Hindu engineers ,doctors, businessmen should stop talking about Hinduism


Most of the people online defending Hinduism or even offline are bourgeois professional classes such as those mentioned in the title. Now the problem with this lot is that not only is their knowledge of Hinduism in general limited but their general arrogance due to their stature prevents them from correcting whatever mistakes they come across. We all make mistakes especially when it comes to vast and complex field of Vedic/Agamic religion, medicine, architecture, metallurgy,ethics,logic, symbology, mathematics,dance ,music,sculpture among various other facets which are all an integral part of the religion and despite secularist best efforts cant quite be divorced and compartmentalized from the divine. Mistakes are a learning process and admitting and recovering from errors is the journey of a scholar and seeker. Our Hindu chest thumpers are none of these. We have encountered Indians irrespective of religion or caste who wish to hold forth opinions on which they barely have any India. I saw a funny comment on quora who said that many people in India would criticize the U.S.A approach to immigration or assimiliation without even knowing the full form of U.SA or even be able to locate Mexico on a map. Many a foreign traveller was bemused when arguing with the Indians, the latter pulls out his trump card by saying that he has an MBA. So that by itself qualifies him on climate change, immigration, fundamentalism and a whole host of unrelated topics to his degree.
We are told with great pride by Hindutvas that Subhash Kak and N.S Rajaram are professors of mathematics and computer science at prestigious universities in the U.S. Well sure they seem like very intelligent and accomplished folk. But how does that make them authorities on Hindu history and culture. I am not saying that a person cannot have knowledge in multiple fields but in this era of exponentially expanding knowledge and hyper specialization it is rare to indeed to be a polymath with deep knowledge of various unrelated fields. I dont care for Michael Witzel, Sheldon Pollock , Romila Thapar or even Wendy Doniger's views but they have spent their entire life studying Sanskrit, Prakrit, Tamil, Kannada(in case of Pollock) ,Pali as well as Persian to analyze Indian history and Hindu texts. Meanwhile an online Hindu activists with an IT degree who remembers 5 or 6 shlokas from the Bhagvad Gita calls their learning into question. This is rather a joke.
The problem is Hindus rarely put their money where their mouth is and even Hindutva leaders themselves dont study Sanskrit or history in college. Manohar Joshi and Rajnath Singh have degrees in physics for instance. Their primary motivation is to get a job and make money. Nothing wrong with that obviously but it comes at a cost where an opportunity is lost to contribute to their heritage . And no reading some Hindutva blog and trolling secularists on Twitterdoes not make them learned in their culture.
But the main problem I have is that engineers et al are very literal minded people and hence do not quite understand the Vedic and Puranic dieties are archetypes and energy forces or representation of ideas. Too many actually believe that such being exist in precisely that form. Their thought process is binary and Abrahamic. And is unable to grasp the essence and subtleties of Agamic culture. They cant think of any other term but dichotomy -Vedic vs Puranic. Indo Aryan vs Dravidian. AIT vs OIT and nothing in between. The reality is generally more messy and complex which their compartmentalized mind cant understand. Furthermore a lot of these people are mildly or moderately autistic and are unable to read between the lines where much if not all of the essence of religion is found. Upanishad literally means come closer so that they esoteric knowledge of the Vedas would be revealed. I have the theory that this was meant for autistic and intuitively deficient Brahmanas of whom there were considerable , who werent able to figure out the proper interpretation of texts. Also as the number of Muslim doctors and engineers involved in terrorism has shown- technical education, autism and religion can make a terrible combination
What we need is more artists looking at Hinduism in a new light. But unfortunately artists are constantly being snatched up by secularists . And there is an increasing disconnenct between traditional art forms such as dance and music and art. Mostly because secularists like to spread the balderdash the Muslims patronized this and that and look at Bismillah Khan playing the shehnai in Varanasi! They wish to divorce art from Hinduism in order to further secularism and assimilaton of Muslims.(And Christians in the case of Yesudas singing praises of Rama). They have succeeded for the most part on both fronts. If Hinduism is to revive and thrive compared to ridiculous state it is in today, artists whether painters, sculptors, writers ,film makers if they are Hindu should take  a fresh look at its heritage for inspiration. Hinduism will get a new life and creativity will flourish and no longer we have to subsist of Baaghi or Singham part XVIII


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  1. Baaghi or Singham part XVIII:
    Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

    That aside, I did see the trailer of Baaghi 3 and it was hilariously stupid.

    Baaghi 1: Ronnie vs a building full of killers.
    Baaghi 2: Ronnie vs drug lords.
    Baaghi 3: Ronnie vs Syria.
    Baaghi 4: Ronnie vs coronavirus.

    Riteish Deshmukh: What is my role in this movie?
    Director: Nothing, just shout "RONNIIEEEEEEEEEEEE......"

    America: We have the strongest army.
    Russia: We have the strongest army.
    India: RONNIIEEEEEEEEEEEE......

    *Ronnie destroys Syria*
    America, Turkey, Russia, Iran: Do we look like a joke to you?

    Coronavirus response:
    China: Shuts down entire districts.
    Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong: Testing Testing Testing.
    Europe: Total shutdown.
    India: RONNIIEEEEEEEEEEEE......

    Baaghi 1: Against martial artists.
    Baaghi 2: Against mercenaries.
    Baaghi 3: Against a nation.
    Baaghi 4: Against Marvel and DC comics.
    Baaghi 5: Against Telugu actor Balakrishna.

    Genelia: What is your dialogue in Baaghi 3?
    Riteish: Ronniieeeeeeeeeeee......

    Baaghi 1: Girlfriend kidnapped.
    Baaghi 2: Daughter kidnapped.
    Baaghi 3: Brother kidnapped.
    Baaghi 4: Father kidnapped.
    Baaghi 5: Baaghi himself kidnapped.

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