Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupad
Hindus are also responsible for the weakening of *Vedic Sanatana Dharma* ( Hinduism). In this regard, I wish to note the following, based on the teachings of Paramacharya Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Swamy, the greatest Vedic authority of recent times:
1. Hinduism survived even the onslaughts of invaders like Mughals and British because Hindus faithfully adhered to Vedic dharma , despite all difficulties .
2. The religion suffered, when Brahmins who are the traditional maintainers of the Vedas, gave up their traditional vocation and opted for financially rewarding modern jobs. The anti-vedic western education system had corrupted both Brahmins and other Hindus. Other Hindus started insulting and isolating the Brahmins. On their part, the Brahmins became greedy and desperate. The for the Vedic education, reduced drastically . The traditional *Veda teaching schools* ( Veda patashalas) ceased to exist, gradually .
Abolishing of traditional Veda-teaching schools
I am not bothered about the personal traits or beliefs of Nehru and Ambedkar . What I am stating is the harm they did to Hinduism. While they provided rigid constitutional protection to the institutions and practices of non-Hindu religions, such a constitutional protection was denied to Hindu-religion.This encouraged authorities and people to seize and corrupt Hindu institutions and ancient Vedic scriptures.
Nehru declared boldly , "The spectacle of what is called Religion, or at any rate organized religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests''.
But, as the Prime Minister of India , he cleverly exempted Christianity and Islam, from his above rule.
In his eagerness to root out the Vedas, Nehru went out of his way in encouraging government's archaeological departments to collect all the available palm-leaf Vedic transcripts from Vedic scholars assuring safe-archiving. Later, all those sacred manuscripts were rejected as "waste" and destroyed .Christians were allowed to freely operate Church-based religious schools and Muslims were permitted to run Madrasas. But Nehru-Governments seized control of Hindu institutions and abolished the traditional Vedic schools .
Confusion about the Vedas
As rightly pointed out by Rameshji, there are always confusion about the confidential Vedas . It is believed that only about 6% of the Vedas are available now . Even to understand that , we need the help of trained Vedic scholars . In the present age ( Kali-yuga) , it is not easy to find such experts or AchAryas .
Relevance of Vaishnavism
Some people say that, the term *Vaishnavism* is not mentioned in the Vedas . The term *Hinduism* too is not mentioned in the Vedas . It is the modern name of *Sanatana Vedic Dharma* . Vaishavism is nothing but the *Bhagavatha-dharma* based on Srimad Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatham.
Bhagavan Sri Krishna had anticipated all the present-day problems, well in advance . Before His departure, Bhagavan had put in place necessary Vedic-measures to ensure the *dharmic-wellbeing* of His Bhaktas. In recent times, Bhagavan Himself has provided us Vedic-updates like *Gita-govindam* and *Narayaneeyam* . Also Bhagavan has sent to us AchAryas like Sri Ramanuja, Sri Madhava and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Vaishanvism is firmly based on the above said updated Scriptures and the teachings of the divine AchAryas . Such a focused Vedic-practice, is not available in other paths of Hinduism. Therefore, Vaishnavism remains now, as the purest Vedic-religion.Numerous Bhaktas are able to attain Krishna-realization, by practicing Vaishnavism .
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