मैं किसान हूँ, आसमान मैं धान बो रहा हूँ कुछ लोग कह रहे हैं, पगले, आसमान मैं धान नहीं उगा करता, , मैं कहता हूँ पगले, अगर जमीन पर भगवान जम सकता है तो आसमान मैं धान भी जम सकता है, अब दोनों मैं से कोई एक होकर रहेगा, या तो जमीन से भगवान उखड़ेगा, या आसमान मैं धान जमेगा, रमाशंकर यादव विद्रोही,
Sudhir Raghav मान्यतावादियों के भ्रम आसानी से नहीं टूटते। शायद यह किसान ही तोड़ सकता है। सुनीता जी आपने सही वक्त पर विद्रोही जी की सही बात उठाई है।
Akbar Rizvi विशाल जी अन्यथा ना लें तो एक बात पूछना चाहता हूं भगवान का वास्तविक अर्थ क्या है। जब ज़मीन और यथार्थ से जुड़ी चीज़ को आसमानी बना देते हैं तो वो बेकार हो जाती है.., भगवान के साथ भी आप जैसे भक्तों ने ऐसा ही किया है।
i निर्मल पानेरी ..सुनीता जी आप ने सही वक़्त पर सही बात बोली है ....पृकृति के साथ हम खिलवाड़ तो कर ही रहे है हम इन्सान और जातियों के साथ भी खिलवाड़ करने से नहीं चुके है हर समाज और इनके बीच खाई बढ़ती जा रही है....किसान तो खुद ही मरने पर उतारू है ...वो क्या तो आसमान और क्या जमीन देखे ....उसको तो हम बेचोलिओं ने कहीं का नही रखा है ...फिर नकली का खेल भी शरू है .....हमने इस जमी को ही जमी दोज़ कर देय है ...अब भगवान भी इस पर आने से कतरा रहा है ...फिर भी सुन्दर विचार आप के इस मोके पैर आप ने विद्रोही जी के बात को रखा है सब के बीच !!!!!!!!!
Vishal Upreti @akbar razvi if some1 says somthng to ur muslim god, u people ran out for kilin, if u dont know much den beter to kp mum
Jaideep Saklani Sunita sab kuch sar ke uper se nikal gaya.Kuch hamre standared ka bhi likh liya karo
Ish Mishra: bat to sidh sidhi hai agar baikunth ke log dharti par rah sakte hain to dharti ke kisonon ko baikunth men kheti karne do. kisanon ke khet tata, posco, vedanta, tedanta,...... jaise bhagwanon ke supurd idambambaram-chidambaram jaise pujari karte rhaenge to kisan bhi bhagwano ke asmanon par kabja karega.
aideep Saklani kheti ki jameen property dealeron ke hawale kheti to ab aasmaan mein hi hogi
Swamiji Chidambaranand ये ज़मीन है यहाँ सब जमता है भगवान भी पर आसमान में कुछ नहीं जमता ,आसमान में लटकने के अलाव कुछ नहीं मिलता.
Sarwang Joshi "ya to zameen se bhagwaan ukhdega ya aasmaan pe dhaan jamega."
@sunita- (1)-in these given conditions,which one do u think is more practical to happen in our country at present?
(2)-u mostly stuck others views or ideas(rather i should say ne...wspaper cuttings) on ur wall. Why dont u start a conversation wid ur own openion? It'll certainly gv an innovative look to ur wall & we'll get to knw the power of ur valuable brain too.
.Swamiji Chidambaranand कुछ लोगों की मानसिकता बड़ी विचित्र होती है वे धान को छोड़कर भगवान के पीछे पड़ जाते हैं अरे भाई जिन्हें धान की चिंता है उन्हें भगवान नहीं मिलनेवाले .धान-भगवान की तुलना ही भ्रम परिचायक है .
Vikram Negi हाँ सर्वाँग की बात से मैँ भी सहमत हूँ ऐसे न्यूट्रल रहना ठीक बात नहीँ कुछ अपना ओपिनियन भी पोस्ट किया करो कभी कभी न्यूजपेपर मेँ पब्लिष्ड विचार भी ठीक हैँ और खुद भी इन्वाल्व रहा करो !
Thursday at 6:57pm · LikeUnlike.Jaideep Saklani Uttarakhandke bhagwan ko kya ho gaya Swamiji? kya dev bhoomi ke log itne papi hain?KYON tabhai macha rakhi hai bagwan ne?
Thursday at 7:01pm · LikeUnlike.Sarwang Joshi @vikram- do u hv any openion on my 1st question?
Thursday at 7:39pm · LikeUnlike.Girija Pathak ये घमासान देखकर एक शेर मुझे भी याद आ गया....बहुत साल गए ज़हूर दा से सुना था.
"ग़र ख़ुदा है कही तो उसे ज़मी पे ही रहना होगा.
क्यों आसमा को सर पे उठाये हुए है लोग ..."
Thursday at 7:52pm · LikeUnlike · 1 personLoading....Vikram Negi @सर्वाँग
जमीन से भगवान को उखाड़ना ज्यादा व्यवहारिक है समय बदल रहा है विज्ञान भगवान को उखाड़ने मेँ लगा हुआ है हाँ हवा मेँ धान उगाने के संदर्भ मेँ कोई अनुप्रयोग नहीँ हो रहे हैँ आज देश व दुनियाँ मेँ भगवान को न मानने वालोँ की संख्या बढ़ रही है और... अगर विज्ञान निरंतर लगा रहा तो भगवान तो उखड़ ही जायेँगे
@SUNITA कविता का आशय जो मैँ समझ पाया हूँ वह यह है कि जिन्होँने खेती की भूमि पर कब्जा किया है ऐसे ज़मीँदार भगवान बन बैठे हैँ इसलिए भूमिहीन मजदूर किसान कह रहा है कि या तो ये भगवान खुद उखड़ेँगे मतलब भूमि सुधार लागू होगा या फिर हम आसमान मेँ धान बोयेँगे मतलब एक समानान्तर लड़ाई हम भी लड़ेँगे ! what do u think?See More
Thursday at 7:55pm · LikeUnlike · 2 peopleLoading....Dev Pathak waw swami ji kya baat hai
Thursday at 8:16pm · LikeUnlike.Ish Mishra @swamiji chidambaranand, sare swami fraud aur prasite hote hain jo bhagwan ke nam part logon ko bhat se vanchit rahte hain, swamion ne is mulk ki aisi ki taisi kar rakha hai. ( matribhasha ke shbdon ke prayog se bachne ke liye aisi ki taisi shabd ka prayog kiya hai, baki aap khud samajhdarhain)
Thursday at 9:42pm · LikeUnlike.Deepak Tiruwa sarthak post ... sadhuwad
Thursday at 9:54pm · LikeUnlike.Manohar Chamoli भगवान-भगवान लगा रखा है. पाखंडी,मन-मस्तिस्क से कमजोर और डरे हुई लोगों के लिए होगा वो, जो भी होगा. वेसे मेरे मकान मालिक का नाम भी भगवान वर्मा है. हाँ. वो तो अच्छे आदमी हैं. मगर तुम्हारे भगवान से अब तक मेरी मुलाकात नही हुई.उसकी वकालत करने वालों.कुछ करके जाना इस दुनिया से,नही तो तुम्हारा "पुरसाने हाल" पूछने-जानने वाला न मिलेगा.
Thursday at 9:58pm · LikeUnlike · 1 personLoading....Ish Mishra bhagwan ki avdharna manushya ne manushya ke cshoshan ko jayaj banane ke liye banai
Thursday at 10:00pm · LikeUnlike.Ishwer Dutt आप सबने हिद्रोपोनिक्स सुना होगा , इस तकनीक द्वारा पानी में बिना मिट्टी के पौधा उगा दिया जाता है , लेकिन, अब एक और तकनीक लगभग विकसित हो चुकि है जिसे नाम दिया गया है ऐरोपोनिक्स , इस तकनीक द्वारा पौधा हवा में विकसित होगा बिना पानी व मिट्टी के और इस तकनीक की खोज करने वाले हमारे एक गढ़वाली भाई हैं जो स्पेस स्टेशन में सब्जियाँ उगाने के सपने को लगभग अंजाम दे चुके हैं । तो अब धन हवा में भी उगेगा ।
Thursday at 10:02pm · LikeUnlike.Ishwer Dutt क्षमा करें , धान अब हवा में उगेगा ।
Thursday at 10:03pm · LikeUnlike.Ish Mishra main aap se bilkul sahmat hun.
