Strength of dharma lies in understanding human mind with its bias and limitations.

Mind is incapable of digesting complex theological abstracts unless it's broken down to either
1. binaries
2. simplification (aligned to cognitive biases)
3. practical doable actions /1 https://twitter.com/Abhina_Prakash/status/1327648550411386880

4. Lived experience.

While the first two is present in all belief systems, the last two is where dharma stands out exceptionally where other belief systems fail.

Elaborate festivals, rituals and other forms of sensory expressions/experiences like art, music, dance, etc /2

..falls under this segment, highest being the Lived Experiences for evolved minds oriented to lead a dharmic life each moment, through each actions- sensory or otherwise.

Role of dharmagurus, acharyas of various sects is to ensure last 2 remains in society, unbroken. /3

It's the last 2 which attracts those individuals yearning to evolve, expand and experience beyond the first 2.

Without people under the last 2 segment, the faith system will collapse, unable to form an evolved civilization and a homogenous society beyond binaries /4

This is the reason why Buddhism, and the monotheist cults were never successful in expanding without borrowing the last 2 from dharmic or other pagan cultures.

Buddhists were successful as long as they kept the deities, rituals and festivals. RoP & RoL retained some as well /5

H are now incapable of attracting converts by utilizing the strength of last 2, unique to them. While there are multiple reasons, ignorance being the primary, the current tendency to wipe off or sanitize their "unwanted" rituals, festivals to attract outsiders who are /6

..used to first 2, is counter-productive.

Secular Yoga/ Deepawali/ Holi/dance forms like Bharatanatyam etc is that attempt to attract outsiders, who ironically are searching for the last 2- doable actions and lived experience.

ISKCON types keep that in mind /7

And despite adjusting themselves into an Abrahamic framework of binaries, don't let go of last 2, even though it sometimes comes with modifications. But it's present nonetheless.

Our current constitution and State though, ensures those last 2 never survive /8

As a result you'll find anyone distorting, trampling on our art, festivals and rituals, with State complicit in it, and ridiculing, oppressing and harassing dharmagurus who try preserving them.

A laser show at Ayodhya is useless when there's no experiential involvement of H. /9

A robot doing Aarati, and other forms of outsourcing your doable actions and lived experience to State and tech instead of collective social celebration will ensure dharma doesn't survive long. You can then have a Hindu Rashtra without Hinduism. /End