India, June 9 -- A week ago, the Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Upendra Dwivedi, visited Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya at his Ashram at Chitrakoot in Madhya Pradesh. He was in his uniform. The Swami claimed that he gave the General the same "diksha" with the Ram Mantra that Lord Hanuman received before conquering Lanka.

When the General asked him what dakshina he needed to give him the diksha, he said he wanted Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir as his Dakshina. When Ekalavya proved that he was better than Arjuna and his siblings, their guru, Dronacharya, asked him for his dakshina in the form of his right thumb.

By the way, Hanuman did not go to Lanka to meet Sita at the head of any army of monkeys. Rather, he went alone. Now that the General know...