...there were historical reasons rooted in the past and the structure of Hindu society for absence of any big army in north India. There was no big king in north India at the time of Muslim invasion. This indicates that no king could command loyalties of a large number of people. And the loyalties were related to caste and to sustenance. To have a big standing army or to have the local rulers supply a large number of soldiers, one needed to have a command over a large number of resources. The army had to be paid in kind or money; larger the army larger the payment and larger the resources required. However there was no big army indicates that the small kings were lacking in resources. The small kings with small dharmic kingdoms did not have large resources to raise large armies to fight the adharmic invaders. Of course, they could have united, but that meant willing to die for others, the concept that was quite lacking in Hindu society. And what would have happened to fault lines along bloodlines? The overwhelming pride of Kshatriyas in their bravery which was the direct result of atmosphere of by and large a demilitarized society was no substitute for the need of big army. The valiant and non-retreating Muslim armies were not in a mood to be cowed down by the presence of God created bravery in Hindu society. And they had a cause to die for and a unity to fight with. This concept of God created bravery of Kshatriyas’ could have terrorized the weaker segments of Hindu society but the outsiders were a different proposition. The Muslims looked for weaknesses in fractured Hindu sides like disunity and a lack of loyalties. As we have seen that the loyalties are caste related and not village or land related. And in bravery and resources the Muslims were second to none. Not even to the holders of God created bravery. The inherited attributes according to Varna dharma were simply useless. The victories of Muslims simply rubbished the inherent bravery. The Muslim rule made a mockery of right to rule of Kshatriyas. And still nothing happened to Varna dharma. The Delhi sultanate by and large limited itself to urban centers and the Mughals made a peace with upper castes. The bottom of the heap remained by and large unaffected. The dastardly Panchayats ruled in rural areas and maintained the Varna dharma.
The society had multiple centers of power. These centers were kings, Brahmans, temples and village caste Panchayats. These power centers had their own existence independent of each other. And all of them helped in maintaining Varna dharma. Brahmans were not under the rule of kings. Similarly the temples were very wealthy and socially very powerful but not under the control of kings. They were by and large autonomous and received heavy land grants from kings and donations from others. The temples were accumulating fabulous wealth while the Shudras and untouchables were eating grains cleaned out of cow dung and bread made out of fodder and grass. There was divine and dharmic justice in favor of Brahmans and other higher Varnas. These temples did not provide army or resources to king in case of need. The wealth of temples became very famous outside India and attracted the attention of invaders who came earlier only to rob the rich temples of their fabulous wealth. The came and looted and destroyed the temples. They dug out their walls and foundations to find the gold buried in them. And the Brahmanas waited for miracles and/or reincarnations assuming that they had accumulated a very large amount of dharmic Karmas to help them out of the situation; however such hopes based on unfailing Shastras were belied. Their purity and their Karmas were not sufficient to save the temples. No king was powerful enough to stop the looting and destruction of temples....
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The tolerance of Hindu religion - 3
...the intolerance of Hindus moves inward and tolerance moves outward. It is all relative. The Brahmans were more pliant than all the others. They simply disowned the idol worship to avoid the Jaziya tax imposed by Muslim rulers on Hindus. The Jaziya tax was not to be imposed on people of book like Koran and Bible. The Brahmans disowned the holy trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh and the temples and rest of the Hindus and claimed that their sole allegiance was to their books; the four Vedas which made them the people of book – ahle-e-kitab. The people of book were not liable to be taxed under Jaziy tax. Thus they avoided the Jaziya tax. It is a classic example of their flexibility and of not having any answerability toward other Hindus who are lower then them. They disowned the Hindus and their gods and nobody thought to question them. It was a complete lack of indignation at betrayal.
The emergence of tolerance seems to be the result of the relative lack of might of Hindu religion against Muslims. Showing intolerance and opposing Muslims and their mosques might have resulted in a quick and brutal show of might of state. Muslims were the rulers. The fear of reprisals helped the development of Hindu tolerance.
One of the reasons among several others for the Hindus losing out to Muslims was the finely divided and graded society along bloodlines and purity. Such a fine, scientific and divine division labor produced a society where people could not link to each other because the bloodlines separated them with in caste. A demilitarized society of thousands jatis could not produce a homogeneous group of warring people large enough in numbers to tackle the militarized society of Islam where people were linked to each other in the name of Islam – the worshipiing is secondary in Hindu society not the stratification. The linking of society in India was provided by the caste not by the religion. The new religion of Islam promised equality to its followers and a share in loot to soldiers. The Islamic soldiers did not most probably understand the concept of equality but they fully understood the importance of a share of loot that prompted them to join Islam and Islamic army and a promise to go to heaven and live there with the Hoors if they were martyred in the cause of Islam. And there was no concept of dying for a cause in India. Therefore there is no equivalent to word “martyr” in Indian languages. There was no cause worth fighting for except political cause. There was indeed concept of killing and mutilating Shudras and untouchables for dharma. But there was no concept of giving up one’s own life for dharma. The absence of such a concept was also the contributory reason for outward tolerance of Hindu religion and absence of crusades in Sanatana dharma. Some castes were wiling to die for their honor but not for a cause. Nobody was willing to die so everybody got subjugated. Why die for a cause or for others? Absolutely there was no point. Willingness to die for their religion separated Muslims from Hindus. The Hindus fought for money, the valiant but purely mercenary soldiers.
