It has become a fashion these days to question the wisdom of our forefathers, our ancient history, culture and tradition, and customs of the age-old Vedic Land of Bharata. The word Bharata has its root an our ancient purana, and history when Sri Rama, Hanuman, and Sri Krishna, Great Sages like Vasishtha, Vishvamitra walked evry inch of this yoga bhumi. But, times have changed and we are in ghora kali yuga when dharma has declined and a total devastation to end this vaivasvata manvantara is looking at us. Obviously, some persons hate the very word 'Hindu' and the Hindu community that accounts for 82 per cent of of the population! Some have started something like 'Hindutva', and question the age-old functional classification such as caste thereby creating ill-will, strife, and hatred among the peaceful innocents.
The very word 'Hindu' stands for a universal doctrine of one world, one family. it is the inherent quality, nature, of the Hindu to spread oneness, love, compassion, and mutual trust and happiness and joy of all. Human development is still at its early stage and man has yet to discard the animal in him/her, realize the human and rise to divine level with universal brotherhood, spread love, kindness, and compassion to the poor, deprived ones and kindness to animals and birds. India has shown this path of human development to the entire world. There is no place for hatred of any sort and, none like contempt or looking down on others. Greeting with folded hands is the customary practice of the Hindus. There is respect for the elders, women, and regard for all; kindness to animals, birds and even treating them as divine creatures is customary here. In fact, all are treated with respect and there was no discrimination whatsoever. It was just a matter of haves and have-nots, and the entire country was impoverished due to frequent invasions of our rich temples, cheat and loot in the name of trade by invaders. A country of gold and diamonds, silk and condiments, etc. attracted invaders and traders alike. Even now our wealth is stashed, amassed, in England and other countries. British Museum has many of our sacred scriptures.
The British looted India's wealth and even the Kohinoor diamond worn shamelessly by the British Queen is not returned yet! We, the Hindus, are divided by caste and creed due to the Vote Bank politics of the Congress. It is the Congress that started the 'divide and rule' policy in 1951 for the sake of Vote and ruined the homogeneous society, that too, rural settlements which were self-sufficient, and lived as one family. First came Brahmin-hatred from the North and then from TN. some went to the extreme of committing heinous crime of cutting the sacred thread and the tuft while the brahmins were taking a dip in rivers nd tanks. This crime against humanity went unpunished due to patronage by the rulers? Even today some people hate Brahmins and forget that these are pious teachers spreading literacy where education is still to reach the poor and the backward.
There are now crooked persons who question the 'sanatana dharma'. Not knowing what it is, they link it to casteism! They ask what is 'sanatana dharma'? This is as good as questioning the very nature of one's existence, in a way. This may be construed as questioning the very roots of our Hindu belief system, the family traditions, the culture, and history of our nation. But, is it not also sheer ignorance to come out in the public and shout against sanatana dharma, and brand it as a divisive factor?
It is unfortunate that some perverted persons have raised questions about the eternal values, 'sanatana dharma' of Bhartiya parampara (Indian tradition). Better these persons are given a proper education in our history, culture, tradition and make them realize that we are not the progeny or converts of the barbarian invaders, the crooks who cheated and looted us. We have a great history and tradition of at least 10 000 years, if not a million when the Himalayas were rising up in folds from the sea!
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