On #PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay, I would like to replug some articles that I have written on the subject, directly or tangentially. Do read.

Muslims chose to stay back in India: Analysis of the mythical, unsubstantiated trope used to make Hindus feel guilty

Did they stay back out of a sense of patriotism? For the sake of secular ethos? Did they do us a favour?

#PartitionHorrorRemembranceDay

https://t.co/KavvXqdWX0
Rangeela Rasool, 295A, partition: History threatens to repeat as demands for a special law to punish ‘gustakh-e-rasool’ grows

https://t.co/Qcl2xFlQ7a
Did the British make ‘Hindus and Muslims fight’? Deconstructing statement by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

It’s important to deconstruct certain myths that we have internalized, lest we are pushed down the same blood-soaked path that we walked during Partition

https://t.co/fdbD7djUwj
Was the 1921 Malabar genocide the first time that Moplah Muslims massacred Hindus? List of 50 incidents that preceded the 1921 genocide

https://t.co/s7Wa7RNX5m
25th September 1921: A day when 38 Hindus were slaughtered and thrown in a well by Muslim mob demanding a Caliphate in Malabar

https://t.co/OZ7JsFj1J8
What MK Gandhi said while Moplah Muslims massacred thousands of Hindus in 1921: Support to Khilafat and asking Hindus to die without a fight

https://t.co/oW9ltu7BUb
An article tangentially related to the partition and why it’s important to acknowledge that India is a land of Hindu consciousness which will forever be a natural home for Hindus.

https://t.co/YsmY5yYtVL

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॥ॐ॥
अस्य श्री गायत्री ध्यान श्लोक:
(gAyatri dhyAna shlOka)
• This shloka to meditate personified form of वेदमाता गायत्री was given by Bhagwaan Brahma to Sage yAgnavalkya (याज्ञवल्क्य).

• 14th shloka of गायत्री कवचम् which is taken from वशिष्ठ संहिता, goes as follows..


• मुक्ता-विद्रुम-हेम-नील धवलच्छायैर्मुखस्त्रीक्षणै:।
muktA vidruma hEma nIla dhavalachhAyaiH mukhaistrlkShaNaiH.

• युक्तामिन्दुकला-निबद्धमुकुटां तत्वार्थवर्णात्मिकाम्॥
yuktAmindukalA nibaddha makutAm tatvArtha varNAtmikam.

• गायत्रीं वरदाभयाङ्कुश कशां शुभ्रं कपालं गदाम्।
gAyatrIm vardAbhayANkusha kashAm shubhram kapAlam gadAm.

• शंखं चक्रमथारविन्दयुगलं हस्तैर्वहन्ती भजै॥
shankham chakramathArvinda yugalam hastairvahantIm bhajE.

This shloka describes the form of वेदमाता गायत्री.

• It says, "She has five faces which shine with the colours of a Pearl 'मुक्ता', Coral 'विद्रुम', Gold 'हेम्', Sapphire 'नील्', & a Diamond 'धवलम्'.

• These five faces are symbolic of the five primordial elements called पञ्चमहाभूत:' which makes up the entire existence.

• These are the elements of SPACE, FIRE, WIND, EARTH & WATER.

• All these five faces shine with three eyes 'त्रिक्षणै:'.

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