Lambodar Prasad Dash
“...religion and religion alone is the life of India, and
when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, In spite of social
reforms, in spite of Kubera’s wealth, poured upon the head of every one of her
children...” (Swami Vivekananda, 25 January 1897)
The Subject may raise several controversies; it may hurt the
Seculars, Liberals, Communists, Marxists, socialists and Neo-Moderates who
don’t believe “Natural Selection” or “Geographic Mosaic theory” or my theory based on How Natural Evolution selects particular population having
certain physiological affinity, having distinct cultural correlations, common
beliefs & Faith, Shared norms which in turn effects a particular territory’s
Socio-Economic environment. My Issue may not directly relate to the general
Nationalist Believe that a particular nation belongs to a particular Religion
or Race. Whenever I mention “Religion” further in this article don’t take the
religion in a narrow sense, as “Hinduism” is much wider connotation than so
called definition of religion. Similarly, whenever I put the word “Race” don’t
divide it Aryan or Dravidian, as I believe The Indo race is distinct from
others and it is neither Aryan nor Dravidian.
Natural Environment like Geographical location, Geological
patterns, Weather, Temperature, Humidity, Availability of Food, Arable land etc
influence the Living Organisms. In simple understandings, the natural milieu
selects which type of living being going to survive on its lap. Migratory or alien
organisms may perish or evolve as predators and parasites.
In Biological terms, from simple single cell organisms to a
complex living body and from a micro-territory to the Multiverse, everything is
a self-explanatory example of Unity in Diversity. A secular brain always refers
India, as a country of “Unity in Diversity”; the term is more politico-religious
than Biological. As I have already said, my debate is not based on the narrow
religious terminology, so I rejected the Religious diversified unity propaganda
by mediocre political brains. Why I named Mediocre, you can comprehend later in
this article.
A Nation’s strength lies in its people. More skilful,
healthy, dedicated and loyal its people, more its development envisaged. A
nation becomes physically powerful when its ethnographic agents work
homogenously. A homogenous population develops strong social cohesiveness,
which in turn gives rise to collective responsibility & community spirit.
A Nationalist Brain sees the future through the past, the past
where his very Socio-cultural Identity emerged. Many Historians put forth their
argument that the “concept of Nationalism” was transported from the western world to
India during the Colonial era. But I say, they argued so only to hide their
Inferiority complex arising out of the diachronic problem of personal identity.
Indian Nationalism, we may call it as “Hindu Nationalism” has
distinctive characteristics, unlike western Nationalism. Hindu Nationalism has its root since Vedic
times. “Pandit Narahari Narayan Bhide defines Rastra (Nation) as follows: The
Feeling of eternal goal of human life which makes the life celestial and
elegant, and the race, language, literature, community of economic interest,
tradition, country, administration of the state and awareness in the invasion
of foreigners which are found within the psychology being expresses with those
seven organs, is the nationality or Rashtriya. The people having such
Rashtriya is a rastra and the member of such rastra is the Rashtriya.” (Nation
and Nationalism in the Vedic Literature: A study, Shiva Acharya, 2000, page-2)
In Vedas, the Rastra & Rashtrapati both synonymous to the
word “Indra”, the Indra refers to Rastra as a whole, a nourisher, a protector,
and the giver of all worldly pleasures. There are several Vedic verses like
“Ayam gha saturo ma’d Indrasya Bardhita Priya...”(Rig Veda 10 mandala 25 sukta)
necessarily depicts the character of a Rastra.
In Rig Veda 7th Mandal 6th chapter (7/84
hymn) the Supreme advises the subjects & their King how to attain a strong,
powerful, peaceful and wealthy nation.
In this hymn, it is advised to be Industrious and Healthy, be
wealthy through righteous effort, never dissatisfy the Truthful intellectuals,
nurture your population, granary and domesticated animals, be self-sufficient, never
bow before any sinful for your needs and all these things should mean to attain
supreme Brahm.
And all the above advice has been remained as touching stone
of the Hindu life. Hindu civilisation brought all the good things whether it is
precious knowledge or precious goods from every corner of the world (aano
bhadra kratavo yantu vishwatah’dabdhyaso apritaso udridah).
A consistent Scholar and a Logical Researcher will agree that
India’s Life and its Religion are inseparable. Even the most debated the 1995 judgement of the Supreme Court also observed the same thing.
The 1st fundamental thing about the Hindu religion
and its understanding to its native lans speaks much about the Hindu Nationalism.
The Hindu regards its Rastra as Mother Land, it adores its native land as
sacred as a mother. It adheres, Janani Janbhumic’a Swrgad’api Gariyasi (Mother&
Motherland both are far superior to Heaven) (Ramayan, Yudha kanda)
It is widely believed that every civilisation has growth and
decay (law of civilisation and decay, by Brook Adams) and it is simply not a
belief but numerous pieces of evidence are there to support it.
There are several factors which contributed to the decay of a civilisation which is otherwise called “Societal collapse” However, the Indian
Civilisation escaped that natural process (!) You can say, Time eschewed the
mundane edifices of Indus Civilisation but the intrinsic characteristics
remained almost the same even after 7 thousand years (!). There is a big, big the question, How (?)
The factors like economical, Environmental, social and
cultural is responsible for the death of a civilisation. There is any
authenticate evidence of Environmental cause which ruined the Indo-Civilisation
but there were many instances where the alien rulers tried to destroy the
civilisation by manipulating it’s rich economical, Social and cultural ecosystem.
The outcome of the manipulations was not yielded immediate result but weaken
the edifice bit by bit and after 1200years, in 21st century we are
feeling the jolt(!).
It is believed that when a civilisation reaches its dusk,
some structural modification usually carried out like, the civilisation becomes
egalitarian, de-specialization of traditional skills, destratification of
social structure, decentralization (Growing of Individual liberty),
destructuralization of the ancient Institutions and depopulation. From the
above points, it is clear that Indo-civilisation which survived long 7000/8000
years now at the stage of dusk(!) then what is the possible remedies?
The Only solution is the Renaissance of Hinduism.
(Continued...)
