Post 111 again.
I've dug out an old email I received containing statements of the Mahayogi Aurobindo (among others) and extracted some applicable ones. Even though he might have spoken about the freedom movement, it is still very applicable (the term 'Samurai' appears to have been used to serve as an illustration):
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->* The virtue of the Brahmin is a great virtue. You shall not kill. This is what Ahimsa means. <b>If the virtue of Ahimsa comes to the Kshatriya</b>, if you say I will not kill, there is no one to protect the country. The happiness of the people will be broken down. Injustice and lawlessness will reign. <b>The virtue becomes a source of misery, and you become instrumental in bringing misery and conflict to the people.</b>
* It is a barren philosophy which applies a mechanical rule to all actions, or takes a word and tries to fit all human life into it. The sword of the warrior is as necessary to the fulfilment of justice and righteousness as the holiness of the saint. Ramdas is not complete without Shivaji. To maintain justice and prevent the strong from despoiling and the weak from being oppressed is the function for which the Kshatriya was created. Therefore, says Sri Krishna in the Mahabharat, God created battle and armour, the sword, the bow and the dagger.
* The Kshatriya was a Kshatriya not merely because he was the son of warriors and princes, but because he discharged the duty of protecting the country and preserving the high courage and manhood of the nation, and he had to cultivate the princely temperament and acquire the strong and lofty Samurai training which alone fitted him for his duties.
* [The new Nationalism] is the rebirth in India of the Kshatriya...
* Politics is the work of the Kshatriya and <b>it is the virtues of the Kshatriya we must develop if we are to be morally fit for freedom</b>.
* We reiterate with all the emphasis we can command that <b>the Kshatriya of old must again take his rightful position in our social polity to discharge the first and foremost duty of defending its interests</b>. The brain is impotent without the right arm of strength.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Buddhism appears to have preached the virtue of Ahimsa to the Kshatriyas it converted. But this doesn't seem to be the case in Sri Lanka, where the Buddhists are quite active in defending their Dharma from Christianity, albeit through non-violent means so far.
I think that solves it. A Hindu saint like Aurobindo has sensibly reasoned that we will never survive without the kshatriya position being occupied at all times. I think with 800 million Hindus, we are bound to have s large number of loyal ones who have the willingness, the ability and strength of mind to fulfill it. It's well past time for brave Hindus from any Varna to step into kshatriya shoes and do the needful.
The pacifist "Peace at any cost" parlance so popular in the west - the same West which still knows but little about Jihad - has infiltrated and emasculated our nation for long enough.
No Peace at the cost of dharma, thanks. There are some things we should be willing to fight for, even die for. Else we are nothing but cowards with no principles and then we deserve to be destroyed and forgotten.
I've dug out an old email I received containing statements of the Mahayogi Aurobindo (among others) and extracted some applicable ones. Even though he might have spoken about the freedom movement, it is still very applicable (the term 'Samurai' appears to have been used to serve as an illustration):
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->* The virtue of the Brahmin is a great virtue. You shall not kill. This is what Ahimsa means. <b>If the virtue of Ahimsa comes to the Kshatriya</b>, if you say I will not kill, there is no one to protect the country. The happiness of the people will be broken down. Injustice and lawlessness will reign. <b>The virtue becomes a source of misery, and you become instrumental in bringing misery and conflict to the people.</b>
* It is a barren philosophy which applies a mechanical rule to all actions, or takes a word and tries to fit all human life into it. The sword of the warrior is as necessary to the fulfilment of justice and righteousness as the holiness of the saint. Ramdas is not complete without Shivaji. To maintain justice and prevent the strong from despoiling and the weak from being oppressed is the function for which the Kshatriya was created. Therefore, says Sri Krishna in the Mahabharat, God created battle and armour, the sword, the bow and the dagger.
* The Kshatriya was a Kshatriya not merely because he was the son of warriors and princes, but because he discharged the duty of protecting the country and preserving the high courage and manhood of the nation, and he had to cultivate the princely temperament and acquire the strong and lofty Samurai training which alone fitted him for his duties.
* [The new Nationalism] is the rebirth in India of the Kshatriya...
* Politics is the work of the Kshatriya and <b>it is the virtues of the Kshatriya we must develop if we are to be morally fit for freedom</b>.
* We reiterate with all the emphasis we can command that <b>the Kshatriya of old must again take his rightful position in our social polity to discharge the first and foremost duty of defending its interests</b>. The brain is impotent without the right arm of strength.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Buddhism appears to have preached the virtue of Ahimsa to the Kshatriyas it converted. But this doesn't seem to be the case in Sri Lanka, where the Buddhists are quite active in defending their Dharma from Christianity, albeit through non-violent means so far.
I think that solves it. A Hindu saint like Aurobindo has sensibly reasoned that we will never survive without the kshatriya position being occupied at all times. I think with 800 million Hindus, we are bound to have s large number of loyal ones who have the willingness, the ability and strength of mind to fulfill it. It's well past time for brave Hindus from any Varna to step into kshatriya shoes and do the needful.
The pacifist "Peace at any cost" parlance so popular in the west - the same West which still knows but little about Jihad - has infiltrated and emasculated our nation for long enough.
No Peace at the cost of dharma, thanks. There are some things we should be willing to fight for, even die for. Else we are nothing but cowards with no principles and then we deserve to be destroyed and forgotten.