is the opinion maker in the country be it judiciary, media, bureaucracy or intellectuals. Another common feature in them is rabid hatred for Hindus and over-flowing love for radical Islam.

What is happening?

Even if you don’t “belong” to any ideological camp, consider the vocabulary that you take as normal today: upper caste privilege, LGBT, Brahminical patriarchy, misogyny, fat-shaming, slut shaming, food fascism, dress fascism, triggering, safe spaces, rape culture...the list is infinite. You may ignore this terminology as nonsense or at best be ambivalent about it. But there’s an entire generation that uses these words as settled truths.

Undoubtedly, these terminologies are the latest manifestations of Communism in its most granular form. Which is why it’s a mistake to take them individually and examine them as individual phenomena. They are group-operations which have subterranean links to one another, links not visible on the surface, and collectively, they have transformed into something far more fatal, a global miasma for which no mask can be invented in the foreseeable future. It is armed revolution of a different kind. And it is operating at unimaginable levels. Unlike even fifteen years ago, its approach today is multipronged and its attack is relentless. It is Fourth Generation Warfare right at our doorsteps and already invading our young minds.

What is Fourth Generation warfare ?

A few key characteristics

A non-national or transnational base – highly decentralized

A direct attack on the enemy's culture, including genocidal acts against civilians.

Highly sophisticated psychological warfare and propaganda, especially through media manipulation, internet trolls, bots

All available pressures are used – political, economic, social and military

Non-combatants are tactical dilemmas

Lack of hierarchy

Small in size, spread out network of communication and financial support

De-centralised forces

Evolution

The use of fourth-generation warfare can be traced to the Cold War period, as superpowers and major powers attempted to retain their grip on colonies and captured territories. Unable to withstand direct combat against bombers, tanks, and machine guns, non-state entities used tactics of education/propaganda, movement-building, secrecy, terror, and/or confusion to overcome the technological gap.

Fourth-generation warfare has often involved an insurgent group or other violent non-state actor trying to implement their own government or reestablish an old government over the current ruling power. However, a non-state entity tends to be more successful when it does not attempt, at least in the short term, to impose its own rule, but tries simply to disorganize and delegitimize the state in which the warfare takes place. The aim is to force the state adversary to expend manpower and money in an attempt to establish order, ideally in such a highhanded way that it merely increases disorder, until the state surrenders or withdraws.

Fourth-generation warfare is often seen in conflicts involving failed states and civil wars, particularly in conflicts involving non-state actors, intractable ethnic or religious issues, or gross conventional military disparities.

Fourth-generation warfare has much in common with traditional low-intensity conflict in its classical forms of insurgency and guerrilla war. As in those small wars, the conflict is initiated by the "weaker" party through actions which can be termed "offensive". The difference lies in the manner in which 4GW opponents adapt those traditional concepts to present day conditions. These conditions are shaped by technology, globalization, religious fundamentalism, and a shift in moral and ethical norms which brings legitimacy to certain issues previously considered restrictions on the conduct of war. This amalgamation and metamorphosis produces novel ways of war for both the entity on the offensive and that on the defensive.

If you observe closely Bharat is facing a 4GW (warfare) right from Khalistan movement to Kashmir Jihad including stone pelting, Left Wing Extremism, University campus support for anti-nationals, rabid anti-Hindu attacks from media be it News or Bollywood or newly born OTT. The recent examples of Bhima Koregaon, anti-CAA riots, JNU protest, Shaheen Bagh to Farm Protests.

The need is for an awakened society where parents are aware about their children and feed them nationalistic thoughts and create a Dharmic atmosphere at home so that their children don’t fall for anti-national forces.

Reference: 1) https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/the-fourth-generation-war-has-already-entered-india-heres-how-it-has-taken-over-gennext 2) https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/a-guide-for-hindu-parents-to-prevent-their-children-from-becoming-an-incurable

 

Mar-28-2021 Katha: Pa Pu Guruji

Title : पूर्ण स्वयंसेवक

नागपुर के संघ शिक्षा वर्ग में आद्य सरसंघचालक पू.डाक्टर हेडगेवारजी के श्रद्धानिधि समर्पित करने का कार्यक्रम था। प्रत्येक स्वयंसेवक ने उस श्रद्धानिधि में अपनी अपनी राशि समर्पित की। किसने कितनी राशि समर्पित की यह अन्य दूसरे को जानने का कोर्इ कारण नहीं था। एक स्वयंसेवक ने अपने हाथ की घड़ी की सोने की चेन निकालकर अपनी श्रद्धा का प्रतीक इस नाते उसे श्रद्धानिधि में समर्पित किया। स्वाभाविक ही सभी स्वयंसेवकों ने उसकी प्रशंसा की।