In the presence of such situation, one alternative to avoid defeat was to have a large army of mercenary Hindu soldiers though finely divided into different non-inter dining jatis. The sheer size could have compensated for the weakness created by the irrevocable divisions in the Hindu society. The army that was big enough to repel the attacks was the need of the honor. The people who could not eat together could not fight together on sustainable basis though they could fight together on a temporary basis until some real danger presented itself. The only motive to fight was to provide sustenance to oneself. These people deserted the army whenever defeat looked...
The emergence of tolerance seems to be the result of the relative lack of might of Hindu religion against Muslims. Showing intolerance and opposing Muslims and their mosques might have resulted in a quick and brutal show of might of state. Muslims were the rulers. The fear of reprisals helped the development of Hindu tolerance.
One of the reasons among several others for the Hindus losing out to Muslims was the finely divided and graded society along bloodlines and purity. Such a fine, scientific and divine division labor produced a society where people could not link to each other because the bloodlines separated them with in caste. A demilitarized society of thousands jatis could not produce a homogeneous group of warring people large enough in numbers to tackle the militarized society of Islam where people were linked to each other in the name of Islam – the worshipiing is secondary in Hindu society not the stratification. The linking of society in India was provided by the caste not by the religion. The new religion of Islam promised equality to its followers and a share in loot to soldiers. The Islamic soldiers did not most probably understand the concept of equality but they fully understood the importance of a share of loot that prompted them to join Islam and Islamic army and a promise to go to heaven and live there with the Hoors if they were martyred in the cause of Islam. And there was no concept of dying for a cause in India. Therefore there is no equivalent to word “martyr” in Indian languages. There was no cause worth fighting for except political cause. There was indeed concept of killing and mutilating Shudras and untouchables for dharma. But there was no concept of giving up one’s own life for dharma. The absence of such a concept was also the contributory reason for outward tolerance of Hindu religion and absence of crusades in Sanatana dharma. Some castes were wiling to die for their honor but not for a cause. Nobody was willing to die so everybody got subjugated. Why die for a cause or for others? Absolutely there was no point. Willingness to die for their religion separated Muslims from Hindus. The Hindus fought for money, the valiant but purely mercenary soldiers.
In the presence of such situation, one alternative to avoid defeat was to have a large army of mercenary Hindu soldiers though finely divided into different non-inter dining jatis. The sheer size could have compensated for the weakness created by the irrevocable divisions in the Hindu society. The army that was big enough to repel the attacks was the need of the honor. The people who could not eat together could not fight together on sustainable basis though they could fight together on a temporary basis until some real danger presented itself. The only motive to fight was to provide sustenance to oneself. These people deserted the army whenever defeat looked...
Monday, March 9, 2009
The tolerance of Hindu religion - 2
...we have to see that why the Hindus who cannot tolerate the presence of an untouchable, pliantly capitulated before Muslims as if though it was their favored wish or it was in their destiny? Why they became so tolerant while maintaining intolerance about entry of untouchables into temples? The Muslims came and they plundered as they wished and came ultimately to rule over Hindus. Nobody really offered any effective resistance. The outsiders were welcome but not the people of their own villages.
The mightless people of Hindu society (untouchables) have never experienced Hindu tolerance as widely claimed. The tolerance was reserved for Muslims and British. The controls of society, state and economy were reserved for the higher Varnas. Special favors were reserved for special people, not for the people from bottom of the heap. The intolerance of Hindu society and religion is pretty evident in the ever hanging sword of violence over the heads of untouchables under the eternal guidance of the pious lawmakers, the Brahmans - the swindlers. The untouchables are friendless, landless, weaponless, statusless, hungry, isolated and permanently exploited people at the bottom of the heap of Hindu society; victimizing them is the natural order of the things. It is the eternal dharma.
The king cobra always raises its hood to its full height whenever any mice raise their voice in favor of equality or challenge it. It no longer remains a suppliant and compliant rabbit. After all, its honor is at stake - the untouchables dare to raise their worthless heads. The honor on which the foreign rulers treaded with impunity gets a sudden upsurge and evidents itself in full form. A frequent, quick and decisive violence is inflicted at the bottom portion of the Hindu society by the upper portion; tradition that is. The worthless dirty thick red water that flows out dying untouchables’ veins is a foolproof evidence of tolerance of Hindu religion. It is just a routine, nothing much to be talked about. Just in a day’s work. The tolerance does not mean that the bottom of the heap can revolt. One has to be out of his mind if one thinks so....
