Destruction Of Hindu Culture From India

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Commonwealth Games damper for Ramlila, Durga Puja



New Delhi, July 21 : The Commonwealth Games in the city may prove a dampener for Ramlila and Durga Puja celebrations during the festive period in October.



After asking schools and markets to shut down during the Oct 3-14 Games, Delhi Police now have Ramlila celebrations and Durga Puja on the radar.



"We are asking that the fairs associated with the Ramlilas be rescheduled. The fairs have no religious relevance and could be organised three or four days later," Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal told reporters at the Police Headquarters.



The Commonwealth Games in Delhi would coincide with the annual Ramlila fairs organised throughout the capital from October 7.



Needless to say, organisers of the religious-cum-community events are fuming.



"How can the commissioner say the fairs associated with these events are irrelevant? The fairs are what draw the people to them," said Subhash Goyal who organises Chandni Chowk's popular Luv-Kush Ramlila.



Goyal argued that the fairs transform the religious nature of the event to that of a community festival.



"It is the fairs that draw the crowd, especially children, to the Ramlila. Children might not be interested in reading the Ramayana, but once they get drawn to the Ramlila by the rides or the good food they are automatically drawn to watch the larger-thanlife enactment of the epic on stage, irrespective of their religion," Goyal said.



Commissioner Dadwal, however, was of the opinion that the Games were of much more importance to the city.



"We are having an event of national importance and people are more worried about holding `melas' (fairs)," he said.



The organisers said that the Games were important in their own right but incomparable to traditional celebrations that had their origins in history.



"The Games have their origin in the British Empire -which is new when compared with the history of our religion," said Goyal.

Dheeraj Bansidhar, who organises the Dharmik Ramlila at the parade grounds, said: "We are yet to receive any intimation from the Delhi Police. How and why will they stop us from organising our Ramlila? We shall discuss the matter with Commissioner Dadwal himself."



http://www.newkerala.com/news2/fullnews-4364.html

The "Commonwealth" Games are nothing but a cheap rip off from the Olympics and any true heathen would know the purpose of the real Olympics (something which Dadwal I am sure never heard of), if you don't here it is:

The Athens Olympics in August 2004 were as much a reminder of what

Christianity did to the Hellenes in the past two millennia as it was a celebration

of the coming home of this great ancient Hellenic tradition. It was the

Christian emperor Theodosius who abolished the Olympics in the late fourth

century after its life of some 1,169 years. The Hellenes started the Olympics

to honor Zeus, father of both gods and people, and to remind themselves of

their common culture. It was an athletic event and a Panhellenic religious

and political celebration of athletic excellence that marked the unity of the

Greek world.



Now the Olympics, which were brought back to life in 1896, have become

the greatest show on earth, having nearly nothing to do with their Hellenic

origins. The reason is that they are now tied to a different civilization whose

defi ning characteristics are Christian monotheism and money. The ancient

Greeks used money, too, and they gave plenty of money to those athletes

who won immortality in the Olympics, but their polytheistic religion colored

everything they did, including their organization of the Olympics, which was

primarily a means of paying their respect to Zeus. Yet the people of the

West, who now own the Olympics, have the illusion they are following in the

path of the Greeks. They are not. On the contrary, Christianity and materialism

have been an insurmountable obstacle in the vague Hellenic dream of

the western people, including modern Greeks living in Greece and staging

the non-Hellenic Olympics in Athens in 2004.



Now Christian Greeks see their archaeological treasures as strictly business—

attractive tokens for tourists. They read Greek history, though the Greek histories

are written by non-Greeks. They celebrate the Olympics in 2004 not

like their ancestors but like the Australians with Coca Cola as the sponsor.

In ancient Greece all wars were suspended to celebrate the Olympic games.

Now Greeks spend billions alone on “security” because the Americans and

the Israelis say so. They are building their country using the architecture of

foreigners and ignoring their own.



http://hellenismos.us/public_html/yabbfi...Reason.pdf

Vallianatos comments on the imperial order that brought an end to the Olympics as

follows:



Here was a millennial tradition of athletic competition for arete (courage, virtue,

equality before the law, goodness, manliness, nobility and excellence) started by

Herakles, son of Zeus and the Greeks’ greatest hero, and Theodosios, thinking like a

barbarian, brought it to an end.



The Olympic agon (contest) was much more than a struggle between outstanding

men for physical excellence. It was, above all, a Panhellenic honoring of the gods.

It was an extraordinary effort to rein in the Hellenes’ passions for war and bring

them together from all over the world for the celebration of their common culture.

The overwhelming idea behind the Olympic contest was political. The Olympic contest

was an effort to build a Panhellenic polis and commonwealth, a united Hellas

under democratic governance. The Olympic agon was also building better and

nobler human beings. And yet the Hellenes’ greatest athletic contest and celebration

of national identity were buried . . . by a barbarian king who knew no better than

listening to the fanaticism of his Christian advisors.



http://mq.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/19/1/97