Indic Religions Challenges for Survival

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Three forces Christianity, Islam, and the global left-all with an imperialist agenda, are trying to dominate the world. Each tries to suppress the other two. It is unfortunate that India is the battleground where all the three are competing and collaborating to crush the Indic religions, break the country and share the spoils. They have their strong constituencies among the Indian population, strongly opposed to Indian civilization. At present, the unifying forces in India face a mighty invasion at physical, intellectual and propaganda levels. If they lose now, the integrity of the country may be at stake.

The author, Dr. Aravinda Rao is a retired police officer who has been a teacher and writer on Vedanta after his retirement. He is also an observer of the global forces and their assaults on India on several fronts. The arguments in the present book include Vedanta alongside sociological observations.

India seems to be the last big battleground for civilizational India wars in which the two Abrahamic religions (AR, henceforth) wish to plant themselves by uprooting the last and longest living civilization which survived several invasions and genocides for the last thousand years. It shows the resilience of Indic religions and the untiring predatorial nature of the AR.

In this book, the term Abrahamic religions refers only to Christianity and Islam, but not Judaism, because Judaism does not have an agenda to conquer and convert. Indic religions (IR) are Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism.

The replacement of the Islamic empire by the British empire was an important turning point. Islamic rule had produced a bhakti movement as a defense mechanism and the British rule produced political nationalism and intellectual resolve to counter the false narratives.

Strangely, independent India lost the intellectual strength which was the main fighting and uniting force during the freedom struggle. Smugness, corruption, capitulation to dynastic rule and a false sense of liberalism came to dominate. The fundamental strength of the Indic civilization was forgotten, the governments failed to unite the people, but on the other hand, allowed the divisive forces to grow.

Globalization of religion has positive and negative consequences for Indic religions. Their philosophical strength and soft power are known throughout the world, and so are the fake narratives which are particularly the product of the western media.

The book is an analysis from the Indian perspective. The focus is on the ethical question whether a religion can impose itself on others or try to eliminate others. This is discussed from the perspective of Indian philosophical texts and the texts on dharma. The framework of sattva, rajas and tamas (the most ancient analysis of human nature and classification of personality types) is sometimes used to understand different societies.

The content is not radically new, but I reviewed several developments for the benefit of the common reader. It is intended more for the common Indian reader following an Indic religion (IR).

I have not written about the dangers to Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism separately because the threat which exists for Hinduism extends automatically to these three Indic religions. If Hinduism disappears others disappear simultaneously. The two predator religions cannot allow any other religion to live in peace. One group has no qualms in beheading and intimidating, while the other group instigates, harbors offenders, or castigates the state on false grounds. There is a third group, the left liberals, who are their courtiers and bards of the first two, flourishing for the time being, unmindful that they too would be consumed if the two groups succeed in their mission.

All of us interact with friends from all religions, in India or abroad. Most of us are not aware of the fundamentals of our own religion and fundamentals of other religions.