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Wednesday December 7, 2005 08:53 PM Hinduism under siege, says Subramanian Swamy
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Coventry, (UK) Dec 7 (ANI): Janata Party President and former Union Minister Dr.
Subramanian Swamy today told a large UK Hindu gathering at the Sri Krishna
Temple here that to combat the invisible and multi-dimensional siege against
Hinduism, all the Dharmacharyas of Hindu religion must come together in a formal
body with a permanent secretariat in New Delhi.
He said that Swami Dayananda Saraswati of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, near Coimbatore
had already convened a Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha in Mumbai in mid-October last,
and resolved to do so.
Dr. Swamy said that the siege has a religious dimension because of the
pernicious and subtle denigration of Hindu icons and Institutions such as
through filing bogus cases against the Kanchi Shankaracharya, a psychological
dimension by inculcating a confused mindset through a one-sided secularism, a
cultural dimension in propagating that Indians are Caucasian invaders from
beyond Afghanistan through the baseless Aryan-Dravidian theory, and in the
physical dimension by induced conversions to Christianity and Islamic terrorism.
"Hindus are being driven out from their homelands in Kashmir, Bangladesh and
even Mau in UP, but the political leadership in India lacks the virile mindset
to challenge this denigration of Hindus in a 83 percent Hindu populated nation"
he added.
Dr. Swamy further said that India is distinctive only because of it's Hindu
foundation and continuing civilisation. Hence India as Hindustan means a nation
of Hindus and those Muslims and Christians who accept their ancestors are
Hindus.
Parsis may have come from Persia but they accept Hindu culture as their own.
This is our Hindustani identity. Hence, those Christians and Muslims who do not
accept their ancestors as Hindus should go back from where they came from or
lose their voting rights.
Even Hindus who claim to be racially Aryans or Dravidians have no place in
Hindustan. In Rig Veda "Arya" only meant civilised, while Dravida is a Sanskrit
word coined by Adi Sankara to mean south India-where three seas meet.
Dr. Swamy said that without demolishing the caste system a cogent cohesive Hindu
identity can not be forged. Hence the Acharya Sabha should issue a "nirdesh"
(direction) that according to the Vedas and Uttara Gita, varna and jati are not
birth based but determined on gunas (merits) and occupation.
"Varna is a choice not a compulsion," he added. (ANI)
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Coventry, (UK) Dec 7 (ANI): Janata Party President and former Union Minister Dr.
Subramanian Swamy today told a large UK Hindu gathering at the Sri Krishna
Temple here that to combat the invisible and multi-dimensional siege against
Hinduism, all the Dharmacharyas of Hindu religion must come together in a formal
body with a permanent secretariat in New Delhi.
He said that Swami Dayananda Saraswati of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, near Coimbatore
had already convened a Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha in Mumbai in mid-October last,
and resolved to do so.
Dr. Swamy said that the siege has a religious dimension because of the
pernicious and subtle denigration of Hindu icons and Institutions such as
through filing bogus cases against the Kanchi Shankaracharya, a psychological
dimension by inculcating a confused mindset through a one-sided secularism, a
cultural dimension in propagating that Indians are Caucasian invaders from
beyond Afghanistan through the baseless Aryan-Dravidian theory, and in the
physical dimension by induced conversions to Christianity and Islamic terrorism.
"Hindus are being driven out from their homelands in Kashmir, Bangladesh and
even Mau in UP, but the political leadership in India lacks the virile mindset
to challenge this denigration of Hindus in a 83 percent Hindu populated nation"
he added.
Dr. Swamy further said that India is distinctive only because of it's Hindu
foundation and continuing civilisation. Hence India as Hindustan means a nation
of Hindus and those Muslims and Christians who accept their ancestors are
Hindus.
Parsis may have come from Persia but they accept Hindu culture as their own.
This is our Hindustani identity. Hence, those Christians and Muslims who do not
accept their ancestors as Hindus should go back from where they came from or
lose their voting rights.
Even Hindus who claim to be racially Aryans or Dravidians have no place in
Hindustan. In Rig Veda "Arya" only meant civilised, while Dravida is a Sanskrit
word coined by Adi Sankara to mean south India-where three seas meet.
Dr. Swamy said that without demolishing the caste system a cogent cohesive Hindu
identity can not be forged. Hence the Acharya Sabha should issue a "nirdesh"
(direction) that according to the Vedas and Uttara Gita, varna and jati are not
birth based but determined on gunas (merits) and occupation.
"Varna is a choice not a compulsion," he added. (ANI)
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