| Awaken Bharata |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| THE IMPORTANCE OF KSHATRIYA DHARMA | |
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When the Kshatriya was defeated it was the duty of the other classes to join the Kshatriya to protect the country, a call that even Brahmins and Sanyasins took up in former times. This helped India resist many foreign invaders. However there came a tendency to blame the Kshatriya instead, which was only to give up the fight altogether, and inhibit the Kshatriya from rising again. A related factor was the degeneration of caste into clan alliances, which made the country easy to manipulate under a divide and conquer strategy. A fragmented society can be easily dominated by a united outside force. The same thing happened to Native American groups, who, divided by tribal alliances, were easily conquered by the Europeans by placing one tribe against another. Such old clan conflicts are often more deep seated than the problems imposed by a new invader. The same foreign invaders would eventually turn against the clans who had allied with them once their help was no longer necessary. Yet whatever the social complications that aided the decline of the Kshatriya, a spiritual and religious attitude against the Kshatriya arose that made it appear that a Kshatriya Dharma was opposed to the fundamental principles of Hinduism, which were of a spiritual nature only. |
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