Thursday at 10:05pm · LikeUnlike.Ishwer Dutt आप सबने हिद्रोपोनिक्स सुना होगा , इस तकनीक द्वारा पानी में बिना मिट्टी के पौधा उगा दिया जाता है , लेकिन, अब एक और तकनीक लगभग विकसित हो चुकि है जिसे नाम दिया गया है ऐरोपोनिक्स , इस तकनीक द्वारा पौधा हवा में विकसित होगा बिना पानी व मिट्टी के और इस तकनीक की खोज करने वाले हमारे एक गढ़वाली भाई हैं जो स्पेस स्टेशन में सब्जियाँ उगाने के सपने को लगभग अंजाम दे चुके हैं। तो धान अब हवा में उगेगा । इरादा हो तो सब संभव है ।
Thursday at 10:31pm · LikeUnlike.Manoj Aswal आप इन्सान हो , चाहो तो हवा मेँ धान उगा लो या धरती से भगवान को उखाड़ दो , चेतना का स्तर तय करता है क्रान्ति या समर्पण । नियति को मंजूर है सब , तू हाँ तो कर ।
Thursday at 11:23pm · LikeUnlike.Ish Mishra kaun kahata hai aakash men surakh nahi ho sakta,
ek patthar to tabiyat se uchhalo yaron. -- dushyant kumar
Yesterday at 6:13am · LikeUnlike.Vishnu Rajgadia Bahut khoob
22 hours ago · LikeUnlike.Akbar Rizvi विशालजी आपने जो बात कही है, उसके बाद दिल तो नहीं करता कि आपसे संवाद करूं। लेकिन हमारी विचारधारा ऐसी नहीं है। आप के लिए भगवान और अल्लाह में भेद होगा। मेरे लिए दोनों बराबर है और स्थिति ये कि कोउ नृप हो हमे का हानि। फिर भी आपको बता दूं कि जब में हिन्दी में बोलता हूं तो भगवान कहता हूं, संस्कृत में यही ईश्वर बन जाता है। अरबी में अल्लाह तो फारसी में खुदा होता है। अंग्रेजी में गॉड कहते हैं और भी कई भाषाएं हैं और ईश्वर के कई नाम भी। दुख तो ये है कि कविता का भाव छोड़कर यहां कुछ बेमतलब की टिप्पणियां ज्यादा हैं। लिहाजा मैं शर्मिंदा हूं।
21 hours ago · LikeUnlike.Swami Chidambaranand हरि ॐ जयदीपजी !
जब कुछ गलत होने लगता है तो बड़ी ज़ल्दी भगवान को दोष देने लगते हैं हम ,सालों-साल से सब अच्छा है तो भगवान कि कृपा नहीं कुछ खराब हो जाये तो भगवान को क्या हो गया है ?
14 hours ago · LikeUnlike.Swami Chidambaranand विक्रमजी ,आप कौन सी दुनियां में रह रहे हो ?अमरीका ने हजारों वैज्ञानिकों से पूछा था भगवान के बारे में आपलोगों का क्या कहना है ?आप आश्चर्य करेंगे ९९%वैज्ञानिकों ने उसकी सत्ता के बारे में स्वीकृति दी थी और ये बात लगभग सभी समाचार पत्रों में छपी... थी .आप कौन से वैज्ञानिक को जानते हो जो अपनी सफलता पर ऊपरवाले का शुक्रिया ना करता हो ?पता नहीं आप कहाँ रहते हैं पूरी दुनियां में भगवान को माननेवालों की भीड़ बढ रही है आप कह रहे हो कि संख्या कम हो रही है .मुंबई में परसों ही गणपति विसर्जन हुआ है ज़रा टेलिविज़न और समाचार पत्रों में भीड़ को देखिये तो शायद आपका भ्रम दूर हो जाये .See More
14 hours ago · LikeUnlike.Swami Chidambaranand मिश्राजी !आपने लिखा है सारे स्वामी......मैं आप से पूछता हूँ कि आप कितने स्वामियों से मिले हैं कि आपने सबको एक ही कटघरे में खड़ा कर दिया .आप वो लोग हो जो टी.वी.को सारे ज्ञान का साधन मानकर आँख बंद कर भरोसा कर लेते हो कि हाँ ऐसे ही सब होंगे ?मेरे भाई टी.वी. से भी बाहर दुनिया है कभी निकलकर देखो तो सही .कुछ लड़कों ने अपने बाप को मार डाला हो तो इसका मतलब ये तो नहीं सब लड़के ऐसे ही होते हैं .ये महान भारत के महात्मा ही थे जिनके आगे दुनियां नतमस्तक हुई .स्वामी विवेकानंद महात्मा ही थे जिन्होंने विदेश में जाकर सबसे पहले इस देश का नाम रोशन किया .
14 hours ago · LikeUnlike.Vikram Negi ???
14 hours ago · LikeUnlike.Ish Mishra Main bahut swamion se mila hun, ab aap se mukhatib hun, main aapse mukhatib hun ek swami mka nam bataiye jo kameena mna ho, ye sare parjivi , kamchor hain. vivekanad ne kya kiya, rajneeti ki bat karne se dar se bachta raha. vivekanabd ne va...han ja kar vahi kaha jo uske angrej swami kahte the. Gandhi was not a swami. vigyan ke vidyarthi sabse adhik avaigyanik hote hain, ve vigyan ko ek skill ke taur par dhjaran karte hain, dhongi hote hain sabhi swami, sabhi ka matlab sabhi. main sare bhawanon aur unke dalalon koo chunauti deta hun mera jo bigadna ho bidgad ke dikha den. jo khud bhram me fanse hain vo kisi ko kya dishadarshan denge. sare swami fraud hain, aap ,samet. bahas karni ho to kar lo. tumne abtak kya kam kiye hain batao? jinko apne asttitva ka auchitya nahin milta vo swami ho jate hain aur dusaron ko bevakuf banate hain, lekin kath ki handi kitne din chalegi? apne andar jhanko mere sawalon ka jawab khud mil jayega ki tum fraud ho ki nahinSee More
9 hours ago · LikeUnlike.Ish Mishra let me tell u again all the self claimed agents, swamis and babas all are frauds, i challenge them for open debate. they have been fooling the countriy for ages. it must bstop now, all the swamis need to be exposed including you.
9 hours ago · LikeUnlike.Ish Mishra Bhagwan bhi aajkal apne bhaktyon ke chakkar me fraud ho gaya hai, main usko bhi challengre karta hun mera jo bigad sakta hai bigad le.
9 hours ago · LikeUnlike · 1 personLoading....Swami Chidambaranand मिश्राजी !आप तो बुरा मान गए ,जो मैंने पूछा उसका ज़वाब आपने दिया नहीं आपने तो चेलेंज किया है ----मैं फिर आप से कहता हूँ कि पहले आप संतों से मिलिए ,संत किसे कहते हैं इसे समझिये .यूं तो रावण भी संत का वेष बनाकर सीता हरण के लिए गया था तो क्या उ...से आदर्श मानकर संतों को कटघरे में खड़ा करेंगे ...हो सकता है जिन्हें आप संत समझने की भूल कर के अपना निर्णय सुना रहे हों वे रावण के ही अनुयायी हों ,कुछ भी हो कोई भी समझदार व्यक्ति इस बात से सहमत नहीं हो सकता कि सब एक जैसे हैं .आपने मुझे भी उसमे शामिल किया है आपकी यही बात आपको कमजोर बनाती है आप हमसे मिले तक नहीं और आपने मेरे बारे में भी अपनी धारणा बना ली कि मैं भी वैसा ही हूँ ,हो सकता कि मैं अच्छा होऊं ,हो सकता है कि मैं आपकी सोच से भी ज्यादा बुरा होऊं .जहां तक बहस की बात है तो वो बिना मिले तो होगी नहीं मैं तो कह ही रहा हूँ कि पहले मिलिए .See More
7 hours ago · LikeUnlike.Vikram Negi भगवान तो कभी थे ही नहीँ तो उखड़ने और जमने का सवाल ही नहीँ उठता और जो भगवान हैँ कहते हैँ उन लोगोँ के मन भगवान जमा हुआ है और वो भी धीरे धीरे उखड़ जायेगा इसलिए स्वामी जी आडम्बरोँ को छोड़ो और केवल एक ही चीज स्वीकार करो
"मन ही देवता है और मन ही राक...्षस"!See More
7 hours ago · LikeUnlike.Swami Chidambaranand मिश्राजी !आप जैसी भाषा का प्रयोग करते हैं हमने वो सीखी नहीं है इसका मुझे अफ़सोस नहीं है .यदि आपको स्वामी विवेकानंद में भी दोष दिखाई देता है तब तो बहुत मुश्किल है .आपकी बुद्धि पर तरस आता है कि घोर नास्तिक विचारधारा वाले कम्युनिष्ट भी विवेकानंद का विरोध नहीं कर पाते .आप कहते है कि विवेकानंद ने क्या किया कभी रामकृष्ण मिशन गए हैं भारत का शायद ही कोई हिस्सा हो जहा उन्होंने हॉस्पिटल की व्यवस्था ना की हो .३२ वर्ष की उम्र में उन्होंने वो किया जो आप १०० जन्म लेकर भी नहीं कर सकते .
7 hours ago · LikeUnlike.Swami Chidambaranand हमारे शाश्त्रों में भगवान के बारे में ऐसा कई बार आता है कि जैसी जिसकी भावना होती है वो उसे वैसा ही दिखता है अब एक नयी बात भी जोड़नी चाहिए जो फ्राड हैं शायद उन्हें भगवान भी वैसा ही दिखता है .
