A brief note from my Facebook wall of a few minutes ago (approx 11am IST), 11th December 2014:
We do not profess (or belong to) any religion, only Ways of Life within the meaning of the Constitution of India.
We do not profess (or belong to) any religion, only Ways of Life within the meaning of the Constitution of India.
We salute the Spirit of the Constitution of India.
Individuals from amongst us are free to convert to any religion, be it Islam, Christianity, Buddhism (which wasn't intended to be a religion), etc. etc. etc.
But conversions to any of these religions, along with the implications of the personal laws (primarily governing property), of each of these religions, interferes with the Right to Equality that the Constitution of India guarantees each individual.
For example, when a tribal converts to Hinduism, the unconstitutional aspects of (Patriarchal) Hindu Family Law are often brought to play on the entire family.
Societal arrangements such as according primacy to a patriarchal system adversely impact the rights of women, as the Rights of Women have come to be first viewed as the rights of married women, while on a level playing field, as it were, the rights of a female would be the rights of a girl, a girl-child, and a single woman.
(In fact, in a counter-logical sort of way, it should be noted that the concept of declaring Dowry to be an Evil, is, in fact, a move towards the extinguishment of the property rights of women)...tribal societies do not have the dowry-problem, but the influence of Hinduism is bringing this evil into tribal society, this has been confirmed to me on innumerable occasions at innumerable tribal villages.
-shruti
Edited the next day (12th Dec.), to add the following paragraph:
...i have personally, throughout my life, tried to work towards highlighting the highly sophisticated world-view of the pre-religious/non-religious ways of tribals...of recognizing the forces of nature...such as gravity, magnetism, electro-magnetism etc. and how this plays out in all life-forms and ecosystems, and the inter-connectedness of Biodiversity (which includes not only life-forms but also ecosystems)...a sort of scientology + humility + ethics. (ie., minus the egoism of modern science which assumes it knows everything (or that's how the propaganda comes across), and also minus the often inhuman and inhumane nature of modern science in the context of ethics vis-a-vis experimentation).
-shruti
Edited the next day (12th Dec.), to add the following paragraph:
...i have personally, throughout my life, tried to work towards highlighting the highly sophisticated world-view of the pre-religious/non-religious ways of tribals...of recognizing the forces of nature...such as gravity, magnetism, electro-magnetism etc. and how this plays out in all life-forms and ecosystems, and the inter-connectedness of Biodiversity (which includes not only life-forms but also ecosystems)...a sort of scientology + humility + ethics. (ie., minus the egoism of modern science which assumes it knows everything (or that's how the propaganda comes across), and also minus the often inhuman and inhumane nature of modern science in the context of ethics vis-a-vis experimentation).
-shruti
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