| Awaken Bharata |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| THE IMPORTANCE OF KSHATRIYA DHARMA | |
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Mahatma Gandhi perhaps just brought to the ultimate conclusion a line of thought that had been developing in the country for some time. In some respects he began to reverse this trend because he insisted upon social activism for Hindus, including standing up against foreign rulers and their ideologies. However he combined his social activism with unrealistic spiritual principles, an absolute non-violence that inhibited a real awakening of Hindus on intellectual, social and political levels. Using a foreign invader to inflict damage on inimical clans and castes became a way to settle old scores without having to directly engage in the conflict. But it left the greater society weakened and divided. 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.Mahatma Gandhi perhaps just brought to the ultimate conclusion a line of thought that had been developing in the country for some time. In some respects he began to reverse this trend because he insisted upon social activism for Hindus, including standing up against foreign rulers and their ideologies. However he combined his social activism with unrealistic spiritual principles, an absolute non-violence that inhibited a real awakening of Hindus on intellectual, social and political levels. |
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