(Peoples Voice on May 26, 2017)
by Ram Puniyani
The
RSS agenda of Hindu Rashtra draws heavily on the superiority of Aryan
race and greatness of Brahmanical values. The ideology constructed by
this organisation tells us that Aryans are the superior race. The whole
foundation of the concept of Hindu nation as the teacher-leader of the
World derives from twin and inseparable notions of the racial theory,
promoted by British and Brahmanism, clothed in the language of Hinduism.
This came to fore once again when the spokesmen of Garbh Vigyan Sanskar
(Uterus Science Culture), an offshoot of Arogya Bharati (health wing)
of RSS, committed to creating Uttam santati,
(Best Progeny) based on ancient Indian knowledge of Ayurveda outlined
their plans. The claim is that by following the proper instructions as
put together by this outfit; one can get the children, which are tall
and fair, despite their parents not being so.
RSS
has many wings one of them being Arogya Bharati (health wing). It has
devised meticulous plans for the couples to have a ‘perfectly customised
child’. This is what has been reported in the media recently. As per
the process devised by this outfit there is a period of three months of
‘shuddhikaran’ or purification for the parents. This means that the
timing of intercourse is decided by the positions of the ‘planetary
configurations’ and a period of abstinence once the baby is conceived.
This is to be followed by series of procedures and regulations in the
matters of diet in particular.
These
days lot of illogical understanding is easily passing the muster of
popular perception in the name of traditional knowledge. The extent of
this is the belief that ancient India had advanced plastic surgery
techniques, and great leaps in aviation science, including Pushpak Viman
(Aeroplane), the truth is that modern medical science has broken lot of
mysteries of the sconce of child bearing, growth and rearing. The
conception of child does not depend on the planetary configurations but
on the meeting of sperm with ovum, on and around the day of ovulation of
the female. The Hindutva ideology is bent to promote the faith-based
knowledge systems, undermining the immaculate researchers and gains of
modern science. Even earlier Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, in the previous
NDA regime had introduced changes in the educational curriculum by
introducing Paurohitya (Priest craft) and Karmakand (Ritualism). One of
the components of this was Putra Kameshti Yagna (ritual to get male
child), the performance of which should lead to the birth of a male
child. As per current knowledge, the sex of the baby is determined by
the male’s Y or X chromosome meeting the ovum and not by any other
influence which these rituals are supposed to influence.
The
health of the baby and its rearing has many components, which included
proper dietary supplements, regular exercises of the mother and good
nutrition and rearing of the child as she comes up in the society. The
growth of body, physical and intellectual is a long process of rearing
where the proper nutrition, games and intellectual stimuli, are the
foundation of the health of the child. In contrast here in this scheme
of things the planets, supernatural powers are projected as the main
players along with the recommended diet.
RSS
ideology has been inspired a lot from German Fascism not just in the
matters of concept of nationalism but also in the projection of Aryan
superiority. Being the World leaders-teachers as well is core part of
this ideology. So a superior race is necessary in this ideology. Germany
tried this in the form of eugenics. That experiment was a disaster.
Nazis had the program called “Lebensborn” (“Spring of Life”), which
aimed to create an Aryan master race. For this breeding of children of
pure Aryan race, some 8,000 children were born in Germany and around
12,000 in Norway as part of “Lebensborn” under the direct supervision
Nazi theoretician and leader, Heinrich Himmler. This encouraged women of
“pure blood” to bear fair-tall Aryan children.
The result was that most of such bred children did not grow on expected
lines. This horrendous scheme was central part of the inhuman racial
policy. This policy on one hand aimed at producing pure Aryan children
and on the other hand wanted to eliminate non-Aryans like Jews, 6
million of them were killed and the forced sterilisation of people with
hereditary diseases. This policy was harsh to non dominant people and to
people with different ability. Needless to say that even the theory of
race is totally discredited today and what we know is that we are all
mixed up people with origin of Human race located in South Africa.
It
is in this light that the statement of Tarun Vijay, (We have been
living with dark skinned people) is to be seen. This reveals RSS
understanding of white superior Aryans living with black South Indians.
As such major RSS ideologue M.S. Golwalkar had already prescribed for a
better race when he wrote, “now let us see the experiments our ancestors
made in this sphere. In an effort to better the human species through
cross-breeding the Namboodri Brahmanas [sic] of the North were settled
in Kerala and a rule was laid down that the eldest son of a Namboodri
family could marry only the daughter of Vaishya, Kshatriya or Shudra
communities of Kerala. Another still more courageous rule was that the
first off-spring of a married woman of any class must be fathered by a
Namboodri Brahman and then she could beget children by her husband.”
(Quoted in RSS journal Organiser, 2nd January 1962)
The
spokesmen of this program tell us that they have begun their work from
Gujarat, where nearly 450 babies have been born on these lines and now
they intend to spread their branches in different states by 2020 as
their work is already in progress in different states. What’s in store
for us is very clear from this plan of health division of Hindutva
fountain head. We need to harp only on rational scientific strategies in
our health planning.
