Those ones who are in the helm of our national politics had once been away from the purview of this definition. But times have changed and all of them are now in the stable of the scoundrels, and they all represent only one clan which does not have a noun to be given, but an adjective to be attached: It is ‘politypical’. If it is a party, it is politypical party; if it is a person, he or she is a ‘politypical’ leader or follower. This clan of scoundrels deserves no name at all, for they have been able to cut themselves to be so undeserving by carrying out activities nefarious, asocial and apolitical enough to call them with no name at all. They stand poised to enjoy certain privileges and principles. These are:
· Horse-trading is fine. Political power is the sign of this horse
· Defecting is incorporated. It comes first with defeating the other party, and next with snubbing the very voters and their trust
· Accepting kick-backs is part of the deal
· Killing, criminalising, character assassination, cornering and political exiling are tricks of the ‘national’ trade
· Second-fiddling are survival characteristics
· Wheeling and dealing are like political breathing
· Money is the political oxygen, and Mammon is the political deity
· Ideologies are idiocies; they are found in all the ideologues
· Allegiance to the party is a kind of allegation and an insult
· There is no constant allegiance to any one. Party or public
· Being in politics is like a windfall. You need not do anything. Just stay on the course to be of some dimension in the long run
· Education or any type of qualification is a disqualification. Forget about character and culture, moral values and decency
· A politician does not need to work or earn. He is fed by the system or he feeds on the system.
· Having a conscience or being conscientious is passé in politics
· All politicians are equal before low esteem, poor respect and scant regard
· Be in jail and run for offices, come out and attend confidence or no confidence motions. It is all in the game
· Once you are in it, it is hard to be out of it. The nation won’t let you be out. The political clutches are so full of tentacles that they won’t let one breathe free from the above politypical implications
So what is dirty, politics or politicians? The mass impression is that politicians of all hues are dirty beings that pry on common man’s pie. They are the most heinous of human forms. Politics has become a slum of such filth and what it generates election after elections is but filths of the worst order capable of eating away the very system it thrives on. It is an arena of scavengers and parasites, peddlers and pushers whose ultimate religion is remorselessness. There in no one worth the political salt to be an exception to GB Shaw’s definition. ‘Politician’ in the real sense of the term is an extinct species. And politics is a dead stream of the state.
It is really hard for any scoundrel of some ordinary order to be a politician. But, today, a politician of any order, colour or combination could easily be related other way round.
They are increasingly becoming a fast breeding organism capable of inflicting untold miseries and abominable precedents in the system. They are a menace, a virus, a cancer and a canker. The nation stands hopelessly succumbed.
Disclaimer: If a politician of some genuine order happens to read this article and comes to have some reservations on the observations made in it, he or she is kindly urged to understand that they are the last remains of an about to be extinct political species, and these words do not have the power to hurt them any way because they are going to be culled from the system and bred in captivity so that the posterity would have a sigh of relief seeing them displayed at heritage museums and galleries. The writer.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Politics is not dirty, but politicians are
Sunday, July 27, 2008
India needs a new constitution: very badly
India needs a new constitution: very badly
Which civilized republican constitution in the world allows criminals of all orders, illiterates, separatists and anti-social elements to hold political offices like ministers’? Only our Indian constitution does it, and it’s this malady that this mammoth democracy faces down the ages. We need a new constitution.
A. Jayaprakash Kovilloor
The architect of our constitution had lofty ideals and great visions in their minds when they culled and incorporated articles and principles from other constitutions like Britain’s, and gave shape to what we Indians greatly honour and astutely follow as the most important literature of our nation.
Our constitution, ever since the nation became a republic, has been misinterpreted, amended and added upon much more frequently and it has long ago become a document of ridicule. This is being substantiated again by the way the advocates of our constitution, our elected representatives and our so-called secular schools of thought, and of course by every Indian, who periodically becomes instrumental to the most ridiculous democratic exercise, the election process.
The lofty ideals and principles are there in our constitution, and the ones being raked up and dissected threadbare on the wake of amendments and resolutions have no bearing on the pressing needs of our current nation. All these ploys are politically, religiously, communally and even regionally and linguistically motivated, and this politicking of the constitution is being carried out so take-it-for-grantedly that it has become a private script of those who rule and misrule the nation. Let’s see how our present constitution fares.
