Ayodhya: Nirmohi Akhara ready for talks, 'modest temple'- Oct 5, 2010,

Ayodhya: Nirmohi Akhara ready for talks, 'modest temple'

Manjari Mishra, TNN, Oct 5, 2010, 12.57am IST


(I HAVE WRITTEN THIS ON 27/9/10...IN THIS BLOG ONLEY...IF YOU ALL LIKE THIS BRIEF SUGGESTION---Ayodhya announcement soon? Court decides today-New Delhi, September 28, 2010
Ayodhya announcement soon? Court decides today

Nagendar Sharma & Aloke Tikku, Hindustan Times


New Delhi, September 28, 2010 First Published: 00:34 IST(28/9/2010)

(I KNOW THAT WRITING ABOUT EVERYTHING SOUNDS AS IF I HAVE AN AUTHORITY TO SPEAK ON EVERYTHING, BUT AS AN INDIAN CITIZEN I CAN PEN DOWN MY OPINION OR SUGGESTIONS ON ANYTHING,ANY NEWS OR ANY ISSUES.I THINK 'SHRI RAM BHAGWAN OR ALLAH OR PAIGAMBAR SAHEB' ALWAYS TAUGHT LOVE,HARMONY,UNITY,HUMANITY,SACRIFICE,JUSTICE,TRANQUALITY,PEACE....!!! THEY WERE LIVING EXAMPLE OF IT(THOUGH MYTHOLOGICAL).

SO WHY OR WHAT FOR WE ARE FIGHTING AND READY TO KILL EACH OTHER ON THE BASIS OF RELIGION!!

'MUZHUB NAHIN SEEKHATA,AAPAS MEIN BAIR RAKHNA,HINDI HEIN HUM WATAN HEIN,HINDUSTAN HUMARA!!!'.

IN MY OPINION 'BY JOINT EFFORT',THERE SHOULD BE A UNIQUE STRUCTURE GET DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED BY BOTH'S CONSULTATION WHICH CAN BE AN EXAMPLE FOR WHOLE WORLD AND HUMANITY AND GENERATIONS TO COME. CAN BE MADE BY PEOPLE'S CONTRIBUTION AND CAN TAKEN CARE BY A TRUST CONSISTS OF ALL. IT SHOULD BE A GREAT EXAMPLE OF 'SARV,DHARM,SADHBHAV AND SAMBHAV'...CAN HAVE HOSPITAL WHICH HAS ALL TRADITIONAL AS WELL AS MORDERN MEDICAL FACILITIES, SO AS GURUKUL KIND OF OPEN SCHOOL AND OPEN UNIVERSITY,IT CAN BE RESIDENTIAL,CAN HAVE RESIDENTIAL AASHRAMS FOR PEOPLE,SPECIALLY SENIOR CITIZENS. WHICH AGAIN CAN BE EXCELLENT MIX OF ALL PERIODS...ANCIENT,MIDIEVAL,MORDERN. A PLACE FOR COMMON PEOPLE,YET ELITE(AS EVEN KINGS KIDS USED TO LEARN IN SUCH SCHOOLS/UNIVERSITY),CAN RUN BY PEOPLE'S FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS, CONSTRUCTED BY PEOPLE'S SHRAMDAAN ALSO, IT SHOULD BE FOR PEOPLE AND BY PEOPLE,WHICH REMINDS US OF 'BHARAT EK KHOJ'.FREE FROM ALL THAT IS BAD AND NOT ACCEPTABLE TODAY,OR IRRELEVANT.EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF RELIOUS HARMONY AS WELL. I HAVE BEAUTIFUL IDEA AND CONCEPT FOR IT...IF ITS ACCEPTABLE FOR ALL...ONE CAN LEARN ABOUT PARIWAR,CAST,CREED,REGION,RELIGION,STRATA,RICH,POOR,DESI-VEDESHI,COMMUNITY...ALL KIND OF DIVISIONS AND VARIETY, SO THAT THEIR MINDSET BECOME 'FREE' FROM ALL 'VAAD' AND DIVISIONS, LIKE PARIWARWAD,CASTESISM,REGION AND RELIGION,OR STATUS QUO ETC. AND UNDERSTAND UNITY IN DIVERSITY AND OUR COMPOSITE SOCIETY. THERE PEOPLE CAN BE TAUGHT ABOUT ALL KIND OF FINE LINES AND THE LAKSHAMN REKHA'S. THEIR RIGHTS AND DUTIES,AND ABOVE ALL..TO BELIEVE IN HUMANITY AS THE ULTIMATE!!...RESPECT EACH OTHER'S FEELINGS AND FAITHS AND HELP EACH OTHER. AND GROW ALL ROUND TOGETHER WITHOUT ANY GREED AND VICES AND BECOME SAMARTH AND SWABHIMANI!!!IF I AM NOT WRONG IN KASHI OUR VISHWANATH TEMPLE AND A MOSQUE IS JOINTLY CONSTRUCTED..OR IT IS VERY CLOSE,ONE WALL HAS BUILT AT SAME PLACE!....GOOD WISHES!!...VIBHA)




