Book Title: Most Ancient Aryan Society
Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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________________ ( 276 ) perverted spiritualism to the subservience of materialism. A hybrid child is born. The child has been christened Religion. Religion is a material concept, born of deformed father and preverted mother, to keep the tribal society in tact and to save it from disintegration. The Semites led the Āryans in the invention of the Science of Religion and Godology. The social conditions of the disintegrating Semitic society gave birth to Judaism, the first and the oldest living religion. The word religion, etymologically, means that which binds man back or holds him on to the source from which he derived his being. Word 'Religion' has its Sanskrit equivalent in the word 'Dharma', which, etymologically, means that which supports. The function of Religion is to bind the member of the society to it for material growth and to save the society from disintegration. Religion kept alive the faith of the members in society so that it may command their full faith and support for its future existence. Judaism originates with Abram later changed to Abraham. Abraham literally means the father of a multi tude'. Abraham became the founder of a Judaism new nation, chosen by God. Abraham's god was essentially and ethical god to whom doing of justice and righteousness was of supreme concern. He named his God YHWH" which literally means 'He is that He is.' The institution of Ganapati, the Supreme leader of the Aryan tribe, is first celestialised by the non-Aryan Semitic Abraham and as Ganapati, in the new Semitic social conditions, fails to deliver goods to his people in this world ; he is transferred to the unknown other world, where he promises to deliver all those goods which he delivered them in this real world. Ganapati and Abraham both are masters or fathers of their Multitudes. Tribalism is celestialised as Heaven and Tribal Chief as God of Heaven. Those Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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