The Hindu religion is thousands of years old, and still they have not changed their scriptures to remove all that bigotry against the low caste people.
Expressing serious concern over continued practice of untouchability across the country, National Commission for Scheduled Castes on Tuesday said it was talking to religious leaders to seek deletion of ‘objectionable and derogatory’ references to Dalits in religious scriptures. **Citing several references from the religious scriptures, chairman of the Commission Suraj Bhan said all these references were ‘promoting untouchability’ and negating the Constitution which ensures equality and social justice to every citizen of the country. **
Suggesting that scriptures containing derogatory remarks about Dalits should come out with new editions deleting such remarks, Suraj Bhan said the Commission has sought the blessings of Shankaracharya Swami Awdeshanand who had assured them full cooperation in eradicating the social evil. “We are also approaching other Shankaracharyas, as per the suggestion of Swami Awdeshanand, and would soon organise meetings in various states and at panchayat level to apprise them about Dalits’ rights,” he said. Asked about the threat issued by Hindu Mahasabha chief Dinesh Tyagi to approach Human Rights Commission against the SC, Suraj Bhan said he doesn’t think that fight against untouchability would weaken the Hindu community. “As far as the Commission is concerned, it would continue to agitate against the discriminatory caste system,” he said.
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I wonder, why they have divided God into so many things(agni, jal waghaira waghaira), If they say ki these things are God then why do they worship parts of God. why not only one God, In geeta, there is written a line that God has got no image , but they till worship idols.
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Can anyone shed some light on how the caste system found it's way into the religion. Cuz I thought Budhism (the parent religion of Hinduism) was founded on the basis of equality and compassion.
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No problem to delete any kind of derogatory remarks against dalits. Constitution of India has already rejected the discrimination.
This Suraj Bhan must strenghen the agitations and new editions will come out without such remarks. Hindus are not stubborn idiots unlike many others who stick to all outdated patterns.
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Good question. But why have Hindu scriptures not been changed to get rid of the caste system, which is still being used to justify discrimination and persecution of hundreds of millions of low caste Hindu’s in India.
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other way around…Hinduism is the parent religion of Buddhism.
to answer your question, there have been mentionings of a general caste system in the earliest of scriptures. however, it wasn’t until much later that the concept of birth-based caste and caste discrimination was added to the “religion” in the form of Smirtis - authored by corrupt Brahmins. it is these latter “scriptures” that you people refer to.
however, even these additional scriptures are not regarded as holy or divine by virtually any hindus, save for certain brahmin communities. most anti-Hindu people will cite the book Manusmirti when pointing out discriminatory passages…the Manusmirti was once a rulebook for ancient India, not a holy scripture. it was authored by a Brahmin named Manu, nobody believes it was the word of God. needless to say, this book is not used or revered by anybody. it is unfortunate that in rural areas, the practices from that time period persist.
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Castism is a traditional problem, and may continue for many-many years to come. But the question is if Hindus are ready to remove the derogatory remarks....yes they will not oppose it.
Reason-they are not stubborn idiots who unlike many others will stick to all outdated patterns.
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Lets face it hinduism compromises because it has no political system at all that is why it compromises all the way with capitalism, and this in turn reduces hinduism to nothing in the real world except a set of rituals.
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hinduism is a very confused relegion in itself, the pandit or the guru of their relegion himself doesnot know to whom he is worshiping to,
if he needs water he need to turn to some one with 5 head and if he need fire he need to bow to fire, if he wants children he need to walk miles to bow to some statue, and these statues can neither benefit nor make any loss to any one,
evry thing is fake and a storyy created by man!!.
hinduism is the most unclean relegion i have ever seen.!
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The evils of the caste system, yet no Hindu will come forward and say their scriputures have to be changed to take out references against the low castes, and the persecution continues.
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you know the problem and you know where it is originated
now they are all integrated in to india
The Vedic people entered India about 1500 BC from the region that today is Iran. The word Vedic describes the religion of these people and the name comes from their collections of sacred texts known as the Vedas. The texts date from about the 15th to the 5th century BC and were used for sacrificial rites which were the main feature of the religion.
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ha ha they found dalits when they migirated to india now they dont look like
what they used to look like when they were in iran .
group of warrior nomads, the Aryans, began to migrate into the Indus Valley region around the time that the Harappan Civilization began to decline. Scholars disagree about whether the Aryans overtook the Harappan Civilization by force, or simply moved in and coexisted with them during their decline. Regardless, the nomadic Aryans were predominately a cattle-breeding society, and they learned how to live as settled agriculturists from the remaining Harappan people. Therefore, the Aryans absorbed remnants of the Harappan Civilization and integrated them into their own culture to form the Vedic culture. Since the Indus Valley Civilization left no written records, the nature of the transition from the Harappan culture to the resulting Vedic culture is that much more a mystery.
There are several possible arguments against the idea of Aryan invasions. According to the invasion theory, the Aryans were a group of primitive nomads who came out of Central Asia with chariots, iron weapons, and superior battle tactics; and thus overthrew the Indus Valley culture. http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/India/AryanMig.html