4. SPIRITUALITY

  This chapter should be avoided by all the rationalists because of the absurd logic involved. Anyway, the spiritualists agree that they depend on realization, not on logic. Indirectly they are agreeing that they do not know what they are talking about!
The lame duck impure man with impure destiny descends on the earth to serve the pure people with smart destinies - not without an assumed cause. And, Hindu spirituality assists and tries to rationalize it!
India is supposed to be the spiritual powerhouse of the world. Both the Buddha Dharma and the Sanatana Dharma claim spirituality. The Buddha Dharma advances the Sunyata of world and Sanatana Dharma presents the world as a manifestation (Maya) of Nirgun Bruhm. The Santana Dharma or the Hindu Dharma is very spiritual religion. It contains bottomless discussions on the nature of soul (self or jiva), world and Absolute or Bruhm.
The soul in Hindu spiritualism is immortal; it was never born; it can never die; it cannot be cut; it cannot be burnt etc. etc. It changes the bodies as a body changes the clothes; it transmigrates from body to body along with the Karmas- note. Therefore, it is superior to body as a body is superior to clothes. Period.
In Hindu spiritual thinking, there is Atman, which is different from body. Atman resides in a body though it is not the same as body. At the time of death, the body dies but not the Atman, which leaves the body and acquires a new body next time. Ultimately, it leaves the illusion called world, its cycle of birth death and rebirth, and meets and dissolves into Nirgun Bruhm. This is the Moksha, the objective of Hindu spirituality. Soul does not die with the body neither it goes to the kingdom of God.
Soul being the real reality lies at a higher level than the biological body. The destructible body is not real. Anything that can be destroyed is not real. Thus if one wants to talk of higher level concepts in Hindu spiritual thought then one should talk about soul, its existence and its immortality and its superiority and its transmigration from body to body etc. etc. If one, still, wants talk to at a still higher level, then one can talk about Bruhm. If one wants to go to still higher level, then Nirgun Bruhm is there to discuss about. Please do not discuss anything at biological level because it is lower level material and lowers the dignity of Hindu spiritual thought. All the biological entities and events are illusions; so birth is an illusion as well as death; so all the births and all the deaths do not take place at all; they are in a dream sequence of some ultimate power. This ultimate power actually does nothing but dreams! Well, dreaming is doing nothing! This knowledge is also known as the ultimate knowledge and nothing is supposed to exist beyond it. What! Do not smile from ear to ear! And laughing is outlawed!
  There are few major points developed in Hindu spiritual philosophy. The first is the separation of soul from the body. The second is the rebirth through soul. The third is carrying forward the accumulated karmas through the immortal (non-existent?) soul. The fourth is the disconnection of the rewards of this life from the efforts of this life, or sufferings in this life from the deeds in this life (through disconnecting Karma theory - the master stroke - exonerating the crass exploiters!). The fifth is defining the world as illusion (with which they stick like leeches -they won't leave until they have their share of blood that is not unsubstantial!). The sixth is the identification of soul with Nirguna Bruhm and their ultimate unification.
  The separation of soul from the body allows for the concepts of rebirth and reincarnation. The concept of rebirth makes room for the disconnecting Karma hypothesis which justifies miseries and sufferings of the low castes. The concept of reincarnation allows for appropriation of others' deities as the deities of Sanatana Dharma thus leaving others' cultural little room to play (the Muslim and British did not fall prey to this!). Others lost their gods also - note. It allows maximum room for the Sanatana Dharma. The appropriation of the Buddha as a reincarnation of Vishnu is a fine example. The Sanatana Dharma becomes all encompassing. One has to be thankful to Rishis for this. And the supremacy of the Vedas maintains the superiority of Brahmans; the rest are secondary class people.
The disconnecting of the rewards from the efforts absolves the exploiters and justifies the wretched condition of the low caste people. There is an illogical shift of causation of the conditions of this life to the events of previous lives; the conditions in this life are due to events of previous lives – and everybody swallows it! There is hardly any connection between two lives and karmas. The events of previous lives determine the privileges and the disabilities of this life! But how? Any direct or indirect evidence is missing – no transparency because none is owed. All the litmus papers are soiled. But it poses no problem for the super-conscious and pious people with a pure conscience. The Karma hypothesis is called an immutable Law whereas it is no more than an unverifiable hypothesis. But the sizzling ignorance persists; it sizzles whenever under attack.
According to Hindu way of life, the ultimate aim is to attain the Moksha, Mukti or salvation. The Moksha is a state where the soul of a man gets unified or merged with the Bruhm; it becomes free of all pains and sorrows. It combines with the Bruhm to never to return to cycle of life and death. It is released from the Karmik life cycle and Moksha is attained. No more rebirths. Period. None has seen it. Period.
One peculiarity of the Hindu society is that no explanations come forward and at same time any accountability is missing. Therefore, passing the buck is a prime pass time here. The buck stops either at the disabled god and/or at the Karma. The only thing that matters is the "Word" and derivations and corollaries there of wherein all the welfare points toward pure direction. It means in the direction of pure people.
  It is told that the soul is subtle in nature. It is a "Word" so it must be a fact! Modern science is unable to find its existence because of its subtle nature. However, it is not known that what the subtlety means in this context. Again, it is an example of the fact that they do not know what they are talking about. Everything that they say is not established and cannot be established. It stands on speculations – the foundations are strong. These are merely hypotheses which are forwarded as established theories. And, all the Hindus agree to them in practice if not apparently. Say aye, aye sir - aye, aye sir.
