The Sacrilegious Motivation for Cultural Genocide
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Before we narrate the incidents of genocidal attacks and the systematic cultural cleansing of the temple heritages that were given to His Divine Holiness, it is significant to understand how the deliberate killing of the Hindu culture deprived the ‘Adi Shaiva’ subsect their cultural identity and history. Any act of destroying temples and its people is crime against humanity.
- The ancient mutts (temple monasteries) represent the entire lineage of enlightened Gurus, they therefore symbolize the spiritual legitimacy of Hinduism and the spiritual authority of the present ‘living Guru’.
- The mutts are storehouses of ancient knowledge enriched by several spiritual masters through Guru-disciple lineage throughout the history.
- Through these mutts, various spiritual masters have administered the temple traditions, propagated the eternal cause of human happiness and serving the humanity.
- These mutts are living heritage sites holding divine history and spiritual energies, with repository of rich culture and true wisdom that the community has passed down through generations.
- By destroying the present ‘living Guru’, the local Hindu militant extremists intended to end the magnificent history of the ancient mutts and destroy the eminent future.
Destroying culture and those who value that culture are the same desacralized and dehumanizing acts. Cultural heritage is one of the basic elements of a living civilization, making the willful ethnic cleansing of precious temples and monasteries are genocidal in motivation. They are directed toward eradicating an essential part of their humanity. It’s a crime against humanity to systematically impoverish the cultural heritage of rich Indian traditions.
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