· Elected representatives do not sound elected at all once they are voted in. They sound rather parallel-governors.
· Political ideologies are just spring boards to power and power sharing. The different heights are marked by different offers and terms.
· Elections are mere humbugs. Most of the elected representatives represent the minority, and the majority vote is scavenged out by petty parties.
· The voters are all powerful to elect. But they have no right to recall an irresponsible representative. The former is at the mercy of the latter. Our constitution hasn’t done anything in this direction so far.
· The numbers of rich and poor are always on the increase. Advocates of our constitution do not find anything strange in it.
· Money is key player in all democratic processes. It’s legal to be buying and selling votes or votaries.
· Corruption rules the roost all over the nation. It is the order of the day: from defense purchase to public distribution systems.
· When voting is a right, votes are sold out or bought no matter it is a citizen’s vote or an MP’s vote.
· Proportional representation is a mirage. Equal rights for men and women, or at least 33 % representation for women in elected offices is a distant dream.
· Uniform civil code that is mandatory for all democracies is a threat to the nation. Country gets shaken when it is discussed in a constitutional point of view.
· A great percent of judges are found to be too corrupt to be remaining in their positions. Their verdicts are signs of injustice.
· Number of MLAs and MPs are corrupt and criminals of the first and finest order. Many serve much more of their tenure in jails than in the isles of the House they are supposed to be in.
· Anti-defection bill introduced during Rajiv Gandhi’s time, aiming at ensuring some kind of political accountability among our political horse-traders, has been proved time and again that it is constitutional to be defecting and anti-defection is unconstitutional. Our constitution does not have the teeth to counter such a hijacking of a bill. Do we need such a book any more?
· Ministerial portfolios are generated periodically not to meet the increasing governance demands of the nation but to satisfy the petty political interests. Our constitution makes the voters bear all this dirty brunt.
· Our constitution does not have any provision to impose age ceiling to our old political men. If it did, we could periodically clean up the political system so that our old men in the political sea would stay off the way of the nation’s forward move.
· There are instance to show individuals and institutions call the shots and political parties and their henchmen take the people at ransom. Arson, homicide and communal riots are politically managed.
· Judiciary is for the rich, so is justice in most of the cases. All are equal before law is a farce. Many verdicts echo the Orvelean principle, ‘all are equal, but ‘some are more equal’.
· Security to one’s life and property does not sound constitutional any longer. This constitution claims to be providing the same. But it does not.
· Inequality of all types is rampant throughout the nation. Your rights and privileges are decided not by constitutional safeguards but by what you actually are; economically, socially, politically and religiously.
· Constitutional safeguards like right to deserving education, freedom of expression, right to information, right to question etc. are for a privileged few.
· The rule of law is the law of the ruling. Many laws of the land applies only to the landless.
· And India as a Sovereign Socialist Democratic Republic has ceased to be sovereign, socialist and democratic.
· What we have is a nation under the clutches of imperial forces and internal squabbles. We have a social order that is not at all socialistic, and a democratic process which every time is a ridiculous routine.
· What is remaining is its being a Republic on the basis of a constitution. What a constitution in such a Republic can claim to safeguard? The most misinterpreted and mismanaged and the least understood and appreciated document of the nation is our constitution and it is for the pick of any Political tam, Dick and Harry.
And in order to be a Republic of some order in this time and age, a nation has to have a constitution which is relevant to the needs of the times, recognizing the realities and above all it should sound reasonable and be understandable to the last voter of the nation, no matter that voter is an MP or an MLA or a common man.
Tailpiece: The constitutionality of the Indo-US nuclear agreement, the no-confidence motion it brought to the fore, and the trading of MPs involving crores and core political posts, the conventional Indian political horse-trading that have been alleged prior to the no-confidence motion and the eventual political uncertainty that nation suffered could have been avoided to a great extent if we had a constitution of the times.
This present document is to be scrapped with immediate effect. The rising nation needs fresh bloods and young brains. For such a change of guard, we need a new constitution. Or I would say, it is this constitution, or the parochial and vested politically motivated interpretations it comes to suffer from every now and then, are the stumbling blocks that stand on the way of the nation’s march to a new true Indian order and a modern Indian constitution itself. Jai Hind.
Which civilized republican constitution in the world allows criminals of all orders, illiterates, separatists and anti-social elements to hold political offices like ministers’? Only our Indian constitution does it, and it’s this malady that this mammoth democracy faces down the ages. We need a new constitution.
A. Jayaprakash Kovilloor
The architect of our constitution had lofty ideals and great visions in their minds when they culled and incorporated articles and principles from other constitutions like Britain’s, and gave shape to what we Indians greatly honour and astutely follow as the most important literature of our nation.
Our constitution, ever since the nation became a republic, has been misinterpreted, amended and added upon much more frequently and it has long ago become a document of ridicule. This is being substantiated again by the way the advocates of our constitution, our elected representatives and our so-called secular schools of thought, and of course by every Indian, who periodically becomes instrumental to the most ridiculous democratic exercise, the election process.
The lofty ideals and principles are there in our constitution, and the ones being raked up and dissected threadbare on the wake of amendments and resolutions have no bearing on the pressing needs of our current nation. All these ploys are politically, religiously, communally and even regionally and linguistically motivated, and this politicking of the constitution is being carried out so take-it-for-grantedly that it has become a private script of those who rule and misrule the nation. Let’s see how our present constitution fares.
· Elected representatives do not sound elected at all once they are voted in. They sound rather parallel-governors.
· Political ideologies are just spring boards to power and power sharing. The different heights are marked by different offers and terms.
· Elections are mere humbugs. Most of the elected representatives represent the minority, and the majority vote is scavenged out by petty parties.
· The voters are all powerful to elect. But they have no right to recall an irresponsible representative. The former is at the mercy of the latter. Our constitution hasn’t done anything in this direction so far.
· The numbers of rich and poor are always on the increase. Advocates of our constitution do not find anything strange in it.
· Money is key player in all democratic processes. It’s legal to be buying and selling votes or votaries.
· Corruption rules the roost all over the nation. It is the order of the day: from defense purchase to public distribution systems.
· When voting is a right, votes are sold out or bought no matter it is a citizen’s vote or an MP’s vote.
· Proportional representation is a mirage. Equal rights for men and women, or at least 33 % representation for women in elected offices is a distant dream.
· Uniform civil code that is mandatory for all democracies is a threat to the nation. Country gets shaken when it is discussed in a constitutional point of view.
· A great percent of judges are found to be too corrupt to be remaining in their positions. Their verdicts are signs of injustice.
· Number of MLAs and MPs are corrupt and criminals of the first and finest order. Many serve much more of their tenure in jails than in the isles of the House they are supposed to be in.
· Anti-defection bill introduced during Rajiv Gandhi’s time, aiming at ensuring some kind of political accountability among our political horse-traders, has been proved time and again that it is constitutional to be defecting and anti-defection is unconstitutional. Our constitution does not have the teeth to counter such a hijacking of a bill. Do we need such a book any more?
· Ministerial portfolios are generated periodically not to meet the increasing governance demands of the nation but to satisfy the petty political interests. Our constitution makes the voters bear all this dirty brunt.
· Our constitution does not have any provision to impose age ceiling to our old political men. If it did, we could periodically clean up the political system so that our old men in the political sea would stay off the way of the nation’s forward move.
· There are instance to show individuals and institutions call the shots and political parties and their henchmen take the people at ransom. Arson, homicide and communal riots are politically managed.
· Judiciary is for the rich, so is justice in most of the cases. All are equal before law is a farce. Many verdicts echo the Orvelean principle, ‘all are equal, but ‘some are more equal’.
· Security to one’s life and property does not sound constitutional any longer. This constitution claims to be providing the same. But it does not.
· Inequality of all types is rampant throughout the nation. Your rights and privileges are decided not by constitutional safeguards but by what you actually are; economically, socially, politically and religiously.
· Constitutional safeguards like right to deserving education, freedom of expression, right to information, right to question etc. are for a privileged few.
· The rule of law is the law of the ruling. Many laws of the land applies only to the landless.
· And India as a Sovereign Socialist Democratic Republic has ceased to be sovereign, socialist and democratic.
· What we have is a nation under the clutches of imperial forces and internal squabbles. We have a social order that is not at all socialistic, and a democratic process which every time is a ridiculous routine.
· What is remaining is its being a Republic on the basis of a constitution. What a constitution in such a Republic can claim to safeguard? The most misinterpreted and mismanaged and the least understood and appreciated document of the nation is our constitution and it is for the pick of any Political tam, Dick and Harry.
And in order to be a Republic of some order in this time and age, a nation has to have a constitution which is relevant to the needs of the times, recognizing the realities and above all it should sound reasonable and be understandable to the last voter of the nation, no matter that voter is an MP or an MLA or a common man.
Tailpiece: The constitutionality of the Indo-US nuclear agreement, the no-confidence motion it brought to the fore, and the trading of MPs involving crores and core political posts, the conventional Indian political horse-trading that have been alleged prior to the no-confidence motion and the eventual political uncertainty that nation suffered could have been avoided to a great extent if we had a constitution of the times.
This present document is to be scrapped with immediate effect. The rising nation needs fresh bloods and young brains. For such a change of guard, we need a new constitution. Or I would say, it is this constitution, or the parochial and vested politically motivated interpretations it comes to suffer from every now and then, are the stumbling blocks that stand on the way of the nation’s march to a new true Indian order and a modern Indian constitution itself. Jai Hind.
India needs a new constitution: very badly
India needs a new constitution: very badly
Which civilized republican constitution in the world allows criminals of all orders, illiterates, separatists and anti-social elements to hold political offices like ministers’? Only our Indian constitution does it, and it’s this malady that this mammoth democracy faces down the ages. We need a new constitution.
A. Jayaprakash Kovilloor
The architect of our constitution had lofty ideals and great visions in their minds when they culled and incorporated articles and principles from other constitutions like Britain’s, and gave shape to what we Indians greatly honour and astutely follow as the most important literature of our nation.
Our constitution, ever since the nation became a republic, has been misinterpreted, amended and added upon much more frequently and it has long ago become a document of ridicule. This is being substantiated again by the way the advocates of our constitution, our elected representatives and our so-called secular schools of thought, and of course by every Indian, who periodically becomes instrumental to the most ridiculous democratic exercise, the election process.
The lofty ideals and principles are there in our constitution, and the ones being raked up and dissected threadbare on the wake of amendments and resolutions have no bearing on the pressing needs of our current nation. All these ploys are politically, religiously, communally and even regionally and linguistically motivated, and this politicking of the constitution is being carried out so take-it-for-grantedly that it has become a private script of those who rule and misrule the nation. Let’s see how our present constitution fares.
· Elected representatives do not sound elected at all once they are voted in. They sound rather parallel-governors.
· Political ideologies are just spring boards to power and power sharing. The different heights are marked by different offers and terms.
· Elections are mere humbugs. Most of the elected representatives represent the minority, and the majority vote is scavenged out by petty parties.
· The voters are all powerful to elect. But they have no right to recall an irresponsible representative. The former is at the mercy of the latter. Our constitution hasn’t done anything in this direction so far.
· The numbers of rich and poor are always on the increase. Advocates of our constitution do not find anything strange in it.
· Money is key player in all democratic processes. It’s legal to be buying and selling votes or votaries.
· Corruption rules the roost all over the nation. It is the order of the day: from defense purchase to public distribution systems.
· When voting is a right, votes are sold out or bought no matter it is a citizen’s vote or an MP’s vote.
· Proportional representation is a mirage. Equal rights for men and women, or at least 33 % representation for women in elected offices is a distant dream.
· Uniform civil code that is mandatory for all democracies is a threat to the nation. Country gets shaken when it is discussed in a constitutional point of view.
· A great percent of judges are found to be too corrupt to be remaining in their positions. Their verdicts are signs of injustice.
· Number of MLAs and MPs are corrupt and criminals of the first and finest order. Many serve much more of their tenure in jails than in the isles of the House they are supposed to be in.
· Anti-defection bill introduced during Rajiv Gandhi’s time, aiming at ensuring some kind of political accountability among our political horse-traders, has been proved time and again that it is constitutional to be defecting and anti-defection is unconstitutional. Our constitution does not have the teeth to counter such a hijacking of a bill. Do we need such a book any more?
· Ministerial portfolios are generated periodically not to meet the increasing governance demands of the nation but to satisfy the petty political interests. Our constitution makes the voters bear all this dirty brunt.
· Our constitution does not have any provision to impose age ceiling to our old political men. If it did, we could periodically clean up the political system so that our old men in the political sea would stay off the way of the nation’s forward move.
· There are instance to show individuals and institutions call the shots and political parties and their henchmen take the people at ransom. Arson, homicide and communal riots are politically managed.
