These
days we see BJP and its allies such as RSS often call that they
represent Hindus; however, the fact is that they represent only a
small section of people coming under Hindu Fold and that is Brahman.
Not all Hindus are Brahmanic Hindus and that is creating much
confusion in the minds of many people who are not well aware about
the differences in these two sections, Brahmanic Hindus and
Non-Brahman Hindus. In fact they are two different religions and not
one, the way it is depicted by Brahmanic groups belonging to RSS and
its allies.
In
my this post and following posts I shall describe the differences in
these two religions. There is common belief that Hinduism is only a
culture but my research shows that Hinduism is a religion and not a
culture at all. In this posting I show the religion part of Hinduism.
As for culture, there are many cultures, each for the region and they
differ so much that we cannot call them as one culture. We shall see
those different cultures after some time. For example, culture of
Punjab is totally different from that of Bengal and than of Tamilnadu
or Andhra or Kerala and so forth.
Given
below are differences in the two religions. Here I note that not all
Brahman by caste are Brahman by religion and those Brahman by cast
but not practicing Brahmanism behaves more like Hindus and at the
same time we also see that some Hindus by caste practice Brahmanism
and prefer to behave as per the terms of Brahmanism. This observation
can create confusion in the mind of the observer. So you have to be
careful while distinguishing them. Particularly those Hindus who are
influenced by Brahmanic organizations such as RSS, Vishwa Hindu
Parishad and Sanatan behave like Brahmanic Hindus.
1.
Hindus can worship any form of God (supposedly belonging to any other
religion also) while Brahman can worship only some specific forms of
Gods. Hindus can visit a Church, a Darga, a Masjid or any other place
of worship and put his/her prayer and offering to show respect to
that form of God. Brahman cannot even think of such liberty. Because
of this freedom often people of those religion try to influence
Hindus to convert them to that faith. Hindu can be a believer a non
believer, believer in one god, in many gods while a Brahman cannot be
a non believer. Hindu can take advise of a Brahman, a Mullah, a
Clergy or any priest from any religion and still he remains a Hindu
this is not possible for a Brahman. Often this liberal behavior of
Hindus is misunderstood by other people. Hindus are by natural
instinct secular in their approach to all religions. They are guided
by their traditions more than any scripture, we shall see more of
this later.
2.
Hindus eat non-vegetarian food and they offer such food to their
deities in prayers while Brahman is strictly vegetarian and offers
only veg food to their god in prayers. Brahman when called as priest
to perform a sacrament (puja) of a Hindu deity they insists for a veg
prasad or offering to that deity. Fasting (not eating food in the
name of God) and penance based on such methods is essentially of
Brahmanic origin and not Hindu; however, today we see Hindus indulge
in doing fasting under advise of Brahman priests. For Hindus only
Karma yoga is advised by Bhagwatgita and no physical penance. Hindus
need not do any fast. When a Hindu asks an advise about what they
should do to avoid any misfortune to a priest, obviously the advise
by that Brahman priest is not on the basis of Hindu tradition but
that of Brahman ritual and Brahmanic teachings; this has further
complicated the situation. One cannot blame the priest for not
advising on the basis of Hindu tradition since, they do not know
them. Hindu's ignorance of their Hindu tradition is responsible for
such confusion.
To
this there are exceptions amongst Smarta (Kashmiri), Saraswat from
Maharashtra and karnatak, Gouda Saraswat, Devandya Brahman from
Konkan and also Bengali Brahman, they accept non-veg food to eat but
never offer it to their deities. This is because these Brahman
communities are not followers of Adi Sankar. Only those Brahman who
follow order of Adi Sankar are strictly vegan.
3.
Hindus do not hate any other religion but believe in respecting it;
while Brahman hates all other religions, including Hinduism, and
spreads mischievous Mal-propaganda against them as always. See
literatures of RSS and such other legs of Brahmans. Brahmans
brainwash Hindus and make them hate other religions, this training is
the foremost objective of RSS, BJP, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajarang
Dal, Sanatan and more. Hindus foolishly listen to them and may even
react according to their poisonous teaching.
4.
Hindus have only six life observances namely, pregnancy celebration,
birth ceremony, name ceremony, marriage ceremony and last ceremony
and after death ritual called Shraddha. Some Hindus observe thread
ceremony also. Whereas Brahman has sixteen elaborated ceremonies
spread over the whole life, of course, nobody observes them at
present, not even the best of Brahman practicing priests.
This
study continues in next post.
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