Dharma Bhoomi

Copies to:

Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh:

Minister for Panchayati Raj and Endowment,

MAIL TO:

Shri Krishnam Raju,
Executive Officer,
Sre Seetha Ramachandra Swamy Vaari Devasthanam,
Bhadrachalam,
ANDHRA PRADESH
email: bhadrachalarama@gmail.com
(bhadrachalamramaATgmail.com)

Sri Krishnam Raju garu,

Namaskaramulu.

For a devout Hindu, both The Ramayana and The Mahabharata are NOT "Mythological tales or Mythology or Mythological stories".

They are "Itihasas", meaning "This is how it happened". A Part of the History of our Bharata Varsha.

Permit me to offer meanings of the words Mythology and Myths:

Mythology is a word coined by the white christist cabal, the East India Company and the Brits who ravaged our country and encouraged christism with intention to inflict damage to Sanatana Dharma and to the native wisdom, Religious faiths and culture of our Bharatiyas.

As an example, to use the words myth and mythology appropriately in a sentence, we can say that:

Jesus is a myth and Bible is Mythology.

There is enough evidence to prove this. But that is not the subject matter of my letter to you so I shall keep it reserved for another day.

The Oxford English Dictionary says that Mythology is:

1. A collection of myths
2. A set of widely held but exaggerated or fictitious stories or beliefs
3. the study of myths.

Now, as the Executive officer of one of the most worshipped mandirs, please tell me whether you consider The Ramayana as "Itihasa" or "Mythology"?

I want you to go through the official website of the Mandir, carefully, this time:

www.bhadrachalarama.org

A) Right on your home page, there is a statement of doubt, of disbelief:

http://www.bhadrachalarama.org /index.html

QUOTE

It is said that Sri Rama appeared in a dream to a woman called Pokala Dammakka and informed her of the existence of idols on Bhadragiri Hills. To her surprise she found the idols on Bhadragiri Hills.

UNQUOTE

Why can't you just delete - it is said that ??? And simply write that Sri Rama appeared in a dream to a woman called ....... etc.,

And why do you want to use the word idol? Can't we use the word Vigraha/Murthy ?

B) http://www.bhadrachalarama.org/temple-history.htm

QUOTE

According to a legend, the significance of this shrine dates back to the Ramayana Era.

UNQUOTE

Legend means: a traditional story popularly regarded as historical but which is not authenticated.

Do you as the E.O of the Mandir, believe that Ramayana is a story or a historical fact? - an "Itihasa" - meaning "This is how it happened"?

If you consider Ramayana as a story, as mythology and not Itihasa, you have no business to continue as the E.O of the most revered Mandir, the Bhadrachalam Rama Mandir.

C) Here is a very serious bloomer:

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This coherent hill place existed in 'Dandakaranya' of Ramayana Period where Rama with his consort Sita and brother Lakshmana had spent their vanavasa - and Parnashaala (the place connected to the famous Golden Deer where Ravana was supposed to have abducted Sita from)

What do you mean, "supposed to have abducted"? Do you believe that Ramayana was "Itihasa" or Macaulay Mythology?

Why don't you simply redraft it to read:

....the place from where Sita was abducted by Ravana.

D) Some more objectionable material on the Mandir's website:

http://www.bhadrachalarama.org/temple-history.htm

QUOTE

The Temple itself is an incongruous admixture of another story which depicts the exigency of "Sri Maha Vishnu" to manifest himself as Rama again to the mortal coil - long after Ramavatara. According to the story, it was to fulfill his promise to his Bhakta Bhadra, a sage who had been continuing the freightened penance to get the grace of Lord Rama.

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Incongruous means - "out of place" and admixture means "mix with something else". Exigency means "urgent need or demand".

freightened penance? - What do you mean by that, Mr E.O garu?

freightened means- being afraid (who was this Rishi afraid of?)

Penance means

1) Voluntary self-punishment expressing repentance for wrong doing
2) A sacrament in which a member of church confesses sins to a priest and is given absolution
3. A religious duty imposed as par of this sacrament

Please understand that the christist word Penance is NOT EQUAL IN MEANING to the word - Tapasya or Tapas

Therefore, please re-draft the whole passage to read:

It is at this Mandir site that, long after Ramavatara, Bhagawan Mahavishnu manifested Himself as Rama again to fulfil a promise He made to His Bhakta Bhadra, who continued his Tapas through Yugas, praying for the grace of the Bhagawan Sri Ramachandra murthy.

END OF SUGGETED TEXT

E) It appears that the team that worked on the website content does not have any faith in our Intihasas or Puranas. It is time these websites are freed from the interference of Macaulay-putra/putri/pautris. I fail to understand why our Mandir websites should be managed by people who have scant respect and perhaps umbilical aversion for our great treasures, the Itihasas and the Puranas.

F) And then there is a sub-head that reads: Saint Bhadra

Saint Bhadra? Why dont you use the word Maharishi Bhadra or Rishi Bhadra?

G) Some do's and some don'ts:

Do please replace the word - Idol, wherever it appears to read as Vigraha or Murthy

In the same page, do remove the word story. These are not stories, they are part of our history.

Do not have us read secular text on religious sites.

H) SUGGESTED TEXT

Bhagawan Rama told Dhammakka that at a later date, one of his devotees would construct a Mandir at this site. Dhammakka waited patiently for the devotee. The devotee turned out to be Bhakta Ramadas.

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I) Now on to the Fairs and Festivals page:

http://www.bhadrachalarama.org/festivals.htm

Under the caption: Sri Ramanavami Brahmotsavams the website talks about the Sita Rama Kalyanam as a "fairy festival" :

QUOTE

This fairy festival is celebrated in a pomp show amid chanting hymns by priests in richly engraved and mythologically sculpted Kalyanamandapam.......

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Please let me know if Ramayana is a fairy tale? And the "Divine Wedding" of Sita Ma with Bhagawan Rama is a "fairy festival"?

Should this fairy festival not be replaced by This divine festival is celebrated............

J) Pomp can mean - ceremony and splendid display, It can also mean vain and boastful display.

Why don't we simply redraft it to read -

This divine festival is celebrated in a resplendent manner amid chanting of hyms by priests....

(resplendent means - attractive and impressive through being richly colourful or sumptuous)

K) Now, what do you mean by "mythologically sculpted" Kalyanamandapam?

Why don't you replace it with - exquisite sculptures depicting events from our Itihasas and Puranas?

L) Under the section: Visiting Places:

http://www.bhadrachalarama.org/visiting-places.htm


QUOTE:

According to Mythological story, an ardent devotee, Sabari, gave shelter to Sri Sita Rama Lakshamanulu ......

UNQUOTE

There you go again, Mr E.O.

TAIL PIECE

There are many more such areas that need immediate correction. I am tired and angry at this lack of sensitivity.

For the sake of Bhagawan Rama, let us leave the words - idol, myth, mythology, mythological stories, Saint, Penance etc., for NDA-NCERT, Arjun Singh, the decaying carrots, brinda and prakash and a score of anti-Hindu CMs like your and my CM, anti-Hindu historians Irfan Habib-Romila Thapars, the JNU bred-buttered and biscuited-commies; and get along with our Mandirs the way we Hindus should.

I am totally disappointed that the website of even our Mandirs do not respect Hindu Dharma and continue with rabid exhibition of Mark-Mullah-Marx-Macaulay Maniacal syndrome (simply put the 4M syndrome), a serious disease that has numbed the Hindu mind for generations.

Let us get this 4M out of our system and start being Hindus.

Namaskaramulu,