Sanatana Dharma in a changing World .

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Sanatana Dharma in a Changing World04/11/2009 23:40:46 Dr Babu SuseelanSince the very beginning of this world, our Vedas, Upanishads, Darsanas, and Purnas have provided the entire world with a rich, highly complex philosophical system that covers every aspect of the universe. Our great Rishis held that the universe reveals the workings, the development, the realization, the unfolding of the world spirit (Parabrahman). The universe is spiritual. It has direction and the explanation of ordinary facts, human action, change and strategies for living. As a result, BhArat became opulent. We became rich with spiritual, cultural and universal thought system. Santana Dharma has attracted the attention of world's greatest thinkers, philosophers and scientists like Leo Tolstoy Benard Shaw and Alber Einstein .Even today, Sanatana Dharma Hindutva has more explanation on the world than those available in Newtonian mechanics or Darwinian biology, Social Darwinism, Empiricism, Rationalism, and Marxism or in any other fundamentalist, reductionist dogmas like that of Abrahamic religions .Even before eclectic thinkers coined the term "Global Village", we have been preaching, practicing and promoting the concept of "Lokha Samsatha Sukhino Bhavanthu and Vasudeva Kudumbakam ". System thinkers and activists of several social movements seeking foundations and scaffolds for their principles and programs were inspired by our universal, pluralistic and all inclusive Vedas, Upanishads and Darsanas.In spite of our universal, systemic, all inclusive and tolerant philosophy, and pacifism; we were invaded, attacked ; our wealth was looted, our country was divided, minds were polluted, people were forcefully converted and people were misdirected.Thousands of years of Islamic invasion and Christian colonialism had resulted in Hindus moving in different directions with lack of self—esteem. We have embraced alien ideologies. Our bogus secularists, Marxists, Atheists and Jihadist have made an unholy alliance against Sanatana Dharma . They have deliberately infused mind viruses and we became victims of infinite variety of disorders including Cognitive Disorder, Denial, pacifism, apathy, indifference and escapism.DOING GOOD: THE LIMITS OF BENEVOLENCEBahujana Hithaya Bhahujana Sukhaaya(We always aspires the welfare and Happiness of one and all)Our highest goal is "Asato Maa Sadgamaya (Lead me from Unreal to Reality)Tamaso Maa Jyotirgamaya (Lead me from darkness to light)Mritor Maa Amritanagamaya (Lead me from death to immortality)We believe and practice Ahimsa, tolerance, pluralism, coexistence, human rights and universalism . In the name of tolerance, pluralism and secularism, we also accept without critical evaluation parochialism, alien ideologies, Hajj subsidy, favoritism, and special privileges provided to people who are forcefully and deceptively converted into hostile anti-Vedic dogmas.Concealing the truth, ignoring reality and blind acceptance of dangerous and destructive practices may often lead to terrible results. While our impulse for benevolence is well intentioned, the results often border on insanity. We, Hindus with tolerant and passive nature accept rather than challenge critical issues.Hindus need to address several pressing problems facing us. We cannot move forward by hiding behind a thick wall of Denial. Overcoming denial and facing threatening issues like coercive religious conversion, Jihadi terrorism, subversive activities and the Chinese backed Marxist menace are very important.Several Hindu organizations and spiritual leaders continue to spend too much time looking inward, planning too much from the past history, rather than creative imagination and current reality. They suffer from indifference, apathy, otherworldliness, and do not demonstrate sophistication needed to be viable and visible, let alone assertive in the changing political context. They may have good intentions. Are good intentions good enough? I do not condemn those who wish to preach "Aham Brahmasmi" Ahimsa Paramodharma or "Vasudeva Kudumbhakam". Searching always within for answers for external causes, blaming Hindu victims, having guilt without reasons, use of twisted logic and excessive zeal for pseudo secularism continue to plague Hindus around the world.The Denial, Cognitive confusion, and the secular disorder have so twisted reality while Hindu intellectuals and activists are called dysfunctional ; and pseudo-secularists, Marxist anarchists, Jihadi terrorists and conversion mafia are regarded as hope of India. Such irrational logic and twisted thinking have unintended consequences.In an attempt to preach suppression of our desires, ahimsa, tolerance and do good philosophy, very often bad things happen. India's sacred institutions are destroyed, temple wealth is looted, and our children are made into slobs and zombies. Our phony secularism has produced a bumper crop of homegrown traitors. While Jihadi terrorists are stabbing us in the throat, these traitors are stabbing us in the back. Our moral codes, social ethos, culture and spiritual traditions are either deconstructed or destroyed. Camouflaged under a number of catch phrases like "Prolitarian revolution, labor unity, multi-culturalism, religious pluralism, our enemies are pushing Bharat and Sanatana Dharma off the planet.WHO POISONED THE SYSTEMSelfish Politicians, China sponsored Marxist anarchists, Christian fanatics and the Jihadis have made an unholy alliance against Sanatana Dharma and they compromise our national security, and strip India from the rock-bed Hindu identity. Further jack hammering the foundations