20. THE DHARMA

Dharma in the Hindu religions is defined variously, some call it a way of life; some call it a faith in the Vedas; some call it Varna system etc.; some call it a combination of all of them. In a holistic way, it can be defined as a righteous way of life with a faith in Vedas, Varna Dharma and Samanya (normal) Dharma. How do they combine with each other is another matter. Anyway, the baffling thing is that the word "Dharma" lends itself to various interpretations and it can be translated into multiple meanings depending upon the context. Here we are not concerned with the Samanya Dharma (the normal code of conduct - like don't steal, don't betray etc. - which is give in ample ways, among other things, in the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and other Puranas etc.) which is related to normal and/or individual crimes. Here we are concerned with the Varna Dharma which is the highest Dharma. And this is not related to any normal crime as such.
Here we work on the premise that there is Dharma, and the opposite of Dharma is aDharma, and the opposite of aDharma is Dharma. And, we are, also, of the view that if some activity is punishable then it is adharmic and the opposite of it is a dharmic activity. Here we take the activity including its doer - there is no activity in isolation. This means that any activity is not independent of its doer. And lying to save this elites' Dharma is also not punishable. It may become one's utmost duty to lie if it saves the Varna Dharma. For an example lying is punishable but lying by a Brahman is not. Therefore, it is necessary to look what is beyond the Dharma given in the scriptures. Dharma can be found in the activities which are opposed to aDharma. For example the entry of Untouchable in temples is barred because it corrupts Dharma therefore it is adharmic; then to prevent the entry of any Untouchable in temples becomes the Dharma of any touchable Hindu; so it is Dharma. Again the touch of an Untouchable corrupts the Dharma of high caste Hindus therefore it is aDharma, and opposite of it (not touching the Untouchable) is Dharma and thus enforcing the untouchability is also Dharma. In short, the opposition to aDharma is Dharma and enforcing such Dharma is also Dharma. Therefore, though the untouchability is not mentioned in the Vedas, it is still dharmic. The transparency is deliberately expunged in the Hindu society. The veil of the divine language persists. And the veil of vested interests diverts away the attention. Dharma has to be culled out through logic.
We know that the main scriptures of the Hindus are the sacred Vedas, which are treated as the Word of God. Then there are other scriptures which actually define the Varna Dharma, its applications and implications. The defenders of the Sanatana Dharma completely forget about these scriptures where the crystallized Varna Dharma is given. What logically follows the Purusha Sukta of the Rig Veda? Dharma Shashtras follow the Purush Sukta resulting in the evolution or the crystallization of Varna Dharma. Therefore, after the Purush Sukta come the Baudhayan Sutra, the Apastambha Sutra, the Manu Smriti, the Vishnu Smriti, and the Parashar Smiriti etc. And there are the hollow arguments about the Gunas and the karmas as the supposed final and deciding Varna of an individual - deriving Varna from Individual! That is putting the horse behind the cart. A complete treatment of Hindus religion can only be made by studying the entire set of scriptures; depending only few scriptures will give only an incomplete picture which will not match with the reality. Anybody can take a particular set of scriptures and arrive at a different picture. These pictures when taken together are called the multiple dimensions of the Hindu religion. These multiple dimensions may or may not support each other. Anyway, a Hindu lives comfortably in a world of contradictions.
In Hindu religion, Dharma denotes way of living, religious duty, social duty, family duty, political duty etc. Anyway, any kind of binding function or god assigned function can be called Dharma. Dharma of any individual can also be described as following the dictum of his religion or the traditional rules of his society. More specifically Dharma is God assigned function of a God created creature. For example, it is Dharma of the tiger to kill the dear; it is Dharma of the snake to eat the rat. Here Dharma is natural function of a creature. Similarly, it is Dharma of a Brahman to study the Vedas; or so it is said in the scriptures. One of them is natural function and the other one is acquired function; but both of them are Dharmas since both are ordained by God; God who created the Varnas and their functions, and also the animals with their born nature. Not confusing at all! If it is then you have not developed the dharmic eyes.
The pure people are with pure and unselfish thoughts. No doubt about it. The cynics are forewarned! They may be made to suffer in the hell - in the next world or this world. In this world, it would make fine example for other cynics. So better are the punishments in this world to stop the spread of such aDharmic cynics.
