An Open Letter to
Respected Modi Ji
No doubt, with
concerted and collective effort of 1.35 billion, India can go north and regain its pristine crowning glory. And the people look at you as a lodestar
By
Mukesh Sharma
Respected Sir,
I hope to be pardoned for my zeal to pen down this open letter in a hopeful attempt to attract the attention of Your Goodself in
the largest interest of the bemused and confused common man.
Whenever I watch Your Gracious Self on TV channels making political speeches or delivering talks on some serious issue before the select audience, my eyes, unconsciously, get set on your fearless face bubbling with elan and exactitude; your well-combed grey hair falling on the neck gives the reflection of a Greek philosopher; your broad shining forehead makes you a solemn saint; your deep enigmatic eyes seem to be looking beyond the prevailing present; your grey high eyebrows with intuitive intellect exude goodwill; the overall glow of health on your charismatic countenance, evidently, shows that you are free from the deadly human diseases like anger, jealousy, ego, affections, and desires. Hypnotized by the halo, I wonder how a man in public life can maintain such a holistic health in this age of contradictions, conflictions, and clashes of interest.
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| The Hon'ble Prime Minister Modiji |
By your own candid admission, you left your home at
an early age, renounced the worldly life and spent years in solitary prayer
and meditation visiting and seeking blessings of many enlightened gurus/yogins
for spiritual experience - the realization of the immortal aspirations through
this mortal frame, the achievement of the divine life through intellectual
consciousness.
Sir, renunciation means the absence of desires. As far
as a common man is concerned, each action is caused by some desire or attachment.
This writer is at loss to understand what made you to abandon the spiritual
pursuit halfway. What prompted you to take a U-turn from the divine course of
spirituality to this demeaning politics?
Being in public life and also as a human being how
you liberate yourself from the tyranny of body, the tyranny of desires and cope
with the crisis of contrition.
In one of your public interviews, you have revealed
that you live a very strict disciplined life - daily yogic exercise, simple vegetable
food, porridge (khichri) as supper,
and to crown all just three hours deep sleep.
Yogins maintain that self-discipline is not a matter
of intelligence; it is a matter of will and emotions. Self-discipline is easy
where there is a vision of the Highest. Here, the highest signifies, if I am not
mistaken, of supreme God.
As a yogi-turned-politician holding the topmost
post of Hon'ble PM of India, what inspires you to live such a 'disciplined'
life.
To be honest, your journey from a tea-vendor to the
top statesman sounds like a tale from fairyland. People contend that it is not
possible without some divine blessings. Despite primary education in a village
school and no regular academic studies in any big college/university, you are
the best, the brightest, the wisest - leader of the leaders not only in India
but at the world forum. How is it possible?
People maintain that you have blessings of Maa Saraswati (goddess Minerva) - the gift
of gab. You know how to conquer the stage and command the respect of the audience -
no stage phobia, no faux-pas, so fearless and in full control of yourself and
your spoken words. You are unsurpassed in oration. It is your oratorical
triumph that has saddled BJP in power. People wish to know how one can develop
such art of eloquence. What is the secret?
It is common knowledge that you are a staunch
nationalist - a votary of Bharat Mata, the mother of 1.35 billion. Bharat
flows in your blood. You breathe Bharat. You live Bharat.
It is maintained that the countries have been made
by God but nations have been made by man. Each nation is ruled by its
handful of able-bodied - intellectually superior rule over the millions. In a democratic dispensation, such rulers are, ironically described as servants of
people who live like kings and the so-called Masters, the poor people live like
servants - battling for life - fighting with hunger, disease, and poverty endlessly. A common man is of the view that except a day of voting, people are just a scrap.
Disgruntled denizens contend and allege that it is not a democracy but "lootocracy". Recent "Vazegate"
in Maharashtra is the glaring example - wolves in sheep clothing can stoop to
any extent. So-called public servant enjoying impunity, lord over the hapless people;
they are seldom punished for an act of transgression - a national sin against the
populace. It is an unpalatable reality that
today 1.35 billion are dead to the feelings of corruption-free India and
incorrupt netas. Don't you ever think that besides the noble thought of
nationalism, there is a need to redress the national grievance in the largest
interest of the people of India, the very purpose of our 'holy' Constitution?
Hopeful people are all praise for your clarion call "vocal for local". But the people allege that it is not easy to put a precept into practice when corruption is rampant. It is an open secret that one can’t do business if one doesn’t know how to keep the ‘hawks’ at the hem of affairs in good humor - the bank, police, local authorities, selectively ever‘vigilant' tax departments that usually keeps the eye shut on the free flow of cash to political parties/netas, and , of course,over and above the local toughs. Not to speak of any established business, an honest vegetable vendor squatting roadside can’t earn his livelihood even by selling vegetables without the 'paid blessings' of local police and municipal authority. Sir, don’t you think that these public extortioners are the real threat to the slogan ‘vocal for local’. Don’t you think Sir that THE SPOIL SYSTEM needs to be changed - radical changes are the need of the hour.
Sir, you know how to live as a commoner with simple clothes, and you also know how to maintain the dignity of the post of Prime Minister of India, and of course the pride and self-esteem of 1.35 billion by wearing clothes that reflect nothing but Indianism. Your excellent dress sense makes the style statement. Sir how a Yogi like you do it?
Is brahmacharya (celibacy) is necessary to lead a disciplined life? Can’t a family man perform his karma with the sense of detachment?
No doubt, with concerted efforts of 1.35 billion, India can go north and regain the pristine crowning glory. And the people look at you as a lodestar.
May you live long and
all blessings follow the sons and daughters of Bharat Mata.
Bharat Mata ki Jai!
A Bhartiya Common Man
