Why I hate Hinduism most?
Recent blogs in website nirmukta by Ajitha Kamal and Dr. Prabhakar Kamath of US should create ripples of skepticism in the minds of the educated youth. Therefore it should be the endeavour of all rationalists to augment these ripples into waves of thoughts to raise the level of consciousness of the youth, as it is next to impossible to chip away the calcified layers of obscurantism from the brains of upper castes (Hindus) and masses.
We have heard a million times the bogus scriptural quote, Tamaso Ma Jyothirgamaya (lead us from darkness to light), from all types of people. But the Hindu priestcraft has brilliantly succeeded to keep the whole society in darkness, through centuries of indoctrination. In the past 5-6 decades they have succeeded to make Article 51 (h)… null and void. The state failed the constitution of India to make every citizen develop the spirit of inquiry and scientific temper, and the society failed the rational teaching.
God market: The society has plunged in a frenzy of religiosity with new viruses like vastu etc. It is attacking their brains… Dr. Kamath, a practising psychiatrist in US, has clinically analysed the Hindu psyche and diagnosed it as “obsessive compulsive disorder” (OCD). We require thousands of Dr. Kamaths to treat the whole society. Meera Nanda, a scholar from US, has narrated in detail in her book, God Market, as to how the god market is run by the state, temple, corporate, complex which is exactly the same as “Kshatriya-Brahmin-Bania nexus”.
Temple boycott: As for me the seeds of skepticism germinated within me during my high school days. After observing the behaviuor of vipras who are wearing the holy thread, I discarded my own at a later age. Then felt free from the fetters of obscurantism.
Later, a strange incident snapped my faith in temples and deities. During evening walks I used to step into a temple and mechanically take a couple of rounds and accept the spoonful of water (thirtha) from the priest. There was a special puja. The completion of puja coincided with my taking the rounds and as usual I stretched my hand for thirtha, the priest mechanically was about to pour out of the spoonful water, but then he suddenly ralised that I did not belong to the party and withdrew. I too turned back, came out of the temple and never to enter it again.
Mean-minded Brahmin: That night I brooded over the mean-mindedness of the Brahmin priest over just a spoonful of water and my own stupidity of taking rounds inside the temple.
Read Richard Dawkin’s book, God Delusion (photocopy available with DV). Hindus exhibit the same behaviour like the moths that fly round a bright light and die. A rich man who amassed wealth can build a temple. Hindus flock there just like the moths.
Budha liberated India: Budhism liberated the Indian society to establish a casteless, egalitarian and altruistically cooperative society. Budha preached all his life to erect two pillars of prajna and karunya (awareness and compassion). These two pillars were demolished by the Brahmin priests and erected in their place, their pillars of chatur varna and karma kanda. These two pillars of evil enslaved shudras for generations after generations. This made the rulers job easy and provided a life of ease and comfort for themselves.
3,000 years of slavery: Chatur Varna created hundreds of closed systems (castes) which went on losing energy (2nd law of thermodynamics) as they were deprived of their social and economic legitimacy. Over such a long period of 3,000 years social entrophy increased to cause perpetual and abysmal poverty, as we are witnessing now. To support this system Shankaracharya set up four mutts not to propagate his Adwaita but as watch-towers to nip in the bud any attempt to revive Budhism.
Besides the high rate of increase of social and economic entropy of lower castes, mental entropy of higher castes resulted because of this pernicious caste system. Each caste (closed system) became stereotyped due to lack of interaction and cultural assimilation over centuries and could not come out of the stereotyped frame of mind. Thus they remained disgustingly mediocre, except being ruthless in area of making money.
Country of mediocres: That is why we see today such a large crowd of mediocre politicians and bureaucrats who have amassed wealth through rampant corruption. Their only attempt to enter sphere of Brahminic elitism is by copying silly rituals like Gana Homa and Satyanarayana Puja at every opportunity and rushing to astrologers for any flimsy reason, avoiding, of course Rahu Kala. Intelligentsia and so-called intellectuals should be ashamed of themselves for being passive onlookers of such onslaught of mediocrity.
Hindus become brainless: This new disorientation has made Hindus mortgage their brains to purohits. astrologers, and new age frauds called godmen. Hinduism is a sexed-up polytheism. Tribal deities, kula devatas of clans, vassals and feudal-lords were cobbled up into a hierarchy of gods. Each group squandered their wealth for building temples of their own deities as status symbol. Temples were made attractive with hard porn in stone in almost all of them. Khajuraho is the magnum opus Kamasutra by Vatsayana titillated the sense-buds of rulers and aristocracy. Luxurious ceremonies were invented in temples. All this started by the 2nd-3rd century during the Gupta period. Kshatriyas lost their valour. This made it easy after another 3-4 centuries for Turks and later Moghuls come in and establish their rule without much resistance.
Narayana Murthy as Brahmin: Regarding the latest state -temple-corporate-complex let me give one example. N.R. Narayana Murthy, darling of the corporate world, writes in his book, A Better India, A Better World:
I am a Brahmin and I am minority.
He should know that this 3% minority perpetrated so much misery on the lower castes. In no other civilization so few have caused so much misery on such a large mass of humanity over such a long period.
He says “I was on my way from Bangalore to Mantralaya”. Rational thinkers know that these sarmadhis of some ascetics are nothing but glorified versions of primitive tribals corpse worship. Actually IT corporate heads should visit Alan Turing’s tomb- stone if they could locate it in UK. It was he who advanced the notion of universal computer.
Grant Allen in his book (published a hundred years back), The Evolution of the Idea of God, writes:
“Thus the cult of the dead is the earliest origin of all religions. In one word that corpse worship is the protoplasm of religion, while admitting that folklore is the protoplasm of mythology and its modern and philosophical off shoot theology.”
