Dr. K.Veeramani
The Union Government headed by the BJP and backed by the RSS have been thrusting superstitions on people, trying to make them believe it is a scientific outlook. Recent ludicrous attempt is teaching fabricated epics and religious mythologies to the unborn child in the mother’s womb.
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An irrationalist movement
‘Rashtra Sevika Samiti’ is the women’s wing of the RSS. A movement of irrationalists called ‘Samvardhinee Nyas’ is closely associated with this wing. This new movement has begun its propaganda under the caption ‘Garbh Sanskar’, that means ‘Womb Culture’. According to the PTI news report, the objective of ‘Garbh Sanskar’ is to teach the foetus in a woman’s womb, ancient epics and religious scriptures such as Ramayan, Mahabharat, Shiv Puran and Bhagavad Gita. This experiment is to be carried on all over the country using pregnant women like guinea pigs. The mission aims at making the unborn child imbibe culture, conduct, values of life and morality.
The organising secretary of this forum, Madhuri Marathe has started propagating this mission quite vigorously. Her irrational outlook is certainly irksome to all the people of progressive thoughts, striving to promote scientific temper all over the country.
Shocking training
At Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi a workshop was recently conducted to train the volunteers in coaching the unborn child. 80 medical practitioners from 12 States participated in this strange training programme. They were taught how the unborn can learn values of life through the Gita, Ramayana, etc. and emerge as noble citizens after birth. Many gynaecologists too attended the workshop.
We are told, the scheme would be carried on until the child is two years old. Madhuri has said to the PTI reporters that the unborn child in the womb can understand about five hundred words if the couplets from the Gita or lyrics from Ramayana are recited by someone beside the pregnant woman. What an intolerable rubbish is this!
Even a newborn child cannot understand us easily. It has to learn to walk and talk. Nature takes its own course. The child decodes gradually the words encoded by others. It cannot happen overnight. How can an unborn child decipher what we recite? What do researchers and medical experts say about this baffling concept?
Absolutely rubbish
They say sound waves can reach the ears of an unborn child as it keeps growing, but it can never understand what the meaningful noise actually implies. Hence, making it understand Sanskrit would only be a fruitless, ridiculous attempt if the mother or some others try to coach the unborn.
The Andhashraddha Nirmoolan
‘Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti’ (MANS) or ‘Maharashtra Blind faith Eradication Committee’ was founded by the eminent nationalist Dr. Narendra Dabholkar as a movement for the annihilation of superstitions. His daughter Mukta Dabholkar recently rubbished this bizarre scheme by the RSS backed outfit. She said in an event related to women’s welfare that pregnant women should take care of their own health for the good growth of the foetus in the womb. Trying to teach it Bhagavad Gita or Ramayana is futile because the unborn child cannot understand any language.
The saffronist coterie is trying to make a false propaganda that all the ancient epics and mythologies are sources of true wisdom. In fact, they are all absolutely rubbish and are against a scientific outlook. This unacceptable experiment must cease immediately. It misguides gullible womenfolk, stifling their common sense. They are trying to inject Hindutva codes into an unborn child. The attempt should be nipped in the bud.
Colossal waste of fund
A research project has commenced at Banares Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi as a study on the impact of sound and music on an unborn child. A splendid amount has been allocated by the UP government for this research which is a colossal waste.
Some of the research scholars associated with this BHU project keep spreading blind beliefs that ceremonial sacrifice before fire can emit thick powerful smoke which can destroy even the toxic fumes let out by nuclear explosions. How ridiculous it is!
They say a particular recital can lead to longevity; the chanting of another incantation can enrich our memory, flourish literacy and that such recitation is a panacea for all miseries. It hurts to see even erudite scholars and academicians quoting segments from Mahabharat and Bhakt Prahlad to support their view that an unborn child can understand encoded languages.
Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
In West Bengal, the legal advisor Nasib Khan of the Commission for Children’s Rights has moved the court by his PIL petition, urging a ban on this ridiculous experiment. He has stated that the theories of ‘Garbh Sanskar’ forum has no scientific basis. Upon the hearing the court sought explanation of the RSS, but it has not come out yet with an explanation.
We live today in a highly advanced scientific era where artificial reproductive techniques have been achieving tremendous success. By generating a sheep by cloning it was proved long ago that the existence of god is a myth. And yet irrationalists quote from Mahabharat and argue that even cloning is based on Hindu religion. The explanations of such irrationalists are indeed nauseating and baffling too. Denial of a scientific fact is sheer babble.
Astonishing advancement
Organ transplants and replacements have become quite common in today’s medical world. It is an amazing advancement caused by scientific marvel. But the advocates of Hindutva prattle that Hindu religion is the basis of organ transplant and replacement. They quote segments from the fable of the so-called Ganesh, in support of their view. They describe how the human head of Ganesh was replaced by Shiva with the head of an elephant. This could never have happened but a BJP minister in the Union Cabinet did quote as cited above.
The necessity of scientific temper has been adumbrated in our Constitution itself. But it has been thrown overboard by these fanatics. It has become a folly to be wise. We cannot expect anything better from these superstitious people who believed in making even a cow learn that which is recited. The RSS is bent upon stifling the Constitution and implementing at all levels the outdated codes of the Sanatan and Manu Dharma. It is undeniably an Aryan Brahminist strategy. Aryan domination itself is based on superstitions. Therefore they would naturally resist our efforts for abolition of superstitions.
Dire need of awakening
Our people should wake up from slumber and annihilate irrationalism. Fanatics have introduced lessons on Astrology and Vastu Shastra even in university curriculum. The earth revolves around the sun. It is a universal truth. But fanatics still believe in the revolution of the sun and come out with weekly and monthly predictions. Including such stuff in higher education syllabus is unpardonable. Scholars in the West have proved that predictions based on sun signs are fake and fabricated. The stars can never determine a child’s future.
Teaching Vastu Shastra to the students is a mockery of the art of architecture and engineering skills. This would only make our students regress – not progress. Many such undesirable activities are going on at present under the rule of the BJP headed Union Government, backed by the RSS. The list would be certainly endless.
The rulers had better devise welfare measures for the women who expect child birth. Women who are in a stage of maternity should be taught useful exercises. They must listen to pleasing music, relax their mind and be happy until they are delivered of a child. Appropriate schemes for women’s welfare are required – not ridiculous schemes such as educating the unborn child. These bizarre experiments must be given up at the earliest. They deserve our condemnation – not commendation.
