Posted on 11/25/2010 4:38:38 AM PST by markomalley
New Delhi - Police in India's central state of Chhattisgarh have arrested seven people for allegedly sacrificing two children to gain 'supernatural powers,' officials said Thursday.
Witch-doctor Ishwari Yadav, his wife Kiranbai and five of their disciples were arrested after police found the bodies of a 2-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl at their home in Durg district Wednesday.
'The boy was killed on Tuesday and the girl was murdered some six months ago,' district police chief Amit Kumar said in a telephone interview. '(The suspects) were arrested for holding human sacrifices and have confessed their crimes.'
'During questioning the couple admitted that they had offered the sacrifices for appeasing the Hindu goddess Kali and attaining occult powers and wealth,' Kumar said.
According to Kumar, the murders which have caused outrage in the region, were uncovered after the boy's father alerted the police when his son went missing.
During the investigation, the police determined that the boy was last spotted at Yadav's house.
The police raided the house and found the body of the child buried under an idol in a worship room.
The police, who seized a knife used for the crime, later also found the skeletal remains of the girl.
Human sacrifice has long been banned in India, but cases have been reported from underdeveloped regions where superstitions hold sway.
In April, the beheaded body of a factory worker was found in a Kali temple in West Bengal state.
Kali is widely worshipped across India and has several forms, including that of a benevolent mother figure and a dark and violent destroyer of evil wearing a garland of skulls.
Corrected.
A statistically insignificant anomaly of an incident where a particular person murders a child to appease a deity causes uproar within the same community he belongs to, and beyond. You don't know why, you claim?
I would've thought you'd have been capable of performing a mental process equivalent to adding 2 and 2, to arrive at the answer. Nonetheless, here's what the Gita says:
Two stamps there are marked on all living men,
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Divine and Undivine; I spake to thee
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By what marks thou shouldst know the Heavenly Man,
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Hear from me now of the Unheavenly!
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They comprehend not, the Unheavenly,
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How souls go forth from Me; nor how they come
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Back unto Me: nor is there Truth in these,
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Nor purity, nor rule of Life. “This world
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Hath not a Law, nor Order, nor a Lord,”
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So say they: “nor hath risen up by Cause
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Following on Cause, in perfect purposing,
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But is none other than a House of Lust.”
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And, this thing thinking, all those ruined ones—
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Of little wit, dark-minded—give themselves
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To evil deeds, the curses of their kind.
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Surrendered to desires insatiable,
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Full of deceitfulness, folly, and pride,
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In blindness cleaving to their errors, caught
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Into the sinful course, they trust this lie
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As it were true—this lie which leads to death—
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Finding in Pleasure all the good which is,
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And crying “Here it finisheth!”
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Ensnared
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In nooses of a hundred idle hopes,
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Slaves to their passion and their wrath, they buy
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Wealth with base deeds, to glut hot appetites;
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“Thus much, to-day,” they say, “we gained! thereby
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Such and such wish of heart shall have its fill;
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And this is ours! and th’ other shall be ours!
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To-day we slew a foe, and we will slay
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Our other enemy to-morrow! Look!
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Are we not lords? Make we not goodly cheer?
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Is not our fortune famous, brave, and great?
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Rich are we, proudly born! What other men
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Live like to us? Kill, then, for sacrifice!
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Cast largesse, and be merry!” So they speak
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Darkened by ignorance; and so they fall—
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Tossed to and fro with projects, tricked, and bound
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In net of black delusion, lost in lusts—
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Down to foul Naraka. Conceited, fond,
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Stubborn and proud, dead-drunken with the wine
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Of wealth, and reckless, all their offerings
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Have but a show of reverence, being not made
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In piety of ancient faith. Thus vowed
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To self-hood, force, insolence, feasting, wrath,
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These My blasphemers, in the forms they wear
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And in the forms they breed, my foemen are,
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Hateful and hating; cruel, evil, vile,
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Lowest and least of men, whom I cast down
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Again, and yet again, at end of lives,
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Into some devilish womb, whence—birth by birth—
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The devilish wombs re-spawn them, all beguiled;
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And, till they find and worship Me, sweet Prince!
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Tread they that Nether Road.
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And whoso loveth Me cometh to Me.
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Whoso shall offer Me in faith and love
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A leaf, a flower, a fruit, water poured forth,
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That offering I accept, lovingly made
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With pious will. Whate’er thou doest, Prince!
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Eating or sacrificing, giving gifts,
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Praying or fasting, let it all be done
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For Me, as Mine. So shalt thou free thyself
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From Karmabandh, the chain which holdeth men
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To good and evil issue, so shalt come
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Safe unto Me—when thou art quit of flesh—
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By faith and abdication joined to Me!
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I am alike for all! I know not hate,
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I know not favor! What is made is Mine!
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But them that worship Me with love, I love;
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They are in Me, and I in them!
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The antipsychotic drug put Yates's delusions in abeyance.
Cheers!
LOL, sad that your bait failed?
Interesting hobby you have, on a holiday, nonetheless! Pathetic.
And the others too (look up), I bet. [/Sarcasm.]
Do most people from Australia have such knowlege of the culture and belief systems of India?
There are thousands of Australians who’ve lived and/or settled in India. Many who have ties going all the way back to the Raj.
This crime is absolutely hideous. I’m at a loss for words. How widespread is it over there?
Rather sporadic.
I’ve read of reports where the local villagers descend upon the perpetrators and lynch them upon finding remains of children, well before the cops can get to them.
Almost all the time, these incidents happen in the hill-tribe areas of rural India which comprise of people who are officially listed as “adi vasis”, which in Sanskrit translates to “first inhabitants” - forest people. The locals don’t even consider them to be Hindus, but they are a protected class a-la Indian Reservations. They combine elements of mainstream Hinduism with their tribal culture.
If you’ve been following the news lately (especially on topics related to minerals/mining), a conflict is raging in these parts of India between the tribals and local mining agencies that want leasing permits to access their lands.
In traditional, historical aka “real” Hinduism there is absolutely no such thing as human sacrifice. Notice that other Hindus in India are shocked and horrified. These people are evil and ignorant. They’re as close to real Hindus as voodoo practitioners are to real Christianity.
You’ll probably like what I posted on #21.
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