1. Defense of
Hindu Society
Presentation based on a book by
Sita Ram Goel
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3. Sanatan dharma says that the aspiration
for Truth(satyam), Goodness(sivam),
Beauty(sundaram), and power(aisvarya)
is inherent in every soul, every soul,
everywhere and in all times.
4. “YATHA PINDE TATHA BRAHMANDE”
(as in the microcosm, so in the
macrocosm)
The way to world-discovery is through
self-discovery.
5. But spokesmen of some
ideologies are pointing accusing
fingers at Hindu society.
Hindu society must gather
sufficient self-confidence to repel
the attack
7. Hindu scholars keep comparing their
own shastras in support to find
similar ideas in pretentious
ideologies like
Christian claim of “Social Service”
Islamic claim of “Human
Brotherhood”
Communist claim of “Social
Equality”
modernistic claim of “Democracy &
8. The first principle Hindu society has to observe
while preparing its defense is that it will stop
processing & evaluating its own heritage in terms
of ideas and ideals projected by closed creeds &
pretentious ideologies.
On the contrary
Hindu society should process & evaluate the
heritage of those creeds & ideologies in terms of its
own categories of thought, & find out the real
worth of Christian, Islamic, Communist and
Modernist claims.
9. • Hindu society has yet to proclaim that India
has always been & will always remain a Hindu
homeland.
• Hindu society has yet to affirm that all
spiritual, cultural, philosophical, and scientific
heritage is Hindu, and those who are ashamed
of being named a Hindu has no right to take
pride in it.
• It has yet to point out that the only
contribution of Islam been the ruination of
10. Hindus have become devoid of self-
confidence simply because they have ceased
to take legitimate, well-informed, and
HINDUS pride in their spiritual, cultural and
conscious
SHOULD BE PROUD OF
THEIR RELIGION
social heritage.
11. • Firstly, Hindus have to reawaken to the
sublime spirituality of their own Sanatan
Dharma.
• Secondly Hindus have to study and
scrutinize the sources from which the “only
true” creeds derive their inspiration.
That will give Hindus the requisite self-
confidence to counter all misinformed or
malicious criticism.
13. People generally find it difficult
to accept the spiritual freedom in
Sanatan Dharma.
And they put some general
questions to a student of
Sanatan Dharma
14. •Every one has to be one’s own savior, one’s
own prophet. One has to discover the
spiritual truths for one’s own self.
•Scriptures and teachers can only be the
guides and YOUR ONLY SAVIOR OR
WHO IS may help in search for the truth.
•YOUR discovered by someone else is
A truth LAST PROPHET?
cannot become one’s truth one rediscover it
for himself.
15. •The whole spiritual truth, every shastra, is
secret in human heart.
•Many seers and saints have seen it many
ways, spoken of it in many languages and my
WHICH as many metaphors. WHICH YOU
means of
IS THE BOOK IN A single book
can never describe it all. AL-KITAB?
BELIEVE, OR YOUR
•A god known through al-kitab always remain
external to the world.
16. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU ON THE
“DAY OF JUDGMENT”? WHO WILL SAVE
•Sanatan Dharma is not so mean and miserly
YOU FROM GOD’S WRATH AND
in deciding HELL-FIRE?
ETERNAL human destiny.
•One can start anew from the point where
one stopped in one’s previous life & the
process does not cease till a creature has
achieved Godhood.
•The journey is from darkness & bondage to
light & freedom, not from the sensual
pleasures of this world to the sensual orgies
of high heaven.
17. Sanatan Dharma stands for self-
exploration, self-purification and
self-transcendence while these
creeds for self-stupefaction, self-
righteousness and self-
aggrandizement
18. Histories of these creeds are full of
crusades or jihads, massacres and
genocides, inquisitions and witch-
huntings.
It is a sin to regard them as religion
in any sense of the term, and to
extend sambhava towards their
intolerant dogmas.
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24. Hostility to Hindu Psyche
• The missionaries & Mullahs are the
crusades & mujahids who believe that
Hindus should either be converted to a true
faith or killed & consigned to eternal hell
fire.
• Destruction & defilement of the images of
Hindu god & goddesses, demolition of
Hindu temples & monasteries, destruction
of Hindu places of pilgrimage, & burning of
29. • God is extra cosmic. He created the cosmos
out of nothing in order to demonstrate his
almightiness & consequently kept himself
outside & above the Cosmos.
• The elements in nature are devoid of any
divinity.
• Birds and animals are mere brutes unless
they are domesticated.
• It is only man who is placed on the higher
pedestal because man is the best God’s
creation, the ashraf-ul-makhluqat.
30. • Man can exploit the material resources of
the earth in whatever way he pleases.
• Man can eat every bird & animal for God
has created them for man’s consumption.
• Man can marry and divorce and keep his of
concubines any number women.
• But it is an unpardonable sin for man to
fancy that he shares even an iota of God’s
divinity.
32. In Islam women is given with the
same role in heaven as on earth-
to serve man in servile obedience
and to provide sexual pleasure to
her male master. The only
concession extended to women is
to be spared the pains of maternity
and old age. She becomes a hourie
endowed with eternal youth &
unfading beauty.
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34. In Christianity, women is essentially
a temptress who lead man to hell.
Her role in the hereafter has not
been clearly defined.
The monogamy we find in
Christianity is not prescribed in the
Christian scripture. It was an
institution which it borrowed from
the Pagan religion.
