Vedic Rashtra / Rama Rajya Vedic Rashtra in an instrumentality for creating and sustaining the state
of society under the world-view described here as the Rama
Rajya. The creation of the Vedic Rashtra means neither harm to any
community nor appeasement of any group, community, sex or individual.
Creation of the Vedic Rashtra in Bharat is a matter of historical
exigency. The
ideological basis of the existing civilization is essentially sensate
(truth subjected to the testimony of sense organs), materialistic (an
irrevocable denial of divine purpose and the spiritual meaning of life),
nihilistic (reckless denial of everything worthwhile, meaningful,
intrinsic, transcendental and purposeful), technocratic (practically
making human dignity and freedom subservient to technology: man for
machine) and market oriented (man treated at par with goods, commodities,
objects: his value determined by the currency). Under the impact of its
poisonous thoughtways man is increasingly growing into a beast in terms of
his attitudes, feelings, interactions with his fellow-beings, and above
all, in his thinking: survival of the fittest. Stripped
of his human attributes, man is reduced to a mere competitor, a
money-maker, and worst of all, a robot. We are now witnessing a global
insanity; drive for death and an increasing desensitization as regards the
human feelings for the human beings. The psychological consequences are
de-humanized societies and cultures resulting in conflicts, wars, genocide
and mental and psychosomatic disorders. The
philosophy of Rama Rajya derived from the Vedas and the Upanishads,
counteracts this most destructive character of the existing civilization
because it increases the distance between man and the beast, which is
surely the goal of human evolution. The philosophy of Rama Rajya is
therefore essentially evolutionary, and powerful enough to avert the
crisis of our age, created by the anti-evolutionary forces. The
philosophy of Rama Rajya can effectively provide an alternative to
Dialectical Materialism of Marx. I call it Dialectical Idealism. It gives
us a wisdom contained in the Isa Upanishad. Hence, ‘the wise man, who
realizes all beings as not distinct from his own Self and his own Self as
the Self of all beings, does not by virtue of that perception hate
anyone’. LOVE, AND NOT HATRED, SHALL BE THE BASIS OF THE VEDIC RASHTRA. Bhavan’s Journal, April 2004 Prof. Moazziz Ali Beg |