11-16-2005, 12:58 PM
Has this been posted before ?
http://voiceofdharma.com/indology/Ilaiah.html
Its a critique of Kancha's book "Why I am not a Hindu".. Some of the quotes from the book are pretty hilarious..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Baapana children pick up the inhumanness of Hindu religion quite easily. They are taught that those who love and work with soil are sub-humans; that those who eat meat are mean and so on. In imparting those venomous ideas, the Brahmin mother also plays a major role along with the father-teacher who teaches Veda. So much so that their children are prevented from loving the soil and the people. Day in and day out, the Brahmin ladies never spare any effort in moulding their children into beasts in the later years.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Baapana = Brahmin. Another one..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Brahmins needed to project a person who could rebuild a consent system to contain the Yadava revolts. The Brahmins created an image of one who was said to have been born and brought up among the Yadavas themselves. They worked out the strategy of creating a Krishna who was born in a Kshyatriya family and brought up in a Yadava family. The young Krishna grows up in a Yadava culture, but the political Krishna never identifies himself with Yadava culture. In no single incident did he stand by the Dalit Bahujans. It did not matter whether his beloved was a Yadava-Radha, or whether the other Gopikas were Yadavas. All his legal wives were Kshatriya women.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
and this one is the ultimate..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The fight was between the minority Pandavas (Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaisyas were always a minority - they constitute 15% of the population) and the majority Kauravas. The hundred Kauravas stood against Brahminical Dharma and represented Dalit bahujans, whereas the five Pandavas represented the Brahminical minority. In the fight for land (and for the kingdom) Krishna stands by the minority. The majority were not willing to give up the land they acquired through sweat and blood.
Finally, Krishna resorts to violence. After the defeat of the majority in struggle for land, the Gita was used to create a much stronger consent system to ensure that no serious revolts emerged from the Dalit bahujan social base.
Whenever such attempts were made, either by Yadavas or by other Dalit forces, Krishna's Gita was effectively used to manipulate them into submission.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This guy is unbelievable. Now to think that this guy complains of somebody hating him.. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /><!--endemo-->
http://voiceofdharma.com/indology/Ilaiah.html
Its a critique of Kancha's book "Why I am not a Hindu".. Some of the quotes from the book are pretty hilarious..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Baapana children pick up the inhumanness of Hindu religion quite easily. They are taught that those who love and work with soil are sub-humans; that those who eat meat are mean and so on. In imparting those venomous ideas, the Brahmin mother also plays a major role along with the father-teacher who teaches Veda. So much so that their children are prevented from loving the soil and the people. Day in and day out, the Brahmin ladies never spare any effort in moulding their children into beasts in the later years.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Baapana = Brahmin. Another one..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Brahmins needed to project a person who could rebuild a consent system to contain the Yadava revolts. The Brahmins created an image of one who was said to have been born and brought up among the Yadavas themselves. They worked out the strategy of creating a Krishna who was born in a Kshyatriya family and brought up in a Yadava family. The young Krishna grows up in a Yadava culture, but the political Krishna never identifies himself with Yadava culture. In no single incident did he stand by the Dalit Bahujans. It did not matter whether his beloved was a Yadava-Radha, or whether the other Gopikas were Yadavas. All his legal wives were Kshatriya women.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
and this one is the ultimate..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The fight was between the minority Pandavas (Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaisyas were always a minority - they constitute 15% of the population) and the majority Kauravas. The hundred Kauravas stood against Brahminical Dharma and represented Dalit bahujans, whereas the five Pandavas represented the Brahminical minority. In the fight for land (and for the kingdom) Krishna stands by the minority. The majority were not willing to give up the land they acquired through sweat and blood.
Finally, Krishna resorts to violence. After the defeat of the majority in struggle for land, the Gita was used to create a much stronger consent system to ensure that no serious revolts emerged from the Dalit bahujan social base.
Whenever such attempts were made, either by Yadavas or by other Dalit forces, Krishna's Gita was effectively used to manipulate them into submission.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This guy is unbelievable. Now to think that this guy complains of somebody hating him.. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /><!--endemo-->