The mightless people of Hindu society (untouchables) have never experienced Hindu tolerance as widely claimed. The tolerance was reserved for Muslims and British. The controls of society, state and economy were reserved for the higher Varnas. Special favors were reserved for special people, not for the people from bottom of the heap. The intolerance of Hindu society and religion is pretty evident in the ever hanging sword of violence over the heads of untouchables under the eternal guidance of the pious lawmakers, the Brahmans - the swindlers. The untouchables are friendless, landless, weaponless, statusless, hungry, isolated and permanently exploited people at the bottom of the heap of Hindu society; victimizing them is the natural order of the things. It is the eternal dharma.
The king cobra always raises its hood to its full height whenever any mice raise their voice in favor of equality or challenge it. It no longer remains a suppliant and compliant rabbit. After all, its honor is at stake - the untouchables dare to raise their worthless heads. The honor on which the foreign rulers treaded with impunity gets a sudden upsurge and evidents itself in full form. A frequent, quick and decisive violence is inflicted at the bottom portion of the Hindu society by the upper portion; tradition that is. The worthless dirty thick red water that flows out dying untouchables’ veins is a foolproof evidence of tolerance of Hindu religion. It is just a routine, nothing much to be talked about. Just in a day’s work. The tolerance does not mean that the bottom of the heap can revolt. One has to be out of his mind if one thinks so....
Monday, February 23, 2009
The tolerance of Hindu religion - 1
...the paeans are sung in praise of tolerance of Hindu religion. It is in contrast to intolerant stand of other two major religions, the Christianity and the Islam. The tolerance of Hindu religion is said to be very high. All the people coming to this subcontinent were assimilated into Hindu religion with the exception of Muslims and British. The Greeks, the Scythians, the Huns, the Parthians, the Kushans and others who came to India as invaders or migrants were ultimately assimilated in Hindu society to the extent that now they are not separately recognizable. They lost their original identities.
The invaders were co-opted by giving them Kshatriya status and poor migrating communities were assimilated as Shudras. There were Shudras who never knew when they became Shudras and became a part of Hindu society. These Shudras either came from outside or lived in the region of India which had not come under cultural hegemony of Brahmans. The assimilative powers of Hindu religion have been grand but they were ineffective in case last two major rulers of this mammoth land. These assimilations have taken place without any involvement of violence. There have been no crusades. The Hindu religion is not proselytizing. Nobody has gone converting people to Hinduism. There has been no prescribed method of converting a man to Hinduism.
The spread of Vedic religion has been patronage oriented. By and large the concept of Vedic and later Hindu gods seems to have been superior to the local gods of local people. Additionally the reincarnations were already there to appropriate local and tribal gods. If one patronizes Brahmans or protects them and accept their superiority and scriptural authority then he becomes a Hindu and that too a Kshatriya if he is a ruler. However, there have been real conversions in history to Vedic religion. If a poor migrating community starts worshipping gods from Hindu pantheon then over a period of time, then they automatically become part of Hindus. They become Shudras, if they are doing clean jobs and untouchables if they are doing unclean jobs. The Muslims and British refused to accept the superiority of Brahmans and thus maintained their separate identity.
The Hindu society and religion itself consist of groups that worship different gods and still live peacefully with each other. This is idol mode of worship that cuts across caste and deity lines in the Hindu society. The only condition is that the deities worshipped must belong to Hindu pantheon or be a reincarnation of them. The deities may be worshipped singularly or in groups. The Shudras and women are prevented from studying Vedas but not from idol worship. The religious dictums of Hindus do not prevent them from worshipping any god from Hindu pantheon. This worshipping of different gods by different people does not create any antagonistic feelings among the followers of different gods. One of the reason for existence of peace is that mode of worship is secondary in Hindu society and acceptance of traditional stratification primary. A Hindu from any jati has the freedom of choice in worshipping the god/s and/or goddess/s of his liking from Hindu pantheon but with two restrictions; one is that the priest of a temple can only be a Brahman and second is that every fifth Hindu (untouchable) is not allowed to enter the sacred and pure temples for the fear of defiling the undefilable god. The faith in any of the gods or deities has no bearing on jati or Varna of any individual. This can also not be a basis for exclusion from caste; the most powerful weapon in the hands of Varna dharma. So any person from any caste can worship the holy trinity of Hindus, Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh as long as he believes in superiority of higher Varnas. The grouping in Hindu society is on the basis of jati not on the basis of favored deity. The identification of trinity with the Absolute eliminates any basic differences between them. Thus there are no differences and no antagonism. The concept of reincarnation takes care of local deities and also eliminates basic differences of deities. The goddess have been taken as being complimentary to gods and are usually their wives otherwise reincarnation of their wives. Thus basic difference problem among followers of different deities is amicably solved. All the loopholes that can provide basic differences are plugged. And then what appears is a tolerant religion.
