Since Hindus are highly religious, and they take their religion very seriously indeed, in case emotional content of religion is increased, the already PASSIVE Hindu society becomes more passive. This alone is sufficient to destroy India, and UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS HAPPENING.
This is a fact and NOT an allegation.
REQUEST: Please comment, accepting or rejecting issues mentioned giving your reasons. Do not be passive. Your comments mean you are alert to problems of the society.
Every religion has 3 essential PERFORMING parts, which are as follows:
1. Pooja or worship2. Rituals e.g. Havan, breaking of coconut, etc..3. Physical performing part of the religion, or Dharm, or you can say duties and responsibilities.
As far as Hindus are concerned, the Physical performing part of the religion, or DHARM as some would say, was substantially REDUCED during the last 1000 years of GULAMI, and this is a historical fact. Nothing has been done after independence to change this. This is causing lot of problems in attitude of average Hindu. That is why we are PASSIVE.
Note: I will NOT be providing the STATISTICALLY VERIFIABLE PARAMETERS. Because in case you are passive, you need not bother, in case one demands, the same will be provided, which one can verify EASILY.
What exactly were the reasons which persuaded Hindu Gurus to increase the emotional content of the religion? Remember the below mentioned reasons are serious allegations which SHOULD NOT be dismissed without thorough investigations, because the FACT remains that emotional content of religion has been increased.
REASONS:
1. Glamour, marketability and exportability: Hindus are more emotional than other societies. That is why we have joint Hindu family system, and strong family ties. From time immemorial, every community in the world has an attraction towards miracles and instant relief. See Indian movies in any language, one will find how emotional content is invariably used and reinforced. Whether it is Hero, Heroine, hero’s mother, one would see the 1000 times repeated scene that a visit to a favorite temple or a bhajan will cure all problems. Obviously since we are emotional and passive it improves marketability. Emotional content of religion also has a good export market.
2. Temptation of easy money as reward: it is always easy to flow with the current than to flow against the current. There was a strong emotional base of the Hindu religion at the time of independence. Hindu religious leaders simply carried it forward, as it assured instant reward and no one asked questions. Secondly royalties on book written as such also assured handsome payouts. So why care about Hindu society, and, as bonus, further reward was political patronage.
3. Overseas money of Christian missionaries ensured persuasion in perhaps some cases, maybe in lot more cases then we can imagine:
This is a very serious allegation and need to be seriously investigated.
Christian missionaries are sending huge money in India, part of which is used for genuine upkeep of their infrastructure and properties including churches, part of this is being used to convert poor and tribal to Christians. But even after this a big part is unaccounted for. Christians, unlike Muslims are not engaged in hate Hindu campaign. Their campaign is more professional. Their target is conversion for which it is necessary that Hindus must remain poor, problems in Hindu society regarding caste, untouchability are not resolved. One can see how successful they have been during the 63 years of independence. Money, is being used to ensure that emotional content of Hindus religion is increased or remain intact. This is certainly not possible until and unless the financial beneficiaries are Hindu Gurus, and others who are in charge of Hindus.
4. Decrease in emotional content would require increase in karmic content, which never found favor from religious leaders, as since independence there has been strong mutual profitable connection between politics and religion. Politics require even physical(KARMIC) program of parties to be sold through emotional content; for e.g. : 20 point program of Late Shrimati Indira Gandhi successfully sold to masses on GAREEBI HATAOO slogan, and curtailment of emergency powers of government sold on NASBANDI THREAT.
5. Consumerism: Modern India does not need a lecture on this. Rings, talismans, mantras to ward off evils, are being sold regularly through TV. Tasty and rich food which will not affect the FASTING is now available on shops throughout North India.
Reduction in emotional content of religion to become a reality will require concentrated effort involving all sections of the society. The reason being that 1000 years of Gulami has made us extremely passive and even if we know that what is being told to us is correct, we tend to ignore it as change of passive attitude to less passive would require changes including changes in oneself and his/her values.
You may also like to read, and understand, verify, STATISTICALLY VERIFIABLE PARAMETERS:
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