· Judiciary is for the rich, so is justice in most of the cases. All are equal before law is a farce. Many verdicts echo the Orvelean principle, ‘all are equal, but ‘some are more equal’.
· Security to one’s life and property does not sound constitutional any longer. This constitution claims to be providing the same. But it does not.
· Inequality of all types is rampant throughout the nation. Your rights and privileges are decided not by constitutional safeguards but by what you actually are; economically, socially, politically and religiously.
· Constitutional safeguards like right to deserving education, freedom of expression, right to information, right to question etc. are for a privileged few.
· The rule of law is the law of the ruling. Many laws of the land applies only to the landless.
· And India as a Sovereign Socialist Democratic Republic has ceased to be sovereign, socialist and democratic.
· What we have is a nation under the clutches of imperial forces and internal squabbles. We have a social order that is not at all socialistic, and a democratic process which every time is a ridiculous routine.
· What is remaining is its being a Republic on the basis of a constitution. What a constitution in such a Republic can claim to safeguard? The most misinterpreted and mismanaged and the least understood and appreciated document of the nation is our constitution and it is for the pick of any Political tam, Dick and Harry.
And in order to be a Republic of some order in this time and age, a nation has to have a constitution which is relevant to the needs of the times, recognizing the realities and above all it should sound reasonable and be understandable to the last voter of the nation, no matter that voter is an MP or an MLA or a common man.
Tailpiece: The constitutionality of the Indo-US nuclear agreement, the no-confidence motion it brought to the fore, and the trading of MPs involving crores and core political posts, the conventional Indian political horse-trading that have been alleged prior to the no-confidence motion and the eventual political uncertainty that nation suffered could have been avoided to a great extent if we had a constitution of the times.
This present document is to be scrapped with immediate effect. The rising nation needs fresh bloods and young brains. For such a change of guard, we need a new constitution. Or I would say, it is this constitution, or the parochial and vested politically motivated interpretations it comes to suffer from every now and then, are the stumbling blocks that stand on the way of the nation’s march to a new true Indian order and a modern Indian constitution itself. Jai Hind.
Which civilized republican constitution in the world allows criminals of all orders, illiterates, separatists and anti-social elements to hold political offices like ministers’? Only our Indian constitution does it, and it’s this malady that this mammoth democracy faces down the ages. We need a new constitution.
A. Jayaprakash Kovilloor
The architect of our constitution had lofty ideals and great visions in their minds when they culled and incorporated articles and principles from other constitutions like Britain’s, and gave shape to what we Indians greatly honour and astutely follow as the most important literature of our nation.
Our constitution, ever since the nation became a republic, has been misinterpreted, amended and added upon much more frequently and it has long ago become a document of ridicule. This is being substantiated again by the way the advocates of our constitution, our elected representatives and our so-called secular schools of thought, and of course by every Indian, who periodically becomes instrumental to the most ridiculous democratic exercise, the election process.
The lofty ideals and principles are there in our constitution, and the ones being raked up and dissected threadbare on the wake of amendments and resolutions have no bearing on the pressing needs of our current nation. All these ploys are politically, religiously, communally and even regionally and linguistically motivated, and this politicking of the constitution is being carried out so take-it-for-grantedly that it has become a private script of those who rule and misrule the nation. Let’s see how our present constitution fares.
· Elected representatives do not sound elected at all once they are voted in. They sound rather parallel-governors.
· Political ideologies are just spring boards to power and power sharing. The different heights are marked by different offers and terms.
· Elections are mere humbugs. Most of the elected representatives represent the minority, and the majority vote is scavenged out by petty parties.
· The voters are all powerful to elect. But they have no right to recall an irresponsible representative. The former is at the mercy of the latter. Our constitution hasn’t done anything in this direction so far.
· The numbers of rich and poor are always on the increase. Advocates of our constitution do not find anything strange in it.
· Money is key player in all democratic processes. It’s legal to be buying and selling votes or votaries.
· Corruption rules the roost all over the nation. It is the order of the day: from defense purchase to public distribution systems.
· When voting is a right, votes are sold out or bought no matter it is a citizen’s vote or an MP’s vote.
· Proportional representation is a mirage. Equal rights for men and women, or at least 33 % representation for women in elected offices is a distant dream.
