Maharana Pratap Son of the soil

1st May:

Dear friends, in these difficult times of #covid, let us remember great Indian heroes & heroins, who fought – and overcame much bigger challenges. May is the birth month of the great Maharana Pratap, the only Rajput who fought the Moghols – and Akbar at that – and beat him at the great battle of Hadilghati. Maharana Pratap was a great secular, ruler, friend of tribals, who had Muslims in his army and never lived in a Palace. Let us then celebrate #MaharanaPratap The Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History, Pune, Maharashtra, has a unique exhibition on Maharana Pratap, as we feel Maharana Pratap does not have the place he deserves in History books and schools curriculums. Our Museum is a sewa project and my wife and myself continue with our respective jobs, she as a designer and myself as a journalist and writer. so please help us develop and maintain that museum (we have one lakh salaries every month for Museum staff) by donation to this link : https://www.factmuseum.com/google-pay-page/
and if you want a tax exemption certificate (5000 Rs and above), send me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com
Namastê

2nd May:
The great #MaharanaPratap was born in May 1540. We, in the Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History, Pune, Maharashtra, have a unique exhibition on him that was devoted to Mother India, fought the Moghols, whom he rightly felt were 'foreign invaders' (though today Aurangzeb and Akbar are seen as Indians) and deserves a better place in in Indian History books and schools curriculums. Our Museum is a sewa project and my wife and myself continue with our respective jobs, she as a designer and myself as a journalist and writer. so please help us develop and maintain that museum (we have one lakh salaries every month for Museum staff) by donation to this link : https://www.factmuseum.com/google-pay-page/
and if you want a tax exemption certificate (5000 Rs and above), send me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com
Namaste

3rd May
Like Jijabai, the mother of Shivaji Maharaj, Jayanti Bai made sure that Maharana Pratap learnt about the glory of his ancestors and grew up worshipping his land as Mother India, a living Goddess. The truth is that it's not men, who preserve the culture, but women. We in the Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History, Pune have a wonderful exhibition on Maharana Pratap and 18 Pavilions that highlight the glory - and also the holocausts of Indian History. This a sewa project entirely dependent on donations: support us by sending me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com or donate from your mobile at https://www.factmuseum.com/google-pay-page/
we have both Indian and US tax exemption

4th May:
In these difficult times, when India faces so many threats, both from within and without (apart from the #Covid and the occult asuric forces that stand behind it), Maharana Pratap reminds us that life is a war and we have to be prepared for it: war against the enemies that have threatened and bled Bharat since times immemorial. A war is not fought with words and goody-goodiness, as many in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seem to think - but in the streets if necessary, if your workers, as it is happening now in West Bengal, are getting butchered. We in the Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History Pune, celebrate May as the Month of the great Maharana Pratao, a true pan hero of India. Ours is a sewa project and we entirely depend on donations (we have one lakh Museum salaries every month). Please help us: we have Indian and US tax exemption. You can send me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com if you wish to do so
Namaste

5th May:

Like Rama, Maharana Pratap lived in the forest – and that for most of his life. In fact, he made it a point to share the life of the simple people and won their trust and loyalty. Today the palatial bungalows, cars, staff, secretaries, security, sycophancy, that your MP’s and Ministers get in Delhi, make them often forget that they were elected for the people and by the people. let us remember the month of May, which Maharana Pratap’s birth month. We, in the Shivaji Maharaj Museum have dedicated an entire Pavilion to Maharana Pratap. Support us by donating online: Foundation Against Continuing Terrorism (FACT)

6th May:

Gurus, sadhus, avatars, sages, have always played an essential role in the history of India, even in the foundation of state capitals, whether Vijaynagar or Udaipur. I a Frenchman, catholic by birth, is infinitely grateful to the Gurus of India. From the Mother of Pondichery at whose feet I fell, Sri Aurobindo’s companion, to Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who gave so much to myself and my wife, to the Dalai Lama whom I have had the privilege to interview many times. I am also a lover of Maharana Pratap, one of the great heroes of your country and we in the Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History Pune, have a permanent exhibition on his great deeds. This is a sewa project and there are times when we are struggling to find funds to pay even the salaries of our workers. Such time has happened right now. If you want to help, send me mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com

7th May:

