Secularism - a potent Hinduphobic tool

            Secularism is an idea to keep the government and religion separate. This was to prevent either few religious ideas dominating the governance or abusing it against others. It originated in Europe as few dominant catholic entities like Vatican controlled the states. To enable the other denominations to be safely practiced the idea of secularism was invented. Also with the advent of science, a lot of Church’s absurd ideas got exposed with time. Decoupling also gave a better environment to address the needs of science in a neutral way. Secularism ensured that the state will not have its own religion as official. Contrast this with the Islamic countries, where polity exists as an extension of religion. Many Christian dominated countries like Germany claim to be secular while masking their deep religious roots and influence. Though governance and constitution of United States give lots of religious freedom, with the current demographics, a non-Abrahamic idea is hardly going to be the point of discussion.

            In India, Secularism as sanctioned by the Constitution has been hijacked to serve not only selfish interests, but also target it against the Hindu majority. Counter to the spirit of the Constitution and weird ways we find it wrecking the real spirit, secularism has morphed into sickularism in India. Henceforth, we will use the term Sickularism for its current Indian morphology and study a few layers of its existence.

            Constantly being shamed by the media, pressures of modernism and consumerism, the Indian masses have been told that the current society ills are the burden of the past. Being a Hindu majority by demography, these players have sought to ignore the millennium of terrible invaders, colonizers, plunderers. Fault lines exist in every society. Western Indology’s myopic distorted prism has been bought lock, stock, and barrel by Indian educators, mythologists, sepoys, politicians and even worse Indian original thinkers, who now think with a twist. With a broad brush they have reduced all the problems of the society into Manu Smriti and Vedas. Not even one Vedic Sloka exists to support the current idea of casteism, but it doesn’t hamper the liars. Not even one critic has looked into the ill-portrayed Manu Smriti which has so many timeless treasures. Worser yet, they have taken such ridiculous, absurd arguments and applied it to the vast treasure trove of Dharmic scriptures. With the power of translation latitude, these twisted scholars have cast a deep net thanks to the absolute lack of counter narrative.

            What no pseudo historian or self appointed twisted Indologist is not ready to venture is the almost uniform standard of living in the Saravasti Valley civilization, without a trace of war or weapon or the wondrous travel accounts of foreigners for millennia from diverse cultures who showcase the amazing peace and prosperity of the Indic civilized areas. They are extremely silent about the lack of ideas like oppression, rebellion or mass unrest in our literature citing a lame idea that victors dictated the literature. Lack of intellectual honesty of scholars has been a perfect base which politicians and Breaking India forces have leveraged to the hilt.

At home: The focus on Dharma, the real quintessence of our civilization, has been slowly, yet systematically under assault.  Nowhere is this worst affected than our home. This is the place our Indian society has been afflicted the most and this is the only hope for us to recover. We have discarded shastras, dharma and time tested practices that brought peace and prosperity to chase the simple currency. We have totally misunderstood Sri and fell for the effects of Maya. If we were rooted in Sri, it implies that we will be rooted in Dharma, as the one who wears Sri – Srinivas will also be there. We have let go of the eternal Sanatana Dharma and settled for trinkets of Maya. This truth can be applied for other Indian Darshana terminology as well.

            Even a hundred years ago, reading Ramayana, Mahabharata and other scriptures have been part of the daily Indian life. The constant erosion of values has led to its inversion as we noted in an earlier article. Mahatma Gandhi has written that watching Harischandra drama drove the message of Speaking Truth – Satyam vada, deep in his heart, which provided the base for his Ahimsa movement. Today’s child wonders not only who Harischandra is, but more astonishingly why go through so many hoops to maintain Satya. The inability of the today’s society to see that Universe runs itself on Satya is at the crux of this bad example.

            The rich diversity in our deep thinking, without dharma, gives rise to deep corruption – not just in society, but also perverted ideas. Neither parents nor grandparents seem to have any connection to shastras. Even the knowledge of itihasas is from the perverted TV versions, mostly peddled by non practitioners, who deliberately twist it or reduce it to a level of junk soap. 

What can we do? 

Commit to learning the real meaning of our itihasas, shastras by reading originals with authentic traditional translations. Refrain from half baked non-practitioner's spurious interpretations.

Set time for regular Sadhana, however little.

Be an example for the kids to follow, lead them by personal example.

Understand your own temperment and follow an appropriate path.

Educate yourselves that Sanatana Dharma is way superior to Secularism or my way is only correct and rest are Satan - Abrahamic mindset. Realize Ekam Sat Vipraha Bahuda vadanti is a deep realization of the Universal Truth, not an adamant, illogical insistence of myopic peddling of one idea.

