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http:\/\/bharatabharati.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/04\/alienated-indians-denying-their-own-roots-maria-wirth\/<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe British colonial masters had been successful in not only weaning away many of the elite from their ancient tradition but even making them despise it. It helped that the \u2018educated\u2019 class could no longer read the original Sanskrit texts and believed what the British told them. This lack of knowledge and the brainwashing by the British education may be the reason why many \u2018modern\u2019 Indians are against anything \u2018Hindu\u2019. They don\u2019t realize the difference between western religions that have to be believed (or at least professed) blindly, and which discourage if not forbid their adherents to think on their own and the multi-layered Hindu Dharma which gives freedom and encourages using one\u2019s intelligence.\u201d \u2013 Maria Wirth<\/p>\n This attitude is strange for two reasons. First, those educated Indians seem to have a problem only with \u2018Hindu\u2019 India, but not with \u2018Muslim\u2019 or \u2018Christian\u2019 countries. In Germany for example, only 59 percent of the population are registered with the two big Christian Churches (Protestant<\/a> and Catholic<\/a>), however, the country is bracketed under \u2018Christian countries\u2019. Angela Merkel<\/a>, the Chancellor, stressed recently the Christian roots of Germany<\/a> and urged the population \u2018to go back to Christian values\u2019. In 2012, she postponed her trip to the G-8 summit<\/a> for a day to address the German Catholic Day<\/a>. Two major political parties carry \u2018Christian\u2019 in their name, including Angela Merkel\u2019s ruling party.<\/strong><\/p>\n Germans are not agitated that Germany is called a Christian country, though I actually would understand if they were. After all, the history of the Church<\/a> is appalling. The so-called success story of Christianity depended greatly on tyranny. \u201cConvert or die\u201d, were the options given not only to the indigenous population in America some five hundred years ago. In Germany, too, 1200 years ago, the emperor Karl the Great<\/a> ordered the death sentence for refusal of baptism<\/a> in his newly conquered realms. It provoked his advisor Alcuin<\/a> to comment: \u2018One can force them to baptism, but how to force them to believe?\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Those times, when one\u2019s life was in danger if one dissented with the dogmas of the Church, are thankfully over. And nowadays many in the west do dissent and leave the Church in a steady stream \u2013 partly because they are disgusted with the less than holy behavior of Church officials<\/a> and partly because they can\u2019t believe in the dogmas<\/a>, for example that \u2018Jesus is the only way\u2019 and that God sends all those who don\u2019t accept this to hell<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n If Germany or any other western country had this kind of literary treasure, it would be so proud and highlight its greatness on every occasion. When I discovered for example the Upanishads<\/a>, I was stunned. Here was expressed in clear terms what I intuitively had felt to be true, but could not have expressed clearly. Brahman<\/a> is not partial; it is the invisible, indivisible essence in everything. Everyone gets again and again a chance to discover the ultimate truth and is free to choose his way back to it. Helpful hints are given but not imposed.<\/strong><\/p>\n In my early days in India, I thought that every Indian knew and valued his tradition. Slowly I realized that I was wrong. The British colonial masters had been successful in not only weaning away many of the elite from their ancient tradition but even making them despise it. It helped that the \u2018educated\u2019 class could no longer read the original Sanskrit texts and believed what the British told them<\/a>. This lack of knowledge and the brainwashing by the British education may be the reason why many \u2018modern\u2019 Indians are against anything \u2018Hindu\u2019. They don\u2019t realize the difference between western religions that have to be believed (or at least professed) blindly, and which discourage if not forbid their adherents to think on their own and the multi-layered Hindu Dharma which gives freedom and encourages using one\u2019s intelligence.<\/strong><\/p>\n Many of the educated class do not realize that on one hand, westerners, especially those who dream to impose their own religion on this vast country, will applaud them for denigrating Hindu Dharma, because this helps western universalism<\/a> to spread in India. On the other hand, many westerners, including Church people, very well know the value and surreptitiously appropriate insights from the vast Indian knowledge system<\/a>, drop the original source and present it either as their own or make it look as if these insights had been known in the west.<\/strong><\/p>\n If only missionaries denigrated Hindu Dharma, it would not be so bad, as they clearly have an agenda which discerning Indians would detect. But sadly, Indians with Hindu names assist them because they wrongly believe that Hinduism is inferior to western religions. They belittle everything Hindu<\/a> instead of getting thorough knowledge. As a rule, they know little about their tradition except what the British told them, i.e. that the major features are caste system and idol worship. They don\u2019t realize that India would gain, not lose, if it solidly backed its profound and all-inclusive Hindu tradition. The Dalai Lama said some time ago that already as a youth in Lhasa, he had been deeply impressed by the richness of Indian thought. \u201cIndia has great potential to help the world,\u201d he added. When will the westernized Indian elite realize it? \u2013 Jagobangla<\/a>, 11 May 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00bb\u00a0Maria Wirth is an author and has studied psychology at\u00a0Hamburg\u00a0University. She has lived in India 25 years. For more of her articles, go to the Life Positive website here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u092e\u093e\u0930\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0935\u093f\u0930\u0925 \u090f\u0915 \u091c\u0930\u094d\u092e\u0928 \u0938\u0948\u0932\u093e\u0928\u0940 \u0925\u0940 \u091c\u094b \u0915\u0941\u092e\u094d\u092d \u092e\u0947\u0932\u093e \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0928\u0947 \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 \u0906\u092f\u0940 \u0925\u0940 \u0914\u0930 \u092a\u091a\u0940\u0938… more <\/a>Though I live in India since long, there are still some points that I find hard to understand \u2013 for example why many educated Indians become agitated when India is considered as a Hindu country. The majority of Indians are Hindus. India is special because of its ancient Hindu tradition. Westerners are drawn to India because of it. Why then is there this resistance by many Indians to acknowledge the Hindu roots of their country<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>And here comes the second reason why the resistance to associate India with Hinduism by Indians is difficult to understand. Hinduism<\/a> is in a different category from the Abrahamic religions<\/a>. Its history, compared to Christianity and Islam was undoubtedly the least violent as it spread in ancient times by convincing arguments and not by force. It is not a belief system that demands blind belief in dogmas and the suspension of one\u2019s intelligence. On the contrary, Hinduism encourages using one\u2019s intelligence to the hilt. It is an enquiry into truth, based on a refined (methods are given) character and intellect. It comprises a huge body of ancient literature, not only regarding Dharma and philosophy, but also regarding music, architecture, dance, science, astronomy, economics, politics, etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Rajiv Malhotra<\/a> of Infinity Foundation<\/a> has done painstaking research in this field and has documented many cases of \u201cdigestion\u201d of Dharma civilization into western universalism. He chose the term digestion, as it implies that that which is being digested (a deer for example) is in the end no longer there, whereas the \u2018digester\u2019 (a tiger) becomes stronger. Similarly, Hindu civilization is gradually being depleted of its valuable, exclusive assets and what is left is called inferior.<\/strong><\/p>\n