12-21-2006, 12:44 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In Chauriberhampur village, on the outskirts of Kendrapada town,
Dalits built their own Shiva temple in April after being denied entry
into the local temple.
They appointed a Brahmin as priest at their temple and allow people
from upper castes to enter and worship.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think this is how Hinduism acts, slowly and over a span of generations. As a community becomes more Hinduized, it builds its own temples, and as its own status rises with respect to other communities, they patronize its temples, and in return, it is allowed to enter their temples.
Hinduism today is having to deal with different kinds of forces:
1. A very intrusive legal code, which forces existing communities to allow everyone into temples, who calls himself a Hindu.
2. A very impatient westernized non-local Hindu population, which seeks to mobilize Hindus without accounting for their differences.
We simply aren't willing to allow the processes to Hinduism to work their logic. They are too slow for our tastes and our idealism.
Dalits built their own Shiva temple in April after being denied entry
into the local temple.
They appointed a Brahmin as priest at their temple and allow people
from upper castes to enter and worship.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think this is how Hinduism acts, slowly and over a span of generations. As a community becomes more Hinduized, it builds its own temples, and as its own status rises with respect to other communities, they patronize its temples, and in return, it is allowed to enter their temples.
Hinduism today is having to deal with different kinds of forces:
1. A very intrusive legal code, which forces existing communities to allow everyone into temples, who calls himself a Hindu.
2. A very impatient westernized non-local Hindu population, which seeks to mobilize Hindus without accounting for their differences.
We simply aren't willing to allow the processes to Hinduism to work their logic. They are too slow for our tastes and our idealism.