MAHARANA PRATAP OR DHARMIC TOUGHNESS Posted on May 7, 2021 by François Gautier | Leave a comment | Edit Friends, no doubt Akbar was the better of the Moghol emperors, but he still killed 30.000 Hindus in Chittor and was known to collect the hair tufts of slain brahmins in his youth. Do your history books that praise the Moghols to heaven and give ten lines to great heroes like Maharana Pratap or Shivaji Maharaj, tell you that??? Maharana Pratap rightly considered that Akbar was a foreigner and an invader and needed to be fought; whereas all the other Rajputs gave him their daughters or paid huge amounts of money. Akbar kept trying to make friends with Maharana Pratap, sending him even his Hindu vassals (traitors), such as Man Singh, but Maharan Pratap did not bulge and fought Akbar. It is this unwavering dharmic toughness that Hindus have forgotten today: they think that dharma is smiling to the enemy and keep trying to make friends with them or thinking that their goodness will be reciprocated. It happens all the time with China and we even saw how the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) thought Mamata Banerjee would be a graceful winner (and loser). We in the Shivaji Maharaj Museum of (true) Indian History, Pune, honor real heroes and heroines of India and give their rightful places to criminals such as Aurangzeb or Tippu Sultan. This is a sewa project and we depend entirely on donations for the upkeep and development of the Museum. Support us by donating on your mobile: https://www.factmuseum.com/google-pay-page/ or send me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com We have tax exemption Namaste

8th May:

GREATEST HOLOCAUST EVER, THAT OF HINDUS The greatest Holocaust in the entire history of Humanity is that of the Hindus. It has been calculated that 100 million Hindus died from the Hindu Kush to Mumbai 2011. In Chittor, Rajasthan, Akbar massacred 30.000 Hindus and all the women committed Jauhar. We in the Shivaji Maharaj Museum have the only exhibition in the world on the Hindu Holocaust, an exhibition which broughT us in trouble several times. But I stand by it. The Shivaji Maharaj Museum is a sewa project and entirely depends on donations. Please support us and donate, we have tax exemption both Indian and US. Send me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com if u wish to do so FRANCOIS GAUTIERGREATEST HOLOCAUST EVER, THAT OF HINDUS The greatest Holocaust in the entire history of Humanity is that of the Hindus. It has been calculated that 100 million Hindus died from the Hindu Kush to Mumbai 2011. In Chittor, Rajasthan, Akbar massacred 30.000 Hindus and all the women committed Jauhar. We in the Shivaji Maharaj Museum have the only exhibition in the world on the Hindu Holocaust, an exhibition which broughT us in trouble several times. But I stand by it. The Shivaji Maharaj Museum is a sewa project and entirely depends on donations. Please support us and donate, we have tax exemption both Indian and US. Send me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com if u wish to do so FRANCOIS GAUTIERGREATEST HOLOCAUST EVER, THAT OF HINDUS The greatest Holocaust in the entire history of Humanity is that of the Hindus. It has been calculated that 100 million Hindus died from the Hindu Kush to Mumbai 2011. In Chittor, Rajasthan, Akbar massacred 30.000 Hindus and all the women committed Jauhar. We in the Shivaji Maharaj Museum have the only exhibition in the world on the Hindu Holocaust, an exhibition which broughT us in trouble several times. But I stand by it. The Shivaji Maharaj Museum is a sewa project and entirely depends on donations. Please support us and donate, we have tax exemption both Indian and US. Send me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com if u wish to do so FRANCOIS GAUTIER

9th May:

DON’T BUILD STATUES OF MAHARANA PRATAP. EMULATE HIS QUALITIES Today, 9th May, is the great Maharana Pratap birth anniversary. Let us remember this Giant amongst men ( he was also physically extremely tall). In India there is a habit to make statues of great men = indeed there are million of statues to Mahatma Gandhi or today Sardar Patel. But why not instead try to EMULATE the qualities of great men? In this dark hour of #covid 2d wave, Chinese threats, economic hardship, adverse Media coverage, etc, we should soak in from Maharana Pratap’s extraordinary courage in the face of extremely difficult odds, his calling the Moghols, foreign invaders, which indeed they were = and not the glorified heroes they have been made in your history books); his fighting the enemy physically (and not playing goody goody and pretend the enemy is also your friend, or that as a Hindu you needto respect and forgive for ever your enemies); his never living in a palace, but amongst his people (and not in faraway Delhi in palatial bungalows, forgetting about the people who elected you to work for the people). Finally let us give Maharana Pratap his rightful place in India’s History; amongst the Great, a true Hero to be worshipped and copied. Namaste Francois Gautier

10th May:

I have said it again and again in my books and articles, so many invaders bled India, because Hindus betrayed Hindus. Whether it was Alexander the Great who allied with the King of Taxila against Porus, or the Lingayats who (supposedly) betrayed the Vijaynagar empire. In Rajasthan most of the maharajas collaborated withthe Moghols – except for one: Maharana Pratap, who fought and defeated Akbar in the Hadilghati battle. In the Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History Pune, we honor Maharana Pratap and have dedicated an entire Pavilion to him. This is a sewa project and in these times of #covid we find it a bit hard to pay all our painters, staff, new building etc, so support us (we have both US and tax exemption) and send me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com Namaste francois

11th May:

There is always freedom in this creation. As a human being, though there is Grace, though there is Destiny, all your life, you are free to chose the path of Dharma or A-Dharma at every step, at every juncture. The same is true even for Vibhutis or instruments of God, such as Maharana Pratap (or Narendra Modi). They can at some point say ‘Enough, enough of fighting the mighty Moghols (or the mighty #COVID19) and risking my life, as well as of my family; enough of always having to move for fear of being caught and not living in a comfortable palace; enough of this God, I want to enjoy the pleasures of life – drink, eat and have immense power”… But Maharana Pratap, chose the hard Dharmic way and because of him and other heroes and heroines, India, in spite of so many bloody invasions, preserved her knowledge and her Culture. We need to honour these super heroes and heroines and this is what we do in the Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History Pune. Support us, this is a sewa project: at the moment we are mounting an exhibition on the last great Hindu empire, that of Vijaynagar, by one of the best painters in India; but each painting costs 40.000 Rs. So far we have managed to do nine of them, but total exhibition is for 40, for which I do not have the funds at present. If you wish to help, send me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com Namaste Francois

12th May:

India has an overdose of democracy. Sometimes, incapable rulers or Govts who harm the country’s fabric, should be removed – by force if necessary. This is what #MaharanaPratap & his followers did, when his father had wrongly named his younger brother as successor. We see in India that leaders like Mamta Banerjee create havoc in India by allowing the islamization of West Bengal, for the selfish purpose of getting reelected. That the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Govt does not impose President’s rule in WB, after the ethnic cleansing of the Hindus following the #AssemblyElections2021, shows, that it is also suffering from that colonial inferiority complex which always wants to show itself more democratic than the West. But in the spirit of the #bhagavadgita, what is moral and just IS YOUR GOAL – and if the goal is the preservation of India’s ancient spirituality and culture, then every mean is rightful, even force. Do you understand that friends? It is the perversion of Buddhism and Gandhism, which makes #HindusHindus weak and vulnerable against their enemies, whether China, missionaries or Opposition leaders who wilffully or unconsciously incarnate asuric forces. The world is a battlefield, specially in these trying times of #COVID19. India needs leaders like Maharana Pratap & Narendra Modi, who are not only capabe to recognize the enemy (and not say ‘all religions are the same’), but fight it with weapons and courage. We in the Shivaji Maharaj Museum, honor such heroes and heroines who battled fiercely and fearlessly the enemies of India: Maharana Pratap, the great Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (3 exhibitions), but we also honour the Shakti; Tarabai, Rani Kittur Chennama , Jijamata, Ahilyabia Holkar… Help us so that we can continue keeping alive this Museum, the only one of its kind in India as Indians – the Govt of India in particular – shy away from showing Indian HISTORY AS IT HAPPENED. Some of you have already helped, which allowed us to pay the Museum’s salaries and commission 4 more paintings of the Vijaynagar exhibition (a big thanks to Dr S. Vepachedu). But we have many other exhibitions in the making and need support. If you wish to do so, send me a mai at fgautier@rediffmail.com

13th May:

The greatest feats, the greatest successes, the greatest realisations, both individual and collective, have often been achieved when one faces the MAXIMUM hurdles. Maharana Pratap inherited a precarious throne, the Moghols were ruling over most of India, he had no money, no palace, the odds were stacked against him ! YET HE REFUSED TO SURRENDER AND FOUGHT – AND BEAT – AKBAR, WHOM HE REGARDED AS THE ENEMY. At the moment, India is facing so many hurdles: of course, the #covid comes first, but also threats from China, Pakistan, Afghanistan soon; the hostility of the foreign Media as well as from the Indian Intelligentsia towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the economy which is down. Also it appears as there is no justice or karma: the #Chinese gave, willingly or unwillingly, this Covid to the world – yet not only they are not having a 2d or 3rd wave, but they also restarted producing industrially top steam and are aggressively pushing their agenda everywhere in the world, whereas India is in the grip of a serious infection and many are suffering economically. There are so many instances of success in the face of impossibilities: Swami Vivekananda who arrives in Chicago for the World Religions Conference without any address, money, contacts… Yet it is Him who started the spread of India’s vast spiritual knowledge in the West So let us hope friends, for we know that at the end of the tunnel is Light and that it is never so dark as just before the Sun rises. Thus, this is maybe the Hour of God for Narendra Modi : like #MaharanaPratap, he has to recognize who is the enemy and then confront him or her fearlessly. Then India, Bharat, will come out greater, stronger and victorious from these dark times that belong to Kali Yuga Namaste François Gautier

