The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t7.62

c14.s9.t7.62

It is very important to observe that in Rāmdās’s formula as presented in this message or in other writings of his, e.g., in the *Dāsabodha* or elsewhere no prejudice against or ill will towards Islam as a religion is perceptible. This is a remarkable feature of Rāmdās’s mentality. He speaks of *Aurāngyā Pāpī*, of Aurangzeb the sinner, but he is vehement only against the tyrannies perpetrated on the Hindus and their men, women and institutions by this Moslem, Mlechchha or Yavana monarch. Rāmdās’s ire is not exhibited against Moslem mosques, Moslem men and women, and Moslem doctrines. It is a war against tyranny and a struggle for freedom that Rāmdās is engineering in and through his teachings. Thus considered, he is essentially secular and territorial in his political views. A state in which the Hindu is no more discriminated against than the Moslem is implied in his conception of *mahārāṣṭradharma bārhwāwā* as in everything else he propagates in regard to the deliverance from the horrors of the *kaliyuga*.