However this tower of tolerance stands on the cries of untouchables. Their cries go unheard. These people living barely at sustenance level hardly receive any iota of tolerance. They are invisible to this persona of tolerance. The acclaimed tolerance develops myopic vision when it comes to fifth stratum. At their sight the tolerance turns into a king cobra looking at mice; the fangs outstretched.
However, the Hindu religion did not react violently to the entry of Muslims and British. The presence of Mosques and Churches was peacefully tolerated. In this calm scenario of peaceful coexistence one thing must be remembered is the relative capacity of Hindu dharma to react aggressively under adverse conditions. It looked at the small presence of Parsis and earlier catholic Syrian Christians with passive indifference bordering on smugness. Secondly these people were not violating Varna dharma since they did not have any. There were always chances of assimilating them through the system of reincarnations. However such hopes were belied but not destructive. Such was not to be the case with Muslims. In the presence of Muslims; the smug, powerful, lazy constricting python got converted into pliant tolerating rabbit mildly hoping to convert Mohammad into a reincarnation of Lord Vishnu. Again the hopes were belied. However it kept its king cobra character for untouchables. The Muslims always treated Hindus as heathen idol worshippers since the idols do not have any actual power. They refused to take heathen Brahmans; the idol worshippers; as their superiors unlike earlier invaders; they derived their mental strength from their own religious dictum; the Koran. The earlier invaders had their tribal deities with limited powers related to nature which ultimately lost out to ultra powerful Hindu deities namely the holy trinity. Muslims also had their concept of all powerful Allah that was more than a match to Hindu concept of God. There was no way in which one Absolute could be proved superior to another Absolute. Thus nobody yielded totally though Islam, over the course of time, came to occupy about one fourth of the Hindu turf...
The invaders were co-opted by giving them Kshatriya status and poor migrating communities were assimilated as Shudras. There were Shudras who never knew when they became Shudras and became a part of Hindu society. These Shudras either came from outside or lived in the region of India which had not come under cultural hegemony of Brahmans. The assimilative powers of Hindu religion have been grand but they were ineffective in case last two major rulers of this mammoth land. These assimilations have taken place without any involvement of violence. There have been no crusades. The Hindu religion is not proselytizing. Nobody has gone converting people to Hinduism. There has been no prescribed method of converting a man to Hinduism.
The spread of Vedic religion has been patronage oriented. By and large the concept of Vedic and later Hindu gods seems to have been superior to the local gods of local people. Additionally the reincarnations were already there to appropriate local and tribal gods. If one patronizes Brahmans or protects them and accept their superiority and scriptural authority then he becomes a Hindu and that too a Kshatriya if he is a ruler. However, there have been real conversions in history to Vedic religion. If a poor migrating community starts worshipping gods from Hindu pantheon then over a period of time, then they automatically become part of Hindus. They become Shudras, if they are doing clean jobs and untouchables if they are doing unclean jobs. The Muslims and British refused to accept the superiority of Brahmans and thus maintained their separate identity.
The Hindu society and religion itself consist of groups that worship different gods and still live peacefully with each other. This is idol mode of worship that cuts across caste and deity lines in the Hindu society. The only condition is that the deities worshipped must belong to Hindu pantheon or be a reincarnation of them. The deities may be worshipped singularly or in groups. The Shudras and women are prevented from studying Vedas but not from idol worship. The religious dictums of Hindus do not prevent them from worshipping any god from Hindu pantheon. This worshipping of different gods by different people does not create any antagonistic feelings among the followers of different gods. One of the reason for existence of peace is that mode of worship is secondary in Hindu society and acceptance of traditional stratification primary. A Hindu from any jati has the freedom of choice in worshipping the god/s and/or goddess/s of his liking from Hindu pantheon but with two restrictions; one is that the priest of a temple can only be a Brahman and second is that every fifth Hindu (untouchable) is not allowed to enter the sacred and pure temples for the fear of defiling the undefilable god. The faith in any of the gods or deities has no bearing on jati or Varna of any individual. This can also not be a basis for exclusion from caste; the most powerful weapon in the hands of Varna dharma. So any person from any caste can worship the holy trinity of Hindus, Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh as long as he believes in superiority of higher Varnas. The grouping in Hindu society is on the basis of jati not on the basis of favored deity. The identification of trinity with the Absolute eliminates any basic differences between them. Thus there are no differences and no antagonism. The concept of reincarnation takes care of local deities and also eliminates basic differences of deities. The goddess have been taken as being complimentary to gods and are usually their wives otherwise reincarnation of their wives. Thus basic difference problem among followers of different deities is amicably solved. All the loopholes that can provide basic differences are plugged. And then what appears is a tolerant religion.
However this tower of tolerance stands on the cries of untouchables. Their cries go unheard. These people living barely at sustenance level hardly receive any iota of tolerance. They are invisible to this persona of tolerance. The acclaimed tolerance develops myopic vision when it comes to fifth stratum. At their sight the tolerance turns into a king cobra looking at mice; the fangs outstretched.
