Mother Theresa’s aim was conversion – says a RSS leader. He claims that all the service that was done by Mother Theresa was with the view of conversion to christianity. I am not sure where these people get their stats from and I don’t really see the point in making an issue for the sake of it.

“Mother Teresa’s service would have been good. But it used to have one objective, to convert the person, who was being served, into a Christian,”. says an idiot leader at a mass rally.

I don’t know how to place these people. Although I do agree that freedom of speech is something people take for granted, but this is taking it too far. It is baseless beyond all doubts and really despicable that such a woman is being brought into the topic of their own individual meaningless debates. Is it used as a point to support Ghar Wapsi? It is a point of debate at all? My god! Should’t there be a slander suit against these people in the court of law??!

It was a decent comeback by Kejriwal though –

“I worked wid Mother Teresa for a few months at Nirmal Hriday ashram in Kolkata. She was a noble soul. Pl spare her.”

I think it is one thing to use famous names but an entirely different thing to make mockery of them and their own selves in trying to capture media and people attention. At some point these so called leaders should realize that people are not as stupid as they think. People can think for themselves, people are smart. It is not about the stupid castes anymore. We are trying to progress as a society and these people seem to keep pushing us down over and over again.

Honestly there is no point or sense in creating a sensation by bringing mother theresa into this topic and i wonder the real motivation behind it! Gosh! It is despicable to say the least…

There never seems to be an end to it. Probably I was disappointed to hear this news cos I thought hinduism had showed a bit of tolerance all along history and it was unexpected of these fundamentalists, cos maybe they were blocked by the principle that there was no formal conversion process as per hinduism.

Having said that, I agree that people who were different have made a mistake in the past. But that hardly becomes for us to commit the same mistake right? I cannot be right just because someone else did the same mistake and was not punished for it. At the same time, we are talking about evolving religion beyond personal numbers here to a greater scale of humanity. And when that comes into play, the only thing I can think of is tolerance..

Thank you Kalelemulla :). This is a very very very interesting fact you have shared here.

I have strongly believed that sometimes caste and its practices have been extension of an individual’s thought. And after a certain point, esp when it became institutionalized, it lost its true touch and meaning. And finally now it seems that they are all headed towards the goal of nepotism and creating smaller circles of people within the bigger world so that they have a greater feeling of security, not to mention the idea of xenophobia or culture phobia.

I guess all of it is lost the moment they forget the importance of tolerance. I don’t think there can ever be a religion or cutlure without tolerance. If it is mere fundamentalist approach, then it sure loses the very purpose don’t you think?!

No collection of wealth to be made by a Shudra even though he may be able to do it. Brahmin can take Shudra’s property by force. (Manusmriti X,129).

Brahman can have 4 wives, Kshatriya can have 3 wives , Vaishnava can have 2 wives, Shudra cant have more than 1. (Aitreya Veda, Brahma VIII, 29 page 201).
The tongue of Shudra who spoke evil about Brahmin should be cut off (Apastamba Dharma Sutra II/10-26.
Those who are with stinking conduct they will enter a stinking womb, either the womb of a dog or the womb of a swine or womb of Shudra (Chandogya Upanishad 5-10-7)
Shudras must be prohibited from hearing, studying Vedas (Brahma Sutras 1.3.9.38)
More on google Why Dr.Ambedkar burnt Manusmriti.

Due to Brahmins discrimination of Shudra Hindus converted in 550Bc to Jainism, in 500Bc to Budhism, 712Ad to 1700 to Islam and after British rule till today Shudras are converting to Christianity.

No collection of wealth to be made by a Shudra even though he may be able to do it. Brahmin can take Shudra’s property by force. (Manusmriti X,129).

Brahman can have 4 wives, Kshatriya can have 3 wives , Vaishnava can have 2 wives, Shudra cant have more than 1. (Aitreya Veda, Brahma VIII, 29 page 201).
The tongue of Shudra who spoke evil about Brahmin should be cut off (Apastamba Dharma Sutra II/10-26.
Those who are with stinking conduct they will enter a stinking womb, either the womb of a dog or the womb of a swine or womb of Shudra (Chandogya Upanishad 5-10-7)
Shudras must be prohibited from hearing, studying Vedas (Brahma Sutras 1.3.9.38)
More on google Why Dr.Ambedkar burnt Manusmriti.

Due to Brahmins discrimination of Shudra Hindus converted in 550Bc to Jainism, in 500Bc to Budhism, 712Ad to 1700 to Islam and after British rule till today Shudras are converting to Christianity.

Turns out that there are still a few people who would happily sit back in their own archaic beliefs and not only that – try to impose it on everyone else they see..

I am not sure when all of this is going to end…

In other words, I guess these fundamentalists believe the nation to be of their caste/clan and think that whoever has followed a different path is considered an alien or a foreigner who has lost touch with the ways of the land. As a result of which they have to be brought back home and these fundamentalists are assuming that they are doing it by doing a forced mass conversion.

I am not sure how exactly to react to such a shocking display of ignorance and a complete insensitivity towards tolerance. It certainly is a matter of shame..

Absolutely correct Shruthi…

Sure Shruthi ;)