Link between the Rig Veda and the fundamental concepts in the Indian constitution

Authors

  • Partha Sarathi Sarkar
  • Somabha Bandyopadhyay

Keywords:

India, spirituality, Rig Veda, westernized

Abstract

India the motherland of around 130 crore people is much renowned for its justified consideration of all kind of living. From the very earlier age when the nation had only a single name as Hindustan or even before that namely as Bharata was a land of pluralism. The multiple identities were venerated as Swami Vivekananda has told that this nation has offered the great knowledge of spirituality even when the Western world was completely a forest land. There was no scope to humiliate any person but they knew that all the persons could not be able to do everything so there was a system of division though all of them were from a single entity. In that society lawfulness can be observed at the most important manner. The people could realize that every living entity is nothing but the presence of divinity. In the script of Devnagari Rigveda was written but before that the people started to remember the facts in their minds so the social secularism could be observed with them though they did not divided humans based on their practices. So in that society everyone was stakeholder by doing their jobs. It was possible as India has never seen anything beyond or less than implication of the almighty. But in the Purush Shukta the division of humans was first to be appeared. The persons were divided by based on their knowledge retentive social accumulation. Then many ages had gone till the 1950 when the Indian Constitution was started to act for the people and by the people. In the Constitution the human division was being tried to be ended but still in that realization it was not told that the people of India has no division as from the basic understanding of Indian profile it can be said that here no division is possible if the nation can seek knowledge from the ancient civilized form of understanding about the division. But the Constitution did not do so and various Acts was taken from various nations. Almost the Acts were in act in the western countries for a long past and those were very much effective there; still there is no guarantee that similarly those can be very significant for the Indian administration. So the philosophical nature of those was considered to be enacted here. In this study the philosophical contribution of Rig Veda in the Indian Constitution will be analysed to see how the same kind of understanding has been borrowed but the name has been given as westernized.

Published

2021-06-20