Why Marathas hated Hinduism & embraced Shiv Dharma ?

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Why Marathas hated Hinduism & embraced Shiv Dharma ?

PURUSHOTTAM KHEDEKAR, FOUNDER, MARATHA SEVA SANGH, B-9, RANA PRATAP

MARG, QUEENS GARDEN, PUNE - 411 001

 

The declaration of Shiv Dharma has caused lot of agitation in the

country, particularly Maharashtra. Some theocrats say that Hindu

religion is ancient and it was the religion of our ancestors. They

want us to stay in Hinduism "after removing the obnoxious traditions

and customs". They say there is no need for a new religion. Religion

is a system which makes human life happy and rich in contents. Any way

of life that makes a human life happy, peaceful and prosperous can,

therefore, be called a religion. Religion is the power that controls

the passage of the human life. Religion directs a man in respect of

his behaviour with other human beings. It also guides him in the

matter of his conduct with relation to his own life.

 

WHAT IS RELIGION

 

The religion is a mirror of the thoughts, philosophy, festivals, art,

literature, legends, customs, mutual relationship and beliefs of a

particular society. It follows, therefore, as a natural corollary that

any religion worth its name ought to be conducive to the development

and happiness of the society.

There are many religions in the world as well as in India. The

pertinent question here is whether our present religion stands true to

the above tests of happiness, prosperity and peace. Should we not

examine our present religion in this context? Should we not examine

whether the religion which we are asked to be proud of is the religion

of our making? Is it really the religion of our forefathers, as is

alleged by some people? The task of seeking answers to these various

questions is being done by the Maratha Seva Sang (MSS).

 

It is said the "majority religion" of the Indians is Hindu. If we are

Hindu, have we been leading a life of peace, happiness and prosperity

in the past centuries or now?

In fact, the very word Hindu is of a recent origin. It cannot be found

in any "sacred" text of a period before 700 BC. Not only that. The

priestly class does not tell us the exact meaning of the word Hindu.

Its followers are divided into 6,500 castes and 75,000 subcastes. It

is not explained why some of its sections have a feeling of

superiority or inferiority against each other. Why different castes

marry within the caste and why certain castes are denied entry into

the Hindu temples.

 

WHY NO UPANAYAN FOR NON-BRAHMIN

 

The name of the founder of every other religion is known but not that

of the Hindu. Why? The sacred book of every religion is open for study

to all the followers of that religion but the sacred books like Vedas

are not open to castes other than the Brahmin even today. Why? Every

religion has an initiation ceremony for the new entrant or a new body

e.g. sunnat in Islam, baptism in Christianity and diksha in others.

How then upanayan (thread ceremony) is prohibited by the Hindu for the

castes other than the Brahmin?

 

About 5,000 years ago, the Brahmin created a four-class social order.

That order is called Chatur Varna. Excepting the Brahmin all other

varnas have been insulted by this religion (in writings and practice).

Even the Hindu king, Chhatrapati Shivaji, was refused coronation by

the Brahmins.

 

Shivaji's descendant, Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj, was not allowed to chant

vedic mantras. The reasonwas they were shudras and hence had no right

to worship or be worshipped in vedic tradition. A very recent example

is of Pandarinath Patil of Chikhali dt., Buldhana. He was insulted for

chanting the mantra, Omkar. Even today, all Sankaracharyas are Brahmin

by caste.

 

GOD ON EARTH

 

The Brahmin position in the Hindu religion is that of a superman. All

its temple priests are Brahmin. All the rituals of a man's life and

even of the after-life can be carried out only by the Brahmin. The

Brahmin regards himself as a god on the earth Ñ Bhoodevata.

 

They act as a go-between of the god and the human being. He is,

therefore, the sole recipient of donations made to god. Even the king

must make sumptuous and frequent donations to the Brahmin. The begging

Brahmin is called Madhukari while the same done by another person is a

despicable act. The king's power was always used by the Brahmins for

their protection and prosperity. Even the present-day democracy (in

India) has been converted into a theocracy or Brahminocracy by the

Brahmins. That is how the Brahmin has tightened his grip on the

political, financial, educational and media powers.

 

In 3250 BC, the Aryans entered India and after a prolonged fight with

the natives i.e. Sindhu people, reconciled into a peaceful living.

However, very soon they assumed total control of the Indian society

through the medium of religion by introducing the varna system. The

vanquished Sindhu people (working class) were placed in the shudra

varna i.e. the lowest class. This class was robbed of all the human

rights like education, property and arms. During this period, the

Vedas were produced. The Vedas fortified the Chatur Varna system

replacing the original Sindhu religion of the Indian people.

 

 

BAHUJAN SAMAJ ENSLAVED

 

However, this four-class system of exploitation of the Indians was

further fortified by inventing the mechanism of the castes and

subcaste system. The original glorious and prosperous Sindhu Sanskriti

(the only one of C. 7000 BC) was destroyed and converted into the

Vedic culture of the Aryans. The devices used were not the wars but

far more dangerous like the beliefs of heaven and hell, sin and piety,

re-birth, soul, god, moksha (escape from birth and death), customs,

rituals, vedic origin, the smritis being seer's words and various

legends of the puranic nonsense.

