Sanatana and Dengue


 


I did not have to bother Wikipedia for the first word, but I did need validation of my understanding on the second. "Dengue...is a mosquito borne tropical disease caused by the dengue virus" says Wiki , and I am relieved that my knowledge has not dimmed.

Now what is it in the first word that so concerned an Hon'ble Minister from my State , in his 45th year to blow the bugle on us ignorant citizens on the threat of a dengue type virus? What provoked the hon'ble gentleman to choose this time and place , and not sooner? So many of us would have been saved from the virus! 

What I wonder most , is how did the Hon'ble gentleman survive over four decades without being inflicted by the disease? Did he ..

...stay away from friends and teachers in his youth who were ignorant of the threat and rubbed shoulders in their Sanatanic clothes ?

...stay away all the years from visiting the small temple that abutted his grandfathers residence ?

...stay away from the folks in moviedom and now the bureaucracy who come with horizontal and vertical streaks on their forehead? 

and now we the ignorant and misguided  seek his guidance to take us away from this environment to the bliss of freedom from the virus...


And what should we do with that unfortunate ochre clad wonder who preaches violence, seeking our Hon'ble Ministers head  , totally ignorant of the Sanatana  Dharmas basic  tenets?. 

And oh Yes... does the Hon'ble Minister know that atheism is an accepted form of belief in the Sanatana Dharma?. Come, let us await the Ministers grand plan of mukti from even Atheism!

8SEPT23

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