What do fascists and others think about Hinduism and Savitri Devi?

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Is Savitri Devi the only European fascist that worshipped Hinduism? I have never seen anyone else like that. She thought that Hitler was a Hindu God. Huh? Where did she get that idea from? Hindus in India don't even believe that. I don't think Hitler ever praised or said anything about Hinduism.

I admire Hinduism for being older and polytheistic compared to the main 3 monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but I view it as another incorrect religion.

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[–]Mr9to5 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

There’s some fashy ISKCON supporters out there, you can find them scattered across the Internet and a few publishers that carry ISKCON books, including Patriotic Dissent. I believe Prabhupada is generally known to have viewed Hinduism as having a pan-Aryan element and believed the flowering of it in the West was the re-awakening of it. He also used this idea alongside many incompatible ideas selectively for recruiting, which is why I’m not ISKCON.

George Burdi was pushing a similar line for many years, I believe he still considers himself aligned with Sanatana Dharma. He’s with the Dharma Nation guy.

I studied with a Hindu guru for a while when I was young but ultimately drifted away because I’m too much of a Social Darwinist. I believe life is basically Battle and the Strong and Active survive. I tried many times to reconcile this with “the surviving Paganism” as I understood but ultimately renunciation creeds are anathema to the spirit that births great deeds.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I knew Prabhupada was very NS sympathetic but I didn't realize he had like minded followers, all of the ISKCONites I meet are hippie types.

I believe life is basically Battle and the Strong and Active survive. I tried many times to reconcile this with “the surviving Paganism” as I understood but ultimately renunciation creeds are anathema to the spirit that births great deeds.

I think both the decay of Hinduism and the embrace of renunciation as a doctrine are a consequence of racial decay that had been happening for the last 5000 years in that group. If a less thoroughly rotted species took up the same philosophy through a critical lens to avoid the interpolated negative aspects, maybe it would lose these problems. Some view India as a great incubator of ancient knowledge to reclaim, similar in a way to how Greece saw the Egyptian esoteric knowledge long after their civilization's decay.

Though from a social darwinist perspective you could argue that renunciation seems to have more fitness than life affirming creeds.

[–]Mr9to5 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, it’s a lot of hippies. Most of the NS/fashy ISKCON people are essentially random Twitter accounts. Prabhupada Truth is the website I think I encounter most often that attempts to promote both. It’s a mixed bag, some Reptilians level content. I did see a skinhead with 14 and 88 tattooed on his cheeks and a bunch of Hare Krishna tattoos at a temple once but I don’t know the background. Someone told me they knew who that was and he died in an accident a little afterwards.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Someone told me they knew who that was and he died in an accident a little afterwards.

The kikes silenced him so quickly :'(

Idt ISKCON can ever have broader appeal in that scene without loosening or dropping the vegetarianism requirement. It's not even a practice of older pre-Buddhist Hinduism (if you can even call it that) and the objective benefits of meat are too high to justify vegetarianism the way some older NS people did.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is Savitri Devi the only European fascist that worshipped Hinduism?

Miguel Serrano is very similar and they had correspondence though he's from Chile (racially European). And of course Himmler and his associates among other NSDAP era esotericists.

She thought that Hitler was a Hindu God. Huh? Where did she get that idea from? Hindus in India don't even believe that.

She got the idea from descriptions of the avatars of Vishnu, first thinking he was Kalki who is said to be the one to cleans the Earth of the impure, then after his defeat concluding that he was sent to prepare the earth for Kalki. There were in fact several Hindus in India contemporaneous to Hitler and Devi with similar views though I can't recall their names.

As for why she became infatuated with Hinduism of all things I think partially it's because while decayed you can see the remnants of the original biological worldview embedded within its philosophy. She admired how devoted Indians were to maintaining seemingly organic and biological hierarchy.

The other aspect that really drove her passion for it how to her it was a live example of what paganism would've looked like in her native Greece had Christianity never killed the Hellenic religion off. The goddess worship and their usage of flowers are some things I remember her mentioning.

I'd recommend reading some of her works to understand her from her own words. They're quite short and not too hard to read. Not trying to evangelize her views but with so much disinformation it's easy to castigate someone as crazy based on something a Jew embellished.

https://savitridevi.org/savitri_devi_works/