World War III: Time to Talk about It?
BY: DHARMAPAD DAS (DEAN DOMINIC DE LUCIA)
Jan 03, 2012 — BRAZIL (SUN) — It seems rather obvious that World War III is looming on the horizon. In fact, at this point, one doesn't have to be an astrologer or clairvoyant to predict it. And it certainly couldn't hurt, but could be beneficial, if we bring the issue out into the open and discuss its probable impact on the various Dharmic and Krishna conscious communities, specifically, ISKCON.
We've all heard tell that the Bhavishya Purana predicts three invasions of India, once by the Greeks (Alexander the Great), once by the British and once by the "yellow races", the Chinese. But the Bhavishya Purana has been tampered with, and much depends on how one interprets it. It doesn't much matter; one doesn't have to interpret the Bhavishya Purana to know that the dye has been cast, the battle lines have been drawn, and that WWIII is coming up.
At one point in the mid-1970s, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada spoke about the next world war and stated that it would be started by Pakistan against India, and that the Americans would jump in on the side of India, and Russia on the side of Pakistan.
For a while this didn't seem so likely because the Pakistanis have been rather well aligned with the West and the U.S.A. Scratching the surface, however, we see that things are different than what outward appearances have suggested. The real situation in Pakistan has more recently come to light and has even been discussed quite a bit in the western press. At this point, it is practically common knowledge that the leaders and top generals of that country have been bought and that is why they are cooperating with the West. It must be the only reason, too, because the lion's share of its Army's junior officers, all of its enlisted men, and the people of Pakistan on the grassroots level are firmly against the West and on the side of the fundamentalists; they see the Chinese as their allies. Pakistan is a powder keg at the moment, on the verge of revolt. (What happens when the fundamentalists inherit Pakistan's nuclear weapons arsenal?)
But to really get a decent purview of the current situation, we should go back in time a bit and examine the events that have led up to the current situation.
Do the assembled readers remember Mr. Peabody's WABAC Machine"?
The WABAC (Pronounced "Wayback") was a time machine which was used by Mr. Peabody and Sherman, on the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, to travel back in time in order to witness various historical events. (WABAC was a spoof on an IBM computer called the UNIVAC.)
In our case, we can take the WABAC all the way back to the mid-1950s, and visit India, China and Tibet. China was constructing a highway system which would stretch from the interior of China to its border with Tibet. And then it would stop. That's all, a highway from China to the middle of nowhere on its border with Tibet; not a populated or productive area, but rather, a very empty and desolate one; where it would just stop and sit there for several years.
Now we'll travel a bit further forward in the WABAC (i.e., "forward in the Wayback") to the year 1962. That was when Jawaharlal Nehru was fooling himself with his own slogan, "Hindi Chini, Bhai-Bhai" i.e., "Hindu, Chinaman, brother-brother". They woke him up in the middle of the night that year to inform him that the Chinese had just invaded Tibet. He fell down on his knees at the side of his bed in his pajamas, with a twisted expression of shock on his face, and then he went into it, i.e., he went into actual shock on his knees on the floor of his bedroom. India couldn't resupply or reinforce its troops up there because it had no paved roads and it was the Monsoon season. China, on the other hand, brought a huge force to bear thanks to its highway system up in the area, and soundly manhandled the Army of India, thus making a fool out of Nehru on a worldwide stage.
WABAC can even bring us further towards the present so that we can zero in on the 9/11 event of 2002. At that time, President George W. Bush sent American troops to Half-gone-istan, rather, Afghanistan,(but Half-gone-istan is more accurate) to battle the Al Queda and Taliban fundamentalists. And by that time, the Chinese, now the proud owners of Tibet for 40 years to be exact, had completed a highway and rail system all the way across Tibet, which stopped close to the border with Afghanistan. There was no justification for a highway stretching all that distance, there was no significant production to take to market, and no chance of engaging in trade by cargo truck with the West, such that the billions it cost would be justified. It was and is simply a highway system that stretches across the top of the world over a cold, barren desert. There is no traffic to the border with Afghanistan, at least, not to speak of.
Now back to the present. (Thank you Mr./Bhakta Peabody, for the use of your WABAC Machine)
The Chinese currently have the ability to bring up one division of soldiers after another and easily supply them from the interior of their country. In fact, the Chinese could drive a stretch limo to the border if they wanted to, that is how comfortable their situation is up there. The amount of time all this would take could be measured in weeks, not months. Of course, it would take them more than one week to drive an army up from the heartland of China. But then the question becomes one of whether or not it would take them two weeks, or would they maybe need three?
The Americans in Half-gone-istan, however, (when the Chinese arrive it will be all gone) are not in such a fortunate position. They must depend on the mercy of the Pakistanis in order to supply their limited number of troops in Half-gone-istan. They also get supplied from the other side, but the Russians could cut that off from one day to the next. We know that the Pakistanis aren't reliable, along the lines that we have already commented.
And from their Tibetan border with Afghanistan, the Chinese could conceivably drive a huge army right to the gateway of Europe, Constantinople, in a matter of days. Even after, say, a nuclear Pearl Harbor, before Europe could recover.