36. “Tujhko malum hai leta tha kui nam
tira/ Quwwat-i-bazu-i-muslim ne
kiya kam tira.”
(do you know of anyone who
bothered THE ALLAHyou before weBY SHYKH
THE PLIGHT OF about OF ISLAM PORTRAYED came
forward?IQBAL, SHIKWA muscle-power of
MUHAMMED It was the
the Muslim which came to your
rescue)
37. “par tire nam pe talwas ythai kisne?
Kat kar rakh diye kuffar ke lashkar
kisne”
(But MUHAMMED IQBAL, their swords in
SHYKH who did draw
defense of your name & fame? Who
was it that slaughtered the armies of
infidels for your sake?)
38. “qahar to yeh hai ke kafri ko mile hur-o-
qusur/ aur bechare musalman ko faqat
wada-i hur.”
(The terrible tragedy is that the infidels
SHYKH MUHAMMED IQBAL,
live in the palaces and make love to
houris in this life, while the poor
Muslim has to remain content only
with the promise of houris hereafter.)
39. This is the highest aspiration
Christianity and Islam speaks
about.
Psyche of Christianity and Islam
hides vulgar materialism and
imperialist ambition under a
welter of high-sounding
verbiage.
40. Vedic Approach:
Unity without sacrificing Diversity
The distinction is not between a true One God
and false Many Gods. It is between a true
way of worship and a false way of worship.
• If there is sincerity, truth and self-giving in
worship, that worship goes true by
whatever way we may conceive.
• If it has ego, falsehood, conceit and deceit
in it, it is of no use though it may be offered
to the most true god
41. • If monotheism represents man’s intuition for
unity, polytheism represents his urge for
differentiation.
• Spiritual life is one but is very vast and rich. So
the human mind also conceives it differently.
• If all human had same mind, the same
imagination, the same needs, in short, if
human all were the same, then perhaps one
god would do.
So only some form of
polytheism can do justice to
this variety and richness.
42. Problem of One or many Gods is
born of a theological mind, not
of a mystic consciousness.
47. There was a time when the
ancient Assyrians, Babylonians,
Chaldeans, and Egyptians
worshipped a multiplicity of
Gods in the form of icon installed
in temples.
53. The Britons, the Celts, the
Franks, the Germans, the
Scandinavians & the Salvs also
sensed their Gods as residing in
many mountains, rivers and
forests.
54. Pre-Islamic Arabs had many Gods
& worshipped them in many
sacred shrines before the
prophet of Islam presided over
their destruction.
57. Ishtar is the Assyrian & Babylonian counterpart to the
Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate northwest
Semitic goddess Astarte.
58. All these Polytheistic cultures
were relatively free from
religious wars
(They had their full quota of wars
otherwise.)
59. Monstrosities of Monotheism
• Monotheism was not always a spiritual idea. In
many cases, it was an ideology which caused
wars.
• It has manufactured a number of hate-filled
words- infidel, kãfir, unbeliever, munkir,
mushrik, heathen, heretic, hypocrite,
polytheist, pantheist, pagan- which divide the
one human family into a number of warring
camps.
• These malicious words have motivated many
crusades, jihãds, inquisitions, genocides,
60. The Mughals under Akbar had
to abandon the experiment in
order to save and extend their
empire.
The Islamic state met the fate it
deserved when Aurangzeb tried
to reverse the trend.
61. Modern West made a
worthwhile progress in science,
technology, and a culture of
general human welfare only
when it rejected the dogmas of
Christianity, and returned to the
humanism of ancient Greece
and Rome.
63. The Rising Tide of Muslim
Revivalism
• Muslim society in India looked at the freedom
movement with suspicion.
• They frequently denounced it as a Hindu
conspiracy to capture power to the detriment
of Islam.
• They started throwing up one revivalist
movement after another throughout the
period of British rule.
• The British had to intervene against the
mullahs not to protect Hindus so much as to
restore law & order
64. • The Moplah Muslims of Malabar
started another jihad against their
Hindus neighbors.
• The British had to send some armed
forces before the Muslim butchery of
innocent Hindus could be brought
under control.
• The Moplah violence was the opening
scene of unprecedented riots staged
65. The Muslims could always slaughter a cow in
the presence of Hindus, or abduct and molest
a Hindu girl in keeping with the behest of
Islam, or take out a rowdy tajia procession
through a thoroughfare thickly populated by
Hindus.
66. The Hindu-states under the
Rajputs, the Marathas, the Sikhs
& the Jats never molested
Muslims in spite of Hindu
memories of Islam.
67. Hindu society have to discard the
mindless slogan of sarva-
dharma-sambhava
68. Hindu society has been sustained by
its spiritual center throughout the
ages, particularly in the face of Islamic
and Christian barbarism. Hindu society
will be revived and revitalized only by
recovering its spiritual centre which is
Sanatana Dharma.
70. “Tamso ma jyotirgamaya,
asato ma sadgamaya,
mrityoma amritam gamaya.”
(From darkness to light,
from unreal to real,
from death to immortality.)
71. • The starting point of Hindu sages & seers
was not God but man.
• Their conclusions were based on the direct
perception not fanatical faith.
• Man is neither an a priori assumption nor
an abstract concept like God.
• On the contrary, man is a concrete reality
accessible to direct (pratyaksa) perception
which is the only valid evidence (pramãna)
recognized by Hindu spirituality.
72. Hindu society has to realize
that Christianity and Islam are
not religions but political
ideologies.