of our Hindu identity has been coercive and deceptive conversion.To destroy a country, Solzhenitsyn wrote, you must cut its roots. India's roots are in Sanatana Dharma, in large measure been severed. In books, plays and films Hindus are mocked for amusement of anti-vedic Secularists. In the name of modernity and progress social decadence is promoted. India's schools teach anti-Vedas. Our educational curricula have been systematically chained of all Vedic contents; they have lost all trace of Vedic Dharma. Our educational system is raising a nation of cowards and hyprocrytes. There is no means of teaching our young about the glorious attributes of heroism and patriotism. Since independence our country has produced a sizable number of spineless, luxury-loving, immoral characters like Nehru . As we all know patriotism feeds upon hero-worship and we have abolished true heroes like Sri Rama and Sri Krishna from our education. Our traditional *Vandemataram* is replaced with Mary Had a Little Lamb. Mahabharata and Ramayana are replaced with Western books . The fairy tales and nursery rhymes beloved by generations of children were abandoned, and tinkered with. Lord Rama, Lord Krishna, Bhima and Arjuna have been replaced by Mickey Mouse, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. Instead of studying heroic deeds of Bhagat Singh and Vir Sarvarkar, our children are taught blasphemous images of atheist Nehru and China's agent E.M.S. Nampoothirippadu. Our national nose has been first tweaked and then rubbed contemptuously into the dirt.The results are plain for all to see. Our youngsters are growing up to become slobs. Thus, the expulsion of our Dharmic system from education and a collapse in public morality has gone hand in hand with the collapse of public morality. We are in deep denial that our nation is in danger and many of us neither know nor care. It is our own fault. We were busy embracing alien ideologies and we forgot that the first duty of a nation is to secure its cultural, spiritual institutions and value system. Our values that we have treasured were allowed to fade away from our class room and the consciousness of the public.Our current secular education system forces people to escape from reality, behave like zombies, and accept falsehood as reality. They are persuaded that to be tolerance of intolerant dogmas and intolerant brutes id a positive virtue. People are indoctrinated to believe that India is a country of multiple culture and all religions are the same.What went wrong? What is the alternative? Do we want China sponsored Marxist anarchism, Maoist violence, Jihadi terrorism, coercive religious conversion, constant decaying of our moral values to continue? If the answer is NO, then we have to correct our attitude . We want our fellow Hindus informed and disciplined, alert and assertive. Our country is in a strange sort of war against our Sanatana Dharma. Throughout our modern history a substantial number of our leaders sold out our country. There are many things we did not learn from history. Much of what ails India is due to our apathy, indifference and our inaction. And his indifference and apathy has led to a moral disarmament and political paralysis. If we are detached, someone's values are going to prevail, then why not ours? Why should the moral codes of bogus secularism, Jihadism and Marxism prevail? Why should a minority rather than the majority see its values dominant? If tolerance is a necessary virtue in our democratic society, there must be tolerance for the values of Sanatana Dharma which is the life of BhArat.Today, in India, it is popular among self-styled "intellectuals" to sneer at patriotism, question our sacred values and insult our Acharyas with contempt. But in the present decadent atmosphere Hindus often are too shy to talk about it-as if it were something shameful or irrational weakness.

We cannot accuse our sacred philosophy of Sanatana Dharma of incapacity to find a solution to our problems. We have to lift the fog surrounding us. Let it be recognized that we Hindus have as much responsibility to defend our sacred thought system, Vedic culture and our country with insight and collective will.TAKING THE HIGH GROUNDWe cannot succeed or move forward by hiding the facts. We have to move forward with pragmatism, realism and strength. We have to wage a relentless battle for the hearts and minds of Hindus.Hindu leaders and laymen must develop basic skills for critical thinking and techniques for perception management. The skills are essential for separating facts from opinion; identify media manipulation and psychological warfare against Hindus. The ability to make the basic distinction between factual statements and statements for mental misdirection and deception is required for all Hindus.Sanatana Dharma is the soul of our nation. It is the Vedas that bind us. It is the set of values, ideals pervading our consciousness that has been with us for centuries. Whether we admit it or not, and even if we claim we are not religious, we tend to operate according to our vision, spiritual tradition and moral values. This unifying Dharma is now under attack by phony secularists, pro-Chinese Marxists, Maoist anarchists, Jihadis and conversion gangs. They to alien dogmas. These dogmas are contradictory not complementary. They are not mutually supportive but destructive.THE WAY OUTHindus around the world must now join together and work with fire, the conviction and the clear vision. If we are united we can return with strength to erase the corrosive influence of today's fake secularists. We can and we will one day return to BhArat's glorious roots of freedom and spiritual practice.