7 hours ago · LikeUnlike.Swami Chidambaranand बात ये है कि ये काठ की हांडी होती तो कब की जल गयी होती ,विज्ञानं भी ये मानता है कि दुनिया का सबसे पुराना ग्रन्थ ऋग्वेद है तो भाई तब से लेकर अब तक तो जली नहीं ,लोगों ने खूब आग लगायी फिर भी नहीं जली ,आप भी सपना देख लो पर हज़ार मुश्किलें आने के बाद भी सच्चाई ऐसी ही रहने वाली है .आपको अपना चश्मा उतारने की ज़रुरत है तब हक़ीकत नज़र आयेगी भाई .
7 hours ago · LikeUnlike.Ish Mishra bachpan se ab tak jitne swamion se mila hun vo ya to farud nikle ya agyani. aapne vivekanand ko padha hai? maine padha hai. ve logon ki bat karte the lekin logon se darte the, samajvad ki bat karte the lekin use paribhashit kiye bagair. tho...s samsyaon ko aadhyatmikta ke makadjal men uljha dete the jaisa ki sabhi "swami" karte hain. vivekanad bahu hi prakhar budhi ke vyakti the lekin unki vudhi ki prakharta adhyatmikta ke chakkar men barbad ho gayi. kitne asptal aur school unke nam se chalte hain ye alag bat hai. kabhi miliye to vivekanand par bahas ho sakti hai. aap bataiye thos roop se unhone adhyatmik tark-kutark ke alawa kya thos kam kiya hai? rajnaitik sawalon se bhagte the usme khatra tha aupniveshik shahko dvra daman ka. vo khatra bhagat singh ne uthaya.
jahan tak rigveda ka sawal hai, to sabse purana granth hai ki nahi lekin bahut purana hai, aur tab tal hamare ardh-khanabadosh chrwahe poorvajon ko likhn e ka gyan nahi tha, isi liye ise shruti gyan kaha jata hai, maukhik parampara se pidhi-dar pidhi age badhta raha.aapne padha hai? maine hindi anuvad padha hai aur usme us samay ki jeevan ki avashyakton aur ach ch he somras ki kamnayen ki gayi hain. brahma-vishnu -mahesh ya anya kisi devi-devta ka koi zikrs nsahi hai. dharma ki utpatti bhay se hoti hai. hamare rigvaidic poorvajon ke devta prakritik shaktian thi: ARUN_VARUN- INDRA - agni. inshan apni jarrorton ke hisab se apne dharma aur devi-devta ka avishkar karta hai. ram-krishna to kautilya ke jamane men bhi bhagwan nahi the. vah krisna aur kansha dono ko DANAVON ki shreni men rakhta hai.See More
40 minutes ago · LikeUnlike · 1 personVikram Negi likes this..Swami Chidambaranand आपने लिखा कि आप बहुत से संतों से मिले हैं पर मनुष्याणां सहस्रेषु कश्चिद्यतति सिद्धये यततामपि सिद्धानां कश्चिन्मां वेत्ति तत्वतः के अनुसार हजारों मनुष्यों में कोई एक संत होने के निकल पाता है ,उन हजारों में कोई एक हो पाता है जो हुए हैं उन हजारों में कोई एक तत्त्ववेत्ता होता है इस स्तिथि में आप बहुत से संतों से कहाँ से मिल लिए .संतों के विषय में अपने ज्ञान को ज्ञान को ठीक कीजिये बाद में बहस कीजिये .
15 minutes ago · LikeUnlike.Ish Mishra jahan tak ram aur ravan ka sawal hai to ye ek mahakavya ke patra hain itihas ke nahi. ek afriki kahavat hai: "as long as the lions dont have their own historians, history shall go on eulogiging the hunter" Valmiki aur tulsidas "hunter" ke i...tihaskar hain, lekin unki hi rachnaon ko vastinishtha bhav se padhen to payenge ki ravan ka chatra naitikta ke mapdanda par ram ke chasritra se bahut shreshtha hai. lekin iske liye andhabhakti ka chashma utar kar chijon ko tarkon aur tathyon ke adahar par samjhna padega. ram ka bap ek aiyash kishm ka raja tha, budhape men jawan ladki se shadi karne ke liye usase bhavishya men uski kisi bhi mang ko pura arne ka vada kar deta hai aur usi ke tahat raj-kaj ke antarsangharshon aur mahlon ki antahkalah ke chalte vah ram ko 14 sal ke vanvas ke liye bhej deta hai.
ravan ek gyani (jise ram khud swekar karte hain jab laxman ko mrityushaiya par pade ravan ke pas gyan seekhne bhejte hain) purush aur shaktishali evam kushal shashak tha, log khushal aur sampanna the tabhi to uski lanka sone ki llanka thi. Ram ek aisi parampara ka pratinidhi tha jahan purush MAL ki tarah aurat ko jeet kar hasil karte the apne bhoga-vilas ke liye. bataiye dhanush todne aur machhali ki aankh bhedne aur stri-purush sanmbandhon me kya rishta? ravan ek aisi paramppara ka pratinidhi tha jisme aurat bhi 'propose' kar sakti thi. ravan ki bahan jab ram ko proppose karti hai to use yah kahne ki bajay ki ve use paqsand nahin karte dono bhai football ki tarah ek doosaree ke bich shunt karte rahe aur uski nak kan kat liye. jahan tak sawal is bat ka hai ki use malum tha ki dono shadishuda hain to rAM KE KHANDAN MEN BAHUT SI BIBIAN RAKHNA ANJANI BAT NAHI THI. uske bap ki hi 3 bibian thin usi ke chakkar men vo jangal men bhatak raha tha. ravan ne apni maya gyan ka ishtemal karke uski bibi ka apharan kar liya. jara sochiye aapki bahan ko koi kuchh kah bhi de to aap par kya beetegi? usne lejakr sita ko FIVE STAR guest house men rakha koi jor-jabardasti nahi ki. ram ravan se ladne ke sena jutane ke chakkar me kayaron ki tarah chhip kar bali ko mar dala jisne uska kuchh nahin bigada tha. Gaddar hamesha hote hain, vibhishan nam ke gaddar ki madad se ravan ko marne ke bad sita se kahta hai ye ladai usne sita ke liye nahin balki khandan ki nak ke liye lda hai. use tabhi sath le jayega jab vo agni pareeksha degi? ram khud jangal men kya kya mangal karta raha kaun janta hai use agni pareelksha ki jaroorat nahi thi aur ant men kisi bahane garbhvati halat men use lat markar nikal deta hai. tmam varnashrami bakvas karte rhate hain karm ke adhar par samjik varga vibhajan ki, sambuk namak sudra tapsya kar raha tha ki varnashrami brahmand hil gaya aur raja ram apne sevakon-laxma, hanuman... ko bhejne ki bajaye khud use marne nikal pade.
jo tulsidas aur valmiki ne likha hai uske adhar par bhi ravan ka charitra varnashramvadi, vistarvadi aur narivirodhi ram ke charitra se bahut shreshtha hai. aisa samjhne ke liye dharmandhata ka chashma utarna padehga, lekin tab swamigiri nahi chalegi!
Ish Mishra kaise pata chale kaun sant hai, hardwar ke sabhi swaqmi balk swmion ka shoshan/bhog karte hain, vo lakhon men ek swami kahaqn milega, usmen samay nasht karne ki bajaye bhautik duniya ko behtar banay jaye tab swamion-sanyasion ke spiritual fraud ki jaroorat nahi rahehgi. jay swami chinmayanand. fraud/parasite swmaion ka vinash ho.
2 minutes ago · LikeUnlike.Ish Mishra swami ji kuchh sikhna chahte hon to bahas jarti rakha jaye aur aghar kup-manduk bane rahna chahte hain to bahas yahin khatm. bye bye swamiji jaiye dharmbhiru logon ki aastha par rotian senkiye, bahas sirf tarqon tathyon par honi chahiye laffaji se nahin. bye.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
socialism 1
Arun Prakash ji, the present phase of the latest stage of capitalism -- the finace capital is, hopefully, the last stage of capitalism ( Let us hope so and work towards ending it). I am quite optimistic and hopeful that the as the inadvertent consequence of capitalist development in the field of communication, a new and advanced form of a new Internationalism -- the socialist internationalism is on its way to destroy the ideological basis of capitalism.
