After committing many sins, a dead person is reborn as an earthworm and lives as an earthworm for 84,000 years. I am afraid that this punishment awaits you. Ruben Vardanyan to Nikol Pashinyan

STATEMENT OF RUBEN VARDANYAN

(Transferred during a phone conversation with the family)

May 25, 2026.

May 25 It is Ruben Vardanyan’s birthday. This is already the third birthday that he spends under illegal detention in Baku.

On his birthday, he addressed the Armenian people in Armenian.

In the statement, Ruben Vardanyan also refers to the military parade scheduled for May 28. He considers that holding a military parade in today’s situation is immoral, because Armenian soldiers and officers are in Azeri prisons, do not have normal contact with their relatives, do not feel in any way that there is a state behind them.

At the end of the statement, Ruben Vardanyan talks about serving and mentions the concept of “Dasa” (Sanskrit: dāsa): “servant”, “faithful”, “a person who has dedicated himself to service”. This is the name of one of the spiritual characters of the main character in Hermann Hesse’s book “The Game of Spinners”, which passes from illusion to service.

The transcript of the statement is presented below.

“Dear compatriots,

Although it is difficult for me, I want to send a message in Armenian, because I consider it very important. I want to convey 5 thoughts to you from here, hoping that you will understand me correctly.

First of all, I want to remind again that Kaj Nazar is elected king by the people, he does not become king. I want to remind everyone so that we don’t forget about this.

Secondly, dear Kaj Nazar Nikol, you were not lucky three times. First, I have loved to read since I was a child, and Erich Maria Remarque was one of my favorite writers when I was young. Secondly, while I was alone in the detention cell for 800 days, I read a lot of books and tried to preserve my Armenian, and I tried to find books by Armenian writers in the library. Unfortunately, there were only two books in Armenian in the library: one by {Vardges} Petrosyan, the other by Dzerzh. It was very surprising for me, I did not know that you are such a famous writer. And after reading your book, I became convinced that you not only have serious problems in terms of your moral behavior, education, and other problems, that you are a liar, an inventor, etc., you are also a plagiarist. And let me tell you that it surprised me a lot because, being a journalist, you know that theft, {intellectual} property, books cannot be stolen, but you did it very calmly, and not from one, but from several writers. And your shortcomings, of course, your mistakes, your behavior makes me very sad. And I am sadly afraid that what you are doing is a great punishment for you, and you know, in India, when a person dies, they believe that he is reborn into other people or animals, and the greatest punishment is that after committing many sins, the dead person is reborn into an earthworm and lives as an earthworm for 84,000 years. I am afraid that this punishment awaits you, I hope that there is still time for it not to happen, but I have doubts that it is already too late.

Thirdly, I want to say that we all must understand that there is a big challenge before us. this is not a question of elections, this is a question that the war is not over, the war continues, and the war continues not militarily, but in other ways. And now, when they are trying to fight us in Russia and the European Union, the most dangerous thing is that in the end we will fall under the power of the third power, and that third power is sitting and waiting to see how we will become dependent on it, economically, materially, informationally, technologically, and with everything. And if someone doesn’t understand that, I want to say that we all must understand that if we do nothing, it will happen very quickly, and this is a very big danger, that if we don’t change our behavior, neither Russia nor the European Union awaits us, we become a province of Turkey.

Fourth, they are discussing here that a military parade is being prepared on May 28. It seems to me that it is immoral when at the same time soldiers and officers are prisoners and are in the prison of Azerbaijan. I want to remind you again that the army is not built by parades, money and weapons or titles, but most importantly by spirit, moral and patriotic spirit, and I call on everyone who is truly patriotic not to participate in that parade, because it is immoral in this situation, when our officers and soldiers are here, you parade. It doesn’t leave me alone, because I consider it immoral that our boys have been here for 6 years, they don’t have the opportunity to receive photos, letters, clothes from their relatives. Another issue is that it is not organized by Armenia in any way, the commander-in-chief, who was defeated, does nothing to make those people at least feel that the state stands behind them.

Fifth, remember that the greatest danger is indifference, indifference is more dangerous than all other defects. The opposite of love is not hatred, it is indifference, the opposite of goodness is not evil, it is indifference, the opposite of faith is not rejection of God, it is indifference, and the opposite of life is not death, it is indifference. And in order for us to have our state, to be proud of being a citizen of that state, no one owes us anything, we must not be indifferent, and we must do everything to preserve our state, we must all understand in our place that no one, one person alone can change the situation, we all must do everything together to preserve our country, so that we have an independent state. And finally, I want to say that it is happiness for me to volunteer and be grateful to God, to love everyone and everything, and to overcome temptations, to learn every second until the last breath of my life, and to give all that I know, that I can do to the world, repaying my endless debt to God for my happiness. And I am happy that I can do all that until the last breath of my life.

I am a humble servant of God, “I am Ruben (दास-दास (dāsa), the son of Karlen and Irina, a Russian-minded Armenian, a member of the Association of Interpreters of Meanings, a person who is happy that there is an opportunity for him to dedicate his life to his homeland and the world, to serve everyone with love and faith. And I want all of us to understand that our future is in our hands, not in someone else’s hands, and I am sure that we can do everything and will do that future Be enlightened, be kind, and be based on principles and values. I hope that all the people who are doing wrong things and have a wrong approach to it will understand and change their approach. If not, I forgive them all, I love them all.”