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  • Casteism and Hinduism are like oil and water

    Casteism and Hinduism are like oil and water

    Caste is like “Brahmastra” or nuclear weapon in the hands of Marxists which sends every Hindu on the defensive in case they try to dominate any debate. But caste is not mentioned in any Hindu religious texts anywhere and varna system is not the same as caste system. The current caste system as we now know it was a विकृति (degeneration) introduced into our system by foreign invaders. This process was much more extensive and spanned a long duration of time which can only be understood by studying history. So, how to get off the hook next time when you get entangled regarding caste system with a Marxist/Chrislamist? The first is to not let them associate caste with varna system to justify it through Hinduism and second, read a bit of history on how castes system got frozen over time. It is important to know some examples to emphasize the second point.

    For example- the Chamar (Mahar) caste was created by the Mughals to humiliate the dispossessed Hindus in the society who couldn’t pay Jaziya tax. The rich Hindus who could pay the tax were left alone but the poor ones were ill treated, even after converting to Islam they had secondary status and were made to live in ghettos (this is why you will find leather tanning places like Dharavi are still ghetto communities). They were made to slaughter cows and tan leather, just to make them dissociate from their earlier traditions of cow worship. There were many such castes created then. The British came and codified it and made it even worse.

    In the late 1800s (or you can say few years before 1900), the British introduced a law to make it compulsory for everyone to write their caste in every government document like school admission, banking etc. That started the use of caste as a political tool of identification, organization and basically to support their divide-and-rule politics.

    When encountered with this problem of ‘caste system’, especially if challenged by Marxists, don’t try to defend it, otherwise you will fall right into the trap of Chrislamists. Understand that they don’t give a damn about any explanation. They have managed to conflate the caste system with the varna system mentioned in the Vedas by lose associations, allusions and innuendo. Just state that Caste and Varna are not the same, because that’s what the truth is. Making half baked arguments about economic system allow Chrislamists to create a strawman to beat Hindus with. So don’t step into that trap. The caste system was in fact a transposition of the inherently discriminatory British class system due to their inherent biases. They are to blame for it, it is not something that Hindus should get defensive about.

    The Hindu Varna system was fluid until it was corrupted by outsiders. Remember, we were enslaved for 1000 years. This settles everything:

    Also and more importantly, if caste system is Hindu thing, then how does it exist in Christianity and Muslim, even after conversion? Are these so called perfect religions not able to wash away the imperfections even after converting evil Hindus to their religion? There are separate Churches/Mosques for Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims. Well, if it exists in all religions then it is orthogonal to Hinduism and has nothing to do with it. One can’t claim it to be derived from Hindu theology. It is a societal problem caused due to slavery of 1000 years and consequent obfuscations.

    The concept of Brahma (and other gods in our texts) in Hinduism is not to be taken literally as a magic being which does magic. It is merely a metaphor to serve as a vehicle to convey an abstract idea to the reader. What you call ‘ocean’ in English is referred to as Varuna in Sanskrit. Both of them allude to the same entity, which is the ocean, but by anthropomorphizing it, it allows the story teller to convey more complicated concepts in a poetic and fine tuned manner which appeals to human imagination because nothing can be more complicated than human behaviour. Giving human attributes to natural phenomena, allows the story teller to add finer nuances, the complexity of which can only be matched by the complexity of human behaviour. It allows the building up of abstract concepts on top of one another to blossom into a more comprehensive philosophical idea.

    For example, if someone says Varuna had a fight with Pashupatinath (god of forests), it doesn’t literally mean that two magic beings fought a WWF match. It is probably trying to tell you that there was a tsunami which engulfed a forest. This is merely a mode of communication. If you have seen Life Of Pi, he says it in the end “I told you two stories, one where my ship sunk and I was rescued by fishermen, other where I was stranded with a tiger on a magical island with meerkats and both the stories narrate the same incident; I just replaced the human characters with animals, that doesn’t make my story false. So, which one is the better story?” and the guy says “the one with the animals; that’s the better story”. Same is the nature of religion.

