Me And Hinduism

Hinduism is a religious community that is numerically copious and that has its heart located in the chunky Indian nation in southern Asia.  I penetrated our planet as a constituent of the Hindu religion. I profess that there is muscular admiration and robust fascination in me for this faith and for the multitudinous divinities that epitomize this faith. The theological majesty and spiritual opulence of Hinduism have definitely mesmerized me in different degrees and have positioned me in a condition of captivation towards them. The sacred books such as the Vedas, the Bhagavad Gita and many others provide this religion with its seductively cerebral foundations. The copiousness of the duration of the survival of these pious treatises illustrates their brawny attachment to the psychology and mentality of the Indian State. Indubitably, there have been rapacious molestations of the cerebrum and of the anatomy of the Indian motherland that have been perpetrated by foreign religious forces that were symbolized by their behavioural toxicity towards the Hinduness of the Indian civilization and towards the kingly achievements procreated by this Hinduness.













The gorgeousness of the aforesaid consecrated Hindu treatises is that their applicableness is not confined to the Hindus alone. Sage standpoints are enshrined in the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas, etc., which offer suggestions to the individual humans as regards apt and judicious fashions of administering and directing any human life. The advices of these visionary Hindu tomes are not exclusivist but they are characterized endearingly and praiseworthily by inclusivity. Any of these books hasn’t been awarded the most paramount position in the Hindu scriptural hierarchy, which is at the heart of their ceaseless survivability through millennia.








Christian and Crescentic sacred books are defined, at times, by their vile inferences linking foreign religions to heathenism or incivility or unenlightenment or primitivism. The connotation, displeasingly and bigotedly, in certain pages of these books is that these uncouth foreign religions have to be Muslimized or Christianized with muscularity if necessary.













One will struggle to attribute holistically or coherently or connectedly the same sinful intolerance to the Hindu texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Vedas and even to monumental Hindu epics like the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. These Hindu/Indian treatises proffer an opulence of majestic and priceless information about civilization, traditions, life, human emotions, mortal faultiness, human goals, human/ national/behavioral battles, etc. These tomes forewarn humankind about the corrupting inanimate seductresses, against whom humankind will have to grapple victoriously at different moments, in order to maintain prosperity, orderliness and respectability in the humankind’s functioning. Sagacious manners of dealing with these intrinsic (and external) behavioral debasers are provided in these tomes in such an absorbing way that most determined readers will find these tomes remarkable. Each of these Hindu books reflects the epoch in which it was inscribed and an open-mindedly discernible mind will find it troublesome to attach any kind of systematic intolerance to the agendum of these Hindu treatises.







My respect for Hinduism is unordinary probably as I have never really felt any attachment to the Brahmanic strand of Hinduism or to the ‘specialty of the purity’ of this strand. I never will. I subscribe impassionedly to the concept of Hinduism being unstratified socially. I regard it as pitiful that certain segments of the Hindu populace adopt a dissolutely stratified attitude in relation to their views on the Hindu social order. Such social stratification in relation to the outlook on Hindu society, prevalent in some ignorant Hindu minds, is a big disservice to the splendor of Hinduism. I will strive, in my own fashion, to promote the delegitimization of the attitude of Hindu social stratification, which exists in some soiled Hindu minds. My cherished mission is to see comprehensive Hindu unity in India, which covers politics, culture and social order. This goal of unity cannot afford senseless, pejorative and preposterous social hierarchies in Hindu society, which only assist the internal and external foes of Hinduism. However, I must state that organizations such as the RSS, its sister institutions, the World Hindu Council, etc. are rendering enlightening, patriotic and pertinent service to the cause of Hindu oneness and Hindu social delayering. The creditable service supplied by these Hindu nationalistic organizations encourages rightly the celebration of the Hindu linguistic and divine diversity. However, simultaneously, the undertaking of effecting interlingual Hindu political unification on seminal national issues is also being carried out painstakingly by these organizations. I give them fair credit for that.  






Also, the Gods and Goddesses of Hinduism represent sundry stories, lives and messages that have ample relevance for humankind today.  The multifarious stories of Hindu deities thrill me to a beefy extent and are so pertinent in the modern world. Their pertinence will always remain.











Thus, while I will unendingly venerate and propagate the mammoth knowledgeableness and visionariness of the Hindu faith, its epics, its books, its scriptures, etc, I will never be able to associate myself with the Brahmanic stream of Hinduism, from which I am as detached as snowiness is from Mumbai in May. I have regarded Brahmanic preeminence in ritualistic Hinduism as a concept that wholly asphyxiates and mars the vast intellectual extraordinariness of Hinduism. Brahmanic absolute supremacy should be a concept that should be guided to the path of vaporization by the Hindu society itself. The theological, cerebral and scriptural richness of Hinduism can survive even in the absence of outright Brahmanic ascendancy. My take on Hinduism here may be weird for some but my take is what it is. Obviously, every religion undergoes modification at different stages in its evolution. There is no harm, as per me, in divesting from the Brahmanic strand its unmolested primacy wherever it exists in the Hindu society. The operative word is ‘unmolested’ or ‘outright’ or ‘preeminence’ or ‘ascendancy’ or ‘supremacy’ or ‘primacy.’ Brahmanic presence can be at the same social level as that of other communities.







