Ever since his death, a lot has been written upon Bismarque the activist (though he detested being called as such and preferred being called as a “lover”), his works of life, his various campaigns, his music and his death, the aftermath and the court case. Comparatively, very less, in fact almost negligible has been reported ever in mainstream media about Bismarque the spiritual philosopher, the wandering monk with his self-invented, unique philosophy that never tried to propagate, because he believed in acceptance through experience and not through inculcation and indoctrination. That was Bismarque. A Twenty first Century Earth Citizen. This philosophy is core to his teachings collectively called as Bismarquism the other components being Dayagraha and Sot-Mog-Daya.
Very much similar, but not identical to Marx’s “New Man” and Che Guevara’s “El Hombre Nuovo”, Bismarque’s Twenty first Century Earth Citizen is above the boundaries of culture, religion, ethnicity and nationhood, always ready to shower his truth, love, and piety upon everything coming in his contact, living as well as non-living, irrespective of the sense of profit or gain. A self-sacrificing, free soul out on a mission of showering all the “self” upon the Cosmos, in order to nullify the differentiation between self and non self.
Twenty first Century Earth Citizen
As per Bismarque, all the existing organised and institutionalized religions have turned redundant in present times, as all of them have proved incapable of changing along the course of human evolution. Now it is the time to turn back to the roots. And new times require revolutionary solutions to age old maladies.
Similarly, the borders that divide humanity into different nations are fake and false, as originally Earth, without any barriers has acted as a common home to all its dwellers even since before the birth of humanity. Or in other words, Mother Earth itself is a huge nation encompassing everybody from plants, insects, fish, and animals to human beings.Hence he coined the term for himself, “Twenty first Century Earth Citizen”, a person who refuses to be categorised under the classification of religion, lives and realizes reality of present tense now and here, rejects the divisions caused by political boundaries and encompasses all and everybody as a manifestation of the same supreme power.
Dayagraha
Dayagraha is the second jewel of Bismarque’s teachings. It is a combination of Gandhiji’s theory of “Satyagraha”(fighting with the truth, for the truth), the Christian virtue of “Daya” (piety) and Hindu faith in “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” (entire world is a family).
As per Dayagraha, a Twenty first Century Earth Citizen should always behave towards fellow citizens with love, affection and piety. Irrespective of their pedestal in the race of evolution, insects, human beings, birds, fish and mammals, all will be looked towards with piety by the humanity entire.
Like smile, piety is highly infectious as well and will spread like a wild fire soon throughout the place. With this, an individual can appeal to another individual’s conscience or the collective conscience of the masses and bring a voluntary change of attitude and response.
With piety and kindness, the Earth will become a peaceful place with no space for negativity. The utopia of world peace won’t remain a utopia anymore and will become a reality. Perhaps though sounding highly impractical looking at today’s circumstances, one day this theory might lead to salvation of our planet.
Sot, Mog and Daya
The third fundamental element of Bismarquism after Twenty first century Earth Citizenship and Dayagraha is “Sot, Mog and Daya”, which in Konkani stands for Truth, Love and Piety.
According to Bismarque, every struggle for a righteous cause should be accomplished with these three virtues, failing which even the victory will be futile. An objective, as well as the means to achieve the objective, both should be equally spotless.
Sot/Truth is the basic unit of social existence. Most essential for fighting a righteous battle, this virtue having element of Godness in it which gives the fighter a moral leverage over the practical odds. Mog/Love according to him, is the very means as well as purpose of human life. The lubricant of life in every passing minute, the mantra that brings random energies to the ground state. That’s why Father had a distaste for the word activist. He called himself a zomnicho mogi (lover of the Earth), and didn’t approve being called an activist. Daya/Piety is a natural trait of human character to respect the existence of every entity, living or non-living. Respect towards nature with its all existing components and fellow humans.
It was his firm belief that an equal concentration of Sot-Mog-Daya in every human being will transform the world into a paradise, and bring all man created problems to end.
With his untimely death, the events that followed up and the large legacy of incomplete work that he left behind makes Bismarque philosophy still more relevant in times where humanity is marching ahead with jet speed upon the self-chosen path of self-destruction and catastrophe, where apocalypse isn’t out of vision and a full stop seems imminent, lest humanity doesn’t chooses to improve and mend its path.
