CONVERSION OF A RELIGION - THE BANE OF CASTE SYSTEM

[yogesh saxena]

CONVERSION OF A RELIGION - THE BANE OF CASTE SYSTEM
Each soul is potentially divine. This divinity is within one’s
nature ; either external by work or philosophy or internal by
worship or meditation or by both virtues. This is the goal of
religion.
There is a serious debate on the issue of conversion of Hindu to
Christian , Muslims by providing the monetary assistance and other
incentive through other Nations . The issue is not relating to
human problems. However. It is high lighted for the purpose of
political reasons . The purpose of the issue is not for espousing
the cause for human values of a particular religion , but on the other
hand, it is simply meant for creating more complications as to
provide any cohesion between inter se religions .
The purpose of the religion is to serve the society by co-operation
between fellow citizens as to attain the gospel of life by peaceful co-
existence . The object of every religion is to realise solidarity ,
peace and ultimately the spirituality . There is no bitterness in the
objective of every religion. The approach of one individual adhering
to some religion may differ from other . but when we stand on a
higher strata we realise that every religion is based on a universal
pattern as to find out the objective of one’s life and the power
governing over the living creatures .
Hindu were initially recognised for their inhabitation near the Indus
valley . There were the migration of the individuals from other
Nation . The natural climate of India was one of the best climate of
the world . Thus the people started gathering near the river bank of
Satlaj, Rabi, Jhelum , Vyas & Chinab in the Punjab province while
other started gathering below the Himalayan valley on the bank of
Ganga & Jamuna rivers . There was one significant remarkable
feature in this religion that these people after coming from the
deserted land have started worshipping to the creatures of the
nature. The stones lying near the bank of river were regarded as the
auspicious objects representing to the powerful God namely SHIVA .
There was also the respect given to the animals like Peacock , Snake ,
Mouse , Monkey and Elephant . The fishes are also considered to be
the auspicious. This was done in order to give respect to every
creatures of the nature. The rivers were regarded to be the Goddess
and the Mountains were regarded as providing the place for inhibition
of the identity of the God themselves . This was done in order to save
the nature, as the migrants from the other Nations have seen the
result of fighting with the nature . This is now a universal factor
that if one will not respect the ingredients of the nature , the
existence of the very life of an individual may come to the stake .
Thus the ideals behind the Hindu religion were based on the
observations of the human being just to maintain an equilibrium in the
universe . Lord Shiva was considered to be the God of providing
justice while Lord Vishnu was considered to be the governing power
and the Lord Brahma as the creator of the universe. There was a
guiding factor always been considered to be superior which was the
outcome of the observation based on the movement of the stars and
planets in the universe. The Sun was always been regarded as the
source of energy providing vigour , energy and the knowledge in the
human being . Thus it was accepted and recognised as being identical
to the spiritualism .
By the passage of time , everything, which was considered to be of
utmost importance like preserving the nature , gradually vanished .
The personal interest started perpetuating inside the ideals of Hindu
religion and the knowledge , which was based on the observation of
our great saints , was considered to be the individual’s property .
The other individuals, who were not so learned, were treated with
discrimination and seldom were provided humiliation by our so called
guardians in the society . The preaching of the great saints was
considered for being utilised to get the predominating affairs by some
individuals over the other ordinary person and ultimately the Hindu
religion was divided to many segmentation, which were subsequently
classified as the caste system.
There were certain deciple of lord Buddha , who after their
migration , were settled in the different part of our nation. They
have started serving the society by giving the different assignment to
the individuals having their potential according to their ability.
Those people, who were having the renouncing character and their
physical existence were reciprocal to their mental calibre were
recognised as KAYASTHA .The individual whose kaya (physical existence)
became Astha (merged ) with the spiritual knowledge and likewise they
have renounced the worldly affair were identified by such
nomenclature . The other individual, who were doing different work
according to their ability and learning , the same were given their
name according to their nature of work. The individual performing
auspicious function like Worshipping to the Idol inside the temple
and were teaching to the other individuals in the society were
recognised on the basis of their work as Brahman , the power which
governs the individuals become a reciprocal character with them. The
people started giving them the due respect as was commanded by every
ingredient of the nature . There was a gradual trend to treat the son
of the Brahman as the respected citizens due to their nature of
work . Subsequently, the lust for power has over ridden the real
objective for which they were commanding such respect, but gradually,
by the passage of time, it was demanded from the others. The
Kshatriya having vast expansion of their chest and there were strong
Arms attached to their soldier , they were chosen for their martial
character and were trained for fighting and to protect the religion.
On account of their power they started taking the unscrupulous method
for their up lift in the society and by their conquering power , they
have started their predominating character being utilised for
retaining them in power. The people doing some business were called
as Vaishya and they have also taken such business for their
inhabitation in the future generation. The other people were
considered for serving to the society and they were identified as
Backward Castes and amongst those were the Scheduled caste and the
Tribes . Due to their nature of work , they were not permitted to
perform other functioning like entering inside the temple and to
educate their children. This has ultimately taken a recourse of
originating a caste system on the basis of their heredity superiority
and identity thereof , irrespective of the fact as to whether they are
possessing the quality of their predecessors or not, but they have
started imposing themselves to be the superior class of citizens.
This has created a disharmony in the society and there were
gradually a feeling of taking revolt against such predominating
superiority by one class of Hindu society over other class.
The purpose of the religion amongst the Hindu was finally vanished by
such class discrimination and espousing of the caste system . The
principle of co-existence remained no more in the society , but one
class of the citizen has started exploitation to another class of
citizen and finally there appears a feeling of disintegration amongst
fellow citizens. At this juncture there was another menace prevalent
in the society as to invite one invader to defeat his enemy amongst
the upper class and as such every invader who has ruled over our
Nation , has found a beneficial factor prevalent amongst its citizens
fighting with each other on account of one reason or other. They
gradually started conversion of the Hindu to their religion and
started ruling upon our Nation by adopting a policy of divide and
rule . Thus the conversion of Hindu religion is not based on any
outer factor, but it is on account of our caste system. Let us try to
think over again and again as to whether we want to live on the basis
of the principle evolved regarding our co-existence with each other
or we want to be ruled again by some other invader.
The political arena has now witness a class politics not on the basis
of the actual issues relating to the human problem, but on the caste
basis by giving the go by to every ethic and logical perceptions
simply on account of our caste affiliation. There are the instance
when a person sitting on the top of the bureaucracy and occupying a
constitutional post as the top most authority either in the political
spare or even in judicial side, he is also seen to be tempted with
the sudden impulse of having the caste affiliation as a predominating
factor in governing the Nation . We have not taken any lesson from
our slavery administered by some alien forces governing the nation
and still we are acting like a spoiled gambler , who has loosen every
penny of his belonging and his reputation in the society, but still
he is continuing to play the gamble with his life due to caste
affiliation . There happens to be a tug of war between one force of
identity based on religious compulsions as to demoralise the
conscience of one person over the other individual . No one is having
any concern with the plight of the citizen fighting against the factor
relating and responsible for natural calamity , but every one appears
to be interested in adopting any means ; fair or foul and that too
with a flavour of caste affiliation. Who has not become an
intoxicant by tasting the juice of power but one should not consume
the intoxicant under the garb of the caste affiliation as he may
loose his own existence and thus be ruled out by some dictator for
which the invaders have already made the prediction, while giving the
power to these power intoxicant at the time of independence of our
Nation . God give the good sense amongst our politician and the
guardian of Hindu religion to wake prior to the time when it is not
already too late .