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Riddle Of Parshuram

SANATAN, A curse. 

“Sanatan “ … one encounters this word may a times when one studies Hinduism. But what does this word exactly mean and what implication does it have on our country? The explanation is given by Kulluka Bhatt in his commentary of Mansumriti Ch Shloka 22-23.This verse in Manusmriti deals with how were the Veda’s created. Kulluka Bhatt in his commentary says that Sanatan means eternally “pre-existing”. At start of every “Kalpa” a new set of Vedas is created by Bramha from his memory ie the Vedas have a superhuman origin. Understanding the meaning it is interesting to note why did Brahmins choose to give this super human origin to the Vedas? This study is imperative to understand what a great curse not only to Hinduism but to this country the word Sanatan has been.

The Sanatan nature was given to the Vedas to make it Sacrosanct. The Vedas had a super human origin and hence are infallible. This doctrine not only made Vedas divine but also above any kind of questions. Mortals can not ask questions to the divine, they are only supposed to follow. Slowly this Sanatan nature of the Vedas was extended to all the other texts as well. Now nothing could be challenged. Religion, which is supposed to answer people’s questions was itself structured in a way that no one could ask questions. That’s the reason why all the evils of the society continued for so long. No one could eradicate them because to eradicate the evils, one has to subject the practice to the questions of logic to determine if it is evil or righteous. The word Sanatan killed this spirit only. Thousands of years of imposing the Sanatan culture created a herd mentality where people slowly became dumb followers. That is primary reason why India missed the entire industrial revolution.

If one has to apply his logic to use, one would find so many inconsistencies in Hinduism. I am attempting to do just that…

 Story of Parshuram.

Though there are numerous stories about Parshuram, but I am going to talk about a few.

 Parshuram was son of Rishi Jamadagni and Renuka.

Once, Renuka went to the river to get some water. There she was enticed by looking at a handsome gandharv taking bath.She was lost in admiring him and she got late.Jamadagni was furious on knowing the reason of her being late and ordered his son to kill her.All his sons except Parshurama refused. Jamadagni asked Parshurama to slay his own mother and his brothers for disobeying him. Parshurama obliged this by chopping of their head.Jamadagni was impressed by his this son and granted him a boon. He immediately wished for the life of his mother and brothers. Jamadagni had the knowledge of bringing back dead to life.He brought back to life his wife and sons on Parshuram’s request.

 Now it so happened that Jamadagni was visited by a King named Sahasrarjun and his entire army. Jamadagni with the help of his magical cow Kamadhenu fed the entire kings army.The king impressed by the power of the cow requested Jamadagni to give him the cow. Jamadagni refused and king took it by force. In a scuffle that followed Jamadagni was killed. Furious, Parshuram vowed to kill the entire Kshatriya race.He cleaned the earth of the Ksatriyas 21 times over by killing them.

Now this is a very small part in the legend of Parshuram who was himself incarnation of Lord Vishnu.But it in itself present so many riddles.

 Riddle Of Parshuram.

 First question that arise in a mind when it frees itself from the concept of Sanatan is this. Did Renuka deserve death? After all she had just seen one person. Secondly why did Jamadagni ask his sons to kill his wife? Couldnt he do it himself? Also isn’t it against hindu tradition that a woman shouldn’t be hurt?

 Parshuram, on death of his father kills the entire Kshatriya race. Why couldn’t he just bring back his father to life in the same way his father brought back his mother? Jamadagni was in possession of knowledge to bring the dead back to life. That’s what helped him to bring back his dead wife back to life. Now the question is that didn’t Jamadagni think his sons especially Parshurama, the incarnation of lord himself, worthy enough to be taught this skill?

 Parshuram came back to kill all the Kshatriyas 21 times. Doesn’t that mean that he failed at least 20 times? How and why did the incarnation of Lord himself fail 20 times in front of Mortals?

 After defeating the Kshatriya’s, why did Parshuram choose to donate the land that he won to the Brahmins only especially when Brahmins were not the ruling caste? Why didn’t he donate it to Ravan who was his friend and also a king and a great devotee of lord Shiva?

