In India’s politics today, the questions being posed to Hindus by anti-Hindus and Woke-Secular Hindus are becoming more and more aggressive and disrespectful. The sophistry and sophistication of their arguments is getting better, shriller and more taunting than ever before. It makes it increasingly difficult and awkward for faithful Hindus to counter effectively or adequately, caught up as they find themselves in contradictions and inconsistencies all of their own making.
Here below are some of those mocking questions:
1. When 80% of India population eats meat in varying quantities and frequency, how is it democratic to go around violently harassing meat-traders, retailers and shops as seen in this Twitter post? https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/07/08/eight-in-ten-indians-limit-meat-in-their-diets-and-four-in-ten-consider-themselves-vegetarian/ Should Food divide communities?
2. Again, if 60% of even the 84% Hindu population in our country is meat-eating, a doubt arises in our minds if it’s not sheer hypocrisy to raise a fuss over fish-oil being used as ingredient in temple “prasaadam”. This is what the Dalit communities like the Dravida Kazhagam and Viduthalai Ciruthai Katchi parties in Tamil Nadu are asking the Brahmins … yes, and very mockingly too .
Atheists, Non-Hindu anti-Hindus, Woke-Secular Hindus and anti-Sanatana Dravidianists further are all going to town posing even more self-righteous and provocative questions to Hindus:
- Is God not God for meat-eaters ? Or does God consider meat-eaters to be lesser bhakths or souls ?
- If meat is “impure”, then are meat-eaters too to be looked down upon as impure?
- If animal meat is forbidden inside a Hindu temple for reasons of “purity”, then all meat-eaters too by logical extension have to be treated as “impure”? Why let them in at all? Why not ban their entry?
- Is God himself a confirmed vegan? Who discovered this great truth ? Or is it just invented theology ?
- If fish-oil or lard is used in victual-offerings to the Hindu god, how is it known to be absolute certainty or truth — or rather, who says it is absolutely certain — that the Deity will refuse it as “impure”, “unclean” or otherwise “unfit for consumption”? Does God go looking for Food Certification label on what is offered to him ?
- If you say yes … and that it is indeed so … and it has been laid down in the Agama Sastras, the question is then who wrote them and when? Did they write it all in their own times or did they write it for all times? Who gave them the right and power to issue diktats and food advisories for all times? And how do we know for sure that the authors (the forest dwelling Rishis) of the Agamas were not themselves occasional meat-eaters even if not by choice but by force of circumstances while living as nomadic forest-dwellers?
Such utterly irreverent, snide and quirky questions are being raised with the sole intention of denigrating the very fundamentals of the Hindu religious belief-systems. Of course, furious rebuttals and rancorous counters are being offered by Hindu defenders of faith , on social and mainstream media. But to what gainful purpose? The real guardians of the Hindu spiritual orders , the Acharyas and gurus are all mere mute spectators. They have nothing substantive to say on the matter.
It is precisely the aim of the anti-Hindus of India to put the majority population of India in a perpetual state of craven defensiveness. The long-term strategy is to keep Hindu India ducking, swerving and weaving away from repeated and punishing body-blows that the antagonists are continually throwing at it . The punches are keeping Hindus pinned in the ring against the ropes, as it were, to ensure they remain perpetually confused, dazed, disoriented or, in other words, deeply unsure and doubtful about many aspects of their own religious belief-systems, culture, faith and values — such as dietary choices, customs of temple worship, theological concepts of purity and spiritualism… why, even about the sanctity of Tirupati Laddoos…. !
The long-term strategy of these anti-Hindu forces can be summed up in one simple mission-statement : to defeat the Hindus inside their own homes and temples.
That was a brilliant mantra that these anti-Hindu forces imbibed from the colonialist Westerners who once came, saw and conquered India. It was the British indeed who perfected the art of how to wear down Hinduism and not try fighting it.
The way to “wear down” the Hindus was to use cultural guerilla warfare techniques: viz. relentless sophistry and godless mockery …
Go on mocking Hindu religious practices wherever, whenever and howsoever an opportunity arises to do so — such as mocking their Gods, mocking their temples , mocking everything about their way of life …
A sustained campaign like that carried on over years and years will certainly mean very long haul — a grinding cultural war of attrition, in fact — but then it is the only way, they all tell themselves, you can watch Hindu India slowly, bit by bit, get diminished, get enervated and emasculated by passage of time … and then a day will finally come when they will have lost all self-esteem, sense of identity and self-worth.
It’s a bit like the Communist Doctrine which Lenin is said to have envisioned when he told his comrades that in the long battle of attrition to be waged between the proletariat and the capitalists, the State will in the end have to inevitably “wither away” .
Pursuing this unique “wither away” strategy is however a glacially slow process but the anti-Hindu forces know only too well that it will pay off in the end. Hinduism will get worn down badly … Historically, it is proven that the Hindus of India simply wilt under the weight of relentless cultural siege and will, sooner or later, withdraw unto themselves like tortoises retreating into their shells .
Hinduism doesn’t have to be conquered by force … It will simply implode by itself and from within itself, all in good time .
The clarion call of the anti-Hindu forces, both in and outside India today is thus only this: “Forward, fellow-culture warriors! Charge! Continue doing what you must … chip , chip away … bide your time, and victory will come by itself to you!”
Sudarshan Madabushi
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