Nagative Criticisms: There are some among our scholors who have commented adversely about the word ‘Hindu’, simply because the other scholors who are not friendly to them, are saying high about that word and so they have to condemn such good comments. What are we to say about their suicidal jealousy towards other scholors? These scholors have commented in such a way as to bring bad name to their own Hindu dharma,
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Know the foreign conspiracy:Vivekananda says that a Hindu is the one who gets “infinite inspiration and whose whole body gets electrified, the moment the sound “Hindu” reaches his ears. That way the word ‘Hindu’ is very holy and infinitely powerful. Since that word enables the Hindus to become self-respecting people, which would be to the disadvantage of foreign religions, the foreign and people of other religions have tried hard and also are trying hard to keep that word in the background. Some people who are devoid of self-respect are falling in their trap. As part of that evil strategy, they have started publicity that the word ‘Hindu’ has got a bad meaning in other languages. Unable to understand their plot some people are falling prey to their line of thinking. Some people have become ready to say for the satisfaction of others, that it is enough if we think ourselves as ‘Bharateeya’ instead of Hindus. But the word ‘Bharateeya’ which says ‘India that is Bharat’,
In several dictionaries, the word Hindu is explained. In ‘sabda kalpa druman’, it is explained as ‘heenam dooshyati iti Hinduhu viseshaha’. This means Hindu is the one community and Hindu is the one condemns bad things. That is our Hindu community. It is also explained as to how to derive other forms of words from this word – ‘prishodaraditvat saadhuhu’. Medini Kosa (a dictionary) says that the word Hindu is to be taken as the word ending with ‘Vu’ kara like ‘sambhu’ – [Hinduhu (singular form) – Hindoo (dual form) – Hindevah (plus)]. ‘Hindurhinduscha samsiddhou dustaanam cha vidhar shane’ says ‘Adbhutha Roopa Kosam’ which means Hindu is formed to put an end to wicked people and wickedness. From this, we can understand that we can take the word as two words as ‘Hindu’ and ‘Hindoo’ and both of them as good forms (sadhu sabdas). For these words the meaning of ‘daityari’ is also given. That means opposing the Hindu dharma is demoniac. Hindu also means Vishnu and yogi. ‘Hemantakavi Kosam’ says that ‘Hindurhi – Narayanadi devata raktah’ – Hindu is one who has devotion towards dieties like Srimannarayana and other deities.
Sapta Sindus which were said to be the root for ‘Hapta Hindu’ were described in the Rigveda mantra as “imamme gange yamune saraswati sutudri stomam sachata parushnya Asiknya Marudvridhe vitastayaarjeekeeye runohya sushomya”. Sapta sindhus are seven rivers called Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, Sutudri, Marudvridha, Aarjeekiya and Sushoma. This ‘Sapata Sindhu’ word can be found in Rikmantres (1-35-8) like, ‘astouvyakhyat kakubhah prithivya stree dhanva yojanaa sapta sindhoona’. The people who lived in those areas of sindhu were known as Sindhus and gradually become ‘Hindus’. Since the ‘Hindu’ word is taken by all well known languages, that name only become permanent. That way the Hindu word, even though it got stabilized through ‘Sapta Sindhu’ or indenpendently formed, is a very ancient one and holy one. It has got many meanings and many explanations.
In this creation, every object has some dharma of its own. It should not lose that dharma. If it loses it, it is said to have been destroyed. Heat is the dharma for fire. If there is no heat, it is no fire at all. Attracting iron is the dhrama of magnet. If it loses that dharma, it is no longer a magnet. Human dharma belongs to human beings. Like wise animals have ‘pasu dharma’. In the universe, planets and starts exist with natural attraction. If any one of them goes away from its dharma, total annihilation will be there. So none should leave their dharma. We also should not give up our dharma.
In this creation, for every living and non-living object there is a dharma. If there is that dharma, the object is known as such. If that dharma is absent, the object also loses identity. “Yenedam dhaaryate sa dharmah”, by this saying, if an object is borne by something, that something is called dharma. It is said ” dharme sarvam pratithitam” every thing in this world is based on dharma. Our dharma is the only one
If we are questioned as to which is our reilgion, we reply it is Hindu religion. It is not incorrect to say like that, but, there is a lot for us to know about it. In fact “Hindu” is not a religion and it is not born as a religion. In the process of evolution,
The effect of loss of sense of touch with dharma is in such stage that one Government employee questions as “Let it be Sir! What if all the people go to other religion?”. Unless the residence of such person is shifted to the old city in Hyderabad or in Kashmir, proper reply would not be available to such a person. Except the destruction of Hindutva
Nowadays, movies are influencing the people very much. All those movies are doing harm to the Hindutva only and helping other religions. For example, in many movies, villians are shown as wearing Tilak on their foreheads and doing worship to Gods in our temples,
Among us, real philosophers are becoming rare but false and cynical philosophers are increasing. Some of these false ones go on talking saying ‘Oh! what these religions are! Don’t they know that God is one? What is there, if He is called by any name? Why particular about a religion?