belief in past-life karma as a reason to perpetuate caste-based divisions.

The idea and belief in past-life karma has effectively made the Indian Hindu people utterly devoid of sympathy, remorse, compassion, and mercy — and has made them feel they need not show any.

When they witness suffering and those who suffer, the Indian Hindu people simply conclude it is punishment for past-life karma, and on that basis show not the slightest sympathy, remorse, compassion, or mercy — nor do they feel any obligation to.

More often than not, the Indian Hindu people construct an excuse by forming the impression that those who suffer actually deserve even more suffering than what they are currently enduring —

— justified by the reasoning that each person must live out the consequences of their own karma.

Nor, for that matter, is there anywhere in the Indian Vedas, Puranas, or Upanishads any instruction or guidance to help the suffering or the poor.

The very absence of such instruction and guidance — to help the suffering and the poor — from the Vedas, Puranas, and Upanishads is itself likely a side effect and shadow of this belief in past-life karma.

This same belief in past-life karma is likely what has been used to keep lower-caste people in their place and to exploit them.

It is in precisely this way that this belief plays no small role in forcibly perpetuating and maintaining caste-based divisions.

In effect, this belief in past-life karma has turned an entire people into cruel spectators, misers, bystanders who do nothing, and people content to be colonized.

The fascists recognized this particular psychological condition of Indian Hindu society — drained of sympathy, remorse, compassion, and mercy by the belief in past-life karma — as fertile ground for hatred and envy.

And so today the fascists exploit this particular psychological condition of Indian Hindu society — emptied of sympathy, remorse, compassion, and mercy — for their politics of hatred, intolerance, and envy.

Indian Hindu society (North Indian society in particular), thus stripped of sympathy, remorse, compassion, and mercy, becomes nothing more than raw material for the fascist politics of hatred — raw material for riots and violence.

As a result of this belief in past-life karma, Indians — the Indian Hindu people — have become incapable of sympathy, remorse, compassion, or mercy toward the suffering and misery of any other people, on any matter in the world.

To such an extent: today’s Indian fascists have used this same belief in past-life karma to turn Hindu Indians into people who view and distance themselves from even their own fellow Indian communities with hatred and envy — transforming them into a society whose only possession is hatred, envy, and intolerance.

And further still: this same belief in past-life karma causes Indian fascists to feel threatened when they see people of other religions showing sympathy, remorse, compassion, and mercy — and drives them to go so far as to accuse those people of attempting religious conversion.