Sunday, October 20, 2013
“Atma Swarupa is true way of realizing the true God, Parmatama Swarupa”
“God is omnipotent and omnipresent. Give up fanaticism and narrow Communal outlook; and do not observe ant distinction between a Hindu and a Muslim. If you are endowed with wisdom, you should then realize God”
These utterances ascribed to Lal Ded or Laleswari, as she was commonly known to Hindus and Muslims of Kashmir, respectively envelop the message of her time- that of the synthesis of Hindu and Islamic thought on the social and spiritual planes- that remains permanent.
Lal Ded who was born in sixties or seventies of fourteenth century welcomed all castes and creeds into her fold and nurtured mutual respect between the Hindus and the Muslims and the high and the low. God is the good of Hindus as well as of the Muslims and the differences of caste or creed, birth or position are completely superficial.
“ The time is coming when seven generations will sink to hell, when untimely showers of rain and dust will fall, when plates of flesh and wine cups Brahmins and sweepers will take together.”
Born in the picturesque Valley of Kashmir at Syed Ali Akbar, Srinagar in the year 1947, M.K Raina Ratnakar is a postgraduate of the Kashmir University. Prior to joining the Electronic Media in the year 1977, he has served the J&K Education Department in different capacities for a decade.
An Indian Broadcasting (Program) Service Officer today, he serves the media in the Program Management Cadre of Doordarshan.
Many of his articles have been published in different magazines and newspapers’
Book: Intruded Moorings – The Kashmir Perspective
Author: M.K Raina Ratnakar
ISBN: 85217-09-2
Language: English
Price: INR 190 (Shipping/Courier Charges Extra)
For order contact - Utpal Kaul (Please SMS - +91-9818447636)
Email: utpalpublications@gmail.com