All those foolish people who think that acquired functions are different from natural functions should know better now; the Hindu scriptures know better. Can they know better than the scriptures? All these adharmic people want to parade their little and wrong knowledge in front of the people following righteous way of living - the Hindu Dharma. They should forget their earthly logic or they are going to take birth as jackals, rats and lizards in their next life. Their souls are going to forever wander in this world and suffer in the hottest places of hell; anyway there is no way in which a soul can be punished or hurt; but strange are the ways of the Hindu Dharma; there is place called hell also. The most pleasant places in heaven and attainment of Moksha are reserved for the people who absolutely believe in the cruel Varna Dharma with all its glory. If a soul is not affected by the pain afflicted upon it then it would also be not affected by the pleasures. Thus, the heaven and the hell are useless for it. Pleasing a soul, which is not affected by the pleasures, is useless. See it is the faith which moves the mountains. It is nice to believe that your cruelty is divine. It is not misplaced. It is so soothing to know that they will have to pay for defying the man created divine scriptures. These dunces should not be allowed to read and write. It should be the sole prerogative of the born elites from the Sanatana religion.
Dharma is God created so it is binding. Believe in God and be exploited. There is nothing personal about it. It is all in the name of God - the permanent exploiters stand absolved. Here, the Varnas are akin to separate groups of creatures though in the same land and space. And everybody has to follow his Dharma or his God created or divinely ordained function. Thus, the Varna Dharma becomes binding. Those who are born to rule should rule and those who are born to serve should serve - perfectly logical. The creators of Sanatana Dharma should not be accused of forgetting the logic. They remember the selfish and subjective logic very well - the ultra rationality, no doubt. And the Shudras are well willing to serve them, genuinely. Long live the forever society with the born servants - a source of forever jubilation to the eternally pure Varnas. Since Dharma is an ordained function, it can be the cause to enjoy the rights or do the duties. It is not purely duty or right. In case of higher Varnas, these functions are mainly the rights to control society and its resources. However, they treat them as duties and then the fruits follow - righteously. In case of born heredity unpropertied servants, the fourth and fifth stratum, these functions are the duties to serve the high Varnas with utmost virtuosity and servility. The most virtuous servant is the most obedient one, lacking any iota of self-respect. These divinely ordained functions also define the broad heredity occupations of four Varnas. Thus, the Raj Dharma is to save Dharma or force the lowest two groups to do their divinely assigned duties and then there are the Brahman Dharma, the Kshatriya Dharma, the Vaisya Dharma and the Shudra Dharma. And there is Dharma (duty) of these Varnas to save Dharma (the Varna or caste order). All the Hindus are supposed to save Dharma and desist from harming it. They do it very well. Well, some do not. These are the people contaminated by the modern ideas of equality and liberty in real sense. They just do not pretend to believe in the equality and liberty of a human being. They act it out in the real life.
Here, we will recall the premise of defining Dharma in practice. We will use the premise that the opposite of Dharma is aDharma and the opposite of the aDharma is Dharma. And any activity is taken along with its doer - no punishment is allowed in isolation. The act of taking water from the village well by any Untouchable is aDharma because it corrupts and pollutes Dharma, and preventing it is Dharma. If a high caste person does not allow an Untouchable to take water from the village well then this activity is dharmic because it saves the Dharma and opposes the aDharma; the corruption of Dharma is avoided. In the same manner, the practice of untouchability is dharmic because it prevents the corruption of Dharma. This is the Dharma that the Kshatriyas are supposed to uphold. This is Dharma supposedly upholding the world order - well, the Hindu elites' world order. The Dharma is to uphold the Varna order of the world created by God himself - we know this from the words of the Rishis, the seers, the sages and the Brahmans. All people with unimpeachable integrity - not supposed to lie! What amazing people! Telling the truth! The order created by God needs the help of the Kshatriyas? And of course it needs the help of the ghastly Panchayats. We will do a little recalling here. According to the Hindu scriptures a Brahman is born with the natural ability to learn and teach sacred scriptures, a Kshatriya with the natural ability to rule, a Vaisya with the natural ability to trade, a Shudra with the natural ability to serve the higher Varnas and an Antyaja with the natural ability to do the unclean jobs. All the Varnas are born with the innate abilities to do the god assigned dharma. Here the natural ability can be taken as God created or divinely ordained. The natural born abilities of these kinds can be maintained if and only if both the parents are from the same Varna. If that were not the case then the offspring would not acquire the required natural abilities to do the permanent functions assigned to them through the inherited Varna. This is due to impurities which have crept in through Varna-Sankars. Those who have not the correct parentage are fit to do only the lowliest jobs.