14th May:

This is one of my favourite paintings: I gave the instructions to the painter myself as I wanted #MaharanaPratap to bow down to Bharat Mata – as he did indeed in real life. Do you know that Sri Aurobindo said: “” Mother India is not a piece of earth , She is a Power, a Godhead.” When I first came to India, I drove from Paris to Delhi and spent my first night in the Sri Aurobindo ashram, what is now known as Mother’s school. And that first evening, I had a powerful experience, that in this country that was totally unknown to me, there was an Infinite knowledge and that I would stay here for the rest of my life and dedicate it to defend that Knowledge. I also felt that there was something radiating from the earth that there was a living Goddess present there, an experience which I would have again in different parts of India (even in Kashmir) over the years. I was 19 years old then… There have been innumerable saints, yogis, yoginis, warriors heroines, who bowed down to Mother India – and this is why in spite of so many invasions, in spite of the repeated rape of India, Bharat survives today, the last living Knowledge in the world When I started the Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History Pune, the first thing I did was to build a temple dedicated to Bharat Mata. And in that temple, my wife and I designed a statue of Bharat Mata giving to Shivaji Maharaj the Divine Sword to defend India. It’s a unique statue and a unique temple. Please support us: this is a sewa project and we depend entirely on donations. We have US and Indian tax exemption. If you wish to help and sponsor one of the 5 exhibitions we are mounting at the moment (Vijaynagar empire/ Jijabai, mother of Shivaji Maharaj/ Tarabai/ Rani Kittur Chennama/ Sciences in the Vedas), send me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com Namaste Francois gautierThis is one of my favourite paintings: I gave the instructions to the painter myself as I wanted #MaharanaPratap to bow down to Bharat Mata – as he did indeed in real life. Do you know that Sri Aurobindo said: “” Mother India is not a piece of earth , She is a Power, a Godhead.” When I first came to India, I drove from Paris to Delhi and spent my first night in the Sri Aurobindo ashram, what is now known as Mother’s school. And that first evening, I had a powerful experience, that in this country that was totally unknown to me, there was an Infinite knowledge and that I would stay here for the rest of my life and dedicate it to defend that Knowledge. I also felt that there was something radiating from the earth that there was a living Goddess present there, an experience which I would have again in different parts of India (even in Kashmir) over the years. I was 19 years old then… There have been innumerable saints, yogis, yoginis, warriors heroines, who bowed down to Mother India – and this is why in spite of so many invasions, in spite of the repeated rape of India, Bharat survives today, the last living Knowledge in the world When I started the Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History Pune, the first thing I did was to build a temple dedicated to Bharat Mata. And in that temple, my wife and I designed a statue of Bharat Mata giving to Shivaji Maharaj the Divine Sword to defend India. It’s a unique statue and a unique temple. Please support us: this is a sewa project and we depend entirely on donations. We have US and Indian tax exemption. If you wish to help and sponsor one of the 5 exhibitions we are mounting at the moment (Vijaynagar empire/ Jijabai, mother of Shivaji Maharaj/ Tarabai/ Rani Kittur Chennama/ Sciences in the Vedas), send me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com Namaste Francois gautier

15th May:

