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Hinduism in Danger

Hinduism is one of the largest religion in this world ,which occupy 1/6 of the worldspopulation. It is mostly practiced in India ,Nepal , Fiji , maurisaus etc. it is the oldestreligion of these world . but now a days the number of Hindu population in these

countries are decreasing on .in Nepal the population of Hindu is now about 80%some decades ago the population was about 90% and the decreasing rate of thepopulation is going on .

Why is the population of Hindu is decreasing?

In my view population of the hindu is decreasing because of these reasons:

1) some hindu old bad traditions,2) the influence of the Christian which are donating to missionaries to spread

christianism among these country,3) unbelieve of priest by the people4) it has many festivals which are unaffordable to the poors, etc.

BAD TRADITIONS

Because Hinduism is the most oldest religion in this world it contain some badtraditions like Varna -shram vyawastha or the caste(Varna) system(vyawastha)according to work(shram) .according to this system the community is divided intofour caste according to its work ,Brahmin the priests ,teacher etc ,chhetriya thewarrior, politicians ,army, king etc ,baisya the merchant and sudra the servant,carpenter , tailor, mechanics etc (this rank is in decreasing order).

The sudra are hated by the other castes ,they are also called untouchable ,becausethe people of other caste dont touch the sudra .they are in the bad position of thesociety . this tradition is slowly decresing on .now a days the brahamin cant changeinto sudra and the sudra cant change into brahamins but this was not so in theVedic period. In vedic period the sudra also could change into brahamins .the writerof worlds largest epic Mahabharata ,ved vyas was not brahaman yet all but hechanged into brahamins because of his good work or knowledge. there is a saying inSanskrit that a man is not a sudra or the brahamins when he borns it is his workwhich make him that. But this tradition is followed by the most of the hindu.

Because of the hating the sudra are praised to leave the Hinduism and follow

christianism or other religion, the sudra are about 30-40% in hindu population .sothe population of Hinduism is decreasing on . if the social unequality can bevanished then the hindu population can be preserved .writer himself is a sudra

INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANISM

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In the hindu countries such as Nepal and india ,the Christian missionaries arespreading the christianism in many ways ,by lecturing about christianism ,byhelding seminar ,building churchs ,making christian clubs etc. the people are alsohelped economically or given money to change into Christians at first but when theperson becomes very much faithful to christianism then money is also collectedfrom them .people are also given a message that if they are ill which isnt recovered

by the hospitals then following christianism can recover it . so the people followchristianism to recover illness, to overcome unsuccessful life and some in no reasonlike to entertain having no solid reason.

My aunt also followed christiansism because she had regular 2 children which werephysically and mentally disabled, so to have a healthy child she followedchristianism ,luckily following this religion she gave birth to healthy child .this maybe the coincidence only because my brother who followed christianism toovercome unsuccess is also not getting apparent success in his life and myneighbor who followed to be well from mental problem isnt apparently well .

This missionaries are getting charity from western Christian countries and

organization like US president Bill Clinton had helped to give charity to thesemissionary to spread christianism.

UNBELIEVE IN HINDU PRIESTS

The people now a days are not respecting to most of the priest that they did manyyears ago ,because of their awareness and fault of some priests .Like a priest saidthat a earthquake is coming in this specific day but it didnt came . people are nowalso questioning to the priest that whether most of them know the actual meaningof the Sanskrit mantras(religious poems or epics) or they are actually reading themantras like a parrot unknowningly .they also ask questions about their knowledge

about vedic and pauranic epics .the fact is also that the most of the priest onlyknow the mantras unknowing the actual meaning of that .

EXPENSIVE FESTIVALS

Some hindu are also praised to change their religion because hinduism containsmany festivals which are expensive to celebrate.

REMEDY

So to stop the decresement of the Hinduism we should :

1) throw out the old bad traditions like untouchability,2) priest should be knowledgeful in their religious text,3) Hinduism should also be spread

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But stopping the Christians in violence way should notbe done ,because it give wrong message to theinternational community

Writer

Shiva Sunar ,Nepal