For Sri Sri, mediation in Ayodhya could be a double-edged sword | The Indian Express

For Sri Sri, mediation in Ayodhya could be a double-edged sword | The Indian Express

Written by Swami Agnivesh, Valson Thampu |Updated: March 25, 2019 7:16:44 am

The writer is a Vedic scholar and social activist

The author is the principal of St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

For Sri Sri, mediation in Ayodhya could be a double-edged sword

Mediators in Ayodhya must stand steadfast on spiritual foundation in a charged atmosphere, where religion has been superseded by politics and the dynamic of mediation overshadowed by triumphalism.

Our seers and savants did not preside over religious structures and establishments. (Illustration by Suvajit Dey)

So long as man is in a mere state of nature, his god is a mere nature-God — a personification of some natural force. Where man inhabits houses, he also encloses his Gods in temples.