(Post 12)
(http://literature.awgp.org/akhandjyoti/2004/Sept_Oct/ShikhaSutra/)
This body is the fort of the individual self, upon which the flag of shikha is hoisted, as the mark of the dignified values and virtues of humanity.
The foreign invaders, the crusaders against the Vedic (Indian) Culture, had attempted to eliminate the roots of this divine culture, by first cutting the shikha and removing the sutra from the bodies of the followers of Hindu religion. Thousands of innocent heads were cut off just for protesting against this attack.
It was for protecting the glory of these universal emblems of human religion that Maharana Pratap, Veer Shivaji, Guru Govind Singh, and other great martyrs of India had dedicated their noble lives.
Today, we have forgotten their sacrifices, and done what even the foreign invaders of the medieval times could not do - we have let ourselves be swept away from our roots, by the storm of cultural pollution coming from the West.
We have lost faith in our own values.
We feel ashamed in wearing the sutra and keeping the shikha.
(http://literature.awgp.org/akhandjyoti/2004/Sept_Oct/ShikhaSutra/)
This body is the fort of the individual self, upon which the flag of shikha is hoisted, as the mark of the dignified values and virtues of humanity.
The foreign invaders, the crusaders against the Vedic (Indian) Culture, had attempted to eliminate the roots of this divine culture, by first cutting the shikha and removing the sutra from the bodies of the followers of Hindu religion. Thousands of innocent heads were cut off just for protesting against this attack.
It was for protecting the glory of these universal emblems of human religion that Maharana Pratap, Veer Shivaji, Guru Govind Singh, and other great martyrs of India had dedicated their noble lives.
Today, we have forgotten their sacrifices, and done what even the foreign invaders of the medieval times could not do - we have let ourselves be swept away from our roots, by the storm of cultural pollution coming from the West.
We have lost faith in our own values.
We feel ashamed in wearing the sutra and keeping the shikha.