However, the Hindu religion did not react violently to the entry of Muslims and British. The presence of Mosques and Churches was peacefully tolerated. In this calm scenario of peaceful coexistence one thing must be remembered is the relative capacity of Hindu dharma to react aggressively under adverse conditions. It looked at the small presence of Parsis and earlier catholic Syrian Christians with passive indifference bordering on smugness. Secondly these people were not violating Varna dharma since they did not have any. There were always chances of assimilating them through the system of reincarnations. However such hopes were belied but not destructive. Such was not to be the case with Muslims. In the presence of Muslims; the smug, powerful, lazy constricting python got converted into pliant tolerating rabbit mildly hoping to convert Mohammad into a reincarnation of Lord Vishnu. Again the hopes were belied. However it kept its king cobra character for untouchables. The Muslims always treated Hindus as heathen idol worshippers since the idols do not have any actual power. They refused to take heathen Brahmans; the idol worshippers; as their superiors unlike earlier invaders; they derived their mental strength from their own religious dictum; the Koran. The earlier invaders had their tribal deities with limited powers related to nature which ultimately lost out to ultra powerful Hindu deities namely the holy trinity. Muslims also had their concept of all powerful Allah that was more than a match to Hindu concept of God. There was no way in which one Absolute could be proved superior to another Absolute. Thus nobody yielded totally though Islam, over the course of time, came to occupy about one fourth of the Hindu turf...
Monday, January 5, 2009
Spirituality 13
...However, such a spiritual community required a full community of born servants (the Shudras) to serve it. The Shudra are supposed to serve the Brahmans because of their fault of being born in an impure and powerless Varna due to faulty accumulated Karmas of their past lives. The Shudras are supposed to provide them with the same material comforts in which they are supposed to be disinterested in. A strange kind of spirituality prevails here. They needed all the land grants in the world for such otherworldly purpose. They needed all the plum administrative and judicial jobs to maintain their spiritual needs. This otherworldliness circulates around them and raises them to a higher level from where they can watch people committing atrocities on their behalf without sharing a bit of responsibility; it is all for the cause of dharma; they have nothing to do with it. They have to have all the top jobs with the kings. They have to be their guides. You see how astoundingly unworldly it is to be the guides of kings, have all the land grants and enjoy the facility of Niyoga. They are provided all these jobs and facilities through non-materialistic scriptures. The king who upholds dharma has to be secondary to them. Like all true materialists they do not believe in jobs giving them pittance. All the powerful jobs are reserved for them. Like all power hungry people they want indirect power through dharma and kings and of course through built up of tradition in their favor. But after all this they maintain their unquestionable spirituality. The impure lower strata do not have a right to question these pure, pious, honest, truthful, simple and spiritual people. These ancient lawmakers through their birth right would not hesitate in classifying their land and power jobs as being essential to upholding of dharma and hence spiritual. There is the real magic; everything is fair under the cover of dharma. And mutilating justice is also spiritual because it helps in upholding the dharma. Thus all the material things can be endowed with spirituality if they help in maintenance of divinely ordained social, religious, political and economic power structure. It is like crime committed by a Brahman is not a crime, so no punishment. But the same crime committed by a Shudra is a ghastly crime. It is just incidentally that they are forced to use all these materialistic things for the cause of dharma. This combination of spirituality and materialism was hard to beat. The now much hated materialism, was much endearing to Brahmanas, as is evident in land grants to them, in their control over sacred, money guzzeling temples, the power they yielded in the society and an army of born servants to serve them. Many temples had become richer than the richest Vaisya and even small kings. At the same time they accuse the Western society as being materialistic. The spiritual Brahmans were as near to crass materialism as a scavenger is near to garbage dump. One of the underlying assumptions behind criticism of Western (modern West) exploitative materialism is that they give a very humanistic treatment to Shudras and untouchables. However, it was a case of permanent exploitation of the lowest two strata. The masters of hatred could not do anything else. How much maximum humanistic one can be toward people whom he hates and despises? The answer is near to Nullity. And it is supposed to move in southward direction from that point and progress further down without break until sustenance level of Shudras and untouchables is reached. Remember these people were forced sometimes to eat the grain cleaned out of cow dung and bread made out of fodder...
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Spirituality 12
...Further the Vedas are certainly fallible since they contain imperfect knowledge as evident in Purusha sukta. And divinity certainly cannot be said to possess imperfect knowledge. So the Rig Veda along with Purusha sukta has to be a handiwork of mortal men; it is totally artificial and there is nothing divine about along with other three Vedas. And certainly there is no reason to believe the fantasy of Purusha sukta. The imagination of Rig Vedic people was fertile but it was that only - fertile.
