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1. Is ‘Dharma’ not ‘Religion’?

If not, then what is it? Is it free for all?

It is true that ‘dharma’ isn't ‘religion’. It is a non-translatable & can't be translated as ‘religion’ in English. That much is true. But it is not free for all at all. Here is how.

 2. To discuss religion first, religion is what we know as Prophetic Monotheism with features like: One True God, Last Prophet, Divided Time, Divided Humanity, Historic Origin and Last Judgment.
3. All that matters in a religion is Belief. Actions are null and void against belief. If you have right belief, you go to heaven. If you have wrong belief, you go to hell. Actions mean nothing. This is where it differs starkly from a dharmic system.
4. Dharma dictates that one can never escape one’s karma. He can be shown the right path by a guru, he can put in course correction, but he has to undergo his prarabdha; the fruits of his own actions. So everyone is responsible for his own actions.
5. This thread is not to list out the differences between Dharma and Religion. That is job for another day; another thread. This thread is to clarify whether dharma is free for all or not? The clear answer is no. It is not free for all. Unlike some filmi celebrities today claim.
6. It is also not just a ‘way of life’. That is a meaningless phrase when it comes to dharma and religion. Anything can be a way of life, including pedophilia. Do we call it dharma? (I know it is shocking but the ‘way of life’ idiocy has to be called out.)
7. So what is dharma anyway? It is not religion. That is okay. We are different. Yes. But while we are different, we also have an identity; a clear sense of us and them; a clear bodha of who we are and who we are not. Seeing it like this, what is dharma?
8. There are a specific set of actions that a Hindu is expected to do if calls himself a Hindu. It is true that dharma is more anchored in actions, but the actions (duties – kartavyas) enjoined upon Hindus cannot be missed. They are a must.
9. The Hindu cosmos functions on basis of duties, responsibilities that individuals and groups have to fulfill. These responsibilities are both towards nature and culture. It is through the fulfillment of these kartavyas, duties that one is a Hindu.
10. The operating principle of being Hindu is: there is a cosmic rhythm ऋत (ṛta), the hidden order of saṃsāra, as in both nature and culture. Every living being benefits from this order, ‘ṛta’ from the moment he is born. This creates a ऋण ‘ṛṇa’ on us.
11. To repay those (ṛṇas) is धर्म ‘dharma’. The Vedic tradition defines five kinds of ṛṇas – panca ṛṇa. deva ṛṇa; ṛṣi ṛṇa; pitṛ ṛṇa; brāhmaṇa ṛṇa & nṛu ṛṇa – the debt paid to deities, saints, ancestors, Brahmins and fellow men.
12. That is why a Hindu is supposed to worship the deities by offering correct rituals; he is supposed to honor and support the sanyāsīs; he is supposed to support the ancestors who are alive and pay homage through rituals to those who are gone.
13. A Hindu is supposed to uphold the knowledge tradition by paying homage to the Brahmins; and a Hindu is supposed to uphold saṃsāra by paying debts to all his fellow human beings through a web of relationships.
14. Hindu dharma is a specific set of rituals, customs and actions that every Hindu is supposed to do. It is the exact opposite of ‘anything goes’, and the inanity of a ‘way of life’.

In manifestation & practice, Hindu dharma is a concrete set of rituals.
15. A Hindu cannot be a nihilist who does anything that strikes his fancy; follows any cult that suits his idiosyncrasy; holds no beliefs of any kind; maintains no sanctity of any kind in his life. To make it sound like cool-WOKE cult is farthest from truth.
16. And there is a bit of religion inside dharma too. The good part. The part with rituals, customs, pilgrimages and also beliefs although actions as in karmic responsibilities dominate.
17. But belief in the sense of shraddha is also there. A Hindu, being dharmic, is also expected to accept the authority of the Vedas; ‘know’ the truth of punarjanma and karma-phala siddhanta and have shraddha in it. Bhakti cannot do without this shraddha.
18. Shraddha is not belief or faith, but it is an unflinching oneness of the story of the deity and the devotee, and it is precisely this quality which helps a śiṣya proceed on his path of sādhanā under the guidance of a guru, it is this quality which helps a bhakta.
https://t.co/QrWWz8XJ5r, yes, we are different. No dharma is not religion. And yet Hindu dharma is not free for all, or anything goes, & it isn't ‘way of life’. In concrete manifestation, dharma is a set of rituals & customs which have to be followed.

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1. Do Islamists prize Muslim lives?

Hindu Society Under Siege – 2

Do ‘Muslim Lives Matter’ in greater scheme of Islam? Sita Ram Goel had an answer. In a country like India: ‘Islamism has evolved a strategy in which the Muslims of India are envisaged as a base and an arsenal’.