  Any soul is indestructible in nature. The indestructibility of soul is axiomatic in nature. So far, nobody has explained that why it is indestructible. It is not born. It does not die. It cannot be burnt. It cannot be cut. On death it leaves one body and acquires a new body. Any soul cannot be disintegrated further. The fire cannot burn it. The sword cannot cut it. (I am not sure about the efficacy of guns - not given in the shastras or scriptures.) It is never born. It never dies. Nevertheless, this indestructible entity is made to suffer in hell! It beats my little head! But Hindus do not mind living in contradictions! Or the scriptures where the concept of hell (Narak) is given are pure lies! Or the soul! Atman is probably neither organic nor inorganic because in both cases it would be destructible. It is always pre-existing and post-existing to a body. The body is just a temporary for the indestructible soul. It has a separate existence than the body it inhibits. The real reality is soul and not the body because the body is temporary in nature. It exists as long as soul exists in it. The moment, a soul leaves the body the body is dead. But for such a separation it needs the stoppage of working of the body organs. May be there is no place for it in the body when the body meets with a fatal accident. The body is only a temporary abode for a soul. However, it is not known that why should the heart stop beating when a soul leaves the body? A soul may change an infinite number of bodies during its Karmic cycles on its way to merge with Bruhm. Soul cannot be divided because in such case it has to be degraded to biological level. Only higher-level concepts and realities are considered here; you dumb wit; not the biological or material; you cannot lower yourself to abysmal depths by talking about such low things! It is a Hindu spiritual world! Remember the next life of a worm is awaiting you if you do so!
However, soul can be hurt as is clear from the statement "I am hurt.”. It can die also as is clear from the statement "I am dying.”. It can be hungry also as is clear from the statement "I am hungry.”. And so on. In short it can have all the biological properties as "I" can feel or desire or complain about etc. For a soul to be indestructible, it is necessary to show that "I" in "Who I am?" is different from "I" in "I am dying?”. In "I am running," the soul is running or the body? And does a soul talk as in "Who am I?”.
However, the soul being a higher-level entity than the body cannot have lower level biological functions and the processes allotted to it. The statement that "I (self - soul) am dying," implies that the soul is dying but it cannot die! It gets more and more convoluted; the logic may stand on its head but the spiritualists are not bothered about it. You see! These are the higher-level really real reality, and the normal logic cannot be applied. It is convoluted means it is convoluted. Nobody should expect to find an iota of logic in Hindu spiritual logic. It is logic less spirituality or realized spirituality. The existence of a soul and Bruhm can only be realized or felt through the higher-level unknown faculties of higher-level people. These concepts are not amenable to the laws of science because they are superior to any kind of science – surely, it is not nonsense! Of course, if somebody is under peer pressure or social pressure then one can just nod, nod and nod - and long live the non-understandable and unidentifiable Bruhm - proofless. Anyway, the Bruhm and soul are only illusions because they always exist in minds of their proponents, not outside. And absolutely no absurdity exists; impossible to think of its existence if you have righteous way of thinking; to grasp it one should have higher level faculties whose existence is doubtful.
  The results in Hindu spirituality are axiomatic beyond which nobody can argue. There remains nothing that can be argued about. When you have agreed on the results then nothing remains to argue about. You can simply agree, simply gape with awe and amazement at the achievements and intelligently ignore the anomalies which disestablish the axiomatic results. And none cares.
The idea of Moksha or ultimate unification of a soul with the Absolute successfully diverts the attention of people away from their present problems when combined with the unestablished Karma hypothesis.
  Let us see what is Bruhm - the supreme being? What a soul is to body, the Bruhm is to universe and more than that. Anybody talking about Bruhm (Supreme Being) with the authority surely qualifies to be a Guru, the functioning of which he does not understand. A guru can talk about the non-existence of the Himalayas or the Andes without batting an eyelid. Of course, the lower strata are not supposed to talk about these higher-level things and especially not about the Bruhm; talking about such issues is the sole prerogative of the Brahmans. I know you will not understand it. How can you understand it unless you have a realized mind? As a soul is pre-existing to a body, the Bruhm is always pre-existing to any universe. It is all given in the Vedantas or the Upanishads which are ancient beyond estimation. The Rishis were great! To hell with the Big Bang theory or any other theory - the Hindu scriptures know the best. There might have been many universes and Bruhm is always pre-existing to them. A soul is always post-existing to a body; the Bruhm is always post-existing to any universe. A soul sees the birth and death of many bodies; the Bruhm also sees birth and death of many universes. Did you notice that how grand the things are? Now you know why the believers in the Vedas and the Upanishidas are derisive of Western knowledge? Their Rishis knew everything in advance! And please do not mention James Watt.
All gods are physical manifestations of Bruhm including the famous trinity of the Hindu pantheon: Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. However, there are many souls but one and only one Bruhm without a second. A soul is never born, and it never dies; the Bruhm is also never born, and it never dies. Both of them have permanent existence. The ultimate aim of a soul is to unite or merge with the Bruhm. That is Moksha or salvation. The Bruhm is the substratum of the entire world, solar system and galaxies - past, future and present. Everything has come out of Bruhm; and everything will finally merge into it. Everything means everything - no exceptions. And, dumb man, you believe in Newton, Einstein and other scientists! Your belief is overwhelming especially when the "Word" from Hindu scriptures stares at you. Your belief is worth a penny or two. Your existence is miserable! Anyway, we move forward. Anything, which exists, is due to Bruhm. Anything that existed in the past existed due to Bruhm. Anything, which will exist in the future, will exist due to Bruhm. The Bruhm is eternal like the eternal Sanatana Dharma. The gracious and esteemed Rishis and Gurus came to know about it through deep meditation, knee deep. However, it is not clear that how the Bruhm manifests itself as this world? There is an utter silence about this process – the dumb silence. There is a creation. There is a creator. But there is no process of creation. Anyway, it is a moronic fantasy in the air. It explains nothing. The explanations about working of Bruhm by the esteemed and revered seers are merely speculations or guess works. It explains nothing, graciously. The explanatory powers of the concept of Bruhm are worthless and the predictive powers are still more worthless. Nevertheless, the Hindu spiritualists have faith in their system. It is the faith that moves the mountains. It keeps the mountain of ignorance in its hallowed chamber of two feet by two feet by two feet. May be I am wrong about the dimensions.
  In Hindu spirituality, the truth is defined by the permanency of an object. Therefore, falsity is defined by the impermanency of an object. Here the talker can claim to be talking about the still higher-level concept or concepts at a still subtler level. And the talker has the better knowledge about the TRUTH or really real reality. The sun will not exist forever and therefore it is false. If you do not understand this then you are ignorant. Therefore, this earth is false. The life is not permanent so it is also false. All the necessary things in the life are false. Period.
This life is not real; this we know from the superiority of soul over the body. Period.