Here, we define the Dharma within the Sanatana Dharma as the rule of pure over the impure. This is the subordination of impure to pure. We disagree with the definition of Hindu religion as a righteous way of life. Anyway, what is righteous is not defined there. We also disagree that it means the search for truth or for Absolute. It is pure subordination of the lower Varnas to the higher Varnas. And the aDharma is insubordination of the lower Varnas to the higher Varnas. Dharma is the superordination by the higher Varnas over the lower Varnas. In terms of the castes, Dharma is the subordination of lower caste to higher castes and the superordination by the higher castes over the lower castes. Dharma is the subordination of the impure castes to the pure castes, relatively. This cruel superordination or subordination is supported by the spirituality through the unprovable hypothesis of the Karmas of past lives and the concept of, yet to be found, soul. Hardly disbelieving? Not enough to send the head into spinning frenzy.
The subjugation as enshrined in Dharma, is mood elevating and entertaining, to the pure people. Verily, a righteous and enjoyable way of life. Looking down upon people with scorn has its own mental satisfaction. Not sadistically at all! And we are pure and pious people. Please don't flatter us by mere words. You should emulate us by making life as good as guttered for some low people. That is what would make us happy. These filthy, uncouth and lowly people should not trifle with Dharma. That is gross insubordination.
Their prostration flatters us. Their crouching shoulder flatters us. Their speechless tongue flatters us. Their cowering imploring sends us on ninth cloud. It is a pure joy for the pure people and that too unbounded. All this makes us, the pure people, drool... It is a delightful world for us where there are all insults and little food for the lower strata. All created by us. We are the creators of this beautiful world. And we shall reap the rewards. Don't underestimate us. We have created this beautiful caste world for us not for the lowly scum. They should know that the anger is prerogative of the high castes and the servility is the duty lower castes. The grisly anger of pure people is not impeachable in a dharmic court, Panchayat or dharmic parliament. You must know it.
The sustained suppressing of happiness of the lower castes brings happiness to the hearts of pure people - their happiness goes over the top. Have no doubts about it. All subordination and superordination - in opposite directions. The smug high castes are placed cozily on the top.
There is no dearth of silence on the issue of atrocities perpetrated on the Untouchables. Rather, it is matter of joy, silent jubilation and beaming faces though outwardly a long face is maintained in the presence of unknown people; you never know whether some of them belong to low castes. Leave them with their own people and beaming smiles lighten up the atmosphere. The punishment of insubordination is imminent; they should know it. The loathsome ways are awesome in effects. The pure heart is dancing inside. It is on the ninth cloud, silently. What else do you want!
 Now, six major classifications based on relative purity can be found in Hindu society. These are - the sacred, the most pure, the pure, the pure-impure, the impure and the last one which is the polluted pollutants (the Untouchables). The divinity and the Vedas belong to the sacred level. All other scriptures of Hindus are also included in the sacred objects. The fire is also sacred along with the temples. A little recalling will help. And sometimes Brahmans are included in the sacred entities. But they really belong to most pure level - the second highest level next only to divinity - they are handling the sacred the sacred objects like the Vedas, other scriptures and temples. They were supposed to have been born from the purest part - the mouth - of the Purusha (what nonsense! But the nonsense persists! Who am I to argue about this?); thus they are the purest based on the unproven purity of the place of origin. The language of Vedas and scriptures, Sanskrit, was also known as the language of gods.
The Kshatriyas, the rulers, belong to the second pure level because they were the upholders of sacred Dharma and they were supposed to have been born from the arms of the Purusha which have the second most pure level; on the basis of origin they belong to second most pure level. Their show of valor over the famished people is awesome and a commendable feat. Their valor dances with grace and smirk over the heads of the defenseless people. A grand show of fairness!
The Vaisyas, the traders, not involved with the manual labor, belong somewhere near to pure but they are partly impure on the account of their relatively impure origin from the thighs of the Purusha. They were also included among impure because in earlier they were engaged in the jobs involving the manual labor like the cattle rearing and the agriculture (tilling) which dealt with excreta as manure. But they are pure because they entitled to thread ceremony, which makes them eligible for Vedic rituals. Later they gave up these jobs and restricted themselves to trading and business only thus avoiding manual labor. This makes them to qualify for pure level. They are pure enough to be included among the twiceborn.