· Uniform civil code that is mandatory for all democracies is a threat to the nation. Country gets shaken when it is discussed in a constitutional point of view.
· A great percent of judges are found to be too corrupt to be remaining in their positions. Their verdicts are signs of injustice.
· Number of MLAs and MPs are corrupt and criminals of the first and finest order. Many serve much more of their tenure in jails than in the isles of the House they are supposed to be in.
· Anti-defection bill introduced during Rajiv Gandhi’s time, aiming at ensuring some kind of political accountability among our political horse-traders, has been proved time and again that it is constitutional to be defecting and anti-defection is unconstitutional. Our constitution does not have the teeth to counter such a hijacking of a bill. Do we need such a book any more?
· Ministerial portfolios are generated periodically not to meet the increasing governance demands of the nation but to satisfy the petty political interests. Our constitution makes the voters bear all this dirty brunt.
· Our constitution does not have any provision to impose age ceiling to our old political men. If it did, we could periodically clean up the political system so that our old men in the political sea would stay off the way of the nation’s forward move.
· There are instance to show individuals and institutions call the shots and political parties and their henchmen take the people at ransom. Arson, homicide and communal riots are politically managed.
· Judiciary is for the rich, so is justice in most of the cases. All are equal before law is a farce. Many verdicts echo the Orvelean principle, ‘all are equal, but ‘some are more equal’.
· Security to one’s life and property does not sound constitutional any longer. This constitution claims to be providing the same. But it does not.
· Inequality of all types is rampant throughout the nation. Your rights and privileges are decided not by constitutional safeguards but by what you actually are; economically, socially, politically and religiously.
· Constitutional safeguards like right to deserving education, freedom of expression, right to information, right to question etc. are for a privileged few.
· The rule of law is the law of the ruling. Many laws of the land applies only to the landless.
· And India as a Sovereign Socialist Democratic Republic has ceased to be sovereign, socialist and democratic.
· What we have is a nation under the clutches of imperial forces and internal squabbles. We have a social order that is not at all socialistic, and a democratic process which every time is a ridiculous routine.
· What is remaining is its being a Republic on the basis of a constitution. What a constitution in such a Republic can claim to safeguard? The most misinterpreted and mismanaged and the least understood and appreciated document of the nation is our constitution and it is for the pick of any Political tam, Dick and Harry.
And in order to be a Republic of some order in this time and age, a nation has to have a constitution which is relevant to the needs of the times, recognizing the realities and above all it should sound reasonable and be understandable to the last voter of the nation, no matter that voter is an MP or an MLA or a common man.
Tailpiece: The constitutionality of the Indo-US nuclear agreement, the no-confidence motion it brought to the fore, and the trading of MPs involving crores and core political posts, the conventional Indian political horse-trading that have been alleged prior to the no-confidence motion and the eventual political uncertainty that nation suffered could have been avoided to a great extent if we had a constitution of the times.
This present document is to be scrapped with immediate effect. The rising nation needs fresh bloods and young brains. For such a change of guard, we need a new constitution. Or I would say, it is this constitution, or the parochial and vested politically motivated interpretations it comes to suffer from every now and then, are the stumbling blocks that stand on the way of the nation’s march to a new true Indian order and a modern Indian constitution itself. Jai Hind.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Interpretations
Love thy neighbour as thyself:
It is not to love thy neighbour
HE was telling us all.
But to lead our lives fairly better
As to win the love of thy neighbour.
It is a proposition powerful enough,
Like love itself, to make this sphere
An Eden of equally binding abodes.
Where in all would find lasting peace.
Thy faith would save you
Faith! Hold onto it, it will save you.
Not that you have faith in ME.
Not that you have faith in my Master.
But to have Peter-like faith in YOU.
The burglar who is out in the dark
Keeps great faith him, not to be caught.
Isn’t this faith that saves him in the dark?
Or does God connive with him when he loots?
Do unto others what you want others to do unto you
Easier it is said than it is done.
Give due respect to the dictates of your self
When you expect your God to be around
Or you do unto others what God would do unto them.
It takes a transformation to be so kind
And it is in such ones He takes his dictates to.
When it dictates to you to ‘do unto others’,
Just out you go doing it, and be one of His.
Oh Father! they know not……. forgive them
Let’s all reiterate our faith in Him again
That the day is fast approaching.
Yes, He comes to take another innings
And get tortured and nailed to the cross.