Nevertheless, there are admirable transformations being effected by several reformist and pragmatic Hindu groups in this front to equalize the social lane of Hinduism. I felicitate the Sangh Parivar for their constructive work in this realm that has attempted to instill awareness of the veritable Hinduism into the minds of the numerous Hindus, who have been compelled to swerve from Hinduism as a consequence of being bombarded unrelentingly by malignant mischaracterizations of Hinduism from the mass media. Adjustments of some Hindu theological foundations should be carried out pragmatically if these adjustments are indispensable to the cause of Hindu political solidification and Hindu interlingual merger in India for nationalistic purposes.











On a more lighthearted note, another Hindu issue, which appeals to me immensely, is the issue of Hindu interlingual matrimony. The idea of a Rajasthani Hindu male wedding a Malayalam Hindu female seems such an enticing one. Of course, the Rajasthani man needs to be in a condition of romance for the Malayalam female and vice versa. I visualize that it would be idyllic socially if interlingual matrimonies were run-of-the-mill affairs in India. But there is pitiable resistance in some Hindu quarters to the thought of interlingual/intercaste marriages between Hindus. This is a profoundly despondent reality and is one that could be simply detrimental to the extraordinary status of Hinduism in the Indian soul. Let me make it unambiguous. Thankfully, interlingual weddings between the Hindu ladies and Hindu gentlemen are increasing numerically. This has been a steady trend over the last 20 years. One doesn’t need statistical mountains to stress this reality. It is self-evident. But we need to reach a point where interlingual nuptial ceremonies between Hindus are par for the course. We haven’t reached that stage yet. Hinduism will eventually. This concept of interlingual Hindu marital ceremonies needs to be disseminated throughout those realms of Hindu society where there is condemnable bulldozing, even now, of the idea of Hindu interlingual matrimonies. Even now, lamentably, there are Hindu parents, who hesitate to wed their daughters and sons to Hindus of another language. Isn’t this inexcusably senseless?








There are Hindu parents, who are unnerved on realizing that their daughter or son is in a romantic state for a Hindu of another linguistic community. For example, there would be some Hindu parents in Gujarat, who would baulk at the idea of making their son marry a Hindu Telugu female. The hesitation would be not because of the personality of the girl, which may be delightful, but because of her Teluguness. Similarly, Tamil parents may worry on comprehending that their daughter has been smitten by a Punjabi Hindu male. The Punjabi boy may be a topaz as regards personality i.e. he may be a pleasant and responsible man. His parents may be immensely lovable. The Tamil girl and the Punjabi boy may have steady compatibility and will want to tie the knot. But the Tamil parents may exhibit procrastination as regards the marriage because of the Punjabiness of the boy. That he is also a part of the miscellaneous Hindu community is overlooked. This red signal is demonstrated to interlingual Hindu marriages by Hindu parents of all languages whether they are Kashmiri Hindu, Bihari Hindu, Haryanvi Hindu, Assamese Hindu, Manipuri Hindu, etc.  I mean to state that such parents exist in every linguistic Hindu community.
But, yes, increasingly, broadmindedness or sensibleness is being displayed by Hindu parents on the subject of interlingual marriages. This trend exists and should exist down the line. Hope this nervousness about Hindu interlingual marriage vanishes one day in the future. That is very necessary and would be a pleasant development.  Of course, if a Kashmiri Hindu woman is in love with a Kashmiri Hindu male and her love is reciprocated by him, then their marriage is the logical step. This applies to all the intralingual romances. All that I am saying is that the fear of interlingual Hindu marriages should evaporate from some Hindu minds. 









As regards me, I say that, if I am involved in an interlingual (love) marriage with a Hindu female (who is of Punjab or Kashmir or AP or Kerala or Maharashtra or Gujarat or Rajasthan or Karnataka or of other non-Tamil blocks), it would give me copious contentment for several reasons. I would feel that (what I am going to say now may seem heavy.....) I have played a tiny part in strengthening interlingual Hindu unity. Obviously, I would also be happy that I married the female, for whom I had romance and respect, and who had love and esteem for me. I would be contented that I wedded a woman with whom I had fair compatibleness.







Also, I have to voice this. If I am in a state of love for a female of my linguistic community and the same sentiment is experienced by that female, obviously, matrimony would be one of the next steps for all intents and purposes.






In any case, I firmly feel that certain Hindus will have to gradually stop giving regal status to terms like Brahman, Yadav, Kayastha, Jat, Iyer, Thakur, Iyengar, Nadar, Shetty, Patel, etc. This regal status cannot come at the cost of injury to overall Hindu cohesion, especially politically and as regards marital intermingling. My only point is that some Hindus need to dismantle their laughable small-mindedness on this issue because it has only done disservice to the learnedness of Hinduism. These inward-looking Hindus need to embrace interlingual Hindu marriages for the solid preservation of Hindu structure in the future. Also, they need to embrace it for the sake of sanity. Another attitudinal transformation wanted in some Hindu minds desperately is the stoppage of female feticide/infanticide. This is a grisly act not worthy of mercy, especially considering the powerfulness of Hindu female divinity and the venerable status that they have in our religion. Strengthening of Hinduism needs this transformation as well.





May be… may be…… the paucity of interlingual Hindu marriages was one reason behind a mainly Hindu India being molested and disfigured by foreign religious forces in the past. The more comprehensively unified Hindus in India become, the better it would be for Hinduism’s durability here and for its ability to combat effectively mortal perils to its existence as manifested by nefarious Christian missionaries, Islamist terrorism and even those Hindus, who love to envenom the identity of Hinduism reprehensibly.