The Shudras, toiling for the higher Varnas and without any right to property, belong to impure level on account of their origin from the impure feet of the Purusha, thus they are the impure. As we see that the purity of Varnas is also in the order in which they appeared; and the same is the order of superordination, a breathtaking coincidence. Those appeared earlier were purer than those who appeared later. Thus, the Antyajas who appeared at the end were the most impure or the polluted pollutants - the Untouchables. The people belonging to polluting Jatis are not the part of original four Varnas or the born allocation of power. The power followed the subordination rule.
The pure Brahmans and the pure Kshatriyas are supposed to rule over the Vaisyas who are partly impure and the Shudras who are the impure. It is superordination from top to bottom, and subordination from bottom to top. The Brahmans who are the most pure are not supposed to be ruled over by anyone, not even by the king. The state was actually vested in the Brahmans and the Kshatriyas. The former made the divine laws, and the later implemented these divine laws. The Kshatriyas, the pure, were supposed to uphold the divine Dharma and the divinely assigned order of Varnas.
And you know that the proud stately minds are at work! Halt and bow before the pure people who know the grand vision of the Absolute. Show your utter subordination. And absolutely, the low life scum will never understand the Bruhm. Only we, the pure and sacred people, can understand it because it requires the highest level of thinking. Therefore, those who do not understand it are low life scum; they cannot superordinate. Period.
 And this vision explains nothing. This vision can lead you into believing it. But it is rather thick and skates on thin ice and on the increasing foolishness of the ignorant lower strata people. May the divinity forbid the time when the foolish people willingly give up their foolishness. Such a time should never be allowed to come. Anyway, this spell of foolishness needs to be broken. Well, the unofficial subordination continues.
Though the Vaisyas had economic power, they did not have say in the affairs of state. Over a period, they were also raised to the pure level. Thus, lowest two strata became the subordinates of all the higher Varnas. The Shudras and the Untouchables were without any protection of the state. They, the impure and the most impure, were the subordinates; it goes without saying. It was king's duty to see that the lower strata were doing the jobs assigned to them according to the pure sacred and divine Varna Dharma, without any claim on the resources of society. They were serving the pure Varnas which is a clear cut subordination. Nobody should forget his Dharma, which is essential to maintain the cruel order in the Hindu world. It is king's duty to see that the lower strata do not try to take up the assigned Dharma (function) of others. The kings and village Panchayats had to enforce the subordination. Nobody should be above his head. The head of each caste had its own subordination level. And he knew it.
The king and the Kshatriyas have to follow the guidance of the most pure, the Brahmans; the Vaisyas have to follow the dictates of Kshatriyas and the Shudras have to do whatever others say, and the Antyajas are condemned to toil for everybody. The order of subordination goes from bottom to top, one way only. That is Dharma - the more pure over less pure - the mode of rulership. There is no point in assigning the divine functions if nobody is performing them. The purity and functions of different groups are divinely ordained - thus, beyond any questioning - it is God's will - man created. The resultant subordination, then, is also God's will and that is Dharma. To the Shudras and the Untouchables without means, it means the permanent heredity subordination. It also means insulting survival under atrocious conditions. Nobody should act and think above his subordination level.
The blistering ignominies and indignities they suffer from the existence of a well off Untouchable are beyond any description. It is an utterly obtuse act of insubordination. These kinds of things are repulsive to pure people and Dharma. What is the use of a well off Untouchable to Dharma? How low the things are coming to? What next? But charring the egos of pure people may bring thousands of years in hell! Beware! Beware! Beware…
The peerless ego of peerless pure people cannot be overpeered by the impure egos of the impure people. Simply, it is illogical. What! Never heard about such logic? The logic, which permits insubordination, is aDharmic. Come to the Hindu society and, eventually, you will realize it. Out with the logic. Away with the logic. Expunge it, hang it, crush it. Bleed it to death. And let the specific happiness rule!
Cowering in fear, coiling in fear, curling in fear, cloistering in fear - it is the lot of Untouchables! Utter subordination is pleasing to social harmony and is an essential part of proud social fabric.
And… these cowering cowards, fused with impurity and having famished and frail bodies and not one weapon in hands, think that they can stand up to us. We have all types of weapons and all kind of assured food supply and they dare to stand up to us! We have never been cowards except in the case of invaders and colonizers. Our bravery is legendry! It refuses to bow before the defenseless people; the heavily armed people are altogether different thing. The unbounded callousness rains fire heavily on the lower strata people - burning whatever they have. And this will force them to live an insulted life. It has to be subjugation and subjugation all the way down. Otherwise, what is the point in having ordered purity?