The concept of Bruhm is also imaginary, as nobody has come forward in thousands of years to show any evidence about it. Of course the truth depends on permanency. If the Bruhm exists then the proofs for its existence must exist. Simply the biggest entity cannot hide itself. The existence of Bruhm is axiomatic with unsearchable proofs that are supposed to exist. The theory of Karma is also without any substance. No propagator of this theory has been able to produce any evidences in favor of rebirth with any reliable statistics; barring some delusional people who claim to have taken rebirth. Exactly linking the specified rewards of this birth with the specified and confirmed deeds of last birth for a correctly identified soul has also not taken place. The speculative and deemed final results are axiomatic so one has to believe in the existence of evidences or proofs that nobody has been able to establish for thousands of years. They might not be verifiable. All the proofs are missing for thousands of years. One has to take the words of Vedas, Rishis and spiritualists as proofs for the existence of anything they say. However, this fertile piece of imagination of shifting of rewards to next life is a reality of Hindu psyche and has played havoc with the lives of uncountable people all through the Indian history. Actually this is a separation of rewards being reaped by higher Varnas from their actions in this life.
A Brahman is a man who can endlessly argue about the existence of non-existence (Bruhm) and the non-existence of existence (the world) and unification of soul with Bruhm and also about Karma theory. And through such evolved process he acquires spiritual knowledge sitting at the feet of his gurus. The greatest achievement here is the unification of non-existent (soul) with the non-existent (Bruhm). Second is the holding the victims responsible for their oppression through Karma theory. This spiritual development strengthens their social base where everybody acknowledges his superior and divine knowledge about the world and divinity. More was his spiritual authority more was his control over the society and its resources....
The concept of Bruhm is also imaginary, as nobody has come forward in thousands of years to show any evidence about it. Of course the truth depends on permanency. If the Bruhm exists then the proofs for its existence must exist. Simply the biggest entity cannot hide itself. The existence of Bruhm is axiomatic with unsearchable proofs that are supposed to exist. The theory of Karma is also without any substance. No propagator of this theory has been able to produce any evidences in favor of rebirth with any reliable statistics; barring some delusional people who claim to have taken rebirth. Exactly linking the specified rewards of this birth with the specified and confirmed deeds of last birth for a correctly identified soul has also not taken place. The speculative and deemed final results are axiomatic so one has to believe in the existence of evidences or proofs that nobody has been able to establish for thousands of years. They might not be verifiable. All the proofs are missing for thousands of years. One has to take the words of Vedas, Rishis and spiritualists as proofs for the existence of anything they say. However, this fertile piece of imagination of shifting of rewards to next life is a reality of Hindu psyche and has played havoc with the lives of uncountable people all through the Indian history. Actually this is a separation of rewards being reaped by higher Varnas from their actions in this life.
A Brahman is a man who can endlessly argue about the existence of non-existence (Bruhm) and the non-existence of existence (the world) and unification of soul with Bruhm and also about Karma theory. And through such evolved process he acquires spiritual knowledge sitting at the feet of his gurus. The greatest achievement here is the unification of non-existent (soul) with the non-existent (Bruhm). Second is the holding the victims responsible for their oppression through Karma theory. This spiritual development strengthens their social base where everybody acknowledges his superior and divine knowledge about the world and divinity. More was his spiritual authority more was his control over the society and its resources....
Spirituality 12
...Further the Vedas are certainly fallible since they contain imperfect knowledge as evident in Purusha sukta. And divinity certainly cannot be said to possess imperfect knowledge. So the Rig Veda along with Purusha sukta has to be a handiwork of mortal men; it is totally artificial and there is nothing divine about along with other three Vedas. And certainly there is no reason to believe the fantasy of Purusha sukta. The imagination of Rig Vedic people was fertile but it was that only - fertile.
The concept of Bruhm is also imaginary, as nobody has come forward in thousands of years to show any evidence about it. Of course the truth depends on permanency. If the Bruhm exists then the proofs for its existence must exist. Simply the biggest entity cannot hide itself. The existence of Bruhm is axiomatic with unsearchable proofs that are supposed to exist. The theory of Karma is also without any substance. No propagator of this theory has been able to produce any evidences in favor of rebirth with any reliable statistics; barring some delusional people who claim to have taken rebirth. Exactly linking the specified rewards of this birth with the specified and confirmed deeds of last birth for a correctly identified soul has also not taken place. The speculative and deemed final results are axiomatic so one has to believe in the existence of evidences or proofs that nobody has been able to establish for thousands of years. They might not be verifiable. All the proofs are missing for thousands of years. One has to take the words of Vedas, Rishis and spiritualists as proofs for the existence of anything they say. However, this fertile piece of imagination of shifting of rewards to next life is a reality of Hindu psyche and has played havoc with the lives of uncountable people all through the Indian history. Actually this is a separation of rewards being reaped by higher Varnas from their actions in this life.
A Brahman is a man who can endlessly argue about the existence of non-existence (Bruhm) and the non-existence of existence (the world) and unification of soul with Bruhm and also about Karma theory. And through such evolved process he acquires spiritual knowledge sitting at the feet of his gurus. The greatest achievement here is the unification of non-existent (soul) with the non-existent (Bruhm). Second is the holding the victims responsible for their oppression through Karma theory. This spiritual development strengthens their social base where everybody acknowledges his superior and divine knowledge about the world and divinity. More was his spiritual authority more was his control over the society and its resources....
