Posted by Dr. Gopal Unnikrishna Kurup
Secularizing The Religion
Mahatma Gandhi said: “If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!”. But what is happening in India is that instead of keeping one's religion personal, every politician is using it for his own benefit. They fail to see that alternative to their bad religion or their take of religion, is not secularism, which every bad religionist is using for playing hide and seek. Just as leftists used ideology as opposed to values, the pseudo secularist is using secularism to cover bad religion. Has any one of them put religion behind him? Scratch any of them and you can see communalism under their skin.
The religionists need to be reminded that you can secularise your religion with or without spiritualizing your life. Instead of waiting for that happening to you, you should seek it to happen in you. One should gradually start synchronizing the thinking ,beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this age rather than to the medieval. It is easy for the Hindus but may be not so easy for the semitic religions who believe that each one of theirs is the God's word, unalterable., For them the universe is no democracy as it is for the Hindus, it is a monarchy. Only Hindus have nothing like the last word, but instead have the principle of universal dynamics where there is no finish..
The Persians had no sound or letter for 'S' but used instead 'H' for these in their language, so they called the great riverine Sindhu people and civilization, world's earliest culture, as Hindu. That got wide currency in rest of the world west of Bharathavarsha that is India now, and whoever came from the west used the name known to them already. Later on, Sindhu river was known in Greek as Indus from which came the English name, India.This was in a way good because the earliest civilization got a name for itself; the earliest civilization had no use for a name, it was indeed the mankind and the world. Christ never created any religion; Christianity was created by others in his name. By the time of Christ there were plenty of others, but in Sindhu people's rather primordial times only they were there as the Manu, the thinking animal, ( Manu>Man, Adi>Adam, all came from sanskrit ), others being not far away from having come from the stage of brachiation from tree to tree.
That is why you don't find the term for this way of living, or the word Hindu in the Vedas, although there are references to Sanathana Dharma. Dharma, not math, mind you. It was the life one should do, his duty, not one of the ways, the math. Get it?
So when we say Hindutwa, it is actually Sindhutwa or Indianness. In order to be a complete or even better Indian, one has to synchronize oneself with this Indian ethos. Reactionaries are attacking this concept, turned in to demand, under open skies and broad daylight shining bright in India unlike in many theocratic nations. Reactionaries who have treated their own kinds in the most despicable way wherever they hold the sway. And our working -class heroes are no exception who behave like so many dogmatic idiots..
The pseudo secularist should learn that secularism is not loss of faith. It is a loss of political interest in the world of faith. they should also understand that in the Indianness, religion is irrelevant in the common way of life. It is only the Indian ethos all the way.
Secularizing The Religion
Mahatma Gandhi said: “If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!”. But what is happening in India is that instead of keeping one's religion personal, every politician is using it for his own benefit. They fail to see that alternative to their bad religion or their take of religion, is not secularism, which every bad religionist is using for playing hide and seek. Just as leftists used ideology as opposed to values, the pseudo secularist is using secularism to cover bad religion. Has any one of them put religion behind him? Scratch any of them and you can see communalism under their skin.
The religionists need to be reminded that you can secularise your religion with or without spiritualizing your life. Instead of waiting for that happening to you, you should seek it to happen in you. One should gradually start synchronizing the thinking ,beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this age rather than to the medieval. It is easy for the Hindus but may be not so easy for the semitic religions who believe that each one of theirs is the God's word, unalterable., For them the universe is no democracy as it is for the Hindus, it is a monarchy. Only Hindus have nothing like the last word, but instead have the principle of universal dynamics where there is no finish..
The Persians had no sound or letter for 'S' but used instead 'H' for these in their language, so they called the great riverine Sindhu people and civilization, world's earliest culture, as Hindu. That got wide currency in rest of the world west of Bharathavarsha that is India now, and whoever came from the west used the name known to them already. Later on, Sindhu river was known in Greek as Indus from which came the English name, India.This was in a way good because the earliest civilization got a name for itself; the earliest civilization had no use for a name, it was indeed the mankind and the world. Christ never created any religion; Christianity was created by others in his name. By the time of Christ there were plenty of others, but in Sindhu people's rather primordial times only they were there as the Manu, the thinking animal, ( Manu>Man, Adi>Adam, all came from sanskrit ), others being not far away from having come from the stage of brachiation from tree to tree.
That is why you don't find the term for this way of living, or the word Hindu in the Vedas, although there are references to Sanathana Dharma. Dharma, not math, mind you. It was the life one should do, his duty, not one of the ways, the math. Get it?
So when we say Hindutwa, it is actually Sindhutwa or Indianness. In order to be a complete or even better Indian, one has to synchronize oneself with this Indian ethos. Reactionaries are attacking this concept, turned in to demand, under open skies and broad daylight shining bright in India unlike in many theocratic nations. Reactionaries who have treated their own kinds in the most despicable way wherever they hold the sway. And our working -class heroes are no exception who behave like so many dogmatic idiots..
The pseudo secularist should learn that secularism is not loss of faith. It is a loss of political interest in the world of faith. they should also understand that in the Indianness, religion is irrelevant in the common way of life. It is only the Indian ethos all the way.
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