In the present scenario, the text has been brutalized, its soul drained and words lie scattered like dead bodies in the battlefield of time.

Dr. Jernail Singh Anand | India

Words, whose soul has been sucked, are scattered around, like dead bodies, waiting for community burial. Call great men for final rites of all that was good in human tradition.

If Mahatma Gandhi comes today, he will have more difficult time than he had with the British. Gandhiji is considered an apostle of peace, who represents a timeless philosophy, i.e. the precious legacy of India’s thought systems and spiritual tradition. Mercifully, he was born in a time when truth meant truth, and falsehood meant falsehood. People were, what they were, good or evil, and they could be trusted for that. But these times are different, which make aberrations of men with such sensibilities.

When we say, ‘peace’, the expression evokes a state of happiness, joy and equilibrium. But, utter the word ‘non-violence’.  It conjures scenes of blood bath, and communal riots, to which we are advised to say ‘No’. Peace is the religion of a positive faith, propagated by Guru Nanak Dev Ji and Gautam Buddha. However, in Non-violence, we have to contend with a changed scenario in which violence is a way of life, which has to be denounced and disowned.

Why ‘peace’ undergoes a transformation and becomes ‘non-violence’? Because words are not mute witnesses of our emotions, they are active agents of an invisible eco-system. They attack the mind of the reader, and the revolution begins there. They act like loaded missiles which are shot from a distance. One may ask: why was Gandhi different from Buddha though both gave the message of Peace and co-existence?

A counter question can be: How relevant will be Buddha if he comes alive in this scenario? If he gives his message from Sarnath again, and his language is plain, and does not flirt with socio-political nuances, he can be tolerated. But Guru Nanak Dev ji faced a hostile reaction from the aggressors, when he attacked Babur, describing his forces as ‘Paap ki Janj’ [the marriage band of sinners]. Mahatama Gandhi too had to contend with an empire, which had never seen the setting sun. Therefore, he had to be mentally and morally equipped to take on the powerful British Empire, which believed in violence.

The Core Issue

If Gandhi comes again, will he again resort to Satyagraha, or Non-cooperation, or the idea of Non-Violence? The British Govt. was very insensitive, and committed atrocities on Indians. Jallianwala Bagh massacre is a living example, and fighting these people on their terms [i.e. armed engagement] would have led to collective suicide. In S. Bhagat Singh’s martyrdom, we see a blend of the Gandhianism as well as the philosophy of Guru Gobind Singh Ji. He shook the foundations of the Empire not only by the bombing of the Parliament, but also by his decision not to run away. Same thing was repeated by another brave Sikh S. Udham Singh who killed Michael O’Dwyer, and did not run away after that.  It is clear that both the philosophy of the Gurus

The Murder of the Word

In the present scenario, the text has been brutalized, its soul drained and words lie scattered like dead bodies in the battlefield of time. People, who believed in truth, the power of the word, in good and evil of men,  feared God, and were afraid of Hell – have been replaced by a set of people, for whom words are no more than dead skeletons in the museum of contemporary history.

It is man’s smartness, which has got the better of his wisdom, and combined with knowledge, he has attacked all the sources of his own strength. The scriptures, the family, the teacher, and the religious places – everything which added meaning to the word has been destroyed. We have destroyed nature also, which was a source of wisdom for mankind. In order to understand what we are saying, just think how we turn and return to the animal kingdom. As clever as a fox, putting all eggs in the same basket, a bird in hand is better than two in bush. Everything is becoming irrelevant when nature and its denizens are margined off.

In this world scenario where values have lost their natural placement, if Gandhi comes again, I wonder if concepts like non-violence will be enough. Our people do not kill with bullets, they use words to kill the essence. They destroy the sense and sensibility and even the sensitivity which makes us human. Violence or non-violence, I think, do not matter in this world, which has no faith in anything but power, wealth and luxury. The British Empire he fought against, was cruel, not shameless. Gandhi may have to first start a movement for ethical revival of mankind, and restoration of the sanctity of the human text.  And he may suffer lack of funding too, because the highly educated corporates of today, are the fourth generation of old industrialists, [now extinct], who, once on his suggestion, had funded the Vishwa Bharati, have no faith in philanthropy without returns.

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Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, based in Chandigarh, is an Indian poet and scholar credited with 170 plus books of English literature, philosophy and spirituality. He won great Serbian Award Charter of Morava and his name adorns the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. He was honored with Seneca Award LAUDIS CHARTA by Academy of Arts & Philosophical Sciences, Bari, Italy 2024. He is Founder President of the International Academy of Ethics and conferred Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) by University of Engineering & Management, (UEM) Jaipur. Email anandjs55@yahoo.com 

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Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, the towering literary genius of the twenty-first century from India, is the second Indian author after Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore, who has been conferred the Honorary Membership of the prestigious Serbian Writers Association, Belgrade. Dr. Anand, who has authored 150 plus books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, philosophy, spirituality, critical theory, politics and eco-consciousness, [out of which 9 are world-class epics], has found favor in Iran, where his four books have been translated into Persian, and the Dept of English Univ. of Neyshabur carried out a research project on his Poetry: ‘A Comparative Study of the Poetry of J.S Anand, Sohrab Sepehri and Forugh Farrokhzad’. Dr. Anand has co-innovated the theory of Bio-text along with Iranian scholar Dr. Roghayeh Farsi who has written 15 articles on his books. The most important epics authored by Dr. Anand are the Mahakaal Trilogy in three parts. Part I introduces Lustus, the corporate of Evil and the Prince of Darkness.  Critics feel that ‘Lustus: The Prince of Darkness ‘ stands in the same relationship to the 21st century, as John Milton’s ‘The Paradise Lost’ and its antagonist Satan to the 17th century. Dr. Anand believes that knowledge supported by Artificial Intelligence has disturbed the mental, physical and spiritual balance of mankind. He believes that vegetation, the animal and the aviary world carry the Original Intelligence, which is essential to lead a normal life.

The ICU of History  

The most proud portion in a house

Is the bed room,

Followed by the toiletry,

The kitchen

Drawing room

And at the end,

If you like,

I may add the humblest of all

The wash room.

The most prominent portion

Of a human body is the forehead

Followed by the heart

Stomach, arm, legs

Come later

And I you wish, may I add

The excretory parts.

The humblest parts

Which nobody wants to see.

Nor talk about

Yes, when it comes to love

And reproduction,

The prime position shifts

To the face, the legs

And the spell binding

Regions of human body

Male and female.

Humanity has paid scant attention

To humbler parts of the body

Kept them covered

And out of common conversation

Yet, how important they are

Just imagine if the exit

Of a body is clogged?

What about the humbler parts

Of society?

About whom no one talks. Nor bothers?

And they are kept in the darker zone, the chawls?

Can your machines build

High rise buildings

If they are not there to load

And unload the cranes?

People who help the civilization

Move on its feet

Are the men thrown into the margins

No scriptures talk about them.

If they stop functioning

Society will have convulsions.

In fact, the society will be

In the ICU of history.

The humbler parts of the body

And of the society

Are no less important

And deserve equal care and respect

Ignore them at your peril.

In fact, these you consider humbler

Are the pride of creation,

Which depends on them.

Just remember, every worm, it may have

A mouth or not, but it doth have an exit.

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The ICU of History translated into Polish by Roth

HISTORIA OIOM-u

Najbardziej wżną częścią domu

Jest sypialnia,

Akcesoria toaletowe

Na talerzu sledź,

W kuchni

Pokój do rysowania

I w kraju

Jeśli chcesz

Sskromna możliwość

dbania o czysrość i higienę

Najbardziej widoczną częścią

Z ludzkiego ciała jest czoło

Serce za nim podąża

Brzuch, ramiona, nogi

Dopiero później

Bardzo elitarna,

Część wydalnicza.

najbardziej krępująca

Której nikt nie chce oglądać.

Nawet o tym nie mówić

Tak,  jest jeśli chodzi o miłość

i reprodukcja,

Główna część do prokreacji jest w ruchu

piętno takiego widzenia jest

na twarzy i między nogami 

Co powoduje  powiązanie

tych rejonów ciała człowieka

Mężczyzna i kobieta.

Ludzkość nie zwracała na to uwagi

Bo te intymne części ciała

są zawsze  zakryte

jako tabu poza zwykłą rozmową

Jednak jak bardzo są one ważne

Wyobraź sobie ich upublicznienie

Czy tak się stanie?

A co ze skromniejszymi fragmentami

W formie modeli z  drutudla studentów?

O których nikt nie mówi. nie ma to znaczenia?

I boją się tej żony, čaulimy?

Niech wasze maszyny

budują przyszłość według przepisu stwórcy

Chyba że nie ma ich tam do wykorzystania

Czy da się to rozładować dźwigami?

Ludzie, którzy pomagają Cywilizacji

Ulegając technizacji i dehumanizacji życia

Spowodują, że  ludzie będą wyrzucani na margines

Ani jedno Pismo Święte o nich nie mówi.

Jeśli przestaną działać

Społeczeństwo będzie miało konwulsje.

W rzeczywistości społeczeństwo będzie

w separacji według historii.

Skromniejsze części ludzkiej anatomii

W  zasad obowiązujących w społeczeństwa

Nie są mniej ważne od innych

Zasługują na równą opiekę i szacunek

Możesz zignorować ​​to na własne ryzyko.

W rzeczywistości wydaje się że nie unikniesz pomyłki

Jeśli musisz znosić ból,

To od Ciebie wszystko zależy.

Pamiętaj tylko, że każdy robak może mieć

Usta oczy ich ciała mają też ujście.

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Shared by Eva Petropoulou Lianou, a renowned poetess and author of children’s literature from Greece

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