Why burden them with the things like dignity, honor and assured food supply? We have no problem in taking up all these burdens. We can lighten them and leave them with an insulted and condemned life! You do not know the charitable disposition of us, the pure people. We lighten their burden! Our intentions should not be doubted about. Well… the intentions of the stealing bitch guarding the cake?
The pure conscience of pure people with its immeasurable depths sinks to its depth for the cause of the sacred Dharma. Then the cause of subordination to Dharma is served.
The purity and impurity are passed down through the heredity route, as are the functions and occupations of each Jati. It is all birth-attached. The eternal insults are also birth-attached. We know that there are the ghastly caste Panchayats at village level to maintain Dharma or subordination in the lower strata. We have already mentioned the multiple power centers in the Hindu society. To maintain these layers of superordination and subordination there were at least three power centers in Hindu society. First was the religious power center, the second was the political power center (under guidance of the religious power) and the third was the caste Panchayats (caste councils) at the village level with the authority to ostracize any rebel members of society and caste. The decision of Panchayat could not be overridden by the Panchayat of any other village. This was also a part of self-sufficiency of the villages. Each village was self sufficient, isolated and insulated. The insulation of the villages kept the cowardly caste system unharmed. The village forces kept the social layers insulated from each other. The Dharma was maintained. The villages maintain the traditional or caste-based justice where the justice gets reduced to the caste level - pure dharmic level. These village Panchayats were responsible for maintaining the Varna Dharma over a period of time as the rulers did not really interfere in the village matters, they were concerned only with the collection of taxes.
The impure people, the lame duck people with lame duck destinies descend on earth to serve the pure people with smart destiny. Their life is dark from beginning to end. Subordination to Dharma is a must.
Harpooning the desires of subjugated lower strata is an essential, hilarious and joyous sport of the Hindu society. Be it in the name of Dharma, Karma or traditions. Anything will do but the impure desires are sure to be harpooned. Such harpooning may or may not be handled delicately. Keeping them famished is a matter of utmost joy. The superordination needs this to survive. The subordinated people cannot have desire of their own. It is very clear.
The Hindu scriptures are very emphatic about the purity and superiority of the Brahmans. The paranormal people superordinated society through control on the scriptures and a resultant fear of the divine retribution - nobody could escape their curses. If they, the representatives of God, are harmed or disobeyed then the divine punishment would be met to people who spread aDharma by harming the Brahmins etc. A reincarnation of God is supposed to destroy who do so. It is indicated clearly in the Gita. The scriptures are the dictates of the gods and they are to be followed by every Hindu. The maintenance of Dharma, the divinely ordained social order is the main topic of all the scriptures, including the Manu Smriti and the famous Gita. The latter is the showcase of the Hindus to the world, incidentally.
 God made the deer to be killed by the tiger and mouse to be eaten by the snake and Shudras and Untouchables to be ruled over by the higher Varnas. Such are the ways of Dharma. They are God created - for subordination. Their subordination is created by God - so there is nothing personal about it - none of the upper castes has anything to do with it. And it is Karma also - invented by the hallowed lawmakers. Still, there is nothing personal about it. The Shudras and the Untouchables should not take it to the heart. Their wretched conditions are the result of the will of God and the law of Karma (- the law of Karma? - the law?????????). And they should foolishly believe it. This foolishness may have its own spiritual experience. It is pure and divine, given in the divine scriptures created by the esteemed lawmakers. The subordination is permanent on heredity basis. Eat the rat, O' snake go ahead, it is your Dharma. Let no lower castes raise their heads in self-esteem. In such a case, break their heads and bones. That is the Dharma.
The hypergamy allowed in the scriptures also points toward the underlying subordination. Let us recall that the Varnas can marry down the social scale but not upward. A Brahman can have four wives - one from his own Varna and one each from the lower Varnas. A Kshatriya can have three wives - one from his own Varna and one each from the lower two Varnas - he cannot have a wife from a higher Varnas than his - the Brahman Varna. A Vaisya can have two wives - one from his own Varna and one from the lower Shudra Varna - he cannot have wives form higher Varnas - the Brahman and the Kshatriya Varnas. And in the true and virtuous spirit of subordination a Shudra can take a wife from his own Varna only - he cannot marry into higher Varnas. How the impure blood can mix with the pure blood? The heathen one should know their place. It is a paternal society.