 

These contraptions worked so well for the Aryans that the Bahujan

Samaj became totally submerged in the Dev, Daiva vad (fatlaism),

superstitions, rituals, yagna and daily worship.

 

As a result, he became a mental and physical slave of the Brahmin. He

started regarding the culture and religion of the enemy as his own, of

his forefathers. Such a state continues even today. The life-style

based on caste discrimination is the real basis of the Hinduism of

today. It has been laid by the Aryan Brahmins to divide the strong

Sindhu people's society.

 

As the Bahujan Samaj was denied education, property and arms by the

cunning Brahmins, they became poor and helpless. They forgot their

glorious culture of the Sindhu days. Poverty and non-education

degraded the Bahujans so much that they readily accepted the fatalism

and sins of the past life theory and also accepted the Brahmin as

their saviour, their lord, their patron. The Brahmin propagated a sort

of religious terror among the Bahujan and compelled the Bahujans to

accept as gospel truth whatever he preached them. The ignorant Bahujan

was cheated, looted and booted day in and day out from birth to death

and even thereafter, by coercing him to do various penances, rituals

and pujas through Brahmins. The Brahmin propagated that he was the

bhoodev and any disobedience of his commands would bring god's wrath

on the Bahujan's family, his entire lineage and also the religion. The

Bahujan was gradually pushed into the hell of poverty and ignorance.

Yet he regards Hinduism as his own

religion and is prepared to lay his life in its defence. What a wonder.

 

HINDUISM REJECTS BROTHERHOOD

 

The entire ritual-oriented lifestyle of the Hindu, from birth to

death, is controlled by the Brahmin. Days of doing anything important

are chosen by referring to the birth chart or the position of the

stars, by the Brahmin. No where else in the world the people consult

the horoscope. Yet the Westerners reached the moon, the Indians, on

the contrary, are only longing for its darshan in the sky. All

ceremonies of the Hindus are conducted by the Brahmins charging a fat

fee ÑÊbe it a ceremony of putting the child in the cradle or a naming

ceremony or a house warming ceremony or a post-death ceremony because

the Brahmins assert that it is so dictated by the Hindu religious

texts. For getting a child, various yagnas are performed at the cost

of sacrificing the animals and at the cost of time and wealth of the

Bahujan Samaj. The Brahmin makes sure that no time and money are left

with the Bahujan to study, to contemplate and to research any subject.

 

WHY SHIVA DHARMA?

 

It is proved by scores of thinkers that Hinduism is not the religion

of the Bahujans Ñ the original inhabitants of India. The Vedic

religion belongs to the Aryan Brahmins. Hinduism, which should

correctly be pronounced as Sindhuism, is the name adopted by the

Aryans for their Vedic religion to deceive the Indian masses. It has

all the tricks in it to cheat the Bahujan who is not even aware of the

exploitation that goes on for millennia in its name.

 

The Maratha Seva Sangh and the Bahujans are, therefore, rejecting

Hinduism. Through the Shiva Dharma, the Bahujans of India raised a

banner of revolt against Hinduism on the Jan.12, 2005 throughout the

country.

 

What will be the form of the new religion? Its principles? What change

it proposes in the life of the Indian masses? What is the source of

its inspiration? What will be the way of life of the Shiv Dharma are

some questions that are to be answered in this brief article.

 

REINCARNATION OF ORIGINAL CULTURE

 

Shiv Dharma is not a new religion. Its declaration is in fact a

rediscovery of our original Sindhu religion which was badly disfigured

by the Brahmins by pasting upon its face many layers of vermilion.

Shiv Dharma is nothing but a renaming of the old Sindhu religion and

culture that existed in India i.e. the Sindhustan before the advent of

the Aryans. The Jan.12 ceremony translates the desire of the entire

Bahujan into a reality of regaining their lost Sindhu religion.

 

Indus Civilization was the most advanced and the forerunner of all

world civilizations. That the makers of this civilization were the

forefathers of today's Bahujans has so many proofs. In the Sindhu, the

people lived a high standard of material life and in total harmony.

The period was the actual golden age of the humanity, not to speak of

the Indian people.

 

If India is to regain that golden age and end the merciless

exploitation of the Bahujans, then there is no alternative but to

re-establish the Shiv Dharma.

 

We are going to re-establish our original culture with new vigour and

new awareness. The manifestation of the original "Sindhu culture" is

called Shiv Dharma.

 

As things stand today, it appears the Brahmins have succeeded in

destroying the originality of the Bahujan and transplanting the Vedic

religion on our brains. We declare today that we are the masters of

this land, we are the original residents of this land. (Not only that.

We are also the forefathers of the human kind). In fact, we should

have been proud of our ancient heritage, our forefathers, their

achievements in this country and abroad but the Hindu religion taught

us to be proud of our enemy's achievements.

 

We are going to throw out the slave's pride planted in our mind by the

Brahmin Dharma. By reviving the Shiv Dharma, we are going to restore

the pride of place to our ancient agriculture, restore the pride due

to our past heroes, study once again the literature of our thinkers

and seek inspiration for nation-building from the Bahujan luminaries.

 

(Translation by P.S. Sadar, No.71, Kotwal Nagar, Nagpur - 440 022).

 

 

 

 

 

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