Hero Worship

The most interesting thing is that the followers of B R Ambedkar themselves don’t follow the sane advice given by Babasaheb and worship him not only as a hero, but almost like God.

I have seen many Ambedkarites who can’t hear a single word against their hero and treat each word spoken or written by Him as the Gospel Truth and any one criticizing him as devil or anti-national.

In many ways, there is nothing new in such hero worship.

Gautama Buddha preached people not to believe in God and seek to reach a state of nirvana, following the path of the Buddha by becoming Enlightened through your own effort. However, today Buddha is worshiped as God by Buddhist and He had been even declared as an Avatar of Lord Vishnu by Hindus.

Most people can’t avoid hero worshiping or idol worshiping because that is the easiest thing to do in life. All you have to do is to pray your hero/idol regularly and hope that all your problems shall be take care by them.

Hero worshiping can’t be avoided unless the people are willing to take the responsibility of their lives.

It is a hard reality that most people don’t want to take responsibility of their own life. They expect their parents to take care of them when they are young. However, when they grow older, they want their spouse, their company, their nation to take care of them. When they grow older, they want their children to take care of them.

Since all worldly people never meet to their expectation, they pose their faith in God for taking care of them.

When one God is not enough, they make some people (living or dead) as their God and then they hope that their followers shall take take care of them.

In this process, they become slave to the leaders who use them as fodder to fulfill their own aspirations to become the next God for the next generation.

And then they cry that their heroes have become dictators, without blaming themselves who have empowered them so by surrendering of all their powers, responsibilities.

-Awdhesh Singh