Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
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were anxious to utter their benedictions - men who practiced austerity
and self-restraint - this wretch, wishing evil to the magnanimous
Pandavas, without saluting those Brahmins, thus addressed the King:
"All these Brahmins, falsely imputing the malediction to me, themselves
exclaim, woe to you, wicked king, the son of Kunti? Since you have
slaughtered your kinsmen and elders, death is desirable for you, and not
life." Hearing this speech of the wicked Raxasa the Brahmins were
pained and indignant, being maligned by his words. But they, as well as
King Yudhishtira, all remained silent, being ashamed and cut to the
heart. Then Yudhishtira said: "Let all your reverences be reconciled to
me, who bows down and supplicates you: You ought not to curse me
who has recently undergone such great misfortunes." All the Brahmins
then exclaimed: "We never uttered the words imputed to us; may your
Majesty enjoy prosperity." Then these noble-minded Brahmins, versed in
the Vedas and purified by austerities, recognized (the pretend mendicant)
by the eye of knowledge, and exclaimed: "This Rakshasa called Carvaka,
friend of Duryodhana; in the garb of a vagrant he seeks to accomplish
the purposes of your enemy; we speak not so, righteous King; let all such
fears be dissipated; may prosperity attend you and your brothers." Then
all these Brahmins, infuriated with anger, uttering menaces, slew with,
with muttered curses, the wicked Raxasa; who fell down consumed by
the might of utterers of Vedic incantations, burnt up by the bolt of Indra,
like a tree covered with leaves.” (Mahabharata 12. 1. 414)
Carvakas met their doom as exemplified by the Mahabaharata Story on
the onslaught of the Aryan thrust. They were neither organized nor
powerful to withstand the gods of the other world. A few Dalits who
have taken up the fight at another level today tell the story.
Brahmana-Kshatriya hegemony was an ongoing process. These two -The
Priests and the State - worked hand in hand to keep the others in
subjugation. That does not mean that, there was no literature, thought or
leaders in that group. Only that we did not get them. If they tried they
were destroyed. We should note that the Rakshasas were as powerful as
the Asuras if not more. They had probably greater science including
Vimana. However because they repudiated any tradition, they failed to
form a system of teaching their philosophy and died out. Rationalism