| Awaken Bharata |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| THE IMPORTANCE OF KSHATRIYA DHARMA | |
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foreign Kshatriya was replaced after the independence of the country, not with an authentic Hindu
or Indian Kshatriya, but with a government dominated by leftist and foreign ideological influences,
only a home made version of foreign rule, with intellectual slavery continuing after the
gaining of political freedom. The failure of Hindu society to produce an
adequate Kshatriya
caused Hindus of Kshatriya temperament to abandon their religion for
Islam or leftist movements, which better honor the Kshatriya or
military - political mind (but unfortunately are deficient in the
spiritual and yogic side to make this Kshatriya action truly
Dharmic).
This took the Hindu Kshatriya vitality and gave it to anti-Hindu forces. Hindus were not only ill prepared to fight foreign invaders but managed to lose the support of many of their own defenders and had to fight against them as well, as these groups came under the influence of anti-Hindu sentiments. This self-alienated Hindu Kshatriya remains a major problem in India today. Some have blamed the failure of the Indian Kshatriya on Buddhism, which unlike Hinduism did not have a clear social or Kshatriya Dharma and was more monastically oriented. They claim that a Buddhist influence eroded the Kshatriya Dharma in India, causing not only kings to give up their thrones in the example of the Buddha, but warriors to give up their will to fight. Buddhism has no Mahabharata, Arjuna or Yudhishthira, they say, who honor a Dharmic war. However Buddhism in other countries, like China and Japan, was taken up by the local Kshatriya and adapted to their conditions and no fanatical non-violence is found among them. |
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