Caste System - How it destroyed India

In the Vedic period the caste of a person was based on his occupation. An individual had total freedom to chose an occupation of his choice; whether it be the study of the Vedas, or farming , soldier any occupation he chose his caste was dependent on that. However in time the cast system started becoming more and more rigid. The caste system became dependent on a person's birth and not his occupation. A Bramhan's son was a Bramhan and he had to pursue the study of religious scriptures , a warriors son has to become a warrior whether he like it or not.

So the first evil that the caste system of ancient did was to take away individual freedom. Secondly it created a feeling of superiority  among the people of higher class and a feeling of inferiority among the people of the the lower caste. The society was primarily divided into four castes 

1) Bramhin :- They undertook the study of Vedas and other religious texts and performed various rituals. 

2)Kshatriya : - This was the warrior and ruler caste, they were responsible for the protection of the people of the country.

3)Vashiya :- This was the caste of traders and businessmen.

4) Shudras :- This was the caste of people who did menial work like cleaning roads and other work that included farming. 

The people who didn't belong to the above four castes were considered to be out castes and were looked down upon. Later on rules became so strict that they were not even being touched. The lower castes were not even allowed to take the same side of road as the higher castes. They were not allowed to drink water from the same well as the people of higher castes and education was banned for them. The Bramhins made it their birth right to study the Vedas and other castes were prevented from the study of Vedas. 

If some person was born in a lower caste , he was told that his past life karma was responsible for his birth in the lower caste and he deserved to live a harsh life. Severe punishments were meted out to the people who broke the caste rules. 

The greatest person to dissent against it was the greatest person even born Buddha. Buddha spent years in meditation to find out the cause of human sorrow and after his enlightenment he travelled across the length and breadth of the country to teach the dhamma(religion). Hence Buddha became the founder of Buddhism and the Buddhist society was totally caste less society. The Buddhist religion was compassionate and treated everyone as equal. 

But later on the Buddhist teachers became too much on the negative side of lives, focused too much on sorrow. Which made people turn away from Buddhism and with Muslim invasion of India there was large scale destruction and massacre of Buddhists. The religion almost disappeared from the land and arrogant Brahmanism made a comeback. 

Again the rigid caste system came back but since mostrulers across the nations were Muslims, the lower castes had one option to change their religion to Islam. Changing their  religion to Islam meant that they would be treated with respect and have a good status in the society. So areas in the country where castism was maximum people changed over to Islam. This is particularly true about Bengal and Punjab. 

However many who stayed Hindu had to live a painful life. Untouchability and social discrimination was very high. During Muslim rule the education of women was stopped and people became highly conservative. The uneducated Indian now became easy targets of British who ruled over India for 190 years. 

After Independence lots of laws have been made against castism and cast based discrimination. Our Constitution treats all citizens as equal regardless of his/her caste, creed or religion. 

But still even today caste based discrimination does exist in the rural side of India. Particularly north India , caste based discrimination is high in the states of UP, Bihar, Gujrat Haryana,certain states of South India. However there is hardly any discrimination on the basis of caste in the states of West Bengal and the north eastern states. 

India must come out this ugly castism that weakened and destroyed the nation in the past. Caste must be made a thing of the past and should never come back to this country anymore. 

Fraud Spiritual Gurus and Superstitions

The Temple and Buddhist Viharas of India are very unique, in many south Indian temples one can find beautiful sculptures on the walls of the temples. In one of the South Indian temple there is image of a cat who is disguised as a monk performing yoga. Watching it a rat tries to imitate it and the next figure shows that the cat ended up eating the the rat. So we see that the problem of fake spiritual gurus existed in the past as well. 
The carvings on the temple wall was intended as a warning to the people to beware of fake monks.

For centuries India was mired in in blind beliefs and superstitions, the ugly caste system of the country resulted in the higher castes blocking education of the people belonging to the lower castes. The lower castes were so exasperated by the unfair behaviour of the people of higher caste that they began to change their religion during the Muslim rule many of them became Muslims particularly in the states of Bengal and Punjab where castism was at its worst.(Remember this was a time when the Sikh religion was not even born)

Even today you find fake spiritual gurus everywhere these days they are using technology to reach out to people. There are television channels dedicated for this purpose. Some of these fake spiritual gurus are billionaires get donations worth a few hundred crores each year. Their so called ashrams are more posh than a 7 star hotel. Many of them in recent times have been caught in sex scandals like the ones in Swaminarayan Temple in Gujarat and ofcourse infamous case of Asharam Bapu and his son Narayan Sai , where the father son duo had sex with hundreds of ashram inmates more than one at a time. 

This cheats and frauds are the greatest enemy of the nation who simply fool the people many of them uneducated in the name for religion. There is huge fraud business they are doing and they are also helped politically. 

They also cry to create wedge between different religions and try to generate violence and riots among people of different religions. One has to guard against these frauds . 

The original saints lived in frugal ashrams that were no more than huts. They did not touch money and lived on food given by the people. There are good and real spiritual gurus but they are far too few among every 10 spiritual gurus 9 are rank frauds and deserve to be behind bars. 

This are the ones who are responsible for spreading superstitions and blind beliefs in the minds of people. The more superstitious people are the more they will run towards these frauds for spiritual blessings. 

Beware of such fake gurus and be free from superstitions. 

Wrong Numbers

One of the worst event in history of free India were the Gujarat riots in which almost 3,000 innocent people were mercilessly murdered. It was preceded by Godhra train burning in which some RSS people were killed, a violent mob of a few dozen people torched the train.

In response to this the state government paraded the dead bodies of people on the streets of Ahmadabad and what followed would shame humanity. Mobs of hooligans went to Muslim localities and killed innocent people who had no part in the crime this included women and children.

Recalling a newspaper report from that time, I remember that a pregnant Muslim women was first raped by a mob then her stomach was slit and the fetus was taken out and thrown in fire and then ultimately the women was thrown in fire.

The state government was involved in this carnage. The police had instructions from the government that no action should be taken on the rioters. So the rioters simply had a free hand they killed, they raped , the looted without being obstructed at all.

This was definitely one of the most shameful events in the history of free India. The International media and world swung into action. The Gujarat chief minister was considered to be responsible for the riots and he was denied visa to the US for many years.

But Indians most of them are idiots, voted like idiots and in 2014, chose the same man as the Prime Minster of the nation thinking that it would usher in acche din(happy days ) but the reality turned out to be the other way round it is acche din but only for some crony corporates. The condition of people remains the same. In last one year India has been the worst performing market in the world.

The methodology of calculation of GDP growth rate changed to fool people into believing that the nation is growing faster but in reality the growth rate has slowed down. This man promised to bring back black money within 100 days , well hardly any action has happened in that front only lies of action being taken has been spread in the media.

Now add to that this man visits Belur Math where the monks knowing about his misdeeds of the past still open the room of Swami Vivekananda for him to show off that he is meditating. Surely the soul of Swamiji would have been hurt by such an act. Of course the modern day Ramakrishna Mission is nowhere like the ones who started it. The monk who is the president sits in an AC room and gets his darshan done by idiot devotees.

I personally had an encounter with a monk from RKM Australia who tried every trick in the book to convince me that Modi is working for the sake of the nation. When I gave him logical points that he is doing nothing at all and making only the crony corporates rich the monk gave up and said you have a lot to learn, someway he had to get away.

Really these days most of the monks are wrong numbers whose only interest is to get enough chanda to live a life of comfort.