JAT-PAT-TODAK MANDAL OF LAHORE-XI
The reasons
which have made Shudhi impossible for
Hindus are also responsible for making Sanghatan
impossible. The idea underlying Sanghalan
is to remove from the mind of the Hindu that timidity and cowardice which
so painfully make him off from the Mohammedan and the Sikh and which have led
him to adopt the low ways of treachery and cunning for protecting himself. The
question naturally arises : From where does the Sikh or the Mohammedan derive
his strength which makes him brave and fearless ? I am sure it is not due to
relative superiority of physical strength, diet or drill. It is due to the
strength arising out of the feeling that all Sikhs will come to the rescue of a
Sikh when he is in danger and that all Mohammedans will rush to save a Muslim
if he is attacked. The Hindu can derive no such strength. He cannot feel
assured that his fellows will come to his help. Being one and fated to be alone
he remains powerless, develops timidity and cowardice and in a fight surrenders
or runs away. The Sikh as well as the Muslim stands fearless and gives battle
because he knows that though one he will not be alone. The presence of this
belief in the one helps him to hold out and the absence of it in the other
makes him to give way. If you pursue this matter further and ask what is it
that enables the Sikh and the Mohammedan to feel so assured and why is the
Hindu filled with such despair in the matter of help and assistance you will
find that the reasons for this difference lie in the difference in their
associated mode of living. The associated mode of life practised by the Sikhs
and the Mohammedans produces fellow-feeling. The associated mode of life of the
Hindus does not. Among Sikhs and Muslims there is a social cement which makes
them Bhais. Among Hindus there is no
such cement and one Hindu does not regard another Hindu as his Bhai. This explains why a Sikh says and
feels that one Sikh, or one Khalsa is equal to Sava Lakh men. This explains why one Mohammedan is equal to a crowd
of Hindus. This difference is undoubtedly a difference due to caste. So long as
caste remains, there will be no Sanghalan
and so long as there is no Sanghatan
the Hindu will remain weak and meek. The Hindus claim to be a very tolerant
people. In my opinion this is a mistake. On many occasions they can be
intolerant and if on some occasions they are tolerant that is because they are
too weak to oppose or too indifferent to oppose. This indifference of the
Hindus has become so much a part of their nature that a Hindu will quite meekly
tolerate an insult as well as a wrong. You see amongst them, to use the words
of Morris, " The great reading down
the little, the strong beating down the weak, cruel men fearing not, kind men
daring not and wise men caring not." With the Hindu Gods all
forbearing, it is not difficult to imagine the pitiable condition of the
wronged and the oppressed among the Hindus. Indifferentism is the worst kind of
disease that can infect a people. Why is the Hindu so indifferent? In my
opinion this indifferentism is the result of Caste System which has made Sanghatan and co-operation even for a
good cause impossible.
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