LUCKNOW: Peaceniks in Ayodhya got a boost on Monday as the head of Nirmohi Akhara, Mahant Bhaskar Das, broke his silence, saying he was open to talks with the president of Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Prishad (ABAP), Mahant Gyandas. Gyandas and Hashim Ansari, the original plaintiff from the Muslim side in the 60-year-old Ayodhya title suits, had met on Sunday and are working on a compromise formula.

However, the 81-year-old Bhaskar Das made it amply clear that the Nirmohi Akhara -- a Hindu martial sect which now legally holds one-third of the land at the disputed site -- has "conditions which need to be taken into account before any concrete step in the direction is taken".

"The overture made by Mahant Gyandas is a welcome step and I am ready to lend any help to the amicable and peaceful solution to this issue from whichever quarter it comes," he told TOI. He was at pains to explain that there could be other players in the peace bid as well. "Ayodhya has a host of peace-loving seers who would love to see the deity housed in a proper temple and Gyandasji happens to be only one among them," he said.

Admitting that Gyandas was in touch with Bhaskar Das, the latter's lawyer and close confidant, Ranjit Lal Verma, said talks between the two could pave the way for a settlement. "However, the Nirmohi Akhara will have no compromise on the issue of the management rights over Ram Lalla. The right to take care and offer prayer and bhog to the deity must vest with a `bairagi' -- a celibate -- and no `grihastha' (family man) can lay a claim to it," the Mahant said. This issue, sources said, could be a bone of contention in peace talks.

Quoting the mahant, Verma said what Nirmohi Akhara wants is a respectable structure to house the deity and a modest temple would do. "We certainly don't harbour ambitions of setting up a grand temple formula," he said, adding, "In fact, 90% Muslims in Ayodhya who are in touch with Mahant Bhaskar Das have no objection to our plans. They want peace at any cost."

Bhaskar Das, said Verma, is also in touch "with peace-loving and uncomplicated persons" such as Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, president of Ram Janmabhoomi Trust and head of Bada Sthan Devendra Prasadacharya. Then they are keeping channels open to Jagadguru Swaroopanand Saraswati, the head of Jyotirpeeth and Dwarka Peeth. Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas Nirman, headed by Janmejay Sharan, Swaroopanand's close aide, who also belongs to Ramanuj sect like the Nirmohi Akhara, is listed as plaintiff No 20 in suit No 4 filed by the Sunni Central Waqf Board.

Meanwhile, Gyandas sounded optimistic about coming up with the blueprint of the mutually acceptable formula pretty soon. Nirmohi Akhara, he said, was a part and parcel of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad and would, therefore, be receptive to the peace plan.

"Whatever I am doing has blessing of the entire Sant Samaj and all 18 akharas. It is a serious venture and even as a few sceptics dismiss Hashim Ansari, the main plaintiff in the title suit, as a man of little consequence, his wish cannot be ignored," Gyandas said.

"Muslims everywhere feel that this dispute needs to be settled out of court now. ABAP may succeed in putting together and sealing such a plan with the blessings of the sant samaj," he said.