The word "Sat" gets translated into English as "really real" but its true meaning is TRUTH. Therefore, the only thing which is "Sat" or really real or permanent is the Bruhm or the supreme being. Everything else is impermanent or a mirage or of temporary nature. If one can claim to understand this concept based on the permanency of an object then one can claim to be a real knower of truth; the knower of the Ultimate; the knower of the Bruhm – the knower of the indestructible Bruhm. Thus, the talker belongs to the highest level of the highest-level reality! That is the way it works out to be. In this way, all the scientists will never catch up with the level attained by the ancient Rishis who possessed the knowledge about the Ultimate - the Bruhm. However, if the truth cannot be identified with the permanency then the claim about the Rishis falls flat on its face. The mystique is miraculously extrasensory; it can only be experienced by the TRUE TRUTH SEEKERS. The sense is conspicuous by its absence. No, no, no, please do not talk about self-delusions or any other such thing. These highly realized people cannot suffer from self-delusions. Period.
Anyway, we are told that Bruhm is superior to the gods; they are its manifestations only; so we discuss at a level which belong to higher level than the gods. And this raises our level. Still, raising the level higher!!!. However, there are said to be two kinds of Bruhms. One Bruhm is called Saguna Bruhm, which has a physical form and this entire world is his body. The representative of Saguna Bruhm is Lord Vishnu in this Universe. Lord Krishna and Lord Ram are the incarnations of Lord Vishnu. Soul is small and subtle but different from the Bruhm. This is also known as dualism or Dvaitvad. Any soul or jiva ultimately gets merged with the Ultimate - the Bruhm. This also connects Bruhm with the gods and the idol worship and the temples. This can convert the polytheism in Hindu religion into monotheism. There is another Bruhm known as Nirguna Bruhm. This is formless and indefinable God in any sense of dimensions or power or anything else; it is truly indefinable. It is the Absolute without attributes. It is all pervading; nothing pervades it. It is the substratum of everything. However most of the experts agree that the Nirguna Bruhm is the final reality and Saguna Bruhm is to enable laymen to worship it. The soul and the Nirguna Bruhm are not different from each other. This is known as non-dualism or Advaitvad. This is the highest level - the highest pinnacle.
Therefore, we got a pairing of body with soul, a pairing of world with Bruhm and pairing of soul with Bruhm. Things are very pithy – not rambling at all. Here the impermanent body and world belong to lower level, the soul to higher level, and the Bruhm to the highest level. If somebody is finicky and is not satisfied with this level then still raise his level then he should know that there is no difference between soul and the attribute less Nirguna Bruhm - that is non-dualism - this is the highest level; the end. Blame your senseless mind if you cannot comprehend it. And this grand spiritual knowledge is not supposed to reach to the Shudras and the Untouchables. One needs to go into deep meditation to realize the Bruhm which is a fantasy in the air without any litmus test. Whenever the question of any litmus test arises, the proponents of the SOUL and the BRUHM take to their heels - their heels are more mature than they are.
Well, one can say that there is always a never-extinct existence which is always pre and post existing to any extinctable existence, the former being the substratum of the latter. And the existence of never-extinct existence can never pass the litmus test.
I told you in the beginning of this chapter to avoid reading it; and you are still reading it! If you are the knower of the highest level, then this chapter also does not exist. What kind of higher level faculties do you have!!!
When it comes to self-delusions, I am still backward. Blame it on my thick brain. I still cannot fathom who is running? The body or the soul? What is the state when somebody is running? Somebody - Oh! That again takes us to the turbulent waters. And I am looking for some litmus papers – all of them are soiled – bad luck!
Comprehending the incomprehensible being (the concept which, incidentally, grossly lacks any transparent explaining power; but does not lack worthless explaining and predictive powers) requires a grossly intelligent mind balancing itself delicately on its belief. Also, the deep meditation and realization are extremely necessary. These grossly intelligent minds are able to understand the subtlest reality (according to them) which is supposedly beyond the realm of science and that too without transparently linking anything to anything. The transparency of this understanding is shrouded under the thick veil of realization. It is a very thick situation about the subtlest things.
However, this sense of spirituality never gets offended by the thousands years old inhuman practice of crippling untouchability. The insensitivity prevails everywhere as if it is air. The overwhelming pride in the purity of higher Varnas enforces the separation between the society and the people doing unclean jobs. The Untouchables would like to have a society of their own but they are denied the resources required for this purpose through traditional and dharmic means. They do not have any means of subsistence on their own, courtesy Dharma. It strengthens the Dharma. Thus, they have to live insulted and isolated lives at the bottom of the heap of society, and live through their hard labor doing despicable jobs. Marvelous and sacred! You should not be surprised if you find compassion crying in any isolated corner, silently.
  Further, there is one soul existing per body barring the souls that are wondering in this world in need of bodies. How the wondering souls are going to trace the bodies having zygotes formed in their respective wombs? The process is a mystery to me; and it is not known to anybody including the great grand masters in matters of soul and body. Do these souls have advanced sensory organs? It cannot be because it would render them to organic level and hence destructible. These wondering souls are waiting for the births to take place. A soul is not organic in nature; so it cannot multiply, but the bodies can multiply. The population keeps on increasing. Bodies die also. Population then decreases. In a growing population, the birth rate is higher than the death rate. In a state where there is absolute growth in population the number of souls has to increase to provide the lives to the new bodies. From where does the increase in souls, come forth? There is no mention of any method of increasing the soul numbers in any scriptures. The increase in the number of souls essentially requires creation of new souls. Any soul creation would make a soul biological in nature and hence divisible. There is no question of release of new souls from the Bruhm because those souls that merge with Bruhm do not come back to the cycle of life and death. If this were allowed then the meaning of Moksha would have to be changed. This would also change the meaning of life for a Hindu. The scriptures would have to be rewritten contradicting their earlier versions. This would require convoluted logic that can be produced at a very high rate by the proponents of the Hindu spiritual thought. Umpteen kinds of souls may be developed. Many kinds of Moksha may be developed. The meaning of "eternal" may itself undergo a change. One never knows the possibilities. But one point is clear that you will have to take their words for it, their "word" as the proof; yes the proof. Period.
