HINDU RENAISSANCE ... 2 [POST OF 2015 EDITED]

HINDU RENAISSANCE ... 2 [POST OF 2015 EDITED]

Hindus must cast aside the preeminence of caste identity and stand together as a cohesive unit if they are to survive as a race. These caste divisions have served their purpose, and often gloriously so, but have now outlived their utility. They are weakening the fabric of Hindu society and stand as a great bar to the attainment of social cohesion within the Hindu fold.

The lower castes have suffered great tyranny at the hands of upper caste Hindus and have often been so marginalised down the ages that they have fallen easy victim to Muslim and Christian proselytisation. These proselytising Semitic religions thrive on inducing members of other religions to join their ranks to advance their cause of world domination. Economic inducement, malicious propaganda and political enforcement by conquering races have all played their due role in wooing lower caste Hindus away from their fold into the rank and file of these Semitic religions. But the worst offenders have been the Hindus themselves. Instead of sympathising with the lower classes and lending them a helping hand to climb up the social ladder, the upper caste Hindus have historically only rained scorn, atrocity and alienation on them, even denying them basic living conditions to survive with any semblance of human dignity. Like animals these children of God have been treated down the ages and made to labour for their upper caste social masters till they have lost their very individuality. The consequence of this terrible neglect of the masses has been the weakening of the nation and it falling a victim eventually to the Mohammedan invasion in 712 CE and to European colonisation subsequently, a period of alien tyranny ending with that most vicious rule of the British lasting for the last 190 years of this dark phase of Hindu history.

But the Lord has been kind and once more we are free as a race and a nation, although we have received a truncated India by way of independence. Nonetheless, we now have the chance to rectify our past mistakes and start afresh to rebuild our Hindu civilisation.

The civilisation that began on the banks of the Sindhu, the Saraswati and the Ganga, had flourished for over four thousand years before its pulse weakened and it went into its shell to preserve its sanctity and character. The hindrances that came in the way of its free expression during the Muslim and the Euro-Christian periods are now no more and we stand as a sovereign nation with the opportunity and power at our disposal to shape our own destiny, that of fulfilling the evolution of our race in line with the master plan of our Vedic sages and seers. It is thus meet that we Hindus realise the significance of the moment and start the process of rebuilding our ancient civilisation which through foreign invasive thrusts has been much wounded and which may be restored to its pristine state only by the healing touch of mutual love and respect, service and care, renunciation and realisation. Following in the foot-steps of our Rishis and Avatars down the ages, we must again come up as the premier spiritual people of the world and shine on world civilisation as a beacon of light. To the ushering of such a day let us pledge ourselves and let us in accordance start pouring in our labour of love for our beloved motherland that she may occupy her due premier place in the comity of nations. Vande Mataram! 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose