WHY HINDU?

There was no religion established in the name of HINDU on the Bharat Vrasa, although succumbing to Historical blunders long ago we have changed our SANATAN DHARM into HINDU. Just left the Issue of HINDUS, many are there who can’t tolerate even recitation of the word HINDU. Some of my friends even suggested me not to cite HINDUSTAN. As Usual, all the Seculo-Liberandu Left Congi Brigades strongly criticize the concept of HINDU as according to them it is against the SECULAR fabrics. By the By, I don’t consider their debates as worthy as I think all of them suffer from INTELLECTUAL DIARRHOEA.

Now come to the word HINDU or SANATAN DHARM

Every Hindu, Sikh, Jains, Buddhists (Especially Vajryana) does Sankalp (Resolution) before any Sadhana (Disciplined and Dedicated Spiritual or Religious Practice), though the procedure of sankalps are different but the connotation is similar. Sankalp is the foundation of the Sanatan Culture. Without the Sankalp we believe all the Noble Works are futile.

WHAT WE RECITE IN SANKALP?

It says, “  in the name of the creator, The infinite Cosmic Time cycle, the place of Worship, the Doer (Karta) doing following Sadhana”  the Complete one is, “ In the Name of Creator, in the 2^nd half of Brahma’s Life, in the Kalpa (Time scale) of Sveta-Varaha, In there the current period of Manu Vaivaswata (there are 14 Manus in a Kalpa), in the 28^th Mahayuga of current Manvantra (Time Cycle), in this first quarter of Kali yuga, this denotes the Place where the Ritual is Performed JAMBHUDWIPA (i.e current Asia), BHARAT KHANDE (the Geological Boundry, a tectonic plate of India i.e 1lakh sq km stretching from Afghanistan to Burma, From Ladakh to Srilanka), BHARAT VARSE ( the Political Boundary), to the South of the Meru ( Mountain range), the current period (Sambastra), the Sun’s imaginary Movement of North or southwards, the Season, the Lunar fortnight, the Day I’m Doing the Following rituals to please thou.”

This Sankalp (Resolution) speaks much about the Indic Culture. Religion has some basic characteristics (a) a prophet (b) a fixed religious scripture/text (c) certain moral duties (d) some supernatural narrations of prophecies. According to it we can divide all the religions are in to two broad categories (1) creed Religion (2) Complete Religion. Islam, Christianity etc. Complete religion (Hindu/Sanatan).

WHY HINDUISM IS COMPLETE & DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS?

(a) It has no PROPHETS, no one started this (b) Though Veda is a Final Point of Sanatan Scripture, yet it has no fixed RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGIES (c) There is No certain prescribed MORAL OBLIGATIONS towards the RELIGION, eg one should do Namaz six times a day, or Observe Ramjan etc. Or Sunday prayer in Churches, (d) the HINDU/SANATAN is not SUPERNATURAL but SPIRITUAL, it is not TRANSCENDENTAL but SYMBOLIC.

WHAT IS UNITY IN DIVERSITY?

The basic concept of Unity in Diversity is derived from “ALL IS NOTHING BUT THE GOD’S INCARNATION” (Adwitabad), a spiritual realisation. So it has no POLITICAL CONNOTATION, what we today apply to describe SECULARISM.

Growth through Hindus (Part-1)

Lambodar Prasad Dash

“...religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, In spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera’s wealth, poured upon the head of every one of her children...” (Swami Vivekananda, 25 January 1897)

The Subject may raise several controversies; it may hurt the Seculars, Liberals, Communists, Marxists, socialists and Neo-Moderates who don’t believe “Natural Selection” or “Geographic Mosaic theory” or my theory based on How Natural Evolution selects particular population having certain physiological affinity, having distinct cultural correlations, common beliefs & Faith, Shared norms which in turn effects a particular territory’s Socio-Economic environment. My Issue may not directly relate to the general Nationalist Believe that a particular nation belongs to a particular Religion or Race. Whenever I mention “Religion” further in this article don’t take the religion in a narrow sense, as “Hinduism” is much wider connotation than so called definition of religion. Similarly, whenever I put the word “Race” don’t divide it Aryan or Dravidian, as I believe The Indo race is distinct from others and it is neither Aryan nor Dravidian.

Natural Environment like Geographical location, Geological patterns, Weather, Temperature, Humidity, Availability of Food, Arable land etc influence the Living Organisms. In simple understandings, the natural milieu selects which type of living being going to survive on its lap. Migratory or alien organisms may perish or evolve as predators and parasites.

In Biological terms, from simple single cell organisms to a complex living body and from a micro-territory to the Multiverse, everything is a self-explanatory example of Unity in Diversity. A secular brain always refers India, as a country of “Unity in Diversity”; the term is more politico-religious than Biological. As I have already said, my debate is not based on the narrow religious terminology, so I rejected the Religious diversified unity propaganda by mediocre political brains. Why I named Mediocre, you can comprehend later in this article.

A Nation’s strength lies in its people. More skilful, healthy, dedicated and loyal its people, more its development envisaged. A nation becomes physically powerful when its ethnographic agents work homogenously. A homogenous population develops strong social cohesiveness, which in turn gives rise to collective responsibility & community spirit.

A Nationalist Brain sees the future through the past, the past where his very Socio-cultural Identity emerged. Many Historians put forth their argument that the “concept of Nationalism” was transported from the western world to India during the Colonial era. But I say, they argued so only to hide their Inferiority complex arising out of the diachronic problem of personal identity.

Indian Nationalism, we may call it as “Hindu Nationalism” has distinctive characteristics, unlike western Nationalism.  Hindu Nationalism has its root since Vedic times. “Pandit Narahari Narayan Bhide defines Rastra (Nation) as follows: The Feeling of eternal goal of human life which makes the life celestial and elegant, and the race, language, literature, community of economic interest, tradition, country, administration of the state and awareness in the invasion of foreigners which are found within the psychology being expresses with those seven organs, is the nationality or Rashtriya. The people having such Rashtriya is a rastra and the member of such rastra is the Rashtriya.” (Nation and Nationalism in the Vedic Literature: A study, Shiva Acharya, 2000, page-2)

In Vedas, the Rastra & Rashtrapati both synonymous to the word “Indra”, the Indra refers to Rastra as a whole, a nourisher, a protector, and the giver of all worldly pleasures. There are several Vedic verses like “Ayam gha saturo ma’d Indrasya Bardhita Priya...”(Rig Veda 10 mandala 25 sukta) necessarily depicts the character of a Rastra.

In Rig Veda 7^th Mandal 6^th chapter (7/84 hymn) the Supreme advises the subjects & their King how to attain a strong, powerful, peaceful and wealthy nation.  

In this hymn, it is advised to be Industrious and Healthy, be wealthy through righteous effort, never dissatisfy the Truthful intellectuals, nurture your population, granary and domesticated animals, be self-sufficient, never bow before any sinful for your needs and all these things should mean to attain supreme Brahm.

And all the above advice has been remained as touching stone of the Hindu life. Hindu civilisation brought all the good things whether it is precious knowledge or precious goods from every corner of the world (aano bhadra kratavo yantu vishwatah’dabdhyaso apritaso udridah).

A consistent Scholar and a Logical Researcher will agree that India’s Life and its Religion are inseparable. Even the most debated the 1995 judgement of the Supreme Court also observed the same thing.

The 1^st fundamental thing about the Hindu religion and its understanding to its native lans speaks much about the Hindu Nationalism. The Hindu regards its Rastra as Mother Land, it adores its native land as sacred as a mother. It adheres, Janani Janbhumic’a Swrgad’api Gariyasi (Mother& Motherland both are far superior to Heaven) (Ramayan, Yudha kanda)

It is widely believed that every civilisation has growth and decay (law of civilisation and decay, by Brook Adams) and it is simply not a belief but numerous pieces of evidence are there to support it.

There are several factors which contributed to the decay of a civilisation which is otherwise called “Societal collapse” However, the Indian Civilisation escaped that natural process (!) You can say, Time eschewed the mundane edifices of Indus Civilisation but the intrinsic characteristics remained almost the same even after 7 thousand years (!). There is a big, big the question, How (?)

The factors like economical, Environmental, social and cultural is responsible for the death of a civilisation. There is any authenticate evidence of Environmental cause which ruined the Indo-Civilisation but there were many instances where the alien rulers tried to destroy the civilisation by manipulating it’s rich economical, Social and cultural ecosystem. The outcome of the manipulations was not yielded immediate result but weaken the edifice bit by bit and after 1200years, in 21^st century we are feeling the jolt(!).

It is believed that when a civilisation reaches its dusk, some structural modification usually carried out like, the civilisation becomes egalitarian, de-specialization of traditional skills, destratification of social structure, decentralization (Growing of Individual liberty), destructuralization of the ancient Institutions and depopulation. From the above points, it is clear that Indo-civilisation which survived long 7000/8000 years now at the stage of dusk(!) then what is the possible remedies?

The Only solution is the Renaissance of Hinduism.

(Continued...)

A Political equation in Uttar Pradesh never changed “Even for BJP”

"If we are taking into account of the past equations and Political Traditions, the 2017 assembly election will see similar Result. BJP already estimated it....through the desperation for Narendra Modi and his team clearly corroborating the evidence....in opposite side, the answer is clear for the questions like, Why BSP is not aggressive in Election campaign? Why Congress Withdrawn the "Priyanka Campaign" in the middle? Why SP- Congress is so casual in campaigns?"

Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2017, an comparison 

Who is going to win India’s most decisive Political Battle which is undergoing in Uttar Pradesh for 403 Assembly seats?  At present context, a tricky question to answer due to two things, primarily for the restrictions of Election Commission and secondly, the paid publicity and Campaigns surrounded the facts. Contrary to the Restrictions, personal opinions in Social Media and panel discussions flooded with calculations and predictions. It might not be so difficult to predict the result but it is more difficult to categorize who are wrong and right.  Why? I can represent the words of India’s first anti congress Prime Minister Moraji Desai on the political predictions “An expert gives an objective view...he gives his own view”. Since taking into account everyone is correct in their calculations and predictions I here giving some facts and figures which can throw some light on the political traditions and election equations of the winners and losers.

Congress lost its political image and influence on Uttar Pradesh during the emergency. Although it regained its position in the assembly and general election held soon after the death of Indira Gandhi yet could not last long. 1985 assembly election was the last election where Congress got an absolute majority with 269 seats especially due to the sympathy for the assassination of Indira Gandhi. In 1989 General and assembly election parliament seats reduced to 15 and assembly seats to 94. However Congress managed to save its political reflection through a meticulously planned alliance with ace regional forces.

Almost for the last 40 years, except 1977 and 1985 election the politics has been based on caste & religion.  Since the disintegration of the Janata Dal the fight is between Regional parties and BJP. In the Uttar Pradesh election BJP always played religious card whereas Regional parties like BSP, SP and RLD has their own agenda on caste. In 1991 BJP with a whopping majority (221 seats) won the election solely on Ram Mandir and Hindu revival Issue. But it could not last long. SP and BSP emerged as ace forces for the CM race. 1993 assembly election had seen a curious situation, where two opposition political parties united only to counter BJP’s Religious agenda. In the latter years, BJP tried to grab the power through alliance but soon realized that it is a sour relation and could not grant desirable result.

In 2002, SP won 143 assembly seats while BSP 98 and BJP 88 seats. Congress and RLD were satisfied with 25 and 14 each. In 2007 assembly election BSP won 206 seats, SP 97, BJP 51, Cong 22 and RLD 10.  In 2012 assembly election SP won 224 seats, BSP 80, BJP 47, Congress 28, RLD 9.

If we took into the account of the comparison between General elections and Assembly elections than it is clear that General election has less effect on Assembly Election and vice versa. For example in 2009 general election 2004 SP won 35 out of 80 seats, BSP 19, BJP 10 and Congress 9, but in 2007 election BSP emerged as a winner. Similarly, in 2009 SP got 23 out of 80, Cong 21, BSP 20 and BJP 10. Despite 21 seats congress managed to save 28 assembly seats.

If we taking into account of the past equations and Political Traditions, the 2017 assembly election will show a similar picture. BJP already estimated it and the desperation for Narendra Modi and his team clearly corroborating the evidence.

There are Five major things which can be summarized for “Why BJP’s ambition to regain UP cannot be fulfilled”

• 1.        BJP could not able to polarize Hindu Vote unlike earlier elections
• 2.       South UP where the Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency falls is surrounded by BSP and Congress vote banks. It is quite difficult to pull the voters from Congress Vote banks, the only option is BSP but BSP already polarized the votes against RSS and BJP’s anti-reservation policy.
• 3.       BJP cornered Muslim in the distribution of seats but more reliant on his ‘divide and rule’ trick for the Muslim votes. But it could not break through its own plan.  
• 4.       There is no Chief Ministerial Candidate and the entire election affairs have been handled by the Modi-Saha team, which gives limited access to the publicity to owe voters unlike “UP ke ladke”(UP’s own children slogan by SP-Congress alliance). Narendra Modi tried to save his plan by promoting “Adopted son” but failed utterly. Besides this, the entire election campaign based on the “Modi’s Charisma” which is not as before.
• 5.       BJP speculated that it will get benefit from the Mulayam Family feud and anti-incumbency factors but in contrary family feud more or less cleaned the dark marks on the Akhilesh, like link to anti-social elements and anti-incumbency. Surprisingly, BSP also not targeting the SP rather speared against BJP.