Kepercayaan kepada tuhan (Believe in God or Spirituality to the gods)

When I was in school, my teacher taught us that one of the five pillars of Rukun Negara was ‘ Kepercayaan Kepada Tuhan’ , which meant “Belief in God”.

Some years later, an old man told me that if we don’t believe in God then it is an offence in Malaysia.

How do we ‘classify’ God?

Are there few ‘Gods’ or only one God? How come one religion says God has no form; another describes God as one with a big beard and sitting on a throne? Another religion says that God has several hands and arms (weapons). Yet another says we should do deity or idol worship. Then another says God has no form. A great incarnation that took place in India said that everything is void.

Confusion after confusion!

One topic but several philosophies!

In this world almost everywhere people are fighting for this. Is it a question mark matter?

As I am born Hindu I would like to say that in Bhagavatam there is this verse - brahmeti parameti bhagavaniti shabdyate (SB 1.2.11). It means “the Lord without form, or the God in your heart and the Lord with form as deity and idol is the true supreme God. So, we Hindus have been practising God without form since million years ago.

In this context I would like to point out that the name ‘Hindu’ that we are proud of is not actually our religion. We are from Sanatana Dharma.

What is the meaning of Dharma? Dharma means ‘way of life’. Is Sanatana Dharma is a religion? No, ours is not a religion like others.

There is a short story where in the riverbank of Sindu, there was a lot of civilised people living in India. When the Persian (Iranians) passed by, they could not pronounce the word Sindu, but pronounced it as ‘Hindu’.

The Guinness Book of World Record states that Hinduism is the oldest religion of the world. We are the so called Hindus, proud to have the name given by Persians but we don’t know our own way of life.

It is so disgusting.

Now in Malaysia temples where you worship deities or idols are being destroyed.

Is it because of government policy?

No, there are several proofs showing that their leaders in history have done it many years before. 360 idols where destroyed when they tried to establish a religion in the Middle East. So, is this new?

Now Hindraf has reported of the temple demolitions. Are we aware it has been an ongoing process for many years and we are always the victims? What have we done to save the situation? Do you think if you do something politically the problem will be solved?

Is this a policy of “Believe in God” or “Kepercayaan Kepada Tuhan”?

Malaysia has a unique history, but this history has been carefully hidden.

Let us look at the facts. Many of us know that Parameswara was a Hindu king of the Srivijaya dynasty and was also the first king of Malacca. From this we know that fact

that a government called Sri Vijaya from Indonesia was a Hindu government. There are many temples left by Hindus in Indonesia, the most famous one being Parambanan (Typical Shiva temple) near Jogjakarta. In the north (Thailand), there was an ancient Hindu government at Ayuthaya. The word ‘Ayuthaya’ mean birth place of Lord Rama in India. If we take Cambodia, there was a Hindu government known as the Khemer empire ruled by King Suryavarman II.

There are more historical instances I can relate but I’ll make it short.

So after seeing all this evidence our country Malaysia, which is in the centre of Sri Vijaya, Ayuthaya and Khmer has no history of Hindus living here before?

This is what we learn from Sejarah Melayu.

Malaysian historians wrote that before Parameswara took over Malacca, there were only fishermen in Malaysia. Do you think that it is a fact or it is same as temple demolition? They are cheating us. What kind of ‘Kepercayaan Kepada Tuhan’ is this? Does the Kepercayaan Kepada Tuhan refers only to the God they wanted?

Now let us look at the word Melayu. There was an article in harakadaily.net on 13 th

December 2008 under the heading “Peta negara Champa dalam simpanan Peranchis”.

If you read the article carefully, it says that Champa is a country within Cambodia where the people there were the pioneer Malays who came to Tanah Melayu.

“Penghijrahan Melayu Champa secara besar-besaran ke Tanah Melayu. Bangsa Melayu Cham terawal bermula daripada Vietnam dan kemudian turun ke Kemboja”

Are they Hindus? If you read wikipedia about the ‘Melayu’ kingdom, it is said that the Melayu Kingdom is also known as Malayu, Dharmasraya Kingdom or the Jambi Kingdom.

Are they Hindus too? In Malaysia before independence or even after that we had many who were following the story of Mahabharata or Ramayana in the East Coast.

They were playing wayang kulit, telling the stories of Lord Rama or Krishna. Where are they now??? Are they Malays from Champa and Sri Vijaya?

In the present time, in the whole world, even in Iraq and Turkey, many people are practising yoga. No one can deny this. Is that a threat for Malaysians? Yoga has been practiced for many million years. It is going on and it will go on. No one can stop this with his or her political power, but the Malaysian government is thinking that it can do it.

Now even from our own view they (UMNO government) are slowly removing all our cultures and traditions. Don’t you think it is an ethnic or religious clearance? Is this the ‘Kepercayaan Kepada Tuhan’ written in RUKUN NEGARA?

Now I am saying these last words for my dearest Sanatana Dharma brothers and sisters. If you are not going to follow your religion properly as they do, you are the one who is killing Sanatana Dharma, not them. First of all, meat eating is not your religion. Jesus even said Thou shall not kill. Sanatana Dharma said this in many places. Why you are crossing the borders of your religion?

Are you doing this for your tongue and lust satisfaction or are you doing this for killing your dharma? Answer all the questions above and change your self. Even if many Hindraf movements come when you don’t follow your religion properly, everything will become irreligion. That’s my opinion.

Saravanan