The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s8.t3.5

c14.s8.t3.5

In Rāmdās's ideology there is no vagueness about the particular *pāpī* who was responsible for the miseries and calamities and against whom it was necessary to raise the *surasenā* in order that *ānanda-vana-bhūvana* (the Kingdom of God, so to say) might flourish on earth. Aurangzeb has been singled out in the verses as the butt of Rāmdās’s wrath, and naturally the *sureśa*, the hero, who is responsible for the break-up of the old conditions and the inauguration of the new era is none other than Śivāji.