Oh, unless you have been living with your eyes shut and your head buried in the sand, you would not have failed to notice that. It is too deep a subject for me to go into right now. Only letting you know welcome to the present and keep your eyes and ears open.
You see Indrani I do not know whether u are a Bengali yourself or not but I have spent the greater part of my life with the Bengalis and share a great lot of camaraderie with them.I would like to bring to your notice that if it hadn't been for Bengalis Vedanta,Vedic philosophy and all three schools of Yoga namely Hath,Kriya and Raja would be lost in oblivion.It was great Bengali mystics like Bamdev and Shri Ramkrishna Paramhansa who kept alive the the otherwise utterly maligned science of Tantra another native Indian heritage.Maybe you do not know that the Bengalis are some of the few ethnic groups of India who still practice the proper vedic rituals in their true form and context during religious ceremonies.For example all across northern India one would witness the grooms and the brides sitting down before the yagnik fire wearing stitched clothes like sherwanis ,etc. which is strictly prohibited by the vedas,it is only in Bengali,Kashmiri Pandit and Tamil wedding that one could witness all the three,the priest,bride and the groom in lower and upper Nivis as prescribed for vedic rites.Even more astonishing is the fact about the commercialization of the Gayatri Mantra which was ushered to me by one of my relatives a few years ago and let me throw some light on it.This supposedly holiest and most sacred verse of the Hindus is a Guru Mantra uttered secretly into the years of a Brahmachari during the Upanayana ceremony and even the Brahmin is not supposed to utter it loudly,as a matter of fact while reciting it u are not even supposed to breathe heavily or move your tounge and look what these people whom u for some godforsaken reason have self righteously assumed to be patrons of everything Indian have done to it,they have come out with music CD's of the Gayatri jaap,the Bengalis do not do this and are rather disgusted by the Islamization of Hindu culture all over Northern India
!! Did you know that the Bengalis were responsible for preserving the art of Vaastushastra for a very very long time even after the fall of Prithviraj Chauhan and that was perhaps the reason why Sawai Jai Singh had appointed Pandit Vidyadhar Bhattacharya to design and plan the city of Jaipur.Why do you think the Rana had to appoint someone from far away Bengal and dedicate an entire garden in his name (Vidyadhar ka baagh) to design his new capital city.Maybe you also do not know that Bengal (Navadwipa/Nadia) was even in the recent past the only seat of learning and practicing Naya Shastra in entire India and scholars from all over India used to come here.Bengali Shastragya Pandits were so much in demand in Benares,one of the holiest places of Hindu pilgrimage and the oldest city on earth,that Benares became the second home of the Bengalis and include Allahabad into this too. Ever heard pf Acharya Bhadrabahu?One of the great Jain Acharyas was from the land of Bengal was named Bhadrabahu Bhattachrya and and it was to honor him that the village of his birth was named Vardhamana after Vardhamana Mahavira (present day Burdwan were all the jamatis have holed up and also the home to the President of India Pranab Mukherjee,another Kanyakubj Brahman)
.Last but not the least Shyama Prasad Mukherjee the founder of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh and one of the most revered figures of the BJP was also a Bengali.Maybe it's the current political scenario of Bengal which gives people like you the extra impetus to spew venom about any community which comes to your mind but one has to acknowledge that a political transformation after 34 years is not something that could come without a price.Although I feel ashemed to even give such an explanation to someone like you who has the guts to give a bad name to fellow Indians on a forum like this but it is a fact that Bengalis do not hate but are actually pretty pissed off by the fact that all over Northern India everything Indian and everything native is being slowly and steadily detached from their Vedic roots and given a more Puranic makeover to earn more money and that too with the endorsement of Dhongi Babas!! It is perhaps because of this reason that Waheguruji wanted us to be different and in being so preserve the real essence of Vedanta and monotheism preached by the Vedas.In context of the present day you cannot simply malign an entire community because their political affiliation do not match with yours or they are not overtly religious and do not make a public display of their dedication.I shouldn't be saying this on this forum but I guess you are one of those people
@Indrani who would gladly label a patriotic northeasterner as a Chinese but would try your level best to woo in the Kashmiris who would not acknowledge or accept any other nationality other than Kashmiri.I wonder why the Bengali members of this forum have not taken note of this derogatory statement of yours and reported it and shamed you.
@Mike_Brando pls tag other Bengali members to take note of this particular comment of
@Indrani and post their feelings.I for one have never been more pissed off at a fellow Indian on this forum before.