Betrayed by the dear ones around,
Stoned at by the ‘not sinned’ and sinned,
Fallen and bled both by the faithless
And the faithful; let Him plead again:
Oh Father!
Not that they know not what they do.
Still forgive them,
For, you are all merciful.
It is not to love thy neighbour
HE was telling us all.
But to lead our lives fairly better
As to win the love of thy neighbour.
It is a proposition powerful enough,
Like love itself, to make this sphere
An Eden of equally binding abodes.
Where in all would find lasting peace.
Thy faith would save you
Faith! Hold onto it, it will save you.
Not that you have faith in ME.
Not that you have faith in my Master.
But to have Peter-like faith in YOU.
The burglar who is out in the dark
Keeps great faith him, not to be caught.
Isn’t this faith that saves him in the dark?
Or does God connive with him when he loots?
Do unto others what you want others to do unto you
Easier it is said than it is done.
Give due respect to the dictates of your self
When you expect your God to be around
Or you do unto others what God would do unto them.
It takes a transformation to be so kind
And it is in such ones He takes his dictates to.
When it dictates to you to ‘do unto others’,
Just out you go doing it, and be one of His.
Oh Father! they know not……. forgive them
Let’s all reiterate our faith in Him again
That the day is fast approaching.
Yes, He comes to take another innings
And get tortured and nailed to the cross.
Betrayed by the dear ones around,
Stoned at by the ‘not sinned’ and sinned,
Fallen and bled both by the faithless
And the faithful; let Him plead again:
Oh Father!
Not that they know not what they do.
Still forgive them,
For, you are all merciful.
Interpretations
Love thy neighbour as thyself:
It is not to love thy neighbour
HE was telling us all.
But to lead our lives fairly better
As to win the love of thy neighbour.
It is a proposition powerful enough,
Like love itself, to make this sphere
An Eden of equally binding abodes.
Where in all would find lasting peace.
Thy faith would save you
Faith! Hold onto it, it will save you.
Not that you have faith in ME.
Not that you have faith in my Master.
But to have Peter-like faith in YOU.
The burglar who is out in the dark
Keeps great faith him, not to be caught.
Isn’t this faith that saves him in the dark?
Or does God connive with him when he loots?
Do unto others what you want others to do unto you
Easier it is said than it is done.
Give due respect to the dictates of your self
When you expect your God to be around
Or you do unto others what God would do unto them.
It takes a transformation to be so kind
And it is in such ones He takes his dictates to.
When it dictates to you to ‘do unto others’,
Just out you go doing it, and be one of His.
Oh Father! they know not……. forgive them
Let’s all reiterate our faith in Him again
That the day is fast approaching.
Yes, He comes to take another innings
And get tortured and nailed to the cross.
Betrayed by the dear ones around,
Stoned at by the ‘not sinned’ and sinned,
Fallen and bled both by the faithless
And the faithful; let Him plead again:
Oh Father!
Not that they know not what they do.
Still forgive them,
For, you are all merciful.
It is not to love thy neighbour
HE was telling us all.
But to lead our lives fairly better
As to win the love of thy neighbour.
It is a proposition powerful enough,
Like love itself, to make this sphere
An Eden of equally binding abodes.
Where in all would find lasting peace.
Thy faith would save you
Faith! Hold onto it, it will save you.
Not that you have faith in ME.
Not that you have faith in my Master.
But to have Peter-like faith in YOU.
The burglar who is out in the dark
Keeps great faith him, not to be caught.
Isn’t this faith that saves him in the dark?
Or does God connive with him when he loots?
Do unto others what you want others to do unto you
Easier it is said than it is done.
Give due respect to the dictates of your self
When you expect your God to be around
Or you do unto others what God would do unto them.
It takes a transformation to be so kind
And it is in such ones He takes his dictates to.
When it dictates to you to ‘do unto others’,
Just out you go doing it, and be one of His.
Oh Father! they know not……. forgive them
Let’s all reiterate our faith in Him again
That the day is fast approaching.
Yes, He comes to take another innings
And get tortured and nailed to the cross.
Betrayed by the dear ones around,
Stoned at by the ‘not sinned’ and sinned,
Fallen and bled both by the faithless
And the faithful; let Him plead again:
Oh Father!
Not that they know not what they do.
Still forgive them,
For, you are all merciful.
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