Hindu Rashtra

Hindu Rashtra

By Dipin Damodharan
'uttaram yat samudrassya Himadreschaiva dakshinam
varsham tad Bharatam nama Bharati yetr santatihi' (VishnuPurana)

It describes our country as the one extending to the north of the seas and lying to the south of the Himalayas and calls it Bharat and her children as Bharatis.

When we discuss of Hindu Rashtra, the word Hindu is not to be equated with any particular form of worship. It is not what is cannoted by the English word religion. The word Hindu stands for our entire society, those who live in this country and accept the fact that this is an ancient nation with a long history and a hoary tradition and willing to share it are all covered by that word; they are all members of the Hindu Rashtra and believers in Hindutva.

Hindu Rashtra has been living on this land and it has a common dharma and samskriti, a common sharing of joys and sorrows, a common appraisal of enemies and friends and a common aspiration for the future. Then, there is its glorious lineage of noble ancestors, the great men and seers who have protected and enriched the nation. This Hindu samaj cherishes a natural desire to make the nation strong prosperous and great in all repects, to attain such cultural rights that each individual members of its becomes a model for all mankind in character and righteous conduct. Unlike other nations this society would like to use this national strength not for the destruction of other people but for the service of the world because that in fact has been the mandate of our forefathers.

Hindutva is a self- sustaining, self renewing jungle phenomenon and is nearest to nature and assimilative in character. Hindutva is a non - geometrical forest where in old trees live out their life clearing the atmosphere from the pollutants so that man and animal can live, even when the trees and vegetation die, their remains work as nutrients for their new generation. Hindutva is thus a self - renewing way of life. In relation to other nations Hinduism stands for a harmonious synthesis among nation and not for their obliteration.

The nation Bharat is a culmination of long past of heroic endeavours, selfless sacrifices and glorious deeds of devotion........ To have common glories uin the past, to have common will in the present, to have performed great deeds together and to wish to perform still more; these are the essential conditions for being the citizen of a country.

Hindus are not just a religious community, but a nation; Hindu Rashtra is not a political concept. Nation( Rashtra) and state( Rajya) are two differnt concepts and should not be mixed up. State is purely a political concept. Nation is eternal while the state is transitory. If the state is the body , the nation is its soul(atma). In Hindu philosophy the atma is eternal and only the bodies and their forms are changed. The Hindu Rashtra has been existing since time immemorial and it shall continue to exist forever. Hindu Rashtra is a cultural and emotional concept, eternally assering itself. It makes clear that national sentiment is supreme, and all other sentiments, whether religious or sectional, should remain subservient to it.

People belonging to various religions in this country are all Hindus by culture and are nationals of Bharata varsha. Any person born in this country irrespective of his or her religion, with the proviso that he or she loves Bharat or respect its cultural traditions are all Hindus. Logically, the national heroes of Hindu Rashtra like Ram and Krishna should be reverd by all the nationals irrespectivr of their religious beliefs.

Our Nation is Our Pride, Jai Hind

Doctorji -The Organiser

By Dipin Damodharan
We have been blessed with a perennial tradition of dedicated national leaders who sacrificed every thing for the nation and society. Dr Keshav Rao Beliram Hedgewar (Doctorji) was such a bravura leader. Hedgewar was a pure nationalist; his magnanimous life had only one aim - the liberation of Bharat from the invaders. He realized that the only way to liberate Bharat from the British rule was to reorganize the Hindu Samaj; this was the aim behind the formation of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The organization (RSS) started with only five members at Nagpur on the Vijay Dashmi day of 1925, has now spread its influence into every aspect of India’s civil society. The four other persons present at the occasion were Dr B S Moonje, Dr L V Paranjape, Dr B B Thalkar and Babarao Savarkar.

Keshav was born to Baliram Pandh and Revathi Bhai on April 1, 1889, in Nagpur. In his schooldays he was rusticated from the school for leading the Vandemataram movement. After completing the school education, Keshav was inspired by Moonje, his political guru, to join the National Medical College Calcutta. There he got associated with Anushilan Samiti, the revolutionary organization in Bengal, and participated in their activities.

After completing his education Doctorji returned to Nagpur and started to practice his profession, but soon abandoned it for fulltime political activities.

He entered in the Congress politics as a solid follower of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and joined in the central provinces. Doctorji participated in the non cooperation movement and was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for one year. The consequences of the movement profoundly disillusioned him. Hedgewar regretted that Indian Muslims had proved themselves Muslims first and Indians only secondarily. When the khilafat demand was given up in Turkey, they withdraw from the national movement.

Doctorji believed that Bharat was a mighty and prosperous nation long before recorded history. Due to the lack of national consciousness and awful habits like hatred, jealousy, and selfishness, the Hindus succumbed to the invaders. Hence Doctorji thought that an anti- British struggle would not be enough for Bharat’s problems. The sovereign panacea was the arousal of national consciousness and building up of national solidarity. The dawn of RSS (September 27, 1925) in Indian history is to achieve this aim, to unify and revitalize Hindu Samaj and to establish a strong Hindu Rashtra. The supreme goal of RSS is to achieve the all round glory and greatness of Bharatmaa.

The achievement of Param Vaibhav - the pinnacle of national glory- is the ultimate aim of the Sangh. Therefore the RSS is engaged in awakening and organizing the people of Bharat by instilling in them intense national consciousness and character as a spirit of discipline and dedication to high national values. Sangh's concept of nation is cultural but culture is all comprehensive, all embracing and all absorbing. Culture encompasses every aspect of national life.