उस संघ शिक्षा वर्ग के सर्वाधिकारी के नाते जब श्री गुरुजी का भाषण हुआ तब उन्होंने उस स्वयंसेवक द्वारा श्रद्धानिधि में जो सोने की चेन समर्पित की उसका उल्लेख करते हुए कहा - ‘सोने की चेन श्रद्धानिधि में समर्पित करनेवाले स्वयंसेवक के मन में डाक्टर साहब के प्रति प्रेम, श्रद्धा और आदर है, यह तो मानना ही पड़ेगा। किन्तु उसका स्वयंसेवकत्व अभी अपूर्ण है। श्रद्धानिधि में अन्य सारे स्वयंसेवकों ने अपनी अपनी राशि समर्पित की, उसमें किसी का पृथक समर्पण दिखार्इ नहीं देता। किन्तु इस स्वयंसेवक ने अन्य सारे स्वयंसेवकों के अनुसार अपना समर्पण न करते हुए, विशेष रूप से, सबको दिखार्इ पड़े इस प्रकार का समर्पण किया। इसके पीछे उसकी पृथक अस्मिता तथा अहंकार की भावना सुप्तावस्था में विद्यमान है।’ श्री गुरुजी के इन शब्दों को सुनकर हम सभी स्वयंसेवकों को धक्का लगा। परन्तु दूसरे ही क्षण, स्वयंसेवक बनने के लिये स्वयं की पृथक अस्मिता और अहंकार सम्पूर्णतया विलीन करना कितना आवश्यक है, इसका अविस्मरणीय पाठ हम सबको मिल गया।- ( Katha shared by Shri दीनदयाल उपाध्याय)

Katha 2

Title : दो विभिन्न अभिव्यक्तियाँ

संघ पर से प्रतिबंध हटने के बाद श्री गुरुजी का प्रवास पूर्ववत शुरू हुआ। जिस शहर में वे जाते और सभाओं में भाषण करते तो लोगों की स्वाभाविक अपेक्षा रहती थी कि वे सरकार द्वारा उन पर और संघ पर जो अन्याय हुआ उस संबंध में सरकार की तीव्र आलोचना करेंगे। किन्तु ऐसा कुछ सुनने को नहीं मिलता था। अन्य दल का कोर्इ नेता होता तो इतनी बड़ी संख्या में उपस्थित लोगों का समुदाय देखकर वह फूला नहीं समाता और अपने अन्दर दबायी हुर्इ बदले की आग उगलने का ऐसा सुनहरा अवसर हाथ से गवाँना कभी भी पसंद नहीं करता। परन्तु श्री गुरुजी की बात ही कुछ अलग थी। वे शान्त, प्रसन्न और गंभीर थे। रा.स्व.संघ का ध्येय, उसका कार्य तथा उसका लक्ष्य इन्हीं विषयों पर नित्य के अनुसार वे बोलते थे। प्रतिबंध काल में सरकार द्वारा किये गये अन्यायों के विषय में वे इतना ही बोले - जब अपने ही दाँतों तले अपनी जीभ आ जाती है और वेदना होती है तो हम मुक्का मारके अपने दाँत तो गिराते नहीं। बस, अन्याय करनेवाली अपनी सरकार के विषय में हम ऐसा ही सोचें।

यह वाक्य सुनते ही लोग अचंभित हो जाते थे। कैसे महापुरुष हैं? कैसी दृष्टि है, लोगों के हृदय रोमांचित हो उठते । राष्ट्रीय दृष्टि का एक आदर्श वस्तुपाठ लोगों को मिल जाता था। एक अलग प्रसंग। उपरिनिर्दिष्ट प्रसंग से सर्वथा भिन्न। 1 फरवरी 1948 की रात्रि में श्री गुरुजी को बंदी बनाकर कारागार ले जाया गया। कारागार अधिकारी इस बंदी की राह देखते हुये कारागार के अपने कक्ष में टेबल पर पाँव पसारकर बैठा था। श्री गुरुजी को उसके सामने लाकर जब खड़ा किया गया तब वह उन्मत्त अधिकारी बोला - ‘ओ हो, तो आप हैं गोलवलकर ? मुझे तो लगा कि संघ जैसा फासिस्ट संगठन का नेता कोर्इ तगड़ा, अंडसंड, विकराल चेहरेवाला आदमी होगा?’

श्री गुरुजी तपाक से बोले - जिन्होने संघ का दायित्व मुझ पर सौंपा उनकी यदि वैसी कल्पना होती तो उन्होंने एकाध भैंसा पर या आप जैसों पर भी संघ का काम सौंप दिया होता।

उत्तर सुनते ही अधिकारी महाशय हड़बड़ाकर कुर्सीपर ठीक ढंग से बैठे और उन्होंने श्री गुरुजी को बैठने के लिये कुर्सी दी।

पहला प्रसंग उनके राष्ट्र-दृष्टि का परिचायक है तो दूसरा प्रसंग उन्मत्त अधिकारी को सबक सिखाने वाला है।-

Katha shared by  एक स्वयंसेवक (श्री गुरुजी समग्रदर्शन खंड 2 : प्रतिबंध पर्व)