Towards a civilised India!

As regards the evolution of a civilised and peaceful society in India, we must start with the following steps:

1.  Within the Hindu fold, priesthood in all the temples must be opened for all the castes. Present conspiratorial measures to sabotage the steps taken so far towards this end by the vested interests, must stop.

2. There must be compulsory conscription, and the people of all castes must be made to work as common soldiers. The resultant situation must be such that when there is war, there must be a possibility that the people of all the castes would be in the war-front as soldiers facing the enemy. In the ancient era, the kings were also in the battle field. Because that situation is not prevalent at present, the Central Ministers and Central Bureaucrats act rashly and irresponsibly in military matters. They must know that there is a possibility of their wards too to be in the battle-field, when they egg on the nation towards war, without exploring all the other avenues of solving the issues. Country would not have lost thousands of soldiers, if we had had this approach, in the past 60 years.

3. The revelations by Mr. Vinod Mehta, Mr. Kuldip Nayar, Ms. Coomi Kapoor and the excerpts from the book of Mr. Sankaran Nair, would show that RAW was not doing work which was nationally important but only what was politically convenient to the powers that be. I refer here to the powers-that-be not only in politics but also in bureaucracy, controlled by the Brahmins. All this emphasise on the need to have a multi-religious and multi-caste body to monitor the functions of these secret organisations. We cannot afford to allow the Chanakya formula to man the organisations meant for espionage. Chanakya had ordained, “Those of Brahman caste and learned in the Vedas, as well as ascetics, shall only be subjected to espionage”- Page 251-ibid-Book V.

4. Similar need is there to monitor the MEA, MHA too besides the Income Tax department.

5. Surnames should not be used.  In the South, people have generally desisted from using their surnames, even though it was inherited. For example, former President called himself just as R. Venkataraman by his first name and not by his caste. The same was the case with K. R. Narayanan. As surname is the indicator of caste, one must feel, at least, shy, if not ashamed, of using his surname. “David Ben Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel during his speech in the General Assembly of the United Nations, recalled the genocide of Jews by the Aryan Hitler and said, “I AM PROUD THAT I BELONG TO THE PEOPLE THAT WAS SLAUGHTERED, RATHER THAN TO THOSE WHO SLAUGHTERED OR STOOD BY INDIFFERENTLY”. But, it is only in India we find the people who are the descendants of the oppressed for millennia, shying away from using their surname while the people who are the descendants of the oppressors using their surname with pride (and prejudice too). Human values are upside down in the Indian polity.

6.  If Hindu religion reforms itself by making priesthood open to all, there will be no need to fear other religions. So there would be no need to retain the people classified as SCs, STs and OBCs within the Hindu fold, by force, as is done now, without permitting them absolute religious freedom to convert to the religions of their choice, especially when the reservation is intended only to provide a safety net only from the after effects of the age-old tyranny of the higher castes. The oppressors who resist this proposal do not listen to the sage words of the Hon’ble Supreme Court, which said, “Advantages secured due to historical reasons, cannot be claimed as fundamental rights”. The benefits of reservation will continue, then, for the suppressed classes even if they migrate to any other religion, and it will not be the business of the State to tell people how they should try to attain heaven, if at all religions do that.

7. Sadistic and conspiratorial inclusion of more and more higher castes into the OBC List without providing for proportionate reservation for all the castes and religions in India, must stop forthwith. Fortunately, this is not being done in the case of SCs and STs, till now. The country must march forward in the direction of allocation of all the posts in Government and the seats in educational institutions, exactly in accordance with the proportion of every caste and religion in the entire population. We can call it allocation and not reservation.

8. Introduction of the unconstitutional and peculiar income criteria for reservation must be done away with when even in the USA the Affirmative Action is based only on race and not on income. Besides, it is said that in Paycevanish Brahman 3-1/11 it has been mentioned that ‘Even if a Shudra acquired wealth, he must always remain a slave. His main job is to wash the feet of the higher caste’. While I am taking steps to recheck this statement, the fact is that even the richest Sudra cannot reach the Sanctum Sanctorum in the temples or become priest. So, the creamy layer concept must go.

9.  All the languages of the nation must be given equal status.

10. All the political parties and non-governmental organisations must be made to publish in their websites the names of the donors who pay more than ten rupees. This will prevent all the unscrupulous elements becoming politicians. The details of all the expenditure incurred by these political parties and NGOs must also be made public in the website. The income-tax department, which has to monitor all these issues, must be monitored by a multi-religious and multi-caste body.

These are the essential steps towards reconciliation and there will, then, be no inter-caste and inter-religious rivalry.

Apartheid in the name of Hinduism

“It is better to explore and accept history rather than to repress and deny it”-Edward W Said- Culture and Imperialism.

In

 South Africa, when the minority Whites wanted to enslave the majority Blacks and deny equal rights to them,  the weapon chosen by them for this purpose was the “colour” of the skin. But, in India,  when an  authoritarian minority  chose to subjugate and enslave the majority the weapon chosen by it for that nefarious purpose was “religion”. It is possible to perpetrate any wicked practice with immunity and impunity, if it is done in the name of  religion, the  authoritarian minority had diagnosed. Nowhere in the world can one witness the strange phenomenon of a people grouped together in one single religion in which a microscopic denomination or section could arrogate to itself a superior status by virtue(?) of birth of the members of the particular denomination. No wonder, ‘Hinduism’ has correctly been described as a religion in which “the people accept the superiority of the Brahmins by birth”.

 It is said that man cannot  and does not do any harm to others while he is sleeping. But, the Brahmin, by wearing the cross-thread even while he is asleep, declares to the world, in all arrogance,  that he considers the others Sudhras. He wears it all day and night and calls it a religious activity.

 Till date the Brahmins  have not explained why they cling on to the practice of wearing of the cross-thread and thereby proclaim to the world that there exist in India even in the twenty-first century the four ‘varna’ categories of people and although the people in the other three ‘Varna’s may try to obliterate the stigma attached to them by coming out of the compartmentalized caste web, the Brahmins would keep on reminding both themselves and the others that even if  the caste system goes the parent Varna system would not be allowed to vanish into thin air and that they  would continue to hold  aloft and perpetuate the varna system and thereby insult the others that they belong to an in-born inferior  strata in this system.

The tradition of subjugation continues till date. Sankaracharya of Kanchipuram says, "We must, at least now, strive hard, wherever possible and to whatever extent, to resurrect the old system, without leaving it stating that it is not possible. Gandhi may not have that much confidence in it. But, as far as I am concerned, I am not prepared for it. This caste structure must definitely be created once again"  "சாத்தியமில்லை என்று விட்டுவிடாமல், இப்போதாவது எங்கே எவ்வளவு முடிகிறதோ அங்கெல்லாம் முடியும் அளவுக்கு பழைய வழிக்குத் திருப்பத்தான் பாடுபடவேண்டும். காந்திக்கு இதிலே நம்பிக்கை குறைந்துபோயிருக்கலாம். ஆனால், என்னைப்பொறுத்தவரையில், நான் அதற்குத் தயாராக் இல்லை. மறுபடியும் இந்தச் சாதி ஏற்பாட்டை உண்டாக்கத்தான் வேணும்". -(Sankaracharya of Kanchipuram- Deivaththin Kural - Vol. 3 - Page 876).

Priesthood of Sudras: Robbed at Palani!

The priesthood in the temple at Palani was traditionally in the Pulippani heredity. Pulippani was the disciple of the saint Pohar who established the temple. The descendants of Pulippani maintained the temple from times immemorial. But during the reign of Thirumalai Naicker  from Madurai (1623-1659 AD), ‘Ramappa Iyen’ , a Brahmin was the Chief of his army. One day,  when he happened to visit the temple for worship, he came to know that the priests of the temple were not Brahmins but Shudras. He was not prepared to accept the ‘Theertha Prasad’ from the non-Brahmin priest. He therefore, made immediate arrangements for the appointment of five Brahmins as priests. The shocked administrators of the temple told him that the temple became famous because of the services rendered by the Pulippani and his successors and ‘questioned’ him how they can be set aside. Ramappa Iyen had immediately adopted the technique of submission. He caught hold of both the hands of the Pulippani –Priest and told  that that the Brahmin priests would give him ¼  of the income earned as Swarnapushpa. The Pulippani-Priest had asked him what the fate of the other Pandarams of the temple would be. Ramappa Iyen had, then, arranged for a share of income from Thirumanjanam, Sandal, Garland, Vilva Archana ,safeguarding the temple (Arai Kaaval), etc., Besides, some other traditional rights had been conceded to them. The copper-plate document in this  regard had been executed by the said  Ramappa Iyen on the 16^th of  the month Thai in the Srimuha year which had been recorded in the document as the year 1399 of Salivahana era and 4578 of the Kaliyug era.

 These facts are found to have been recorded in the Madura Gazetteer also in Page No.306 in the Chapter XV under the caption Palni.

The names of the persons who were appointed as priests are also furnished  therein. They are:

(1)Saraswathy Iyen of Kodumudi, (2)Thambavaiyan of Marudur,(3)Suppaiyan of Nattarappankoil, (4) Muthaiyan of Karur and (5) Ahilandayyan of Kadambarkoil.Of them,  Saraswathy Iyen was appointed as priest and the remaining four were appointed Nambimars to assist the priest.