Since the very first days of intervention in Afghanistan (Before it got so torn up and half-gone), every time the forces of the West found an Al Queda or Taliban weapons cache, the boxes had Chinese markings on them. (Catch the drift?)
In recent weeks, a Russian General, Nikalay Makarov, stated in a press release that if the Americans actually go as far as bombing Iran, that they risk bringing about WWIII, and the Chinese have blatantly stated the same.
Bomb, Bomb Iran!?? Check out the lyrics, then watch the video:
Anyway, when we take stock, what do we see? We see that the Chinese have constructed roadways and railways to the border of nowhere, just like they did when they invaded Tibet (Fool me once, your fault, fool me twice, my fault). We see that they have been supplying fundamentalist forces with weaponry, at least the forces that they can reach, and that they are threatening war with the West, now that the West is threatening their proxy-puppet Iran. And we see that the alliances that the West has built up East of Turkey, i.e., from Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan, are fragile and rickety.
So what can we conclude? The least that we can conclude is that China plans to cross its border with Tibet and get directly involved in the Middle East.
India has a tremendous military and economic relationship with the West; it has a very close military relationship with Israel, too, that few are aware of. So if China went to war with the West, what would China and a Pakistan-in-revolt do with India? They wouldn't sit around playing tiddlywinks at the border, that's for sure. China couldn't project itself into the Middle East while having India as a thorn in its side. India would be invaded and swarmed over by the Chinese and Pakistanis. And if the Chinese do to Hinduism in India what they did to Buddhism in their own country, it's all going to be finished. Buddhism has largely been eliminated as a world religion because it isn't practiced anymore in China; it isn't allowed, and all of the temples have been demolished and are not standing anymore.
What does all this portend for ISKCON? It means that ISKCON would lose India and Asia, and that Eastern Europe would probably become a battleground. And this is very unfortunate because ISKCON is only strong in India and Eastern Europe; these are practically the only places where ISKCON shows signs of life and is able to truly generate new blood.
The United States Congress (a congress is a group of baboons) has recently enacted legislation such that the Chief Executive is no longer encumbered by the Posse Comitatus Act, whose purpose is to limit the powers of local governments and law enforcement agencies from using federal military personnel to enforce the laws of the land. Also, the executive and judicial branches of government are not encumbered such that any involvement by a citizen, even indirect or unknowing involvement, that could be construed as involvement in terrorism, is punishable by imprisonment without the right to a trial or to there being any material proof. These measures are being taken in preparation for an unpopular war, in order to sweep aside dissent and opposition.
But at the same time, anyone who thinks that we will be able to continue to enjoy the luscious freedom to preach as we like, just as we have always done in the past, is mistaken. Wake up! Where is ISKCON's Paul Revere? WWIII, because of any emergency measures enacted because of it, which have actually already been enacted, should have the effect of shutting down the preaching in North America and the West.
How strange it is that our leaders want to group Hare Krishna movement members onto ISKCON farm-community type properties without being the owners of the land that they live on. Does the word "serf" ring a bell? (A definition of serf from Merriam Webster's online dictionary: a member of a servile feudal class bound to the land and subject to the will of its owner). ISKCON members are supposed to be brahmans and are supposed to be rather autonomous. But we digress...
So what should be done to keep ISKCON from evaporating, what strategies should be adopted, what policies should be put in place? It is hard to say. Personally, the writer of this article would advise ISKCON preachers in India to adopt a slogan from the times of America's westward march and "Go West, young man."
Not that the movement can do much in North America or Europe, but what about Latin America? To tell the truth, huge segments of Latin America's population is comprised of people from simple backgrounds who aren't very well educated, and who certainly aren't accustomed to analytical thought processes. They basically have no opportunities available to them to develop and improve their standing in life and thus, are the very stuff that ISKCON's feudal structure thrives on. Perpetuating ISKCON's personnel management is not a long-term solution to establishing Krishna Consciousness in the West, but this type of people could certainly help to jump-start things in the short run. In Latin America, devotee-making is ongoing and traditional book distribution is alive, so others that have resources would do well to jump in and take advantage.
If I were some big-shot preacher in India, with filthy-rich Hindus falling at my feet, offering millions for me to build temples and that sort of thing, what I would do is orient them towards the "go-west" theme and maybe transfer some of those resources to Latin America. This would be a matter of "get, while the gettin' is good," i.e., "get out with something while you still can." I am sure that a huge, Hindu-style temple and cultural center in any of Brazil's major metropolises would be tremendously successful and really help to establish Krsna consciousness in the West. Otherwise, certain big names in preaching in India could end up without even having a sanctuary or a base of operations, and this could happen soon; tables turn in life, and titans do fall.
This would not be a matter of retreating from preaching responsibilities due to a material context. When Chaitanya Mahaprabhu went to South India to preach, the Caitanya-caritamrita, Madhya lila states that this was because the preaching there was good; A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada showed his approval of this statement in a purport. So rather than waiting for the Chinese to occupy India and topple temples, it might be a good idea to salvage what is possible and transplant resources and preachers to where they can do some good.
The point is that there should be some discussion along these lines, and now is the time.
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