December 07, 2018 Friday
Bedtime Story
Covered with Thick Darkness
That phrase “covered with thick darkness”
used by Macaulay is a petrifying reminder that the prevailing living conditions
of those times for the Hindus and Moslems must have been abysmally poor.
Primitive regressive social beliefs such as
sati, child marriage, polygamy and that insufferable caste system were so rife
that it made Raja Ram Mohan Roy comment:
“The present system of Hindus is not well
calculated to promote their political interests…
It is necessary that some change should
take place in their religion, at least for the sake of their political
advantage and social comfort.”
To this great reformer it was self-evident
that Hinduism would never get veneration from the Western governments and
societies as long as it remained riddled with these evil “superstitious
practices”.
It was for this reason he re-created
Hinduism through the invention of Brahmo Samaj whose basic tenants have almost
nothing in common with Hinduism.
Please look at the basic doctrines of
Brahmo Samaj and you will realize that if Hinduism now sounds all sweet and
rosy (though I doubt it does in these days of mob lynching for suspected cow
slaughter) it is because of the internal reforms carried out by men such as the
founder of this Samaj.
Today Islam is in need of similar such men.
Brahmo Samajists have no faith in any
scripture as an authority (out goes the sacredness of Bhagvat Gita)
Brahmo Samajists have no faith in god men
and avatars (out goes Krishna, Vishnu, Shiva and sundry such men and women)
Brahmo Samajists denounce polytheism and
idol-worship (where is a Hindu left with without his festivals that involve multiple
idols of several gods sometimes even at the same point of time!)
Brahmo Samajists are against caste
restrictions (you know very well from the case of Sabarimala Temple row how
offensive we Hindus feel even when women of menstruating age – and not
specifically menstruating women – are allowed where they are not supposed to
be)
Brahmo Samajists make faith the doctrines
of Karma and Rebirth optional (just imagine what happens to your religion when
its most basic tenant - the foundational bedrock – is made optional).
It would be only a die-hard euphemist who
would consider calling Brahmo Samaj a reform of Hinduism.
Any ape of average intellect can clearly
make out that under the guise of soft and reformed Hinduism what was being sold
out was an outright atheism that most Hindus today are unlikely to accept both
in spirit and practice.
It is therefore not surprising that today
Brahmo Samaj as a religion is virtually dead.
It gave off an off-shoot religion that goes
by the name of Adi Dharm that is as obscure if not dead as its progenitor.
Religions simply can’t afford to be even reasonably
rational.
Stay tuned to the voice of an
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is
Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic engineer
and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
All his books can be downloaded for free through this link:
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