Religionism as Intellectualism

Religionism overweighed postcolonial intellectualism and drove them to the absurd extreme to deploy secularism to cater to the religions. And, as such, academia and professional intellectuals in the main remained hostile to the spirit, forms, and practices of dharma, i.e, the mindful viewing of being. In place of knowing and practising dharma, they paid obeisance to creeds and dogmas. They mistook doctrines as principles, indoctrination as education, diktats as laws, and as such diminished life in a way that such vital contradistinctions as between sanity and insanity turned indistinguishable. Their constructions, mental and material, collapsed within decades under their own weight of incongruities, and now we sit on the heaps of debris everywhere. They are still well-ensconced and mock the people in distress. They continue to play their loud orchestra in order to drown the voices of logic and rationality.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Religion

Religion is an inevitable part of our being as it speaks for our nowhereness. Religionism is appropriation of religionness. In India, till the onset of medieval times, the sages subjected religions to dharma and kept religionism under check. Mind ruled and it was not otherwise; religion was  subjected of mindfulness, it was not otherwise.

Religionism remains the original and continual fount of totalitarianism. It often manifests itself in secular language too as in Plato, Hegel, or Marx. Also, though exceptionally, it is firm believers who defy religionism. Gandhi is such a person, who remained a man of the soil despite he always looked at sky. 

 

Niraj Kumar Jha