Once we understand the values, we automatically start living a life by a higher dictum, which elevates not just our mind, but also refines our buddhi. This creates a positive influence which ripples around to counter the abundance of tamas around.

At School: This front is severely weakened by the destruction of the entire traditional ecosystem.  Worse yet, the numerous Abrahamic influenced schools that dominate the market, besides strongly hinduphobic ideas circulated over incorrect facts and a syllabus and school system kept favorable for conversion are at the core of this rapidly degenerating front. 

What can we do?

• Parents must take serious interest in what kids are reading, Influence the ministries involved in setting up right syllabus.
• Supplement children’s school reading with more of information about the roots.
• Do not use your ignorance or lack of knowledge as an excuse.
• Have conversations with your children about our civilizational past, present and future.
• Make your regular reading of scriptures an example for the children to emulate.
• Learn Sanskrit, Tamil and other mother tongue (but read ancient texts)
• Promote Hinduism and not secularism. When schools curb only Hinduism expression, do not ignore this violation.
• Commit to learning the real meaning of our itihasas, shastras by reading originals with authentic traditional translations. Refrain from half baked non-practitioner's spurious interpretations.

 

In politics:  As we have swerved far away from dharma, the natural replacement is selfishness, driven by ego-centric ideas. As politicians, battle for the slice of the votebank opinion, Indian parties have mostly chosen the policy of splitting and dicing the society and keep them as pitted against one another. Instead of unifying the society for greater benefit and fight on issues, the basal strategy to keep the waters deliberately muddled enables them to fish in these waters. For decades, many parties have deliberately kept a minority appeasement to exploit the silent Hindu majority.

To make it worse, they use the deliberately distorted ideas of caste to deepen the chasms in the society. During the independence struggle, many reform efforts to cleanse the degraded varnashrama ideas included reviving the respect for the downtrodden as Harijan. But the perverse selfish interested politician of today has taken the message in the wrong direction by terming them as SC/ST and alienating them even further as Dalit. This enables not only extreme political exploitation as votebanks, but also lays a strong foundation for their conversion. With the rotten idea of caste based reservation, instead of socio-economic individual needs, the dirty Indian politician has wedged deeply to exploit the selfishness of the voter base.

            Today’s desperate dimwitted selfish politician is so arrogant that they cultivate support of fringe elements that openly sloganeer and support breaking India. At no point in human history has more stupidity be so crassly displayed.

            We have so many leftist/religion based communal organizations openly endorsing violence. Selfish parties, for their electoral arithmetic, are desperate to include extreme radical fringes. What is worse is the new mass phenomenon of selling votes for food or alcohol or petty trinkets. This has brought Indian democracy to its knees.

            The cancer has gone real worse with certain parties ready to break states for a chance to rule, even ready to break sections of Hindu society and declare them as a separate religious entity, despite no philosophical basis. The sole idea of certain political entities is to break Indian society not just to smaller, fragmented votebanks but also to enable their conversion to some bigoted Abrahamic idea. If challenged, the average Hindu gets openly tagged as communal or intolerant, while the same shady outfits encourage barbaric practices of Islam’s Triple Talaq or Nikah Mutah to pander to the radical ideologies’ votebank options.

What can we do?

• Understanding the importance of raja dharma is vital for the prosperity of the society and also for secularism to exist.
• Ensure the sanctity of democracy by properly choosing candidates and parties that respect it.
• Do not vote for the glamor or clout but on the actions and manifesto of the individual.
• When polity is bent on cashing the divisiveness instead of unifying the society, reject it mercilessly. When polity is reducing your vote to trade for cheap freebies or selfish or narrow minded ideas, reject it strongly.
• Embrace an all inclusive idea based on compassion. If polarization occurs for a narrow vision, reject it strongly, but if it happens because of standing up for a right cause, ignore the other side.

 

Influencers: Today we have mythologists like Devdutt Pattanaik who manufacture misinterpretations on the fly as scholarly insights with a mass consumption. We have Western Indologists like Sheldon Pollock who is funded by donors like Narayana Murthy to peddle twisted one sided ideas as the only correct scholarship. We have people like Wendy Doniger who brings defunct Freudism with extreme ferocity to find cheap place to influence. We have strongly hinduphobic, lie peddling characters like Audrey Truschke who use India as a market to profit by injecting lies from pedestal.

Not to be outdone, several left oriented historians, the gatekeeper cabal that prevent alternative or even real narratives to get published, dominate the Indian history narrative. The Irfan Habibs, Romila Thapars of the cabal not only continuously peddle one sided idea, but also have the strong media and powerful backing to shame any challenge to their lies and paint it as communal.

            For instance, many historians themselves know that Ashoka, though portrayed as a benevolent person after Kalinga war, was in fact more despotic than made to believe. Deliberately they mask this idea which is incongruent with the Srilankan Mahavamsa account to present a peace apostle. Historians instead of settling inaccuracies surrounding the timeline of Buddha or Adishankara which are crucial to the traditional accounts, merely peddle an unsubstantiated repeated claim to make it sound real.

            These lies and liars must be challenged and historical facts presented unbiased, which interestingly may be exactly opposite to the currently peddled ideas.

What can we do?

•  Challenge the historical accounts, however dogmatic they are. Have a strong quest for truth.
• Stay away from non practitioner’s accounts of itihasas, shastras or Indian wisdom. Note there are non Indian true Practitioners and many phoney Indian practitioners who peddle twisted ideas.
• Don’t let inferiority complex, hero worship or apathy be the reasons why bad influencers prosper at the cost of harming the society. Challenge them vehemently and scientifically.

Media : Every religious, spiritual, cultural practice of Hindus has been dubbed as Superstitious. These practices started under the colonial rule for both converting easily and retain a strong political grip. Unfortunately, this has worsened after independence. The left leaning media is exemplified in the irony where one media outlet retains its historical name – The Hindu, yet behaves completely Hinduphobic. The media which selectively highlights only select cases of abuses, in many cases twists or amplifies it deliberately or at times masks the most critical parts to maintain a hinduphobic narrative.

Media outlets like NDTV that deploy cheap anchors who are openly hinduphobic accusing them of being superstitious, will not have the guts to challenge how a virgin conceived or was it an affair or if the pedophile founder of a cult really flew on a horse, but will challenge the science in Hinduism.

What can we do?

• To fight this most corrupt entity, one must need strong countering mechanisms. Being not afraid to expose the lies without relying only on emotions is key.
• When entities can be openly hinduphobic, yet carry legacy name of “The Hindu” do not hesitate to challenge.
• More serious counters to wrong information/misinformation via multiple channels is crucial.
• Note that even social media is orchestrated by few behind the scenes. Knowing the truth can be liberating.

Religious institutions:  Today we have institutions like RK Mission and many others pandering to only Hindu majority base, yet infusing stead dose of sickularism. Most of these acharyas and many New Age Gurus like Jaggi Vasudev are keen to infuse their twisted ideas of sickularism only to its Hindu base by making claims that Yoga has nothing Hindu etc. Yet the same gurus shamelessly fail in making even one Abrahamic even accept that there can be more than one pathway to the Ultimate. Why is the desperation to sickularize only the ones who have believed ekam sat viparaha bahuda vadanti for several millennia?

These money making institutions that want to cash in on by trivializing spirituality. Many keen to open business by expanding with their line of clothes, boutiques, books, media and much more. Many of them desperately introduce Abrahamic ideas, lines and messages to a purely Hindu crowd. Many twist even spiritual messages beyond their capacity like Bhagavad Gita and peddle it with a sickular slant.

Apart from these Ravana like fake Gurus who are bent are kidnapping Sita like Spiritual legacy, there is a new breed of openly deceptive cross dressers like fake name Christian swamis who cheat the masses with saffron, even wear many hindu like insignia, purely to cheat and convert. Know these maggots that are devoid of any spirituality.

What can we do?

• Stay away from Gurus or institutions that preach a sick political idea of secularism as their message.
• Do not blindly follow any Guru. Even Swami Vivekananda thoroughly cross examined Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. All Upanishadic teachers were questioned.
• Unless one does personal Sadhana, there is no hope. Foolish crowd imagines that Guru will take over all our karma. That happens only in Abrahamism and they believe that time of the Guru was in the past.
• Expose charlatan gurus and their messages, despite their following.

 

    Any Hindu Guru teaching Father in Heaven or Jesus is inside you waiting to hatch or all religions are same is a through cheat. Usually they take cover as New Age or Mystic, but their aim is to only weaken the spiritual strength of the society for a future conversion. Beware.

REJECT SICKULARSIM that presents to us in various shades and flavors. Unless one is engaged in the quest to know one’s own SELF through enquiry, satsang, scriptures and a strong desire to protect this wondrous ecosystem for posterity, our actions will always be inadequate. SEEK REFUGE in the ONE SUPREME SELF, though we can reach it via different methods, no one can comprehend this Sat-Chit-Ananda.

Om Tat Sat