Secularism – A leash or shackle in Bharat’s neck? Epilogue

Imagine a hypothetical scenario. An unknown player has a nuclear bomb that it wants to use against a specific religious society.

Who will be the intended target and who will respond to the attack if the nuke is dropped on –

• Jerusalem

• Vatican

• Mecca

• Buddha Gaya

• Varanasi (or one of the many Hindu sacred sites)

How the response of say a secular USA differ from that of another secular nation India or Jewish Israel or an Islamic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or Communist China in  each of the above scenario?

Would a secular India nuke the perpetrator when a nuclear bomb is dropped on Mecca? What happens to the entitlement of Indian Muslims, who make 15% of Indian population, over India’s nuclear policy?

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That brings us back to the philosophical question Caesar raises to his intellectual father in the movie “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”. 

So what would be a Dharmic solution to Caesar’s conundrum? A dharmic guru would have told Caesar about the concept of all pervading God-consciousness and swa-dharma. Perhaps the dharmic guru would have foretold Caesar about the animistic behavior that his intellect wouldn’t surpass when the grand-father to be ‘perceivably’ intimidated by the neighbor leading to the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".

The purpose of a Dharmic Guru is to make Caesar understand the role of the leash until he is fully humanized and to free his consciousness from his animistic/beastly behavior forever. But he would not demand the dharmics to wear a leash/shackle so Caesar feels more at home.

The anti-heroes of Independent India behaved exactly like their Abrahamic masters, by shackling the dharmic Bharat with Secularism instead of liberating their under-developed minority brethren.