Let me tell you friends, because I spend a lot of time in Delhi and have met most politicians: your MP’s, Ministers, high bureaucrats, Supreme Court judges, army generals, live in in a system setup by 50 years of Indian National Congress rule – that is in the lap of luxury: in palatial bungalows, surrounded by an army of servants, drivers, secretaries, security persons. It is extremely thus difficult to reach through to them, even if you have genuine work. The Parliament or Lok Sabha, is a totally non Vastu building with no natural light, no windows, no air and most of the time like a fish market, a parody of democracy (I know I spent a lot of time there) Prime Minister Narendra Modi comes from humble origins and all his life cared for the people of India, regardless of their caste, religion or social status. But even he is a victim of the system he fought so hard: his Race Course residence is a fortress of immense luxury (I have been there few times to interview other PM’s) and the fact that he is a targeted man and also because of Covid, he has been cut off from the people he loves so much. He is also surrounded by an army of high bureaucrats, who speak polished English, read the New York times, but have no clue about the deep reality of rural India. In my humble opinion, Delhi is the problem, Delhi is the enemy, a capital made by the British for the British, far away and cut off from the rest of India. As long as Delhi remains the capital the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be in shackles because it has to function in a syste made by the Indian National Congress for the Congress. If the capital would be shifted to Central India, say Bhopal, Indore, Pune, or Ujain, it would break the backbone of the bureaucracy which is stifling all the good reforms of the PM and is also a product of Nehruvianism, of the Media and the Diplomatic corps, who would look like fools in a Delhi empty of power Leaders like #MaharanaPratap showed us the way: he sacrificied luxury and comfort for the sake of his people and to fight the enemy – that is the Moghols that your history books glorify today. I chose to build the Shivaji Maharaj of Indian History in Pune, because it is central to India and also the home of the great Shivaji Maharaj, another Indian hero who fought Aurangzeb and lived too in precarious conditions, fighting guerrilla wars in the forests of central and south India. Support us: we are a sewa project, depending entirely on donations to continue building this Museum, which has met so many threats in his ten years existence, and is still facing so many hurdles. You can send me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com if you wish to help Namaaste francois gautier

16th May:

RECOGNIZE WHO IS THE ENEMY IS Again friends, your history books are written upside down: villains like Aurangzeb, Tippu Sultan, Nehru who did so much damage to India’s fabric that it will take generations to wipe out his mistakes) are given pride of place, while true heroes such as #MaharanaPratap, Shivaji Maharaj, or Sri Aurobindo, get 2 lines and sometimes in a disparaging manner, like Shivaji Maharaj was mostly a plunderer. True Akbar, was the best of the Moghol emperors, but Maharana Pratap never forgot that he laid siege to his father’s Chittor fortress, killed 30.000 Hindus and forced all the women to commit Jauhar so that they would not be raped and taken as slaves by Akbar’s soldiers. Hindus have a tendency to surrender easily or else to think that the enemy is not as bad as made out. I remember in my country France my grandmother saying: ‘The Germans were not so bad/ Or Hitler was OK”. But Sri Aurobindo clearly said it: Hitler was an asura that needed to be eliminated, because if he had conquered the world as he wanted to, it would have meant the end of our civilization. In the same way, Maharana Pratap understood that the Moghols were deadly enemies, even if Akbar seemed ok and wanted to make friends, because if the Moghols had conquered the whole of India, then Bharat would be totally Muslim today ! It is because of heroes such as Maharana Pratap, Shivaji Maharaj, or Rani Kittur Chennama, that Hinduism and the Knowledge that props up Hinduism survived today. Let us remember that in our times, we see the same phenomenon: the @BJP4India for instance, has a tendency to trust the Chinese, every time they say they want to negotiate (and then they do not withdraw and encroach more Indian territory) or think that Muslims will vote for them or that the foreign press will eventually love @narendramodi. BUT THEY ARE THE ENEMY !!! YES, #COVID is also the enemy (many of you have told me that these posts were good, but the timing wrong)- but again know the enemy: first it came from China (the western Media does not want to call it a Chinese virus, but has not problem now talking about the Indian Covid strain!); whether it escaped from the Wuhan biological lab or it was released in some parts of the world as some kind f biological warfare, remains to be seen – but even some leftists pro-Chinese newspapers like France’s Le Monde, are now asking openly the question; secondly, it is not only the virus itself that is dangerous, but the asuric forces, the same that were behind Hitler, that go with it: fear, paranoia, suspicion of the others, and we see that the Media, the politicians and the allopathic lobby are those vehicles that the adverse forces to spread fear and terror in the world, even a thousand times more people die of cancer, old age, road accidents, heart attacks, etc In the Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History Pune, which I founded, we show true enemies, like Tippu Sultan, Aurangzeb or the Portuguese Inquisition and we celebrate heroes and heroines of India. It is a sewa project, entirely dependent on donations. Support us by sending me a mail at fgautier@rediffmail.com We have both India and US tax exemption Namaste Francois Gautier

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