ARISE! AWAKE! ... 2

ARISE! AWAKE! ... 2

Hindus today are at the crossroads where they must make a choice as to whether they will cling to their Dharma and fight inimical ideologies hell-bent on their destruction or they will forsake Dharma and surrender to these dastardly forces to usher in their own doom. For thirteen hundred and ninety years ever since the first Arab forays into Hindu heartland in 636 CE Hindus have suffered the worst genocide history can testify to. An estimated minimum of 80 million Hindus were killed by Islamic jihad and a far greater number---in the view of Ferishta the population of Hindus at the time of the first Islamic invasion was 600 million, and by the end of the nineteenth century this had plummeted to 200 million---, 400 million had vaporised into thin air owing to Islamic slaughter, persecution, enslavement, abduction of Hindu women, economic deprivation and forced conversion. The European colonial powers stemmed the Islamic assault but replaced it with their own brand of sophisticated proselytism and economic drainage which reduced the richest country in the world to one of the poorest. Portuguese torture of Hindus, their Inquisituon, is of especial mention here. Thus, over the past fourteen centuries Hindus have endured genocide after genocide till the final injury came in the form of dismemberment of the motherland in 1947. No other race would have forgiven so much civilisational pain inflicted on them but the Hindus sadly have. Not only that, apparently they do not care to know about the horrors their forefathers had to endure. This is not only sad but positively dangerous, for amnesia thus can precipitate a worse ordeal in future and utterly annihilate this debilitated race of hurt heritage and injured identity. 

In this age Swami Vivekananda arose along with seminal sages and savants, patriots and Hindu ideologues like Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Dayānand Saraswati, Sri Aurobindo, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, Sitaram Goel, Ram Swarup and others who have laid down the blueprint for Hindus to follow in defence of civilisation, identity and person. We should read their works, heed their message and act in accordance in defence of the Dharma. Upon our awareness depends our survival. This is verily the dharma of the Hindu in this perilous hour of his. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose