A Presentation on the book by the same name by David Frawley - the saint of America - Vamadeva Shastri. In the book he calls for the rekindling of the ancient spirit of India, calling upon Arjuna (The defenders of Dharma) to stand up and do their duty.

1. ARISE ARJUNA
HINDUISM AND THE MODERN WORLD
Presentation based on a
book by
David Frawley(Vamadev Shastri)

3. MODERN WORLD NEEDS INDIA’S HELP
 The western world has only succeeded in greed,
materialism & religious dogma, not in the spiritual
life.
 Islamic countries are still caught in a karma of
violence and oppression, a religion that is more a
political movement to gain worldly power than any
spiritual search.
 So, India alone as a country has the potential to
take the role of spiritually guiding the world

5.  People are of view that Westerners should not
follow Eastern culture because western culture is
individualistic.
 However Hindu thought is the most individualistic in
the world. It teaches that the individual, that you
yourself are God or the Divine power behind the
universe.

6. BUT INDIA TODAY IS FILLED WITH
CORRUPTION, IGNORANCE AND SERVILITY. IT
DOES NOT REPRESENT THE SOUL OF INDIA
BUT ONLY ITS SHADOW.
LET INDIA AWAKEN AND FOR THIS TRUE SOUL
OF ARJUNA MUST ARISE.

7. HINDUS HAVE STRAYED AWAY FROM THE PATH
OF RELIGION
 Most of the Hindus are ignorant of their own culture
and tradition.
 The educational system of India itself follows
primarily Western standards and values.
 They follow a Marxist-Socialist model with its
atheistic and anti-nationalist orientation.
 As a result, modern Hindus blame the Hindu
religion for the social problems in India.

8. MISINTERPRETATION OF HINDUISM
 Some problems that India is facing today like caste
system, has their roots in the Hindu social system.
 But these are not based on a real understanding of
Hindu cultural forms but on their misapplication
through time.
 Traditional Hindu spiritual values promote a culture
of Dharma. A yogic way of life, a life in harmony
with the universe, though recognizing the same self
in all beings.

9. MISREPRESENTATION OF HINDUISM IN
PRESS

10.  Indian news media itself presents anti-Hindu
attitude which are very common.
 Anti-Hindu statements are accepted by everyone
and no one questions them.
 India can never rise up as long as it is attacking
itself

11. AYODHYA INCIDENT, DECEMBER 1992

12. BABRI MOSQUE
 Babri mosque was demolished by Hindus. The site
was claimed by Hindus as the original location of a
great Hindu temple of Lord Rama.
 The site was not in any Muslim holy place like
Mecca or Medina but in one of the seven sacred
cities of Hindus.
 Muslim invaders destroyed the sacred Hindu
temple and built a mosque their.

13. Indian
Muslim
activists
hold
placards
as they
take part
in a
protest in
New Delhi,
06
December
2007
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14. Protest to mark
the fifteenth
anniversary of the
razing of The
Babri Masjid in
Ayodhya. In 1992
a mob of Hindus
destroyed the
ancient Babri
mosque of the
town in the Indian
state of Uttar
Pradesh
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15. NEWSPAPERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
STATED THAT “HINDU MILITANTS
DESTROYED MOSQUE” PROJECTING THE
IMAGE OF HINDUS BOTH AS MILITANTS AND
AS MOSQUE DESTROYERS.

16. WHY IS THE DESTRUCTION OF A HINDU
TEMPLE IS NOT A NEWSWORTHY ITEM, BUT
THE DESTRUCTION OF ONE DISPUTED
MOSQUE WORTH GLOBAL HEADLINE?

17. UNDERSTANDING HINDUISM

18. EXTENSIVE CULTURE
 The music of India is Hindustani, based upon Hindu and
Sanskrit works going back to the Sama Veda.
 The dance is based upon Hindu temple dance.
 The native medicine, Ayurveda, is rooted in the Vedas
themselves, as is the astrology, Jyotish.
 The poetry and drama tradition revolves around Hindu
mythology.
 The exercise tradition of Hatha yoga is rooted in the
religious sadhna tradition.
 The literature and philosophy all looks back to Sanskrit,
which derives from the Vedas.

19. Natraj

20. Bharatnatyam

22.  The message of Vedanta is not limited to any religion,
philosophy or science but it is the ultimate goal of all
human striving.
 Over the last hundred years many Americans have
taken up the physical side of yoga but few have given
attention to its spiritual side or Vedanta.