    The stories are not to be taken literally, there is a certain essence it is trying to convey, which one should seek. The reason they have been compiled in the form of stories is because it becomes easy for one generation to propagate the wisdom enshrined in them to the next generation in a non-dogmatic fashion. When Hindus pray to gods, it’s not that they think some magic is coming out of the statue, it is the idea which the god represents in the narrative which they are praying. Basically, we don’t pray to idols, we pray to ideals. For example Ram is called Purushottam (the perfect man with a balanced world view), so people pray/aspire to those qualities by proxy of praying to the god. The idol and temple is only there to help ordinary people concentrate and to keep the stories/wisdom alive so that it can be passed on to the next generation (think of it like a museum). Those who have better concentration need not pray to gods and can simply make themselves useful to the society through karma (doing your duties, doctor, engineer, soldier, teacher etc).

    Now coming back to Varnas. The Varna system was merely an observation of the four types of human tendencies based on their level of participation in society. These tendencies exist in all humans in all societies. There are some who are lazy and some who are altruists, some who are willing to give their life for the country, and some who will steal and murder. The Varna system is merely an observation of how humans behave. It is not a codified system and it says that everyone is born Shudra, but then everyone has to elevate themselves according to their potential. So basically if basically there are 4 kids in a house and one kid cracks IIT and other doesn’t study and fails even 10th class, then the first kid gets more respect and the failed kid gets less respect in society, even though they were born equal. What the Varna system says is that the respect you get will be proportional to how useful you are to the society. If you contribute more (like soldier dying for the country), you get more respect, if you simply slack off then don’t expect any respect. It is not that Brahma created the system, that is how humans are. Brahma is just a metaphor for the universe. So when someone says Brahma made 4 Varnas what they are poetically trying to say is “there are 4 kinds of tendencies in the universe”.
    How come there is never any record of such people anywhere on this earth other than some parts of India?

    There is, but it is simply known by different names so it doesn’t register in our brain as a ‘Hindu’ thing. There are many religions born out of the same ethos which Hinduism espouses, these religions were spread by Hindu philosophers to other lands, over time the wisdom got translated in native languages (Chinese, Indonesian etc) so they refer to those concepts with different names in their own language. Check this :

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    “The path”, “the way” are basically Chinese terms for what we call Dharma in Sanskrit. There is a near complete interchangeability between all their concepts with ours, with, of course, Chinese names. What we call the Varna here, the other Asian countries refer to as the family honour code. If you do good then earn more goodwill and respect for your your clan (kula/ gotra/ varna), that is why Chinese and Japanese men would want to die in war, to add to the Karma points of their kula (clan). Yin and Yang correlate to good Karma and bad Karma.

    There is even a Chinese Hanuman called Sun Wukong

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    Instead of carrying a saffron flag with ‘Hindu Om’ on it, he carries a saffron flag with Chinese alphabets.

    The exact same thing applies to Japan. Here is a Japanese Ganesha

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    Here’s the Shiv Linga in Japan

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    Common Terms in Sanskrit/Chinese/Japanese

    Archarya – Master Achali Ajari
    Dharma – Law FA Ho
    Pratima – movement warrior techniques of the Hindu ksatreyas Hsing
    Kata
    Sunyatapani – Tang-Shou Karate/To De
    Dharmahasta Chuan Fe Kempo
    Marga – The Way Tao Do
    Guhya-Sutra Mi-Ching Mikkyo
    Nagarjuna Lung Shu Ryuju/Ryusho/Ryumyo
    Mudra – ritual gesture Yin In
    Mandala a special zone or area Mantolo Mandara
    Vajramukti Ching Kang, Chieh T’o Kongogedastsu
    Sangha – congregation or group followers Seng So
    Narya – strong or manly Na-Li Nara, Naha
    Nata Na-Pa, Na-Ra Nara, Napa, Nafa
    Yoga – to yoke Yui Cha Yu Ga”

    Link : https://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/bharatwaja-hinduism-gods-in-japan-religion/

    Indonesia has its own local flavours of Hinduism whereby their university emblems and currency bears images of Ganesha.

