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We may not be a super military power like the US, but we are the superpower in compassion, love and human values as taught to us by the Bhagavad Gita and the Guru Granth Sahib, says former BJP MP Tarun Vijay.
The picture above -- showing the Government of India, through its ministers Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sardar R P Singh bowing before the Guru Granth Sahib at Delhi airport -- defines the soul of India.
There can't be a more glorified, defining, moment for this great civilisation.
It showed that Sikhs and Hindus in Kabul -- wherever they are, whatever passport they possess -- they remain us. We care for them as family.
ISI agents and their surrogates, the Taliban, uprooted the Sikh Nishan Sahib from the ancient gurdwara Thala Sahib in the Chamkani area of Afghanistan and humiliated Sikhs and Hindus, forcing them to leave their homeland.
The holy Guru Granth Sahibs were brought to Delhi by a special Indian Air Force flight.
Along with a small number of Hindus and Sikhs (in Afghanistan, Hindu and Sikhs share the same temple-gurdwara, their life is intertwined in an inseparable way and what India always was, is seen in their togetherness) have come hundreds of Muslim Afghanis, who were so terrified and desperate under an Islamic government that they chose India, a Hindu majority land, to save their lives, their children's future.
India has lived her tradition to once again help distressed humanity and the way Prime Minister Narendra Modi has provided the love, respect and warmth of a brother to all is the greatest golden hour for him, for all Indians and the government he leads.
We may not be a super military power like the US, but we are the superpower in compassion, love and human values as taught to us by the Bhagavad Gita and the Guru Granth Sahib.
Over a period of time, thousands of Afghan Muslims have got not just shelter in India but a home. They are so well taken care of that now they feel bold enough to agitate, demonstrate and demand more perks, facilities and rights.
Whatever Indian supporters of the Taliban might say about the Modi government, the fact is a Muslim group, claiming to be the purest believers in Islamic teachings, captured power in a Muslim majority land through the gun and made thousands of Muslims flee their homeland and find shelter in a Hindu majority country, where the central government is run by compassionate leaders who believe in inclusive Hindutva.
India remains India till she follows her dharma. Dharma is the righteousness, compassion and courage to annihilate the unrepentant wicked -- like Rama, Krishna, Durga and Guru Gobind Singh have shown.
India is the fountainhead of freedom of thought and the most liberal, democratic free society on Earth today. We see so much hate, intolerance and religious bigotry in European countries and the US, but India is the last refuge for human values.
Modi will always support humanitarian values come what may -- he is the only strong leader who can resist all pressures to uphold India's age-old traditions. His helping hand to Afghanistan's distressed people of all colours and religions proves it.