 Their final statement is itself axiomatic in its nature thus precluding any scope for arguments. The higher-level thoughts are not amenable to criticism from the lower strata people. It would be totally adharmic. Anyway, the separation of soul from body allows for the reincarnation or rebirth, which is very useful in carrying forward the Karmas and justifying exploitation.
According to Hindu spiritual philosophy there are three states. These are the Awaken state, the Dreaming state and the Deep Sleep state. Most important is the dreaming state on which the concept of Maya or the world as illusion stands. In the dreaming stage, a man is the master of his dreams, which he has created (Really?). And as soon as he wakes up, the dream world disappears. Therefore, the experience is relative to the state of the observer. Underline that!!! Suppose there are three observers and one stone. One of them goes into deep sleep then the stone does not exist for him but it exists for other two. So, we have a stone which exists and does not exist at the same time. The state goes on moving as one after another observer closes his eyes and others open. The logic stands on its head but nobody cares. Anyway, we move ahead. In the deep sleep mind experiences nothing and in that he is nearly one with the Bruhm; one takes a stick hits the observer in deep sleep very hard and low the connection with Bruhm is broken. Therefore, stick is very useful; it can disconnect you from the Bruhm. In the awakened state whatever he observes or experiences is the illusion created by the Bruhm and this illusion appears as world. The real thing is the Bruhm and not this world, which appears in the dream of Bruhm. Here the dependence of logic on the dreaming state is remarkable. Just like everything appearing in the dreaming state is illusion; so is everything appearing in the awakened state- the illusion and the illusion only, not worthwhile giving a damn. Nevertheless, here is difference, if one loses a relative in the dreaming state then nothing happens but if one loses a relative in the awakened state then it has emotional and other tangible repercussions in the life. Here deriving the nature of the real and tangible world from the nature of dreams is a mistake. Since the mistake is made in the beginning, the results are liable to be wrong. There exists no illusion but the real world and there is no Maya as propounded. And if there is Maya then it is all owned by the upper castes and nothing is left for the lower castes. Strange! The higher-level people having highest level of ethics and morals are hell bent on acquiring the illusions! Strange, man strange!
This dream world in the dreaming stage is illusion therefore the real world in the awakened state must also be illusion. How? This beats my little brain. It is like deriving the nature of a real elephant in the awakened state from the nature of an imaginary elephant in the dreaming state. To me it all seems incorrect. The foundations of the Hindu spirituality seem to be standing on the illusions - the human dreams.
And, then we have the example rope and snake. Only the true knower knows the difference between the rope and the snake and similarly the difference between the World and the Bruhm. We know that the Bruhm exists only in minds of believers not outside it. But as far as the example is concerned there is no need to be a true believer or a realized person, one can simply take a stick and stir the object to know whether it is a rope or a snake. But remember no litmus tests. You should give arguments only to prove the "Word"; anything else is ineligible to enter the argument.
  Then there is the much acclaimed hypothesis of Karma. This is the philosophical justification for the oppression due to Varna system. The onus is shifted from the known to the unknown! Indeed, it is a masterstroke, a stroke of genius. Period.
 According to Karma Hypothesis an individual reaps the benefits of virtuous deeds performed in the previous life in the present life. Similarly, an individual suffers in this life on account of the bad deeds performed in previous life. Your lame duck destiny is due to unfolding of your accumulated bad Karmas! The previous lives' Karmas with imaginary existence dwell upon your lame duck destiny. Nobody has any malicious intentions against you - you understand, you heathen people. The destiny of this birth is decided without its proven relationship with the untraceable Karmas of nonexistent previous lives! The scriptures on this should not be doubted. You unfaithful, a low caste unbeliever! The people who wrote scripture were extremely innocent, virtuous and genius people with altruism deeply embedded in their psyches for the welfare of the upper Varnas. But what do you care? You, heathen people, care for your trivial and frivolous selfish interests! How bad! How unworthy! How ignominious! How criminal! How incredulous! How incriminating!
Their inability to establish a relation between two is overwhelming. One is left awestruck and gasping at the ignorance of the lower strata about the inability of the upper strata to provide the proof. But they choose to ignore it out of deliberate foolishness. Anyway, they are proud of it! The inability to provide proof is spread all over the scriptures but people in all their innocence overlook them. The reasoning weeps. Anyway, the pure people are supposed to overlook them dutifully and emphasize the divine authority of Karma hypothesis. It is amazing that this divine authority which knows everything does not have the proof of the Karma hypothesis. Marvelous. May the sky fall on all impure people if they lurch away from the dharmic beliefs. They should always be entangled in the web of ignorance which has been spun around them with the closed-gate policy and the thick veil of ignorance. The famished people can hardly get out of it. The entanglements in dev-bhasha (Sanskrit) and status seeking were too much for the people living on day-to-day accessibility of food.
  The pure people are not ashamed of assigning the wretched untraceable Karmas to impure people! Why should they be ashamed of it? It is only logical, and there is no accountability in the Hindu society. Only low level scum can doubt their sincerity. The pure people with the pure intentions! Piousity rules. You will not be disappointed if you are looking for the lack of sincerity. They are not beneath butchering sincerity.
  The shining and crippling Dharma is backed by the unestablished hypothesis of Karma. It takes a believing heart to tell the right from the wrong. The objectivity can easily be consigned to a dustbin. The objectivity which is not dharmic is not really objectivity; you would not understand it; it takes higher level of understanding to understand it. You see!
  There is a mismatch between the time of performing the deeds and the time of getting the results when two bodies are considered for a single soul. However, the concept of birth and rebirth allows for this. Anyone who commits appalling deeds in this life suffers in his rebirth. The Karmas are carried forward to the next life through the soul. This allows for the disconnection of the rewards in this life from the deeds or action in this life. The rewards and efforts become disconnected. This also means that the efforts of present life would not bring you anything tangible; whatever you have is the result of past lives Karmas. Many frequently miss this point. This also disconnects the exploiter from the exploited. But for whose benefit? There is no verifiable link between the cause and the effect in the Karma hypothesis; it never passed any test. There are unconnected causes and effects. The birth in high Varna is the proof of the virtuous deeds performed in the past lives of the individual concerned. The accumulated Karmas have enabled the individual in question to take the birth in the higher Varna. Unfortunately, this is the thought that cannot be verified like all other hypotheses in Hindu spiritual system. It is all metaphysical and metaphysical and metaphysical which has physical effects via the control of the elite castes. One needs deep meditation to realize the veracity of the Karma hypothesis. And the individual who has taken birth in the lowest stratum is assumed to have a record of worst accumulated deeds in his past lives. I wish there were higher degrees then  the "worst”. On a scale of 1000 to -1000 the Untouchables must score -1000. The only problem is that we do not have any verifiable records of such bad deeds and their hypothetical linkages. But this causes no problem! This should be taken as true because it is said so. Nobody should question them and especially not the heathen ones. The results themselves are axiomatic and unquestionable.
