TRUTH AND LIE HAVE LOST THEIR MEANING IN AYODHYA

 

TRUTH AND LIE HAVE LOST THEIR MEANING IN AYODHYA

 

CHHOTA AKHBAR.

It is said that Ram was born in Ayodhya, played there, grew up, was sent into exile, and when he returned, he ruled there. A temple was built to remember every moment of his life. Wherever Khel, there is Gulela Temple. There is Vashishtha temple where I studied. Wherever he sat and ruled, there is a temple. Sita Rasoi is where we ate food. Wherever Bharat lived, there was a temple. There is Hanuman temple, Kop Bhavan. There is Sumitra temple, Dashrath Bhavan. There are twenty such temples, and the age of all of them is 400-500 years. That is, these temples were built when India was ruled by Mughals or Muslims.

Isn't it strange! How could Muslims have allowed this temple to be built? He is remembered for demolishing the temple. During his tenure an entire city was converted into temples and he did nothing! How greedy were those who were giving land for temples! Perhaps those people would be liars who say that the land where Gulela temple was to be built was given by the Muslim rulers. That document kept in Digambar Akhara would also be wrong in which it is written that Muslim kings gave 500 bighas of land for the construction of temples. The talk of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula giving land for Nirmohi Akhara would also not be true. The truth is just Babar and the Babri Masjid built by him!

Now even Tulsi, who was born around 1528, is beginning to seem wrong. People say that in 1528 itself, Babar demolished the Ram temple and built the Babri Masjid. Tulsi must have seen or heard that thing. Babar was destroying Ram's birth place and Tulsi was writing - "Maang ke khaibo maseet mein soibo." And then he wrote Ram Charit Manas. Would Tulsi not have had any regrets about the demolition of Ram Mandir and the construction of Babri Masjid? Why not written anywhere?

Truth and lies have lost their meaning in Ayodhya. Muslims have been cultivating flowers there for five generations. Their flowers kept falling on all the temples, on the deities residing in them and on Ram. Muslims have been in the profession of building stands there since long. Sanyasi, sages, Ram devotees, kept wearing Khadaun made by Muslims. The entire management of Sundar Bhawan temple remained in the hands of a Muslim for four decades. Munnu Mian, who took command of it in 1949, remained its manager till 23 December 1992. Whenever people were less and Munnu Miyan himself stood up to play the khartal during the Aarti, would he then wonder what is the truth about Ayodhya and what is the lie?

786 is written on every brick of a temple built by the Agrawals. Raja Hussain Ali Khan gave all the bricks for it. Which to consider as true? Was that Agarwal who built the temple a freak? Was it Hussain Ali Khan Diwan who was giving bricks for the temple? In this temple, the hands raised for prayer do not matter whether they are Hindu or Muslim, everyone comes. One number 786 made this temple everyone's. Is only December 6, 1992 true?

After 6 December 1992, the government took over most of the temples of Ayodhya. There were locks. Aarti stopped. The movement of people stopped. Would the gods and goddesses sitting behind closed doors ever curse those who were trying to touch Ram by climbing a dome? Wouldn't the deserted Hanuman temple or Sita Rasoi smell of the blood that was shed in Ayodhya and India in the name of Ram?

 

Ayodhya is the story of a city turning into an issue.

Ayodhya is the story of the death of a culture.

 (The above article is by Saroj Mishra ji)