HINDU RENAISSANCE ... 2

Hindus must cast aside caste identity and stand together as a cohesive unit if they are to survive as a race. These caste divisions have served their purpose, and often gloriously so, but have now outlived their utility. They are weakening the fabric of Hindu society and stand as the great bar towards attainment of social unity within the Hindu fold. The lower castes have suffered great tyranny at the hands of upper caste Hindus and have been often so marginalized down the ages that they have fallen easy victim to Muslim and Christian conversion conspiracies. These are proselytizing religions that thrive on inducing members of other religions to join their fold to bolster their ranks. Economic inducement, malicious propaganda and political enforcement by conquering races have all played their due roles in wooing lower caste Hindus away from their fold into the rank and file of these Semitic religions. But the worst offenders have been the Hindus themselves. Instead of lending a sympathetic helping hand to these hapless fellow Hindus, the upper caste Hindus have historically only rained scorn, atrocity and alienation on them, even denying them basic living conditions to survive with any semblance of human dignity. Like animals these children of God have been treated down the ages and made to labour for their upper caste social masters till they have lost their individuality. The consequence of this terrible neglect of the masses has been the weakening of the nation and it falling a victim eventually to the Mohammedan invasion which began a 850 year period of alien tyranny ending with that most vicious rule of the British lasting for the last 190 years of this dark phase of Hindu history. But the Lord has been kind and once more we are free as a race and a nation although we have received a truncated India by way of independence. Nonetheless, we now have the chance to rectify our past mistakes and start afresh to rebuild our Hindu culture. The civilization that began on the banks of the Indus (Sindhu), the Ganga and the Saraswati had flourished for over four thousand years before its pulse weakened and it went into its shell to preserve its sanctity and character. The hindrances that came in the way of its free expression during the Muslim period and the British period are now no more and we stand as a sovereign nation with the opportunity and the power at our disposal to shape our own destiny, that of fulfilling the evolution of our race in line with the master plan of our Vedic sages and seers. It is thus meet that we Hindus realize the gravity of the moment and start the process of rebuilding our ancient civilization which through foreign thrust has been much wounded and which may be restored to its pristine state only by the healing touch of mutual love and respect, service and care, renunciation and realization. Following in the foot-steps of our Rishis and Avatars down the ages we must again come up as the premier spiritual people of the world and shine on world civilization as a beacon of light. To the ushering in of such a day let us pledge ourselves and let us in accordance start pouring in our labour of love for our beloved Motherland that she may occupy premier place in the comity of nations. Jai Hind!