APPROPRIATING SANATAN DHARMA
Appropriation of the Sanatan Dharma has been going on for a long long time, Christianity is the primary religion trying to appropriate while Islam has appropriated mildly. We see the Muslim marriages in Pakistan & India have an element of music & dance that is not the tenet in other Islamic countries. While lot of people call it as Inculturation or Digestion of culture it is not entirely the case of the one-time snatch & grab. Here we will see what exactly is happening in the Indian context.
While India is having cultural exchanges with the rest of the world since thousands of years & continues to do so even today. Many people across the world have appreciated & enjoyed the cultural richness of India. But Inculturation & Digestion are quite a new concept. We focus on digestion of Indian culture by Christianity.
Missionaries were always working in India to convert the Hindus to Christianity, during the British rule, the missionaries moved slowly fearing the backlash from the local kings and it may go against the established British Raj. Post Independence missionaries had a free hand in propagating Christianity.
One of the difficulties that missionary had was to show Christianity as same as Hinduism to show relevance, so that the uneducated lower strata of the society can see the sameness in Hinduism & Christianity. Saffron that is sacred to Hindus has been used by Pastors & Fathers, the concept of Yatra was introduced to carry out annual festival of each & every region. The Mother Mary was ordained as Yeshu Mata. This sameness coupled with the promise of regular food & medical facilities have been instrumental in spreading Christianiy across India especially South & East India. Recently in Punjab, missionaries have spread themselves thick, knowing that the Sikhs have a fondness to go out of India & get money. A lot of missionaries gave the promise of work Visa in a western countries & in lieu of that people started accepting Christianity.
Realising the diversity of India in multiple regions, Christianity has tried to appropriate the regionwise sameness of the Hindu culture across geographies. Similarly the missionaries had unabated funding from the Western world & they use to compromise media & political parties to do their biddings in the society especially the left liberals & the communists.
The desperation of converting people to Christianity was so high that the missionaries started Satsang missions in line with the Satsang of holy sages, many people visiting Satsang remained the Hindus but were given the Christian teachings & the Pastor of the Satsang pushing these people to accept Christianity all along. It’s a whole industry wherein the money comes from western countries & the achievements are made in terms of number of Christian villages made & the Pastors pushing to build new churches & house churches across the region. It also gave a dictate to converts that the 10% of their salary needs to be deposited for the purpose of religious propagation, so it has become a self sustaining Industry.
Christianity as all know is an exclusive religion & in India they have practised exclusiveness at times.
Once the missionaries realise that in a particular region they have reached a threshold of 20 to 30% of the total population then they start showing exclusiveness by destroying Temples & complaining to the authorities that the Hindu temples around their houses are hurting their sentiments, We see such numerous examples in Southern India, recent one being the Andhra Temple desecration., the statistics of Temple offences including theft, desecration, chariot burning & digging in Andhra are as follows:
2015: 163
2017: 139
2018: 123
2019: 177
2020: 143
2021: 6 (First fortnight of January)
Christian Yoga, Christian Onam & Christian Purusha Suktham
To further digest Hindu culture, missionaries have started adopting Yoga & name it as Christian Yoga. They try to innovate parallels on Chakras & Holy Spirit. To propagate facts like Lord Jesus visited India during his lifetime. Hindu dieties also have Strotrams that are read to invoke the Dieties & on similar lines the Yeshu Purusha Suktham is also made and people recite it leading to full appropriation of the Dieties & convers feeling that they are worshipping one of the Crores of dieties that are in Hinduism.
Such rampant digestion of Sanatan Dharm is going on for many decades & it’s time for Hindus to wake up & take notice of the fact that it is not only Iculturation & digestion of the Sanatani culture but also the Jihaad on the land the the people of the Dharmic society. I will like to end this piece with a quote from J M Kenyatta
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The global left movement has initiated steps to dislodge Hindu communities by spearheading the notion that Hindus are outsiders and it is the Muslims who are native to the sub continent. Hindus should stop giving an emotional response and understand that the Wire, Quint, News laundry and many other Islamist/Communist mouthpieces are making a case to prove that Hinduism never existed in the subcontinent and Hindu culture, festivals, traditions, festivals are alien and impure and also the immutable source of all immorality. Islamist/Communist agencies have been receiving funding from various sources in China, Turkey and Western NGO’s which are pushing hard to dislodge Hindu communities from South Asia. Instead of giving an emotional response we should study the methods being used by Islamist/Communist and counter them in a logical way. The methods used by Islamist/Communist is to present themselves as secular. It is important that we start showcasing their true nature using mass media and popular culture.
Islamist movement is trying to convert people and then after conversion they are being told to forgo their local traditions, customs, festivals, culture and the information systems and intelligence that local communities hold is either discarded or misappropriated by the Islamist/Communist. This process violates the human rights, adequate representation and militates against the diversity of cultures, diversity of thought and destroys and misappropriates the knowledge base of local communities. This situation is being presented by Islamist and communist as egalitarian despite the fact that it tantamount to cultural genocide. The destruction of local communities and cultures is being presented as liberating.
The Islamist / Communist ideology is dehumanizing and forcibly homogenizing communities that have long held strong links with remaining Hindu communities all over India. The destruction of existing identities and fashioning a new identity which is alien to local communities has been going on unchecked. Islamist and communist people are cherry picking local conflicts and painting them as a consequence of Hindu religion and are prescribing Hindu festivals, yoga, Hindu traditions as the root cause of all evil. It is very important to expose this nexus in a systematic manner.
Islamists, Christians and Communists attack the institutions/administration and once the functionality is diluted it becomes easier to attack different individuals, private companies, extort money, ply the drug trade at will without raising heckles of the administration. This is precisely what is happening. Administration is in no position to protect Hindu people, their enterprise, women, temples. The information warfare is so sophisticated that large section of newspapers, youtube channels, twitter, movies, Radio, magazines, NGO, politicians, police, section of judiciary are already compromised,