 The insults are abounding and echoing; the problem is that nobody hears them; they are natural parts of the system. To prevent the marriages in opposite direction, where the man is from lower Varna and the woman from higher Varnas, which is insubordination, the children born from such marriages are made outcastes as a matter of punishment. It is correct from the Dharma point of view because such an act would be insubordination and hence adharmic. On the other hand, the hypergamy itself implies subordination. It is a paternal society. The Antyajas are supposed to marry within their own Jatis only. And the conditions of their women are extremely pathetic. Dishonoring them implies the subordination of the fifth stratum to others, which is consistent with the notion of Dharma. Their honor is always at risk in such a highly cultured, sublime and spiritual society. This in turn, indirectly, implies that the honor of male Untouchables is also at stake; they are the people who cannot save their women - a big dark and dirty blot. What! You never doubted it! Did you or did you not? Remember the lowest stratum had no protection from the traditional state. They cannot also wield the weapons or hold the arms - it is seriously dangerous for subordination and Dharma. And, to save this subordinating Dharma anybody can pick up the arms, which explains the atrocities against the Untouchables; there is no need to approach the concerned authorities. The law takes the course of Dharma, which is the same thing, unofficially.
Now, let us see what is aDharma? It contains all the activities, which point toward Varna insubordination. Therefore, to stop aDharma (or to save the Dharma) is to prevent all the activities, which result in insubordination by the lower Varnas. Or prevent the rebellion. Adharma is defined as a state of prevalence of aDharmic activities. If any activity is punishable then it is adharmic and sinful and if any activity is adharmic it is punishable. If any activity corrupts the eternal Dharma then it is aDharma as in the case of Shambuk Rishi. In other words, any adharmic activity is punishable. Therefore, if any activity is punishable then it is adharmic. It is the opposite of Dharma. One example of aDharma is the hypogamy, which is accordingly outlawed. The main aDharma is the killing of a Brahman. Again, it is aDharmic to physically punish a Brahman because that would imply insubordination. The lower category people cannot punish the higher one. Any act of killing in defense of a Brahman is dharmic and not aDharmic. And the opposite of aDharma is Dharma. Therefore, dharmically the higher caste people cannot be punished by the low caste people or be the cause of their punishment. This takes the Untouchables beyond the realm of justice. Any justice prevails in the traditional Hindu society! Well, mockery and insults do exist.
And you know that the dark light of knowledge shall not fall upon these impure people because it creates dark thoughts like quest for equality, freedom, respect etc. in their minds. If these ideas get into their mind how they are going to serve us? There would be total loss of humility. And everybody knows that the humility is a good virtue, and add the servility for the Shudras and the Untouchables. The opposite of this is very harmful to society.
A famous and great act of aDharma is learning of the Vedas by the lowers two strata, which is punishable by pouring of the molten lead into their ears. It is because of two reasons. One is that the impure Shudras should not learn or touch the divinely sacred Vedas. This would pollute the Vedas. Secondly if they are taught the Vedas then they will aspire to teach Dharma to the Kshatriyas and the Vaisyas, which implies the lower Varna guiding the higher Varnas, which is not permissible according to the subordination rule. That would be the rule of the impure over the pure and thus adharmic and strictly punishable. And hearing of Vedas causes the corruption of Dharma so it is aDharma which makes the punishment for adharmic as totally dharmic. Long live the pure Dharma!
The polluting fifth stratum is not allowed to touch the Brahmans because that would render them unfit to read the Vedas. This would make the Brahmans impure. This would cause the loss of super-ordination by them, direct or indirect. This would cause them to lose the right to guide the pure Kshatriyas and to learn the sacred Vedas. Thus, they lose the subordination of the Kshatriyas. Therefore, they have to atone and purify themselves after touching any Untouchable. Touching the polluting people would render them unfit to listen to Vedas.
The humiliating and permanently insulting subordination of Untouchables is merely trifling matter, not worth your kind attention, it affects only worthless people numbering one fifth of a billion people. All this will be settled amicably as it has been done over the last 2500 years. That means we will again sentence them to a condemned life. Applaud our effort in this direction! Applaud. Clap and clap. We do not want much we want only appreciation for our kind efforts of insulting and famishing the low castes.
It would be blasphemy to call these lawmakers as tormentors or torturers. It would not stand a chance in a traditional Panchayat or dharmic court. And it would be insubordination. Get the next life as worm.
