The space for the Hindu in
India is shrinking by the day. We must be strong as a community and strength
can come from the study of Sanskrit and the Vedanta. For those who cannot undertake
such an arduous academic course, a thorough grounding in Vivekananda will be
most beneficial. Not only does the study of Vivekananda inform us about the
Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism), it also inspires patriotic feelings in us whereby we
feel impelled to take up the cause of rebuilding our motherland along the lines
laid down by the rishis (illumined sages/seers of Truth) of yore and by the
modern sages like Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. Hindus are being
decimated in Pakistan, Bangladesh and, horrendously, in India as well. Our
ancient Bharatbhumi (the landmass of India) has been partitioned with both her
arms amputated by the Machiavellian British in conjunction with the perfidious
Jinnah and his cronies in the then Muslim League. Pakistan and Bangladesh are
essentially India and must in due course of time reunite with partitioned India
to become the ancient united motherland (Akhand Bharat) once more. Hinduism
must come to the fore to reconvert her ancient adherents through the strength
of its philosophy and the truth of its principles. Till the Hindus become
spiritually vibrant again, such a day will not dawn and the plight of the world
will continue with tribal barbarism masquerading as religion holding
centre-stage. The Hindu owes it to the world to unfold her spiritual treasures
and so save the world from annihilation at the hands of savages who have
neither understanding nor higher information about God, soul, spirit or the
Self but are conceited enough in their ignorance to think that they possess
Truth in its entirety and need to proselytise by force or fraud to bring the
world to enlightenment. Such a flawed perception of life and truth necessarily
fuels fratricidal feud and humanity has been laid waste over centuries by the
horrors of scriptural violence. But not all religions are dark and destruction.
Some are benign as well, nay, illumining and universal in scope. The Indian
dharma traditions of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism are highly scientific in
their approach to the questions of life and truth and are palpably humanistic
in their approach with their focus being the spiritual evolution of man and the
worship of some extra-cosmic deity whose arbitration governs the life of man.
Today, when there is a definite clash of civilisations between the West and the
Islamic world, when global terrorism threatens a cataclysm given the fact that
the world now has a wide enough access to nuclear weapons, it is the Hindu’s
holy duty to present before the world his humanistic philosophy of life and
living to save the world from imminent annihilation. If he fails to carry out
this, his ultimate obligation to humanity, humanity may be no more in the near
future or, if at all it survives, it may be severely maimed enmasse and
civilisation may suffer a regression to the dark ages. Every Hindu child is
thus enjoined to make a thorough study of the sacred texts of his forefathers,
realise the essence of the same before embarking on preaching the gospel of
divinity expounded therein and pulsating in his soul. Then alone will the world
awake to the universal message of the Vedanta and with rapid strides hasten on
to the eventual destination of life, freedom. Thus will the terrestrial mission
of the Hindu race be fulfilled, that of discovering, preserving and
disseminating the truths of the spirit for the wide world to benefit from, but
for that it is imperative that the Hindu survives as a race and that the truths
that he has guarded and saved from annihilation at the hands of foreign
aggressors, Islamic and Christian, do not die with him. It is for the welfare
of the whole of humanity that the Hindu has lived these millennia in patient
pursuit of spiritual truth and it is in humanity’s interest to support the
Hindu in his fight for survival against brutal Islamism pitted against it whose
sole purpose is the destruction of whatever the Hindu stands for --- reason,
enlightenment, catholicity, democracy, freedom. May the Hindu survive for the
world to see a brighter day in much the same way as the seer of the Shvetashvara
Upanishad beheld the world in the effulgence of the Atman! May good sense
prevail! May peace belong to all! May diversity thrive amidst unity and not
uniformity! Jai Hind!
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