In April, the Commonwealth Heads of Government will meet.
Her Majesty to Queen spoke at a recent such Commonwealth gathering about this being an event to commemorate women as ‘agents of change’.
The highest aspiration of a Hindu man is to be like Ram. His story is not history. The battle of good and evil is a daily battle. And Sita, Ram's wife, has been abducted - literally. She is a 15 year old girl, called Sita, who is enslaved in sex slavery in Mumbai. I have a picture of Sita taken from a documentary. Her name is actually Sita. She truly is 15. She has been in reality abducted. I am not making this up.
So what does Ram Navami mean to me? It is not a celebration. It is an annual renewal. A renewal to the cause fought by Ram himself. That evil wins when good men and god men sit silent. Every day is a Ram battle.
So let us prove our bloodline to be sons of Ram and rescue Sita today. Go defeat evil and bring her back. Earn the right to call ourselves Hindu.
I then asked the non-Hindus to stand and bare witness that the honour of the Hindus is at stake if we do not now dedicate to a great cause. That there may come a day when Hindu will not care for Hindu. But bare witness that today is not that day.
We may live in a world of women’s equality where sexism is barred – but I don’t think it is sexist to say – Sita needs rescuing and it is men who have imprisoned her and it down to men to in the footsteps of Ram save her. Find your Hanuman and Lakshman and save Sita – save the women. Shame if the women have to do it themselves for themselves. Shame.
I was inspired to see so many of our youth take up the cause and come back and desire to fulfil their lives with a great cause. To say they come from the most ancient of civilisations and that on their watch the Ramayan did not become ancient history. That Ram and Sita to this day from this earth have not left, that our gods are not dead. That they live…in the one place we rarely look – within is.
So you will hear stories of Ram Raj – don’t let the politicians abuse Ram and Sita. If they want Ram Raj tell them to free Sita. She is a 15 year old abducted girl in Mumbai. Save her and you save the nation and we save our souls.