The concept of Bruhm is also imaginary, as nobody has come forward in thousands of years to show any evidence about it. Of course the truth depends on permanency. If the Bruhm exists then the proofs for its existence must exist. Simply the biggest entity cannot hide itself. The existence of Bruhm is axiomatic with unsearchable proofs that are supposed to exist. The theory of Karma is also without any substance. No propagator of this theory has been able to produce any evidences in favor of rebirth with any reliable statistics; barring some delusional people who claim to have taken rebirth. Exactly linking the specified rewards of this birth with the specified and confirmed deeds of last birth for a correctly identified soul has also not taken place. The speculative and deemed final results are axiomatic so one has to believe in the existence of evidences or proofs that nobody has been able to establish for thousands of years. They might not be verifiable. All the proofs are missing for thousands of years. One has to take the words of Vedas, Rishis and spiritualists as proofs for the existence of anything they say. However, this fertile piece of imagination of shifting of rewards to next life is a reality of Hindu psyche and has played havoc with the lives of uncountable people all through the Indian history. Actually this is a separation of rewards being reaped by higher Varnas from their actions in this life.
A Brahman is a man who can endlessly argue about the existence of non-existence (Bruhm) and the non-existence of existence (the world) and unification of soul with Bruhm and also about Karma theory. And through such evolved process he acquires spiritual knowledge sitting at the feet of his gurus. The greatest achievement here is the unification of non-existent (soul) with the non-existent (Bruhm). Second is the holding the victims responsible for their oppression through Karma theory. This spiritual development strengthens their social base where everybody acknowledges his superior and divine knowledge about the world and divinity. More was his spiritual authority more was his control over the society and its resources....
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Spirituality 11
Maximization of profit leads to neglect of spiritual side and values. In maximization of profits a man forgets his fellow human beings and maximizes the profit at others’ cost. Actually Hindu society is far ahead; it permanently neglects human beings. The higher Varnas maximize their gains at the cost of Shudras and untouchables who form the majority. The cruel, inhuman and permanent exploitation of Shudras and untouchables is a standing feature Hindu society. They do it eternally on eternal basis. Anything below permanent exploitation is below their dignity. They have a mixed standing army of forever servants on heredity basis. Since these servants come on the basis of heredity; the Hindu society never runs short of manual and still lower level servants. The more will come from where they came from. It simply takes a group of families of a servant jati to perpetuate itself to serve the dharma and higher Varnas without really getting anything in return.
In Rig Veda it is said that “Ekam Sat Vipra Bahuda Vadanti”. It means that there is only one truth (God) or Sat but wise men call him by different names. Or there is only one Absolute called by many names by knowledgeable men. However the same Absolute created a born servanthood in India and the same Absolute created brotherhood in West. These two Absolutes cannot be the same since a man created in West is essentially the same as created in East. This difference implies either a difference in men or a difference in Gods. According to scriptures of Hindu society the Varnas were created by the God with their inherent functions, which translates into inherent inequalities. Thus there have to be two Gods. If there is only one God then the differences in Varna dharma are created by man. Thus Hindu dharma has no divine origin and it is totally artificial creation of its lawmakers with scant regard to any kind of God. The God is falsely invoked to justify the Varna dharma. However, if the religion in West is artificial and the true religion of the world is Vedic dharma then the God is fascist. It is a difficult choice; take your pick or make and/or create another choice. An atheist would like to ignore the issue altogether. The Rig Vedic statement about only one God is more like a pretension to better understanding of the concept of God or a compromise between different sects. The exact nature of God is not told, neither the exact way of functioning of God. It was simply because the Rig Vedic people themselves did not know it...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Spirituality - 10
...There are three major points in development of spiritual philosophy. One is the separation of soul from body , the second is the separation of rewards of this life from the efforts of this life or the sufferings in this life from the deeds in this life (through Karma theory) and the third point is the identification of soul with God and their ultimate unification. The separation of soul from body allows the concept of rebirth and reincarnation. The concept of rebirth makes room for Karma theory. The concept of reincarnation allows for appropriation of others’ deities as the deities of Sanatana dharma thus leaving others a little room to play. Others lose their gods also. This allows maximum room for Sanatana dharma. The appropriation of a Buddha as a reincarnation of Vishnu is a fine example. Thus Sanatana dharma becomes all encompassing. The unification of soul with God, which is supposed to be the ultimate aim of Santana dharma, allows for the shifting of dreams and desires to next world. The ambition of Moksha is so high that it can only be achieved in next world. Thus the general population need not be ambitious in this life. The real world and its wealth could be left to twice-born while the born servants can go around doing the extremely necessary job of serving the people born to rule. The born to be dishonored can go around respecting the people born to be honored. The separation of rewards of this life from efforts of this life led to justification of permanent exploitation in the name of Karma. The theory Karma shifts the causation on to victims and their previous lives thus absolving the oppressors. This enabled the Brahmanas to righteously enjoy power and comforts at the expense of impure Shudras and polluting untouchables. Actually it is their heredity function or right. The Karma theory successfully prevents creation of any sympathy for the untouchables and their divinely ordained wretched lives. The untouchables do not have to de to visit the hell; it is created for them here only; this life is a veritable hell for them. In terms of current life the Karma theory amounts to reward without work (Karma) for Brahmans and punishment without crime for lower two strata. The Hindus regard the modern civilization as Western civilization with its roots in materialism. The materialism with its pursuit of maximum profit is regarded as dehumanizing in which the fellow human beings are seen as instruments of furthering one’s own material interests. Spiritualism is supposed to be superior to materialism with its emphasis on spiritual side and inherent absence exploitation. Hindu society with its spiritual development is supposed to be superior to dehumanizing materialism of West. Actually many defenders of Varna dharma regard the West and its modern ideas of equality and liberty as a contaminating source which have actually polluted this grand, ancient, sacred, pure, pious, innocent, spiritual, and divinely ordained civilization. However even the modern Western ideas were unable to reign in the vicious animals of dharma and untouchability....
