It is now over 500 years that the Portuguese landed in Goa
followed by the Christianity. When the Portuguese came to Goa they introduced
certain discipline and system for the people
inhabiting on this land
because even though the inhabitants of
this land in the pre-Portuguese era possessed certain qualities different from
those of the people beyond the borders
of Goa yet the fine tuning of their disciplinary character was conducted by the
Portuguese in Goa. By nature Portuguese were kind and mild hearted, they were
sincere and straight forward and not like cunning. Being the Christians from Roman Catholicism,
Portuguese religious system introduced the time consuming rites in the Churches
and in their prayers, these rites and prayers kept the faithful constantly on
their toes and busy, of course many times unnecessarily without any Biblical
significance and this fallacy is now exposed by the innumerable Non-Catholic
Christian denominations which are mushrooming all over Goa and also in other
parts of the World. These denominations headed by their clever and holy pastors
are all out to pin point the wrongly delivered Christian doctrine by the
Catholics and when they do so much openly and aggressively exposing and yet RC are keeping their silence.
For example, according to one Pastor, the
Catholic leadership wants to keep the faithful constantly busy as per the
wishes of the Colonialists so that these people will think nothing and also
will do nothing much except religion even though it is in the wrong
way. See we Catholics are celebrating
the Feasts of innumerable Saints whom we adore so much spending so much of our time daily on our knees praying for them that we even forget Jesus Christ by ignoring Him. Is it right to do so? Who are Saints and who is Jesus Christ? In fact all these Saints prayed to Jesus
Christ only. When these Saints adored
and prayed to Jesus Chriust and even sacrificed their life, they attained the
Heavenly bliss and when this is the case is it right on our part to ignore
Jesus Christ and embrace the Saints ?
However, inspite of this, the
Portuguese were more humane and being so they were not discriminators as their
counterparts the British in other parts of India were.
One of
the reasons why the Goans are accepted as good and decent people while those
from other parts of Bahrat as cunning,
rough, rude, uncultured and corrupt because these attributes they learnt more
from the British which finally the British bequeathed to the Indians who are
known even in the outside world as cunning and crook people if not the major
portion then at least very many as compared to Goans most of whom are very good
in character and discipline. Many times many Kuwaitis while I was in Kuwait
asked me why the Goans are totally different from those Indians from other
parts of India? They found Goans of much
superior quality. We as far as our decency, discipline and character are
concerned have reached to such a top height
but suddenly and unexpectedly there applied a brake to our progress and development
by Nehru’s Bharat on 19th December in
1961 when our Goa was suddenly and
forcibly acquired with the mighty military force of about 20 thousand troop by
Bharat without our consent and that too in the name of liberation and turned Goa into like any
other corrupt place in Bharat. What character and discipline people saw in
Goans after the forcible acquisition of
Goa on 19.12.61 was just a shadow of the rich pristine genuine Goans’ character
and discipline.
To be concluded/2.
