A video (Tweet archived here) of Neo-Ambedkarite teacher Rajneesh Gangwar was seen demeaning the holy Hindu Kanwar Yatra. No sooner a Hindu festival starts than Hinduphobics (Hindudveshis) start spewing their anti-Hindu venom. Neo-Ambedkarites/Neo-Buddhists are at par with Abrahamics when it comes to hatred for Hindu Dharma.
Neo-Ambedkarite teacher Rajneesh Gangwar demeans Kanwar tradition
“I’ve never read of any Bhagwan having changed anyone’s life. If you want to improve your lives and bring light in it then you have to make efforts and study. Learn about the life of youth icon Swami Vivekananda. Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar has said that education is a drink that has the power to change lives. Neslon Mandela has said that education is a weapon that can change the world,” he is heard saying in the video.
That he doesn’t know Nelson Mandela can be taken as slip of tongue but the hate speech against Hindu Dharma is not so. It is a deliberate attempt to brainwash children and cut them off from their Dharma. One would never find Neo-Ambedkarites question practices of Abrahamic religions. Hindu practices need no validation from these elements but it is important to ensure that teachers like Gangwar are brought to justice for selectively targeting Hindu practices.
Neo-Ambedkarism and Neo-Buddhism are now naked Hindu-hatred
“But Dr Ambedkar was sceptical, and rightly so. He was not sure about the sincerity of non-SC/ST Hindus. He realised that if he were not to provide a catharsis of transformation to the SC Hindus they might be lost forever to Indian culture and civilisation. So he chose Buddha Dharma”, writes Aravindan Neelakandan comparing Gandhi’s Hinduism and Ambedkar’s Buddhism.
Ambedkar’s 22 vows are all about disowning every aspect of Hindu Dharma. But its now almost 70 years since Ambedkar’s conversion, and only a anti-Hindu propagandist would claim that Hindu society has not evolved since then. However, the neo-Ambedkarites are taking this hatred to the next level.
The 2011 census says more than 87% of Buddhists in the country are Ambedkarites. Neo-Ambedkarites have now found common cause with Islamists and hence we see them issuing anti-Hindu statements. But let’s examine the basis of this vitriol openly spewed at Hindus and their Dharma.
Jati and Varna are means of organizing Hindu society, just like ethnicity, clan, tribe, caste (from Portugese ‘casta’), lineage exist in other societies. Hindu Dharma does not sanction any sort of social discrimination. But no society is perfect – the fight against social ills and inequality is never-ending and one that even so-called first-world countries like US and UK are continuously waging.
The distortions introduced in Bharat’s society due to centuries of colonial rule and proselytization by foreign religions are never acknowledged or studied, and every social evil in Bharat and our subcontinent is conveniently blamed on Hindu Dharma by the anti-Hindu intelligentsia. At other times, Hindu Dharma is dismissed as an ‘artificial construct’ or derisively termed the ‘Brahminical religion’.
If some Hindus today are mis-interpreting Dharma to justify their wrong actions, how can it be used to smear Dharma itself and the invaluable, timeless, spiritually-uplifting message of Vedas and Bhagavad Gita? Do these Hindu-haters blame Islam and Christianity for every wrong act committed by a Muslim cleric or Christian pastor, or for the genocide of millions of indigenous people that followed the Pope’s decree authorizing colonialism? Is Sikhism slandered for the discrimination faced by Mazhabi Sikhs and the supremacism rife among many Jatt Sikhs?
Hasn’t Hindu society made enormous strides in eradicating ill-practices and empowering previously disadvantaged sections over the last 100 years, including due to tireless efforts of maligned Hindutvawadis like Savarkar, Arya Samaj, RSS and others? It’s an open secret that most of the social bitterness and feudal discrimination, as well as exponentially growing reverse discrimination, that exists in Bharat today is due to multi-party electoral politics and the regional, political fiefdoms operating in guise of social justice movements like Dravidianism/Periyarism, Lohiaism etc.
While neo-Buddhists spew venom against Hindus, Bharat has provided asylum to Dalai Lama and his followers. Tibetan Buddhists were provided asylum in Bharat in spite of the risk of incurring Chinese wrath. Not only do tens of thousands of Tibetans live peacefully in Bharat, but a separate Army unit has been formed comprising of Tibetans.
No neo-Buddhist or ‘Dalit’ intellectual like Prof. Dilip Mandal can explain why Buddhist civilization was annihilated in Afghanistan by ‘egalitarian and peaceful’ Islam? Why did Jogendranath Mandal have to return to Bharat in 1950 after resigning from the post of Pakistan’s law and labour minister? Why were the Bamiyan Buddha statues destroyed by Taliban, but all sacred Buddhist sites in Bharat are honored by Hindus? Why are Pakistani and Bangladeshi Hindus, most of whom are SC/ST i.e ‘Dalits’, suffering inhuman persecution and genocide?
Let’s turn our glance to Buddhist-majority nations in our neighborhood. Are they classless utopias without any social strife or discrimination? Didn’t Bhutan carry out ethnic cleansing of its minority Lhotshampa (ethnic Nepali) Hindu population? Isn’t Sri Lanka struggling with ethnic strife and economic inequality, and haven’t Sinhalese Buddhist supremacists discriminated against Tamil Hindus? Didn’t Myanmar crack down on Rohingya Muslims and isn’t that country’s military dictatorship fighting an ethnic civil war today?
Neo-Buddhists and other Hindu-haters claim that Christian conversions happen because ‘caste discrimination is inherent to Hindu society’. So would they care to explain why the same Christian missionary mafia is active even in Buddhist majority Southeast Asian countries like Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam?
There is a sinister plan to demonize the ‘majority’ Hindu community and its practices in order to embolden the radical and supremacist elements among ‘minorities’ and balkanize Bharat. Dreams of a ‘post-Hindu India’ seeded by Hindu-hating intellectuals like Kancha Ilaiah promise an egalitarian utopia, but if these dreams come true the nation will be plunged into civil war, similar to the situation in some Middle Eastern and African nations. The secular state’s apathy towards the so-called majority only adds to the woes of Hindu society which repeatedly bears the brunt of hate politics. The hatred and fake history have become so deep-rooted that radical neo-Buddhists have also vandalized temples in their hate.
We had earlier highlighted why our Devis, Devatas, and Dharma should be kept out of caste-obsessed conjectures of the Islamist-secular cabal with whom Ambedkarites have joined hands; even some nationalists fall for these baseless theories. Neither Dharma nor our deities are tools of modern-day notions of ‘social justice’ and ‘social engineering’. Hindu Dharma’s message is simple and universal – every human being has a divine spark within them and is capable of achieving self-realization i.e. union with the paramatma (absolute and ultimate reality).
While religion might be a personal choice, spewing venom against Hindus counts as hate speech and cannot be tolerated or justified. With little support from the secular state, judiciary, and political system, the majority community has to fend for itself and fight back against such baseless and venomous attacks against its Dharma.
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