Hinduism : Is It how It should be ?

Hinduism is the predominant religion of the Indian subcontinent, and one of its indigenous religions. The practices and philosophies, Hinduism includes a wide spectrum of laws and prescriptions of "daily morality" based on karma, dharma and societal norms. Hinduism is a conglomeration of distinct intellectual or philosophical points of view, rather than a rigid common set of beliefs.

Hinduism is formed of diverse traditions and has no single founder. Its direct absolute root is the historical Vedic religion of Iron Age India, so the Hinduism is often called as “Oldest living religion” or “Oldest living major religion”.

Hinduism is a term for a wide variety of related religious traditions native to India. Historically, it encompasses the development of religion in India since the Iron Age traditions, which in turn stretch back to the prehistoric religions such as that of the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilization followed by the Iron Age Vedic religion.

From the early days of civilisation, many civilisations came and collapsed but Indus Valley civilisation still exists.  It survived and travelled through journey of ages. It witnessed good time, bad time, invasion, blossoms and doom days. Indus valley civilization or so called Hindu dharma is not surviving   because of some special GOD/GODESS or some super natural power. The reason behind its survival is, its basics and flexibility to adapt and capability to change for good. It is not the rigidity that helped to survive Hinduism. There is no trace of the history of origin of Hinduism from the ages when no language developed, no scientific theories developed; even then Hinduism existed, practised, survived and progressed.

युनान-ओ-मिस्र-ओ-रोमा सब मिट गये जहाँ से  
अब तक मगर है बाकी नाम-ओ-निशान हमारा  
Such is our existence that it cannot be erased    
Even though, for centuries, the cycle of time has been our enemy)

How, a delightful and ravishing religion started stinking?

Complexity, miss representation, wrong interpretation and rigid &, orthodox views can be the common cause that turned the graceful religion in to a stinking institution. Real issue may be hiding behind these loud evils.  Strong desire to rule and clashes for getting power in hand has turned Hinduism in the way we see it now. Conditioning of mass by so called preachers of religion with no flexibility and fear of GOD at every then and now, wherever and whenever the interest of priest class is not served. Are Hindu God is to serve only the interest of priest class or power corridors of society. Are these self proclaimed protector and preachers of Hinduism got some remote to direct GOD on their will? They have moulded our thinking in a way that they are the representative anything they say might be written in religious text and hold for truth.

Tendency (wilfully/forcefully) to flaunt that we are very much religious is also stigmatic to Hinduism. We are pretty flexible if the religious practice is violating, if it’s not on social platform, but we are rigid if it’s on social platform. Eg . we can easily find people chewing tobacco, sometimes boozing even on fasting days and saying there is no grain in it .They are non vegetarian but can’t eat  chicken on Thursday or some other their beloved GOD/GODESS day .  These very same people will make tantrum and create drama when somebody eat beef or any young couple married inter caste. Hinduism in now days remained only to flaunt that you are religious and to satisfy the ego of society at large. Rigid inhumane practices as division of caste on the basis of their occupation further division of caste in to sub castes in form of Gotra.  They restrict sharing the micro culture and interaction among these castes and sub castes. Denied access of religious activity to deprived masses .If GOD said” That some class is born to serve some other class. A specific caste cannot participate and enjoy religious ceremony. Two persons cannot live together because they belong to different caste or same Gotra. I disown such GOD then.” The religion which aims the integrity of human beings, performing division in the practiser’s of religion itself. It is ironical but it’s a bitter reality. The so called restriction that is been practised in the society is just illogical even if it is written in some holy text, it is not acceptable. This all cannot be accepted, just in the name of old holy texts.

We cannot blame holy texts for this stinking stigma of Hiduism. Any intuition is only known by and for its representatives. It’s our representation or miss interpretation of these texts or better to say the miss advertisement of these texts to the masses resulted like this. We are so infused with our religion and with the thought that it can do well with society. We just cannot go against it, even if our mind does not agree. We are too obsessed/scared/ egocentric that we cannot imagine the criticism or allegation. We are always ready to say that, ”This is against the religion, how could you ?” When we prefer these bullish logic to defend the practices which cannot be justifies on humanitarian background. We ignore there have been some fantastic people who practiced Hinduism better than any preacher. Mahtma Gandhi was not a Brahmin , He fought against un-touchability , inequality . He is the one who coined the term Harijan . His principle of non violence and truth are the core of Hinduism. His belief in God and the principle and practice of Gita was a true reflection of what Hinduism is about. He was neither a Brahmin nor a preacher and also not belong to the savrana varga (upper caste) of manu smruti .   The social reformers like raja Ram Mohan rai , Sant kabir , Sant Ravidas and MeeraBai and so many all are true practices of Hinduism . Hinduism is not a religion it’s a tradition. The tradition from Indus valley civilization to aryans vedic period  invasion periods , pre British era and modern era . Everyone across the river sindhu belongs to this tradition is Hindu . We don’t need to wear that holy thread or inchants mantras and put too much vermilion on forehead to be Hindu . To understand and practice Hindu we just need to respect mankind. Every GOD and Godess in Hinduism is associated with some element of nature and an animal to pay our respect and fulfil our duty and responsibility towards nature and animals. Hinduism is about to welfare and development of society in totality not in individuality.