Left with Suicidal tendencies – Rohith’s death

There is absolutely no doubt that the ‘caste system’ is an unjust, inhuman and a ‘real’ discriminatory practice that is still being negotiated by the Dalits and other discriminated sections of the society. Nevertheless, any conclusion presuming Dalits to be necessarily anti-Hindu by default would be a blunder. In fact, Dalits are not anti-Hindu and instead they are ‘more Hindu’ than the upper castes themselves. As a matter of record, but for Dalits, Hinduism could not have survived the continuous onslaught by the invaders over the past few centuries. However they feel disappointed as they have unjustifiably been denied their due place, proper recognition and a dignified status in the society. For example, their genuine grudge against the temples is not that they exist and are built, but instead they want to enjoy dignified entry in them.

Unfortunately the Dalit movement in India has been hijacked by the left. In their frustrated quest to paint Hinduism merely as a repressive social construct, leftists relish denouncing everything that a Hindu likes to be proud of. They fail to realize that all sections of Hindu society do not have the luxury to abuse their past, condemn their history and shame their origin. The ‘upper castes’ with rulers’ background find this challenge glamorous enough as they often derive a sense of ‘greatness’ in abusing their own past. On the other hand, the discriminated castes feel hurt and devastated in doing the same. Making them to disrespect their Gods, worshipped by their own ancestors and family members, is depressing in itself but forcing them to worship their ‘Asuras’ creates an emotional disillusion for them. Snatching their Hindu-pride and at the same time demeaning their past often force them to pass through an emotional crisis similar to that of Rohith’s.

The ‘left’ rob ‘Dalits’ off their glorious past so much so that unless they are in a constant state of agitation and turbulence, which is an unnatural terrorists’ state, it becomes impossible for them to survive. And as and when they calm down, they feel miserable and culturally devastated. Dalits, who start believing in left ideology, are left with only a few options – either revolt and opt for the path of destruction and terror or stop believing in their ideology or commit suicide. Being Indian (Hindu) by heart, they rarely follow the first option. The disenchantment against ‘left’ often grows so unbearable for them that in search for pride and identity, instead of Marx, they begin looking up to their own Dr. Ambedkar. But in this process, irreversible emotional damages are caused resulting in situations similar to those that led to the unfortunate end of Rohith. The moment you start feeling yourself as empty, worthless and meaningless and realize that there is no aim worth pursuing in your life, you end yourself.

You need the luxury of having an alternate supporting mechanism at your disposal so that you are able to negotiate the ever-contradicting, self-destroying and frustration-generating arguments pursued typically by the Indian-leftists. With all their negativity, Indian leftists – are able to retain these characteristics only if they are able to get a space in academia or politics – otherwise the ‘Left’ inside them die out sooner or later. This is because the only skill they are able to develop, while living with left-ideologies, is how to find enough reasons to hate their own origin. It is therefore not surprising that although leftists vociferously sell themselves as being champions of the Dalit’s cause, they have not been able to improve the condition of Dalits even wherever they were in a position to do so.

RSS, on the contrary, without the support of the government, carries out several positive initiatives in helping the socially discriminated sections of the Indian society in achieving their aims through non-governmental organizations like Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, Sewa Bharti, Samkalp and others. RSS attempts to share the common glorious past with Dalits that helps them transform into proud individuals – one of the essential characteristics required to progress. RSS initiatives have helped many Dalits in realizing their dreams of occupying policy-making positions. Compared to these the ‘left’ have used only the government-run academic institutions to spread their political influence and that too only by exploiting the discriminated class so that they can be disconnected from their roots.

Brahminic way of Left-thinkers

Secularism as a tool for conflict resolution

Hinduism is known to have successfully able to resolve many of its ancient conflicts amicably by reciprocating favourably to several social-reforming movements. However, conflict of Hinduism with some of the recent singular beliefs and religions like Islam and Christian that came from outside this country are showing no signs of getting resolved. This is understandable as these religions have been inherently opposed to the idea of coexistence of multi-faith and have invariably fallen way short of responding adequately to the one sided willingness of Hindus to show respect towards their beliefs. To tackle this deadlock a new 'belief' emerged in the name of 'secularism' and started gaining ground. The idea of 'secularism' that primarily got spread within Hindus has failed miserably by now to deliver any satisfactory result in this regard. The failure of 'Indian secularism' thus far can be explained with the realization that its approach is biased heavily against Hinduism and asks Hindus to offer a solution by shrugging off their belief in 'multi-faith'. More than three-quarters of a century has been spent on this effort that has resulted in building an army of Left-leaning thinkers who primary focused their attention to somehow force the society to compromise on its Hindu-identity in order to make way for a one-sided solution.

