A nation with harmony in the society. It was only after 1857 when we have evidence of communal violence in the name of religion, only when the then colonial rulers adopted the policy of 'divide and rule'. Although we have evidence of stratification of society in the name of caste even before 1857 also.
In
fact if we will look at the history we have evidences of divide in society in
the name of Varna system (caste system) when our society was divided into four
Varna i.e. Brahmins, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra. The origin of this divide
is generally traced to the "Purusha Sukta" verse of the Rig Veda, but
this divide was on the basis of work done by an individual, it was not
hereditary in nature as it is today. Hence it was only after the vedic period
when this was wrongly interpreted and made hereditary. And the consequences of
such wrong interpretation is this that later on society divided themselves in
such a way that it kept on weakening century after century. And it was this
divided and weak society that made it vulnerable and facilitated infiltrators
to attack on this land again and again. It was this divided and weak society
which facilitated the foreign rulers to rule this nation one by one.
As
I said it was only after 1857 when the Hindu-Muslim cleavage started growing
which ultimately divided the nation into two parts. Before that social
stratification on the basis of caste system was making this land hollow because
of which this land was divided into many princely states. Hence this divide on
the basis of religion and caste has given us only violence and disintegration
of the nation. And this all because of the wrong interpretation of Rig Veda
which is considered as 'shruti' and 'apurushy', it was contaminated through
wrong interpretation. The consequences of such wrong interpretation is this
that once the womb of religion which gave birth to various religion like
Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and so on, which taught the whole world the lesson of
tolerance, universal acceptance, non-violence, truth, compassion, love and
humanity, has themselves divided in such a way that there is violence in the
name of religion and caste, there is lack of justice, compassion, love and
human values.
The
feeling of caste and religion has been inculcated in the youths of this country
in such a way today that they can't think beyond that, the feeling of religion
and caste has become nationalism for them. Once the wrong interpretation of Rig
Veda divided us by few people for their own convenience, Second the British
colonial rule divided us in the name of Hindu-Muslim to rule this country and
now again a new force has emerged in the last few years who have adopted the
same most proven and convenient policy of divide and rule to rule this country
again. Considering the fact that we are already a vulnerable society in which
the caste system has already divided us and we have seen the devastating
consequences of such divide in the past but still we are not taking lessons from
the past, it is really painful and pessimistic. Although an attempt was made to
overcome this divide when a constitution was made with secular ethos and to
bring the whole society all together and to dilute the cleavage of the caste
system but unfortunately the divisive forces are attacking this constitution
also nowadays. Although this constitution has been wrongly interpreted earlier
also, it is not only this government who is doing it for the first time rather
it has been done earlier also.
Divide
in society in the name of religion and caste will make us weak as a nation and
will put sovereignty in danger as it has happened in the past. The mistake
which has been made in the past, we can't afford to repeat it again. So far the
people who have ruled us have utilised this divide as an apparatus to come in
power and for polarizing society for votes. And we the fools of this country
instead of taking lessons with the paste easily become the prey of such
divisive forces. Hence this caste system which is actually the result of wrong
interpretation of Rig Veda should not be the element of discord in society
further, it has been deliberately developed to divide us to achieve some
political ambition and it is our duty to overcome this divisive element of caste
system through understanding it carefully in the context of social harmony and
prosperity of this nation. Similarly the religion is an individual affair and
should be allowed to be individual only, it should not be the reason for
division in society and social disharmony.
Since
God had made us human beings irrespective of religion, race and caste, with the
feeling of compassion and empathy, it was we who dug our own grave by dividing
themselves in the name of religion, race and caste. Hence it is very important
to understand that this divide can give us only social violence, injustice,
hatred and disintegration and the forces which are creating such divides are
actually the enemy of the whole humanity. It is the time to take lesson with
the past and integrate yourself for the peace and prosperity of this nation
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