The Village - 10

...The untouchables are still searching for their crimes which caused this exclusion forcing them to use the water shared by animals. Nobody is coming forward with any proof. However, the untouchables dare not approach the village wells not meant for them as few splattered brains here and there do not matter. Few bloodstained bodies lying here and there on the ground assure the high castes of their superiority and purity of their Varna. The blood flowing on the earth is merely dirty red thick water that comes dirt-cheap. The flash of untouchables looks good only when it is separated from their bodies in the cause of dharma. This would assure the souls of tormentors thousands of years in heaven for such brave and dharmic deeds. Even some of them would get the Moksha straight away. The Sanatana dharma would be eternally thankful to them. No, that is wrong; the Brahmas can never be thankful to any Hindu; see it was their (the tormentors’) Varna job they were doing – nothing personal about it. The impure souls of heathen untouchables would be separated from their impure bodies and take the birth of jackals, dogs, lizards and insects etc in their next life as a due punishment for taking the water from high caste well, resulting in violation of dharma. The heavens had never been happier. So the untouchables have to search for another source of water other than the upper caste wells. They may have to tread for miles altogether but they would do it even if it is scorching sun. They have to avoid the death at the hands of dharma defenders. They have to minimize their sufferings.

Few people going without water is immaterial; dharma is supreme.

This infallible and supreme dharma suddenly developed paralysis when faced Muslim invaders and British colonizers. It immediately went into a mode of capitulation and submissive, egoless cooperation with such adharmic people – the cow-eaters. The superiority mingled with earth and nobody objected but everybody objected to the use of village well by untouchables; perfectly logical; only the armless people with half filled bellies could be shown dharma but not the adharmic people backed with full armies. The village well cannot be used by untouchables though the dharma can be buried under the feet of Muslims and British. The priorities were clear-cut; rule of dharma in case of untouchables and rule of foreigners in case of Muslims and British; a clean and crystal clear piece of thinking; knowing which side of the bread was buttered; bending with the wind and hunting the hare...