@Com Raufparas, the ruling class ideas are the ruling ideas also. The imperialist capital owns the ideological apparatuses and captive intellectuals. Moreover ppl relying on the Soviet Union, that has been on the capitalist path for quite some time in its hegemonic rivalary with capitalist imperialism, as the harbinger of wporld revolution developed defeatist attitude and many of them became ex-Marxists. randhir Singh has ellaborated the reasons of Soviet Union's disintegration in his voluminous book - The Cris of Socialism. It was a setback to the march to socialism, but a temporary setback, that happens. New ideas are emerging and we should continuously counter capitalist propaganda with in or means. The bubble of triumphant declarations of World of the end of history burst wiuthin a decade. Capitalism has become moribund, is in ICU on artificial oxygen, if we work incessantly it would certainly end, may be if not in our life time, in the life time of our grand children, lets continuously bombard the bastille
@Com Raufparas, the ruling class ideas are the ruling ideas also. The imperialist capital owns the ideological apparatuses and captive intellectuals. Moreover ppl relying on the Soviet Union, that has been on the capitalist path for quite some time in its hegemonic rivalary with capitalist imperialism, as the harbinger of wporld revolution developed defeatist attitude and many of them became ex-Marxists. randhir Singh has ellaborated the reasons of Soviet Union's disintegration in his voluminous book - The Cris of Socialism. It was a setback to the march to socialism, but a temporary setback, that happens. New ideas are emerging and we should continuously counter capitalist propaganda with in or means. The bubble of triumphant declarations of World of the end of history burst wiuthin a decade. Capitalism has become moribund, is in ICU on artificial oxygen, if we work incessantly it would certainly end, may be if not in our life time, in the life time of our grand children, lets continuously bombard the bastille
marxism
eversince those "10 days" that "shook the world" the oplogetic-intellectuals of capitalism have been theorising the "totalitarianism" in Marxism (Karl Popper & Co.) and in 1960s they declared the "end of the ideology" (Daniel Bell). What en...ded was the Race as an ideology created/devised in defence of the slavery by the intellectiual ancestors of the Bell. With the disintegration of Soviet Union that by that time had become hegemonic rival of the capitalist imperialism, the social imperialism, the succesors of Daniel Bell declared the "end of History" (Fukuyama). History never ends, nor repeats itself, it only echoes, what ends is the outdated historical epoch implying the iminent end of capitalism as an historical epoch. and till no other advanced theoretical alternative is advanced, the only next epochal alternative is that of socialism, as worked out by Karl marx and F Engels in the 19th Century, when capitalism was moving towards its last stage, i.e. by Marxism that will remain ideologically relevant even after the demise capitalism.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Che ko lal salam
Ruling classes afraid of the ideas kill the individuals makiing their ideas more effective but nevertheless depriving the movement of great leadrship. Fascists under Musslini afraid of ideas wanted to stop Gramsci's brain functiong by put...ting him behibd the bars, they could not the brain functioning but they shortened his life by depriving him of basic medines and that proved to nemisis of fascism, CIA killed Che and Che's ideas spread globally beyond the twin continents of Americans. It has been ongoing process followed by expansion of revolutionary ideas and conciousness. Indira Gandhi killed Charu Mazumdar afraid of the ideas of revolution, but the legacies of Naxalbari upsurge have engulfed the entire nation and as Marx and Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto the spectre of communism was haunting bthe Europe, today the spectre of Naxalism is haunting all the ruling class parties and leaders playing the subservient role to the imperialist. Chidambaram got Azad, the spokesperson and one of the ideologues of CPI(Maoist), Maoism's intellectual and popular support base has expanded. Therre is a poem by revolutionary panjabi poet, Pash; "MAIN TO GHAS HUN FIR UG AAUNGA TUMHARE SAB KIYE-DHARE PAR". ( I am grass will reappear, whatever you do) Com. Pash ko lal Salam; Com Che ko Lal Salam
Monday, September 6, 2010
On God --krishna
Religion, according to Einstein to begin with , is a product of fear. All the societies createw their own , idioms , phrases, rituals and Gods and godesses according to their historical needs. That is why the nature, number, functions and conceptions of Gods and Godesses have been historically changing. In pre-modern days, the function of God was to help the poor and distressed, in modern times, with the advent of Social Darwinism, the function of the God has changed. Now God helps those who help themselves -- the rich and dominant classes. Believers are so insecure and illogical that their sentiments are like wax, get hurt on anything critical of gods and prophets.
Trimurti -- Brahma-Vishnu-Mahesh -- or the plethora of 33 crores gods/godesees find no place in the Rig-vedic scheme of religion. Arun(the sun), Varun (the wind), Indra, Agni -- the natural forces beypond the cpomprehension of our ancient ancestors, were regarded as gods -- the supernatural powers. With passage of time few more natural forces and the Soma (the marijuana -- bhang plant) got the status of Gods. According to the changing charecter of ruling classes and perpetuation of brhmanical order of varnashrama system, that attained climax during the early centuries of the christian era culminating into the lawbook -- Manusmriti, the number of dieties went on increasing.
Kautilya, synonymously known by the name of Chanakya (or the Vishnugupta), the Prime Minister of the first Mauryan king Chandragupta, in his Arthashatra -- a masterpiece on the political theory; statecraft; political economy; diplomacy and warfares -- while advising the Vijigishu (the would be conquerer king) to worship Gods and demons before setting off on a war campaign brackets, interstingly together Krishna alongwith Kansa in the category of demons ( RP Kangle, The Kautiliya Arthashastra, Vol. II[English translation by Kangle]). Maeghanstenese, the conrtemporary greek trveller, writes about Krishna as a locan legendary hero of the Sursen region. This implies the krishmna was not part of the galaxy of the dieties till atleast Mauryan times. Krishna began to be transformed into a diety with the interpolation of Bhagawatgita section in the original Mahabharata and gained momentum with Bhakti movement ' initially in Bengal with the Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Therefore it is my request to Bansal ji and his fanatic critics to kindly demystify the charecters of epics and Puranas/mythologies to get the contents of the social history. And objections to freedom of expression is a dangerous ooman for the forward nmarch of democracy. criticism should have respect for differences as society consists of not many but many kinds of men and women.
Trimurti -- Brahma-Vishnu-Mahesh -- or the plethora of 33 crores gods/godesees find no place in the Rig-vedic scheme of religion. Arun(the sun), Varun (the wind), Indra, Agni -- the natural forces beypond the cpomprehension of our ancient ancestors, were regarded as gods -- the supernatural powers. With passage of time few more natural forces and the Soma (the marijuana -- bhang plant) got the status of Gods. According to the changing charecter of ruling classes and perpetuation of brhmanical order of varnashrama system, that attained climax during the early centuries of the christian era culminating into the lawbook -- Manusmriti, the number of dieties went on increasing.
Kautilya, synonymously known by the name of Chanakya (or the Vishnugupta), the Prime Minister of the first Mauryan king Chandragupta, in his Arthashatra -- a masterpiece on the political theory; statecraft; political economy; diplomacy and warfares -- while advising the Vijigishu (the would be conquerer king) to worship Gods and demons before setting off on a war campaign brackets, interstingly together Krishna alongwith Kansa in the category of demons ( RP Kangle, The Kautiliya Arthashastra, Vol. II[English translation by Kangle]). Maeghanstenese, the conrtemporary greek trveller, writes about Krishna as a locan legendary hero of the Sursen region. This implies the krishmna was not part of the galaxy of the dieties till atleast Mauryan times. Krishna began to be transformed into a diety with the interpolation of Bhagawatgita section in the original Mahabharata and gained momentum with Bhakti movement ' initially in Bengal with the Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Therefore it is my request to Bansal ji and his fanatic critics to kindly demystify the charecters of epics and Puranas/mythologies to get the contents of the social history. And objections to freedom of expression is a dangerous ooman for the forward nmarch of democracy. criticism should have respect for differences as society consists of not many but many kinds of men and women.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
On the Martyrdom of Com. Azad
Civility introduces duality
One wants to look, what one is not.
thus the eternal contradiction of civilization
the contradiction of the essence and the appearance.
Civility is divine
The chosen few got the right to appropriate
appropriate the wealth of nature
trough other peoples' labor
the civil not only has rights
but duties too
the duty to civilize the wretched of the earth.
Civilizing needs leisure
and the status of gainfully unemployed
It needed masters to civilize slaves
Bramins to Shudras
feudal lords to serfs
capitalists to the proletariat
the colonizers to the colonized
in respective epochs
and the man to woman in is all the epochs.
Civility is not just economics but philosophy too
as both are twins born out of the womb of civility
Its history boasts of not only Greek and Roman glories
on the foundations of the glorious s labor
but also of Aristotle and Cicero
Ancient glories are not the monopoly of the west
We too have a glorious past
the golden ages on the foundation of the Shudra labor
Shudras are divine creature
blessed with the qualities of serving and suffering
We too had great philosophers
the Valmikis and Manus
It needed serfdom and Charlemagnes
It needed wage slavery and Adam Smiths
It needed Daniel Bells and Fukoyamas.
It also needed Julius Ceasers; Clive Lloyds; Hitlers and Mussolinies;l Bushes
and Blairs.
Civilization is man-made and not the woman-made, so is patriarchal;
Women are not part of it but just conditions.
They are not partners of the men but only the objects of their lust;
Not the creator of creativity but only means to produce future civilizers.
Lord Clive came to India to civilize us;
The enlightened sections of our ruling classes joined his civilizing mission.
