Two simple, unorthodox words that stood for all the things that we fought for. Two words that galvanised our freedom struggle. Two words that united India. At-least until last month…. Now the same two words have been so dissected by us that it will be remembered, by this generation, as a ‘controversy’. Such is the pathetic state of politics in our country that they are waging war over their ‘mother’.
I still remember when we had but one channel, every single day DD started by playing this song.. ‘vandE mAtAram.. sujalAm suphalAm..’. It’s got such a high esteem in the daily life of our country that we paid homage to that song EVERY SINGLE DAY !!! Not Sri vEnkAteswara suprabhAtAm.. it was this song that started our day !! No wonder that our first flag had these two words sprawled right across it!!
And look at the state at which we are now…fighting cribbing over if it is ‘religiously legal’ to say the two words. I read somewhere that God created mother since S/He felt that He might not be able to do justice to every single creature born.. you call your country ‘mother’land since it is where you are born. We are the children of the country called Bharat’mAtA’. VandE mAtAram is just saluting your mother. Saluting unabashedly, saluting with undying faith, love and affection to your own Mother. I don’t understand why saluting your Mother who is in fact God personified should be a problem to people.
As long as we are in this state where we cant even salute our mother without politics interfering.. we shall be this way.. O India! The more you try to imbibe some good thoughts into the minds of your children the more ignorant they are trying to become! Forgive them, for they dont know whom they are antogonizing. mErA bhArAt mahAn. vandE mAtaram…
