Lucknow, Sep 4 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday asserted that an invader can destroy a temple but cannot destroy faith. He said while invaders could erect structures over temples, they could never touch the Shri Ram and Shri Krishna enshrined in our hearts.
Speaking at a function held at the Reserve Police Lines in Lucknow on Janmashtami, Adityanath said, “We have been performing Govardhan Puja and circumambulation for the past 5,000 years, with devotees arriving in the hundreds of thousands.” He said this demonstrates that an invader can break the idols but not values.
“They can erect their own structures over temples, yet they could never even touch the Shri Ram and Shri Krishna enshrined in our hearts,” he said.
The chief minister said the Somnath temple was destroyed repeatedly, yet India rebuilt it time and again. The Shri Ram Mandir in Ayodhya was destroyed repeatedly, yet today it stands tall with its invincible flag (‘ajeya pataakaa’) flying high.
He said the temple of Lord Vishwanath in Kashi was destroyed repeatedly, yet Lokmata Ahilyabai Holkar, and in the modern era, Prime Minister Narendra Modi have restored it to its magnificent form.
“This shows that those who attempted to wipe us out, those who tried to destroy our faith, have themselves vanished into the pages of history. There is no one left to ask about them. Our ‘Bharat’ (India) remains alive and awakened to this day,” Adityanath said. PTI NAV ASD ASD
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