The power of “Hindu thought” is oppressive if not destructive. It is also suicidal if a victim tries to cultivate a “Hindu mind”. A Hindu imagines thinking according to his need and his need is an “emotional need” to have someone oppressed by him.
What we mean by “Hinduism” is Brahminism which is hiding behind this newly popularised name.
Hindu impulses inflict mental suffering to others. Hinduism gives him plenty of opportunities. Hindus gain their Hindu kingdom of sadists by powerful Hindu thought. Every Hindu with “Hindu mind” has his Hind ideology to buttress his Hindu mental make-up. To possess a “Hindu mind” is to be mentally deranged. All those mentally deranged find it quite normal in the Hindu kingdom. But the Hindu new thought is neither a creative thought nor an energetic thought. New thought of a Hindu sage will inspire him to strengthen the Brahminical Social Order. Meditative detachment of a Hindu never results in the union with Dalits or with the other oppressed people but results only in the contempt for them.
HINDUS WITHIN CHRISTIANITY
Fruitful thought on social affairs and the woes of Dalits is never cultivated by a “Hindu mind”. The “Hindu mind” in the people of other faiths can’t even imagine having a creative and fruitful thought. The “Hindu mind” in the best Christian theologians make them sterile and impotent. Christian Dalits suffer worse than “Hindu Dalits” mainly because of the oppressive theology of these theologians and the oppressive ideas of the powerful priests who never bother to cultivate energetic Christian thought in the place of Hindu thought. Hindu thought will never energize any person as it is psychologically oppressive, emotionally perverse, intellectually impotent and unproductive.
The “Hindu mind” never wishes to bring new hope into this world of death, division and despair. Productive thought always becomes a force that directs and guides the unthinking mass and motivates and inspires men from their historic slumber. Every man has an infinite energy of intellect. Mass has accumulated strength of thought. An energetic thought will never dry the intellectual vitality of the mass. When intellectual vitality of an individual is enervated the collection of such individuals feels drained of its collective energy.
AS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE
The “Hindu mind” is well trained to prey on others to grow strong. At the expense of the intellectual vitality of another man, “Hindu mind” grows strong and robust. It doesn’t have any basic requisites to grow strong by itself. It does not know the basic law of growing strong. Growing strong at the expense of the vitality of others is transgressing against the basic principles of growth.
The “Hindu mind” knows not the principle of reverence which promotes the vitality of a motivated individual as well as the dormant vitality of a dull man. Hinduism stands for self-centredness and selfishness. intellectual growth of another man is never tolerated by the followers of Hinduism. A Hindu wants to preserve his life at the expense of another man. “To grow, another must grow smaller. To be liked, another must be disliked. To be important, others must be little and ordinary”. So, the “Hindu mind” is a destructive force.
A reverent being considers another equally reverent. An irreverent being holds another as an object and expects others to hold him a reverent being. An irreverent being holds irreverent beings as reverent beings and reverent beings as irreverent beings. The “Hindu mind” holds itself as a symbol of reverence while it holds a Dalit as a symbol of aversion and ungodliness. Showing reverence to others means considering others as important. The »— “Hindu mind” never shows reverence to others while it considers itself as important. This exaggerated self-importance of “Hindu mind” makes a Hindu suffer from paranoia. A paranoiac never allows liberty to others. An irreverent being feels that its liberty is at stake when it gives liberty to another being.
DALITS MUST NOT FIGHT
The “Hindu mind” takes liberty to tell Dalits what is good for a Hindu and what is bad for Dalits and what is bad for Dalits is to fight for liberty, equality and fraternity. The “Hindu mind” has great courage to deny any freedom of thought and freedom of speech. The Hindu courage never dares to think independently and never allows others to think independently.
The “Hindu mind” never respects the principles of growth and development. The growth and vitality of a man depends upon enormous opportunities for his hidden talent to be exploited. External motivational forces should be motivating the ” individual by creating conducive environment. No hostile force should be allowed to suppress the individual by preventing him from taking individual efforts. But the ‘Hindu mind” knows not this principle. Only at the expense of Dalits and shudras can it grow and it is growth.
