We
human beings are evolved from our animal cousins and mentally we are
maladjusted with our animal body. This maladjustment is universal. But other
people are able to ignore it and live happily but we have based whole social
structure upon it. The wealthy people are able to appear above common people as
if god or angel and those who are marginalized appear low and wretched.
For
body functions of urination, defecation, passing flatus, emission and sex we
have words full of contempt and similarly we have words for penis, vulva, anus
and buttocks that have contempt and we have expletives suggesting sex with
mother and sister.
1.
Disgust and contempt of women : The women menstruate and she keeps her clean
and there is no ground to consider women impure and filthy during these days.
The women are considered dirty because they receive penis and penile emissions
and man himself finds these two things dirty because urine and semen come from
same organ whereas in women the holes are different. It is usually talked that
he has taken her ... ,when some man has sex with some woman. For woman, it is
said ‘she gives’ and some woman who is easy to have sex is disparaged by
calling her ‘chhinaar or chhinaaal’ perhaps meaning same as is meant by whore.
The
coitus is such an intimate activity that man wants his wife to be virgin and to
remain loyal to him throughout life. But men of Middle East have developed
whole religion and religious law just to ensure this while men of other places
though wish the same but not went so far. Their whole violence and desire to
spread their religion all over the World is just for this motive. They want to
marry as many women as possible and to keep them confined within house and if
there be any suspicion, she be stoned to death. To ensure virginity, the girls
are restrained from the early age. In Africa and Arab and perhaps also in other
places, the girls are also circumcised and infibulations is practiced in which
labia are excised and vaginal orifice is stitched in small girls. Jews started
circumcision of male child and Muslims also do it and so their men think that
uncircumcised men are filthy and don’t wish their own women marry uncircumcised
men. In Old Testament, there is story where Israelites killed and destroyed
whole people by treachery because one man from those people had cohabited with one
Israelite girl and wanted to make her his wife.
2.
Disgust and contempt of other men : Such feelings are universal but here in
India , some Brahmans made caste system and cruelly enforced it. In India, the
tropical Sun darkens and it darkens more who toil outside under Sun of the noon
time. The simple people kept on working under Sun and privileged section
remained indoor and so simple people became dark and disgusting and then work
was assigned to them and it was made hereditary. So everyone started hating
person doing work of more inferior status. The persons doing ordinary work were
called Shudras and who were doing more dirty work of scavenging and rearing
pigs and taking out hide of dead animals were made outcasts.
Manu
Smriti 5: 104. “Let
him (king) not allow a dead Brahmana to be carried out by a Sudra, while men of
the same caste are at hand; for that burnt-offering which is defiled by a
Sudra's touch is detrimental to (the deceased's passage to) heaven.”
Chapter 7 : 267. “A
Kshatriya, having defamed a Brahmana, shall be fined one hundred (panas); a
Vaisya one hundred and fifty or two hundred; a Sudra shall suffer corporal
punishment.”
270. “A once-born
man (a Sudra), who insults a twice-born man with gross invective, shall have
his tongue cut out; for he is of low origin.”
271. “If he
mentions the names and castes (gati) of the (twice-born) with contumely, an
iron nail, ten fingers long, shall be thrust red-hot into his mouth.”
272. “If he
arrogantly teaches Brahmanas their duty, the king shall cause hot oil to be
poured into his mouth and into his ears.”
276. “(For mutual
abuse) by a Brahmana and a Kshatriya a fine must be imposed by a discerning
(king), on the Brahmana the lowest amercement, but on the Kshatriya the
middlemost.”
277. “A Vaisya and
a Sudra must be punished exactly in the same manner according to their
respective castes, but the tongue (of the Sudra) shall not be cut out; that is
the decision.”
281. “A low-caste
man who tries to place himself on the same seat with a man of a high caste,
shall be branded on his hip and be banished, or (the king) shall cause his
buttock to be cut.”
282. “If out of
arrogance he spits (on a superior), the king shall cause both his lips to be
cut off; if he urines (on him), the penis; if he breaks wind (against him), the
anus.”
283. “If he lays hold
of the hair (of a superior), let the (king) unhesitatingly cut off his hands,
likewise (if he takes him) by the feet, the beard, the neck, or the scrotum.”
Such
is the intensity of hate and disgust that some members of Homo sapience species
of animals felt against other members of same species.
The
things have not changed in rural India. So the boys and girls of colleges and
universities who believe in equality of mankind must be sent to those interior
villages where they meet those families and try to help them and see the ground
situation. Adequate laws should be made and properly to weed out hate and
disgust.
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