Emergence of left-thinkers as new Brahmins

The leftists' prescription for the still unresolved conflict of Hinduism with the recent singular-beliefs has been to convert the multi-faith 'Hindu' culture into a community having 'no-faith' outlook. They are well aware of the fact that there is hardly any scope of spreading 'atheism' in the hard-liner singular beliefs but at the same time they were hopeful of a positive result among the overwhelmingly large section of Hindus who are known to have a non-rigid attitude towards their faith. At this point the left-thinkers miscalculated the hidden strength behind the apparently vulnerable look of Hindus. The left-thinkers had obviously erred in their expectation that 'atheism' would counter 'Hinduism', which would in turn create a stage for promotion of 'communism' - as this strategy has failed to deliver the desired results for them. The primary reason for the failure was that 'atheism' and 'communism' are actually akin to narrow singular-beliefs and therefore could not attract the large-hearted Hindus who could never compromise on their unwavering faith in the 'multi-religion' Hindu-approach. To get the Hindus rid of their 'multi-faith' belief the left thinkers tried to counter the rich haul of ancient Hindu texts by devoting enormous time in painstaking efforts to develop a huge treasure of anti-Hindu reading material. With the financial and logistical state support they engaged themselves in fancy research ideas and developed an intellectual army to attack Hinduism. They pointed out several inadequacies, flaws, shortcomings and fished out presence of some unforgivable derogatory remarks in the ancient Brahminical texts in particular and then (mis)used them to create an anti-Hindu brand of 'intellectuals'. Texts like 'manusmriti' that had lost all relevance in modern India were utilized by this brigade of pseudo-intellectuals to spread anti-Hindu feeling in the name of 'secularism'. In this immaculately executed exercise they erred in identifying Hinduism with Brahminism. They also wrongly considered the lower caste Hindus and Hindu-women to be potentially vulnerable section of Hindu society and thought that they would be able to evoke an anti-Hindu upsurge among them. Unfortunately for them those sections were actually the real strength of Hinduism. Their blunder instead worked as a favourable catalyst for the nationalist forces who had identified this strength of Hinduism and had started putting all its attention on building up a vision to develop Hinduism by spreading the lower caste vision of Hindus.

Remained oblivious to all these essential aspects of Hinduism, Left-thinkers emerged as the new Brahmins of modern India. They overlooked the enormous strength with which the Hindu-mass believed in their 'multi-faith' approach and tried imposing their 'red' agenda by attacking 'Brahminism' to denounce 'Hinduism'. Just like Brahmins the 'Left' with the help of the ruling class thought that with the power of their acquired knowledge, developed this time with the help of their 'imported' and 'self-accumulated' left-literature, they would be able to establish their supremacy. With this they hoped of dislodging Hindu-thinking out of the Hindu-minds. They hoped that this would give them a perfect ground to rule the class and mass of India. The contemporary arrogance of Left-thinkers almost matches with what once Brahmins exhibited after acquiring knowledge. Hindu-mass comprising largely of the lower castes could never identify their Hinduism with Brahminism. While Brahminism probably remained close only to the fringe upper caste section of Hindus the lower castes happily kept following their reflexive multi-faith approach towards life. Hinduism, much to everyone's surprise, has survived not because of the upper castes but has actually survived despite them. Historically, all the pluralism and multi-faithism that Hinduism boasts off are courtesy these large hearted and peace loving, uncelebrated and semi-discarded lower caste Hindus. Even in the past, while upper castes kept fighting over narrow faiths and pseudo-singular beliefs the lower castes kept enforcing peaceful solutions with their natural instinctive belief in the approach of 'multi-faith'. When upper castes were fighting over supremacy of Shiva and Vishnu, establishing the validity of Dwait and Adwait principles, lower caste Hindus provided the solution by worshipping both the idols and respecting both the contradicting theories. When there was a war waged for and against spreading beliefs of Buddhism, Aryasamaj and many other such reformist thoughts they got finally resolved when only this section of Hindus showed the way of respecting each others' beliefs with exemplary ease without a sign of unease or contradiction. Recently the useless furore created by the same class of Hindus over worshipping Sai-Baba in Hindu temples has further exposed them in this regard as Sai-Baba has already been being worshipped in many temples by a reasonable section of the middle, lower and lower-middle class Hindus. It is remarkable to notice that the lower caste Hindus have always remained indifferent to the intellectual debates in which the 'well read' Hindus (read upper castes and especially Brahmins) engaged themselves and instead kept on resolving all issues of conflicts successfully using their inherent pluralistic attitude towards life. The credit for survival of Hinduism can not be attributed to the so called learned, intellectual, knowledgeable and enlightened section of Hindus but only to the lower caste 'experienced' Hindu inhabitants.

Alas, to the utter disappointment of leftists, their mammoth post-colonial efforts are failing to yield the result as envisaged by them.

Unfolding the Hindu-puzzle

Just as it is intriguing to find out who are Hindus it is all the more puzzling to find out the reasons how Hindus survived the onslaught of invasions and conversions for centuries together. To uncover the mystery the more you would read the ancient Hindu-texts chances are that the more you will be left perplexed. Ironically, after reading many of the ancient Hindu-texts one is left wondering at the failure to get a valid and understandable reason for the lower castes Hindu-majority to still identify themselves as Hindus. The manner in which they have been treated in the past and to an unreasonable extent are still being treated by the upper castes Hindus - defies all logic for them to call themselves as Hindus. To me, it is only because our ancient texts are heavily biased with the upper castes' viewpoints whereas the puzzle gets unfolded only when Hinduism is explored from the often overlooked perspective of the lower caste Hindus.