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Spirituality - 9
...Further the Vedas are certainly fallible since they contain imperfect knowledge as evident in Purusha sukta. And divinity certainly cannot be said to possess imperfect knowledge. So the Rig Veda along with Purusha sukta has to be a handiwork of mortal men; it is totally artificial and there is nothing divine about along with other three Vedas. And certainly there is no reason to believe the fantasy of Purusha sukta. The imagination of Rig Vedic people was fertile but it was that only - fertile.
The concept of Bruhm is also imaginary, as nobody has come forward in thousands of years to show any evidence about it. Of course the truth depends on permanency. If the Bruhm exists then the proofs for its existence must exist. Simply the biggest entity cannot hide itself. The existence of Bruhm is axiomatic with unsearchable proofs that are supposed to exist. The theory of Karma is also without any substance. No propagator of this theory has been able to produce any evidences in favor of rebirth with any reliable statistics; barring some delusional people who claim to have taken rebirth. Exactly linking the specified rewards of this birth with the specified and confirmed deeds of last birth for a correctly identified soul has also not taken place. The speculative and deemed final results are axiomatic so one has to believe in the existence of evidences or proofs that nobody has been able to establish for thousands of years. They might not be verifiable. All the proofs are missing for thousands of years. One has to take the words of Vedas, Rishis and spiritualists as proofs for the existence of anything they say. However, this fertile piece of imagination of shifting of rewards to next life is a reality of Hindu psyche and has played havoc with the lives of uncountable people all through the Indian history. Actually this is a separation of rewards being reaped by higher Varnas from their actions in this life.
A Brahman is a man who can endlessly argue about the existence of non-existence (Bruhm) and the non-existence of existence (the world) and unification of soul with Bruhm and also about Karma theory. And through such evolved process he acquires spiritual knowledge sitting at the feet of his gurus. The greatest achievement here is the unification of non-existent (soul) with the non-existent (Bruhm). Second is the holding the victims responsible for their oppression through Karma theory. This spiritual development strengthens their social base where everybody acknowledges his superior and divine knowledge about the world and divinity. More was his spiritual authority more was his control over the society and its resources...
The concept of Bruhm is also imaginary, as nobody has come forward in thousands of years to show any evidence about it. Of course the truth depends on permanency. If the Bruhm exists then the proofs for its existence must exist. Simply the biggest entity cannot hide itself. The existence of Bruhm is axiomatic with unsearchable proofs that are supposed to exist. The theory of Karma is also without any substance. No propagator of this theory has been able to produce any evidences in favor of rebirth with any reliable statistics; barring some delusional people who claim to have taken rebirth. Exactly linking the specified rewards of this birth with the specified and confirmed deeds of last birth for a correctly identified soul has also not taken place. The speculative and deemed final results are axiomatic so one has to believe in the existence of evidences or proofs that nobody has been able to establish for thousands of years. They might not be verifiable. All the proofs are missing for thousands of years. One has to take the words of Vedas, Rishis and spiritualists as proofs for the existence of anything they say. However, this fertile piece of imagination of shifting of rewards to next life is a reality of Hindu psyche and has played havoc with the lives of uncountable people all through the Indian history. Actually this is a separation of rewards being reaped by higher Varnas from their actions in this life.
A Brahman is a man who can endlessly argue about the existence of non-existence (Bruhm) and the non-existence of existence (the world) and unification of soul with Bruhm and also about Karma theory. And through such evolved process he acquires spiritual knowledge sitting at the feet of his gurus. The greatest achievement here is the unification of non-existent (soul) with the non-existent (Bruhm). Second is the holding the victims responsible for their oppression through Karma theory. This spiritual development strengthens their social base where everybody acknowledges his superior and divine knowledge about the world and divinity. More was his spiritual authority more was his control over the society and its resources...
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