Brahmans, Peace Loving or Violent?
Brahmans claim that Hinduism has grown over the ages to be a universal religion and that they are peace loving people. This statement is made to conceal the reality that they infected the casteless faiths with casteism to bring them under the yoke of Brahmanism as will be discussed later. This is smartly mentioned by Brahmans as a historical proof that they did not hate peace loving people even if they were of different faiths. When the continuous hatred in the minds of the north Indian Hindus for the Muslims is mentioned, they have a very shrewd explanation for that. They say that their dislike for the Muslims is not because of their faith but because of the cruelties committed by the Muslim rulers over a long time.
Agreed, the Muslims oppressed and suppressed the Hindus causing them to nurse a strong hatred for them generation after generation. But look! The British, more recently, killed thousands of Hindus to take over India and many more during the 1857 rebellion. Further they rained bullets on peaceful people gathered at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar as late as 1919. We see no hatred for the British today in the minds of the Hindus in India. Why hate Muslims only who tortured Hindus centuries ago and not the British who killed them more recently?
The explanation given above by the Hindus actually has been cooked up to cover, rather to justify the disrespect and hatred for the Muslims. It does not stand the test when the facts are put together. If Brahmanism, as we are told to believe, has great tolerance to let people profess other faiths, then why were Buddhists killed or hunted out of India by the trident-carrying Hindu youths? Buddhists strictly followed Ahimsa (nonviolence) and were highly peace loving people. Further, Buddhism was not a foreign faith. It took birth in India, and was practiced for centuries without the sword, repression, or even the use of any harsh words by the Buddhist monks.
More recently, in 1986, when the Pope visited India, his effigy was burnt because his mission was perceived as a conspiracy to liberate the low-caste from the slavery of the high-castes. This behavior of the chauvinistic Hindus revealed the true color of Brahmanism, i.e., highly intolerant towards any thought which is liberal and preaches human equality.
Peaceful settlement of non-Hindus in the south took place only because the settlers accepted to respect the caste system more strictly than even the Hindus. As mentioned earlier, it is not the mat (faith) which is objected to by the Brahmans but it is the challenge to their caste system which they cannot tolerate. The Muslims in the north earned their hatred and were given the title of ‘Malechh’ (dirty foreigners) only because they, then being the rulers, did not yield to the caste system imposed by the Brahmans.
Muslims have even more to say on this. Downfall of the Mughal empire started the day Akbar permitted Brahmanical influence not only in his court by inducting Hindu ministers but also in his harem by marrying Hindu women. Hindu queens accepted Brahman as their Purohit (priest) which started the downfall of the great kingdom of Islam in India. Mullahs (Muslim priests) were displeased, when Akbar once performed Hindu rituals in his palace to please his Hindu queen. The Emperor is said to have murdered one of the highest Muslim priests to take revenge on him because he had disapproved the performing of Hindu rituals by the Emperor.
The degree of hostility of Brahmans towards other faiths and sects depended, not upon their theological beliefs but on how big a threat they were to the caste system. Buddhism and Jainism were both new doctrines. Whereas the followers of Buddhism were murdered or forced to leaveIndia, the followers of the latter faith suffered no or little persecution at the hands of the Brahmans. While Buddhists totally rejected casteism, Jains did not resist the forcing of the caste duties (Dharma) on the people. The flexibility of Jainism helped the Jains to live peacefully without facing any violence but without coming out with a distinct identity. This facilitated Jainism to slowly drown in the sea of Hinduism. The rigidity of Buddhism against caste theory helped them to attract many scholars and masses wishing to get rid of their low-caste stigma. However, it also forced them to face violent attacks by the Brahmans resulting in the extinction of Buddhists from India.
Today Buddhism is accepted as a world faith and Jainism lays dead in the Brahmanical rituals. To permanently stall the reemergence of genuine Buddhism in India, Buddha has been admitted into the long list of Hindu Avtars. Similarly Vaishnavism came into limelight pushing caste-opposing Saivaism into the dark corner. The former was liberal enough to agree to the Brahmans being the Purohits (priests).
Guru Gobind Singh, the founder of the Khalsa, has also been mentioned by a few Sikh writers to be a disciple of the Devi who gave the miraculous Khanda, the one used for making Amrit by the Guru. Guru Granth Sahib is being cleverly preached as the fifth Veda, extract of Vedas, Veda of the Kalyug etc. When these thoughts, preached day in and day out, find a firm root in the Sikh psyche, then who can stop the idols of the Devi from being installed in the Gurdwaras and worshipped by the Sikhs? This is not a farfetched idea. Let the Sikhs not close their eyes to the growing effect of these thoughts in the Sikh masses and Sikh preachers. Gurus’ pictures and their statues (some in glass enclosures with lights), of course, all imaginary, have occupied a very respectable and venerable place in Sikh homes and even in a few Gurdwaras. In some deras even Bhog ritual is performed. Once orders were issued by the Commanding Officer at the Air Force Colony, Delhi Cantonement, that pictures of Hindu gods should be displayed on walls in the Gurdwara there.
The only step left to be taken to assimilate the Sikh philosophy, hence Sikhism, is to place the statues of the Gurus in the Gurdwaras and pack the Guru Granth Sahib in locked safes so that Gurbani becomes as much unknown as the Vedas.
All ancient and later literature was written by the Brahmans to promote their caste theory. Whenever any liberal thoughts emerged, their scriptures were modified to promote and sanctify the caste system or at least approve it. Brahmans had the monopoly on teaching and learning. They completely controlled the educational system. Before a scripture was permitted to reach the masses, it had to be accepted by the Brahman priests. The text was changed to enable them to extract money for performing meaningless and hollow rituals. Non-submission to this Brahmanical philosophy by any movement invited the worst kind of violence from them to destroy that movement. The fate of some important movements which challenged Brahmanism and attempted to get rid of its yoke, is mentioned in the following pages.
Sikhism Under Brahmanical Siege – 1
Sikhism Under Brahmanical Siege – 2
Sikhism Under Brahmanical Siege – 3
Sikhism Under Brahmanical Siege – 4
Sikhism Under Brahmanical Siege – 5