    There are similar parallels to Hindu concepts all over the world, with different pseudonyms, that is why it feels as if it exists only in a small part of India. It is actually a universal phenomenon. As for the Varna system in particular, you can find those four types of people even in western societies. The people who are most useful to society are the ones who create the most value, and therefore paid higher salary and get more respect in their society. Their definition of ‘adding value’ has simply been transposed by an economic criteria (instead of a Dharmic/social criteria) but the system of ‘incremental respect’ is the same there.

    Saudi Arabia, which is the beacon of the purest form of Islam, considers non-Arab Muslims (like the ones in the subcontinent) to be Hind-Al-Masakeen, which means ‘the lowly slaves of Hind’. How is it that this religion, which claims to be a champion of equality under one God and offers liberation from the allegedly discriminatory Hindu social order, differentiate between two different groups of the same religion? Is that not a caste system in itself? And if it is, why aren’t the liberals raising their voices against it? But we all know why!!

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  • GoI should force missionaries to only convert Muslims

    GoI should force missionaries to only convert Muslims

    GoI under PM Modi cracked the whip on foreign funding of NGOs last year, which culminated in the orchestrated attack on GoI by local and foreign media through highlighting a non-existent intolerance debate in the country. Fake Church attack stories were planted to tarnish the image of the government. A large number of these NGOs with foreign funding are engaged in subversion activities in India and a significant part of this foreign money is channelled through organizations related to the Church. So fake Church attacks not only generated large donations for them worldwide, but probably also made GoI go softer on the conversion business of the Church. It raises the question whether Hindus can somehow manipulate the Church mafia for their own benefit.

    The manipulation in this case means using Church money to fund conversion of Muslims into Christianity. To use this strategy one first needs to ask: why is it better to have Christians than Muslims in India? It is more than evident that Christians are usually much less of a nuisance than Muslims in any neighbourhood. Also, since such conversion will cut into the already present high Muslim population in India, it will divide the population among these two Abrahamics. This will make it slightly easier to handle them instead of just handling Muslims. What makes a few more Christians instead of Muslims even better is the fact that Christians have even lower fertility rates than Hindus and are more affected by the liberal memes of the West. So it would be easier to outbreed them than outbreed the Muslims in the long run. So, it can be established beyond doubt that having a few more Christians at the cost of a few fewer Muslims is a better deal any day.

    Now comes the question: why is it beneficial for Hindus to ask or aid Christians to convert Muslims?

    1. It is like killing one snake with another. Christians have money and want to harvest more souls, so if they can evangelize Muslims, it reduces their numbers which is better for India in the long run.
    1. It takes the heat off Hindutva groups engaged in Ghar Wapsi. This trick can pit one set of Abrahamics against another without hurting the image of Hindus. International and local media, which lose no chance to paint Hindutva organizations as fascists over one Ghar Wapsi incident, cannot do anything if one minority group converts another.
    1. If Muslims and Christians fight over it, then Hindus do not lose anything. If Muslims get too violent, they would further erode their image as the Religion of Piece.

    Having outlined the benefits of such a strategy, the only remaining piece of this puzzle is how to implement it. Using one set of Abrahamics against the other is not an easy task, especially when they would always gang up against pagans, in this case Hindus. Look below at the flow of foreign funds to NGOs in Kerala. The northern districts are Muslim dominated while the southern districts are Hindu majority. Although all these funds are not related to conversion activity, they still give a rough hint that the prime target for conversion is southern districts like Pathanamthitta with large Hindu populations, as it has received significantly higher foreign funds.

    But does this mean Hindus can do nothing and lose their brothers to Christians while the Muslim womb goes into overdrive? The fact is, if GoI is serious it can break this nexus and force the Church to only convert Muslims. How will that work?

    1. GoI gives the Church the choice to convert Muslims or shut shop in India. Given they will still prefer to harvest some souls rather than none, they would choose to convert Muslims.
    1. Future conversion licences will be based on the performance of these organizations in converting Muslims. If they are found to be engaged in activities of converting Hindus, their licence will be revoked under one pretext or another and their funds will be seized.
    1. In return for the services of these missionaries, the state will provide them full protection during this activity, i.e. strict action against Muslims who harass the foot soldiers of the Church engaged in converting Muslims.

