matham --manusmruthi

  
--  pseudo-secularists raise a hue and cry. They quote Manu Smriti (or Manu Samhita) and make an appeal to pity for their cause by citing verses which talk about punishments to be given for people who deviate from their caste… like a Sudra speaking Vedas. In opposition, if a person without a qualified MBBS degree is found to be working a doctor, will the law enforcers remain silent? In the same way, a person who has been identified by his Guru to be NOT having any qualities or work tendencies to be a Brahmana or a Ksatriya or a Vaisya, becomes a sudra. So how does this person have any right to lecture on the Vedas? Looking from the perspective of how the caste system should have been, I see nothing wrong in the punishments.

I quote my teachers:

“In the Vedic setting, if it is ascertained that one has the nature of a sudra, they were given vocational education; literacy for the masses was not given great importance in Vedic society. However, as the sudras gave service to the other varnas, it was in turn the duty of brahmanas to systematically disseminate shastric knowledge to the general public. In fact, the temple in a Vedic community was to serve just this purpose – as a center of learning – where the mercantile and laborer classes would come and learn about religious principles through art, drama and regular discourses on scriptural teachings.”

Nowadays the word Sudra has taken a ‘derogatory’ tone… while it is simply equivalent to being called a ‘dancer’, ‘mechanic’ and so on. I am 100% against the concept of ‘untouchability’, which is again the perverted rendering of the Vedic system by the pseudo-brahmanas of recent times. And one should also be careful while dealing with ‘modern reformers’ who are quick to denounce the Vedas and have ‘converted’ to Buddhism and such… they are more dangerous than the pseudo-brahmanas because not only are they wrong in their understanding of the scriptures, they are also proud of it and do what they do as a sense of duty and right.

So, the next time someone lectures to you on the caste system and starts denouncing the Vedic scriptures, you remember that it was we people, not the scriptures, who are responsible for the current mess.

Caste system is used prevalently to criticize Hindu religion.

You have a Mercedez-Benz car. You run it for many many years. After many years of tear and wear, you change the company fitted parts with local parts, show it to ill-equipped mechanicz and finally the once great car is now making noises and smokes. Will you critize the Mercedez-Benz car for the current state or the bad servicing at wrong hands inbetween? This is the case of Caste system scenario. While Vedas never advocated the practice of Caste system as prevalent now, the inbetween power holders altered the original practice to suit their convenience and finally Hinduism been blamed intotal for the current mess…

We need to shed the baggage called ‘Hinduism’. This word ‘hindu’ doesn’t even exist in the Vedas… and anyone quoting anything to that effect is simply looking at some cooked-up verses.

Yes, we need strong leaders… but it falls to US… the masses, to come out of the shell imposed on us by western philosophers who have taken every chance to discredit us and the Vedic scriptures so that they can propagate their own philosophies.

If only the ‘intellectuals’ of our society can take up the study of even just the Bhagavad Gita in its *unadulterated* form, the progress that we can make would be enormous.

Many intellectuals shirk away from doing this because they fear the backlash from the ‘modern scientific community’. We do not reject modern science. It has its benefits. But it also has its limits.

One cannot take up Bhagavad Gita without accepting Krishna as God or him to be real. One of modern scientific thought’s major shortcomings is that many scientists take the attitude called Burden of Proof towards God, saying that God does not exist until proved. This attitude is fine towards matters related to gross physical existence, but fails miserably when applied to subtle matters, beyond the reach of our gross senses. Nowadays, they would not believe God even if they saw proof for Him.

So, a change in attitude is required. We have to accept that our ancestors weren’t just roaming about nude and plucking berries and making clacking sounds with tongues. Even a superficial study of sanskrit and its compositions as well as a tiny peak in to the knowledge of astronomy, human body, architecture they had would put that crazy notion in the grave.

To light up a room, one need not remove darkness first. Just bring in the lamp… darkness will go away. Get this knowledge and spread it. Automatically things will begin setting themselves right.The word Hindu is not in Vedas, as Religion was out of concept at that time. Foreigners (at that time) termed Hindu thinking it to be a religion.

The caste system when became a class system, the hierarchy of power was :

1. Knowledge Power
2. Political Power
3. Money Power
4. None of the above

But, today it is

1. Political Power
2. Money Power
3. Knowledge Power
4. None of the above