The challenge to mission by the unenlightened sections – the peasants and the
soldiers -- moved by their affinity to nativity, was crushed.
Was crushed by the lovers of the new mission – the Scindhias; the Peshwas; the
Nizams; the Sikhs ……..
Spartacus – a slave—waged a war against the civilization in the Roman Republic.
It shook the foundations of the civilization but was crushed buy the forces of
civilization.
The slain rebels were scalped with the trees from Rome to Capua to warn the
future enemies of the civilization.
The colonial civilizers followed the footstep of their Roman predecessors.
The mission of Lord Clive is complete: India is mostly civilized.
There is no more any need of Lord Clive’s physical presence.
All the Sirajuddaulas also have turned into Mir Zafars --
The Raos and Gaudas; Bajpayees and Manmohans; Budhas and Navins, in nutshell
Montek Singh Sahluwallia and Montek Singh Ahluwallia..
Let us join the enemies of civilization on global scale;
Let’s promote Dalit assertion and scholarship; feminist assertion and
scholarship and support peoples revolutionary movements world over.
Let’s join the Spartacuses and vow to destroy this civilization.
Let’s join the rebellions of Kalinganagar; Jagatsinghpur, Niyamgiri,
Narayanpatna, Dantewada, Kaushambi……
Com. Azad was a communist with a vision to end this civilzation ;
establish a new one free from subjugation and exploitation;
a civilization with the impossibility of expolitation of man by man;
of realization of creative potentialities by all;
in nutshell a civilization of human emancipation.
As a tarined technocrate, he could have joined a corporate
and become Chidambaram;
He could have joined world bank and become Manmohan;
He could have joined CPI(M) and become Budhadeb;
but he made a well thought decision to become AZAD
and lay his life in the cause of humanity and democracy.
Com Azad! LAL SALAM!!
you have joined the galaxy of the long list of martyres
whoi laid their lives for the cause of the humanity and hence the truth
you are the latest in the sequence of Spartacus to Gallelio;
Brsa Munda to Udham Singh; Bhagat Singh, Christopher Cordwell to Che Guera;
Charu Mazumdar to Pash, Maan and AZAD.
LALA SALAM Com AZAD.
The posterity -- the people: the tribals and dalits; the workers and the
peasants shall fulfill the unfinished task of revolution. ....
And that is the law of the dialectics of nature;
Revolution in inevitable......
The flame that was sparked off at Naxalbari over 4 decades ago;
would and must engulf the entire nation;
Bearers of this torch of revolutionary flame are pervading the world
from Dantewada to Narayan Patna; from nandigram to Lalgarh;
from Kalinaganagar to Kaushambi.........
The enemy is desperate and united;
they own the Shastras( weapons) and the Shaastras) on the peoples' cost;
unable to kill the ideas they have begun to kill the individuals and massacre
the people who bear the ideas:
whether it is Niyogi or Azad; peasnats of nandsigram, Nrayanpatna or
kalinganagar.....
The killers are worried and bewildered;
people have stopped fearing the death;
they are ready to die but not retreat, kalinganagar showed the way
Nandigram followed
The flow of the radical streams joining into a river must and shall get
momentum;
And the oaring flow of this river shall be unstoppable by the CRPF type straws
of Chidambarams and Manmohans.
(JO DARIYA JHOOM KE UTTHA HAI, TNKON SE NA ROKA JAYEGA -- Faiz).
It is time to wake up to save the country from complete neo-colonization,
More and more Rajkumars and Dahals would and shall reject the lavishly cariiers
and would become Prachandas annd Azads;
more and more baburam Bhattaris and Chandrashekhars would decline the high
profile academic carriers and become organic intellectuals of the poor at war
with the rich.
One wants to look, what one is not.
thus the eternal contradiction of civilization
the contradiction of the essence and the appearance.
Civility is divine
The chosen few got the right to appropriate
appropriate the wealth of nature
trough other peoples' labor
the civil not only has rights
but duties too
the duty to civilize the wretched of the earth.
Civilizing needs leisure
and the status of gainfully unemployed
It needed masters to civilize slaves
Bramins to Shudras
feudal lords to serfs
capitalists to the proletariat
the colonizers to the colonized
in respective epochs
and the man to woman in is all the epochs.
Civility is not just economics but philosophy too
as both are twins born out of the womb of civility
Its history boasts of not only Greek and Roman glories
on the foundations of the glorious s labor
but also of Aristotle and Cicero
Ancient glories are not the monopoly of the west
We too have a glorious past
the golden ages on the foundation of the Shudra labor
Shudras are divine creature
blessed with the qualities of serving and suffering
We too had great philosophers
the Valmikis and Manus
It needed serfdom and Charlemagnes
It needed wage slavery and Adam Smiths
It needed Daniel Bells and Fukoyamas.
It also needed Julius Ceasers; Clive Lloyds; Hitlers and Mussolinies;l Bushes
and Blairs.
Civilization is man-made and not the woman-made, so is patriarchal;
Women are not part of it but just conditions.
They are not partners of the men but only the objects of their lust;
Not the creator of creativity but only means to produce future civilizers.
Lord Clive came to India to civilize us;
The enlightened sections of our ruling classes joined his civilizing mission.
The challenge to mission by the unenlightened sections – the peasants and the
soldiers -- moved by their affinity to nativity, was crushed.
Was crushed by the lovers of the new mission – the Scindhias; the Peshwas; the
Nizams; the Sikhs ……..
Spartacus – a slave—waged a war against the civilization in the Roman Republic.
It shook the foundations of the civilization but was crushed buy the forces of
civilization.
The slain rebels were scalped with the trees from Rome to Capua to warn the
future enemies of the civilization.
The colonial civilizers followed the footstep of their Roman predecessors.
The mission of Lord Clive is complete: India is mostly civilized.
There is no more any need of Lord Clive’s physical presence.
All the Sirajuddaulas also have turned into Mir Zafars --
The Raos and Gaudas; Bajpayees and Manmohans; Budhas and Navins, in nutshell
Montek Singh Sahluwallia and Montek Singh Ahluwallia..
Let us join the enemies of civilization on global scale;
Let’s promote Dalit assertion and scholarship; feminist assertion and
scholarship and support peoples revolutionary movements world over.
Let’s join the Spartacuses and vow to destroy this civilization.
Let’s join the rebellions of Kalinganagar; Jagatsinghpur, Niyamgiri,
Narayanpatna, Dantewada, Kaushambi……
Com. Azad was a communist with a vision to end this civilzation ;
establish a new one free from subjugation and exploitation;
a civilization with the impossibility of expolitation of man by man;
of realization of creative potentialities by all;
in nutshell a civilization of human emancipation.
As a tarined technocrate, he could have joined a corporate
and become Chidambaram;
He could have joined world bank and become Manmohan;
He could have joined CPI(M) and become Budhadeb;
but he made a well thought decision to become AZAD
and lay his life in the cause of humanity and democracy.
Com Azad! LAL SALAM!!
you have joined the galaxy of the long list of martyres
whoi laid their lives for the cause of the humanity and hence the truth
you are the latest in the sequence of Spartacus to Gallelio;
Brsa Munda to Udham Singh; Bhagat Singh, Christopher Cordwell to Che Guera;
Charu Mazumdar to Pash, Maan and AZAD.
LALA SALAM Com AZAD.
The posterity -- the people: the tribals and dalits; the workers and the
peasants shall fulfill the unfinished task of revolution. ....
And that is the law of the dialectics of nature;
Revolution in inevitable......
The flame that was sparked off at Naxalbari over 4 decades ago;
would and must engulf the entire nation;
Bearers of this torch of revolutionary flame are pervading the world
from Dantewada to Narayan Patna; from nandigram to Lalgarh;
from Kalinaganagar to Kaushambi.........
The enemy is desperate and united;
they own the Shastras( weapons) and the Shaastras) on the peoples' cost;
unable to kill the ideas they have begun to kill the individuals and massacre
the people who bear the ideas:
whether it is Niyogi or Azad; peasnats of nandsigram, Nrayanpatna or
kalinganagar.....
The killers are worried and bewildered;
people have stopped fearing the death;
they are ready to die but not retreat, kalinganagar showed the way
Nandigram followed
The flow of the radical streams joining into a river must and shall get
momentum;
And the oaring flow of this river shall be unstoppable by the CRPF type straws
of Chidambarams and Manmohans.
(JO DARIYA JHOOM KE UTTHA HAI, TNKON SE NA ROKA JAYEGA -- Faiz).