Before accusing anybody of discrimination, the Hindu society should look into its backyard where more than a billion people live discriminating and hating each other in the downward direction. Discrimination is a mild word which hides all the cruelties heaped upon the lower strata of the Hindu society. Of course, there is the Indian Constitution to show the commitment against the discrimination but it is limited only to the Government. The private sector just can get away with it with the most suitable reason that suitable candidates are not found among the lower strata. The fact is that he is caste-ineligible from the very beginning. Their own man is eligible for selection or appointment though he may carry a head largely having a word "dumb" written over it. Who cares as long as society is kept pure and their interests are served. After all, no rocket science is needed to perform the most of the common business jobs or administrative jobs. Their brethren are sufficient. Anyway, the commitment is shown in largely unimplemented laws. They still cannot make the Untouchables to fetch waters from the village well in most of the villages of India. This accomplishment is not stunning. It is just a natural outcome of the caste or Varna system. And nobody is supposed to be above the law of the land!
Another aDharma is the Varna-Sankar growth. The emergence of Varna-Sankars has been the main issue for the Hindu scriptures including the Manusmriti and the Gita. The mixed marriage causes the blood to become impure, thus making these people ineligible to perform the sacred rites and study the sacred and infallible Vedas. An increasing population of these people means less and less availability of pure people to learn Vedas and hence a danger to Dharma. The Vedas are not supposed to fall in the impure hands. No Brahman is supposed to teach the Vedas to such people. The Untouchables are also not supposed to enter the sacred temple because that would raise their status and that itself is an act of insubordination. The priests who come in their contacts would lose their authority to be the priests and lose the rulership of society. Another main act of aDharma is following of higher Varnas' Dharma by the lower Varnas - no transference of functions across the Varnas is allowed. It is horrible insubordination - great aDharma. Any such activity is adharmic because it corrupts Dharma and hence the acts of prevention of these activities are greatly dharmic. It is the king's function to punish people involved in such acts. The insubordinates are not allowed to be equal, yet. O' equality, please don't come out; stay where you are in the stinking dungeon deep.
The Shudras and Antyajas are also not allowed to carry the arms to prevent them from harming Dharma and to avoid rebellion. By this time, you know that nipping the rebellion in the bud is dharmic, and, rebellion by the Untouchables is adharmic. Since permitting them to do so would create conditions, which would endanger Dharma, they might physically harm the higher Varnas. These impure people should not rebel and rule over the pure Brahmans and the pure Kshatriyas. The rebelling bud should be nipped at the earliest. Prevention is better than the cure. The unarmed, servile and insulted lower castes are the foundations of Varna Dharma. And they should stay there, deeply and totally buried.
Any insult of the lower castes by the upper castes is not objected to because it is dharmic in nature indicating the subordination of the abused to the abuser (the high Varnas). Any flow of insults in opposite direction is highly adharmic and deems severe punishments. The offending part, which takes part in insulting the upper castes, of the Shudras and the Untouchables, is to be cut off. Strangely one insult saves Dharma and other insult destroys Dharma. Strange, strange it is, indeed! Flow the might river of insults you flow, down over the heads of the Untouchables yonder you go.
So all the acts which indicate insubordination of impure to pure are adharmic and all such acts cause the destruction of Dharma and hence punishable - cognizable offences. So, all these acts are to be avoided to maintain Dharma. Thus, the rule of impure over pure should be avoided. The result is that Dharma is upheld. Avoid aDharma with all you can or serve a sentence in the hell. Kill the beast of aDharma on the way and get a seat in the heaven right away.
There is no way in which the impure Shudras and polluting Untouchables can lose their divinely ordained impurities and become pure enough to rule over others. The impurities in them are birth-attached and reside within their bodies and will die with them only. Here lies the eternal character of Dharma, in the permanent rulership of the permanent pure over the permanent impure.
Dharma, without a pause, screams a silent scream and silences the low castes. It is a stern master. Hail the subjugation of low castes!
Dharma is not the highest morality as envisaged by some. Only when we put together Dharma and aDharma together then only we get the true picture that Dharma is not a righteous way of life but a system of suffocating birth-attached subordination and a rosy birth-attached superordination by some. Considering Dharma on its own would not lead to correct analysis. Anyway, the high caste people always have high ethics and high morals. They are not sly. Do you doubt it? Please do not and you can also ignore the condemned and insulted life of the Untouchables
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