However, such a profound thinking creates no human sympathy for the people of the lowest stratum because they are suffering on account of their own actions and nobody is responsible for their wretched lives. Look, it is not personal at all; we only wrote the scriptures in which it is given; after all, we are the most pure of Hindu Varnas; we cannot write any untruth at all. Establish the results? The word “Establish” is not in our dictionary along with the word “honesty”. See!  These kinds of words do not exist in our dictionary - the pure dictionary of pure people.  We are pure people. This is divine justice, and along with the dharmic justice, it mutilates and kills without any established basis. The temporal injustice combined with the divine injustice makes the life hell for people at the bottom of the heap. And their crimes are not even known! Hanged for the unknown crimes! Condemned for the unknown crimes! These crimes are assumed. There are assumptions and assumptions. The Karma hypothesis predicts nothing in empirical terms. Even the grand masters of meditation possessing the ultimate knowledge, the Bruhm-Gyan, do not know. Now an Untouchable suffers due to the sins committed in previous lives. A Brahman enjoys all the worldly comforts in the form of land grants and the patronage of the Kshatriyas and the kings because of his extremely virtuous deeds in his past lives which nobody knows! The Karma hypothesis disconnects the rewards of this life from the actions of this life. This is a genius masterstroke. According to this, a Brahman who enjoys comforts does not enjoy them at the cost of crippled Untouchables or Shudras; though it is their labor that makes his life comfortable. The pure people have taken birth in the pure castes due to their untraceable but worthy Karmas. But who knows? Nobody! A Brahman or Kshatriya or a Vaisya can enjoy the worldly comforts at the cost of the crippled Shudras and the crippled Untouchables without feeling a wee bit guilty. They can even enjoy it righteously and unconditionally. And they do not lose any sleep over it; they sleep soundly and righteously with a clear conscience; and they sleep with caste pride; Zzzz… Zzzz… Zzzz… Nobody loses sleep even for a single night, you see! Hinduism is a righteous way of life! Is it not? It contains a crippling discrimination via incrimination. And the purest people ar at peace with themselves.
The eternal exploitation becomes righteous because there is an eternal cycle of birth and rebirth because of bad and good Karmas. The Shudras and those below them should follow Dharma unconditionally. The crippling of lower strata is just. The sufferings of the Untouchables and the Shudras are just; the comforts of high Varnas are also just. The righteousness prevails everywhere, even in the presence of heaps of miseries and sufferings and insults. The sufferings of the Untouchables and the Shudras are clearly visible in the comforts enjoyed by the higher Varnas. Nevertheless, the efforts have been disconnected from the results! Gains have been disconnected from pains. Thanks to Hindu spirituality. According to the Karma hypothesis, the wretched lower strata people themselves are responsible for their hellish conditions because of their accumulated bad Karmas of their past lives. Perfectly sensible! Is it not? The victims are held to be responsible for their sufferings! Don't look for logic; it is Hindu society. This made the humanity to evaporate from the Hindu society though everybody talks about Dharma frequently. Inhumanity is justified with the help of spiritual and philosophical thoughts. The Karma hypothesis incriminates the Untouchables and the Shudras and the righteous society exploits them! This is the place where spirituality laughs at the tears of humanity. In the end, it is the victim who does not matter. Everybody else goes home happily. Nice happiness. Is it not?
 Where are the bad karmas of an Untouchable child, for which he gets the birth-attached insulted status and empty belly? And what are they?
How the high castes, with the highest-level ethics and morals, sleep? Well and Soundly. Zzz…, Zzz… Period.
 Will somebody stand up and explain and concretely establish the reasons behind the insulting status of newborn Untouchable children? Are the inherently pure people without any proof for this? I would be interested in seeing if one of them has it. And, see, the unfounded, untraceable, incorrelatable and disconnecting Karma hypothesis is a matter of overwhelming pride!
  In the Karma hypothesis there is an illogical shift of the causation of the conditions of this life to the events of previous lives. The deeds of previous lives determine the privileges and disabilities of this life. If that is so; the victory of the Muslim invaders over Hindus, must have been due to virtuous actions of Muslims and sinful deeds of Hindus of all their respective past lives! Therefore, there is no need to shed any tears about it. It was divinely ordained. And Bruhm was its bedrock. The Saguna Bruhm sent the Muslim invaders to punish the sinful Hindus. So, Hindus were punished for their past sinful actions; rightly and justly. The same past sinful lives invited British also. If this explanation is not proper then the vague explanatory powers of the Karma hypothesis are very limited and it has no general basis. The Karma hypothesis is standing on speculative foundations – just imaginative and exploitative guesswork. It is simply moronic, atrocious and worthless. Shifting the cause from unknown A to known B! The unknown A causes known B! A great logical turn related to ultra rationality! I think both A and B should be known but I have such a thick brain.
  One point is not clear in Karma Hypothesis. Who performs the deeds? Surely, an individual performs the deeds. Does the body or soul perform them? The deeds are performed either by the body or by soul. Let us consider the case where the deeds are performed by the body. Here the body should be punished for the deeds performed by it in the past life. The body in each birth is new; it is unrelated to previous birth. Both the bodies are separated by time. In such a situation the body is punished for the crimes committed by a different body. Thus, the present body has not committed the crimes it is being punished for. The previous life's crimes were committed by an already extinct body. Thus, the divine punishment which depends on the hypothesis of Karma is wrong. You cannot punish an entity for the crimes it never committed but you can if you are a high caste Hindu in the unofficial India. Forget about the crimes the new body has yet to produce any Karmas.