Mahatma Gandhi visited the Wardha camp (near Sevagram) of RSS in 1934. Gandhi was astonished to see that during lunch or dinner there was no separate queue for the so called untouchables. Many swayamsevaks even didn’t know the caste of person beside them. When Gandhi surprised of this miracle, Doctorji replied, here there is no space for caste division, here all are Bharatis. Dr Ambedkar also visited the camp and was amazed by the simplicity with which casteism was replaced by unity and equality.

Doctorji's organizational skill, missionary zeal and perseverance helped the RSS to grow considerably in a short period. By 1940, when Doctorji died, the RSS had a nationwide presence except in Assam, Orrissa, and Kashmir. “I see before my eyes today a miniature of Hindu Rashtra, Doctorji said in his last speech to the trainees of 1940 Nagpur Officers Training Camp (OTC).

Our Nation is Our Pride, Jai Hind

The Patriot among Patriots

By Dipin Damodharan
The greatest curse for a man is to remain a slave. The grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong.... The highest virtue is to battle against inequity , no matter what the cost may be - Netaji

Lakhs of people pin their faith on the existence of a person who has not been heard since 1945. Not a few of them cherish a hope that , that man may yet return to lead them - this is all about the immortal revelutionary patriot - Netaji Subhaschandra Bose.Freedom of our nation is the result of sacrifices made by so many patriots. Netaji- The prince of patriots , is an integral part of Indian frredom movement.

In 1956 Clement Atlee(British PM in 1947) visited India, AP Chakrabarthi the then Governor of West Bengal asked a question to him, why the British left India so soon after the allied victory in the world second world war. Atlee said that, there were so many reasons, but the most important reason was the activities of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Dr. R C Mazumdar explained this fact in his book " Struggle for Independence." These words of the former British PM shows the significance of Netaji in our independence struggle.

Netaji was born on January 23, 1897,in Cuttack the then capital of Orissa. During his younger days he was inspired by the philosophy of Swami Vivekananda. Subhas had the belief that without spiriual upliftment human life had little or no value. Subhas had been very active in the Neo- Vivekananda group of Calcutta. In 1919 he got a Bachelors degree in Philosophy. In the same year he went to England for ICS and cleared it with fourth rank in 1920. But Bose's unbounded love for his motherland forced him to throw away the heaven-born ICS career.

The year 1921 witnessed the dawn of Netaji Bose as a young vibrant political figure in Bengal.Bose had found his political Guru in Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das.At the Begining of his political career , Bose had followed the path of Mahatma Gandhi. But later he deviated from Gandhi's path of non-violence and decided to fight against British with arms in his hands.

In 1939 , he formed a political organisation called Forward Bloc. The objective of Forward Bloc would be the capture of political power by Indian masses as early as possible, and the reconstruction of India's economy on a socialist basis.Netaji's ultimate aim was the feedom of his motherland. To achieve his aim he had joined with Axis powers Germany, Italy and Japn.Though he was a worshipper of shakthi , he seemed to have entertained an admiration for Hitler and Mussolini. But Netaji's ideolgy was neither Nazism nor Fascism. The Congress and the Communists had criticised Bose for his attitude.For the communists Netaji was a fascist, a Quisling, a Nazi stooge and a puppet of Japan.Netaji defended all his critiscisms with these words - "Any man or state who fight against British imperialism can offer us his aid.Any man or state which marches with British is our foe.Before one fighting against German Nazism or Italian Fascism or Japanese Expansionalism, there must be an end for British Imperialism. After all nothing would be greater and nobler than trying to regain a nation's freedom."

In 1943 he reorganised Indian National Army(INA) and assumed the supreme command of the army. He had also set up a provisional Government of free India. INA became a symbol of India fighting for independence. Later it was the INA which indirectly sparked the revolts in the Royal Indian Air Force and theRoyal Indian Navy. With the defeat of Japan and its allies in the second World war, the very foundation on which the provisional Government and the INA had built their edifice had crumbled.

According to the official reports , Netaji was killed in an aircrash on18 August,1945, in TaiHoku near Taiwan. It is believed that the ashes kept on Rankoji temple in Japan is of Netaji. There were many stories spread about Netaji's death. Some people believed that he was an asyllum in Russia. But the most held belief was that Swami Sharda Nandji of Shoulmari Ashram, on the West Bengal- Assam border , was none othr than Bose.

Bose was a man of destiny. By his struggle for freedom in the face of overwhelming odds, he has incribed his name in shining letters in the scrolls of Indian history. He has taken his place with Rana Pratap and Chatrapati Shivaji as a national figure in the heroic tradition. Bose deserves equal credit with Gandhi in Indian Freedom struggle. Bose's great saga is an inspiration to all Indians as Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan observed: " Future generations would read the amazing story of Netaji's life with pride and reverence and salute him as one of the great heroes who heralded India's dawn."

Our Nation is Our Pride, Jai Hind

Save swamiji

Swami Vivekananda - The Prince of Awakened India

Namasthe,

The patriot saint of india, who had spread the message of sanathan dharma throughout the world.Swamiji's concept is a strong, powerful and aggressive Hindu Nation (Akhant bharath sankalp). So the legacy of swamiji belongs to RSS.But now the leftist ideologues are trying to bring swamiji as their advocate. So it is the duty of swayamsevaks in Bharath to protect swamiji's ideology from the communists .

Our Nation is our Pride , Jai Hind