23. “LIVING IN THE MIDST OF IGNORANCE,
CONSIDERING THEMSELVES TO BE WISE, THE
DELUDED WANDER CONFUSED, LIKE THE BLIND
LED BY BLIND. THE WAY TO TRUTH DOES NOT
APPEAR TO A CONFUSED IMMATURE MIND,
DELUDED BY ILLUSION OF WEALTH. THINKING
THAT THIS WORLD ALONE EXISTS AND THERE IS
NOTHING BEYOND, THEY EVER RETURN AGAIN
AND AGAIN TO THE NET OF DEATH.”
Katha Upanishad

24. VIVEKANANDA AND VEDANTA
 For Vivekananda the essence of Hinduism was
Vedanta, the way of Self-realization, not merely the
Hindu social structure.
 Vivekananda was a philosophical Hindu, a great
lover of Sanskrit, the Vedas, Hindu music and all
the Hindu culture.
 Unlike Muslims, he never seek to impose this
culture on other but he was happy to share it with
others.

25. Swami Vivekananda

26.  Those who proclaim all religion are one, seldom
define what all religion have in common.
 They do not see themselves as paths to God but
only as ways of better relating to God.
 Christianity and Islam do not aim at union with God
or even consider it to be possible. Their goal is to
reach heaven.
 God-realization or self-realization is the Hindu
sense of religion.

27. ACCORDING TO VIVEKANANDA:
MOHAMMED LIKE MANY UNTRAINED PEOPLE IN
THE SPIRITUAL LIFE, UPON HAVING A
SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE JUMPED TO THE
CONCLUSION THAT HE HAD THE WORD OF
GOD, AND THAT WORLD SHOULD FOLLOW THE
RELIGION GOD HAD REVEALED HIM.

28. ALLAH-MOHAMMED’S JEALOUS GOD
 There is a popular belief among Muslims masses
that Allah will forgive them for all his sins just
because he is a Muslim.
 If Quran says that everybody is equal in the eyes of
God, than why he created kafirs to be massacred
by Muslims?
 Genocide and persecution of kafirs by Muslims has
been suppressed in the name of communal
harmony.
 Mohammed’s god possesses emotions like anger
and jealousy. He talks of chosen people and they
may involve in violence with kafirs.

29. ISLAMIC BELIEFS
 According to Islam no individual should proclaim “I
am God,” which is a delusion.
 For saying this in the 9th century Sufi Al-Hallaj was
cut into pieces and thrown into a river by Muslims.
 The reason is because Mohammed, the final
prophet, did not say this, and to claim even what
Mohammed did not, would be blasphemy of
greatest order.

30. MOHAMMED AND THE QURAN
 Koran is a book with much poetry, history and theology,
but not the word of God.
 It does not speak of absolute truth like meditation, karma
or liberation.
 Muslims are proud of the genocide and conquest that
Islam has made in its invasion of other countries.
 The connection with God they seek is going to heaven. It
is not the liberation cycle of birth and death.

31. ARYAN INVASION THEORY

32.  Europeans invented this idea of Aryan Invasion.
 However there is no historical evidence of Aryan
Invasion Theory. New archeological evidences
discard Aryan Invasion Theory.
 Yet this is the kind of thinking that has been
superimposed upon the history of India.

33. Map of Harappan civilization

34.  The Aryan Invasion theory has become a matter of
political importance in the country.
 The British rulers of colonial India, Marxists
scholars and politicians, Christian missionaries &
Muslim groups have used the Aryan Invasion theory to
discredit and divide Hindu culture.
 India now look at its ancient history anew, in the light of
the collapse of the Aryan Invasion theory.

35. IS THE ARYAN INVASION THEORY IS NOT TRUE
IT MEANS THAT INDIA IS THE OLDEST MOST
CONTINUOUS CIVILIZATION IN THE WORLD,
WITH THE OLDEST AND MOST EXTENSIVE
LITERATURE(THE VEDAS), AND IS THEREFORE
ONE OF THE GREAT CENTERS OF WORLD
CIVILIZATION.

36. If Westerners really want to help the people of Asia
they should teach them practical and humanitarian
ways to organize their society.
When they try to convert them to Western religions
they are doing both them and themselves a
disservice because religion is what the East already
has, and what the West needs to seek from it.

37. THE VEDAS ARE THE PART OF EACH ONE OF
US BY THE VERY FACT THAT WE ARE HUMAN
BEINGS.
THE VEDAS ARE THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE
NOT AS OUTER PHENOMENA BUT AS A POETRY
OF THE SOUL.