2. Individual Muslim lives are seen by their ideologues and leaders as cannon fodder for the conquest of India. Some salient features of this strategy can be outlined as follows: (all quotes are from Sita Ram Goel’s book ‘Hindu Society Under Siege’)

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3. “(a) The Muslims of India should be sealed off from every shade of rationalism, universalism, humanism and liberalism, and an army of mullahs and maulvis trained in the tenets of Islam should be let loose to brainwash and keep them along the right (Islamic) track;”

4. “(b) Every Muslim who doesn’t accept Islamism or dares criticize it or stands for the mainstream of Indian nationalism, away from & above religious differences, should be denounced as a renegade and a legitimate victim for murderous Muslim mobs” (remember the Maharashtra boy?)

5. “(c) The Muslims should be encouraged to air as many grievances as can be invented, and try to pass off as a down-trodden minority, oppressed, exploited and treated as second class citizens by the brute Hindu majority;”
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1. 'Hindu' is a word which is often objected to: both by the left-liberals and even by many Hindu nationalists. The disbelief in the word arises from the same historical truth: that the word 'Hindu' is not indigenous and it was a name given to us by the others, by the outsiders.


2. Whether it was a corruption of the word 'Sindhu' by the Iranians who couldn't pronounced 's' as 'h' is now a matter of great debate, but everyone agrees that the word itself is foreign in origin.

3. Anti-Hindus claim that since the word itself is foreign in origin there is no such thing as the Hindu society & Hinduism, & India is a British creation! They mistake the word for the civilization, and proving former’s foreign origin, reject the very existence of the latter.

4. The Hindu Nationalists believe that since the name is foreign in origin, so we should completely reject it and use the name 'Bharat' for our country and 'Sanatana Dharma' and 'Sanatani' for referring to our Dharma and our people.

I disagree.

5. I have no problem with the phrase Sanatana Dharma and I use it quite often. But the word 'Hindu', and the phrase 'Hindu Dharma' are quite useful, easy and we have been using them for the past few centuries very very well to identify ourselves.
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1. List of Essential Books to Read for Civilizational Education

You folks were asking me about the sources of my threads and books on which I base my accounts. Here is a list of great books to read. A lot of them are available for free online. Others can be bought on amazon.


1.India’s Secularism – Sita Ram Goel
2.The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India – Sita Ram Goel
3.Arise Arjuna – David Frawley
4.Hindu Society Under Siege – Sita Ram Goel
5.Islam vis-à-vis Hindu Temples – Sita Ram Goel
6.Breaking India – Rajiv Malhotra

7.Ram and Ayodhya – Meenakshi Jain
8.The Beautiful Tree – Dharampal
9.Gandhi and Godse – Koenraad Elst
10.Jesus Christ: An Artifice for Aggression – Sita Ram Goel
11.Hinduism: The Eternal Tradition – David Frawley
12.Jizya and the Spread of Islam – Harsh Narain

13.Defense of Hindu Society – Sita Ram Goel
14.The Dark Side of Christian History – Helen Ellerbe
15.Specific Hindu Grievances – Koenraad Elst
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17.Indra’s Net – Rajiv Malhotra
18.The Sabarimala Confusion – Nithin Sridhar

19.Sati – Meenakshi Jain
20.Perversion of India’s Political Parlance – Sita Ram Goel
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1. How Our Eyes Lie to Us

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3. Daniel Gilbert in ‘Stumbling Upon Happiness’ tells us how our eyes betray us and we can’t even be sure of what we see, let alone what we think. Michael Gazzaniga tells us that how our instincts are not in our control and it seems we act according to a pre-written script.

4. These are very serious subjects and only future will tell us what is going to happen in these disciplines. But the bottomline of all this research is that: our mind and our senses lie to us and we cannot be sure of what we think or what we even see.

5. That our senses create a narrative fallacy is something that has been alluded to in many of our spiritual texts. Modern West is just rediscovering it through tests and experiments. But there is an experiment in our daily lives that gives us a clue of what narrative fallacy is.
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1. Is Śiva really Bholenātha?

A commong sight during Sāvana ke Somvāra in north India is Hindu women offering Bilva Patra to Śiva liṇga at the nearby temple, offering jala & other offerings directly to Śiva liṇga by touching it directly or a long time.


2. There is scarcely any rule to this offering of pūjā. Women in sārī, suit and even western clothes offer everything they have brought with them directly to Śiva: milk, water, kumkum, haldī, bilva patra, sweets, fruits and much more with priest just managing the proceedings.


3. There is often a queue-less, order-less jumble of acts, sights and sounds in which women of all ages jostle with men and boys of all ages to reach the ‘pinḍī’, the Śiva liṇga and offer the pūjā.


4. Most people from the south, following tradition, where āgamas are still a working reality, at least in temples, and where many people follow caryā are offended, and not without reason.

Śiva also have rules of worship and approach, as other deities.

5. Śiva temple, like others requires certain rituals and customs which are inviolable. Śiva, like other deities, requires certain caryā from his devotees and thus cannot be just taken any way the devotees want. It is true that there is a way to approach him like any other deity.
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