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Continued from Sanatan Secularism Part 01 | Now, that opens a
question – where is an explicit secularism needed? The answer
should be obvious. It is needed where different religions and
religious beliefs exist and some point of contention exist among
them. For example, if one religion proclaims not only its supremacy
over others, but also it’s being the only ‘true path’, and there
exist more than one such religions, than to avoid conflicts, a
framework needs to be set. However, if there is a set of belief
that has existed since time immemorial and is flexible, liberal and
inclusive enough, it needs to be protected from those
‘Supremacist religions’. So what India needed was
not Secularism as enshrined in the constitution, but a framework
instead, which would ensure that already shrunk Sanatan Dharma
flourishes unscathed in the remaining territory of its homeland. On
the contrary, the deliberate and unnecessary explicit provision of
secularism was enshrined with unfair concessions to ‘Supremacist
religions’ which had exhibited their hostility towards Sanatan
Dharma for centuries. This manifested in separate Muslim personal
law and Christian law, government control of Hindu temples while
providing autonomy to mosques and churches, taxation of Hindu
pilgrimage while subsidizing Haj pilgrimage, government collecting
temple donations and spending them on renovating madarasas etc.
This phenomenon promulgated with ‘minority
appeasement’ and ‘pseudo-secularism’
becoming key tactics for consolidating minority votes and winning
elections. The latest in the series has incarnated in the form of
Muslim reservation in education and jobs and Communal Violence
Prevention Bill which assumes majority Sanatan Dharma adherents as
the oppressor of ‘Supremacist minorities’, contrary to the factual
reality.
Having walked through all the above, a question naturally arises.
Can’t this Sanatan Dharma adherent majority see all this that’s so
very obvious, that it needs to be written in the form of an
article? The answer, which is a disappointing ‘No’, betrays the
very reasons behind it. First, there is a problem of Identity.
Unfortunately, Sanatan Dharma adherents in the quest for defending
their very existence during tough times of Islamic rule, developed
unwanted practices, which are now being used against them. One
example should explain the case. Islamic invaders
considered it the victory of Islam if they abducted Hindu girls.
This led Hindu parents to wed their girls in rather early age to
transfer the responsibility of protecting them to the
groom. A menace of Child marriage, thus, came into
existence. The adherents of Sanatan Dharma, who considered women as
an incarnation of ‘Shakti’, who conferred on women the right to
choose their husbands (through Swayamvar), became infected with the
disease that made women being looked upon as inferior. The
tradition of forced dowry as the price to protect the daughters
from abductors came into practice. Dowry, child marriage, female
infanticide, thus, came into existence.
Another was the caste system – which was intentionally a
power-sharing formula meant to ensure a homogenous and equanimous
division of resources among different constituents of the society,
and had traditionally been occupation based, but due to the entire
Sanatan society crumbling under foreign/Islamic rule, became so
rigid and associated with birth that it created factionalism in the
society. Those with inferior occupation were typecast into the same
for generations, and thus became oppressed sections of society.
This situation of theirs was exploited by proselytizing
missionaries in pre-Independence India, and has been exploited
both, by these missionaries and casteist politicians in a
post-Independence India. Caste-based reservation which was a
short-sighted solution implemented for just 10 years initially to
raise the social standing of the oppressed classes, became a tool
in the hands of politicians which they can use to win elections.
The classic ‘divide and rule’ formula which the British taught
Indian politicians, has been duly exploited by them in dividing the
Hindu society in the name of caste. The reservation later
got extended into jobs and education for SC/STs and then for OBCs
by V P Singh and Arjun Singh, hardly with any real improvement in
the situation of those classes in sight. 2 generations of
these classes have been fed with a dose of identity separatism by
selfish political parties and missionaries which are sworn enemies
of Sanatan Culture and take utmost pleasure in denigrating the
same. Religious conversions have run unabated all these years and a
big chunk of these oppressed classes have been converted into
Christianity and antagonized from their Sanatan roots.