It is time to wake up to save the country from complete neo-colonization,
More and more Rajkumars and Dahals would and shall reject the lavishly cariiers
and would become Prachandas annd Azads;
more and more baburam Bhattaris and Chandrashekhars would decline the high
profile academic carriers and become organic intellectuals of the poor at war
with the rich.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Einstein
Albert Einstein:Political Profile of a Radical Scientist
-- Ish Mishra --
The year 2005 marks the centennial of the publication of 5 of Einstein’s major scientific papers that took the world of the classical physics by shock and surprise. The new research by the young scientist questioned the absolute concept of the motion and acceleration with the special theory of relativity. It authentically challenged the reigning Newtonian paradigm and its notions of the absoluteness and finality of the mechanical laws and the truth; inaugurated a new epoch in the history of scientific knowledge; laid the foundations of the future paradigm of analyses in the study of Physics. With the publication of these papers, Einstein added new dimensions to the Quantum theory. The contributions of the other two pillars of the Quantum physics -- Max Planc and Neils Bohr – are related with the quantum nature of the matter but they treated the light as electromagnetic wave within the paradigm of classical physics. Einstein, in his first paper itself, propounded the quantum theory of light that traveled as energy packets, with enormous velocity. In 1917 he demonstrated that just like the particles of the matter, light particles too have energy and momentum. For Einstein, the scientific knowledge was not just a matter of theoretical concern but the “attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought”. The Scientific knowledge is the means of scientific vision and temperament to scientifically comprehend the world and make it better and beautiful. Science is not an end in itself but the “scientific method furnishes the means to realize the goals” of the progress in the cause of humanity2. “Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem--in my opinion—to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare, and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of means to reach such a state. Even if a small part of mankind strives for such goals, their superiority will prove itself in the long run.”3
2005 also marks the 50th year of Einstein’s death and the 60th year of Hiroshima-Nagasaki, the tragic catastrophe caused by the little boy and the fat man of Truman’s US government to mark its emergence as world power after the Second world war was almost already over. An anti-war activist since student days, Einstein, the epoch making scientist, was deeply perturbed with the catastrophe caused by the destructive application of the scientific knowledge. In the aftermath of the war, in a message to the intellectuals, he regretted the fate of the scientists in the existing state of affairs. “We scientists, whose destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose foe which they were invented”. He appealed to the intellectuals of the world, “to build spiritual and scientific bridges linking the nations” and “to overcome the horrible obstacles of national frontiers”. In the same message he observed that “rational thinking does not suffice to solve the problems of our social life. Penetrating research and keen scientific work have often had tragic implications for mankind, producing on the one hand, inventions which liberated man from exhausting physical labour making his life easier and richer; but on the other hand, introducing a grave restlessness into his life, making him a slave of his technological environment and - most catastrophic of all - creating the means of his own mass destruction.”4
The Scientific knowledge of energy generation by the chain reaction caused by atomic fission, and its application in making atomic weapons has become the fact of the life. Hence, in order to avoid another catastrophic war of unprecedented destructive intensity, Einstein proposed the creation of a democratic, supranational government, as over-all in-charge of world’s all the security and military affairs, arms and ammunition and more importantly of the world’s atomic energy. “There is only one path of peace and security: the path of a supranational organization. One-sided armament on national basis only heightens the general uncertainty and confusion without being an effective protection.”4a The idea of a democratic world government despite its practical and theoretical lacunae owing to the intricacies of the capitalist political economy and the dangers of its becoming an imperialist tool like many economic and political world organizations, shows Einstein’s well-intended intense desire fir world peace and cooperation. Pointing to the supranational character of scientific knowledge, he envisaged a significant role of scientists and intellectuals in it. Dedicated to the supranational security, this world organization would free the national governments from military responsibilities, military secrets and the fear of war. The supranational army would consist of the armed forces personnel from the member countries and would strive for the world peace. ”The tensions of the increasingly likelihood of war in a world based on sovereignty would be replaced by the relaxation of growing confidence in peace”. And “the representatives to a supranational organization – assembly and council – must be elected by the people in each member country through a secret ballot. These representatives must represent the people rather than any government – which would enhance the pacific nature of the organization.”5
It is well known that Einstein was an epoch making physicist, what is less known and underplayed by the mainstream media is, his radical socio-political ideas and activism. In fact, he escaped persecution for his anti-war, anti-racist and egalitarian political ideas and activities -- in Germany during and after the First World War and in USA during the Second World War and the subsequent mid-century ‘red scare’ of the cold war-- due to his international celebrity status. Few other scientists, his fellow travelers in the campaign against jingoism and war, were not as fortunate. Rosenbergs case is well known. On the well-orchestrated and trumped up charges of being ‘Soviet agents’ and passing on the ‘scientific secrets’, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had to die on the sing-sing electric chairs” on June 1953, despite frantic efforts of Einstein and other democratic minded scientists, artists and radical political activists6.
During his academic tours of the European countries and the America, apart from lecturing on quantum physics and the theory of relativity in simple language, he also pleaded for the mass education in science to emancipate people from superstitions, mysticism, and religious-racial bigotry. He shared with the audience his concerns and anxieties regarding the weapons of the mass destruction, particularly the nuclear weapons and appealed for peace, freedom and equality so that the enormous human creative potentialities could be realized. Through out his life, Einstein used all the scientific and public forums, the worldwide network of his acquaintances and his celebrity status to campaign for peace, disarmament and socialism. He stressed upon the need of social ethics in the field of science. In An Open letter to the Society for Social Responsibility in Science published in 1950, he wrote that the institutions unless supported by “the sense of responsibility” are “ in a moral sense impotent”. And “In our times scientists and engineers carry particular moral responsibility, because the development of the military means of mass destruction is within their sphere of activity. I feel therefore, that the formation of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science satisfies a true need….”6a. All that attracted public attention towards these issues and also the attention of the Gestapo and the FBI7.
This article seeks to present a brief political profile of the radical scientist in terms his views and activism on various political and socio-economic issues facing the world.
Born in a well-to-do secular German Jewish family in 1879, from the childhood itself, Albert Einstein had a scientific bent of mind and the will and desires to scientifically explore and comprehend the world. During the last decade of the 19th century, the Europe witnessed two contrasting political trends – of sectarian jingoism and the imperialist expansion on the one hand, that culminated in the First World War, and the revolutionary socialist internationalism on the other. The young Albert sympathized with the later, and abhorred the military mentality; sectarian, chauvinist and racist ideologies and mobilizations. At the age of 16 he renounced his German citizenship and moved to Switzerland in 1895, in order to escape the compulsory military services and to pursue his education at Zurich’s Polytechnic in an atmosphere relatively free from anti-Semitism, pervading the German and Austrian campuses at the time. Zurich, in those days, was a ‘hide out’ for the Russian and German ‘under-ground’ revolutionaries. Einstein spent much time at the Odeon Café, “a hangout for Russian radicals” including Leon Trotsky and Lenin. There he was introduced with the scientific ideas of socialism as he spent much time at the Cafe and participated in the “coffee shop’s intoxicating political debates” even at the cost of missing the classes8.
After his Ph.D., unable to find an academic job, Einstein joined as a clerk in the Swiss Patent Office in Berne in 1902. The tedious nature of the job could not deter the young scientist from venturing into the new researches and inventions. While working there he published his first five, epoch making, research papers in 1905,on the photo-electric effect, which demonstrated the quantum nature of the light and propounded the special theory of relativity that quashed the established, Newtonian paradigm of the classical physics. The famous equation of the modern physics, E=mc2 was the theme of his fourth paper, which established the law of equivalence between mass and energy. In this equation E is the kinetic energy generated by the mass m and the c is the velocity of light in the space (approximately 300,000 KM/second). This invention not only revolutionized the study oh the theoretical physics but also opened the new avenues of generating enormous energy. Accordingly if one gram of matter is completely converted into energy, the energy thus obtained shall be equivalent to 2.4x107 units of electrical energy, sufficient to take care of the energy needs of an average households for 4000 years. Einstein did not get carried away by the universal and the ubiquitous acceptance of the quantum theory and insistence by Boer and other physicist regarding its being the ultimate, and carried on his search of newer possibilities. In June 1933, in his Herbert Spencer lecture at Oxford, he said, “I attach only a transitory importance to this interpretation (quantum theory). I still believe in the possibility of a model of reality – that is to say, of a theory, which represents the things, themselves and not merely the probability of their occurrence”8a. He went ahead working on the Unified Field Theory, hoping to answer the questions, unanswered by quantum theory. Debates aroused by Einstein’s theories gave him an early celebrity status and in 1914, he was offered and accepted a full professorship in Berlin. Fred Jerome opines that the offer was probably a result of competition between German, British, French and American Universities to attract scientific and technological talent to enhance their imperial interests9.
The First wold war broke out immediately after his joining the post. Prior to the war, ideologically, he aligned himself with the Second (Socialist) International which and considered the war as imperialist. Einstein was a sympathizer of the German Social Democrats, who were part of the Socialist International, but as soon as the war broke out, like their counterparts in other countries, they too, joined their national government’s war efforts with the cries of jingoistic nationalism. They tore apart the socialist internationalism and anti-war instance of the yesteryears. Einstein opposed to the war and the military mentality and disillusioned with the Social Democrats, aligned himself with the party’s minority (the communists) who saw the war as a reflection of the internal contradictions of the ruling classes of the belligerents. Max Planc and over 100 other Scientists signed a jingoistic Manifesto to the Civilized world, “endorsing Germany’s war aims in a language that prefigured the Nazi rants a generation later”. Einstein and only three other scientists in a reply to it condemned the behavior of these scientists as shameful. The letter was suppressed at that time. “At least one of the signatories was jailed”. Einstein’s “power of newly acquired celebrity” not only protected him but also allowed him “to speak out when others couldn’t”. In 1917 Einstein propounded the laws of radiation on the basis of the quantum nature of the light. In 1921 he received the Nobel Prize for Physics on his work on photoelectric effect. Einstein’s vocal presence became more visible to the people in general, and the advocates of anti-Semitism and national chauvinism in particualr.10
He continued to speak out in the devastated aftermath of the war that was followed by the fall of seven other European monarchies along with the fall of Kaiser Wilhelm, the Prussian monarch. They were replaced, for the moment, by liberal and socialist regimes. He was with his liberal and radical colleagues and students in the war time opposition and joined them in their post war resistance to “the burgeoning revanchist militarism that would quickly morph into Nazism”. The day Kaiser abdicated, Einstein posted a sign on his classroom’s door that read: “CLASS CANCELLED – REVOLUTION”11.
Einstein’s public visibility and his outspoken political views made him popular with the peace loving, democratic and radical intellectuals, students and activists, but it also made him the focus of the growing virulent anti-Semitism, particularly after receiving the Nobel prize. The right wing politicians as well as many fellow German scientists denounced his theory of relativity as a “Jewish perversion”, but undeterred by these criticisms and condemnations, Einstein’s presence became more visible in the scientific as well as in the cultural and political life of the Weimer Republic. In 1920s, in the wake of the rising tides of racist and jingoist violence and ultra-nationalism in Germany, Einstein became more vocal in politically opposing these obscurantist and reactionary ideologies and their socio-political manifestations. He supported the cause of European unity and aligned with the organizations involved in helping the Jews against growing anti-Semitic violence. He regarded “class distinction as unjustified and, in the last resort, based on force” and never looked upon “the ease and happiness as ends in themselves”. For him, “the ideals” which lighted his way and “time after time” gave him “new courage to face life cheerfully”, had been “Kindness, Beauty and the Truth”. He noted that “without the sense of kinship with the men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally attainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, the life would have seemed to me empty”. Einstein was quite averse to the very idea of the war, which he considered as “the worst outcrop of herd life” and proposed that “this plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed”. He “passionately” hated the “heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism”. He believed that “this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of people not been systematically corrupted by political and commercial interests acting through the schools and the press”12. In his opinion, “In two weeks the sheep-like masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed for the sake of sordid ends of a few interested parties”13. His egalitarian vision led him to oppose the fee hikes confronting the poorer students and “routinely offered after-hours physics classes”14.
As the economic and political crises gripped the Europe, Einstein used the platforms of scientific conferences to air his political views and concerns. As Jerome notes, “He had no problems, discussing relativity at a university lecture in the morning, and, on that same evening, urging the young people to refuse military service”15. By the end of 1920s, jingoism and anti-Semitism were at the peak, thanks to Social Democrats’ non-dialectical approach towards socialism and nationalism, aversion to communists and their inability to comprehend the fraudulent facade of Hitler’s National Socialism. The constitutional bourgeois rule was making way for the extra-constitutional bourgeois rule of Hitler’s National Socialist Party on the pattern of Mussolini’s Fascist rule in Italy. Hitler’s Nazi campaign was gaining ground riding on the pervasive anti-Semitic feelings and the ideological constructs of Racial superiority of Aryans, i.e. Germans whose “racial purity” had to be regained by “purging the country of the Semitic Races i.e. Jews”16.
Though still vocal against obscurantism, Military mentality and the war phobia at home, but the atmosphere in Germany was so vitiated and virulent that free scientific research and political articulation had become a difficult proposition. Einstein found himself more and more looking abroad for congenial platforms for his scientific and political expressions. He lectured in Britain, the Netherlands and other parts of the Europe and, from 1930 on, annually as a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology. Nazis seized the power on January 30,1933 and Nazi zealots confiscated Einstein’s house and property in Berlin belongings, along with the capture and the seizure of the properties of other prominent and not-so prominent Jews. In the public book burning organized by Hitler’s propaganda minister, Goebbels, Einstein’s works featured prominently. Einstein was on a speaking tour of Netherlands at the time. Large cash bounty was offered for his murder in Nazi newspapers, following which he had to complete his lecture-tour in the Netherlands under the protection of security guards. He resigned from the Prussian the Prussian Academy of Sciences and declared, thought, “As long as I have any choice, I will only stay in a country where political liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail. Political liberty implies the freedom to express one’s political opinions orally and in writing; tolerance implies respect for any and every individual opinion.” And at that time, these conditions did not obtained in Germany distempered by Nazis. He hoped that “the healthy conditions will soon supervene in Germany”16a. He was accused of anti-patriotism by the Academy for deploring “Germany’s lapse into the barbarism of long passed ages” and of being used by “the enemies of not merely the present government but of the whole German people”. Einstein in his reply wrote that such a testimony “would have been equivalent to a repudiation of all those notions of justice and liberty for which I have stood all my life. Such testimony, would not be as you put it, a good word for the German people; on the contrary, it would only have helped the cause of those who are seeking to undermine the ideas and principles which have won for German people a place of honor in the civilized world.”16b.
That year, when at the California Institute of Technology for his annual lectures, he along with his family decided not to return to Berlin, and accepted a lifetime job offer from the Institute for Advanced studies, Princeton, New Jersey. He was granted American citizenship in 1940. There, his major scientific concern was the United Field Theory, an attempt to demonstrate that electromagnetic waves and the gravity were manifestation of a single phenomenon, which remained his life-long scientific concern and “remains one that continues to animate contemporary physics and cosmology”17.
He continued his political activities even in his new country with his political concerns focussed on the dangers of Nazism and fascism. Exodus of Jews from Germany and east-European countries was a matter of serious concern. Using his celebrity status and supported by many other European intellectuals, he appealed to the Franklin D.Roosevelt government to allow the refugees to migrate to US, but this time the power of his celebrity status failed to get the desired result. Einstein did not oppose only Nazism and Fascism but was opposed to any system that attempts to make inroads on human liberty in the name of the Reason of State18. During the Spanish civil war, he supported the anti – Franco forces and criticized the stand of phony “neutrality” embargo by US, French and British governments, effectively denying the needed ammunitions to Republican troops while Nazi forces bombed the Spanish villages. Einstein participated in the rallies and demonstrations organized to demand the lifting of the blockade and to protest against the imposition of the fascist regime. “Nearly 3000 American volunteers of Abraham Lincoln Brigade defied their government to fight with the republic with Einstein an early and zealous supporter”19.
On the request of the physicist Szilard, a refugee co-victim of Nazi atrocities, Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt in 1939, about the German advances in the field of nuclear research. But due to governmental fear of his radicalism and his own reluctance, he had no role in the Manhattan project launched with the stated goal of creating atomic deterrent. After the war, Einstein’s strong protests and criticisms of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are well known. In a newspaper interview he “blamed the atomic bombing of Japan on President Truman’s anti Soviet foreign policy”. And the interview was added in the FBI file. It is also well known that Manhattan project scientists had well debated the repercussions of the use of the atomic bomb and many of them including Openheimer had strongly opposed the use of the bomb. Fearing a nuclear arms race between the USA and the USSR, many of them founded the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists (ECAS) under the chairmanship of Einstein. In that role Einstein unsuccessfully tried to impress upon the US administration to remove the atomic development from the military and to place it under international control and described Truman’s foreign policy as reflection of the US imperialist ambitions – Pan Americana – the anti-Soviet expansionism. Despite the rebuff from the US administration, the ECA’s anti-nuclear message made international headlines and evoked significant public response all over the world20.
The post-war period in the US witnessed the racist attacks on the Afro-Americans, their segregation, lynching and other manifestations of inhuman and brutal; manifestations of imperialist white supremacy. The pre-war promises of equality for the mobilization of the people were forgotten. The army remained segregated, the schools remained segregated. Lynching of non-white minorities by the right wing white hoodlums had become a commonplace thing. The racial discrimination in all the walks of the life was obvious. Access to housing, jobs and the University itself were routinely denied to African-Americans. The anti-racist activists and peace agitators were firmly dealt with. Einstein, having witnessed the racial frenzy and mob-violence in Germany, put everything on his disposal to oppose racial discrimination and was actively involved in anti-racist protests. As a long time anti racist activist, he reacted against every outrage, through public meetings, radio talks and newspapers. Addressing the students and the faculty at Lincoln University, a historically black institution, Einstein observed, “The social outlook of Americans, their sense of equality and human dignity is limited to men of white skins. The more I feel an American, the more this situation pains me”21. In the aftermath of the war, in the face of nationwide wave of lynching he joined the American Crusade to End Lynching as co-chair with legendary Paul Robeson. In his letter to President Truman, delivered by Paul Robeson, he demanded the prosecution of lynchers and passage of anti-lynching law. He agreed with Robeson, who told Truman that if the government would not protect the blacks they would have to do so themselves. Truman, of course, didn’t like and tolerate the idea. The meeting broke down leading to the accentuated racist violence and more determined resistance that would transform into civil rights movement in a few years time.