    Given huge repercussions for not toeing the line of GoI, any Church would prefer to make do with whatever number of souls it can harvest. Also, it is cheaper to hound the Church using sleuths and use its funds rather than force the entire responsibility of Ghar Wapsi on Hindus.

    Long-run strategy:

    1. First use evangelization and Ghar Wapsi in low-density Muslim areas so that there are low chances of riots.
    1. Once the above areas are clear of Muslims, then one can resettle Hindus and converted Christians in high-Muslim-density areas like West Bengal and Western UP.

    The above two strategies can be reformed to make them more effective over time. In an ideal scenario, given that Islam and Christianity are majority religions in the world, a sensible GoI could have banned conversion out of Hinduism and forced a one-child policy on Muslims. But since we live in a non-ideal secular world, probably it is the best option to make friends with the lesser enemy in the short run and let them finish each other off.

  • Demographic Seize of Al-Hind

    India district-level demographic context
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    The above image is more than sufficient to explain the story rather than engage in a discussion and give long explanations. The demographic battle is being fought in India using wombs and nay-sayers do not know what they are getting into. The Hindus have become less than 90% in the lowest age cohort in most of the districts in the country and this cannot be taken less seriously.

    Comparative age-cohort demographic context
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    Just compare the two above pictures and the pattern clearly emerges. In the lowest age group, the number of Abrahamic kids are going up as most of the regions are turning from light green ⟹ dark green ⟹ red. It is an impossible challenge to find a district where this pattern has reversed i.e. a green area turning white. It would be very naive to think that this is not deliberate and just happened by chance.

    Now, lets look specifically on how the Muslims are doing as a group:

    District population-share context
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    Three patterns clearly emerge:

    1. The Mughal corridor going through the heart of UP and Bihar to link up with West Bengal and Bangladesh is going on at a rapid pace. The numbers in the 0–4 age group have swelled consistently.
    2. West UP and Uttarakhand have established themselves as the new demographic warzones.
    3. Assam and the north east are further sliding down from the Dharmic map. After accounting for illegal Bangladeshis, these numbers will only become worse.

    All the theories about high HDI and low Muslim fertility rate fail the sniff-test after looking at Kerala, which is supposedly the communist and liberal paradise in India. Muslims are outbreeding both Hindus and Christians in this high HDI state. There are enough videos on the internet where you can still see mullas debating on the use of condoms, clearly explaining that high Muslim fertility has a religion angle to it. But the liberals want to bury their heads in the sand and also prevent others from looking at it by hiding these facts through sophistry. Kerala is just another addition to the growing list of regions that have high Muslim fertility despite relative prosperity.

    High-concentration district context
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    Zooming in a bit further shows that many of the red regions actually have more than 40% Muslim population in the 0–4 age group.

    Urban demographic breakdown context
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    The worse picture emerges from the urban areas where most Hindus have stopped having more than 2 kids. The Muslim reluctance for contraception is more than evident here.

    Urban Hindus have given up on having children. Urban elections will be entirely Muslim dominated in a decade.
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    — Yuga Parivartan (@yugaparivartan), February 18, 2016

    The rural areas are still a bit better, except in West Bengal and Assam. If you see carefully, the large presence of Muslims in rural areas was the reason that it took forever to douse the communal riots in West UP and Assam.

    Rural areas completely dominated in West Bengal and Assam. West UP and Kerala follow up.
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    — Yuga Parivartan (@yugaparivartan), February 18, 2016

    This means that within the next 15 years Muslim youth will form a majority in these regions, specially the urban ones. And don’t expect this trend to change even after Muslims achieve population parity in their local areas. After all, Hindu genocide in Pakistan and Bangladesh did not happen very far in the past.

    Well, talking of Bangladesh — in contrast to the above, sample the Hindu population there under various age groups, as shown below:

    Bangladesh religious-demography context
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    A brief look, and clearly one could see how the ‘Hindu future’ is shaping out — or rather, phasing out — of the demographic picture there. The next time your Bangladeshi friend boisterously asserts that Hindus are doing very well and rather prospering more than the minorities in India, you know what to serve him piping hot!