How the Vedanta and mindless faith in it desensitizes the mind towards social crises and evils

Whenever the subject of casteism comes up and there is the allegation of Hindu scriptures sanctioning it or even contributing to it  or endorsing it, Hindu nationalists would have none of it as this comment would show.

When Hindu nationalists assert the innocence of Scriptures in the foisting of caste system on Indian society, they seem to imply only the Vedas and the Upanishads, conveniently forgetting or deliberately ignoring that Bhagavad Gita and Dhramasastras are also scriptures of the Vedic religion. 

While the fingerprints and imprints of casteist endorsement are all over Bhagavad Gita and Dhramasastras, what about the hallowed Vedanta?!!!

Now, for Vedanta to take a position on varna/jati, one way or the other, it needs to consider the material world and its warts or inequities as real. Doesn't it?!!!!!

When the material world and its concerns are considered as mere appearances and an illusion and the sole preoccupation and obsession is with the attainment of a state of abstracted void and nothingness where everything including the world, its cares and joys, mind, thought, subject, object, perception, knowledge, ignorance, feeling and emotion et al, are all to be given up and ‘transcended’, why should caste and its catastrophes matter at all?!!.  

Caste is just one more instance of ‘Avidya’ of the ‘deluded sense’!!!. 

Such being the delusional central and foundational attitude of Vedanta, it is futile to look for in it,any strictures against social evils. 

That the Advaita Vedanta (AV) has a philosophy and that it represents the zenith and the sublime essence of the best and greatest in Indian philosophy is an eternal ‘April Fool’s’ joke (that very few get it) and a tragic irony of all times.

Success of this so-called philosophy can be termed as one of the greatest Goebbelsian coups of religious propaganda ever achieved and sustained by Hindu/Brahmin intellectual elites of old and modern times.

AV has fooled even most of the rationalist intellectuals like Ambedkar(who saw in some of its parts what he chose to term as Brahmaism), Nehru and surprise of surprises! even EMS of the Marxist movement (this could have something to do with his soft corner for Adi Sankara as a ‘great son' of Kerala!!!)

Surely there must be critics who do not buy into the monumental nonsense of this extraordinarily inane, conceited and delusive religious creed of AV, but have not come forward to unequivocally denounce and condemn it.

Both MN Roy and VR Narla have rightly seen through all the smoke-screen and fog of the works of AV as an attempt of religious / intellectual aristocracy of its times to pull wool over the eyes of the masses and mislead them into a mindless chase of illusions and useless abstractions.

Just like Vedas would have probably died if not for the efforts of Mimansa Sutras and its hordes of Mimansakas from Jamini to Kumarila Bhatta, Upanishads and AV too would have perished and not hijacked the intellectual space of Indian culture, but for the evangelism of the false prophets like Badrayana, Adi Sankara and even Max Mueller, and the ignorance of Hindu middle classes,which keeps on providing it new leases of life.

The point that needs to be noted, but completely fails to register with the Hindu nationalist intelligentsia is that the knowledge claims of Vedas and Vedanta are bogus and spurious and that the later grafts on it and the spin of latter day theologians and apologists have been co-opted into its prevailing philosophy, which is uncritically accepted and revered by many Hindus and such delusional beliefs affect their perceptions while coming to terms with problems of social crisis of contemporary  Indian society and its resolution.