| Awaken Bharata |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| THE IMPORTANCE OF KSHATRIYA DHARMA | |
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leaders followed a long tradition including Shivaji, Ranjit Singh,
Rana Pratap, and such avatars as Rama and Krishna, who took up arms
to defend the Dharma. Aurobindo also supported the allied cause
against Hitler in World War II and the American cause against the
communists in the Korean War, which were quite ungandhian positions.
This was not because his mentality was unspiritual. He knew the
circumstances in which non-violence could work and those in which it
would be self-defeating.
This was because he himself came from a Kshatriya background and never lost the common sense of that class. Gandhian non-violence, however, like his asking of the Jews to offer themselves to Hitler's furnaces in order to melt Hitler's heart, however idealistic, lack common sense and clearly can lead to disaster. Absolute non - violence is no more appropriate for everyone than are monastic rules like celibacy or complete renunciation of family and possessions. To impose an artificial standard of non-violence on a society as a whole undermines the Kshatriya Dharma, or the political Dharma, and can damage the social order. Not upholding the Kshatriya Dharma, it can undermine the will of a people to defend itself and weaken its sense of community identity. Those who have families and homes have a natural instinct to defend them when attacked. |
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