  Let us consider the second case where the crimes are committed by the soul, the indestructible one. It can only perform any action through body but that is also not possible since soul is not brain. A soul which has left the body cannot perform any action. It can keep wondering about in the world until it acquires a body to perform some action. However, let us assume the soul has performed the crimes through a body in previous life. So by taking birth in painful life, the soul is punished. The Gita implies that the soul by its nature cannot be punished. There is no way in which it can be punished. The soul is indestructible so it cannot be destroyed. It cannot be hurt so hurting does not imply punishing it - NOTE. It cannot be burnt, cut or killed - it is said in Gita. It is immune to everything, including pain and pleasure. So punishing soul is really no punishment. In fact it is the body which gets punished and which never committed the past deeds; it could not. In other words, the body gets punished without committing any crimes. Thus, the divine justice system enshrined in the Karma hypothesis does not really punish the really real guilty. It gets its victims in the Varna system, in its bottom and below. Do I see beaming and twinkling eyes with proud faces having smug smiles? These are the high caste smiles for being victorious forever! This righteous way of life should not make you sad. It should not drench your heart in tears. Merely illusion! Why bother?
  The Karma hypothesis is a disconnecting concept devised to absolve the lawmakers, the Brahmans, of their sins. If it holds well, which it is supposed to, then it absolves the Brahmans of their crimes and the atrocities that have been committed under their eternal and sacred guidance. It also absolves them of the crime of practicing the untouchability. Simultaneously it absolves the Muslim invaders of the atrocities committed on the Hindus. The Hindus suffered under Muslim rulers due to their bad Karmas. Similarly, any oppressor can be absolved of his sins since the victims suffered due to their karmas of past lives. Therefore, Genghis Khan stands absolved. It is all in the karmas; the life does not matter and the soul does. The Karma hypothesis also grandly fails in case of genocide of the Jews in the Second World War. If it is not applicable there then it does not have general applicability; we know it already; – it has no legs to stand on. It is a grand lie.
  However, we have to see that why the Moksha is necessary? Basic to Hindu society are the scriptures, the crippling caste system, the concept of soul, the Absolute God, Karma hypothesis and the Hindu pantheon. An eternal cycle of birth and death, and birth and death, and rebirth and rebirth, goes on and on and on, in this world. The indestructible soul keeps on moving from one body to another with each rebirth. From where this soul has come, nobody knows! In between two births, it keeps on wondering in the universe. The problem is created by the sufferings in this physical world. Anybody who enters this world has to suffer from body and mental pains. The world is overflowing with pain and sorrow. These are different pains and sorrows: the pain of not having enough to eat, the worry of safety to body, the pain of losing one's relatives and near and dear ones, the pain of sickness, the pain of wound, the accidents, the death etc. And the final pain is the pain and fear of one's own death. It is a never-ending chain of pains and sorrows. It is a chain because a soul sleepwalks through a chain of lives, one after another. Everybody wants to live a painless, sorrow less, comfortable and happy life. Everybody is bound by the non-existing Karmas so he has to suffer from his share of sorrow and pain. Secondly, if everybody tried to find out the solution to his sufferings in the present life then this would result in corruption of Dharma. The social order or Varna Dharma would break down. Now we have a situation in which a man is in search of peace; or he is in search of ways of getting rid of all his sufferings and sorrows. It is quite reasonable also. The hypothesis of Karma implies that a man would never get peace in his lifetime; may be except the high caste people. Therefore, the only way to get rid of pain is to get out of the cycle of birth and rebirth. Oh, this is the solution! The final death!!! Another rebirth means another round of sorrows and pains. If rebirth could be avoided then all the pains and sorrows would be avoided. This is possible only when the soul loses its existence altogether making any rebirth impossible. The only way to a peaceful existence is to have no existence at all - it should be plain clear - die, die, die and die the final death – dodge the pains and sorrows by dying finally and forever – so simple. According to Hindu spiritual thought a soul can lose its existence only by merging with the Absolute or Nirguna Bruhm. To a lay Hindu, it is a permanent visit to the Vaikunthdham. Vaikunthdham is the abode of Lord Vishnu who represents Bruhm in this world. It is a one-way ticket. This unification of soul with Bruhm is called Moksha or salvation. After this unification, the soul leaves the painful cycle of birth and rebirth, and lives (?) eternally in the eternal bliss in Bruhm or Bruhmlok. Or one may say it merges with Nirgun Bruhm. The mere thought that his soul would keep on wondering in this painful world forever can be quite unsettling to a devout Hindu; then he has to have the aim of achieving the Moksha. It is a thoughtful way of keeping a Hindu man bound with his Varna Dharma and still be hopeful of ungainable gains! Wonderful, is it not? Any hope is graciously deferred to next life or to the unseen future of somebody else. Yes, it is some other body with hardly any clue of identification with the previous one! It is foolish for nonbelievers, and, a stroke of genius for its profound proponents. It should not smack of any fraud to anybody; everything comes from the sacred sources; anyway, some evil minds harbor this thought and smell a gigantic fraud spanning only a few thousand years. Why bother over small things? In the Hindu scriptures, everybody is asked to follow properly his Varna Dharma to improve his next birth; there is always hope but shifted to next unknown birth. This hope is actually never available to anybody; this is the real mirage and illusion in the Hindu society. It is the result of fantastic thinking of meditating Vedantic seers. Some seers! And there is no fraud.
  Conjuring up the vision of attaining illusionary Moksha helps Dharma a lot. It is brought within everybody's expectations and then is denied because it is beyond this lifetime. The pure Varnas do not have to pay for the costly Moksha – only the low castes have to pay through their labor and a sacrifice of their desires. The belief in Moksha replaces the absconding reason. The desire to attain Moksha and/or improve next life fools all the people by replacing reason.
 There are three specific ways prescribed to attain the Moksha: the Gyan Marg, the Karma Marg and the Bhakti Marg.
  In the Gyan Marg which is the knowledge path to salvation, a man can achieve Moksha by gaining the knowledge that the soul and Nirguna Bruhm are non-different to each other as told in non-dualism or Advaitvad. There is no need to die to achieve Moksha and there will be no next birth. This kind of Moksha is available only to the Bruhm Gyanis who can only belong to three threaded Varnas. The Shudras are not eligible for achieving the Moksha in this way.
