One cannot criticize a religion called Sanatana Dharma.
One cannot create religious hatred by speaking against a religion called Sanatana Dharma.
Why?
Because there is no religion called Sanatana Dharma.
Because one cannot, and need not, speak against something that does not exist.
This person does not carry religion in a way that carries hatred toward another religion.
When something that doesn’t exist is made to seem as if it exists, and hatred, enmity, riots, and mob lynchings are created all over the country to open a path to power, and when justifications are found to hold on to that power firmly — that non-existent thing must be uprooted precisely by saying that it is indeed non-existent.
There is no use confronting or cutting away only the leaves on the branches (trivial branch-level issues).
When, in the name of Sanatana Dharma’s non-existent tolerance and broadmindedness, only narrowness and intolerance are created; when, purely to play politics with power, violence and riots are unleashed; when cruelty and deceit are practiced; when riots are let loose — that Sanatana Dharma must be destroyed precisely by saying it has no foundation at all.
Isn’t it the root from which something must be dealt with, from which it must be eliminated?
This is not, therefore, hatred toward another religion.
Because there is no religion such as “Sanatana Dharma religion” or “Hindu religion,” one cannot create hatred toward another religion by criticizing it.
One cannot create hatred toward another religion by opposing Sanatana Dharma.
The word “sanatana” may be used, and may have been used, in many places, the way many words in a language are used.
Not just the word “sanatana” — hundreds of thousands of words have been used in various forms in various places like this.
None of that is proof that a religion exists bearing those words.
None of that amounted to creating or introducing a religion under the name of those words.
What is meant is not whether the word “sanatana” appears rarely in some texts or Vedas.
It may occur, however rarely.
What is meant is that the term “Sanatana Dharma,” or the introduction of a religion called Sanatana Dharma, or the giving of prescriptions of Sanatana Dharma, does not exist in any Gita, Purana, Veda, or Upanishad.
No Rama, no Krishna, no Buddha introduced a religion called Sanatana Dharma.
No such religion, religious concept, way of life, life-system, guideline, or model code precisely and clearly as“Sanatana Dharma” exists — not in the Buddha, not in Rama, not in Krishna.
That is exactly what this person is trying to say…
And yet, in the name of this Sanatana Dharma religion — which exists nowhere, which has no definition or fixed form, and which was fabricated only recently — idols, superstitions, malpractices, worship rituals, offerings, priests (tantris), and collection boxes have all come into being to exploit the people.
Think about it:
What Hindu culture is?
What Sanatana culture is?
Shouldn’t “Hindu” itself need to exist, need to be there?
Shouldn’t “Sanatana Dharma” itself need to exist, need to be there?
If “Hindu,” “Hindu religion,” and “Sanatana Dharma” don’t exist, then how can there be a Hindu culture, how can there be a Sanatana culture?
What existed, and exists, is only a culture of living.
A culture of living that has no name for what it is or isn’t,
unbound,
never called “Hindu,”
never called “Sanatana Dharma” by anyone.
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Why do so many Nairs, Namboodiris, Menons, and Nambiars unleash a politics of hatred for the sake of “sanatana” and Hindutva?
Why do so many Nairs, Namboodiris, Menons, and Nambiars become followers of Hindutva politics, followers of the BJP and RSS?
Why do so many Nairs, Namboodiris, Menons, and Nambiars become anti-reservation?
Why do so many Nairs, Namboodiris, Menons, and Nambiars keep complaining about losing “sanatana” and Hindutva, about the implementation of reservation?
Why do these anti-reservation Nairs, Namboodiris, Menons, and Nambiars end up being followers of the BJP and RSS?
There is exactly one reason.
They are the ones who enjoyed comfort and privilege in the name of “sanatana,” “Hindu,” and Hindutva.
If “sanatana” and Hindutva are lost, it is they who stand to lose.
The rest — the lower castes — are, today and always, their victims.
Because they are certain, deep down, that the BJP and RSS are a party and organization intent on undermining reservation.
They are the ones who have, throughout history, eaten the bread of power.
Even today, they are the ones who continue to enjoy, under the name of government jobs, more than their fair share of that bread of power.
They cannot bear even the slightest dent to that continued enjoyment (which they ensure will reach even their grandchildren) — whether in the name of reservation or in the name of any other progress.
Therefore, they will smoothly act out and carry out every devious strategy needed to create religious bigotry and riots, and to use lower-caste people for the sake of those riots.
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