Vikas wrote:Pankajs,
What does Making it more "Abrahamized" mean ???
RSS has no monopoly over Hinduism nor they are the Vatican or Mecca of Hindus so why blame them.
RSS has been on the forefront of defending Hindu thought and way of life. Modi Ji unnecessarily gets all the muck despite him being the biggest defender of Dharma in modern time. He is modern day Swami Vivekananda and not Swami Dayanand.
The background from where Modi ji or RSS top brass comes, There is no chance that they would entertain any such thought.
I doubt anyone is looking at 'Abrahamizing' our Indic structures whatever that means.
Bring it in line with the "current" Abrahamic thinking in trying to fit within the bestern model. One God, one way, my way.
Example.
1. Sarbimala became a "Gender equality" issue for RSS. Search for the RSS's first reaction to SC verdict. Might surprise you. They simply used the bestern Abrahamic model on a core Indic issue.
2. Modi, IIRC, asked Army to stop all pashu bali across all units, at least the units that followed the Hindu tradition. Its been long time but it seems Gorkhas had a tradition of pashu bali on one occasion yearly. He got is shut down. It is strange if you think about it. It is NOT about animal slaughter because non-veg is regular part of meal in army so the pashu bali part must have ticked him off and he imposed his will on the units to shut it down.
3. The recent BHU controversy is not "Abrahamizing" Dharma studies but they way the RSS affiliated org approved the appointment of a Muslim scolar, it seems, they wanted to make a favorable impression on the "Liberal" crowd. This one allowance would have become the template for further forced entry into other sacred places. We do not seem to realize the danger in going with the flow mindlessly.
Now, some might say, suggest these are cosmetic issues but they are not. All three, for the people concerned, are core to their religious practice.
I am sure Modi/RSS have the best of intentions but it is abrahamic (
) saying goes "road to hell is paved with good intentions". We are so bombarded with bestern/abhramic ideas in our daily lives that we often unknowingly adopted many of its principles/ideas.
Also, I DO think Modi/RSS wants some kind of a command & control structure in place to "guide" the Hindus emulating the abrahamic to some extent.
1. Now that need not be wrong and some structure does need to be in place to share and co-ordinate activities across our regional silos. I would prefer such a structure evolve from ground up rather than be imposed from top.
2. It is also true that many rituals/customs need to be updated to serve the needs of the modern day Hindus but again I would prefer it to evolve from ground up rather be imposed top down. I am not against modernity but the core has to be preserved while the delivery can be modernized.