  In the Karma Marg (or the path of action) which is propagated in the world renowned Gita, a man can achieve the Moksha by following the Karma related to his Varna which is known there as Swa-Dharma. Here all the Varnas are eligible for achieving the Moksha provided they follow the Swa-Dharma. The Untouchables are not included. Here somebody is allowed the Moksha because following the Swa-Varna-Dharma-Karma is following the divinely ordained order of society. He is following the path shown by divinity. Therefore, anybody following God's ordained social order is helping God in his work. This makes him eligible to attain the Moksha. However, a Shudra who is desirous of raising his standard of living by leaving his Varna Dharma and following Dharma of higher Varna is not eligible for the illusionary Moksha. For example, a potter cannot achieve Moksha by studying the Vedas; only a Brahman can achieve Moksha by studying the Vedas. All the Shudras have to stick to their heredity professions if they want to achieve the Moksha. For any Shudra the Karma Marg is Seva (service or servitude) Marg. Or for these servants the Karma-yoga is Seva-Yoga or Servility-Yoga or Servant-Yoga. The Gita exhorts a man to perform his caste duties without caring about its consequences; one should follow his swa-Dharma (own duty meaning the caste duty) even if it is inimical to his interests. It is a blatant casteism in a spiritual disguise. But Gita is esteemed! Who can argue with that?
  In the Bhakti Marg or the path of devotion a devotee is eligible to attain the Moksha through intense devotion. This follows from Saguna Bruhm School. Lord Vishnu represents Saguna Bruhm in this world and can grant Moksha to a devotee if pleased with his devotion. The Bhakti movement had Gurus from various castes. Incidentally, the followers of each Guru, usually, came from the caste equivalent to him or from the castes lower down the scale. It is difficult to find the followers of a Guru who belong to higher Varna or caste than his. Following a low caste Guru is totally adharmic subordination that goes contrary to the Varna Dharma. The Varna Dharma appears everywhere. None of the Untouchable saints of Bhakti movement were eligible to enter any of the temples; the practice of untouchability continued with spread of spirituality! The lower castes are asked to wait for change in their next lives until then they should virtuously perform their swa-Dharma (caste-function). Nothing was given in this life. Only poverty, hunger, sufferings and insults were given in this life! You could be careless. May be you couldn't! There must be some more ways to make permanent fools out of people. Nothing in this life and everybody is convinced! Beats my little brain.
  In the Rig Veda it is said that "Ekam Sat Vipra Bahuda Vadanti,”. It means that there is only one truth (God) or Sat but wise men call him by the different names. Or there is only one Absolute called by many names by knowledgeable men. However, the same Absolute created a born servant-hood in India and the same Absolute created brotherhood in West. These two Absolutes cannot be the same since a man created in West is essentially the same as created in East. This difference implies either a difference in men or a difference in the Gods. According to the scriptures of the Hindu society the Varnas were created by God with their inherent functions, which translates into inherent inequalities. Thus, there have to be two Gods. If there is only one God then the differences in Varna Dharma are created by man. Thus, Hindu Dharma has no divine origin and it is totally artificial creation of lawmakers with scant regard to any kind of God. Anyway, we know that, already. God is falsely invoked to justify the Varna Dharma. However, if the religion in West is artificial and the true religion of the world is Vedic Dharma then God is fascist. It is a difficult choice; take your pick or make and/or create another choice. An atheist would like to ignore the issue altogether. The Rig Vedic statement about only one God is more like a pretension to better understanding of the concept of God or a compromise between different sects. It still does not have any explanatory and predictive powers. The exact nature of God is not told, neither the exact way of functioning of God. Why? It was simply because the Rig Vedic people themselves did not know it. They always talked about the things, which they themselves did not understand. The vagueness prevails. And, it is the greatest knowledge in the world, according to some people who are exploding with inner joy!!!
  The Karmas, which cannot be found, are the basis of punishment. Beats my little brain - few things cannot get into my thick head. What kinds of karmas, a newborn Untouchable child has performed, to get an insulted status right at the time of birth?
  Further, the Vedas are certainly fallible since they contain imperfect knowledge as evident in the Purusha Sukta. The divinity certainly cannot be said to possess the imperfect knowledge. Therefore, the Rig Veda along with the Purusha Sukta has to be a handiwork of mortal men; which it is; it is totally artificial and there is nothing divine about it along with other three Vedas. Certainly, there is no reason to believe the fantasy of Purusha Sukta. The imagination of Rig Vedic people was fertile but it was that only - fertile, vaguely fertile.
  The concept of Bruhm is also imaginary, as nobody has come forward in thousands of years to show any evidence about it. Of course, the truth depends on permanency. If Bruhm exists then the proofs for its existence must exist. Simply the biggest entity cannot hide itself. The existence of Bruhm is axiomatic with unsearchable proofs that are supposed to exist. The Word (?) is taken as proof. The hypothesis of Karma is also without any substance. It has not passed any tests. No propagator of this hypothesis has been able to produce any evidences in favor of rebirths with any reliable statistics, barring some delusional people who claim to have taken rebirth. Exactly linking the specified rewards of this birth with the specified and confirmed deeds of last birth for a correctly identified soul has also not taken place. The speculative and deemed final results are axiomatic. Therefore, one has to believe in the existence of evidences or proofs that nobody has been able to found or establish for thousands of years. They are supposed to be beyond verification – for the benefit of the Brahmans. All proofs are missing for thousands of years. One has to take the words of the Vedas, the Rishis and the spiritualists as proofs for the existence of anything they say. In other words, one has to make a complete fool of him in order to appear sensible in the Hindu society. It is a normal occurrence. Nothing to worry about!
  The unification of soul with God, which is supposed to be the ultimate aim of the Santana Dharma, allows for the shifting of dreams and desires to the next world, which leaves no room for the aspirations of the lower strata. The life in this life be damned! The ambition of Moksha is so high that it can only be achieved in the next world that actually means never, but this "never" is not worth bothering about. Or is it? The present world is redundant; it is all Maya (illusion), which benefits only the high castes. The Maya is structured to suit the elites of Hindu society. The closed gates and high walls with spiritual foundation, are crippling; the crippled lower strata people live in a land of insults and poverty beyond these gates and walls. The general population need not be ambitious in this life. The real world and its wealth could be left to twiceborn. The born servile servants can go around doing the extremely important job of serving the people born to rule. The born to be dishonored can go around respecting the people born to be honored. And blah, blah.
  The pure people give all the lectures about the sanctity of the scriptures because they are devoted to them. These sermons have the powers to kill the dreams of lower strata. Their power should not be undermined. The life in this life be damned! Get ready the leftovers - here come the low caste people!
Then the pure and pious handle the Dharma deftly and take no chances with the shackled destiny of the heathen born. All the loose ends are closed. The eternally ruined lives are the sacred achievements of the scriptures. Be thankful to their creators.
And, Karma hypothesis justifies the sufferings of lower strata. The Karma hypothesis is amazing. The exploiters stand exalted. Be worried not about it.
You should not make premature conclusion about the concepts developed over 2500 years. Two thousand five hundred years is a small Period.
 Is it not? You should give it some more time; perhaps you should give it 250000 years. That is cool! Give them 250000 more years to exploit.
The sense should abdicate to make any sense of spirituality. Your logic should cede graciously. Or, better, if you ditch it right away! The logic lurches and finds itself without support. Hardly matters.
Wait a minute what is going on here. A false tirade against the pure people! We, the pure people, tell you that all this is a grand lie. Some vitiating minds are poisoning the mind of lower strata people. Stop that herewith.
What? You want proof of the Karma hypothesis? You doubt the word of supremely pure and pious people whose entire philosophy is founded on illusions? No absurdity please, the pure and pious people cannot be absurd by any definition. So kill any such thoughts if you are harboring them. You doubt the words of the sacred scriptures! Only the impure people with impure thoughts can doubt the sacred scriptures! Where is sacredness? Where is purity? Sure, you are going to suffer in hell in boiling oil. Your fireproof soul will burn in it! Then you will feel the pain of the stings of Dharma. You will be deprived of your body on this earth and only your lamentable, unpunishable and insufferable soul will be punished in the hell. But for the time being few broken bones would do. Anyway, the closed gates policy is most suitable for you, which cripples you and keeps you in an enforced penury. You should be lucky to be born in such a dharmic society that condemns you from birth to death. Have you seen such a perfectly insulted eternal life of the impure people? No. You have not seen such a perfection but you have experienced it yourself, you heathen people in Hindu society. From this end to that end, it is perfect; nothing is left out! No part of your life is left that is not insulted. Perfection man! It is called the perfection! What do you know? You people with empty bellies!
  The wretched people with wretched karmas dare to question the pure people! They are trying to destroy our delightful and pitiful disposition. You are born as impure people because of your bad karmas, and you should be servile; you should serve the sacred Dharma created by us! There is no other task for you!
  The uncouth and impure people are lying about falsity of Karma but nothing in this world is truer than the infallible Law of Karma. The people with wisdom know it. And our Rishis and sages knew it. Any finger pointing at out wise people and Rishis would be broken into pieces by direct or indirect means. You see, any opportunity going toward chamaarwada is butchered with bonafide intentions. You should understand that. Our bonafides should not be doubted about. Whatever goes against our pious Rishis is false. Away with it. Out with it. And we are at peace with ourselves. Do we mind it? Not, at all.
  These devious, lowly and impure people want to defame such a benign Dharma! Such an aDharmic and devious desire is beyond understanding. Accusing people without a cause is a nefarious vice imbibed in them. But you see, higher caste people are not hurt by this; they have solid accumulation of the virtuous karmas to enjoy their comforts; anyway, we would settle the score with the lowly impure people. Just let a chance come.
  The bad karmas of impure people cause wretched destinies for them, we the pure people, are only instruments. It is only divinity playing its role; we have nothing to do with it. We, the pure people, were born with pure intentions only. These always reside in our crystal clear conscience and hearts. Always means always; you fool. And how do we get sleep? Oh, we sleep well and soundly! Why do you ask this question?
The impure people do the impure work; the question remains unanswered. They live the hellish life depending on the unfound, unidentifiable and untraceable Karmas, which is actually a boon for the low caste people as it provides them the opportunity to improve their next life by humbly serving the pure people and improve. They can improve next life by following swa-dharma, virtuously and righteously. The crippling structure of society has nothing to do with it. By virtuously serving pure people, the impure people reduce their untraceable wretched karmas and improve their unknown next life. That means there is nothing for them in this life. No cause of worry should it be; only a source of unseen happiness, it is! Nice spiritual arguments flow from pure people! How involuntary pure people do it in the name of faulty but the untraceable Karmas! Nothing personal about it! Period.
 We, the pure people, are offended and insulted when the Karma hypothesis is applied to the success of the Muslim rulers and the British colonizers. Every pore of our body is offended and the face burns along with the eyes. The black clouds gather. The minds fume. And you should talk about patriotism not about the Karma hypothesis here. No, no it is not a diversion; it is only a proper thing in its proper place as it suits us. You unpatriotic, uncouth and condemned people, we have every right to exploit to you. We swear by the Gita that you should follow your swa-Dharma. Long live the patriotism of upper castes. The patriotism always presents itself as a strong defense whenever the welfare of low castes raises its deserving face. See, the welfare of low caste divides the nation; it cuts into the share of upper cases creating tension between low and upper castes. The veil of patriotism hides the true intentions of the upper castes that the low castes should get only leftovers.  
Anyway, the crookedness is conspicuous by its absence. It is not meant to be there and it is not. And the same goes for slyness. Plain and simple. And, altruism, the absence of crookedness and the lack of deception are very clear and only a person with developed conscience can sense them here. By logic, the purity can only be altruistic without a whimper of crookedness. This altruistic purity cannot be responsible for wretched destinies of the low caste people. Only their wretched hypothetical karmas are responsible for all this. Got it?
The Varna system and the Law of Karma can be put together as discrimination via incrimination; the Law of Karma incriminates and the Varna system discriminates. The solid ground, stable system, eternal crippling exploitation and the eternal miseries – everything is perfectly all right.