In 1948 presidential elections, he along with Paul Robeson and other progressive scientists, artists and intellectuals actively campaigned for the new Progressive Party candidate, former Vice President Henry Wallace. The new party formed by the left wing of Roosevelt’s New Deal Coalition included radicals, socialists and communists and called for international control of nuclear weapons. Einstein and Paul Robeson went ahead with their joint campaign in the south despite the violent attacks and refused to appear before a segregated audience. But the specter of communism was haunting the America. And as a result of anti Soviet jingoism and Truman’s belated promises of welfare programs led to the fall of the Wallace movement and unfortunately for America and the world, Truman got reelected. This accelerated the cold war phobia and the corresponding ideological repression. Few radical supporters of the party including Leo Huberman and Paul Sweezy, blamed it on the party’s failure to go beyond the New Deal liberalism and advocated for explicit socialist stand on questions like public ownership of basic industries. They were subjected to all kinds of restrictions on their intellectual freedom and movement. Paul Robeson had to bear the brunt of challenging the racist ideology of white supremacy overtly-covertly patronized and promoted by Truman’s establishment, during the ‘red scare days’. He was denied his basic civil rights – right to income, concert-venues, and the right to travel. He was virtually reduced to a non-person in his own home. In 1952 Einstein, in an act of according him public honor, Einstein invited him and his accompanist Lloyd Brown for lunch and they spent a long afternoon discussing music politics and other issues of mutual interest. Earlier in 1937 when Marion Anderson, an Afro-American performer after giving a “critically acclaimed concert” was denied lodging at the segregated inn, Einstein instantly invited her to stay at his house. Ever since whenever she sang in New Jersey, she would be his guest.22
Anti-Semitic discrimination and violence faced by the Jews of eastern and central Europe, had been Einstein’s consistent political concern that intensified after the Nazi genocide. As early as 1921 Einstein visited US to raise funds for the establishment of a “Jewish national home” in Palestine, for the threatened European Jewish community but distinguished himself from the Zionists. He wanted that the “oppressive nationalism must be conquered” and envisaged a Jewish homeland in Palestine on the basis of peaceful cooperation between peoples who are at home in the country”, and that there should be no “majorisation of one group by the other”. Einstein was opposed to the idea of the aggressive Zionism, the way he was opposed to Nazi anti-Semitism and the racial repression in the USA. He could rose above the ethnic “limitations” and felt that jingoist Zionism “will have only undesirable results” 23. After the war, the victorious allies were not willing to absorb even a part of the displaced European Jews and the state of Israel was created in the Palestine. Einstein applauded the achievement of a homeland for the displaced community but was not happy the way it was created. In 1949 in a radio broadcast he regretted not achieving the goal of “ an undivided Palestine in 24which Jews and Arabs would live as equals, free, in peace.” In the same broadcast he appealed to the Jews of the Israel to crate a community on the ethical ideals of “peace, based on understanding and self-restraint, and not on violence”24. Given his consistent stand against militarism, racial discrimination, war and subjugation of one people by others, had he been alive, would certainly have disapproved Israel’s subjugation and oppression of Palestinians, particularly since 1967.
The issues related with the intellectual freedom and civil liberties threatened by Omni-present American state with its manipulated anticommunist frenzy and jingoistic anti Soviet phobia –“red scare”-- occupied major portion of his political activism, in the post war period. He was quite perturbed by the ‘red hunting’ along with the repression of Afro-Americans in the US in the name of patriotism and felt that “honest people” in the US “constitute a hopeless minority”. In 1953, in reply to a letter from an innovative, radical schoolteacher, William Frauenglass, who had been fired for his refusal to discuss his politics and names before a senate investigating committee, Einstein appealed to all the intellectuals “to refuge to testify… If enough people are ready to take this grave step, they will be successful. If not then the intellectuals deserve nothing better than slavery which is intended for them.” The letter was a national front-page news. Many tall intellectuals including Bertrand Russell supported Einstein’s views. Many young Americans took the “advice from Dr. Einstein”25.
Resistance to “red-hunting” found an authentic supporter in Einstein and started being more articulate and vocal. Many young people started refusing to testify and by 1960 breaking committee hearings. These acts of civil disobedience inspired by Einstein preluded the civil rights movements of 1960s under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. Earlier in 1951, Einstein and Paul Robeson sponsored a dinner and rally to raise funds fir the defense of W.E.Du Bois, who was indicted on the trumped-up charge of “being a Soviet agent”. In 1953, the case of Rosenbergs – Julius and Ethel—Einstein’s intervention and his letters to media and to the President Truman, attracted popular, international support. He wrote to the trial judge that scientific evidence against them, even if accurate, did not reveal any vital secret. Failing to get a positive response he wrote to the President about it. But the Truman’s government was not moved. And they had to die. His 75th birthday was celebrated as an occasion for a conference on civil liberties organized by the Emergency Civil liberties Committee (ECLC). The ECLC had been formed in response to the failure of the American Civil Liberties Union to defend he communists and take on the questions raised by the Rosenberg case. The conference attended by many luminaries from various fields launched the ECLC “on a forty-six years trajectory defending freedom of expression, the rights of labor, and multi-faceted campaigns for civil liberties”. -Days before his death on April 18, 1955, Einstein jointly signed what came to be known as The Einstein–Russell Manifesto that posed practical political choice between humanism and universal death, in the wake of invention of the weapons of mass destruction. “There lies before us, if we choose continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we can not forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.” 26
This sketchy and incomplete profile of the great scientist and political activist has not his views on religion, religion and sciences, role of mass education in science and social ethics in fighting against myths, obscurantism and mysticism often used by the reactionary forces in all ages. Also not discussed here are his understanding and vision of socialism and the views on human rights and philosophy of science. Its incompleteness shall be further aggravated without a brief discussion on his lifelong commitment to pacifism, world order and. After the Hiroshima-Nagasaki catastrophe, Einstein wrote, “The release of the atomic bomb has not created a new problem. It has made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one… So long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable…. What has been changed is the destructiveness of war.” He wanted the “secret of the bomb should be committed to a world government, and the United States should immediately announce its readiness to give it to the world government”26. Einstein feared the atomic race among the big powers of the world, which came true in his lifetime itself, as by the mid-fifties USSR, Britain, France and China had already developed and tested atomic weapons. According to his own admission his part in the development of atomic energy “quite indirect”. He did not “foresee its release” so soon. With his invention of the laws of equilibrium between mass and energy, he had said “that it was theoretically possible” and that it “it became practical through accidental discovery of chain reactions”. He was opposed to the idea of managing the atomic science on the pattern of commercial corporations and pleaded that the US, till then the sole atomic power, must outlaw the bomb. As we know The US did not heed his advice and went ahead testing many more bombs. He wrote, “To keep a stockpile of atomic bombs without promising not to initiate its use is exploiting the possession of the bomb for political ends” and that he opined was “hardly pardonable”. That is Einstein pleaded for the creation of a supranational government with no military secrets, as “if a sufficient number of the governments pool heir strengths they can take this risk, for their security will be greatly increased. And it could be done with greater assurance because of the decrease of fear, suspicion, and distrust that will result.” 27
In response to An Open Letter: Dr. Einstein’s Mistaken Notions on his suggestion of a popularly elected world organization, Einstein, in order to prevent the catastrophic national wars, underlined the need of a supranational government accountable to the international community. He shared the views of the Russian intellectuals “that a socialist economy possesses advantages…” and that “economic power in all widely industrialized countries has become concentrated in the hands of relatively few. These people in capitalist countries, do not need to account for their actions to the public as a whole; they must do so in socialist countries in which they are civil servants similar to those who exercise political power.” He added, “No doubt, the day will come when all nations will be grateful to Russia for having demonstrated, for the first time, by vigorous action the practical possibility of planned economy in spite of exceedingly great difficulties.”28 He blamed the “anarchy of capitalist society Einstein was aware of the dangers of bureaucratization involved in the socialist regime based on the planned economy. “A planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by complete enslavement of individuals. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?”29
Einstein was a radical and egalitarian from his student days and remained so all his life. Last years of his life was devoted to campaign for the disarmament, world peace and civil rights and to find jobs for the victims of racial discrimination and “red hunting” using his network of acquaintances. He remained committed to the ideals of socialism and democracy and considered the de-bureaucratized socialism as the “only one way to eliminate the “grave evils” of capitalism.30 The real homage to this radical scientist shall be by heeding his advice on disarmament and outlawing the weapons of mass destruction. “We must build spiritual and scientific bridges linking the nations of the world. We must overcome the horrible obstacles of national frontiers…The time is terribly short. We must act now if we are to act at all.”31
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