LAND OF IDIOCY
The “Hindu mind” periodically spends its time, mind, energy to oppress others. All its energy is expended in oppressing the weak. Hinduism never teaches the “Hindu mind” to expend its energy for nobler purposes. The Hindu ways are tyrannical and so its energy runs into oppressive channels. Extraordinary energy of India is negatively used. The Hindu philosophy never civilizes Hindus and a civilized man is one who develops his own vital force while encouraging the vital force of another man.
India is a land of idiocy mainly because of this sorry state.
The Hindus have tremendous energy. But they keep using it to gain ~the energy of Dalits. Dalits are the most vital force on this earth. But their psychological energy has been systematically drained to serve Hinduism by Hindu force. Dalits are forced to liberate themselves from the yoke of Brahminism. The creative purpose for a Dalit is to liberate himself from Brahminism. ~Immense creative abilities and potentialities will be realized if a Dalit starts realizing this creative purpose ‘; of life and takes consistent and relentless efforts to realize his ambition.
BRAHMINISM AS OCTOPUS
Every Dalit will have an extraordinary strength of thought and mind if he is determined to fight against Brahminism. Brahminism is an octopus. Fighting against this octopus one needs enormous intellectual strength and communicative power. If requires enormous independent thought-exercise to comprehend the mysterious and myriad ways of this monster.
This dominant object or dominant ambition or aim of a Dalit is to annihilate caste and to create a casteless society. A Dalit intellectual like- Dr. Ambedkar must take immense efforts to make himself a genius. He should not squander his energy by leading a fragmentary life by engaging himself doing little and odd things in life. There is no unity in his life if he does little things. There is no individuality. Creativity is not possible without making efforts to assert one’s own individuality.
DALIT SELF-HATRED
Repeated blows, constant failure and defeat in life down the centuries have killed all creative impulses of Dalits and the sense of protest. Dalits are conditioned to lead a life of defeat and failure. Frustration is a psychological negative energy. Negative energy makes Dalits kill themselves as it saps the life impulses of Dalits. A man who is crushed by his own negative energy enjoys immense pleasure by punishing himself for what he is and what his life is and for the reason he is born. He enjoys self-pity. Reveling in self-pity is nothing less than self-rejection.
Dalit has learnt to long for pain and suffering. It is not a blow for him when he gets the news of the death of the most beloved. As he is already resigned to his miserable plight, he becomes a passive creature of failure. Failure acts on him. Fighting impulses are checked and abortive. He seeks companions of despair. He finds his group support of the frustrated. This group deadens all his vital force. The collection of frustrated Dalits forms a community without any creative energy.
BROKEN INTO FRAGMENTS
The dehumanizing labour activity kills all his creative energy. Dalit hereditary division of labour inflicts pain on Dalit and so inflicts defeat on him. He must do his labour activities, which he dislikes. He never chooses his profession but is made to choose his hereditary labour activity. Inward freedom is killed. He has no reason to have pride in his labour activity. Though he does not do it to please his caste superiors, he is forced to please them. A scientist can produce a scientific creation as his sense of independence is respected and recognized. When his sense of pride is killed, he never feels himself. He is not himself. Dalit is a person an upper caste wanted him to be. He lives a fragmentary life. Fragmentary life never makes one a whole man. He is broken into fragments when he is made to lead a fragmentary life. A Dalit is forced to lead a life of bondage. His will is conditioned to assent to this demand of spiritual slavery.
CONVERSION
Spiritual freedom gives life to creative impulses. Freedom to choose one’s profession, freedom to question the beliefs and ideas that crush a Dalit, freedom to do things that give him a sense of pride — all are spiritual aspects of the spiritual freedom. “Spiritual slavery” is enjoyed by Dalits. He is conditioned to enjoy it. Spiritual freedom gives a man enormous opportunities to grow. Hinduism rejects spiritual freedom.
Conversion from Hinduism will make him feel that he is free from hell. Conversion will help him find himself.
His mind gets ignited. For centuries a cave might have known no light of the sun and of the moon. The light of the torch dispels the gloom in a fraction of a second. The light of Budhism will dispel the gloom of the psychological and intellectual cave of a Dalit. Hence all movements should aim at banishing the centuries of Hindu darkness in the psychological and intellectual cave of Dalits by the light of Budha.