 The more one studies Parshurama the more one gets baffled. No wonder stories like this were made Sanatan. It were made Sanatan not because they actually were like that, but such stories present more questions than answers. The only purpose of such stories is to impose the supremacy of Brahmins over the other castes. Otherwise they serve no purpose at all.

Dalits...some Disturbing facts

Whenever a topic about the plight of Dalits in India is raised I have observed that inevitably the topic lead to reservations and then ends there.It is as if that silently even the educated youths are saying...."Dalits...Why give a damn about them? They are being given more than enough compensations in terms of Reservations for the crimes of the past ".But who is worried about the past.All the misdeeds of the past are forgiven...though not forgotten.Every time I try to highlight their plight in today’s India people simply refuse to acknowledge that castism exist even today. They will speak about Mughal empire and some long forgotten history.

So I have brought about some stats not by me or any other dalit organization but by National Human Rights Commission.At the end of this stats I have a very disturbing question. I would like each and every person who opposes reservations to answer it honestly.

Every 18 minutes:

A crime is committed against a Dalit

Every day:

• 3 Dalit women are raped
• 2 Dalits are murdered & 2 Dalits Houses are burnt in India
• 11 Dalits are beaten

Every week:

• 13 Dalits are murdered
• 5 Dalits home or possessions are burnt
• 6 Dalits are kidnapped or abducted

Social and Economic condition of Dalits:

• 37 percent of Dalits living below poverty in India
• More than half (54%) of their children are undernourished in India
• 83 per 1000 live birth children born in Dalit community are probability of dying before the first birthday
• 45 percent of Dalits do not know read and write in India
• Dalits women burden double discrimination (gender and caste) in India
• Only 27 percent of Dalits women give institutional deliveries in India
• About one third of Dalit households do not have basic facilities
• Public health workers refused to visit Dalit homes in 33% of villages
• Dalits were prevented from entering police station in 27.6% of villages
• Dalit children had to sit separately while eating in 37.8% of Govt. schools
• Dalits didn’t get mail delivered to their homes in 23.5% of villages
• Dalits were denied access to water sources in 48.4% of villages because of segregation & untouchabilty practices
• Half of India’s Dalit children are undernourished, 21% are severely underweight & 12% DIE before their 5^thbirthday
• Literacy rates for Dalit women are as low as 37.8% In Rural India

Status of Prevention of Atrocities Act:

• The conviction rate under SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act is 15.71% and pendency is as high as 85.37%. This when the Act has strict provisions aimed as a deterrent. By contrast, conviction rate under IPC is over 40%

On actual crime committed against Dalits

“Even the reports prepared by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and placed before Parliament contain merely factual information received from States about registration and disposal of cases; various administrative arrangements made for the function of the Act and funds spent, without any meaningful analysis of the performance of the States which could form the basis for making corrective interventions." “Under-reporting of Atrocities Act cases is a very common phenomenon and therefore the decline in the number of registered cases does not provide a true picture of the incidence of atrocities.”

“A large number of cases which deserve to be registered under Protection of Civil Rights Act or the SCs & STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act are not actually registered under these Acts, either due to ignorance of law or under pressure from the interested parties. Investigations in even those limited number of cases is often earned out in a slipshod manner and with considerable delay.”

Source: National Human Rights Commission Report on the Prevention and Atrocities against Scheduled Castes

http://www.nhrc.nic.in/Publications/reportKBSaxena.pdf

 

Do you have the balls to talk about the above stats without including reservations in the talk?

If you still think that reservations is an enough compensation, then we dalits are willing to give you reservations too if you trade places with us….would you like to trade places with the dalit castes? Would you like to have reservations in exchange of your mother and sisters being publicly raped, murdered killed?

Please answer this one question!But I know no one will answer it! 

In fact many of you must be thinking …why bore us with this rubbish….these are not our problems! Just stop reservations