Monday, August 02, 2021

Hindu Religion An Enquiry by Srinivasa Ramanujam

 

Discussion on Possibilities and Challenges against the premise of Hindu Rashtra dream of RSS


Doesn't account for Marxist, Mythological reading of India, Doesn't account for Nationalistic Fervour of Freedom Movement, Doesn't take into account the relative absence of Violence in Society compared to other parts of the world

Largely Reduces the Role of Mutt to inactors without taking into account that their predominant duty is to sustain the Legacy of their forefathers


Interesting Informative  read 


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Notes 

Approaches of Adisankara and RSS similarities

Hindu Religion formed after destroying peasants and Saints - Devadevan ?

Supremacy of RSS head over Ruling Government

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Overarching We Hindu Theme over several infinite Other Me themes underneath

Is RSS a Hindu Mutt in addition to being a religion

Difference between We Hindu Vs Other Me s We s

We Hindu Vs Virat Hindu of Golwalkar

Societal Need for Other We s 

Basis on Brahmin Supremacy  or Supremacy

For Buddhism and Jainism Supremacy is in Sainthood

For Bhakti Movement it is in Kudumbasthan or Practical or Materialistic

For RSS Hindu Nationalism

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Sankarar s established Pure Brahman who is beyond all Varna s who is beyond all Rituals 

Similar RSS calls for We Hindu which tries to assimilate or reject numerous other We s beneath for the nationalist goal

Golwalkar gets Sainthood but returns back to RSS Mutt as a Hindu

Can a pure Brahman can be a Hindu , No is the Answer 

But Golwalkar has a valid point that saints across caste creed travelled length and breadth of the country to forge cultural Unity 

Supremacy as a tactical tool or as a notion across creates various groups establishing their Supremacy though they themselves were carved out as an opposition to some another supremacist view - crux of whole article

Why We Hindu cannot include Christians and Muslims

Notion of Supremacy in Hinduism Vs God & Ambassadors of Gods in other religions 

Difference between Sainthood and RSS Mutt Hood - Is Individual Liberation a valid goal for Mutt Hood

Adi Sankarar s Pure Brahman as an answer to Buddhist concept of Sainthood still retaining lovkeega  Ritualistic Status of Kudumbasthan aka Kudumba Brahman 

Is Kudumba Brahman a supplemental to Pure Brahman 

Metaphysical nature of Goals in Both RSS and Sankara Approaches - Debatable

Supremacy Vs Untouchability hand in hand movements

Supremacy handed out culturally by Brahmins to Others , Non Brahmins use  Supremacy as a Political Tool against Brahmins, Dalit use this Supremacy concept politically against Non Dalits 

Role of Individual Goals in RSS We Hindu Canopy 

Role of Family in extending Supremacy and Untouchability

Is RSS Mutt distinctly cut from functioning Society

How Gandhi fought against Untouchability in his Ashrams , 

Gandhi s We Hindu vs RSS A We Hindu 

RSS example of community without caste creed is like factory workers working in a factory, less influence on Practical real challenges in handling Untouchability in real life whose unit is a functioning Family

Is RSS a counter part to Vatican, a mega mutt

How Hinduism absorbs  all other sect Sikhism Saivete Vaishnnavaite Buddhist Jainism by the thread of Brahmanical Supremacy 

Islam, Christianity or Any other Individual government doesn't have interaction points like above with Hinduism, They operate on Different plane 

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RSS and Government

Historical King - Brahmin - Sainthood Axis before and After Sankarar

After Sankarar both Brahmins and Sainthood became mixed 

RSS as an independent Organisation away from Societal crutches , A Pure Dream ,RSS as a Rajarishi Role to Government , Dispute resolver, A Non Responsible Controlling Force of the Government, staying Away from vote politics to maintain its puritanical self away from uncomfortable questions of democratic set up 

Role of Intermediary for attaining people s goals both in religious and non religious spheres, God , Priesthood and Government  in between people , Jewish question by Marx 

Absence of Intermediary in Hindu , Priesthood part of people set up and Sainthood beyond the concept of God resulting in complete absence of Intermediary in current setup of Hinduism , Brahmanical or Simple Supremacy being played out mutually between societies which makes it unique,

Fight between Intermediaries Religion and Government resulted in New concept of Democracy and Secularism

How to understand secularism in Indian context where the clash between Intermediaries has not happened and only Supremacy as a notional tool exists. If secularism is acceptance of diversity then Hindu Religion is more diverse and secular than any other resulting in advantageous position for RSS narrative , a rebuttal to Shashi Tharoor

Metaphysical goal, Body is Land and People, Dress is Government and Soul is Culture - RSS being in Sainthood rejects human bodies as impure hence establishing its Supremacy

Democratic Government neutralises this Supremacy which sustains itself through other means which need to be dealt to win over RSS 

Metaphysical RSS goals has to  delinked to historical Hindu practices and Mutt Activities and Cultural, Philosophical enquiry into Mutt needed to fight against the notion of Supremacy which sustains itself in many forms by reinventing itself 

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Role of Foreigners Jesuits  in defining Brahmin as a focal point of Hindu Religion, Oriental studies equated Christian Religiosity  aka Christian Father ship with complex Brahmin X Priest hood X Saint Hood set up existing in India. This led to Brahmin centricity which is still embedded in Our thought process in explaining History and Indian Religion 

Examination of a Particular caste is essential in caste annihilation , instead we have general Caste Abolition goals which are not exactly helping the cause

Hindu, Non Brahmin, Dalit  are new coinages or political identities foisted as New Reality over separate individual caste identities which are there ever since, Supremacy as a notion is present in all caste identities, Supremacy and Untouchability go hand in hand , Caste can only be annihilated only if we question the intrinsic Untouchability supremacy notion present within a sect,  Each sect cleverly subverts Untouchability as an aberration of the other instead it has to own the aberration as its own, This will help the New coinages Hindu, Non Brahmin, Dalit to enter cultural sphere in addition to being successful in Political Sphere 

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