Hinduism And Its Inherent Social Catastrophe

HINDUISM AND ITS INHERENT SOCIAL CATASTROPHE

(From the Perspective of Indian politics)

“Religion is the opium of the people”: Karl Marx

The word “Hindu” as it has often been misinterpreted in the world’s geopolitical arena is nothing but the emancipation of expressing one’s strong belief over certain ideologies. Over the years it has been projected only as a medium of revealing a person’s benevolence over his continuous stagnant of Proclamation for the existence of a classified belief. And thereby the consequent outcomes have led to varying its prevalent dimension drastically into a more personified way rather than as an inclusive element. The religious consideration attested to it etymologically has eventually delved into a more contradictory outfit within the contemporary society. The rise of intellectuals has certainly transformed the ongoing social morbidity into a more exaggerating caricature of some loopholes. The vastness of depending on such a prescribed proclamation over certain existential beliefs has been entitled to a distinctive section of the masses. A mere contradictory ideology against the belief of its watchdog would certainly turn someone as a traitor for the entire community. The attribution of secularism which has been commonly engulfed within the religious parameters is mostly destined to occupy only its psychological outfit rather than the prescribed virtues. Nationalism in India is selfdom intermingled with the aspect of emphasizing either of the existing ideologies which have been directly certified to many vigorous political goals. And it is since time immemorial that the so-called religious fundamentalist has been the torchbearer in paving the avenues for religious proliferation. It is an essence within themselves that frequently creates the havoc of a larger social catastrophe in an around the world. A mere contradictory perception would eventually enforce them to react in a more fervent way that certainly causes enormous vandalism of a sensitive site. Consequently, this has also been the vital aspect of modulating a certainly specified demography of a full-fledged region and India has been one among them.

A Sadhu close to the statue of Lord Siva or the Adi-Yogi

In a country like India where religious belief is in a paramount altitude, it is thereby inevitable to restrain the eerie echoes seldom prevailing from within its definite circulation. Though the nation was initially formed by delving entirely on the specific virtues (that have been extracted vigorously from different sacred scripts), it has been laden with various unavoidable terrains that resemble even today. The wave of religious preference raises its ultimate altitude once the phobia of the general election engulfs the nation’s entire political arena. Contrarily, the objective of the political parties in approaching the election also varies upon their respective oath of eradicating the social evils. Religious sentiment is one major branded weapon which is sub-categorized within the political goals of a nation like India. The religious sentiment is also the natural lifeline which somehow abandons (at least during the election campaigning) the prolong “policy of caste discrimination”. India as has always been a land of seekers often divulges from the discourse of communal harmony or the much highly emphasized analogical term “ secularism”. The hard-fought endeavor of uniting its dual sentiments is somehow an outdated aspect in modulating the nation’s prescribed dimension. This has eventually resembled the internal proceedings that both the nationalistic as well as its religious sentiments go hand in hand while regulating the nation to its definite criterion. The social as well as political representatives are mostly religious-centric and are also rigorously possessive with their spiritual temperament. The fear of losing political domain over a longer tenure has often led them to use the baseline of respective beliefs as an extra mileage for the voting machine. With the influence of various political theories, Hinduism has a very distinctive narrative today. Etymologically, Hinduism in the broader sense is nothing but an individual’s respective obligation for the sole purpose of its existence. It is also the obligation of attaining supreme spiritual sense on a personal note subsequently in the inclusive way it is the utmost obligation of appraising humanity at large. The fundamental principle engaged within these circumstances is to generate a higher liability over humankind. A religion thereby is certainly the central or focal point of generating the nationalistic sentiment for the Indian since its independence.