IMHO,the unity among all Hindus is very much necessary as Hindu society is being attacked both by insiders who call themselves Hindus,but try to weaken the Hindu Society and by outsiders.
I request all the members to go through the messages in 'twitter'from one "
Zaid Hamid"
twitter.com/zaidzamanhamid/status/111522998804156416
The gist of the message is"This message must reach every Hindu in the world,especially Pandits.On the sunnah of RASUL ALLAH(sm)We........
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. 008 on the subject"We call Hindus to Islam"
(ZAID HAMID)
The powerful speech by Mrs.Radha Rajan for 'Nationalist India" is very relevant
in the context of assault on Hindu Society by other religious(powerful) Groups and by
the socalled intelligentia among Hindus.
You can hear her speech
http://video.google.com/videoplay? docid=6864335520571762844#
Ps.I do not blindly subscribe to any philosophy or any ideology but support the view/arguments when I consider
that there is justice in the arguments/views.
Respected Shri Krishnamurthy,
Namaskaram. I have heard the video of the Pakistani and the mullah and both are very effective, and in some ways, powerful oratory imho. The Mulla's copious recitation of the Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit is likely to do more harm to hinduism. The second video of Radha rajan is not available at the link given. But I could get a video of a speech of one Smt. Radha Rajan in
Intellectual Terrorism - YouTube. Interested persons may like to view this.
Sir, as you may well know me by now, I and my sympathies lie fully with Hindus and, more, important than even that, the continued welfare and ascendancy of our country in the comity of nations, though, philosophically I hold agnostic views.
The religions like Islam and Christianity survive on proselytisation, whereas Hinduism has probably not done it in our historic memory. This is boasted of by the Hindutva protagonists often as a feather in their cap. True, but what was, is and probably will be, the Achille's heel of Hinduism (or Sanatana Dharma which Smt. Radha Rajan also cites in her speech which is full of half-truths)? The same feather in the cap of not proselytising even all those whom we want to bring under the term "Hindu", imo.
Lat me elaborate. Till as late as the 1920's or 1930's the sizeable percentage of the hindu population comprising the lower castes (about 25 % as of 2001 census) had no access to many of our Temples and, in fact, they were mere peripheral onlookers from a safe distance, at best, of whatever went on as Hinduism in those days. Untouchability was also very actively practised till the early decades of the last century throughout this country. Thus Hinduism or the glorified Sanatana Dharma, was thus a religion of the few privileged castes, made by those very castes and practised for their own benefit only. The lower classes had no role in that religion and so they had no love lost for that religion; if at all, they would have gone out of the degraded position in which the Hindu religion held them. A statesman of towering stature like Dr. Ambedkar chose Buddhism which, along with Jainism, was one of the first revolt against the Sanatana Vedic religion, as his escape - probably because he knew the other two major religions very well - but the vast majority of illiterate Dalits presented themselves as easy target for proselytising Christian Missionaries. This situation continues even today because none of us (brahmins, at least) is prepared or ready to go out and reach out to these ostracized sections of the populations.
I had suggested, probably in another thread, that there could be periodical interdining occasions, common prayers and including the Dalit elders also as worthy of being greeted with our time-honoured "abhivaadaye" on occasions like Upanayanams. Someone rejected the interdining, saying this is a usual ploy of political parties and will backfire on us, if we embark on the same ploy.
Whatever may be the opinions, the need of the hour is for the caste brahmins to reach out and absorb the vulnerable and marginalized sections of the Hindu population, without any further loss of time so that those people have less grounds to convert. But many memders in this Forum appear to be more intent upon "preserving" the 'Brahmin way of living' and ensuring that the "brahmin community" is preserved.
In the video the person gives a very clear threat that
"the Pundits and Hindus of Hindustan should better accept Islam and convert to it lest they become the targets of the swords of the warriors of Islam." If we want to avoid such an eventuality, the Brahmins should at once arise, awake and rest not until the goal of Hindu egalitarianism becomes a fact.But, sadly, our members here seem to be very sensitive to their "Brahmin" existence and not about the danger common to Hindus as a whole. As someone posted in another context, if we continue with the abovesaid preoccupation bordering on obsession, with our "Brahmin" existence, a situation will come
"when they at last came in search of me, there was nobody to whom I could look to for help."
Some of us here, like Kunjuppu, Nara, HappyHindu and myself try to awaken the brahmin members and readers, about the ultimate futility of our clinging on to the "preservation of brahmins and the brahmin way of life" - as brahmins have been wont to do for thousands of years, without realizing the changes taking place in the world and the threat to Hinduism itself. But the so-called "true brahmin" members feel that what we advocate is anti-brahmin, that we are self-loathing, and so on and so forth. It is a pity that these very devout and obstinate self-proclaimed soldiers of brahminism will not dare to take even one little step towards forming "Hindu (Brahmin) suicide squads" (jihadis); the existence of Hinduism itself probably depends on whether such squads get formed or not.
The Hindutva parties have come to be looked upon with suspicion as a party of the forward castes and they also do not seem to be sincere in bringing the lower and Dalit sections within their fold. (Mayawati's ascendency to power was due to this, imo.) And on top of that they went on to perform a "Rathyatra" with Rama's picture which again does not ring any bell in the Dalits' ears; and the destruction of the unused and decrepit Babri Masjid only helped consolidate the Islamic side and not the Hindus.
Thus the Hindus seem to have taken a vow to become sitting ducks for the machinations of Xianity and Islam; we in this Forum would like to cling to our Brahminism at any cost, even if Hinduism itself is threatened so directly as seen in the video. Probably, the only way to comfort ourselves is to accept Islam as the coming of the Kalki avataar and explore the possibility of having a priestly and privileged class within it where the privileges will devolve merely by birth to priest class parents, even if one does not know more than two lines of the Holy Koran.