A solution to this problem does exist, and has been practiced and
propagated by those who’re committed to the resurgence of Indian
pride and Sanatan values. Unfortunately, hard-wired with the
Macaulayized education system, which founds on denying the Sanatan
value system and a common identity for Indians by promoting Aryan
Invasion theory among other things, the educated elite often gets
swayed into terming those very people who try to unify Sanatan
Dharm adherents, as communal. Most of these educated elites do this
naively and innocuously but it harms the efforts of Sanatani
nationalists. In the guise of secularism, some not-so-naive
educated elites implement their vicious plans of destroying the
remains of Sanatan value system by nullifying the unifying attempts
of these nationalists and label them as communal. For this, they
resort to every trick in their bag, from distorting facts, running
a smear campaign, expunging history, even writing fiction in the
name of history and refusing to acknowledge parts of history,
disputing well-known facts, insulting national icons like Shivaji
and Sawarkar as communal, terming ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Bharat Mata’
as divisive and what not!
The naive educated considers these flagrant attempts as defence of
liberalism, and unaware of both, the salient foundations of Sanatan
Dharma, and what sets it apart from ‘Supremacist religions’, sings
in chorus the accusations of Sanatan nationalists being ‘communal
forces’ with their favourite punch line, “All religions are equal”
and their programmed faith in an explicit ‘Secularism’. No wonder,
Secularism’s demon engulfs the practices of singing Saraswati
Vandana (which is so fundamental to Indian culture), as it engulfs
the practice of lighting the ‘Deepak’ while opening a program. With
‘liberal educated Islamists’ like Zakir Naik openly
preaching how ‘touching feet of your parents is an insult to God,
not only as per Islam, but also as per Hinduism’, and opposing
Zakir Naik being synonymous to being communal, it’s going to get
from bad to worse.
Ironically, celebrating imported ‘festivals’ like Valentine’s day,
Chocolate day, Fathers’ day, Mothers’ day etc. assumes the tokenism
of being ‘modern’ and ‘forwards’ in this “Secular Macaulayized
mindset” (SMM) , and being wished on Indian New Year or on Basant
Panchami by any Sanatani Nationalist becomes a token of orthodoxy
or even narrow minded stubbornness. Quashing religion and adopting
spirituality could be another fanciful symptom of SMM, and so could
be criticising any nationalist movement with Sanatani undertones as
communal. So while SMM justifies religious conversions in the name
of “improving the living standard of the underprivileged”, similar
improvement drives run by saffron-clad Sadhvis and Sanyasis become
symbols of Communalism, so much so that self-styled anti-corruption
crusaders who run to an Imam who calls for
not-saying-Vande-Mataram, refuse to share dais with one such
saffron-clad social worker. The patients of SMM would be ‘liberal’
enough to consider Ramayan and Mahabharat as ‘beautiful epics’,
albeit fictional, but would argue to the best of their intellectual
abilities to defend any question posed at the Quran or the Bible,
citing ‘religious sentiments’. Sadly, for such brothers and
sisters, India is characterized only by a few decade old
tri-colour, and the saffron flag that characterized this land for
numerous millennia, is a mere symbol of Hindu communalism, no
matter if Shivaji, under that Saffron flag, established a ‘Secular’
empire.
The above are just few of the many symptoms that characterize an
educated Secular-Macaulayized-Mindset. The solution is essentially
to return to our roots, to acknowledge the fact that India is not
something that is defined by our constitution and characterized by
our tri-colour. India is essentially Bhaarat, Aryavart, whose soul
is Sanatan Dharma, and when I say that, by virtue of being an
adherent of Sanatan Dharma and enriched with Sanatan Sanskaars,
I encompass Muslims, Christians and non-Hindus in this
blanket, with just one mission of letting them shed their
misgivings towards Sanatan culture, a culture one that their
ancestors, few generations ago, also enriched. It is the
teachings of Bhagwad Geeta that reveal the secrets
of a successful and stress-free life, the Ramayan always
illuminates the path with exemplary human virtues. No artificial
secularism is needed in an India that understands, absorbs and
practices Sanatan values. Sanatan Dharma doesn’t stop at religious
tolerance, it goes beyond, to teach acceptance, and even reverence
of other faiths, but it also teaches to defend the truth, and its
sanctity. Time for us all, to shed away the Macaulayized mindset,
start afresh, look beyond the injected dogmas, and feel the Sanatan
sanctity, for the onus is on us to defend this beautiful heritage,
and resurge Bhaarat to the golden glory, where we will again be
‘Vishwaguru’.
Author : Abhishek
Tondon
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